Viewers – Page 89 – Nalates’ Things & Stuff

Coming Viewer Change

2015/01/25 by Nalates Urriah

In regard to viewer updates, currently if a user says they no longer want to run the RC version and disables their ‘willing to run’ setting, they get downgraded to the current main release, which is always an older version. So, they effectively get downgraded when they were asking not to be upgraded. Understandably this … Read more

Texture Thrashing 2015-04

2015/01/24 by Nalates Urriah

CmdrCupcake (Sovereign Engineer) has been looking at texture thrashing. He found what is eating texture memory and leads to textures cycling through rendering to full load sharp images then going blurry and apparently reloading and getting sharp again only to repeat.

House Triggering Texture Thrashing in some video cards.

While it was not immediately obvious the addition of CHUI and its addition of avatar icons to the chat discussions seems to be the trigger for the current texture thrashing. These images are loaded into the viewer as UI textures. There are a ton of these textures used for chat, group chat, and friends lists. These chat textures consume memory.

RLV & Kokua 3.7.24

2015/01/23 by Nalates Urriah

Kokua has a new version of their viewer out. This version changes from RLVa to RLV. So, what does that mean? Basically, just that you need to do a clean install. The RLVa settings need to be removed and the RLV settings installed. Installing over the previous version won’t clear the RLVa settings, thus the clean install is needed.

RLVa and RLV are similar. Both add to the viewer the ability to have in-world Linden Scripting Language (LSL) scripts control the viewer. To some lesser extent the new Linden Experience Tools serve a similar purpose.

SL Viewer Updates

2015/01/15 by Nalates Urriah

Today I logged in to check out a Fab Free sale. There are some great nails on sale at Nail Me (SLURL).

I had the typical message that an update had been downloaded and the viewer needed to do an install of version 3.7.24 (297623). I decided now was the time. So, I OK’d the update now option. The viewer didn’t log me out. It closed and started the update. But, when I tried to relog I had to wait while the SL system realized I had left, logged me out, and then let me log back in. I would have been really annoyed if I has been in a hurry to get some place.

Second Life News 2014-51

2014/12/16 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

The main channel will get a rollout Tuesday. This is a maintenance package that includes:

Fixes BUG-7595 Allowed & Blocked experiences persist with parcel owner change after purchase or abandoning.
Fixes BUG-7036 Experience based scripts in attached child prims reference their operation by region position instead of root position like non-experience based scripts.
BUG-7048 llGetExperienceDetails() returns 4 for state and “operation not permitted” for state message while over mainland parcels that have the experience allowed.
BUG-6757 Different error code returned for an Experience that is not permitted to run on a parcel / region OR a user clicked No on the permission request dialog
Additional internal Experience Key fixes
To find experiences with all unicode names you have to leave the search field blank and page through all results

Firestorm Viewer 4.6.9-42696 Released

2014/12/15 by Nalates Urriah

Firestorm Logo

We knew it was coming. Now it is out, Firestorm 4.6.9-42696. The first release out hit a snag. These issues were a problem for a number of people:

FIRE-15122 Voice connection is lost after Teleport on OpenSim Grids
FIRE-15110 rlva @getattach does not work
FIRE-15101 Bottom toolbar buttons show in mouselook
FIRE-15085 Object view not working in build 4.6.9.42969
FIRE-14471 Editing quick prefs crash

If you go to get a new Firestorm version, you’ll find that only version 4.6.9-42974 is available for download. If you have version 42696 and are NOT having problems then there is no reason to get the slightly newer release.