Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Scripting
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Originally published on my Patreon Last week's Second Life platform updates were mainly focused on the new Firestorm streaming option, but a long-awaited update to its scripting language might be even more important: SLua stands for Second Life Lua, a language based on Luau (originally developed by Roblox), extended to harness the full power of Second…
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Since Linden Lab recently unveiled Combat 2, a major update to Second Life's combat system, I got in touch with Kyle Linden, the company project manager under the Avatars and Creator Tools initiative. A Linden since 2007, Kyle's also a longtime gamer and even owned a roleplay region in SL before joining the company. "[O]ne…
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I spent most of yesterday's Second Life update meeting from Linden Lab preparing to blog about the mobile launch, but I also took some rough notes on current progress/upcoming features announced by the dev team, including Signal Linden (Bennett Goble) a head Software Engineer at the company: PBR graphics improvements: The Lindens acknowledged user complaints…
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For the LSL scripter in your life, here's a LSL Language Server extension for Visual Studio Code. If that sounds obscure as Sanskrit, creator Jeremy Fairelander explains it simply thus: "My extension aims to provide professional-grade 'developer experience" features to make writing LSL code easier and more efficient." Here's even more background, situating as another…
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ChatGPT might seem pretty useless for a legacy virtual world like Second Life (I certainly thought so last year), but recent updates have somewhat changed my mind. In his off-hours, Linden Lab's infosec head (known by his avatar, Soft Linden) has been playing around with OpenAI's Large Language Model, and discovered some pretty impressive Second…
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LSL LinksetData is a relatively new addition to Second Life scripting that veteran devs say can powerfully transform interactive experiences in Second Life. To illustrate how, longtime scripter Grace Ling, creator of the popular roleplay app, Really Needy HUD, explains how it's used in her roleplay system — and how it can be used in…
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Fun comment from reader Ravelli Ormstein, spinning off from my post about how full of fail ChatGPT is when you ask it a question you're an expert on: First, I asked ChatGPT to write a LSL script that would turn on a light when the sun went down. It wrote a nice script, but it…
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(1/24) There's a super great upgrade coming to @SecondLife scripting, that I don't think is getting great attention it should. Before I go on forever about why this is great and will fundamentally change #SL please consider a retweet and maybe a like – to help spread the word. 🙂 — NeoBokrug (@NeoBokrug) October 19,…
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Lads and ladies, we're here with our first roleplay revolvers: The Duelist's Pride! Designed to be used idly, in roleplay, and wearing for fashion. DETAILS HERE: https://t.co/svfWmKUsiI Now available in BASSETT TOWN – https://t.co/oVEdA24qBR pic.twitter.com/g2fPNyCYzL — Walton Wainwright (@SLContraption) April 29, 2022 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Just in time for the Fantasy Faire and the steampunk-themed SL19B anniversary,…
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After so many stories about Meta in the Metaverse, the inevitable finally occurred: Meet "Creepy Mark", a chatty bot with a suspiciously familiar appearance which you can buy to silently stalk you in the OG metaverse of Second Life. I just got my own personal Creepy Mark, and now he won't leave my side, following…
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