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Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.2.18 (current stable branch):

New in this release:

• Minor improvement to queue threads (was already implemnetd in v1.26.3.6).
• Changed the default cache sub-folder name to "cache_coolvlviewer" (under Linux) or "CoolVLViewer" (under Windows) so that the cache of the Cool VL Viewer is kept separate from the one of other viewers (prevents some issues between incompatible cache versions or format).
• Changed the name for the settings per account file from "settings_per_account.xml" to "settings_per_account_coolvlviewer.xml" to prevent the Cool VL Viewer additional settings from being erased when switching to another viewer not supporting them. NOTE: if you want to keep your per account settings (dealing with IMs, auto-replies, chat/IM highlighting, etc), you will want to copy your "settings_per_account.xml" to "settings_per_account_coolvlviewer.xml" in each of your avatar's logs folder.
• Added support for the "Cut" option of the inventory floater into the main menu bar Edit menu. See this message for details.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.3.7 (experimental branch with multi-layered clothes support):

Same changes as in v1.26.2.18 (see above), plus:

• Made the Appearance floater fully multi-layer clothing compatible (also prettified the panels with proper UI elements alignment). There is now a "Layer" spinner at the bottom left of the tabs dealing with clothing items, allowing to select which layer to edit.

Enjoy !

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.2.19 (current stable branch):

New in this release:

• Fixed a bug in RestrainedLove that prevented Physics wearables to be removed when invoking @remoutfit=force.
• Added a call to the garbage collector when pressing the Refresh button of the RestrainedLove Restrictions list floater to allow the elimination of any stale restriction associated with derezzed objects.
• Removed any mention to the Cool VL Viewer and its version in the message returned by the RestrainedLove @version command, so to comply fully with LL's updated TPV Policy (paragraph 2i)
• Fixed the unknown altitude code for the radar and changed the UnknownAvatarAltitude debug setting default value to 1020 (instead of 0 before), since it's now the altitude reported by SL servers for avatars above 1020m. Also corrected a typo in this setting name.
• Fixed the APR.cmake script for MacOS-X builds (was broken in v1.26.2.17).
• A couple more minor fixes (fix to a potential (though never seen) crash bug, and a fix for media on sites not advertizing a mime type).

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.3.8 (experimental branch with multi-layered clothes support):

Same changes as in v1.26.2.19 (see above), plus multi-layered clothing specific fixes:

• Fixed a bug in RestrainedLove that prevented all layers to be removed when invoking @remoutfit=force. See this thread for details.
• Fixed shapes changes sometimes failing to set some avatar parameters (especially after wearing a mesh avatar).
• Added three settings in the "Cool features" tab, "Miscellaneous" sub-tab of the "Preferences" floater to disable multi-layers on Physics, Shoes and Skirts (read the associated tooltip as to why multi-layers don't really make any sense for them).
• Added the possibility for teens to remove all but one layer of Underpants and Undershirts (removing all extra layers at once was not implemented in LL's code, while perfectly legal).
• Fixed the wrinkles in untextured (or semi-transparent) skins on the avatar face details that was broken during multi-layers backport (LL's code is broken in this respect and as been so since v2.0 was out...). Note that clothing wrinkles are however still broken (been broken for ages, including in v1.23 viewers).
• Code cleanup and improvements in the Appearance customize floater.

Enjoy !

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.2.20 (former stable branch without multi-layered clothes support):

New in this release:

• Added a new "Debug tags" feature and floater ("Advanced" -> "Consoles" ->"Debug tags") allowing to enable and disable debug log messages on the fly during the session. Note to developers: the tags database is to be refreshed each time you add, remove or change LL_DEBUGS in the code, via the new scripts/list-ll_debugs.pl script (to be ran from inside the source root (linden/) directory).
• Replaced the lldebugs with LL_DEBUGS everywhere in the code.
• Improved the OpenSim grids list edit tab in the preferences floater by adding a "Custom" grid name option and replacing the check box for grid nicknames with radio buttons.
• Updated the OpenSim grids list.
• Backported from v3 a fix to a memory leak in the mesh repository.
• Allow UI scale up to x1.5.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.0 (new stable branch with multi-layered clothes support):

Same changes as in v1.26.2.20 (see above), plus multi-layered clothing specific fixes:

• Fixed a bug that could cause multiple shapes to be worn and reworked the outfit Wear/Replace logic to be more robust.
• Prevented the sending of extraneous agent appearance update messages while an outfit is being changed.
• Cosmetic changes to the Appearance floater.

NOTE: v1.26.4 is the new stable branch. Users of v1.26.2 and former versions are encouraged to upgrade. If you don't want to have to redo all the configuration, you may copy your settings_coolvlviewer_126*.xml settings file to settings_coolvlviewer_1264.xml.
v1.26.2 will stay around for a while (at least till v1.26.5.0 is released) but will not get new features implemented (only bug fixes will go in it).
The now deprecated v1.26.0 has been retired.


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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

This is a hotfix for v1.26.3 and v1.26.4 users who are encouraged to update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.1 (stable branch with multi-layered clothes support):

• Fixed a bug (introduced in v1.26.3.7) that broke rebaking (CTRL ALT R) and caused a glitch in the rendering of semi-transparent clothes. See this thread for details.
• Made it so that when the MeshLoadHighLOD debug setting is TRUE, the mesh repository doesn't eat up CPU power for nothing (not that MeshLoadHighLOD is of any practical use any more, but still...).
• Added missing code to the "Debug tags" floater so that when reopened the active tags got their check box properly ticked.
• Fixed a typo in a tool tip of the OpenSim "Grids list" configuration panel and made the (build) "Grid options" floater a little smaller (removed the unused space in it).
• A couple minor changes in the code (no user visible change).

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Silly me... I used the bad source tree (an intermediate one) to compile v1.26.4.1 and as a result, one of the fixes (the fix to the glitch in the rendering of semi-transparent clothes described in this this thread) was not in the released binaries...

So, here you go: a hot fix to the hot fix with v1.26.4.2 released today...

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.3 (current stable branch with multi-layered clothes support):

New in this release:

• Fixed a bug in the "Preferences" floater, "Voice Chat" tab, "Device Settings" button & dialog that caused a crash when invoked while the viewer was disconnected from the grid.
• Fixed potential crash bugs in the LLAgentWearables class.
• Added support for syntax highlighting and tool tips in the script editor for OSSL functions and constants. Work courtesy of WhiteStar Magic.
• Disabled (hopefully temporarily) the "Copy and Wear" feature of the Open Object floater, since it always has been broken and the current fix experimented by LL on Aditi is still broken...
• Backport from v3 of a fix to the file picker (don't remember empty (NULL) selections).
• Backport from v3 of fixes to the LLXMLNode class.
• Updated the credits in the About floater.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.2.21 (former stable branch without multi-layered clothes support):

This is a catchup with the fixes implemented in the v1.26.4 branch:

• Made it so that when the MeshLoadHighLOD debug setting is TRUE, the mesh repository doesn't eat up CPU power for nothing (not that MeshLoadHighLOD is of any practical use any more, but still...).
• Added missing code to the "Debug tags" floater so that when reopened the active tags got their check box properly ticked.
• Fixed a typo in a tool tip of the OpenSim "Grids list" configuration panel and made the (build) "Grid options" floater a little smaller (removed the unused space in it).
• Fixed a bug in the Preferences floater, Voice chat tab, "Device Settings" button & dialog that caused a crash when invoked while the viewer was disconnected from the grid.
• Disabled (hopefully temporarily) the "Copy and Wear" feature of the Open Object floater, since it always has been broken and the current fix experimented by LL on Aditi is still broken...
• Backport from v3 of a fix to the file picker (don't remember empty (NULL) selections).
• Backport from v3 of fixes to the LLXMLNode class.

Enjoy !

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.4 (current stable branch with multi-layered clothes support):

New in this release:

• Fixed the "jumping when standing up" glitch. See this thread for details.
• Fixed a bug in voice support (introduced in v1.26.4.3) that prevented to initialize voice properly. See this thread for details.
• Fixed a crash bug in Picks and Classifieds creation/deletion (port from Singularity, fix by Shyotl Khur).
• Fixed a bug in RestrainedLove that prevented items held in "nostrip" folders to be protected from @remattach and @remoutfit.
• Added support for the RemoveInventoryObjects server message (backport from v3).
• Backport from v3.3 of a couple of fixes to the LLDrawable class.
• Added a new "no see" parcel icon matching the "new" (non-legacy) status bar icons style.
• Expanded the groups floater to add per-group check boxes for three group settings (visibility in profile, group chat and notices receival), as well as "Titles..." (opens the group titles floater) and "OK" (closes the floater) buttons. Code inspired from Singularity's.
• Added a "Usage policy" tab to the About floater, in which the Cool VL Viewer's usage policy is displayed.
• Various minor fixes and code changes.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.2.22 (former stable branch without multi-layered clothes support):

• Fixed a bug in voice support (introduced in v1.26.2.21) that prevented to initialize voice properly. See this thread for details.
• Fixed a crash bug in Picks and Classifieds creation/deletion (port from Singularity, fix by Shyotl Khur).
• Fixed a bug in RestrainedLove that prevented items held in "nostrip" folders to be protected from @remattach.
• Added support for the RemoveInventoryObjects server message (backport from v3).
• Backport from v3.3 of a couple of fixes to the LLDrawable class.
• Added a new "no see" parcel icon matching the "new" (non-legacy) status bar icons style.
• Various minor fixes and code changes.

Enjoy !

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

These are maintenance and bugfix releases: updating is recommended.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.2.23 (former stable branch without multi-layered clothes support):

• Changed the "Automatically switch to front camera view when sitting" feature to not switch to front camera while in mouse-look. Also fixed a bug in this feature that could cause the viewer to enter an infinite, recursive loop and crash on stack memory exhaustion when sitting on a device that forces mouse-look.
• Fixed a crash bug that could happen when copying an inventory item, deleting the original, purging the trash, then right-clicking on another inventory item or folder.
• Added minimal support for the "Received items" (new icon) and "Merchant Outbox" (new icon and protection against deletion) folders introduced by the Marketplace "direct delivery".
• Added a "Hide Empty System Folders" toggle to the "File" menu of the "Inventory" floater and backported the corresponding feature from v3.3.
• Backported from v3.3 a couple of fixes to the LLWorld class (dealing with coarse avatars' position updates and with water objects drawing).
• Some speed optimizations and a few minor code changes.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.5 (current stable branch with multi-layered clothes support):

Same changes as in v1.26.2.23 (see above), plus:

• Worked around an issue (introduced with the mesh deformer code but that was also occurring when mesh deformer was inactive), and that caused some rigged mesh items to "jump" up and down one frame every few frames. See this message for details.
• More speed optimizations.

Enjoy !

Here are two new releases of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

These are maintenance and bugfix releases: updating is recommended.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.2.24 (former stable branch without multi-layered clothes support)
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Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.6 (current stable branch with multi-layered clothes support):

New in these releases:

• Backported the APR and Curl glue code from the latest development viewer (v3.3.1), which should cure once and for all the APR and Curl related crash bugs.
• Fixed APR pool file handles leaks in the texture fetcher.
• RestrainedLove updated to v2.08.03.23. See the Changelog in RestrainedLoveReadme.txt for details.
• Changed the logging code (llinfos/llwarns/lldebugs/llerrs) so to avoid log spam (repeated messages are now only logged once with a count of the repeats appended to them).
• Fixed the "phantom avatar" issue on uploading animations. See this thread for details.
• Added a "GL finish" fast timer (this timer reflects exactly the time the viewer must wait for the graphic card to finish rendering the frame: if it's over 10ms, then you might seriously consider decreasing the graphics settings or changing your graphic card for a more powerful one).
• Added the missing check mark for the "Slow Motion Animations" advanced setting ("Advanced" -> "Character" -> "Slow Motion Animations").
• Some speed optimizations and a few minor code changes.

Enjoy !

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.7 (current stable branch with multi-layered clothes support):

New in this release:

• Implemented full support for the merchant outbox folder (with sending of items to the Marketplace). See this message for details.
• libcurl updated to v7.21.1 with SSL capability (was required for the merchant outbox).
• Made it so that when applied to speaking objects, the "profile" button in the active speakers panel opens the Object Info floater (instead of wrongly opening an unknown avatar profile floater).
• Backported from v3.3.2 a fix to a potential crash bug in the files upload code.
• Backported from v3.3.2 a fix to a failure to close the file saved by the "Appearance to XML" feature (in Advanced -> Character -> Character Tests).
• Widened the search input line in the "Members & Roles" tab of the "Group Information" floaters.

Enjoy !