New things in SL

There are some things I really, really don't need to know.

The majority of new users do not build.

1 1/2 year in game and just scratching the surface means you don't create much at all or have better things to do... now that is fine and you are right...not everyone creates stuff.

I wasn't even talking specifically about creation tools or functionality, but I would like to see some graphical improvements as well.

I am not bored though. I am just asking if anyone knows what is up and coming.

That was it, I think people are getting the impression I am unhappy with the way things are and that isn't true.

Agreed. One could (almost!) pity LL. First users scream: "Stop adding functionality! Fix the bugs first!" Now, that they actually increased stability significantly, users are clamouring for new functions instead.

The last new thing I noted was Mono, a few weeks ago. Mono may not seem like much, but if you are a scripter, you see the difference. It's pretty cool!

Mari's suggestion on page 1 really is your best bet: go to office hours and ask.

Just remember that our SL is their RL job: they may not talk about big things in the works if the plans haven't jelled or the paperwork isn't done yet. This happens all the time in my RL job - there's always stuff we just can't talk to customers/the-public about yet.

Hehe yeah?

I dunno, I see some timing issues resolved (where bottlenecking used to happen) and that is kinda cool. I think stability is important and im not the type of person where the grass is always greener.

Honestly, I think most SL posters complain far too often and I get the impression there is no satisfying those folks because they don't understand the hard work that goes into the development of a platform like SL.

I haven't seen a blog for awhile talking of new functionality so I figured what would be better than to ask folks in the forums.

yeah I noticed this with SQL and Java at work, etc...the similarities.

I remember about a year and a half ago there was talk of implementing a system whereby animations could be made in-world by manipulating your avatar like a marionette - clicking and dragging specific body parts etc. Never heard anything else about that since.

Yeah they were messing with puppeteering (what they called it) and the way it was described made it sound like it would only be good for Machinma....I dunno.

I understood that there were plans to use it to build gestures that could be replayed again and again.

There have been a number of new llFunctions lately.. Per the wiki, these are new:
llDetectedTouchBinormal
llDetectedTouchFace
llDetectedTouchNormal
llDetectedTouchPos
llDetectedTouchST
llDetectedTouchUV
llGetAgentLanguage
llGetRegionAgentCount
llSHA1String



http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Puppeteering

Mono doesn't actually add any new capabilities to LSL, and it doesn't really make much difference in performance for most scripts (and seems to increase region crossing problems for my 'Mehve', which is why it's still in LSL2). The new features added to LSL, the touch detection functions, are much more interesting.

Especially since SL users, at least those who inhabit forums and blogs tend to latch onto every word that come from LL be it good or bad. They have always been very careless with their announcements and policy statements in general, saying too much sometimes, aand not enough at others.

yeah agreed. I guess what I have read is there is functionality they've wanted to introduce but were afraid of the load it would cause, hence certain restrictions etc. A lot of these restrictions once lifted (timing ones to be exact) would completely screw up live scripts already in production so basically any future functions will not have to worry about said restrictions.

MONO is a great thing long term, short term it isn't bad either.

I already have similar scripts... they're essential if you want to find a shop in a mall when you're on a throttled DSL connection. I wrote them in LSL2: they are not constrained by LSL performance, they are constrained by the hardcoded script delays and sensors.

Yup and those delays will probably never be lifted because of older scripts that actually rely on those delays for timing etc. oh well.

Avatar puppeteering. Sadly, it seems to be a largley dead project.

Heck, you could probably offer a 10,000 USD prize and people would complain about it.

Yes, because the idea was that they would fix the bugs, and then it would be stable, and then they would get back to adding new features. Not that they would be fixing bugs for years.

SL needs to do what Google does. They need an Idea Pipeline ..don't point me to Jira ...not many users use that and even awesome ideas never get votes..because it is basically hidden from public. That and Jira is not user friendly in the least and is a pain to look at and navigate to a newb.

Perhaps more awareness of Jira would be a good thing. Maybe they know a busy Jira means more work, I dunno.

One of my ideas in Jira is to add a Level Of Detail Slider (client based) for Scuplties since sculpties "collapse" (lose detail) at such a short distance which make them not so cool. I have one vote so far and that idea rocks!

Just an example of the failure that is Jira. It seems good for bug submission though, but the submission process is pretty overwhelming and jumbled with phrases I even needed to second guess.

Some test builds were looked at. It's pretty much pointless: even with two mice, a foot pedal, and using your nose to hit the keys, you don't have enough controls to get more than trivial effects.

What I want is some way to get joints to follow scripted prims, the way your left arm does when editing. You would just need to have the prims following a path... or even being moved by animations of other joints: imagine being able to have your avatar's hands rest on its hips instead of digging into them while you're walking, without having to create a whole custom walk animation to fit your avatar's proportions.

Give the Chinese government detailed information about anyone from China who uses their service?

Why would you need all that to make an animation file? Pose and Avimator work fine without it. The idea, as I understood it, was that you could make animation files in world and save them for use later.

If you posted the Jira link here when you mentioned it, you'd get more than one vote.

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