Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
Yesterday I couldn’t make the user group meeting, RL lunch meeting. So, I’m relying on Inara’s coverage and the Deploys thread for what came out in that meeting.
There was no roll planned for the main channel. My main channel home region did not get a restart. It continues to run version #18.08.10.518612.
AFAIK, the RC channels did restart all updating to version #18.08.24.519036. This is some backend change needed to get the new land auction system working.
By meeting time, the Voice RC viewer had promoted to the main viewer, 5.1.8.518593. They have already found one new bug. Still, voice should be better on this version.
The RC version of the Animesh was waiting for a merge with voice, but, in the meeting, Kyle Linden told us it had passed Q&A and should be up on the Alternate Viewers page by the time you read this.
So, you may see some frozen characters scooting around the grid, which is what you see when you do not have an Animesh viewer and look at Animesh.
The Love Me Render RC viewer needs to update with voice. We’ll likely see that this week, 35.
Next week another Maintenance RC viewer w/bug fixes should pop up on the page.
The Firestorm Team provides the most popular viewer in Second Life™. They provide a new user area training people new to SL. They provide and maintain a JIRA, website, and wiki. There is a cost for all of these things. About 2-years ago they ran a fundraiser and have been paying for stuff from that … Read more
Servers The main channel will update to version #18.08.10.518612. This version will allow notices you neither accept nor decline to hang around until the next login. Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum channels will continue to run version #18.08.10.518612. No rolls. And no Server-Scripting UG meeting this week. Viewers The main viewer is version 5.1.7.517973 … Read more
For SL users there is the Apple question, will Second Life™ run on Apple? Or… continue to run on Apple?
In June of this year Apple announced its discontinuing support of OpenGL after macOS 10.14 Mojave (scheduled for release Sept 2018), the core aspect of SL’s render engine. It will take a couple of years for Apple to phase it out. But, updates and support officially stop now. For some time support has been really bad.
They explained their reasoning when some game developers declared they would stop making games for Apple.
The reasons;
On the PC side of things OpenGL is still supported. We can’t know for how long. Khronos, OpenGL’s developer, has introduced Vulkan. (See: State of Graphics: DirectX 12 & Vulkan – 4/2016) Development is exciting and popular. The group is on the forefront of some interesting tech. But, I don’t know that it will be helpful for SL.
We have a bit of news. Most of the interesting stuff I covered yesterday reporting on the 3rd-party Dev meeting. We have new viewer stuff too.
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2018-08-10T11:52:23.546-07:00
[11:10] Grid Status Update: Rolling Restarts Main Channel Roll: Scheduled – We will be performing rolling restarts for regions on the main Second Life Server channel on Tuesday, August 14th, beginning at approximately 3:00 AM PDT. Please refrain from rezzing no copy objects and remember to save all builds. Please check this blog for updates.
2018-08-13T11:09:33.169-07:00
[11:13] Grid Status Update: Rolling Restarts RC Channel Roll: Scheduled – We will be performing rolling restarts for regions on the Magnum, Blue Steel, and Le Tigre RC server channels beginning at approximately 7:00 AM PDT on Wednesday, August 15th, 2018. Please refrain from rezzing no-copy objects, and remember to save all builds. Please check this blog for updates.
2018-08-13T11:12:12.296-07:00
[11:19] Grid Status Update: Scheduled Second Life Maintenance: Scheduled – On Wednesday, August 15th, we will be undergoing scheduled maintenance to Second Life starting at 6AM PDT. During this time, residents may be logged off and will not be able to log in until maintenance is complete. Please keep an eye on this blog for updates.
So, we have some down time ahead. Early Monday morning there was a previous bit of planned down time.