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How To Copy Objects In Second Life

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

The practice of illegally copying or cloning objects in Second Life is a very big issue that should be taken seriously but there are merchants and creators specially in SLExchange who does not believe or do they care about this issue. In one thread, a creator and a merchant posted her case on content theft. She found one of her creations copied prim-per-prim and texture-per-texture and that can only be done by using a third party program. Fortunately, a DMCA complaint was filed with Linden Labs and it looked like the original creator won but what pissed me off is the fact that many argued that it isn’t possible and that CopyBot no longer exist.

An object owned by Korena Starbrook was copied and was being distributed for FREE!

Okay, there might not be anymore CopyBot programs out there but you don’t need a program named CopyBot to copy objects in Second Life. All you need is LibSecondLife’s Test Client and you can get that by downloading and installing LibSecondLife. LibSecondLife is the heart of almost all text based Second Life viewers out there which are commonly known as SL Bots. (more…)

Tags: animation, avatars, bots, Camping, clone, content theft, copybot, creators, dmca complaint, export command, import command, in-world, libsecondlife, linden labs, lindens, s, scripting, Second Life, slexchange, textures, third party, viewer, violation
Posted in Second Life | 8 Comments »

New Suit for only 600L$

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Now that I have some new hairs, I thought that I should compliment it with a new suit. For my new suit, I still prefer it to be Philippine inspired and there is only one place I know in Second Life that has Philippine inspired suits and that is Casa De Shai. The suit I bought is named the Luna Suit which I assumed was named after two of my country’s great heroes, Antonio and Juan Luna, and it cost only 600L$.

Rom Ireton

The snapshot was taken at Mt Kiribati, Irukandji National Park using the latest Windlight viewer. I think it looks nice even though it wasn’t enhanced by Photoshop or any graphics/image/photo editor.

The suit worked well with the hairs except for one, the Lajon Hair Sytle, but still I’m very happy with it. Maybe next month I’ll buy a new suit and I’m thinking of another Barong would be nice.

Tags: antonio luna, casa del shai, hair, hairs, juan luna, luna suit, mt. kiribati, national park, photoshop, Second Life, viewer, windlight
Posted in Living A Second Life, Second Life, Virtual Life | No Comments »

Age Verification?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

When I first signed up with Second Life, it was clearly stated that it is for people 18 years of age and above. Those who are below 18 years of age are not allowed in Second Life but that doesn’t mean they can’t enjoy Second Life, that is why Teen Second Life was created.

Reading Second Life’s blog, they posted about the release of a new candidate viewer (1.18.6 RC0) and the implementation of age verification in it.

I really don’t get the logic of it. If Second Life (the main grid) is for adults only then why add an in-world age verification system. Age verification should be done, initially, at sign-up and not after signing up.

Thus this mean that Linden Labs admits the presence of minors in the main grid and they have failed to limit access to adults only?

I’m not saying that an in-world age verification system is a bad thing. In fact, it’s a good thing because there are indeed minors in the main grid and I’ve met some of them who admitted to me that they are minors but that should be the job of Linden Labs and not the estate or land owners since the sign-up process is still controlled and conducted by Linden Labs.

Implementing an in-world age verification system can also mean that minors are in fact, if not already, welcome in the main grid. Now what’s the purpose of having a Teen Second Life?

Instead of features like this why don’t they focus on important things like viewer stability and scalability. Linden Labs is wasting manpower and resources for something that should have been part of the sign up process for the main grid of Second Life.

Again, it is assumed that everyone in the main grid are adults and if there’s going to be an age verification system it should be placed at the sign up process and not after you signed up and besides, they admitted that it’s not full proof so why waste people’s time with this thing.

Tags: adults, age verification, in-world, linden, linden labs, main grid, minors, release candidate viewer, Second Life, stability, teen second life, viewer
Posted in Second Life | 4 Comments »

Second Life? NOT!

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

I logged in today to find my avatar ruthed ((a term used when the default avatar appearance loaded instead of your real avatar)) and yes, he was wearing a purple shirt and red pants but there was something strange about it. My ruthed avatar was tall for a ruthed avatar look.

The surrounding area also looked strange and different. Almost all of the textures didn’t load making everything looks sad and gray. Am I still in Second Life?

OSGrid

Fortunately, I wasn’t in Second Life. The avatar you saw is indeed my avatar but that photo wasn’t taken in-world Second Life. The photo or snapshot was taken in-world OSGrid.

OSGrid is like the Open Source version of Second Life’s grid. It uses OpenSim, an Open Source version of Second Life’s server or simulator code. OSGrid is pretty much like Second Life, what you can do in Second Life you can do it also in OSGrid although many features are still underdevelopment and OSGrid also uses the Second Life client. If you have Second Life installed then you can use that to login into OSGrid.

With Open Source projects like OpenSim and OSGrid, the ability to manage and operate your own region or sim is becoming closer and closer to the public’s reach.

Other Open Source Grids:

These grids, together with OpenSim, are still work in progress so don’t expect any stability from them but you can try any of them. You don’t need to download any viewer if you are just planning to visit in-world. Second Life’s viewer will work just fine. Instructions are available from their websites.

Tags: deepgrid, openlifegrid, opensim, opensimulator, osgrid, region, Second Life, simulator, viewer
Posted in Blah! Blah! Blah!, Second Life, Virtual Life | 1 Comment »

Second Life Viewer Warning

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

It seems that Second Life’s viewer can also be affected by this exploit which was recently found with Quicktime. We all know that Second Life uses Quicktime to play in-world movies and because of this the viewer can be open to exploits too. It is strongly suggested to turn off or disable videos for the mean time until a fix is developed. Also, the exploit does not only affects Second Life’s viewer but all platforms that use Quicktime.

I haven’t really used that feature for some time now. I think the last time I watched a streaming video in Second Life was almost 3 months ago. I disabled it, together with voice chat, because both features are giving me too much lag in-world.

Anyway, there is a new viewer and the windlight viewer is also updated. The problem I encountered now with the windlight viewer is that it tells me that my machine is below the required specifications to run Second Life. WHAT! I think there is a bug in windlight’s hardware detection because I can run windlight without any problems.

Tags: 1.18.5, disable videos, fix, new viewer, quicktime, quicktime exploit, Second Life, viewer, voice chat, windlight, windlight update
Posted in Blah! Blah! Blah!, Second Life, Virtual Life | 3 Comments »