marcus welz

Some time during Summer 2007 while reading up on the CryEngine 2, the technology behind the first person shooter Crysis, I came across an article that mentioned a company that was licensing the engine for their upcoming virtual world. So I was curious to see what happened to that project and while searching I came […]

Earlier today Torley Linden contacted me to let me know that SLBuzz had stopped processing postcards sent from within Second Life.
Turns out that the issue was that the format of the embedded meta data had changed which the parser couldn't cope with. The new meta data is better as it also includes the region coordinates, […]

The key problem with developing for Second Life thus far has always been the less than sufficient APIs that Linden Lab offers.
When it comes to communicating with objects in-world, you have the choice of the reliably broken XML-RPC, polling from in-world via llHTTPRequest(), or sending bite-sized data snippets by email. To make it easier, faster, […]

I fixed a bug. Now sending in-world IMs, adding someone to the friends list, and sending email from profiles should be snappier.
Posted by Second Life Resident Mark Barrett.

Well that was not exactly what I had hoped for. So I'm on the Weather Island, which looks great. Extreme skiing sounds like fun, so I bought my set of utilities (boots, skiis and poles). I ski in RL so maybe this will be fun.
On top of the hill I run into Dharma Austin, who […]