Recent content by Qie Niangao

Thanks for that. I thought I was the only one who saw nothing all that impressive about Sansar graphics compared to well done, modern SL content. One thing SL might be able to borrow from Sansar is clothing, albeit with a some effort and maybe some insurmountable TPV licensing issues. I'm given...

Of possible future interest, there's a Scripting forum but that's really more about writing your own scripts. Just being paranoid, you'll want to be very sure that you only distribute these full-perm animations with appropriate next-owner permissions (which usually aren't full perm, in which...

Indeed. (y) In the olden days (like a year or so ago) a Premium membership would only cover one 512 Linden Homes parcel or 512 regular Mainland. After the big upgrade to Premium it can now cover both, or one 1024 Bellisseria Linden Home or one 1024 regular Mainland. Of course, there's such a...

Is there an update on the layoff news here? Like how many actually are leaving LL, and of those how many are just volunteering for a buy-out rather than follow a new direction for Sansar? And how many are moving over to SL? (I've heard "several" but not from anybody in a position to know the...

From the grapevine, it seemed LEA had become such a mess that it would be better to replace it than to try (again?) to save it. I was surprised LL wasn't ready with a replacement. That's a bit worrisome because the mission of LEA is pretty important, even if its execution was pretty...

Mueller could have said that Trump is a clear and present danger to national security and Congress must remove him to save the republic. That's pretty much the only rational conclusion to draw from the report's findings, were we not all inured to years of mounting treasonous kleptocracy. Yet...

Thanks for the link, and sorry for the thread. I don't know how to work these new-fangled forum things. Apparently.

Earlier this month, according to Inara Pey's blog, High Fidelity did some kind of micro-pivot, shutting down all its public spaces and thus directing strategic focus on... something else. At this point the discussion loses me in non-quant MBA-speak, so I can't tell if this is just another nail...

I think the delay may be less about technical challenge and more about a bunch of interdependent pricing decisions (this name change thing will not be cheap!) including the whole "multiple Premium level" scheme.

Absolutely. Given my 'druthers, though, those would share a common API to mesh geometry creation... and in some bright future, "the" in-world mesh editor would be plug-and-play for multiple purpose-fit user experiences of mesh creation. Again, though, they crippled the very representation of...

Animesh is fine for hand-crafting objects that behave like pets or NPVs, or even maybe foliage, but it's yet another virtual world platform feature born of video game envy. There's no way to algorithmically define the deformations at runtime (beyond lamely choosing one of a set of canned anims)...

I realize this is a thread about performance and y'all can argue about that as much as you want, no matter to me. I will, however, speak up for sculpts because as much as they perhaps should be obsolete, the representation adopted for Mesh (binding the model to the instance) makes it useless for...

That seems like the long way 'round the barn. What you really care is the Scripts Run percentage, which you want to be as close as possible to a stable 100%. If there's ample Spare Time in the simulation frame, even better. It does still seem to be that the majority of script lag on Mainland is...

I think IP address is exposed to the stream provider with all the streaming interfaces (not just Parcel Media, but also Parcel Audio and Shared Media), although the agent-specific variety of Parcel Media is still the easiest to associate with a single avatar. But there are so many other, non-SL...

It's sorta not obvious to me what about SL to post here, even though I'm still quite engaged in-world. In fact, I've recently had something of a scripting resurgence. Surprising how a mature platform, where all the problems were "solved" years ago, still has such vast room for improvement in...