Another RC release is out. This one fixes a couple of bugs.
I just barely got RC-14 installed. I have yet to get to play with it.
Check your Products Page to download a copy.
AvaStar Bug Fix 2 RC-15 Released
Nalates Urriah
Second Life Third-Party Dev Meeting 2017 w38
The Alex Ivy 64-bit viewer will update early next week (#39). The last couple of blocking bugs are being fixed. Oz Linden thinks they are probably down to 1 problem last blocking problem, pipeline stalls. A special branch of the viewer is designed to find and fix that problem. Those experience the problem will get a copy of it for testing.
Voice is getting a new SDK update. It addresses couple long-standing problems.
There is a fix in Linden Viewers where the Lindens extended the retry time. So, they are being more successful connecting to voice. It takes longer to connect when there are problems, but it is more successful. If there are no problems, it is a quick connect.
Manually killing the viewer’s voice server prevents it restarting as it once did. Now, restart the viewer to kill and start the voice server. Then it works.
The Maintenance viewer just went out a couple of hours before the meeting (Friday noon). It uses new Vivox SDK. This version is Not compatible with previous versions. Some third-party viewers and Linux versions commonly require users to copy the app from the Linden viewer and drop it in the third-party viewer. Or to use older versions of the voice app with new versions of the viewer, for various reasons. That is not going to work.
Now the viewer and voice app will need to be versions made after the change to the new Vivox SDK are built in.
SL’s new Grid Wide Experience
The new experience is titled Tyrah & the Curse of the Magical Glytches. (TCMG) The intro video is here…
I think it is way funny.
The announcement is here: Introducing a New Grid-Wide Experience. The announcement tells you how to get started and the rules…
You can have Glytches, the bad guys, on your private parcels. For the ‘how to’ on that see the Official TCMG Wiki page.
Check out the announcement and wiki page to get started collecting and I suppose imprisoning Glytches to save the grid.
Second Life News 2017 w38
Servers
The main channel is not updating this week. It will continue to run version #17.09.01.508236.
Blue Steel and Le Tigre channels will update to version #17.09.14.508549. This version addresses: Improvements to address some problems that could degrade simulator performance in rare cases.
Magnum will update to version #17.09.14.508533. It fixes BUG-100505 – “llGetEnv (“agent_limit”) is returning an empty string in Magnum, Le Tigre and Blue Steel regions.”
The only interesting additional information from the Server-Scripting UG meeting is that work on the servers includes an effort to reduce the recent outages.
AvaStar 2 RC-14 is Out
When I saw the announcement for the final release of AvaStar 2.0, I hadn’t noticed the RC-14 version is out, which was me being a bit slow considering the video I posted. Check your AvaStar Products Page for the download.
I won’t get to play with it today. But… soon.
The release notes are here. The big change is in BVH import and export. Bone translations now work. The IK controls for the hands change.
There are other minor improvements and some fixes.
Word is Sparkles will update with or just after AvaStar 2.0 releases.
Sansar Meetings
This week’s Product Meetups will be held on Friday 09/22/2017 at 9:30 – 10:30 am (PT) and 4:00 to 5:00 pm (PT) Location: Zen Garden
The Casual Meetups are at oYo Galaxy Time Gate – 2pm – 3 pm (PT) Monday thru Friday!
These meetings are hard to get into. Be early. Also, pre-cache the Experiences before the meeting you plan to attend. Program updates and Experience load times can cause you to arrive late and be bounced to an empty instance.