Space Bums

Fish Frenzy Fishing

2010-01-22T01:16:00.000-08:00

This is an update on our Fish Frenzy fishing game.
Some of you may have noticed that there have not been many updates to Space Bums products over the last few months. That is because we are pushing forward to release a project that we should have released back in 2007. With the sucess of AVpack, Fish Frenzy got put on the back burner for a long while. Now I am glad to inform you that its back, and it looks and plays great. Fish Frenzy is not your average lucky dip fishing experience. Unlike other fishing games, you have to PLAY the game, and that takes skill, and that skill is rewarded. There have been a number of fishing games (without name dropping) that have popped up over the years. I have looked at all of them, and they are pants. So I am glad to say that Fish Frenzy still offers players a refreshing fishing experience. I can't go into too much detail as to what the game involves right now, but I can assure you that trying to script it without wanting to play this addictive sucker is a nightmare!

Stay tuned.

TP, Copybot Supa, Banned!

2010-01-21T09:54:00.000-08:00

And... all in ten minutes. And this is what will happen to any other asshole that try to copybot me or my friends.
The best thing about it was that I managed to get three copybot accounts banned all at the same time! WIN!

The sorry thing about this copybot activity though, is that it wasn't me they would have hurt by copying my avatar. Almost all of my avie in SL (apart from my shape and a few odd bits) is made up from clothes, skins and items from other SL content creators. How dumb do you have to be to qualify as a copybot griefer these days? FAIL!

While there may be legitimate uses for copybot, there is no excuse for teleporting into a sim, copying the land owners' avatar and his parter, then standing around with your thumb up your arse as if that is perfectly acceptible behaviour!
When my partner questioned the offender as to why he/she copied her, the answer came, "I was bored!". I wish I could say I had a more intelligible response, but as you'd expect when you try to converse with such idiots, the response is of the usual illiterate profane half-brain retort. Not that it mattered though, before he could say anything remotley witty, he was gone and banned! WIN!

TOS Violating Octopus!

2009-12-28T04:22:00.000-08:00

I had a strange email this morning regarding an item I have had listed on Xstreet for over three years. The item in question was our Free-swimming Octopus. The message reads

Hello Supa Shang,

There was a problem with your item listing that required us to remove it from the Marketplace.. The specific problem was related to the following area: Terms of Service. The administrator added the following comment:

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Disallowed Actions: Anti-Competitive or Abusive Behavior.
If you need to communicate with us and the ticket number in this notice has expired, please create a ticket in the Second Life Support Portal
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Your item will be automatically relisted in the Marketplace and Search index after you fix its listing.

-Item Name: Free Swimming Octopus

Please login to your account and click the following link to fix your item:

-Link: Click here to fix your item...

https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=adminitem&ItemID=317803

Regards,

Xstreet SL Support

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I have looked at our poor little orange fellow, and I can not see at all how he violates LL TOS!?! Did Linden Labs have too much turkey over Christmas, that they feel they have to now act like one? Maybe it is a malfunction in some automated anti-TOS script they have running that checks listings? Maybe it is one of our frustrated competitors who really really love our products? Who knows! One thing I do know is that there are plenty more online market places for Space Bums to migrate to, and if Linden Labs continue with this bullshit I can guarantee that we will pull out from Xstreet altogether.

Let us know if you have had similar emails like this.

AVpack Release 64 Is Out!

2009-08-23T17:25:00.000-07:00

This is just a quick note to let all AVpack users know that I have placed release 64 into our update server. To get your free optional update, please type /m then go to the Options > Updates

To check your current version, please type /version
To view changes to this version, please type /web

Those that took part in the beta test can grab the latest release by typing /forceupdate

Thank you for supporting AVpack
-Supa

Space Bums updates on Twitter

2009-05-25T08:51:00.000-07:00

Now you can follow all the latest happenings in and around Space Bums by following our official tweets on http://twitter.com/spacebums

If you own an Apple iPhone, you can find some great free Twitter apps on the iTunes store. Look for Twitterific. There is a free version and easy to use and will get you started.

Windows users can check out the amazing Digsby multi-instant messenger with built in support for social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

Gardening with my Skimmer XT

2009-02-10T10:46:00.001-08:00

2009-02-08T08:20:00.000-08:00

Hi folks,

For those taking part in the beta of .63 Avpack, I have patched and added the following

Pathed

*Patched "---ScreenAnim" MONO debug information

Added

*Improved GO TO distance is now able to travel a whole sim.
*Added TP TO icon. Rez a CamTP beam and sit on it, then click TP TO to select avatar target to travel to on your CamTP beam.

More details about the progress of this version can be found on the updates page here http://spacebums.co.uk/avpack/-avpack_updates.html

Respect
-Supa

AVpack v.63 Beta

2008-12-28T13:00:00.000-08:00

Just a quick note to let all AVpack users know that I have placed a beta of AVpack v.63 into the update server. You can test this optional update before its official release by navigating to your Options Menu > FORCEUPDATE.

Changes
A full list of features and changes can be found here.

This optional update was due to be released on Xmas day 08, although I still want to update a few more things before final release. However for those that can't wait, you can test what I have so far today. Please note this version is not complete and is for feedback and testing purposes only. I strongly advise those wishing to keep their original AVpack to make a backup, as from v.63 we move over to MONO scripts. Read all update info fully before testing this version.

Happy Holidays
-Supa

AVpack v.63

2008-12-19T22:35:00.000-08:00

Work continues on v.63 of AVpack. You can find a list of current changes at the updates page. I hope to have this release completed by Xmas day. If further testing is needed, it may fall back to early Jan 09.

AVpack v.62 HUD Patch

2008-09-19T09:50:00.000-07:00

A user contacted me today to state that the AVEmail buttons on AVHUD did not respond. After investigation I saw that the commands in the description fields had been rolled back to default values. For those wanting to use the AVEmail feature on the HUD, I have fixed this and placed the AVHUD back inside the server.

Navigate to your AVpack menu > more > options > FORCEUPDATE to receive an patched AVPACK/AVHUD.

This patch also fixes the problem with remote registering of your AVpack with the command /regavpack

Many thanks to AVpack users and your continued support.

Dell nVidia Drivers & Second Life 1.20

2008-08-28T21:51:00.000-07:00

For those of you that are locked in on your Dell XPS M1730 graphics drivers and find that Second Life 1.20.15 (92456) is suffering from frame rate freezing, you may like to try the latest drivers on the NVIDIA website as it seems to have solved my issue.

Previously these drivers where incompatible with this notebook, but it seems NVIDIA are supporting it directly now rather than Dell, who have not updated the graphics drivers in months.

* WHQL-certified driver for the following notebooks (These manufacturers have approved NVIDIA to provide this driver update for their notebooks):
o Alienware Area-51 m9750 (GeForce 8700M SLI)
o Alienware Area-51 m9750 (GeForce Go 7950GTX SLI)
o Dell XPS M1730 (GeForce 8800M GTX SLI)
o Dell XPS M1730 (GeForce 8800M GTS SLI)
o Dell XPS M1730 (GeForce 8700M GT SLI)
o Dell XPS M1710 (GeForce Go 7900 GTX)
o Dell XPS M1710 (GeForce Go 7950 GTX)
o Dell XPS M1710 (GeForce Go 7900 GS)
* For information on features and known issues, please refer to the Documentation tab.

NVIDIA Drivers
Version: 175.32
Release Date: August 5, 2008

Hope it helps you.

AVpack & MONO

2008-08-24T16:54:00.000-07:00

With server update 1.24 and MONO looming, I am hoping to test the AVHUD with a feature known as "bytecode sharing". This means scripts compiled under MONO will offer multiple scripts all doing the same job, to be treated as one asset, if the primary script is copied. This is cool, as it only uses memory allocated to the primary script rather than individual script memory.
This makes the AVHUD an ideal candidate to test this first, as most of the functions of the AVHUD use cloned scripts. In reality, this could mean uber performance benefits when crossing sim boundaries, less script crashing due to failed or slow loading and faster overall execution of the AVHUD features and better animated behaviour. Once AVHUD hass been successfully optimised, I will move onto AVpack to try improve things there.

Once MONO is rolled out fully, please refrain from begging me to recompile your original AVpack. Like most scripters, we would rather provide a fully working version of our items, rather than an over excited botched job. Rest assured, I will be as excited as you are to see what benefits MONO has for us.

"Time to train the monkey!"

AVpack v.62 Final

2008-08-24T14:48:00.000-07:00

This is the current most stable release. We’ve had it in the toaster for a full week and it came out brown with no burnt edges! ;)

Thanks for all those that took part in the testing last week. If you are using last weeks demo, you should replace that version with this one. Any changes will be listed on the site. Many thanks and have fun!

http://www.spacebums.co.uk/avpack/-avpack_updates.html

-Supa

AVpack v.62 Demo Release

2008-08-17T17:14:00.000-07:00

Thanks to those that took part in the testing of AVpack v.62 over the weekend. I hope to iron out any last minute bugs and update the web docs to highlight the new features.
AVpack was brought to you with the letter A, lots of coffee and a hell of a lot of,

Cheers peeps
-Supa

Site Design Update

2008-08-17T13:51:00.000-07:00

I spent a bit of time in reformatting the spacebumbs.co.uk site. I hope you like the new cleaner look.

2008-08-14T09:42:00.001-07:00

Wake Up People!!!

It's time you all understood what is going on to our fellow creatures.

From a documentry called Earthlings.

For those interested also check out http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp

Let us put a stop to this.

AVpack v.62 Work Started

2008-07-25T07:25:00.000-07:00

Delays, delays and more delays, and on top of that we got hit with asset corruption and then HAVOC4. Despite all this work has now started on AVpack v62. Release date is not confirmed yet as there is lots to do. For those that really can not wait, I will be posting details and optional updates to the AVpack group for members to test updated modules as we go along. Thanks for your support guys and girls and may you continue to have fun using your AVpack.

Someone said to me the other day that AVpack is to Second Life what iPhone is to the mobile industry. I think that was the nicest compliment I have had for a while and one that really inspires me to develop this project further.

Stay tuned...

New Aquatics

2008-07-01T20:15:00.000-07:00

Woohoo, busy month of June! I have been hard at work updating scripts in our aquariums. Adding the new glow feature to good use. On the aquatic life side of the store you will now find updated Puffer Fish, Sharks and Electric Eels of all things! The shop has had a lick of paint too with a new cooler color scheme. Check out our updated central display aquarium where you will see our newer animals all playing and swimming happily together. On the gadget side we have the Glubbler HUD, an easy way to manage those pesky bubble scripts for your aquatic displays. I'm not giving all the secrets away here so make sure you pop down to The Tropical Fish Shop in Melanthia to check it all out. Oh did I mention that we have the hopping frogs back? Yep we have rounded them all up again and scripted them for H4. Free swimming goldfish anyone? Sheez I have been busy! Anyway.. see ya there. :-)

New Items In Store

2008-06-13T17:05:00.001-07:00

Check out out new items in store. We now have cool little free flight butterflies, dragonflies, updated aquarium, particle emitter fish, sea horses and jelly fish. You wont want to miss it.

Teleport here http://slurl.com/secondlife/Melanthia/205/46/29

See you soon :)

iTP v9 Released

2008-06-05T15:20:00.000-07:00

-v9 05/06/2008

HAVOC4 patch. iTP can now zip to 4096m
New glowing beams too.

Help Us Swat Those Bugs

2008-04-12T10:46:00.000-07:00

I would like to ask those who have spotted any odd things happening to their Space Bums items since HAVOC4 was rolled out this month, to help me track down and identify any negative and reproducible behaviors in our items. If you feel we can attach one of our items misbehaving to a Second Life Jira log, please let me know ASAP so we can vote on the fixes. Many thanks.

HAVOC! "No Kidding!"

2008-04-02T15:09:00.000-07:00

Linden Labs kill most of the weapons in AVpack!!!

Yep they did it again! With the release of HAVOC4 onto the main grid over the period of April 1st 2008 (yeah figures huh!?) came a lot of foolish behavior from our beloved virtual world.
I can almost imagine employees at Linden Labs covering their ears at all the phone calls from customer support telling those in "the know" where to go!
Countless L$ and time spent by both gadget/weapon designers and enthusiasts all worthless in the world "created and run by its residents" yet broken and "borked" by its creators!
Newcomers to SL may think this sounds like a rant or a winge blog... well when you have been a long term resident of SL and also are paying over $125USD for something that never quite gets fixed, you can expect people to winge. Especially when we have no control over what they do and will do next! Yet despite this, all we can do is hope that they add more patches to the already mummified world, before it finally falls to pointless pieces and people start to leave.

AVpack v61 OUT!!!

2007-10-30T06:56:00.000-07:00

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AVPACK UPDATES & CHANGES
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-v.61 The "Sorry For The Delay - Supa Fell In Love" Update
Guides
• AVHELPER updated to include web supported docs (if available). These new changes will mean some re-writing of the site and AVhelper so please be patient if you discover inconsistencies of dead links.

AVHUD
• Blog icon added to the HUD to allow easy access to Linden Labs blog.
• HUDTV icon added to allow quick access to HUDTV supported land content.

AVpack
• Particle system code capture changed. (internal).
• Alpha code changed to faster routine. (internal).
• Hot Help for chat commands removed (to save on scripts).
• Scripts cleaned and updated.
• LED will now show when super jump & dash are on on AVpack device when visible. AVpack must be visible for these to show. HUD indication is in the works for future updates.

AVbilities
• Flight Assist: Added a “Flight Trail” effect to the flight assist. You can now have a user defined particle stream be left behind you when you fly. See Flight sub context menu on HUD to set and toggle trail on or off.
• Added ability to "flyto cam" a short distance (60m). Handy for evading traps or to bust through shop walls or if land has no drop for use with CamTP. Simply hit the CamFly button icons on the hud. This feature is experimental and will probably improve in future updates.

Weapons
• SOCOM rebuilt, scripting improved, optional HUD, reduced mem usage. Mass and explosive rounds added. SOCOM is given to user in a folder to inv now instead of dropped in world as it is quite prim heavy.
• SOCOM updated menu system and added a few more bullets. Damage under 10 makes bullets non push. Speed option so you can do those slow motion "Matrix" type bullet shots!
• AVpack: Updated code in Idiot Trap to act the same as regular trap.
• Spanner: Menu organized more accurately and damage and speed sub menus added plus a few more objects added and improved.
• Spanner: Added custard pie thrower, Petrol Bomb, Fireball, Fireworks and more.
• Spanner: Rocks changed to a sculpted rock prim. Can be thrown at people, thrown in water (they splash), thrown in the air and they will make asteroids to shoot at.
• Spanner: Boom Wall disc is now physical can now be thrown. Can be used to throw for a buddy to shoot at, once hit it will rez a boom wall which can then be further shot at.
• Spanner: Mushbooms added to throwers. These explode on impact with avatars only.
• Spanner: Dynamite can now stick to things once thrown. Since the bomb can be thrown down bunkers or around corners it was decided we needed a sticky-bomb so this makes a welcome change.
• Spanner: Plant and tree seeds are now physical after user request.
• Spanner: New "Fix" and "Smack" modes added for future compatibility with other devices.
• Shield will auto pass attacker key to AVpack target system. So if someone shoots crap at you all you need to do is hit #x or Kill from the HUD.

Poofers
• Poofers removed from main AVpack object and placed in the Emubble icon to separate the textures from the objects. To view this child prim type /avpack

Teleporting
• Optional tpfx particle effect and sound added. To replace to the old effect remove the "---" from AVpack description field. Custom TPFX only work while --- is in AVpack description field.
• Teleporting auto releases you from any sitting animations now. So no more walking on your butt after a sit down tp.
• TPFX system more manageable. Icons added to AVHUD - Avibilities sub context menu to set both TP texture and sound. Commands are
/tpfx for teleporting effects on/off
/tpfxsettexture textureuuid - to set texture
/tpfxsetsound sounduuid - to listen for sound to be played then /play uuid to set.

Flight
• Flight engine rewritten to use better timings and allow more flexible control. Speeds lowered but compensated for.
1 = slow
5 = normal
30 = medium
100 = fast etc...
• Powerturn feature added to allow over drift or under drift during flight. When on you can turn slower rather than overshoot. When off you can twirl as you climb or descend to increase your speed.
• User can toggle default flight speeds by holding down Page Up & Page Down together while hovering.
• To get to the ground/sky faster in medium to high speeds with power turn off simply rotate your avatar around.
• Coms: Weapons should not lose permissions now during AVflight.
• llTargetOmega removed from E-mubbles to avoid issues with unstable physics.

Interface
• Subchat: system code repaired, now with notifications to assist users.
• Chat: Repaired /rez objectname and /give inventoryname commands.
• Menu Interface: The option "User Menu" on the main dialog menu now sends a call to "-0011" with the string "User Menu" as the message.
llMessageLinked(LINK_SET,-0011,"UserMenu",NULL_KEY);
This is so scripters can add there own dialog menu calls to AVpack. More API features may be added in future.
There is also a chat call to this which is /um

Emubbles
• Emote Icons: New design & also added ability to ad your own custom away messages to the AVHUD. You can still use the defaults by text commands like /afk etc.
• Added a titler to use above your head. The syntax is /title textabovemyhead . To clear the title just type /title

Vehicles
• Vehicles: Alpha Flyer scripts cleaned up. Menu organized and "Cloak" feature added. Weapons updated. Flyer also communicates better with the lander decks of the Sky Station plus less laggy now.
• Vehicles: Rocket Pod updated slightly. Less prims, cleaned up scripts and removed old code.
• Vehicles: AVchair updated. Phys CamTrack & Non phys movement.
• Variation of the Alpha Flyer shell included in this update. type /rez alpha flyer x7
• The old Skimmer (2 man hover Scooter) now uses auto altitude adjust like the XT. So no more wobbling when you hop on it on your sky decks.

Rezzables
• Storage boxes updated to list all inventory types (apart from scripts).
• Mushroom group seating added. type /mushy
• Rewired an AVhelper device to be a sculpty texture viewer for your sculpty textures. You can use this to store your sculpty textures in and visually view what they look like. /rez sculptyview and drop
in your sculpty textures. Use the arrows to scroll through and click the object to get the texture.
• Added a fun little thing called a "tripper" to rez one type /rez tripper and just click.
• Photo Bay changed based on many Photoshop user requests.
• Added a new deck style. Type /deck to use. Can be sat on so you can build without being pushed.
• Lander Decks: use a less laggy channel to listen to the landing gear of the Alpha Flyer..
• Gtable gets its table back. /gtable
• Builder Pack: Added a STORAGE bay to the build out modules.
• Builder Pack: Added a SHOW & HIDE option to the main options. Now you can tuck your backpack away when not needed.
• Stand: "I pimped your stand!" Stand is now is an animation organiser, touch centre to show/hide, arrows to cycle dropped in anims.
• Bean Bag: Just a quick little alternative seat for you and your buddies to chill out on. Type /rez bean bag

Parcel Tools
• Parcel Tools: Land controls now usable through chat via /ban /unban /unsit /sendhome /eject
• Parcel Radio: Radio will now use URL's from AVpack radio server if no #RadioStations notecard is found inside your own AVpack.

CamTP
• Added ability to CamTP using WarpPos to the shield. Simply sit on your shield and hit the green and red teleport arrow icon on the AVHUD to TP to your cam position.
• CamTP code added to AVpack device instead of HUD, so no more request permission nag requesters.
• CamTP now reports cam position in chat.
• Shield now listens to Teleport icon on hud (red arrow with green rings). You can now add Warp to your warfare!

Spy
• Re-scripted to die when owner within chat range rather than sensor menu spam for new target.
• Reports back name correctly.

Scripts
• Scripts: Removed ---Serv script as this is now part of LControl.
• Some minor script timing improvements for avatar abilities.

Work still continues but I wanted to get this out so people could have more fun over Halloween. Expect more bug fixes, improvements and better docs as we get closer to Christmas.
Any gremlins or things that are just weird, please email supa@spacebums.co.uk with a full detail and how to replicate any issues.

Thanks peeps
-Supa

Wecome to Space Bums

2007-10-30T06:41:00.000-07:00

I hope this space can allow me to keep you all up to date with some happens from within Space Bums.