if you've ever confronted zfire xue or theBoris Gothly about privacy violations you've probably gotten the same rant I got, redzone is about protecting businesses in secondlife from copybot and the business owners don't care who your alts are well we all know thats bullshit and...... it gets worse.
http://forcemesilverspar.blogspot.com/2011/02/redzone-warning.html
Give the blog a read through if you have an alt and want any privacy.
so much for that alt I created to keep a separation between my personal and business life on SL.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Greenzone a counter Product to Redzone
Well over a week ago I came across a tool called greenzone on secondlife marketplace:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GreenZone-Not-sold-by-me-any-more-Click-to-read-why/1849012
now at:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GreenZone-Detect-zF-RedZone-Keep-your-privacy/1907392
anyhow at first I found it only provided a false sense of security with version 1.8, however I recently attached the tool and it sent an update to version 2.1 its now something I can recommend as I tested it and it seems to work great!
version 1.8 of greenzone had a major flaw, it could only detect redzone orbs within 96m and most users hide theirs high up in the sky and way out of the users reach, this could be a serious problem if your relying on this for security. as it would be likely that redzone spyware would detect a user before the user detected it. this limitation could compromise user security by giving a false sense of security, version 2.1 is much much better, I visited a sim that I knew had the redzone orb that I used to frequent called balcones which hosts the "extreme fetishists club", they have a redzone orb in plain view behind the bar counter of their club, I flew up to about 900m and the greenzone HUD attachment was still alerting me to the presence of a redzone orb.
while the script contained in the tool is no modify which makes me wonder how it works and whether or not its reliable enough to depend on for security(i still would recommend keeping media functionality disabled in your viewer) it does have a much higher chance of alerting you to zfire xues continued illegal activity and ToS violations in secondlife, and better yet, their transferable and copyable, I recommend picking one up from secondlife marketplace if you absolutely must use the media functions in your viewer time to time.
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GreenZone-Detect-zF-RedZone-Keep-your-privacy/1907392
EDIT:forgot to mention theres another blog that lists discovered redzone privacy violations.
you can find it here: http://greenzonemouthpiece.blogspot.com/
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GreenZone-Not-sold-by-me-any-more-Click-to-read-why/1849012
now at:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GreenZone-Detect-zF-RedZone-Keep-your-privacy/1907392
anyhow at first I found it only provided a false sense of security with version 1.8, however I recently attached the tool and it sent an update to version 2.1 its now something I can recommend as I tested it and it seems to work great!
version 1.8 of greenzone had a major flaw, it could only detect redzone orbs within 96m and most users hide theirs high up in the sky and way out of the users reach, this could be a serious problem if your relying on this for security. as it would be likely that redzone spyware would detect a user before the user detected it. this limitation could compromise user security by giving a false sense of security, version 2.1 is much much better, I visited a sim that I knew had the redzone orb that I used to frequent called balcones which hosts the "extreme fetishists club", they have a redzone orb in plain view behind the bar counter of their club, I flew up to about 900m and the greenzone HUD attachment was still alerting me to the presence of a redzone orb.
while the script contained in the tool is no modify which makes me wonder how it works and whether or not its reliable enough to depend on for security(i still would recommend keeping media functionality disabled in your viewer) it does have a much higher chance of alerting you to zfire xues continued illegal activity and ToS violations in secondlife, and better yet, their transferable and copyable, I recommend picking one up from secondlife marketplace if you absolutely must use the media functions in your viewer time to time.
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/GreenZone-Detect-zF-RedZone-Keep-your-privacy/1907392
EDIT:forgot to mention theres another blog that lists discovered redzone privacy violations.
you can find it here: http://greenzonemouthpiece.blogspot.com/
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Aventity - Chimera uses zf redzone which violates your privacy
Normally when I find stolen content from content creators that's been copybotted or perm exploited in some way or another I file abuse reports against the thief, today I filed an Abuse report against the content creator, why else? when they went whining about it to get other people into filing an abuse report against the thief they revealed they were doing something just as bad as the thief, using zf redzone to spy on their customers, their content got stolen by the thief they mentioned all the same, so zf redzone sure didn't do a lot to protect them did it?
anyhow I don't have much L's coming in that I don't put into uploading textures and what not on my own content I work on on an alternate account, when I see something I like I make a shopping list and when I have a lot extra to spare I usually go ahead and Buy a few things from that shopping list, today I took about 5000L off the list without buying any of it and decided that Ill spend my money where it counts on other content creators that are treating their customers right like Luskwood, with that said your probably wondering who it is that had the zf redzone security orb, it was Chimera Avatar parts and accessories, which is owned by Mephitis Jezebel who also runs Aventity avatars, and partnered to Chef Soderstrom whom brought the redzone security orb to my attention, he sent out a notice which had a notecard attached, I viewed the notecard hoping to find out if any of the content I had created has been copybotted or not only to be disappointed in finding the notecard had a blurry attached useless texture and that they had been using zf redzone to supposedly protect their content, normally in this case, of receiving notice someones stealing content I would support them and file an AR on their behalf to help draw the Lindens attention to the issue regarding the notice I saw, but this, finding out they use redzone I'm just going to ignore it, and ignore filing the AR next time I see someone handing out their content(by all means I wont accept stolen content period but normally when I encounter stolen content I file AR's in supporting the creator and notify them of it, wont be doing them this favor any longer.
Anyhow your probably wondering about how this caught my attention I got a group notice from one of the groups im in "avatar makers guild" which had notecards attached from chef soderstrom and go as follows:
Notice:"Tis the season for avatar theft:
Dawnstar Attis, a new alt of crystalie Jigsaw/Carami who was previously banned by LL for proven content theft + harassment, is handing out a notecard named "Merry Christmas," which contains permission-hacked avatars made by AVentity, Curious, Mutation Industries, and more. They are doing this out of spite (they've already viciously attacked me and others in IMs) and won't stop, even claiming that their bad rep is all a lie, despite numerous witnesses and logs proving otherwise. Please keep an eye out.
Notecard:"To ALL Creators/Artists"
Hello, there is a person going around under a series of alts that is passing out notecards similar to the following containing permission hacked avatars which possibly contain some of your avatars. They have currently been banned under two names that i know of (crystalie Jigsaw and crystalie Carami)
This person is idiodic enough to continue making alts with the same profile information along with passing ownership of certain groups to the new alts they make to avoid bans. I have attached a photograph of the older characters that are now banned for more evidence.
[]Snapshot of Older Names
[]Snapshot of Notecard with Items
[]Merry Christmas
The notecard has had the items removed, however a snapshot shows the notecard with the links to the items. (This is to prevent this notecard from being passed maliciously)
Please pass this notecard along to fellow avatar creators/associates so that this is more well known. This user has also been banned under the zfRedzone system multiple times along with being banned from almost all furnation sims and popular furry clubs.
I have also taken a snapshot with a tripcode typed in the description so that if this notecard is altered maliciously it will be a safeguard.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Abuse Report that I submitted, feel free to use this
---------------------------------------------------------------
Reason : Fraud -> Chain letters
Description: Ban Evasion (3rd) Sending notecards with perm. hacked items
This person is an alt of Crystalie Carami and crystalie jigsaw (Both of these users banned for passing out permission based avatars along with items before) Included in the screenshot is the image of the inventory item properties along with the notecard itself, which reads.
Dear girls
now is the christmas over us so i want to give u all a christmas gift
so here are they (links to hacked avatars)
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM YOUR Dawnstar Attis
You can look at the profile of dawnstar attis and find that it is the exact same as crystalie jigsaw along with crystalie carami, they are also head of the same groups
----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for your time,
Chef
viewing Mephitis Jezebels Profile and visiting her store I found a zf redzone security orb using Imprudences Area Object Search feature right atop her store for Chimera avatar parts and accessories, where she attempted to obscure the orb by putting a small Box around it.
anyhow I don't have much L's coming in that I don't put into uploading textures and what not on my own content I work on on an alternate account, when I see something I like I make a shopping list and when I have a lot extra to spare I usually go ahead and Buy a few things from that shopping list, today I took about 5000L off the list without buying any of it and decided that Ill spend my money where it counts on other content creators that are treating their customers right like Luskwood, with that said your probably wondering who it is that had the zf redzone security orb, it was Chimera Avatar parts and accessories, which is owned by Mephitis Jezebel who also runs Aventity avatars, and partnered to Chef Soderstrom whom brought the redzone security orb to my attention, he sent out a notice which had a notecard attached, I viewed the notecard hoping to find out if any of the content I had created has been copybotted or not only to be disappointed in finding the notecard had a blurry attached useless texture and that they had been using zf redzone to supposedly protect their content, normally in this case, of receiving notice someones stealing content I would support them and file an AR on their behalf to help draw the Lindens attention to the issue regarding the notice I saw, but this, finding out they use redzone I'm just going to ignore it, and ignore filing the AR next time I see someone handing out their content(by all means I wont accept stolen content period but normally when I encounter stolen content I file AR's in supporting the creator and notify them of it, wont be doing them this favor any longer.
Anyhow your probably wondering about how this caught my attention I got a group notice from one of the groups im in "avatar makers guild" which had notecards attached from chef soderstrom and go as follows:
Notice:"Tis the season for avatar theft:
Dawnstar Attis, a new alt of crystalie Jigsaw/Carami who was previously banned by LL for proven content theft + harassment, is handing out a notecard named "Merry Christmas," which contains permission-hacked avatars made by AVentity, Curious, Mutation Industries, and more. They are doing this out of spite (they've already viciously attacked me and others in IMs) and won't stop, even claiming that their bad rep is all a lie, despite numerous witnesses and logs proving otherwise. Please keep an eye out.
Notecard:"To ALL Creators/Artists"
Hello, there is a person going around under a series of alts that is passing out notecards similar to the following containing permission hacked avatars which possibly contain some of your avatars. They have currently been banned under two names that i know of (crystalie Jigsaw and crystalie Carami)
This person is idiodic enough to continue making alts with the same profile information along with passing ownership of certain groups to the new alts they make to avoid bans. I have attached a photograph of the older characters that are now banned for more evidence.
[]Snapshot of Older Names
[]Snapshot of Notecard with Items
[]Merry Christmas
The notecard has had the items removed, however a snapshot shows the notecard with the links to the items. (This is to prevent this notecard from being passed maliciously)
Please pass this notecard along to fellow avatar creators/associates so that this is more well known. This user has also been banned under the zfRedzone system multiple times along with being banned from almost all furnation sims and popular furry clubs.
I have also taken a snapshot with a tripcode typed in the description so that if this notecard is altered maliciously it will be a safeguard.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Abuse Report that I submitted, feel free to use this
---------------------------------------------------------------
Reason : Fraud -> Chain letters
Description: Ban Evasion (3rd) Sending notecards with perm. hacked items
This person is an alt of Crystalie Carami and crystalie jigsaw (Both of these users banned for passing out permission based avatars along with items before) Included in the screenshot is the image of the inventory item properties along with the notecard itself, which reads.
Dear girls
now is the christmas over us so i want to give u all a christmas gift
so here are they (links to hacked avatars)
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM YOUR Dawnstar Attis
You can look at the profile of dawnstar attis and find that it is the exact same as crystalie jigsaw along with crystalie carami, they are also head of the same groups
----------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for your time,
Chef
viewing Mephitis Jezebels Profile and visiting her store I found a zf redzone security orb using Imprudences Area Object Search feature right atop her store for Chimera avatar parts and accessories, where she attempted to obscure the orb by putting a small Box around it.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
zf redzone can disrupt secondlife service for residents of the UAE
Seems redzone can and will discriminate against countries with filtered internet service like the UAE
Just the other night I got contacted by a Secondlife user from the United Arab Emirates, this user told me that they had been banned and given the boot from several different regions indiscriminately by the zf redzone security orb oftentimes as a result they would speak to the land owner of the land and most the time the land owner would ask them to appeal but one actually went looking into it for them and found that this person according to redzones so called 120% accurate alt detections that this person had a terrifyingly huge slew of alts, none of these accounts it had linked to this individual belonged to them, as a result of the inaccuracy the land owner removed their redzone security orb so this person may enter the land but however, as another result they started researching redzone and found my blog and personally IMed me in secondlife to ask me about it and find out why it had associated so many accounts as alternate accounts belonging to them, really I hadn't a clue how it could do that, but some inquiry back and forth between me and this individual and a little research on their country lead to the answer.
One of my inquiries with this person, was about Proxy servers, as I have encountered a number of secondlife users who have said I'm safe, I'm using Tor, as Tor may seem to have many Proxy servers in service, really compared to the number of SL users using it it is conceivable that some Tor users may be routed through the same IP and thus show false positives of being alternate accounts of each other, while this user wasn't a Tor user, the inquiry about Proxies had led me to discover that their internet service was proxied after further inquiry, and a little bit of brief Googling I learned a lot more about internet service in the UAE.
Turns out most internet service in the UAE comes down to a single provider known EIM(Emirates Internet and Multimedia), however the service through EIM is censored through a set of Proxy servers, and if you don't configure it which most people don't you are routed through a common proxy by default, the typical use of a proxy server is to filter outbound personally identifying information and mask IP addresses by resending your traffic each way, however countries such as the UAE use it as a point to centrally administer internet traffic requests to websites outside the country so that your search can be filtered, EIM's purpose for Proxying all traffic within the UAE according to my research is to filter out and to block users from viewing porn on the internet.
The side effect of proxying service for the purpose of moderating and censoring a users internet activity in such a way though somewhat effective does have a a side effect, it results in a very small pool of IP addresses for a countries residents and also results in many subscribers to the internet service over there to share IP's within that common pool(multiple secondlife accounts using the same proxy thus appearing to have the same IP), the result being one of these many many many users going through that proxy may have used a viewer that was either a copybot viewer, or falsely detected as such, the end result is that zf Redzone has listed this user as having many alternate accounts which don't actually belong to them and belong to many other users of EIM, which are banned by Redzone as well, while I can't say it's banned the whole country its conceivable with the way IPs are pooled and proxied under EIM that many groups of users from the UAE are probably clumped into groups where hundreds of people are considered alts of each other, and when one of those people in one of these groupings gets detected as a copybot whether it be false or not its safe to say the rest of the group gets banned as such.
Just the other night I got contacted by a Secondlife user from the United Arab Emirates, this user told me that they had been banned and given the boot from several different regions indiscriminately by the zf redzone security orb oftentimes as a result they would speak to the land owner of the land and most the time the land owner would ask them to appeal but one actually went looking into it for them and found that this person according to redzones so called 120% accurate alt detections that this person had a terrifyingly huge slew of alts, none of these accounts it had linked to this individual belonged to them, as a result of the inaccuracy the land owner removed their redzone security orb so this person may enter the land but however, as another result they started researching redzone and found my blog and personally IMed me in secondlife to ask me about it and find out why it had associated so many accounts as alternate accounts belonging to them, really I hadn't a clue how it could do that, but some inquiry back and forth between me and this individual and a little research on their country lead to the answer.
One of my inquiries with this person, was about Proxy servers, as I have encountered a number of secondlife users who have said I'm safe, I'm using Tor, as Tor may seem to have many Proxy servers in service, really compared to the number of SL users using it it is conceivable that some Tor users may be routed through the same IP and thus show false positives of being alternate accounts of each other, while this user wasn't a Tor user, the inquiry about Proxies had led me to discover that their internet service was proxied after further inquiry, and a little bit of brief Googling I learned a lot more about internet service in the UAE.
Turns out most internet service in the UAE comes down to a single provider known EIM(Emirates Internet and Multimedia), however the service through EIM is censored through a set of Proxy servers, and if you don't configure it which most people don't you are routed through a common proxy by default, the typical use of a proxy server is to filter outbound personally identifying information and mask IP addresses by resending your traffic each way, however countries such as the UAE use it as a point to centrally administer internet traffic requests to websites outside the country so that your search can be filtered, EIM's purpose for Proxying all traffic within the UAE according to my research is to filter out and to block users from viewing porn on the internet.
The side effect of proxying service for the purpose of moderating and censoring a users internet activity in such a way though somewhat effective does have a a side effect, it results in a very small pool of IP addresses for a countries residents and also results in many subscribers to the internet service over there to share IP's within that common pool(multiple secondlife accounts using the same proxy thus appearing to have the same IP), the result being one of these many many many users going through that proxy may have used a viewer that was either a copybot viewer, or falsely detected as such, the end result is that zf Redzone has listed this user as having many alternate accounts which don't actually belong to them and belong to many other users of EIM, which are banned by Redzone as well, while I can't say it's banned the whole country its conceivable with the way IPs are pooled and proxied under EIM that many groups of users from the UAE are probably clumped into groups where hundreds of people are considered alts of each other, and when one of those people in one of these groupings gets detected as a copybot whether it be false or not its safe to say the rest of the group gets banned as such.
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Linden Labs really needs to finish Mesh support.... Correctly
Well the other night a friend was telling me excitedly mesh was in beta, I don't really have anything currently done in mesh format and was kinda disappointed it would go so far in development before hitting public Beta, but I started making an inquiry about it asking several questions of some things it should have very basic at minimum that it turned out to be lacking, not being very knowledgeable of it yet and having not tried it out myself yet I refrained from posting a Jira article Until I knew a bit better, the very late the next day a friend gave to me a Jira article she had written, I read it said it was a good idea but was half asleep so I said I would read it again and vote for it later, well I've read it again and it's a damn great Idea. Really with that said it would be crazy and stupid for Linden Labs to release mesh format in it's current state without implementing the suggestion which can be found here as this suggestion suggests some very basic things that make using the Collada format all the worth while:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23447
Pretty much the standard avatar mesh with the sliders and all that, you can replace that with a custom mesh with Mesh import, however Linden Labs was pretty sloppy with allowing users to set a replacement for that mesh, One issue I had been preaching the whole time time this was in closed beta was that Linden Labs needs to allow meshes to be anchored to the avatar shape in some way. In it's current implementation Linden Labs has failed to do so, which is a very basic thing and it is essential for Mesh to be relevant and useful for avatar meshes. In the current implementation of mesh when you replace the standard avatar mesh, all those sliders you get in Edit appearance, don't mean much to the mesh itself, thus meaning if your a human avatar and go to a store and Buy a mesh from a content creator, or are a furry who buys this cute fox avatar you like, your going to look exactly like in shape as everyone else who has purchased the same mesh, thus taking away your individual appearance and not making mesh useful beyond being able to structure rezzable Objects, this Jira Topic addresses that issue and beyond and suggests allowing Morph targets, which content creators can bind to shapes and various other aspects, which will make the sliders in edit appearance useful once again when using a custom Mesh in place of the default avatar mesh, and giving power to tweaking your shape once again with options such as torso length and such, who knows the user might buy a mesh to make them look like a super model and decide the breasts are too big, I'm guessing most will assume not big enough, or maybe they might want to be a little thicker and heavier set or they might like the basic shape of the avatar mesh their looking at but may wish to tweak the sliders so that their weighted a little more or less realistic, this Jira article above puts that bit of customization back in users hands, as with the current implementation of mesh they lose the power to tweak their shape like that when using a mesh, maybe you might just be using mesh so that your avatar looks like it has toes rather than blended together stubs on it's feet, whatever the reason, this Jira article adds back in the flexibility of that, also aside from that it addresses further issues as well, as many of you know, when you wear a jacket clothing layer the default Mesh for avatars morphs a bit so that the sleeves are wider than your arms and it falls into sliders, Yes content creators being able to set morph targets also addresses this as well, as they will be able to set their avatar up to widen in the arms or pants, simply put clothing the current way it's Implemented may be able to wrap around digigrade legs if the modeler took it into consideration with this Jira article in effect, or in the case of a human avatar, maybe that more muscly shape. some people think that standard clothing will become irrelevant with the introduction of mesh clothing, however mesh clothing may not fit everyone's mesh properly without this capability to support morph targets, also creating clothing the old way and being able to use it with custom meshes, enables indefinite flexibility with clothes as standard clothing will be able to fit just about any mesh that is made keeping it in mind. After all you users the community have pushed hard to get Linden Labs to use Collada format, you better ask them to make the most of it as well, otherwise we may as well of been using OBJ without what this Jira article suggest, So vote for it now, this is an absolute must if you care about the presentation aspect of secondlife at all!
and Onto the next point about mesh...
Also my friend made another Important suggestion, not everyone wants to be human, also the way mesh is currently setup the way a Collada mesh is anchored to the skeleton of an avatar kinda makes avatars with custom meshes move as though there a stuffed teddy bear rather than a person or thing that has bones in it, a topic addressing this can be found here:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23448
This topic suggests that content creators be given more Power over how the skeleton works and allow content creators to customize the skeleton which not only allows people to define extra limbs such as tails and the such within their mesh, but it also extends this capability so content creators can tweak the skeleton of content they create, thus allowing the avatar mesh to respond to animation better where as the body moves more stiffly in some points and looser in others, so the importance of this topic though seemingly focused on furry also extends to people not into the furry scene as important to human avatars as well, as content creators will be able to extend their skeleton to move and respond better to animation.
If you would like to see mesh in it's current state, It's not bad, but its lacking a lot of absolutely needed potential as you can see here attachment meshes can be associated with parts of the skeleton to bend with it in the hair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1STH6Qy4fik&feature=related
but take notice of the boot, while it bends well this could be greatly improved upon in realism of the motion.
also if you watch this below video closely around the bunny avatars midsection you can see there some flaws in how its the torso is anchored to the skeleton, custom skeletons in the mesh would allow it to move and respond better to animation, By giving content creators who make meshes more power over how things flex and respond to animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_n29fFxQkI
really mesh in its state is incomplete without the above suggested functionality, while it is much better than what we had before its lacking a lot and I find it to be truly incomplete and in this incomplete state it might take something from the end result of your own personal look without it, so if your reading all this, drop to the web addresses below, sign in with your secondlife name click votes and click the button to vote for the issue.
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23447
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23448
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23447
Pretty much the standard avatar mesh with the sliders and all that, you can replace that with a custom mesh with Mesh import, however Linden Labs was pretty sloppy with allowing users to set a replacement for that mesh, One issue I had been preaching the whole time time this was in closed beta was that Linden Labs needs to allow meshes to be anchored to the avatar shape in some way. In it's current implementation Linden Labs has failed to do so, which is a very basic thing and it is essential for Mesh to be relevant and useful for avatar meshes. In the current implementation of mesh when you replace the standard avatar mesh, all those sliders you get in Edit appearance, don't mean much to the mesh itself, thus meaning if your a human avatar and go to a store and Buy a mesh from a content creator, or are a furry who buys this cute fox avatar you like, your going to look exactly like in shape as everyone else who has purchased the same mesh, thus taking away your individual appearance and not making mesh useful beyond being able to structure rezzable Objects, this Jira Topic addresses that issue and beyond and suggests allowing Morph targets, which content creators can bind to shapes and various other aspects, which will make the sliders in edit appearance useful once again when using a custom Mesh in place of the default avatar mesh, and giving power to tweaking your shape once again with options such as torso length and such, who knows the user might buy a mesh to make them look like a super model and decide the breasts are too big, I'm guessing most will assume not big enough, or maybe they might want to be a little thicker and heavier set or they might like the basic shape of the avatar mesh their looking at but may wish to tweak the sliders so that their weighted a little more or less realistic, this Jira article above puts that bit of customization back in users hands, as with the current implementation of mesh they lose the power to tweak their shape like that when using a mesh, maybe you might just be using mesh so that your avatar looks like it has toes rather than blended together stubs on it's feet, whatever the reason, this Jira article adds back in the flexibility of that, also aside from that it addresses further issues as well, as many of you know, when you wear a jacket clothing layer the default Mesh for avatars morphs a bit so that the sleeves are wider than your arms and it falls into sliders, Yes content creators being able to set morph targets also addresses this as well, as they will be able to set their avatar up to widen in the arms or pants, simply put clothing the current way it's Implemented may be able to wrap around digigrade legs if the modeler took it into consideration with this Jira article in effect, or in the case of a human avatar, maybe that more muscly shape. some people think that standard clothing will become irrelevant with the introduction of mesh clothing, however mesh clothing may not fit everyone's mesh properly without this capability to support morph targets, also creating clothing the old way and being able to use it with custom meshes, enables indefinite flexibility with clothes as standard clothing will be able to fit just about any mesh that is made keeping it in mind. After all you users the community have pushed hard to get Linden Labs to use Collada format, you better ask them to make the most of it as well, otherwise we may as well of been using OBJ without what this Jira article suggest, So vote for it now, this is an absolute must if you care about the presentation aspect of secondlife at all!
and Onto the next point about mesh...
Also my friend made another Important suggestion, not everyone wants to be human, also the way mesh is currently setup the way a Collada mesh is anchored to the skeleton of an avatar kinda makes avatars with custom meshes move as though there a stuffed teddy bear rather than a person or thing that has bones in it, a topic addressing this can be found here:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23448
This topic suggests that content creators be given more Power over how the skeleton works and allow content creators to customize the skeleton which not only allows people to define extra limbs such as tails and the such within their mesh, but it also extends this capability so content creators can tweak the skeleton of content they create, thus allowing the avatar mesh to respond to animation better where as the body moves more stiffly in some points and looser in others, so the importance of this topic though seemingly focused on furry also extends to people not into the furry scene as important to human avatars as well, as content creators will be able to extend their skeleton to move and respond better to animation.
If you would like to see mesh in it's current state, It's not bad, but its lacking a lot of absolutely needed potential as you can see here attachment meshes can be associated with parts of the skeleton to bend with it in the hair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1STH6Qy4fik&feature=related
but take notice of the boot, while it bends well this could be greatly improved upon in realism of the motion.
also if you watch this below video closely around the bunny avatars midsection you can see there some flaws in how its the torso is anchored to the skeleton, custom skeletons in the mesh would allow it to move and respond better to animation, By giving content creators who make meshes more power over how things flex and respond to animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_n29fFxQkI
really mesh in its state is incomplete without the above suggested functionality, while it is much better than what we had before its lacking a lot and I find it to be truly incomplete and in this incomplete state it might take something from the end result of your own personal look without it, so if your reading all this, drop to the web addresses below, sign in with your secondlife name click votes and click the button to vote for the issue.
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23447
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-23448
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
In reference to a Comment of a previous post Regarding zf redzone
this article is in reference to a comment replying to zfire xue which can be found under this blogpost here where I said I would expand on the violation information about zf redzone: http://treminarisecondlife.blogspot.com/2010/07/spywaretos-and-legal-violation-in.html?zx=e34557c63c81300e
ok someones already written an article on this but however I'm going to write my views on this law the Law I'm referring to is BPC17200-17210 which can be used to define the penalties for violation of BPC22575-22579 the article found here doesn't really explore the full scope of the law but gives idea about it which can be found here:(mind you this is the writers interpretation of the law based on their knowledge of internet and service and is not the law itself)
http://www.cooley.com/files/tbl_s24News%5CPDFUpload152%5C927%5CALERT-Cal_OPPA.pdf
now for the law itself:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=17001-18000&file=17200-17210
in the article you should note that no enforcement provisions are provided however BPC22575-22579 defines acts by zfire with his redzone utility to be illegal and note that violation of it in accordance with the cooley.com article explaining BPC17200-17210 does note that violations can be enforced through BPC17200-17210 with that said in the cooley article you should pay particular attention to the section that is titled Consequences of Noncompliance with that said any violation of BPC22575-22579 legally constitutes a violation of BPC17200-17209
under the recommendations section zfire xue has not followed through with paragraphs marked by the bulleted paragraphs I will review here below before reviewing the law and where the violations are defined. do keep in mind when reading personally identifiable information in the cooley link it is defined by BPC22575-22579 as any information that can be used to contact an individual online or in person, as usernames in the secondlife service enable you to message a person these fall under that category.
Cooley.com recommends that a person operating an online service must determine whether or not they are collecting personally identifiable information, on the redzone website they say they consider this information not to be private, when it is Protected under BPC22575-22579. Cooley.com also recommends creation of an accurate privacy policy, this is not the case, their policy is deceptive as it states users will be notified before information collection, but no such notification takes place, it is also recommended the privacy policy be conspicuously posted, there are several ways to do this within secondlife the best way is to make use of the annoying scripting command LLDialogue, cooley also recommends that audits of the website take place to be sure the privacy policy still accurately reflects, actually the privacy policy regarding redzone has never been accurate. cooley also recomends that you keep in mind that several states are passing laws like this and you should be mindful that there may be many privacy laws you must adhere to in an online service it is also recommended that you insure there is adequate security for the information collected, in the case of redzone, there is no security as that information is given away to its users, dont believe me? lets reference the a blogpost of someone who recently commented in my blog and posted a screenshot in theirs http://forcemesilverspar.blogspot.com/2010/09/zf-redzone.html you can examine the screenshot there for yourself, and yet again cooley recommends creating internal procedures to prevent your service from being used to cause a privacy breach, but zf redzone alt detection in itself is a privacy breach. all these recommendations proposed by cooley.com are things recommended that would bring a service up to code. zf redzone does none of them
You should bear the phrasing in the cooley article with a grain of salt as most the phrasing pertains to web where as the law itself is in references to online services but lets take a look at the law which I linked above from here on in.
First Off lets take a look at section 17200:
"17200. As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising and any act prohibited by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17500) of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code."
In my previous article linked at the top of this article we have established that zf redzone is unlawful as it collects information outside of the compliance of BPC22575-22579 and provided information as to how so, we have also exposed it as fraudulent by exposing weakness in its accuracy vs the ridiculous 120% accurate claim by its author and pointing out their willingness to violate the privacy policy and Terms of the service they operate with by falsifying by quoting it in part it is deceptive as it operates without notice to the user, and users supposedly reach an agreement through passing it by which actually has no legal binding, and the content of the privacy policy which you never get to see regarding it differs from how the system does thus further proving its deceptive
17201 pretty much defines how terminology will be used in the law, meaning person may refer to company yadda yadda yadda, 17204 pretty much states people may make claims on each-others behalf, so I guess this means class action lawsuits can be filed against companies and individuals who violate BPC22575-22579 which puts them in violation of BPC17200 as stated above in line 17200 any business that engages in unlawful business practice may be found in unfair competition so a violation of BPC22575-22579 constitutes a violation of BPC17200-17210
section 17202 pretty much defines that relief may be payed to competitors of the company that engages in unfair competition, since zf redzone is a security orb product this pretty much defines everyone who produces and sells any form of security orb within the secondlife service or any other land security utility or any sort of copybot protection system or for that matter any tool that has a feature which may put it in competition can make a claim and try to get a relief payment to aid their lost business
"17202. Notwithstanding Section 3369 of the Civil Code, specific or preventive relief may be granted to enforce a penalty, forfeiture, or penal law in a case of unfair competition."
17203 I wont quote here as its pretty long but as with anything I write regarding law the links provided and you can read it by following the link for yourself and interpret it yourself to verify it but pretty much it states court may take action against anyone who has engaged in unfair competition(so even if zfire xue was to quit committing these violations he could be charged with those hes already committed), anyone who is doing so, like he is doing now, or anyone who proposes to do so thus meaning if he proposes to create any more products outlawed by BPC22575-22579 he can be charged with a violation for the proposition of creating such a product.
we should also take a look at section 17206 of the law a bit lengthy to post here but you can read it at:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=17001-18000&file=17200-17210
pretty much this states the penalty for entering into unfair competition is a maximum of 2500 but per violation as well, each of those 2500+ zf redzone locations, is an individual violation in itself also in court, this law states what shall be taken into account is the seriousness of the conduct, yeah its pretty serious silent privacy violations and persistence of misconduct, yep the creator of redzone has been informed, and has obviously read my article(as they commented on it, and left themselves quite a weak defense) so they are quite persistent in conducting this illegal activity also if each instance of violation can cost the operator 2500 each then that indicates that each $20-30 sale of this system can potentially end up costing its author $2500 but there's more on that which I will get into later
section 17206.1 pertains to an additional fine of $2500 if the act is perpetrated against senior citizens or the disabled, and really isn't too important as this does not target those groups, however in the event of a class action lawsuit regarding this the age and disability status may now of those who had information collected on them by this system may play a role in the author of this system being charged with additional fines should charges come to pass and I'm sure SL has plenty of disabled users and even a few elderly users. so that knocks the fine up to a total $5000 per orb that has uncovered information regarding a senior or a disabled person.
and onto my favorite part as to why I called zfire xue's comment in my blog enlightening, obviously we have established knowledgeable and willful violation with that comment and within the article of BPC22575-22579 willful violation for this law as established under section 22576 from BPC22575-22579 which can be found here http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579 knowledgeable and willful violation or non compliance after 30 days of notice constitutes a violation, with zfire xues comment in my blog we have established knowledgeable and willful violation which means a 30 day wait to come up to compliance is no longer required but now lets take a look at section 17207 of BPC17200-17210 I like the first paragraph which I will quote here:
17207. (a) Any person who intentionally violates any injunction prohibiting unfair competition issued pursuant to Section 17203 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) for each violation. Where the conduct constituting a violation is of a continuing nature, each day of that conduct is a separate and distinct violation. In determining the amount of the civil penalty, the court shall consider all relevant circumstances, including, but not limited to, the extent of the harm caused by the conduct constituting a violation, the nature and persistence of that conduct, the length of time over which the conduct occurred, the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the person, whether corporate or individual, and any corrective action taken by the defendant.
so lets see here we've established that each instance of zf redzone is its each own unique violation with 2500+ violations but this part of the law states there is a civil penalty of $6000 for each violation, and for each violation each day the conduct occurs is to be considered a unique violation in itself, so with 2500+ zf redzone locations this constitutes zfire xue having committed 2500+ violations against this law a day with each violation carrying a civil fine of up to $6000, with that said if you view the related xstreet page(aw drat he deleted more of the item discussion) we can establish with a comment " Posted By: TheBoris Gothly at 2010-05-04 00:41:19 (item owner) " that this tool has been around since at least the time of the time-stamp, still all the the same I remember a 2009 post and its likely Linden Labs for legal reasons such as this and request of the court keeps records as to how long an item has been listed and probably records as to deleted text within the item discussion meaning it may be possible to prove these violations have been going on longer.
section B of 17207 refers where this shall be taken to court too and makes reference to relation to which county the violation took place in Linden Labs being a San Francisco based company and this system zf redzone being implemented on their servers establishes the location of the violation at a central point section C details who collects the fines
section 17208:
17208. Any action to enforce any cause of action pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrued. No cause of action barred under existing law on the effective date of this section shall be revived by its enactment.
simply put if someone is found guilty of a violation of this code the courts may wait up to 4 years to take action and action must be taken within those 4 years, and that the person may not be charged with the particular violations again, but as established above, each new day is a new violation so if zfire xue was charged under this law the courts could impose the fines anytime within 4 years, and the violations addressed may not be addressed again(sort of like double jeopardy) but as said each day the violation occurs is a new violation meaning if zf redzone was not immediately done away with though the fines may or may not immediately take place new charges may be brought for a new day of violations(or however long this goes on after initial charges), however the days of violations addressed may not be charged again
17209 defines that if you shall take action against a party when the rest of your paperwork is due, big deal, I wanted to mostly look at fines related to this and with the link above you can read this for yourself if you so wish
section 17210 pertains to additional ways to violate this clause but pertains to information outside of internet business practices such as hotels and the such and covers nothing I found of any importance in writing this article.
ok someones already written an article on this but however I'm going to write my views on this law the Law I'm referring to is BPC17200-17210 which can be used to define the penalties for violation of BPC22575-22579 the article found here doesn't really explore the full scope of the law but gives idea about it which can be found here:(mind you this is the writers interpretation of the law based on their knowledge of internet and service and is not the law itself)
http://www.cooley.com/files/tbl_s24News%5CPDFUpload152%5C927%5CALERT-Cal_OPPA.pdf
now for the law itself:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=17001-18000&file=17200-17210
in the article you should note that no enforcement provisions are provided however BPC22575-22579 defines acts by zfire with his redzone utility to be illegal and note that violation of it in accordance with the cooley.com article explaining BPC17200-17210 does note that violations can be enforced through BPC17200-17210 with that said in the cooley article you should pay particular attention to the section that is titled Consequences of Noncompliance with that said any violation of BPC22575-22579 legally constitutes a violation of BPC17200-17209
under the recommendations section zfire xue has not followed through with paragraphs marked by the bulleted paragraphs I will review here below before reviewing the law and where the violations are defined. do keep in mind when reading personally identifiable information in the cooley link it is defined by BPC22575-22579 as any information that can be used to contact an individual online or in person, as usernames in the secondlife service enable you to message a person these fall under that category.
Cooley.com recommends that a person operating an online service must determine whether or not they are collecting personally identifiable information, on the redzone website they say they consider this information not to be private, when it is Protected under BPC22575-22579. Cooley.com also recommends creation of an accurate privacy policy, this is not the case, their policy is deceptive as it states users will be notified before information collection, but no such notification takes place, it is also recommended the privacy policy be conspicuously posted, there are several ways to do this within secondlife the best way is to make use of the annoying scripting command LLDialogue, cooley also recommends that audits of the website take place to be sure the privacy policy still accurately reflects, actually the privacy policy regarding redzone has never been accurate. cooley also recomends that you keep in mind that several states are passing laws like this and you should be mindful that there may be many privacy laws you must adhere to in an online service it is also recommended that you insure there is adequate security for the information collected, in the case of redzone, there is no security as that information is given away to its users, dont believe me? lets reference the a blogpost of someone who recently commented in my blog and posted a screenshot in theirs http://forcemesilverspar.blogspot.com/2010/09/zf-redzone.html you can examine the screenshot there for yourself, and yet again cooley recommends creating internal procedures to prevent your service from being used to cause a privacy breach, but zf redzone alt detection in itself is a privacy breach. all these recommendations proposed by cooley.com are things recommended that would bring a service up to code. zf redzone does none of them
You should bear the phrasing in the cooley article with a grain of salt as most the phrasing pertains to web where as the law itself is in references to online services but lets take a look at the law which I linked above from here on in.
First Off lets take a look at section 17200:
"17200. As used in this chapter, unfair competition shall mean and include any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent business act or practice and unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising and any act prohibited by Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17500) of Part 3 of Division 7 of the Business and Professions Code."
In my previous article linked at the top of this article we have established that zf redzone is unlawful as it collects information outside of the compliance of BPC22575-22579 and provided information as to how so, we have also exposed it as fraudulent by exposing weakness in its accuracy vs the ridiculous 120% accurate claim by its author and pointing out their willingness to violate the privacy policy and Terms of the service they operate with by falsifying by quoting it in part it is deceptive as it operates without notice to the user, and users supposedly reach an agreement through passing it by which actually has no legal binding, and the content of the privacy policy which you never get to see regarding it differs from how the system does thus further proving its deceptive
17201 pretty much defines how terminology will be used in the law, meaning person may refer to company yadda yadda yadda, 17204 pretty much states people may make claims on each-others behalf, so I guess this means class action lawsuits can be filed against companies and individuals who violate BPC22575-22579 which puts them in violation of BPC17200 as stated above in line 17200 any business that engages in unlawful business practice may be found in unfair competition so a violation of BPC22575-22579 constitutes a violation of BPC17200-17210
section 17202 pretty much defines that relief may be payed to competitors of the company that engages in unfair competition, since zf redzone is a security orb product this pretty much defines everyone who produces and sells any form of security orb within the secondlife service or any other land security utility or any sort of copybot protection system or for that matter any tool that has a feature which may put it in competition can make a claim and try to get a relief payment to aid their lost business
"17202. Notwithstanding Section 3369 of the Civil Code, specific or preventive relief may be granted to enforce a penalty, forfeiture, or penal law in a case of unfair competition."
17203 I wont quote here as its pretty long but as with anything I write regarding law the links provided and you can read it by following the link for yourself and interpret it yourself to verify it but pretty much it states court may take action against anyone who has engaged in unfair competition(so even if zfire xue was to quit committing these violations he could be charged with those hes already committed), anyone who is doing so, like he is doing now, or anyone who proposes to do so thus meaning if he proposes to create any more products outlawed by BPC22575-22579 he can be charged with a violation for the proposition of creating such a product.
we should also take a look at section 17206 of the law a bit lengthy to post here but you can read it at:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=17001-18000&file=17200-17210
pretty much this states the penalty for entering into unfair competition is a maximum of 2500 but per violation as well, each of those 2500+ zf redzone locations, is an individual violation in itself also in court, this law states what shall be taken into account is the seriousness of the conduct, yeah its pretty serious silent privacy violations and persistence of misconduct, yep the creator of redzone has been informed, and has obviously read my article(as they commented on it, and left themselves quite a weak defense) so they are quite persistent in conducting this illegal activity also if each instance of violation can cost the operator 2500 each then that indicates that each $20-30 sale of this system can potentially end up costing its author $2500 but there's more on that which I will get into later
section 17206.1 pertains to an additional fine of $2500 if the act is perpetrated against senior citizens or the disabled, and really isn't too important as this does not target those groups, however in the event of a class action lawsuit regarding this the age and disability status may now of those who had information collected on them by this system may play a role in the author of this system being charged with additional fines should charges come to pass and I'm sure SL has plenty of disabled users and even a few elderly users. so that knocks the fine up to a total $5000 per orb that has uncovered information regarding a senior or a disabled person.
and onto my favorite part as to why I called zfire xue's comment in my blog enlightening, obviously we have established knowledgeable and willful violation with that comment and within the article of BPC22575-22579 willful violation for this law as established under section 22576 from BPC22575-22579 which can be found here http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=22001-23000&file=22575-22579 knowledgeable and willful violation or non compliance after 30 days of notice constitutes a violation, with zfire xues comment in my blog we have established knowledgeable and willful violation which means a 30 day wait to come up to compliance is no longer required but now lets take a look at section 17207 of BPC17200-17210 I like the first paragraph which I will quote here:
17207. (a) Any person who intentionally violates any injunction prohibiting unfair competition issued pursuant to Section 17203 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) for each violation. Where the conduct constituting a violation is of a continuing nature, each day of that conduct is a separate and distinct violation. In determining the amount of the civil penalty, the court shall consider all relevant circumstances, including, but not limited to, the extent of the harm caused by the conduct constituting a violation, the nature and persistence of that conduct, the length of time over which the conduct occurred, the assets, liabilities, and net worth of the person, whether corporate or individual, and any corrective action taken by the defendant.
so lets see here we've established that each instance of zf redzone is its each own unique violation with 2500+ violations but this part of the law states there is a civil penalty of $6000 for each violation, and for each violation each day the conduct occurs is to be considered a unique violation in itself, so with 2500+ zf redzone locations this constitutes zfire xue having committed 2500+ violations against this law a day with each violation carrying a civil fine of up to $6000, with that said if you view the related xstreet page(aw drat he deleted more of the item discussion) we can establish with a comment " Posted By: TheBoris Gothly at 2010-05-04 00:41:19 (item owner) " that this tool has been around since at least the time of the time-stamp, still all the the same I remember a 2009 post and its likely Linden Labs for legal reasons such as this and request of the court keeps records as to how long an item has been listed and probably records as to deleted text within the item discussion meaning it may be possible to prove these violations have been going on longer.
section B of 17207 refers where this shall be taken to court too and makes reference to relation to which county the violation took place in Linden Labs being a San Francisco based company and this system zf redzone being implemented on their servers establishes the location of the violation at a central point section C details who collects the fines
section 17208:
17208. Any action to enforce any cause of action pursuant to this chapter shall be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrued. No cause of action barred under existing law on the effective date of this section shall be revived by its enactment.
simply put if someone is found guilty of a violation of this code the courts may wait up to 4 years to take action and action must be taken within those 4 years, and that the person may not be charged with the particular violations again, but as established above, each new day is a new violation so if zfire xue was charged under this law the courts could impose the fines anytime within 4 years, and the violations addressed may not be addressed again(sort of like double jeopardy) but as said each day the violation occurs is a new violation meaning if zf redzone was not immediately done away with though the fines may or may not immediately take place new charges may be brought for a new day of violations(or however long this goes on after initial charges), however the days of violations addressed may not be charged again
17209 defines that if you shall take action against a party when the rest of your paperwork is due, big deal, I wanted to mostly look at fines related to this and with the link above you can read this for yourself if you so wish
section 17210 pertains to additional ways to violate this clause but pertains to information outside of internet business practices such as hotels and the such and covers nothing I found of any importance in writing this article.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Imprudence as an Emerald alternative
Well today emerald team has announced their final release and discontinuation of their viewer, There will likely eventually be a fork of this viewer but users may be looking to continue the use of its features through another viewer, I heard someone recommend Kirstens viewer in its place, I tried this and was displeased with Kirstens as an alternative you can find the announcement regarding the discontinuation here:
http://blog.modularsystems.sl/2010/09/01/the-end/
anyhow Emerald development ceases with this final release, there will likely be other viewers that are built from emerald and a fork of such, but nonesuch have registered for the TPV List yet however there is a viewer inclusive of some features from emerald which can be seen here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/wiki/Features
I've used Imprudence before and tried it and hated the abysmal performance, tried it using the latest Release Candidate, Loved it. The performance of the latest release candidate on my system(Imprudence 1.3.0 RC2) was excellent and it can be found here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/wiki/Downloads
Also its on the third party viewer directory which means it has been approved by Linden Labs and has not done anything to lose that approval which can be found here:
http://viewerdirectory.secondlife.com/
If performance with this viewer however is an issue for you they do provide a solution, as their not licensed to distribute llkdu libraries they use the Slower OpenJPEG libraries instead, however I have not tried this as of yet but will be doing so soon, but they say you can use the LLKDU library yourself you will just need to install and copy it, they mention the solution here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/2010/08/28/an-update-from-mccabe/
Many emerald users are hooked on Emerald for The built in AO that does not impose on SL's scripting Engine where as scripted AO's need to constantly check the avatar state in the sim thus creating lag, or are hooked on the math features for build or the breast physics all that such can be used in Imprudence
You can find information on building using math expressions here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/wiki/Build_Math_Expressions
as for the AO yes its there too, mind you it doesn't have the latest check-box that allows you to stop the timer within it, but that's fine cause you can just set the timer high to stop cycling the AO can be found under "View > Animation ovetrider" but I cant help but notice the Hotkey listed for it is the same as the Object occlusion hotkey under the advanced menu.
If You liked Emeralds version of "show look at" and how it named the camera points so you could get an idea who may be camming into your skybox the same modification for "show look at" exists within imprudence it just hasn't been moved, it exists in its old location in the advanced menu "advanced > character > show look at". it does pop up a warning that you shouldn't rely on this for privacy, there's several reasons for this, viewers don't always accurately receive this information and sometimes can show different look at points between viewers(a net packet gets dropped and someone that gave you cam focus hours ago may appear to still be doing so), viewers can disable broadcasting of this(imprudence can too but disables this if you do) and also people can always cam in from other sources.
Also there is the breast physics, mind you I did not find options related to this in imprudence unlike emerald(not saying their not there, but the imprudence team intended it be a subtle thing it appears) however the options still exist within the debug menu under advanced and their settings are under the entries:
EmeraldBoobFriction
EmeraldBoobHardnes
EmeraldBoobMass
EmeraldBoobVelMax
EmeraldBoobVelMin
EmeraldBoobXYInfluence
EmeraldBreastPhysicsToggle
EmeraldBreastSportsBra
the settings seem to be the same as emeralds and follow emeralds defaults so if you adjusted this you can copy the debug entries here and make it the same I guess, I'm not going to mess with the settings myself though.
Extended Edit: well another worth mention feature I forgot to mention that was mentioned to me by a friend is the radar feature, both imprudence and emerald have this but use different implementation. emeralds radar has a longer range, the one in imprudence has a range setting and is built into the minimap with a drop down arrow marker, it however is limited to 512m where as the emerald one apparently had a much longer range than that but still if you need a radar both viewers have it built in, just the emerald one is superior, however, it is available in imprudence nonetheless, another worth mention feature I forgot to mention is imprudence does have an implementation of area search which allows you to search the area much the way emerald does with its area search feature,you can search an area by name, by owner, by group or by description, Both viewers have this however I noticed when using this in emerald I would get a drastic frame rate drop, imprudence this feature seems to run smoothly, whatever the case, its good for finding parcels that have implemented zf redzone which should be avoided like the plague, something I think would make a cool edition to this feature though, is the ability to search by object creator, but still nonetheless a greatly useful feature that exists in both viewers
http://blog.modularsystems.sl/2010/09/01/the-end/
anyhow Emerald development ceases with this final release, there will likely be other viewers that are built from emerald and a fork of such, but nonesuch have registered for the TPV List yet however there is a viewer inclusive of some features from emerald which can be seen here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/wiki/Features
I've used Imprudence before and tried it and hated the abysmal performance, tried it using the latest Release Candidate, Loved it. The performance of the latest release candidate on my system(Imprudence 1.3.0 RC2) was excellent and it can be found here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/wiki/Downloads
Also its on the third party viewer directory which means it has been approved by Linden Labs and has not done anything to lose that approval which can be found here:
http://viewerdirectory.secondlife.com/
If performance with this viewer however is an issue for you they do provide a solution, as their not licensed to distribute llkdu libraries they use the Slower OpenJPEG libraries instead, however I have not tried this as of yet but will be doing so soon, but they say you can use the LLKDU library yourself you will just need to install and copy it, they mention the solution here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/2010/08/28/an-update-from-mccabe/
Many emerald users are hooked on Emerald for The built in AO that does not impose on SL's scripting Engine where as scripted AO's need to constantly check the avatar state in the sim thus creating lag, or are hooked on the math features for build or the breast physics all that such can be used in Imprudence
You can find information on building using math expressions here:
http://imprudenceviewer.org/wiki/Build_Math_Expressions
as for the AO yes its there too, mind you it doesn't have the latest check-box that allows you to stop the timer within it, but that's fine cause you can just set the timer high to stop cycling the AO can be found under "View > Animation ovetrider" but I cant help but notice the Hotkey listed for it is the same as the Object occlusion hotkey under the advanced menu.
If You liked Emeralds version of "show look at" and how it named the camera points so you could get an idea who may be camming into your skybox the same modification for "show look at" exists within imprudence it just hasn't been moved, it exists in its old location in the advanced menu "advanced > character > show look at". it does pop up a warning that you shouldn't rely on this for privacy, there's several reasons for this, viewers don't always accurately receive this information and sometimes can show different look at points between viewers(a net packet gets dropped and someone that gave you cam focus hours ago may appear to still be doing so), viewers can disable broadcasting of this(imprudence can too but disables this if you do) and also people can always cam in from other sources.
Also there is the breast physics, mind you I did not find options related to this in imprudence unlike emerald(not saying their not there, but the imprudence team intended it be a subtle thing it appears) however the options still exist within the debug menu under advanced and their settings are under the entries:
EmeraldBoobFriction
EmeraldBoobHardnes
EmeraldBoobMass
EmeraldBoobVelMax
EmeraldBoobVelMin
EmeraldBoobXYInfluence
EmeraldBreastPhysicsToggle
EmeraldBreastSportsBra
the settings seem to be the same as emeralds and follow emeralds defaults so if you adjusted this you can copy the debug entries here and make it the same I guess, I'm not going to mess with the settings myself though.
Extended Edit: well another worth mention feature I forgot to mention that was mentioned to me by a friend is the radar feature, both imprudence and emerald have this but use different implementation. emeralds radar has a longer range, the one in imprudence has a range setting and is built into the minimap with a drop down arrow marker, it however is limited to 512m where as the emerald one apparently had a much longer range than that but still if you need a radar both viewers have it built in, just the emerald one is superior, however, it is available in imprudence nonetheless, another worth mention feature I forgot to mention is imprudence does have an implementation of area search which allows you to search the area much the way emerald does with its area search feature,you can search an area by name, by owner, by group or by description, Both viewers have this however I noticed when using this in emerald I would get a drastic frame rate drop, imprudence this feature seems to run smoothly, whatever the case, its good for finding parcels that have implemented zf redzone which should be avoided like the plague, something I think would make a cool edition to this feature though, is the ability to search by object creator, but still nonetheless a greatly useful feature that exists in both viewers
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