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SL Viewer 2.1.1 Released

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This viewer has a texture download fix that should greatly improve performance. If you even just barely pay attention to SL technology you have likely heard of HTTP Texture Get. What you likely have not heard is there was a bug in SL viewers 2.0, 2.1 and the 1.23 series that cause texture caching to fail. This meant every time you visited a place you’ve been before; all the textures had to download again. So even with a faster download, we were not getting as much performance gain as we should have. Now the textures should cache and greatly reduce rez time.

The problem has been fixed in 2.1.1 (207998) Aug 11 2010.

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Emerald Viewer 2439 Update

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Update: 2010-08-11 6:45 PM SLT – A new post appeared today explaining a bit more about the 2439 update and the removal of the 2439 beta release post being removed. Fracturedcrystal posted:

Posting to clear some confusion, I unpublished the previous post with beta 2439 because we are working on a new beta which fixes several security issues with some of the new features introduced in that version. There has however been unexpected technical difficulties in the 1.5 port, some of the other features in trunk, and our dedicated build servers, which we are working to fix at the moment.

The post has links to older beta releases, the 2226 being the newest. See: Re: Beta 2439

Original post: Today I find that the blog link to and article about the Emerald Viewer 2439 build have been removed. A post showing statistics of Emerald Viewer use seems to replace it. Presumably when the 2439 problems are fixed the post will reappear.

There is a thread in the Modular Systems forum titled Where is the 2439 release post?

AleiaSerenity Sapphire of the Emerald Support Team posts:

there were some issues with the avatar texture feature on the pie menu  so the dev’s removed 2437 [I think Aleia meant 2439?] from the blog

I suspect it was more than just a pie menu problem, but who knows? Read Emerald Viewer 1.4.0.2439 Released – Review and look at the bugs we know of… I suspect the inventory problems we have been seeing has placed a load on the LL servers as people clear cache and reload inventory. But, that is speculation. Not the inventory problems… the server load.

Update 8/15/2010 – Be sure to read Emerald Viewer Scandal Erupts… Again

KirstenLee S20 (31) Released

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This release is mostly about stability. Not much new to talk about.

See: S20 Build 31 ( Back from Holiday Special )

I’ve gotten to use this version for several hours now. It seems more stable than my SL 2.1 and Emerald 2439. I’ve been visiting high lag places (NWN’s popular places) and it does pretty good. The LL servers seem to be having problems. Everyone is complaining of lag (8/7 AM SLT).

Imprudence Release 1.3.0 RC1

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The release news has come up on the Imprudence blog today. Imprudence 1.3.0 RC1 Released

There are Windows, Linux, and Mac Intel versions. I’ll get a review as soon as I have time. But, Imprudence does a good job of getting new features listed in there blog.

It may just be me but when I rez a new cube it comes in with all dimensions set to zero, which means it is invisible. Set the dimensions to something more than 0.0000 and it becomes visible.

Second Life Lost Inventory and Missing Inventory Fix – Help

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With the recent release of several new viewers and the server software updates, many people are having lost inventory problems and avatars not rez’ing. There are some basic fixes that correct apparent or perceived lost inventory. There is a difference between apparently lost and really lost inventory. I’ll cover the ‘apparently lost’ and how to restore your inventory. Read the entire article before you start doing things.

Updated 2010-08-06 & 3/2012 – References to the sidebar are from SL Viewer 2.x. There is no sidebar in SL Viewer 3.+. The sidebar references indicate opening Inventory.

Simple Lost Inventory Fix

First we’ll assume your inventory is just ‘apparently’ lost. So, you are not seeing any of or some parts of your stuff in inventory. Linden Lab (LL) is changing how inventory works client side. Some of these changes seem to be confusing to older viewers and various versions. So, if you are switching back and forth between the 1.23.x and SL 2.x viewers you are very likely to have some inventory problems. If you just updated, you may have some problems. If you are an Emerald user you are very likely to have inventory issues.

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KirstenLee Viewer s20(30) Released – Review

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Today I see Kirsten has a new S20 (30) release out. I’ll get around to trying it out later today.

Update 7/29 – I got to use the viewer. It has a really nice render. Things look better than normal.

There are several under the hood improvements. No black screens as I change settings. I only had to re-log once as I tried out the shadows settings. Plus I have a tiny bit better FPS rate.

The search dialog has been fixed so Classified ads show now. I actually use that from time to time. Search has changed. The search modifiers in the drop down list have changed to four tabs; Search, Events, Destination Guide, and Classifieds. The Maturity settings look like they can be enabled in search, they can’t. One has to enable them in Preferences -> [General]. One can then disable and enable Maturity classes for any search.

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