Day: August 7, 2024

2024 SL SUG meetings week #32 summary

Posted on by Inara Pey
Soulstone, July 2024 – blog post

The following notes were taken from the Tuesday,  August 6th, 2024 Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. They form a summary of the items discussed, and are not intended to be a full transcript, and were taken from my chat log. Pantera videoed the meeting, and the recording is embedded at the end of this piece – my thanks, as always, for her work.

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):
  • Meetings 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

  • The SLS Main channel was restarted on Tuesday, August 6th 2024.
  • On Wednesday, August 7th:
    • The BlueSteel RC is to be restarted.
    • The remaining RC channels should receive the Summer Fun simulator update, which includes the initial Combat 2 updates from Rider Linden.

Upcoming Releases

  • The is an internal discussion going on at the Lab as to the next simulator update. This may either be Picnic or the back-end WebRTC updates – with the most likely order being Picnic first, then WebRTC.

SL Viewer Updates

  • Release viewer: version 7.1.8.9375512768, formerly the Graphics Featurettes RC viewer dated June 5 and promoted June 10th.
  • Release channel cohorts (please see my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself).
    • WebRTC Voice RC, version 7.1.9.10084807842, July 26.
    • Atlasaurus RC (object take options; improved MOAP URL handling), version 7.1.9.9981869229, July 22.
    • Maintenance B RC (usability updates / imposter changes) 7.1.9.9555137545, June 21.
    • Maintenance C RC (reset skeleton in all viewers), version 7.1.9.9469671545, June 14.

Game Controller

  • As a reminder – Summer Fun includes the Game Controller updates from Leviathan Linden, but these have yet to reach a former viewer release.
  • Also, and just as a FYI for those trying the pre-release game control viewer:
    • If the viewer is used on a simulator without the back-end support (e.g. any simulator on the SLS Main channel after toWednesday, August 7th, and Tuesday, August, 13th), the viewer will be logged out in what might look like a crash.
    • This generally only happens the the GameControl option is enabled, but has also been reported on occasion even with the option disabled.

In Brief

  • A general and (theoretical) means of cleaning-up the viewer codebase, and the potential risks in doing so (e.g. apparently “unused” code removed or capabilities thought as no longer relevant resulting in content breakage.
  • The above extended into the use of APIs in the viewer as well, with encouragement for those with ideas for APIs to file them as feature requests (such as this feature request).
  • Rider confirmed that the promised facelift for the LL combat regions will focus on Concord, Lexington and No Man’s Land.
  • It’s been noted that outdated map tiles are still appearing on the World Map despite recent updates – apparently, the final updates to the map server have yet to be deployed, hence the delays in updates some might witness.
  • Please refer to the video below for further details.

† 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.