I would like to report my progress on the issue regarding attachments occasionally ending up where the sun doesn't shine.
This was an interesting problem to solve. I started last weekend and with the assistance of two helpful residents I was quickly able to pinpoint a location in the source code which seemed crucial to these incidents. The hard part was to understand the details around these occurrences, because I could not look at the program myself (in the debugger), but had to poke around in log files instead. This took a while, but it was fun too.
It was a true CSi Nicholaz operation, collecting tiny bits of information and putting the pieces together in order to get a bigger picture. I'm 99% there and in fact there are two different ways in which this happens (post teleport and when changing attachments), but I am now quite sure that I can fix them both. In fact I believe I already fixed them both, the fix just needs a bit of testing.
Bottom line is that the times of sore butts should be over soon, well ... at least for those who do not attach prims to their avatar's center intentionally :-)
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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Wow if that works, some people will be very thankful ;)
Great Work!
I'm deeply impressed, and very grateful. A true Nicholaz again. I'm only sorry I couldn't contribute, but since installing u3, I have had no ass-tachment occurences. The expectation of seeing them gone once and for all however is a dream come true :)
What about those very rare incidents, when one of your attachments (usually a shoe) stays locked in space while you move around?
I'm sure it will work ... just had someone new try it ... he was wearing big horns which ought to hurt if -err- misplaced but he said it didn't happen again :-)
Peter, yes ... the floating semi orphaned attachments are also fixed (I could even reproduce these today in Ahern).
Now I know what you have been doing, I knew it had something to do with covering your ass.
~LOL~
Great work again friend.
BTW: a question or another problem we all deal with and one just maybe it can be dealt with in the client without LL making a change. Shutting of Group IMs. I hate being spammed or listening to BS chit chat, yet don't want to leave a group. Is there a way to add a mute field? I reference the following article and certainly hope I did not miss a feature you already provide. http://slartblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/founder-of-largerst-sl-art-group-says.html
Thanks again for all your work.
w00t, you rock! :D
No more shaving to get the hairy ass smooth again! .P
omg. unbelievable. you truly are a miracle worker wonder wizard man. one of my best friends (an amazing builder) refuses to wear *any* prim clothing just for this reason.
Astonishing, superb.
I shall tip my hat off my head ( as opposed to my butt ) when I see you pass.
you are my hero.... hair is more or less, some people are wearing tails anyway... but wearing arms can really be nasty.
It's difficult to imagine how weird dreadlocks can look, once attached to someone's arse.
Thanks so much, nic, for improving my rastafarian selond life experience :D
Any idea what it means that Corey is no longer with Linden Labs? :-/ That news sounds rather disturbing to me ...
LOL Tillie, I already had a saved (not published) draft on the blog when you asked :-)
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