1.8.6 - Release
posted Sep 4, 2014, 12:00 PM [ updated Sep 4, 2014, 2:24 PM ]
This release brings……
- Ability to select buttons displayed on the viewer’s bottom toolbar. (View -> Change toolbar buttons) (Lirusaito)
- Emergency teleport when region is about to restart (see prefs section) (Lirusaito)
- Enhanced region restart warnings from STORM-1980 (Jonathan Yap, Lirusaito)
- Portability Mode, have the viewer bring things like log, settings, cache, and chat logs along with it (Lirusaito)
- Install to a USB, use --portable arg, or use the provided shortcut as a template
- Settings are saved to a separate folder from the viewer, so don’t worry about removing the viewer folder when updating
- Graphics engine improvements (Shyotl)
- Experimental volume face batching changes, allow +~10% larger mean batch size
- Added adaptive vsync support (see prefs section)
- Fixed an issue where hud-attached prims would go missing after a teleport
- Fixed fitted mesh distortions that were caused by using more OpenGL uniforms than hardware supported
- Avoid problems when meshes with invalid joint names are encountered (Shyotl)
- Reduce load on hard disk when downloading meshes (Shyotl)
- Added Auto-replace text feature from upstream (Lirusaito)
- RLVa updates from upstream (RLV 2.8.0 RLVa 1.4.10) (Lirusaito/Kitty Barnett)
- Updated Voice SDK from Vivox to version 4.6 on Windows and Mac (Lirusaito, Latif)
- Menus on the region estate panel’s scroll lists (Lirusaito)
- Login panel no longer resets fields after a failed login attempt (Lirusaito)
- Mini-map enhancements (Lirusaito)
- From Kitty Barnett’s Catznip Viewer:
- Show parcels (Minimap menu: “Show” submenu: “Property Lines” & “Parcels for Sale”)
- Option to use world map textures: (Minimap menu: “World Map Textures”)
- Scroll zoom is now based on where your mouse is, if centering on camera is off
- Option to show tracking circles around people selected on the radar while the radar is visible (Minimap menu: “Show” submenu: “Radar Tracking Circles”)
- Marking on the minimap now changes custom coloring of avatar tags (per session)
- Multiple selection tool from Exodus:
- On mouseover, a circle is shown beneath your cursor, this is the effective range of right clicking to mark
- Change the range by holding Shift while scrolling
- Other menu functions invoked on right click still only work on the closest dot to your mouse
- From Kitty Barnett’s Catznip Viewer:
- Voice status column in radar, and other radar improvements (Lirusaito)
- Fix radar notification spam when an avatar leaves region boundaries but there’s no neighboring region for them to cross into (Sim Federal)
- Beacon enhancements (Jonathan Yap, Lirusaito)
- Blue and Red beams now denote height of tracked position
- Updated Qarl’s Alignment Tool (Lirusaito)
- Name System update (see prefs section) (Lirusaito)
- It is now possible to select how names are displayed on individual lists
- For instance, you can choose to display radar and friend list with a different combination of name / display name
- Added 4th option, in addition to only legacy name, only display name, display name (legacy name), now also legacy name (display name)
- Option to Copy SLURL for an avatar’s profile added to the pulldown menu for IMs (Lirusaito)
- Open external editor for viewing history on Mac (Cinder)
- Ability to be notified with a ding when a new message arrives in a group or conference chat (Lirusaito)
- Voice IMs now work on Opensim grids (Latif)
- Chatbar command “/regionsay msg" to do region-wide messages without needing to go through the region/estate floater for estate managers (Lirusaito)
- Fixed memory leaks in animation system (Aleric)
- Auto-syncing of couples animations (Aleric)
- Object Import/Export enhancements, including improvements from Cool VL Viewer (Lirusaito)
- This includes support for Materials (specular and normal maps), Object Physics and Light Image (Thanks to Henri Beauchamp for adding a bug fix to this)
- Made prim-torture limits standardized with other viewers (Lirusaito)
- Support for Xbox controllers, Ouya controllers, and Dual Shock controllers (using motioninjoy as Dual Shocks, this will support the six axes)
- Added support for Controller Keys, inspired by similar code and control-scheme by CtrlAltStudio Viewer (Lirusaito)
- A = Alt, B = Shift, X = Ctrl, Y = Escape
- Back = Toggle Flycam mode (fun!)
- Start = Toggle Cursor mode
- Right Stick Click = Toggle Mouselook
- Left Stick Click = Jump/Fly
- PS Logo = Sit (Specific to motioninjoy as PS controller)
- Avatar and object reload now re-fetches both textures, and materials (Shyotl)
- Display date not just time in Teleport History (Lirusaito)
- MAINT-3530: Add viewer checkbox to extend parcel entry limits to a higher ceiling (Lirusaito/Linden Lab)
- This option can be found in the Region/Estate floater
- Several Look At beacons improvements (see prefs section) (Lirusaito)
- Ability to remove saved login credentials (Lirusaito)
- Show how many scripts are actually running, and how many are mono, when doing a script count (Lirusaito)
- Prevent people from wearing their whole inventory (Aleric)
- Allow items that end up outside the main inventory and that cannot be interacted with to be moved to “Lost and Found” folder. Based on Kitty Barnett’s solution (Lirusaito)
- Merged group bans functionality from upstream (Lirusaito)
- Ban From Group option added to right click menus in avatar lists
- Status bar search now searches in all applicable tabs (Lirusaito)
- Spanish translation updates (Damian Zhaoying)
- French translation updates (Nomade Zhao)
- Changes to Preferences:
- System -> Security is now System ->Security & Privacy
- Emergency Teleport landmark drop targets. The viewer will attempt to teleport to these locations automatically 20 seconds before the region shuts down.
- Render muted avatars (Lirusaito)
- Announce in chat when people bump you (Lirusaito)
- Lines from avatar to their lookat beacons (Alchemy Viewer)
- Customizable name display for lookat beacons
- Input & Camera
- Azerty keyboard support (Lirusaito)
- Realistic Mouselook (Niran, Lirusaito, Alchemy Viewer)
- Adv. Chat -> Chat UI
- Format for names in lists
- Autoscroll for automatic scroll to the bottom of chat when it gains focus (Lirusaito)
- Graphics
- Hardware tab, VSync, adaptive (provided the driver supports it)
- Depth of Field tab added
- Vanity->Main, Connect to neighboring regions: Save bandwidth & CPU usage by not connecting to neighbouring regions (Lirusaito, Alchemy Viewer)
- System -> Security is now System ->Security & Privacy
- New/Changed Floaters:
- Destination Guide. For OpenSim allow the destination guide to change when hypergrid jumping (World->Destinations) (Lirusaito)
- Default Avatar Picker Floater (World->Default Avatars) (Lirusaito)
- Detailed Land Impact display from upstream (Lirusaito)
- New media filter implementation (Cinder)
- The default permissions floater has been overhauled, it now matches the one found in the LL Viewer where permissions for each individual type of item are offered (Lirusaito)
- New Debug Settings:
- LiruNewMessageSoundIMsOn: Enable ding by default on P2P IMs
- AutoresponseOnlyIfAway: Autorespond only sent when AFK/FakeAway (Lirusaito)
- LiruCrosshairColor: Mouselook crosshair color
- LiruHighlightNewInventory: prevent selection being changed on accepting new inventory.
- RightClickTurnsAvatar: (don’t) turn when right clicking on objects (Lirusaito)
- SFMapShowRegionPositions: Show region positions on the map (Sim Federal)
- LiruShowTransactionThreshold: Filter out low amount transaction notifications
A special thanks to the users who attended our first official meeting in-world; to those of you who couldn’t come or didn’t know, we promise the next one will be much better timing for people across the world and better advertised in advance. ~ Lirusaito
The Singularity development team would like to thank everyone who has helped make Singularity better by testing alphas, reporting bugs, and suggesting great features.