The long awaited update to the Second Life avatar skeleton, nicknamed Project Bento, has been in beta for over a year now. On the 5th of December this year, the project was finally pushed to the live version of the Second Life viewer. Project Bento offers additional bones to the…
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Third Party Viewers for Second Life – An updated look
It has been a while since we wrote about third party viewers here on The Torch. A lot of old ones have been updated and a few new ones have popped up. Here’s what’s on the menu at the moment. Alchemy Alchemy viewer has been around for about 2 years…
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Atomp Updated Review – Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
By Tom Hooper aka Atomp, (05-06-14) It’s been just under a year since I last looked at Cataclysm and we left it at the very beginning of a crowd funding campaign to hire a full time developer. That crowd funding campaign succeeded raising $9,500 of the $7,000 goal…
Read MoreAtomP Updates: Kerbal Space Program (Beta) [SQUAD]
Tom Hooper aka Atomp It’s been approximately 9 months since I last covered KSP (Kerbal Space Program), and in that time the game has developed significantly enough that I felt compelled to do an update. The KSP updates have been fairly consistent and the game is still in development, so…
Read MoreAtomp Update: Terraria [Re-Logic]
Tom Hooper aka Atomp I originally wrote about Terraria in July when the release of patch 1.2 seemed imminent, now it’s October and the release occurred on the first of this month. It may seem strange to write an entire article purely on a patch, but that’s because the scale…
Read MoreAtomP – (P)review Updates 2
By Tom Hooper aka Atomp I’ve done quite a few previews of early games in my articles. I’ve decided therefore that it would be a good idea to do an update article on occasion where I give a brief update of the current state of these games and what has…
Read MoreAtomP (P)review Updates 1
By Tom Hooper aka Atomp I figured that I’ve done quite a few previews of early games in these articles and the early nature of the builds means that they are probably different today than they were when I covered them. I’ve decided therefore that it would be a good…
Read MoreThis week in Tech – Pathfinding Tools enables RP sims to have NPC’s
There’s no secret that the next LSL (Linden Scripting Language) library update in progress is the Pathfinder Tools, but what are these? Pathfinder will allow prims to detect other prims around them and react to them in a certain way. A car could “see” the tree in front of it…
Read MoreThird Party Viewer policy change from LL puts third party viewers at risk
At 2pm PST yesterday (friday 2/24) Linden Labs announced that they will change the policy for third party viewers. This change brings a lot of discussion material to the table, as they seem to want to eliminate all third party viewers without actually ban them. The most discussed change is…
Read MorePhoenix Viewer: Now With Mesh Option
A couple of months ago we reported a rumor that stated that the Phoenix Viewer would have mesh. They explained that Phoenix could not have mesh because of the codes that were used to make Mesh available in viewer 1.5. According to the Phoenix Blog, that is now made possible. The Phoenix…
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