Viewers

Second Life FB, Flickr, Twitter

2014/06/262014/06/26 by Nalates Urriah

Tuesday(?) during the hubbub of SL 2.0 a new viewer rolled out as the main SL Viewer. Version 3.7.10-291134 is the current viewer, which I mentioned on Monday. While I thought there were no release notes posted for this version, it is the sorting order that fooled me. 3.7.10 sorts out way ahead of 3.7.9. So, it did not click with me that this was the SL Share RC Viewer being promoted, which it was.

You access the feature when taking a picture. The FB, Twitter, and Flickr buttons are at the bottom of the Snapshot Panel. (Ctrl-Shift-S)

If you were using that RC Viewer, you likely did not see an update of your viewer. That is because it was the rest of us that needed an update, not you.

Second Life News 2014-26

2014/06/23 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

The Deploys thread tells that the main channel is going to update Tuesday to the Sunshine package that has the AISv3 updates. This ran on Blue Steel last week. The main release viewer had the AISv3 updates. With the AIS running on all the grid, this feature will be everywhere and the viewer can take advantage of it.

There is also an anti-griefing measure included in this package. Since that is a security issue the Lindens don’t talk about the nature of it.

RC Channels

Blue Steel and Le Tigre will both get the same new maintenance package. The package has the new Linden Scripting Language (LSL) functions for handling materials. To see the effects of the Materials System you must have the Advanced Lighting Model enabled.

Second Life News 2014-25 #2

2014/06/22 by Nalates Urriah

Friday’s Third Party Viewer (TPV) Developer’s meeting was long, 2 hours. The last hour is covered in Second Life 2.0 Coming. That is the exciting news, SL 2.0 is coming!

As of Friday there were two RC Viewers; SL Share and Snowstorm. SL Share has been in the cue for some time. It is the likely candidate for promotion, probably late in week 26 or in week 27. The Snowstorm RC has a bug that is in the process of being fixed. I expect a new version to make it out to RC in week 26.

The Project Viewers haven’t changed since I last wrote about them.

The code for the Group Ban viewer is here: https://bitbucket.org/baker_linden/voorhees_groupban. With the code released to the wild TPV Dev’s are integrating it into their viewers.

Jessica of Firestorm says they are integrating ‘Interesting’ and hopefully SL Share features for their next release. The Sunshine AISv3 changes probably won’t make the next release. Experience Tools may make it. But, the team has not had time to examine the changes needed for Experience Tools.

Restrained Love Viewer 2.9

2014/06/18 by Nalates Urriah

Marine Kelley has announced the release of viewer version 2.9. See: Restrained Love Viewer v2.9. This is the version with additional camera controls.

Marine describes the changes this way: “In essence, the goal is to let a script restrict the camera and the view : how far and how close the camera can go, how clearly and how far the user can see, and whether to let the camera go through walls or not.”

Second Life News 2014-24

2014/06/16 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

The Deploy announcement is out. The GROUP BAN project is to be promoted to the main grid. That will make it grid wide. You need to get the project viewer to take advantage of the feature. But, whether you have the viewer or not, if you are banned you are banned and will not be able to re-join the group. The project viewer is only needed to DO the banning.