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Second Life Viewer News 2013-21

2013/05/20 by Nalates Urriah

Viewers

You may or may not have realized that most viewers now have the Server Side Appearance (baking) code. Also, the servers have the server side of the code now. This will allow the Lindens to start enabling the code in test regions in the main grid.

There is a Snack RC channel that supposedly has it enabled. But, that is unclear. We’ll likely hear more about this at the server meetings this week.

Dev Viewer

The Development Viewer is done. That channel is no longer updating. We will only see Beta and Project Viewer as the Viewer RC Pipeline rolls out, which will happen over the next 2 to 4 weeks, probably.

Second Life Mesh Rendering Problems

2013/05/17 by Nalates Urriah

Each week the blog Lette’s Trivia And Trivial Stuff publishes the week’s top support issues with the Firestorm viewer. Another issue is out. But, some issues are not limited to the Firestorm Viewer. One of those is mesh objects failing to render. Lette has written up an excellent section on the problem. She focuses on: … Read more

Second Life Viewer Release Changing

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

You probably know that the server updates come through 3 releases channels; Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum. This is sort of having 3 Beta versions running at the same time. It allows 3 different sets of code be tested at the same time. The best performing of the three gets promoted to the main channel.

The result is the server code update at a pretty fast pace. In fact so fast that several server updated features are waiting on the viewer to update.

SL Materials Viewer

2013/04/27 by Nalates Urriah

Friday a new version of the Materials Project Viewer was released: 3.5.1 (274847). I am away from home this weekend, so I won’t get to play with it until Monday. I have a link titled SL Materials Post QA that leads to the Alternate Viewers page where you can download a copy.

Second Life Viewers 2013-16

2013/04/19 by Nalates Urriah

We have new Beta and Development Viewer releases out. The current beta viewer is: 3.5.1 (274264) Beta. This one has some changes; Merge Sunshine Beta 2 crash fixes Bulk Delete on Unassociated Inventory results in Error message Bulk Delete does not work on Unassociated Inventory if listing exists Crash on shutdown in logMetricsTimerRecord() CLONE – … Read more

Second Life News 2013-14 #2

2013/04/05 by Nalates Urriah

The server updates seem to have gone pretty well. There are some good things and some bad things.

Region crossings are way better. A couple of sailors and pilots have commented in the Deploys thread about how much better things are.

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With this rollout the problem of some items simply not rendering has gotten worse. If one clicks on them they show up. So, the server has told the viewer they are there. But, for some reason the viewer is not rendering them. It seems the problem is showing up in Linden and third party viewers.