Did a quick hypergrid jump to Torino on the OSgrid. Nice place and i had to check that our servers allowed jumping after this Linux upgrade that destroyed so much else. Anyway.

You can see that i have my Star Trek uniform on. I always use it when i do hypergrid jumps. Think it is appropriate when exploring new worlds. Suppose people think i am a big neerd.

This afternoon i go truck driving. It is hard work in the Virtual.

Well i caved in. Long time since i had a nice home in SL. And now i got one again.

Really missed going to my home. Hangout, do some prim stuff. Go exploring and then come back. I love my house. I have won awards for the architecture and i really want to build it in RL too. When i get famous, if ever i will.

Wel the adress is: Cybers new home

Welcome to visit.. Of course i am in Sweden so most of you guys sleep while i am there.

Another transport. Not much flying right now but a lot of truck driving.

There is a new game in here somewhere.

Got this a few days ago and as I like Tomais Ashdene and he have been exhibitioning at the Nilsart gallery I want you to see it.

Story

“ Hello! we're doing something to help a young woman (the daughter of long time SL resident Tomais Ashdene) out as she is trying to be a teacher! It's at the 11th hour and we're aware you have a busy schedule. Nonetheless, should you be able to give this event some kind of coverage, we would be much obliged! Thank you in advance!!  “

More about the story.

https://www.gofundme.com/2wbq2uvd

The event will take place

Event opens May 14 and runs through may 31

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dynamo/80/96/2501

✯ BENEFIT GALA SATURDAY May 21st ✯

✯ Samm Qendra ✯ Reallymad Morpork ✯ JJ Goodman Event Photography ✯ Ballroom DJ Kahvy ✯ Formal Attire

A more close cause for a event.

Want to feel more there. Checking out your fav virtual world from a more real position. Got this tip a while ago and it really makes a difference.

Changes made in debug settings. Be careful do not play around with everything in here it is a advance menu.

                                                  X              Y                  Z

CameraOffsetRearView: –1.800         -0.100            -0.450

FocusOffsetRearView:   0.900            -0.700             0.700 

_________________________________________________

CameraOffsetScale:          0.600

Much more “real” and now I have to rebuild the scale of all buildings so they work with the new life like camera positions. Something to do while I am waiting for my Oculus.

Walking around Tabula rasa and found that Jessica Belmer have her own gallery there. She is one of my fav photographers so go take a look.

SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tabula%20rasa/196/84/25

Xander Kappler contacted me a while ago and asked if I wanted to beta test a new app he was working on and I said yes.

The app connected SL with Google calendar. I started testing and yes.

Me and my SL calendar.

When you write something in your Google calendar it shows up in SL and it is using the right time in SL as I am in Sweden and my calendar uses Swedish time. I never really have had that much use for Google calendar as I have a calendar in the company cloud for all things business. But now I have started to use it for SL stuff and you do not have to leave SL to see if I am online or when.

Xander have a store where you find the app. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife//72/46/89

(I also own the XANcast Jukebox. Worked great.)

I also really like that someone still develop new stuff for Second life. And soon the new textures in the viewer. We are on the move again.

I should have started editing my short film but instead I put in the Black forest in Lendonia. Its like when I was studying I will start writing but first I have to clean the house and do the dishes.

But the forest looks good.

And oh yes. I have put in a nice work place to in the shade. You need a nice place to work even in a virtual world. haha..

Is it going to be a success? Naaa I do not think so. Why?

It is like many Microsoft products a little bit to late. It have many nice functions but when I see how I use the Xbox 360 I have, I do not believe in it.

I put my XBox 360 away and did not miss it for months. I never use it. But I do use the controller. The family have worn out two of those. But I have the controller connected to a PC that’s connected to the big screen. It runs a Windows 7 media center and all of the family's favorite games.

For me that means World of warcraft and several other MMO s and of course the Second life viewer. None that works on a Xbox. On the PC I have Steam and a selection of other games. Family photographs and any program I want to use. Music streams from Spotify and others. The point is that I decide what I want to install and run. Not Microsoft.

I also have a Kinect. That was fun for about 5 minutes. And controlling the the screen or multimedia is just stupid. A remote is so much more effective.I use my Kinect to make Second life and game animations.

No I do not think I will by a new Xbox. I want my freedom to use what ever software I want. Or to write any software I want and publish it. I have also started to look at the world of Linux media centers. When it comes to retire my Windows 7 I am ready to change and it wont be 8 or a Xbox.

I WANT to decide what I use.

Some new pictures from the new area.

I want some more ground clutter but I do not want to do the area to hard on the graphics card and I want everybody to be able to do there own improvements.

It looks nice and have its own special style. Lighting is very important. If it was a game I could have done it differently. It is ok.

Another tree. It really takes for ever to create new content to a sim. This is my latest tree. Kind of cartoon like and the textures did not work very well so I had to remake in Blender. More cartoon like stuff works better. It makes the area look more real for some reason. It is really low poly and that’s what I am after. No strain on the graphics card. I want to place a lot of these.

Next it is ground vegetation.

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And suddenly it happens. I logged in to test SL and expected to break it in about 2 minutes but to my surprise everything worked really fine. Not much lag and the thing did not log me out whatever I did.

I went totally crazy and nothing happened Second life moved along nicely.

Now I do not know what to think. I have to check out the network during the weekend. Things like this really make crazy.

This is what it looks like when I try to do my fav thing in Second life. The road ends and after a few seconds I get logged out. It have happened to me now more than I can remember. You cant even walk around anymore.

This is what the mainland looks like today.

I suppose what you can do today is stand around or maybe run a dance animation. There are better chat programs.

I have been working on a new plane script. It is based on a old script that once worked very well. I just could not understand why it constantly broke down over and over again. Flying in a sim is great but crossing over randomly got you to falling down under earth. I suppose in virtual hell.

I started to experiment and as I have built a lot of systems in my day I think I know why. The servers shut down when no one is around and start up again when someone gets close or want to get in to the sim. I have not read anything about this but I am sure this is what happens. Anybody know?

I suppose it is good for the planet and Linden lab, less energy consumption. But for me who like to create trucks, planes and boats it is over. The start times for the servers are way to slow for vehicles.

I have to fly around on my own grid or I found some new friends on Microsoft flight. an new game/simulator for people who want to do flight stuff together.

FS inflight Engelholm in southern Sweden.

Working on a new script. Have to rewrite the plane script again. Difficult when you have to make the plane slow and still have variable lift.

Hope to use the state machine for ground air use. Using Flight simulator as reference to get some real plane feeling.

Ha ha I never got this before. PI rats. I always thought it had something to do with pirates. It was a nice visit. Ty Apmel for the link. Apmels blog

There are so much great art these days it is amazing.

I like when you use the special way it is possible to make art in SL. Prims and and space filling out the world. Second life is it´s own media. A very special way to do artworks,

I do not know what this piece is about but i like the way it is done. You find it at:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Space%204%20Art/73/126/41