Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
There is no roll on the main channel. It will continue to run #18.06.14.516450.
There is no info on the RC channels. We are not going to hear until tomorrow.
Today we found out they ran into problems with the Animesh rollout. There was something going on with the physics shape of mesh, not animesh, mesh. So, they are working on that.
Oh nooos… Friday the 13th… Lots of details and status of projects.
The Animesh project viewer will to go to RC soon. They are waiting on Animesh to roll to main channel. So, we will likely see it promote to RC in week #29.
But, as of the meeting today, Friday, Vir Linden is hearing about some anomalies in the Animesh RC server regions. Until Vir Linden can dig into that we don’t know what’s up. This could delay the Animesh server side roll out.
The Bakes On Mesh project viewer is likely to get an update in week #29. There are a couple of fixes in the new release.
The Maintenance RC viewer is in the pipeline.
Holiday is over. Lindens are mostly back to work and the no-change-window is open. Things are updating again.
The main channel stays on version #18.06.14.516450. However, regions in the main channel are getting restarts. My home region in the main channel restarted Tuesday morning.
Blue Steel and Magnum will get a Wednesday update to version #18.07.03.517389.
Le Tigre will roll to version #18.06.22.516968. This is an updated Animesh version.
I thought the Le Tigre version would be the Animesh code with the updates from the current main channel version. I wasn’t too sure sure about that… Fortunately Simon Linden explained it at the Server-Scripting UG.
Black Dragon Poser – NiranV is changing the Poser feature. Again… still… making this version 3.1.8. I think by anyone’s standard it is getting better. In NiranV’s latest post mention is made of working with Nat Linden to make feature changes as they import the tool into the Linden viewer. There are permission and usability … Read more
OK… there isn’t any news. It is a U.S. holiday with the holiday falling in the middle of the week. There may be a restart here and there. But, no rolling restarts Tuesday or Wednesday. Nothing happening with viewers… Next week…
At some point in time there will be a new release of the Firestorm Viewer. It is over due by about 3 months. The team’s stated goal is a release every 3rd month. In practice it is working out to about one every 6 months.
There are some significant changes coming to viewers. You likely know about EEP, which will likely eventually replace the enhanced Windlight features in Firestorm. The team will likely figure out to have both EEP and Enhanced FS Windlight working together. Then in a later release remove the FS Windlight. The point being to allow those relying on FS Windlight to change over to EEP. But… I’m guessing.
Animesh is coming. The server side of that is figured out and looks to release in July. Its on the main grid in the RC channels. So, we’ll likely see it go to the main channels in week #27. BUT… the viewer side is a bit behind the server and likely to only appear as an RC viewer, project viewer now, toward the end of July.
For the Firestorm team this means they don’t have a final version of the viewer code to be working with. They are still likely having to deal with changing Animesh code that changes how Animesh renders.