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Second Life Viewer News 2013-21

2013/05/20 by Nalates Urriah

Viewers

You may or may not have realized that most viewers now have the Server Side Appearance (baking) code. Also, the servers have the server side of the code now. This will allow the Lindens to start enabling the code in test regions in the main grid.

There is a Snack RC channel that supposedly has it enabled. But, that is unclear. We’ll likely hear more about this at the server meetings this week.

Dev Viewer

The Development Viewer is done. That channel is no longer updating. We will only see Beta and Project Viewer as the Viewer RC Pipeline rolls out, which will happen over the next 2 to 4 weeks, probably.

Second Life Mesh Rendering Problems

2013/05/17 by Nalates Urriah

Each week the blog Lette’s Trivia And Trivial Stuff publishes the week’s top support issues with the Firestorm viewer. Another issue is out. But, some issues are not limited to the Firestorm Viewer. One of those is mesh objects failing to render.

Lette has written up an excellent section on the problem. She focuses on: MeshMaxConcurrentRequests. This is a Debug Setting in both the Firestorm and SL Viewers.

Word on the virtual street is that setting this higher is better and a must. Well… as often is the case the general advice is wrong. It depends on your computer and connection. But, in general it is a bad thing to change. To solve specific problems it is an acceptable temporary fix. But, used as a permanent change, it is a lag producer for you and everyone in the region.

Find out how to use this setting and understand the tradeoffs: Frequently Asked Support Questions of May 17.

KirstenLee Viewer S19 (407) Released

2013/05/16 by Nalates Urriah

KirstenLee has posted an announcement about the release of a new version of the viewer: S19 (407). See: What dreams may come! In this post KirstenLee explains why version S19 is being used. Basically because this is the version of the viewer KirstenLee likes working with and using.

This is not a cutting edge viewer. Basically it is a V1 viewer being adapted to V3 three features and recent SL system changes. It is easy on hardware. So, I would class it as being in the same field as Singularity and Cool VL Viewer; V1 interface viewers.

Restrained Life Viewer Update Released

2013/05/132013/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

I have not been a fan of RLV until recently, not the viewer the feature. A friend formerly from Land of Nor has been showing me how it could be used to improve roll play and combat games. I was impressed and have sense been spending more time paying with it.

Marine Kelley posted about the recent update to the RLV viewer: RestrainedLove Viewer 2.8.4.1. Marine explains some of the problems integrating the CHUI changes to RLV. It took a couple of months to find bugs and resolve them. The fixes are done and a new version is released.

Firestorm Problems 2013-18

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

Lette has a new page up with solutions for the top three problems Firestorm Support is seeing: Frequently Asked Firestorm Support Questions: May 1.

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The three top problems are:

Missing Inventory Items
Textures Not Rezzing
Black Rectangles in Pictures

Lette has provided the fixes the Firestorm Team has.

Second Life Viewer Release Changing

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

You probably know that the server updates come through 3 releases channels; Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum. This is sort of having 3 Beta versions running at the same time. It allows 3 different sets of code be tested at the same time. The best performing of the three gets promoted to the main channel.

The result is the server code update at a pretty fast pace. In fact so fast that several server updated features are waiting on the viewer to update.