How To Stream Audio in Second Life Information and guides for the novice interested in learning about and getting started with streaming audio inside the world of Second Life. Includes starter list of public audio streams, software to use for your own streaming, and troubleshooting tips. in Public bookmarkswith addressaudioguideshowicecastinlandlifemetaversemultiversemusicoptionssecondshoutcastslstreamstreamingstreamstourl Note: This article is presented as an introduction to playing your own and audio streams within Second Life for all to hear. The concepts and details of running your own audio stream number a great deal, due to such this guide just provides the basics to getting your own station online.
Views From an OpenSim Open Source Grid Thanks to an ambitious group of hackers, alternatives to Second Life's Main Grid are already coming online. OpenSim born from the Open Source Grid Project is one of a few private grids. Checkout some screen shots and sign-in for yourself to the possible future of the Second Life Platform. in Public bookmarkswith 3.d3dengineergridlifeopenopensimopenslrealityreversesecondsecond-lifesecondlifesimslsourcevirtualvirtual-realityvr Note: Rather than wait for Linden Lab to open source the server side code that runs their (currently) closed in grid an ingenious group of hackers have taken it upon themselves to reverse engineer a copycat set of programs using the open sourced client and a whole lot of time.
How to Reduce Client Side Lag in Second Life No one likes lag, whether it be local, server side or something faulting in the middle, choppy, laggy worlds hardly seem like the metaverse of Snow Crash. In this article are examples of features which can be disabled or turned down resulting in high FPS, along with how to ignore lesser material types using the debug menus. in Public bookmarkswith clientdebugframehardwarelaglagnorlifemetaverseminimumraterequirementssecondsecondlifeserversettingssidesl Note: For the most part, lower end hardware will see a greater percentage of increased performance than a high end machine. For those who just meet the bare minimum requirements here are the client settings I recommend using for greatest efficiency…
How to Stay Online While AFK In Second Life Information and examples for defeating the auto-logout when idle for too long in the Second Life Platform. Includes four different ways of achieving this, from using 3rd party macro programs (scripts provided) to directly editing variables used by the SL Client. in Public bookmarkswith afkanti-idlebotbotsecondlifeclientdebuggoidlelifemacroonlinesecondslstay Note: While a good number of people use a “stay alive” macro to camp for long periods of time or give their actual land artificially high traffic counts, such an ability can be used for good as well. For me, I always have the idle logout disabled, using the first option listed above, as I find myself usin ...moreg SL but working in PhotoShop and other applications making SL content a good amount of time. Has saved me a good number of headaches.