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Getting a smooth Hi-res texture for Second Life bot

We’ve fixed a very important disadvantage of almost all known Second Life bots – the rough look of hi-res body textures. SL desktop viewers workaround this problem, but bots were affected.

One of our customers selling hi-resolution Second Life textures asked us to ensure that his Second Life bots look exactly as using SL viewer, and we’ve managed to resolve this problem.

Another minor issue fixed today (also affecting a lot of other bots) is a reliable eject routine. Since we were updating standard libraries, we’ve fixed this problem too.

Thus, if you still see a rough grainy textures on your Second Life bot, or if you lack a reliable eject routine – welcome to SmartBots!

Changing the group Second Life bot is easy

If you need to change the bot managing your Second Life group, you can do this yourself now.

Instead of writing a support ticket or asking our manager to make the necessary changes, login to your SB account and click on the “change” link next to your current bot’s name.

Don’t forget to invite the new bot to the groups and give it the necessary abilities! If you need a help, contact any SmartBots support manager.

SSTI (SmartShare Tenant Inviter) updated

SmartShare Tenant Inviter (the group and tenants management tool) has been updated.

Previously, only one SSTI server was allowed to be installed on the sim (since SSTI boxes automatically fetch configuration from the main server). Now you can install as much SSTI servers as you need.

This can be done by specifying the “CLOUD” option which assigns SSTI server to another cloud rather than a default one.

The update is backward compatible, thus you can leave you existing SSTI infrastructure untouched, and just add new SSTI server within a different cloud.

The SSTI box is available for free at SL Marketplace.

The issue with some of personal bots fixed

We were updating one of the bot servers (the 2nd of 5 we have) and got stuck with a minor issue which turned out into a real problem: the ISP network outage during update caused the server to lock up.

Personal bots living on that server were affected, it took few hours to relaunch them (we maintain a live backup of all running bots, but this system update was related to backup itself).

We deeply sorry for that! We are adding 3 days to all affected bots, hope this will compensate the inconvenience.

 

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