The following notes were taken from the Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. They form a summary of the items discussed and is not intended to be a full transcript. A video of the entire meeting is embedded at the end of the article for those wishing to review the meeting in full – my thanks to Pantera for recording it.
Server Deployments
Please see the forum deployment thread for the latest updates.
- On Tuesday, October 18th, the Main SLS and Events channels were updated with server release 575585.
- This release should contain two new functions llGetObjectLinkKey (specified under llGetLinkKey) and llSHA256String.
- In addition, a slight change to the simulator code may help with the issue of people’s on-line / off-line status not being properly reported. It is not an actual fix for the problem, but LL would like feedback as to whether people are seeing an improvement. See : BUG-232037 for more information on the issue.
- On Wednesday, October 19th, the simhosts on the RC channels will be restarted but remain on simulator release 575585.
Available Official Viewers
- Release viewer: version 6.6.4.575022 – hotfix for Crash at ~LLModalDialog() – promoted September 15 – no change.
- Release channel cohorts (please see my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself).
- Maintenance 3 RC viewer, version 6.6.5.575257, September 23.
- Maintenance P (Preferences, Position and Paste) RC viewer version 6.6.5.575055 September 19.
- Project viewers:
- Puppetry project viewer, version 6.6.3.575529, October 12.
- Performance Floater / Auto-FPS project viewer, version 6.6.5.575378, October 4.
- Love Me Render (LMR) 6 graphics improvements project viewer 6.6.2.573263, July 21.
Local KVP / “Linkset Data”
From the server deployment thread:
We have a new feature build on Aditi for a new feature called Linkset Data. This feature works similarly to Experience Key-Value store, but the data lives with the object that sends and receives the data. Only scripts in the same linkset will be able to read the data written with this feature. For more details, see the in-progress wiki pages https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Linkset_Data. You can try out the new LSL functions related to this feature at the following Aditi Mainland regions:
Blake Sea – Arabian ; Blake Sea – Atlantic ; Blake Sea – Beagle ; Blake Sea – Binnacle ; Blake Sea – Black ; Gothlauth ; Jigglypuff ; Mauve ; Moonberry ; Sapas ; Smithereens
We’re looking for feedback on this new feature including bugs and input on anything that might be missing or not work the way you’d expect. Please file a BUG Jira in all of those cases
This work is currently with the Lab’s QA team, and if cleared, could be a part of an RC channel deployment in week #43 (commencing Monday, October 24th, 2022.
These upcoming release sparked a conversation on data storage and access – please refer to the video for details.
In Brief
- BUG-232037 “Avatar Online / Offline Status Not Correctly Updating” – LL believe that have a “handle” on the where the issue is originating, but there has been no time to take a deep dive into the actual cause as yet.
- Further discussion on making multi-region crossings by vehicle more robust.
- A general discussion on lighting.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 