I just read the most exciting news by Frans Charming on SLOG about a discussion during the Mono Office Hour regarding interactive user interfaces on a single prim face. Essentially, scripters in Second Life have long wanted to be able to tell exactly where an object has been clicked, rather than simply which object was [...]
Yup, the rumor is true, Havok 4 is to be deployed grid-wide on Monday and Tuesday. It does not appear that any of the bugs affecting C:SI will be fixed by then, and Linden Lab knows that they are releasing a physics server with many significant changes : Sidewinder Linden Says: March 29th, 2008 at [...]
Last month, when I posted an article on realXtend joining with OpenSim, I mentioned that one of the things that got me truly excited while reading the proposed feature list was the ability to directly script the avatar skeleton. Here’s what I said at that time : Ability to script avatar skeletons – Apparently inverse [...]
Since I first asked the question "How many people use C:SI?" on this blog last September, the Combat: Samurai Island community has grown by more than 5000 new active users, and more than 1800 new regions where duels have been fought. Not all of those regions are active, of course, like Meiji with over 188000 [...]
I just received an email regarding the Jira issue SVC-1648, which pertains to the problem that C:SI users are having with kicks in Havok™ 4 early-adopter sims, notifying me that it has finally been assigned to Kelly Linden. Apparently Kelly Linden had not seen the object that I passed to Sidewinder Linden as a repro [...]
I recently saw an article on Darien Caldwell’s blog that Linden Lab® is preparing to launch Havok™ 4 grid-wide in the near future, as soon as the next week or two. The post stated that supporting text could be found on the Second Life® Blog, but when I went to look for myself, no such [...]
As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve decided that now is a good time for me to redesign the theme I use for my blog. For too long now, I’ve used a WordPress theme that, while it looked nice enough, did absolutely nothing to visually convey the topic or spirit of the site. I’m pretty pleased with [...]
[RESOLVED] Attitude problem… There has been yet another of the almost-daily service interruptions where people are being warned not to purchase anything. I was reviewing my sales this morning, and I’m down to roughly 5% to 10% of what I was experiencing on average for the previous several months. Surely there are several contributing factors, [...]
Many of you probably already know that we had decided to move the C:SI Weekly Statistics page from this site over to the official Samurai Island website, and I’ve been working toward that end by trying to figure out the best and most easily maintainable way to integrating that functionality into the C:SI software. While [...]