I have a version which is high on JIRA votes. As mentioned recently, I did attempt to fix the avatar attachments and as far as I can tell I have succeeded. It took a bit of time for testing, so I also looked into two other issues with high votes.
Here is the deal:
- VWR-374: Worn prims moving themselves where the sun doesn't shine should now be a issue of the past, as well as orphaned attachments (copies hovering in mid air away from the avatar). Special thanks here goes to Ollipeist Balogh and Flaran Rau for their assistance and time invested.
- VWR-333: The message about gestures not loading which sometimes shows when you log in will now try to determine which gesture it is about, so that you can search and edit/reactivate that gesture, which does fix the problem in most cases (at least it did that here on my avatar once I knew which ones were causing the message).
- MISC-64: Group IMs can now be turned off. This feature is a bit hackish and not as nice as you might want it, but it does the job and should alleviate the pain until someone decides to thoroughly address it (which requires server side changes). To mute group IMs, go to the debug settings (ctrl+alt+s) and look for _Nicholaz.Chat_IgnoreIMFromGroups. There you can either mute all group IMs by entering an asterisk (*) in the field, or you can enter a list of kill-words separated by semicolons (e.g. Nicholaz Edition;Fashion;XYZ Clothes Store). If any of the words or terms is found in the group title, the chat IMs from that group will be suppressed.
I'll call this first release experimental (named BE-v0b), so it is intended for early adopters, but I am fairly confident that this viewer will work well (besides the server side problems and lag which currently plague the grid).
There are also two other changes by Henri Beauchamp and Mm Alder (see the change log).
Source code is also there, but please note the change in the source license. I am now offering the changes as GPL 2.0, which is the same license as the Linden open source.
You will find the download in the experimental folder on my server (please note that the viewer is based on the currently official 1.18.5.3 and that we have five xml files now).
Please post problems or feedback here as comments (especially the group IM part could use some testing).
In case of serious problems, you can just go back and install BE-u.
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Immediate crash for me when opening the chat history window, at least when using Ctrl-H
scott: sorry, stupid fault on my side. but it's already fixed, please download again.
I posted to both the Architecture+ Blog http://jeanricardbroek-architect.blogspot.com/
and the new ~wOOt~ mini-blog
http://jeanricard.tumblr.com/
the following:
Nicholaz is Back ~w00t~
If you don't know about The Niholaz Viewers, or Nicho well, know one thing “ Second Life - Best of the Best Awards” go not only to builders, photographers and artists.
We have been dealing with ass-tachments for so long its almost hard to believe you solved it.
Now we just need our shapes to load right :)) https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1620
I'm starting to feel you are the only one who has even a *slight* chance of working that one out
Never mind, I'm just too tired to read right now... Heh. :)
Funk, I'm aware of that issue and it already tickled my interest. But it seems a lot harder to fix (although easy to reproduce) because I have no idea how the avatar shaping works. Let's say it's on my radar...
FWIW, finding a crack to insert a lever to the ass-tachment problem was relatively easy. I just took some time to look at it from every possible angle, which was a bit cumbersome through user logs.
no bugs that I have seen. Looks great so far!
Seems like prim attachments load faster too. It may be because its 437am for me and I didn't see many people on, but I have seen no issues.
Great release Nicholaz.
I just wish you were a graphics coding guru and could figure out why windlight fails to use any shaders for me on my DX 10.1 shader compliant Radeon HD 3870 card... ^_^
Or why renderglow fails for me in both versions...
But You've been fixing all my none graphical issues since 17A ^_^
It would be good to improve the stream player in SL. Winamp plays most streams seamlessly while SL stops music during lag spikes or packet loss. Sometimes during live events i have to load them into my Winamp because SL cannot completely play music there.
Hey thanks for the work, again, Nicholaz,
Although i am not releasing direct builds of your viewer as i was a few months ago (due to time restrictions) I am using a good percentage of the patches in the Debian packaging effort. I am paying particular attention to bug/crash and leak fixes (which i have just applied to 1.18.6.1), so its kind of half a Nicholaz version :-)
You can at last apt-get a secondlife! on Debian Linux (and its pretty stable)
If anyone is interested the 1/2 a Nicholaz version can be found in an apt repository, details at :- http://www.byteme.org.uk/secondlife-amd64/apt-get-a-secondlife.html
32-bit and 64-bit builds.
Many thanks for your continued effort!
also forgot to mention that some of the avatars have buggy eyes popped out like here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAZM4DKjmTQ&feature=related
Ok, me being a full-prim avatar most of the time (and banging on prims to make prim avatars to sell at Grendel's), this was far too sweet to read :)
The mac build of the BE-v version is at:
http://radio-boomslang.shacknet.nu/~bb/archives/2007/12/13/index.html#e2007-12-13T16_59_23.txt
and so far it looks fine - no weirdnesses to report and no asstachments, either.
Thank you! As a very 'attachment heavy' furry, you have no idea what a blessing it is to have the ass-tachments fixed!
Thank you Nicholaz! My hero!
Thanks everybody for the feedback. I guess I'll make it an official release over the weekend.
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