Cartoon of The Day: Like Wearing Clouds

 

 Taken at Club Zero Gravity

 

By Bixyl Shuftan 

 

EOTB: The Environmental Enhancement Project is Online

In the official Second Life blog yesterday, Linden Lab announced that after a few years in development, the Environmental Enhancement Project, or "EEP" for short, was fully ready and part of the Grid and regular viewer.

The big day is here!  The Environmental Enhancement Project has been released grid-wide.  As of today the default viewer download and all regions on the grid fully support EEP!

In short, EEP offers big improvements in how one can modify the sky, water settings, and day cycles in one's sim or parcel. One can create and modify "environmental objects," and even sell them to others. You can have up to four different sky levels with very different appearances. The Sun, Moon, and cloud textures can be replaced with custom ones. One can change the four-hour day/night cycle in Second Life to 24 hours, or even a 168 hours (seven days), and more.



Besides the video about EEP provided by the Lab, one can also check out the Wiki page. Inara Pey would also write a tutorial and a primer.

Sources: Linden blog, Modem World

Bell Weather

When it comes to weather in Second Life, a few sims had systems for simulated rain, and the old NOAA sim had a hurricane. But most of us are used to place after place with sunny, or moonlit, skies with a few clouds at most. But when Gemma dropped in on April 1, she started hearing about something very much different going on in the new continent of Bellisseria. A storm system had developed, spawning tornadoes. In her story today, she writes about this unusual weather, and the chaos that followed afterward on this April Fools Day.

Read the article by Gemma in Places.

Image credit: Achilles Audion