Windlight skies exchangable, not saleble/sellable?
July 20, 2007 12:45 am
Torley announces that he’s working together with Zen Linden on making the WindLight skies exchangable:
Throughout the last few weeks, I’ve been helping to test WindLight for bugs, and today, helped Zen Linden come up with use cases for share-able skies when we get to that… yeah, it’s been in the making, having sky + day cycle settings be exchangeable just like any other inventory (asset) type. Got any specific wishes? Let me know, load my back up with ‘em! *points* I think fully-permissive skies should be embeddable in notecards, just like other stuff can be.
Specific wishes? Yes! What do you think about an estimated release date for a new WindLight firstlook? *grins* Besides that:
- Like any other inventory (asset) type, we should be able to put permissions on the WindLight settings. Copy, mod, transfer, … .
- Like any other inventory (asset) type, I think we should be able to sell the WindLight settings we’ve created
- As for the non-mod versions, settings should be invisible and unchangable besides the position of the sun (east, south, west) and the time of day.
Sell the skies?! Yes! We can sell body shapes, skins, eyes, … . All things that aren’t saleble in first life - when you ignore color lenses and the illegal organ business. Making WindLight sky settings saleble and people will be encouraged to create the best they can and to share them. And nobody can stop you from giving them away for free. So, if this does come through, prepare for ‘Belgium sky rainy (morning)’, ‘Belgium sky rainy (noon)’, ‘Belgium sky rainy (evening)’ and Belgium sky sunny (exception)’. ;)
SLexchange and SLboutique OnRez, on your shopping sites, please add the category ‘WindLight Skies’. Thx! =)
And quickly looking back on my old ‘demands’ for WindLight, I found this:
Would be nice:
- Being able to share the saved settings with your friends. If we can share landmarks, then why not sky settings?
- A ‘reset’ option. I’ve messed up some defaults. :( First save the setting you’re in and work on that one.
Which brings me back to the reset option. Please make it so that when closing the WindLight settings panel, the changed settings aren’t automatically saved, but need confirmation, just like in the appearance settings.
Thank you,
Vint Falken
PS. Please help a puzzled English impaired Neko here. What’s the correct word here? Saleble or sellable?
5 Responses to “Windlight skies exchangable, not saleble/sellable?”
Sellable?
Selling wind? , air in a bottle??, hot air???, right … elections coming up..
Everyday SL resembles a bit more RL (or is it vice versa ???)
Surprisingly, “salable”, “sellable” and “saleable” all seem to be ok.. I am curious if this garden variety is really a pure result of a spelling difficulties as it seems to be, or there is anything else…
> Everyday SL resembles a bit more RL (or is it vice versa ???)
No, none of these assertions really makes sense.
Sellable, salable, and saleable are all acceptable. The last two are used often by marketers - they suggest that people want to buy it.
Ohhhh great post, thanx Vint, I’ll show this to Zen and we’ll get on it. And yeah, when I mentioned “exchangeable”, that includes buying & selling, setting permissions, etc. I didn’t want to put too many ideas down because I want to hear yours first!
Confirmation upon changed settings is something I’ve been thinking of too… the interface has somewhat changed further since the last public release but we’ll be putting it out there in First Look again to garner further feedback as ya know.
ETA of First Look: WindLight is dependent on a number of factors so it’s variable and I won’t commit to date unless I was SUPER-SURE, but I hope within a month, more or less — let’s see when First Look: Voice rolls into the main viewer because there’s less confusion with a single First Look. (We’re also changing our release process and labeling; that’s another big project with more news to come… stay tuned…)
I wonder how many fashion mavens will include sky settings to go with their outfits and skins, hmmm?
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