Thursday, December 6, 2007

Luxace 1.3 out

New version out just before Christmas! If you're an old customer, you should've received your update already, if not, just wear the old HUD and you should get it automagically.
If you have problems still, visit one of our update centers and grab the latest version there.


What's new

v1.3
- NEW: "Lock" and "Unlock" buttons has been added to the HUD to access the new LockCamera functionality. Read the manual for more info
- NEW: the 3 emitters now have a "sculpty" look. Useless? Of course, but I couldn't resist...
- OPTIMIZATION: a lot of tuning has been dedicated to the communication layer between the HUD and the emitters, and in version 1.3 it becomes much more solid and reliable than ever. In addition, the whole system is much lighter and should save a good 20-25% of memory from previous version
- BUGFIX: as a result of the previous point, a vicious bug has been corrected that made the HUD print on screen a weird line of messages while pressing buttons under certain circumstances

About Windlight FirstLook viewer

At the moment, Windlight has got a bunch of problems with local hardware lights rendering.
Some face lights marked as "Windlight compatible" are spreading throughout the grid.
Although I haven't had much time to personally test Luxace with the Windlight viewer, especially because of some issue with the Leopard operating system, since you can place the 3 emitters virtually anywhere near your face, with any color and any intensity/radius setting, it shouldn't be a problem to make it work with Windlight's peculiar way of rendering lights.
To sum it up, I can't assure a full compatibility with the Windlight viewer until it becomes official, but there's a fair chance it will work fine anyway.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Ploreho design Christmas contest

In the continuing effort to enhance our line of products, Ploreho design is proud to announce a new contest that will take place for the whole month of December.
Any Ploreho customer who bought any of the following products is allowed to take part in it:

- Re-light
- Re-light HUD
- Luxace
- Photodice
- Standy

Only one submission per customer will be accepted.
What we are asking you is to fill up a simple form you can find linked below with a few questions regarding our products and the ways we could improve them.
We are sure that with your help we will be able to further improve our line and make yours a better Second Life experience.

At the end of the event, we will select 10 people who will be able to choose 1 product to receive among the full line of Ploreho design products. The good thing is that if you bought more than one of the listed products, you will have more chances to be selected for the prizes.

In addition, the 3 best suggestions for product enhancements will receive a money prize AND 1 product at choice!
#1 will receive 2000L$
#2 will receive 1000L$
#3 will receive 500L$

But that's not all!
Infact, every participant will receive a free PHO product of his or her choice from the following list:

- any single product of the Komfort furniture line
- any single product of the Spectrum furniture line
- any single product of the Classy furniture line
- any single product of the PHO-L home furnishing lights
- Cuddly armchair

Merry Christmas and Good luck!

Contest form

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Photodice 1.1 out

Just in time for X-mas prezzies a new fix for the popular photo studio product by Ploreho design.

..: WHAT'S NEW :..

v1.1
- NEW: a new box included in the package! Which isn't actually a box but more like a sphere... Same functionalities but smoother look ;)
- BUGFIX: pressing the Default button will now reset also the fullbright status
- BUGFIX: pressing the Default button in the texturer HUD will reset also the face color
- BUGFIX: general optimizations in events handling, especially in the fullbright routine
- BUGFIX: pressing the ground-level teleport button after having deleted your photodice box will now correctly return an error message

As usual, to receive this update just wear the old HUD and you will receive the new boxed product in a matter of seconds.