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

Not much going on in SL on the viewers front, but here is a minor update for the end of this year.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.5 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Fixed a bug in the SSE2-optimized CPU skinning code, that caused distorted rigged meshes when the skinning shaders were disabled (only useful to systems with very old GPU that cannot do shader-based skinning). Note that CPU-side rigged mesh skinning still suffers from bad lighting/missing shading anyway (this is the case in all viewers). Added a proper tool tip and renamed the corresponding "Hardware skinning shader" check box to a more meaningful (*) "Rigged mesh skinning shader" in the graphics preferences. (*) The CPU is no less "hardware" than the GPU and both do use software to do the skinning operations...
• Added new Lua function and callback to allow picking inventory items via the items picker floater. See the Lua scripting documentation for details.
• Backported from LL's viewer-eep minor changes to EEP lighting parameters (not used in the Cool VL Viewer for now, since EEP shaders are not implemented).
• Linux only: updated jemalloc to the latest git version.
• Minor code cleanup and speed optimizations.

Enjoy !

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

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.6 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash at viewer disconnection on old and slow hardware due to a race-condition.
• Backported from LL's viewer-serval a fix to a crash seen when an edited scripted object moves to another region.
• Backported from LL's viewer-serval a fix to attached lights muting when beyond draw distance.
• Backported from LL's viewer-dev a fix to "the water normal map does not consistently render" when parcel environment is enabled.
• Updated FMOD Studio to v2.00.07.
• Linux only: updated jemalloc to the latest git version.
• Minor code cleanup.

Enjoy !

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

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.7 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Fixed the bug that caused the "About land" data to fail loading on first opening of the floater while standing in the parcel where you logged in.
• Fixed the bug that caused Restrained Love commands to stay queued forever and never fire up in OpenSIM when "OSUseCOF" was set to FALSE.
• By popular demand (one user), backported from Firestorm the "hit boxes" displaying feature. The toggle is in "Advanced" -> "Rendering" -> "Info displays" -> "Hit boxes".
• Backported from LL's viewer-dev a fix to day settings duration comparisons.
• Backported from LL's viewer "add ability to do deep HTTP debug dumping on a per policy basis".
• Linux only: updated jemalloc to the latest git version.
• Minor code cleanup and optimizations.

Enjoy !

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

This is a bugfix release and a recommended update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.8 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Fixed a crash bug that occurred whenever an edited script in an in-world object failed to get saved (e.g. when the server associated with the save script capability is unreachable, for whatever reason).
• Fixed a rare crash bug (I saw happening only once) in LLCullResult::pushDrawInfo().
• Minor code cleanup.

Enjoy !

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

This is a bugfix release and a recommended update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.9 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Plugged two potential crash bug cases.
• Fixed a race condition in the Snapshot floater, that could cause the "Save" button to get disabled on floater opening, in "Save to your hard drive" mode.
• Added a hack for AZERTY PC keyboards, allowing to alias shortcuts using the key below the ESC one ('`' for QWERTY keyboards and '²' for AZERTY ones). E.g. the "Snapshot to disk" action can now be triggered with CTRL+² on AZERTY keyboards.
• Linux only: recompiled the Vorbis pre-built library without "-ffast-math" (and using "-fno-math-errno -fno-trapping-math" instead) to prevent viewer link failures against glibc v2.31, due to missing __*_finite() symbols in the latter.
• Linux only: updated jemalloc to the latest git version.
• Minor code cleanup.

Enjoy !

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

This is a bugfix release and a recommended update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.10 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Backported from LL's viewer-eep a fix to "viewer is crashed after clicking the 'Forget' button on the Experience profile after the llSetAgentEnvironment() was used".
• Backported from LL's viewer-eep a rendering fix to "Moon was using fixed color".
• Backported from LL's viewer-DRTVWR-500 branch a rendering fix to "lights not working in some cases".
• Backported from LL's viewer an improvement to the model upload floater error reporting.
• Backported from LL's viewer-DRTVWR-481 branch the new "benefits" code changes, and made them OpenSim-compatible.
• Code cleanup.

Enjoy !

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

This is a bugfix release and a recommended update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.11 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Backported from LL's viewer-eep a fix to "viewer crash when looking at the Sun setup with media texture and playing parcel media".
• Backported from LL's viewer various improvements (cleanup and model rendering speed up) to the model upload floater.
• Fixed broken caching of small textures, and made it so that when a texture is already cached at a high level of detail, it cannot be overwritten with a subsequently loaded lower detail version.
• Added a new "SkipCachedTerrainTextures" debug setting (defaulting to TRUE) to allow skipping the cache data for terrain textures that often get corrupted. This should fix the last cases of non-loading mini-map terrain textures composites that would otherwise require to clear the cache to fix them.
• Updated various hard-coded URLs for Second Life web pages to speed up their loading (since the old URLs caused redirections to the new pages).
• Updated FMOD Studio to v2.00.08.
• Linux only: added support for gcc v9.3.0 and clang v10.0.0 (tested with RC3).
• Linux only: added a --zap option to the buildlinux.sh script to clean up the source tree.
• Linux only: changed and recompiled Dullahan (still with CEF 74 since it is the last properly working version) to prepare the migration to SDL2.
• Linux only: recompiled the libSDL pre-built library (pre-compiled package renamed).
• Linux only: updated jemalloc to the latest git version.
• Code cleanup. In particular, the (unused) EEP shaders/rendering stuff has been removed (it will be the object of the next experimental branch).

Enjoy !

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

This is a bugfix release and a recommended update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.12 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Improved the login parameters processing and fixed a bug in it that prevented to extract the new "user account benefits" data in SL. Account benefits are now fully supported/used.
• Linux only: updated jemalloc to the latest git version (with a potential crash bug fix in low memory conditions).
• Code cleanup.

Enjoy !

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

This is a bugfix release.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.13 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Fixed the bug that prevented to send the auto-reply message when "Open new IM session as soon as someone starts typing to you" is enabled. See this message for details.
• Detect and correct negative time deltas in playing animations (which may happen sometimes, and caused weird animation glitches).
• Detect and correct negative time deltas in watchdog (though Linux and Windows should now not see them happening, macOS builds might still benefit from it).
• Linux only: use a clock ticks count that is not affected by ntp and user-triggered system time changes.
• Code cleanup.

Enjoy !

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

This is mainly a bugfix release and a recommended update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.24.14 (stable branch):

New in this release:

• Fixed a race condition bug that could cause terrain textures to fail loading at login time. See this thread for details.
• Fixed an infinite loop bug in LLFloaterAvatarTextures::getTextureIds() that could get triggered on Lua OnAgentBaked() callback invocation.
• Fixed a bug in Lua AddMute(). Expanded IsAgentFriend() to accept legacy names in excess of agent Ids. Added a new CloseIMSession() Lua function. See the Lua scripting documentation for full details.
• Added to the script editor a new "Edit raw script text" action/entry in the "File" menu, to allow bypassing the automatic de-pre-processing that happens when the script is loaded in the editor. See this message for a use case for this new feature.
• Added to the script editor the syntax highlighting and tool tips for the new LSL llTargetedEmail() function and associated constants.
• Updated FMOD Studio to v2.01.00, and added the FMOD logo to the login screen (it is unclear whether this is actually required or not since the FMOD Studio license file contradicts Firelight's web site on this subject, or more exactly, does not mention any mandatory logo).
• Linux only: updated the OpenSSL pre-built library to v1.0.2u and recompiled a bunch of associated library packages. Updated the new libcurl to v7.68 (but still using the old, patched libcurl v7.47 by default, since all newer versions got HTTP pipelining bugs) and nghttp2 to v1.40.
• Linux only: fixed compilation of the viewer 64 bits builds when compiling llcommon as a shared library.
• Linux only: fixed the compilation against system libraries when done on a distribution with OpenSSL v1.1 and/or newer glib versions.
• Linux only: updated jemalloc to the latest git version.
• Code cleanup (with removal of dead/unused code) and minor optimizations.

Enjoy !