Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
Hamlet has a tip he got from Trinity Dejavu over on Reddit. See: Simple Trick to Speed Up Second Life Rendering. The ‘trick’ is to turn off avatar rendering when you first arrive in a crowded place. (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-4) One press turns off avatar rendering and a second press will turn it back on. B turning … Read more
Second Life’s main channel got an update to day (3/22). This is the RC package from last week, which is some Script Fixes and Minor internal improvements.
The RC channels are running the same package, no update this week.
The main viewer updated last week to version 4.0.2.312269, the Maintenance RC viewer with lots of fixes.
Firestorm updated sometime after I posted this… See: Firestorm Update I was expecting the Firestorm Viewer to update the 16th. That expectation came from a comment at the Third Party Developers’ meeting. Obviously that hasn’t happened. I am seeing the wiki updating. Lots of new entries for version 4.7.7-48706. This is typical pre-release updating of … Read more
The RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.2.312269 has promoted. The main SL viewer is now 4.0.2.312269. The Release Notes are here. The short story is:
The main channel is not getting an update this week. The RC channels are. All three will get the same package. It contains some Script Fixes and Minor internal improvements.
We know from the Third Party Developers meeting that the Lindens are working on server side changes related to griefing issues. The first thing about grief fixing is you don’t talk about grief fixes.
This was a short meeting, <20 minutes. There is some interesting news. Viewers As of 3/12 the main Linden release viewer is still 4.0.1-310054. RC Second Life HTTP update Viewer version 4.0.2.312094 RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.2.312269 RC Second Life Quick Graphics Viewer version 4.0.2.312297 – This viewer updated Friday. All three RC’s … Read more