I am new to Second Life?

[Tris Raymaker]

Hi all,

 

I havent played second life in many years. When I was here last there were <20 regions, and not this much interactivity. Can someone explain to me what new features were added in the past 3 years, or link me to a help article? Thanks.

[Qwalyphi Korpov]

The resident who provided the previous content, if any, has replaced it with this generic statement.

[Argus Collingwood]

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Qwalyphi Korpov wrote:

In 2009 there was a change to stop the linden trees swaying in the breeze.  You can override that but it's the default.  That was supposed to improve performance.

Concurrency then dropped from 70k to about 50k.

This year swaying body parts were added.

Concurrency stayed around 50k.

There's some other stuff  but those are the highlights.

idk of an article - but some other ppls will add stuff.

(edited for spelling)

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That just about sums it up:smileywink: I miss swaying trees and plants but ones you buy on the new SLM from creators have sway/flexi built in. Welcome back OP.

[Kelli May]

Since there were <20 regions? A whole lot. In no particular order:

Many thousands of private regions were created, and whole continents of LL regions.

Avatar ratings were dropped.

Prim taxes were dropped.

Sculpted prims were introduced.

Windlight environmental effects introduced.

Concurrency passed 10K, then 20K, up as far as 70-80K. It's now back down somewhat.

A glitch briefly allowed the construction of new megaprims. Before it was patched, many thousands were created and released.

A huge furore about 'Adult content' lead to the creation of a new rating and land specifically set aside for Adult activities.

Land boomed in price to an average of over L$10/sqm, thensteadily dropped to around L$1/sqm.

Third party viewers became common. One in particular, Emerald, caused a lot of controvery and was withdrawn.

The teen grid was shut down, and older teens allowed limited access to the main grid.

Multiple clothing layers added, and multiple attachment points.

A new tattoo layer was added, over the skin layer and under clothing layers.

Various forms of 'avatar physics' have been introduced, for jiggling boobs, butts & bellies.

An Alpha layer was created, to reduce the need for invisiprims.

The Official LL Viewer 2 was introduced, with varying popularity.

Mesh was recently introduced.

LL viewer moved to v3 and mesh-based graphics introduced (very recently).

 

[Venus Petrov]

Since it has been so long since you have been a resident (and, welcome back!), you are probably better off just being a newbie all over again, exploring, and discovering SL for the 'first time'.

[Emma Krokus]

Oh love your take on the changes in sl, Qwalyphi !!!

Thanks for the laugh

 

Emma  

 

[Tris Raymaker]

Thanks a bunch, guys. I appreciate the advice. I used to build and script a lot, but now the new interface is very confusing to me. When I played SL back in the day, there used to be a button at the botom of the screen saying "Build", where I could access the building interface. Now, I downloaded the new "Viewer", whatever that is, and it's missing. Can someone tell me how to build once more?

 

 

All your help is appreciated. I miss the Teen Grid, but I wouldn't be allowed back there anyway (I'm 18 now).

[Willow Danube]

Oh the Build button is still there...

Just right click on the same lower bar where you have the Move button and check Build.