The following notes were taken from the Tuesday, November 21st 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 meeting is embedded at the end of this summary, my thanks as always to Pantera for recording the meeting and providing it.
Apologies for the lateness of this summary, RL is not playing nice at the moment.
Meeting Overview
- The Simulator User Group (also referred to by its older name of Server User Group) exists to provide an opportunity for discussion about simulator technology, bugs, and feature ideas.
- These meetings are conducted (as a rule):
- Every Tuesday at 12:00 noon SLT.
- In text (no Voice)
- At this location.
- They are open to anyone with a concern / interest in the above topics, and form one of a series of regular / semi-regular User Group meetings conducted by Linden Lab.
- Dates and times of all current meetings can be found on the Second Life Public Calendar, and descriptions of meetings are defined on the SL wiki.
Simulator Deployments
- No scheduled deployments for the week, due to this being Thanksgiving week in the US, and so a No Change window is in force. Simhosts are being restarted, however.
Upcoming Simulator Deployments
- The simulator support for glTF PBR Materials is expected to be deployed to the SLS Main channel on Tuesday, November 28th, making it grid-wide. Promotion of the glTF viewer is liable to occur in that week as well.
- The “Fall Colours” maintenance update will likely go to RC on Wednesday, December 6th, so it can be grid-wide by Christmas. This update will not include Leviathan Linden’s work on game controller support.
- The game controller work will now likely be included in the simulator update to follow “Fall Colours”, and which has been code-named “Gingerbread”. This will most likely be deployed in the first working week of January 2024, and will likely included the recent Feature Request to increase the available sensor counts (see: BUG-234648).
Viewer Updates
Four viewer updates at the start of the week:
- Maintenance X RC (usability improvements), updated to version 6855926535, November 21.
- Maintenance Y RC (My Outfits folder improvements; ability to remove entries from Landmark history), updated to version 6.6.17.6935642049, November 21.
- Maintenance-W RC viewer, version 6.6.17.6935636398, November 21.
- Maintenance V(ersatility) RC viewer, updated to version 6.6.17.6898288582, November 20.
Other viewers in the pipe remain as:
- Release viewer: Github Actions (GHA) RC viewer, version 6.6.16.6566955269, issued October 20 (with major CEF update and number version numbering) and promoted on October 25.
- Release channel cohorts:
- glTF / PBR Materials viewer, version 7.0.1.6894459864 November 17.
- Emoji RC viewer, version 6.6.15.581551, August 31.
- Project viewers:
- Puppetry project viewer, version 6.6.12.579958, May 11.
Game Controllers
- Note the changes to code deployment changes outlined above. The work was pulled from “Fall Colours” to allow for further internal review of the code by the Lab.
- Because of the need for further review, the code is not currently available on Aditi (the Beta grid). It is hoped the code will be re-deployed to some regions on Aditi in the week after US Thanksgiving.
- It was noted by Signal Linden that it would be nice to have an official project viewer available when the code starts being deployed to the Main grid.
In Brief
- Region Crossings:
- Monty Linden is continuing to work on the updates for physical and TP region crossings, but was not available to respond to questions at this meeting.
- However, it was suggested that, subject to his input, the update to the simulator code handling income teleports / regions crossings to a region might form a part of the “Gingerbread” simulator update.
- A discussion on support for expanding regex support with Linkset Data keys to support case insensitive searches (see : BUG-233678) and for case insensitive regex support in general. This is being actively pondered upon within the Lab.
- A further discussion on sensors and their potential uses, which also touched on the need for an “official” Area Search capability.
- Please refer to the video for these, and other sundry mentions / discussions.
† The header images included in these summaries are not intended to represent anything discussed at the meetings; they are simply here to avoid a repeated image of a rooftop of people every week. They are taken from my list of region visits, with a link to the post for those interested.
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