Second Life Layer Limits RC Viewer

This morning a new RC viewer installed: Second Life 3.7.29-301305, the  Layer Limits RC Viewer. The release notes are here.

LOTS OF GREAT AND EERIE PHOTO SHOTS AT UNIA

LOTS OF GREAT AND EERIE PHOTO SHOTS AT UNIA by ▓▒░ TORLEY ░▒▓, on Flickr

The primary change in this version is:

The Layer Limits viewer lets you wear up to 60 wearables of any type. We’ve changed the logic for what limits are enforced on clothing worn by avatars: previously, we restricted avatars to 5 items for each type of removable clothing wearable such as shirts, pants, jackets, tattoos and alpha masks. With this viewer, we instead enforce a total limit of 60 wearables of all such types combined. So if you really want to you can wear 60 tattoos as long as you wear none of anything else.

These changes do not apply to body part wearables (skin, shape, hair, eyes), for which the limit is still one of each, and do not affect attachments, for which the limit is still 38 total.

This version installed and started without any glitches. The previous RC version choked as it started installing from a post login notice. This time it notified me at viewer launch before login. I’m not sure that makes a difference, but this install worked better than the last.

This version keeps the one-login-button user interface. I assume the Lindens are continuing to do A-B testing of the login process. I just wonder if they have a log of their test results. Will those working on the viewer 2 or 3 years from now be repeating these tests or have prior test data to review?

I’ve only used the viewer for a little over an hour. About an hour plus in it went Not Responding and hung there. After 3 or 4 minutes it seemed to reset and log me off as if I had lost my Internet connection.

I won’t know if this is a consistent problem until I have more time to use the viewer.

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