Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
This week has been busy, RL. So, I’ve missed some of the goings on. One is the release of the Quick Graphics viewer as the main Linden Viewer. To learn more about the development process and history of this viewer and how it works see my articles on Avatar Complexity. Also, Inara has a good … Read more
There is no rollout and restart for the main channel this week. Because of problems and down-time on the Beta grid (ADITI) last week testing on the pending server update couldn’t be completed.
This week the package is ready to move from the Beta grid to the RC channels of the main grid. So, we’ll have a roll to and restart of the RC channel regions Wednesday.
This is a package without any user-visible changes. It has unnamed improvements.
This week there was no roll to the main channel.
The RC channels all got the same package, today 5/11. The stated changes are: Minor internal improvements. No visible functional changes to Second Life.
A new version of Black Dragon Viewer is out. Niran has dome some more rendering tweaks. Check out the pictures at Niran’s blog. See: Black Dragon Viewer – Update 2.5 – Alpha 2 “Beyond”
This release is a set of minor fixes, one of which is invisiprims. See more here: RLV 2.9.17 If you are an RLViewer user, time to upgrade.
Viewers Oz Linden was crashing so the meeting got a late start. Then only ran 20 minutes. Not anything new to talk about. But, there is an alarming change from the Beta Server group I’ve included as the last item in this article. The RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.4.314579 has been promoted to … Read more