Parted from Apez.biz...

I thought I'd write a few lines to comment about the closure of Apez.biz.

After not being active in SL for almost 2 years now I've found that I still receive contact messages regarding Apez support, Apez products etc. Though I've updated my in-world profile along time ago, I do still receive notecards, messages or objects from residents.

At the moment I'm undecided if I will ever go back to SL. So please don't try contacting me via SL. You can always contact me via twitter as the chances I will reply are much higher. Or even via this blog...

As for Apez... It's sad to see that Cenji has to close down Apez.
The actual infrastructure he has created over the years, and it's products, have been leading the way for many other content designers you would find today in SL. Hopefully Cenji will be able to find a SL company, or individual, to take over the entire project. It would be a shame to see it all die like this.

Now, what will become of the former SLCI products which had been merged with Apez 2 years ago?

I have discussed this with Snap, who used to be my partner with SLCI and who has worked a long time along Apez as well. We're undecided if we'll continue the products (control-demon, textures, building tools etc). Neither one of us really has the time to maintain and update the products or to provide customer support.

I will make another post regarding the SLCI related Apez products in the next days.

Best Regards,
WiseCapra

Been a while...

Hey guys, been a while since I blogged anything around here. :-)

The summer was pretty mad and I was working flat out leaving me with little to no time for second life. Now the summer is over and I slowly find my way back into SL. At the moment I try to catch up with all the changes that have happened around SL, Xstreet and Apez.

At Apez we have completed most of our move to the new envoirement which is now based on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing. Cenji done a excellent job in the last couple of months preparing the move and coding all the packages for EC2 to run the Apez cluster.

This means also that we got a little behind on other tasks such as the control-demon and iVend updates.. but you can be sure that they will also hit you soon.

Got to run.. but I'll post more again from now on....

-Wise ;-)

Dynamic Shadows in Second Life

Hey all, I just came across a wicked video on youtube.

lordflylordfly who uploaded it commented to the video with:
A quickly-hacked together video showing you some of the new features coming soon to a SL viewer near you! Dynamic per-pixel shadows, spotlights, and the ability to project textures onto arbitrary surfaces.



I wonder what kind of gfx card you would need in order to run this on decent settings. Specially the dynamic lightning is gonna be pretty heavy on the graphic I'd say. Love the video though.

:-) -Wise