Category Archives: Second Life

Ruth2 v4 Rigging

Posted on March 25, 2023 by bat

Sean Heavy has documented a process to add an armature/rig to the Ruth2v4 open source mesh avatar and to export components of the avatar for Second Life and OpenSim using the Onigiri Blender add-on. These notes are to provide some … Continue reading →

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Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Onigiri)

Posted on March 21, 2023 by bat

This blog post describes a process to take Ready Player Me (https://readyplayer.me) avatars via Blender and the Onigiri add-on to use in Second Life and OpenSim. Onigiri is a type of Japanese rice ball (see Wikipedia). Prepare the Resources Obtain … Continue reading →

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Second Life PBR Materials Tests

Posted on March 3, 2023 by bat

A development of Second Life is introducing Physical Based Rendering (PBR) materials based on the glTF specification. Some links and resources are in my earlier blog post. Test Materials with Metallics, Lights and Emission Ready Player Me Avatar with All … Continue reading →

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Second Life PBR – Resources

Posted on February 9, 2023 by bat

Example PBR Materials (Chrome and Brass) on Door Knobs Physics Based Rendering and glTF materials use is coming to Second Life and a project viewer already exits for testing things using the Beta Grid. This blog post is to gather … Continue reading →

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Second Life – Les Salines – February 2023

Posted on February 8, 2023 by bat

Once again, I was inspired by one of Inara Pey’s excellent Second Life destination reviews to visit another nice build in Second Life, this time of a late Nineteenth Century western town in the “Nowhere” region of the Mohave Desert. … Continue reading →

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Second Life Mole Day 2023

Posted on February 5, 2023 by bat

I joined the “Mole Day” celebration on 5th February 2023 to thank the Moles for all they do on behalf of Second Life residents. The Moles are the builders and maintainers of the shared spaces in Second Life, and provide … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.8

Posted on January 31, 2023 by bat

Up to Firestorm 6.6.8 if you see errors like “missing vcruntime.dll”, “missing msvcp.dll” or the application is not starting at all, then please download and install Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio (link for 64-bit operating systems). This issue will … Continue reading →

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Second Life – Fantasy Cove

Posted on January 31, 2023 by bat

Fantasy Cove is a Second Life region moody build by digitalbleh. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fantasy%20Cove/49/151/1001 Second Life Destinations – Fantasy Cove Flickr Photos

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Second Life – Crystal Coast – Scuba Diving

Posted on January 31, 2023 by bat

I was prompted by a tweet by @nanami_Fray to explore a scuba diving location in Second Life at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Coast/189/68/37″>Crystal Coast. Video and Image from @nanami_Fray https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Crystal%20Coast/189/68/37 Video by @nanami_Fray Scuba Dive Equipment: @nanami_Fray wears “Steelhead Sport Scuba V1.8 Click to … Continue reading →

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Second Life – The Magical Kingdom

Posted on January 30, 2023 by bat

The Magical Kingdom is a region in Second Life built by The Muggles group involving Dain Voxel and Suzie Anderton. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/THE%20MAGICAL%20KINGDOM/ Second Life Destination Guide – The Magical Kingdom Second Life – The Magical Kingdom Flickr Group Video by InWorld … Continue reading →

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Cloud Edge in Second Life

Posted on January 6, 2023 by bat

Cloud Edge on the Echo Mountain region in Second Life is a wonderful atmospheric walk in the mountains above the cloud. It is created by Funky Banana. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Echo%20Mountain/144/207/75 Blog Post by Inara Pey 5-Jan-2023 Blog Post by Caitlin Tobias 5-Jan-2023 … Continue reading →

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Second Life Skiing 2022

Posted on December 28, 2022 by bat

Try the timed ski runs on Coeur Lac d’Annecy Ski Resort… https://secondlife.com/destination/coeur-lac-dannecy-ski-resort https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Coeur%20Lac%20Annecy/51/21/2179/

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Fallingwater by Miltone Marquette

Posted on December 26, 2022 by bat

I was inspired by one of Inara Pey’s excellent Second Life destinations reviews to visit another nice replica of Fallingwater in Second Life. Fallingwater is the home designed by Frank Llody Wright for Edgar J. Kaufmann and his family in … Continue reading →

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Second Life Winter 2022

Posted on December 20, 2022 by bat

Esprit Christmas Village and Skating Lake by Camila Runo There is a well developed winter themed region on Esprit by Camila Runo. Walk or horse ride on the winter woodland trails and skate the surrounding lake. Then visit the Christmas … Continue reading →

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Second Life Ice Skating 2022

Posted on December 17, 2022 by bat

Flyte Ice Skating Lake by Jenna Dirval and her Team http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FlyGearZ/7/215/26 Flyte on the FlyGearZ region has a wonderful skating lake set in a moody landscape of snow and ice under a sky with aurora and rainbows. The lake edge … Continue reading →

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Le Chateau Motel in Second Life

Posted on November 24, 2022 by bat

https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/12092-second-life-destinations-le-chateau/ https://secondlife.com/destination/le-chateau-motel https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Swing%20Island/50/109/34/ Creator Victoire Sire says that the inspiration behind Le Chateau is a typical 80’s style American motel. I was interested to see that (from the poolside) it looks VERY similar to a Miami Beach hotel we stayed … Continue reading →

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Converting Ready Player Me Avatars for Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on October 3, 2022 by bat

This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player Me avatars through Blender with the (paid) Bento Buddy addin into Second Life and OpenSim to travel across the Hypergrid. Note that a current Bento Buddy … Continue reading →

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Crystal Frost – Unity Viewer for Second Life and OpenSim

Posted on September 21, 2022 by bat

GitHub JennaScvl (Berry Bunny in Second Life, Kallisti#2038 on Discord) recently announced work on a Unity-based viewer for Second Life and OpenSim using LibreMetaverse. This blog post provides resources related to the development of Crystal Frost which is still at … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.3

Posted on September 18, 2022 by bat

Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.8.68380 is an update to version 6.6.3. See this blog post. Firestorm VR Mod is a version of the popular Firestorm Viewer for Second Life and OpenSimulator with modifications to provide VR capabilities for VR Head Mounted … Continue reading →

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Using Ready Player Me Avatars in Second Life and OpenSim (Bento Budy)

Posted on September 8, 2022 by bat

This blog post is replaced by a later one here since developments have taken place in Ready Player Me and the Bento Buddy plugin for Blender. This blog post provides resources and information for a route to take Ready Player … Continue reading →

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Second Life Puppetry – Resources

Posted on September 1, 2022 by bat

This blog post provides some links and resources relevant to the (currently experimental) development of “Puppetry” for Second Life and OpenSim. Puppetry opens up the viewer to accept animation data from other sources such as scripts (e.g. Python), a webcam … Continue reading →

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Aurelia’s Rainy Day Cafe

Posted on August 26, 2022 by bat

A quick visit to Aurelia’s Rainy Day Cafe in Second Life. Initially to pick up a (free) box of EEP Rainbow environment settings by Juicy Bomb (see this blog post)… but then I stayed to enjoy the cafe on the … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.5.6

Posted on July 28, 2022 by bat

Firestorm 6.5.6 + P373R VR Mod: This build includes P373R’s VR Mod 6.3.3 changes merged into the Firestorm 6.5.6.66221 release branch. The VR Mod approach takes a minimalistic approach to inserting VR capabilities into the viewer in order that the … Continue reading →

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Second Life – The Man – 2002-2022

Posted on July 19, 2022 by bat

It is the 20th anniversary of the creation of “The Man” statue which appeared on one of the Second Life Beta regions on 19th July 2002. Twenty years of the Second Life virtual world and going strong. https://secondlife.com/destination/the-man http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Natoma/96/182/26 360° … Continue reading →

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Second Life – Resources

Posted on June 17, 2022 by bat

Web page: https://secondlife.com Downloads: https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ Second Life Discord Channel: please note that this is not intended as a general user/residents forum, it is for special developments and active projects group participants – Invite Link, Request creator channel access Second Life … Continue reading →

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Ruth2 v4 – Rigging in Blender

Posted on May 16, 2022 by bat

This is an updated blog post explaining how to take the Ruth2 v4 avatar mesh with included armature and export it in a form suitable for use in Second Life and OpenSim. The post is still under development to debug … Continue reading →

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Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2022

Posted on March 31, 2022 by bat

The 15th Virtual World Best Practice in Education 2022 online conference titled “Phoenix Arising” took place in Second Life on 31st March to 2nd April 2022. VWBPE 2022 Opening Event VWBPE 2022 KeyNote by Oksana Levytska Oksana Levytska is Chair … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.5.3

Posted on March 31, 2022 by bat

Firestorm 6.5.3 + P373R VR Mod: This build includes P373R’s VR Mod 6.3.3 changes merged into the Firestorm 6.5.3.65658 release branch. Download the release installer from the “Assets” list at the bottom of the entry for the latest version available … Continue reading →

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Dyrhólaey in Second Life

Posted on March 25, 2022 by bat

“Dyrhólaey” is an atmospheric Second Life build on the “Aride Isle” region in March 2022 by Serene Footman. It is themed after an island in the North of Iceland. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aride%20Isle/170/71/41 https://www.flickr.com/groups/dyrholaey/ As is often the case this build was drawn … Continue reading →

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History of SecondLife and OpenSim VR Viewers

Posted on February 20, 2022 by bat

These notes were originally posted on the Discord Firestorm VR Mod channel to explain the history behind the various 3D and VR Viewers for Second Life and OpenSim. They are collected together here for convenience. Pre-VR HMD 3D Approaches The … Continue reading →

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