Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Another third party Viewer meeting and some more interesting news.
The Lindens have promoted the Maintenance RC viewer to the main release. That makes the main viewer 3.6.7-281793. You can see the release notes here.
This release has improvements for avatar render speed and other fixes and improvements. Most notable are:
Ouch! I just saw where Gaia Clary, mover and shaker of Machinimatrix.org, has just posted how Avastar® is being changed to be an OpenSim focused tool rather than a Second Life™ focused tool. I think that strongly suggests how Gaia sees things going in the future.
Cloud Party is advancing. New stuff is being added. There is a video out that shows a hover-bike in operation. Looks fun.
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I still think vehicles in Cloud Party, Second Life, and OpenSim are lame. But, they can be fun.
This update is for 3D viewers. It is not an update for Oculus users. Version labeled 1.1 as a series for Oculus users.
You can install this version over immediately previous 1.0 version series, notice that is just the immediately previous version. Otherwise you need to do a clean install.
The viewer omits the Havok® library used for Pathfinding editing of the Navmesh. So, this viewer is usable on OpenSim grids.
You need NVIDIA’s 3D Vision with driver 314.07 or later installed and setup to get 3D. This is a shutter glasses 3D setup. Nvidia 250, Quadro, AMD HD 600, and better cards should be capable of running the viewer in 3D mode. But, you will need a monitor capable of 120hz operation and of course the shutter glasses.
You will also need to run the viewer Full Screen.
Be clear. This 3D viewer does not support anaglyph 3D.
This version is based on Firestorm 4.4.2 code.
There is a Mac OSX version and Mac OSX installer thanks to Cinder Roxley.
Download: Stereoscopic CtrlAltStudio Viewer.
Lette Ponnier has an article up on a bug I haven’t seen. See: Editing Shape Shoves Your Avatar Into the Floor.
The link text pretty much says it. You edit your appearance and suddenly sink into the ground. If this has bit you or you are just curious, follow the link.
There was no roll out to the main channel this morning. All the RC channels were running the same version as the main channel.
There is a new maintenance package that will roll to the RC channels Wednesday. All three get the same package.
The package has a fix for a problem with group notice delivery to large groups. I’m not sure which delivery problem this is. Just delivery is supposed to be better…
A new option JSON_DELETE has been added to llJsonSetValue(), for deleting elements in JSON strings.
Also there is code for a more correct sort order of objects and texture loading during scene load. This is server side code that will support a viewer side change.