Nalates' Things & Stuff
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I migrated from Uru, my first MMO and virtual world experience. I was in MO:UL, Myst Online: Uru Live, the 2007-2008 reincarnation of Uru Live. When GameTap dropped the MMO verion of the game I moved to Second Life as a D'ni Refugee. In Second Life I became interested in building things, i.e. clothes, buildings, scripts. You can see my Market Place stuff here.
Nalates' Things & Stuff
4M ago
It has been some time since I checked the performance of my Firestorm Viewer. The last check was 9/2022. So, over a year. This year I had some trouble running the tests. My house in Bellisseria was not rezzing. I mean floors and walls were missing. After a couple of three logins, I got the ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
1y ago
As of January 1, 2023, the Slink brand of bodies and clothes is closed. Short notice. Siddean Munro announced the closure January 1 effective immediately. For many of us this is a big deal. I am a Slink fan girl. I love my Redux Original body. AKA the Physique body. It is my everyday body ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
1y ago
The first part of this article is here. This recent Firestorm Viewer update is said to help with performance. So, I measured some numbers and dug up the previous versions’ numbers. The numbers I get say this version is definitely faster. But the Green Room numbers in my skybox are down. Curious. They went down ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
1y ago
Wow, we have a new release of the Firestorm Viewer. Just last July 26 I downloaded my then newly released update. As the Firestorm Development Team explains, they have a new development cycle in place and expect to have new releases out every 6 to 8 weeks, so every other month. It has been 8 ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
2y ago
Wow! We have a new Firestorm Viewer Release. (3/21/2022) This one has a bunch of new stuff. The Firestorm Blog explains what is new and the changelog explains what has been fixed. As usual, Inara explains in more detail on the Modem World blog than Jessica does on the Firestorm Blog. However, for the quick ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
2y ago
I hang in the SL forums these days… well… more like look through them once a day and post now and then. I notice some women were talking in one of the threads were about going for a girls’ night out. They couldn’t find a male strip club. Wait… what? I and a couple of ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
2y ago
The Firestorm Viewer version 6.4.21 had been out for a bit now. People are reacting to it. The thread Newest Firestorm version – lag monster popped up 8/4. Which made me curious because that is NOT my impression. So, I went and ran my tests, which I rate at one half-a-posterior. This version is covered ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
3y ago
Microsoft announced the coming release of Windows 11 June 24, 2021. So…. Will Second Life run on Win11? Yes. There are very few changes in Win11 that would effect how applications like Second Life work. So, we expect the change over to be a non-event for SL users. So… then what changes? There are lots ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
3y ago
If you do photography in Second Life™ or consider it screen captures then you likely want better images. Possibly you may even want to create impressive images and sell them as NFTs. Focus Magazine is putting on the FOCUS Photography Fair. They are promoting it as; Poses, Props, backdrops, lighting, and more. Having been there ..read more
Nalates' Things & Stuff
3y ago
If you watch detective shows on TV, every so often they will do something with LiDAR. These are generally really expensive systems that scan a crime scene and eventually produce a 3D model. Expensive in this case is like US$10k and up. There are cheaper ones in the $100 and less range for personal or ..read more