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Meeting Purpose
- The CCUG meeting is for discussion of work related to content creation in Second Life, including current and upcoming LL projects, and encompasses requests or comments from the community, together with related viewer development work.
- This meeting is generally held on alternate Thursdays at Hippotropolis and is held in a mix of Voice and text chat.
- Dates and times of meetings are recorded in the SL Public Calendar.
Official Viewer Status
- Default viewer – One-Click Installer = 26.1.1.23806384790 – April 10 – No change.
- Second Life Release Candidate (RC) viewer: Flat UI – 26.2.0.24254827122, April 15 -“flat” UI and font update.
- Second Life Lua Editor Alpha viewer 26.1.0.21525310258, February 12.
Viewer Notes
Viewer 2026.02
- 2026.02 remains the current Release Candidate viewer (next in line for promotion to release status).
- This viewer will likely have a further RC update prior to any promotion. This update should result in much sharper text rendering within the UI.
Viewer 2026.03
- LL are working on implementing “whatever performance wins that we can”.
- This includes “batching” changes – that is, taking multiple objects within a scene and rendering them in a single pass, rather than multiple passes.
- This work was initially undertaken for what is called the “simple draw pool”, which had batching logic added some time ago, but the work was never extended to the Blinn-Phong or PBR draw pools, and this is now being done.
- The hope is that this change should help lower specification computers render scenes more comfortably.
General Viewer Notes
- Work is currently stalled on the Graphics Care Package (GCP) viewer given the focus on performance improvements for 2026.03. However, work should resume on the graphic improvements and updates for this viewer soon.
- Given the above, it is still anticipated that the Lua Editor viewer (which is currently available as a project viewer) will go to RC status and then release ahead of the GCP viewer.
WebRTC Deployment
- The current deployment of WebRTC has hit a few bumps, but the Lab is hopefully the deployment will be completed in “the next two weeks”, and certainly before SL23B.
- The lack of voice attenuation over distances less than 60 metres (allowing personal conversations to be heard over a large distance) will likely not be addressed prior to WebRTC deployment is complete, and will be looked at afterwards – although it was also noted that attenuation under WebRTC will be different to Vivox.
General Discussions
- Question: will there will be further updates to Animesh, particularly with regards to having to click on them without having to put a transparent prim around them for interactions?
- Short answer: the need to click is intentional, and currently, there is no work on Animesh any time soon.
- Question: will the one-click installer process also be applied to alpha and beta/release candidate viewers, or will these have their own install options?
- LL is looking at “future options to make opting-in to alphas and betas have a lot less friction”, but discussions a re ongoing and not ready to be announced.
- Alpha and beta/release candidate viewers will retain their own cohorts within github, allowing people who opt to use them from the Alternate Viewers page to continue to be opted-in to updates to those viewers as they are made available.
- The ability to select and download a viewer from the Alternate Viewers page will continue.
- Aside from general text chat on matters such as Animesh (between users) and on Fantasy Faire, this was a quiet meeting, and as such was brought to a close after some 30 minutes.
Next Meeting
- 13:00 SLT, Thursday, May 7th, 2026, at the Hippotropolis Campsite.
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