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Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-09-16 11:59:08 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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

These are emergency bug-fix releases that cure a bad HTTP fetching bug introduced in the latest releases. All users of last Saturday's releases should update.

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.92 (legacy stable branch with v2.6 renderer and server-side baking support):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.28 (current stable branch with v3.5 renderer and server-side baking support):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.28 (experimental branch with server-side baking, mesh deformer and materials support):

New in these releases:
  • Fixed a bug introduced in last Saturday's releases that caused failures to download large (3-chunks or more) HTTP data and which especially badly impacted meshes; I shall watch closer to stupid constant strings changes in the future (in this particular case, a string used for HTTP request headers was not changed as it should have been during a backport, causing a real mess)...
  • Fixed a bug re-introduced in last Saturday's releases during the texture fetcher improvements backport (it's a bug which exists in LL's viewers and was fixed by me a long time ago in the Cool VL Viewer), that could cause blurry textures.
  • Fixed a couple other minor bugs.
  • Backported a couple more minor optimizations from LL's viewer-bear.
  • Minor code cleanup, improvements and optimizations.


Enjoy ! :D

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-09-21 17:00:13 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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

Since annoying bugs have been fixed, updating to them is recommended.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.93 (legacy stable branch with v2.6 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):

New in this release:
  • Various more fixes to HTTP and texture fetching backported from viewer-bear and viewer-sunshine (should solve some more blurry textures issues).
  • More crash fixes to mesh models upload backported from viewer-bear.
  • Backported from viewer-bear a couple of fixes to potential crash bugs in the flexible objects code path.
  • Backported from viewer-bear a fix to a potential crash bug in the spatial partition code.
  • Backported from viewer-bear some improvements to mesh data download failure recovery code.
  • Added highlighting support in the script editor for the new PSYS_PART_RIBBON_MASK, PSYS_PART_BLEND_*, PSYS_PART_*_GLOW and PSYS_PART_BF_* LSL constants.
  • Various other minor fixes and optimizations, as well as some code cleanup.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.29 (current stable branch with v3.5 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):

Same changes as in v1.26.4.93, plus:
  • Backported from viewer-bear speed optimizations to the shaders management code.
  • Backported from viewer-bear a couple GL core profile compatibility/compliance fixes (might improve compatibility with some problematic graphics drivers).


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.29 (experimental branch with the v3.6 renderer (materials support) and mesh deformer support in both OpenSim and SL):

Same changes as in v1.26.8.29, plus:
  • Implemented ribbon particles support (backport from LL's viewer-bear). Note that this feature is still highly experimental and currently causes a render glitch on alpha-particles (their transparent parts sometimes "flash" bright white), thus the reason why it's not yet backported to v1.26.8.


Please, note that from now on, the v1.26.4 branch is feature-frozen (i.e. no new feature will make its way in it) and while it will be kept maintained for a bit with bug fixes and any mandatory protocol changes, updates will no more occur on a weekly basis; this (now quite aged: almost 2 years old !) branch will be declared deprecated and will be retired by the end of this year.

Enjoy ! :D

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-09-28 10:47:02 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.30 (stable branch with v3.5 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.30 (experimental branch with the v3.6 renderer (materials support) and mesh deformer support in both OpenSim and SL):

New in these releases:
  • Implemented a status bar clock switching function: by clicking on the clock display in the status bar, you can now switch it between SLT, UTC and local time zones.
  • Now using the legacy llfile code for file streaming functions, since LL's v3 code fails to properly flush output streams (this broke the advanced XUI menu "save as XML" features). Note that the legacy code was already used for Windows builds (because the new code caused weird linking time conflicts with the HACD library), so this change only affects builds for the other platforms.
  • Improved the web login page displaying algorithm to work around web servers misconfiguration (one such misconfiguration occurred on last Thursday in SL, for the legacy login page).
  • Fixed a bug that caused a failure to immediately save the outfit (in the COF and in the outfit.xml file) after a "Save As" action on a wearable in the customize Appearance floater.
  • Backported particles rendering glitches fixes to v1.26.9.30 from LL's viewer-bear and backported the ribbon particles support from v1.26.9.30 to v1.26.8.30.
  • Got fully rid of LL's silly "BOOL" type use in the "llui" library and most "newview" UI element classes in favour of the C++ native "bool" type (this saves 3 bytes per boolean variable since "BOOL" is actually a 32bits integer (a weird, not to say a very stupid choice !!!) instead of a 8bits integer for "bool"; because each UI element contains dozens of such variables and each inventory item is associated with an UI element, this saves mega-bytes of memory for large inventories: around 10Mb saved for only 15000 items in my inventory). Note that the "BOOL" eradication from the Cool VL Viewer started a long time ago (it's part of those "various minor optimizations and code cleanup" items you can see in each release notes) and will continue (yes, I'm going to commit a BOOL genocide !).
  • FMOD Ex updated to v4.44.21.
  • Various other minor fixes and optimizations, as well as some code cleanup.
  • Added the Zandramas grid to the OpenSim default grids list.


Enjoy ! :D

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-10-05 10:27:19 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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

Not much work done, this week, but it was also a zero-commit week on LL's viewers side...


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.31 (stable branch with v3.5 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.31 (experimental branch with the v3.6 renderer (materials support) and mesh deformer support in both OpenSim and SL):

New in these releases:
  • Fixed the issue with particles not staying muted after a TP or a relog, when the mute was done on the object rather than on its owner.
  • Fixed the "RenderResolutionDivisor" bug. See this thread for details.
  • Fixed a minor bug that was causing many warnings to be issued when editing objects (that bug also affects all other viewers: it is due to an improper message template definition for a boolean that is wrongly flagged as an unsigned byte).
  • Backported from LL's viewer bear a speed optimization (bringing 2% better fps or so on my system) to LLVolumeFace (merging of positions, texture coords and normals buffers and SSE2 operations performed on them).
  • Various other minor fixes and optimizations, as well as some code cleanup.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.94 (legacy stable branch with v2.6 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):

  • This is a catchup with all the bug fixes and some of the improvements that went into v1.26.8 since v1.26.4.93 was released.


Enjoy ! :D

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-10-12 14:19:22 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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

Since Lindens seem (if judging from the public code repositories) to have been kept into a deep slumber during the past two weeks (only to wake up (shortly) last night, CEST time), I have mainly been concentrating on improving OpenSim compatibility for these releases...


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.32 (stable branch with v3.5 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):

New in this release:
  • Implemented, per-sim web map URLs support for OpenSim grids (the Cool VL viewer used to take OpenSim grids' custom web map server URL into account only on login, when specified by the grid; it now also takes into account any map server URL passed on region change, which should cover the case of cross-grid TPs).
  • Implemented web-based search support for OpenSim grids providing it (for the latter, the "All (Web)" tab is present and functional in the "Search" floater). So far, this was seen and tested by me on the Speculoos grid.
  • Implemented variable Whisper/Chat/Shout ranges for OpenSim grids (for now only relevant to the radar, in which the avatar names are coloured depending on these ranges). So far, this was seen and tested by me on OSGrid.
  • Implemented support for "god" names list in the mute list in OpenSim when the grid provides such a list (allows to avoid muting gods, whose names may be anything in OpenSim, unlike in SL where any god's family name is "Linden"). Code inspired from Singularity's.
  • Added the new JSON_DELETE LSL constant to the script editor highlighting and tool tips.
  • Backported a memory leak fix from Firestorm (fix by Nicky).
  • Backported a fix to avatar rendering from LL's viewer-bear.
  • FMOD Ex updated to v4.44.22.
  • A few minor fixes and optimizations, as well as some code cleanup.
  • Removed the (apparently dead/gone) Gay Nations grid from the OpenSim default grids list.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.32 (experimental branch with the v3.6 renderer (materials support) and mesh deformer support in both OpenSim and SL):

Same changes as in v1.26.8.32, plus:

  • One small fix to the materials render pipeline backported from LL's viewer-bear.


Enjoy ! :D

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-10-12 22:21:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

ARGHH !!! There's a major bug in v1.26.8.32 and v1.26.9.32: I took down the binaries; fixed releases (v1.26.8.33 and v1.26.9.33) will be published in a couple of hours. Please, revert to a former release in the mean time.

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-10-12 23:58:04 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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

Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.33 (current stable branch with v3.5 renderer and server-side baking support):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.33 (experimental branch with server-side baking, mesh deformer and materials support):

These are emergency bug-fix releases that cure a stupid (last minute change) bug introduced in the latest releases. All users of v1.26.8.32 and v1.26.9.32 must update !

Sorry for any inconvenience...

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-10-19 12:35:46 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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

Still nothing new on LL's repositories front, so here are just bug fix releases...


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.34 (stable branch with v3.5 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.34 (experimental branch with the v3.6 renderer (materials support) and mesh deformer support in both OpenSim and SL):

New in these releases:
  • Backported a fix to a crash bug (mainly impacting newest ATI's drivers) and potential memory leak from LL's viewer-bear.
  • Backported couple more minor fixes from LL's viewer-bear.
  • Plugged a few potential crash-bugs (even if, AFAIK, never encountered/reported for now).
  • Backported a couple of bug fixes from Firestorm and a couple more from Singularity.
  • FMOD Ex updated to v4.44.23.
  • Various other minor fixes and optimizations.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.95 (legacy stable branch with v2.6 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):

  • This is a catchup with all the bug fixes and some of the improvements (mainly those dealing with OpenSIM protocol changes) that went into v1.26.8 since v1.26.4.94 was released.


Enjoy ! :D

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-10-26 14:18:16 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.35 (stable branch with v3.5 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.35 (experimental branch with the v3.6 renderer (materials support) and mesh deformer support in both OpenSim and SL):

New in these releases:
  • Improved the texture discard level updating algorithm for faster release of unused textures memory.
  • Implemented provisional support for the new Export permission flag in OpenSim (largely inspired from Singularity's implementation). Note that, for now, this permission doesn't seem supported by any grid (none of the ones I visited have it) and its current implementation seems a bit flacky to me (it should not be a "Everyone" permission, but a "Next owner" permission instead), so it might change in the future...
  • Improved the inventory item permissions floater, with added flags check boxes and a "last owner" field (improvements inspired from Singularity's).
  • Backported a *lot* of code cleanup and old cruft removal from LL's new viewer-interesting branch (both the sources and the binaries got smaller as a result).
  • Backported from LL's viewer-interesting a fix to the APR initialization in threads (this may just be a placebo effect, but textures and meshes rezzing now seems faster to me).
  • Some cleanup to the build system and some fixes to compilation warnings spewed by old gcc versions (v4.3 and older).
  • A few minor optimizations.
  • Linux build only: updated jemalloc to v3.4.1.
  • Added Kitely to the OpenSim default grids list.


Enjoy ! :D

Author:  Henri Beauchamp [ 2013-11-02 15:38:15 ]
Post subject:  Re: Latest Linux releases

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

Updating to these releases is recommended.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.8.36 (stable branch with v3.5 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):
Cool VL Viewer v1.26.9.36 (experimental branch with the v3.6 renderer (materials support) and mesh deformer support in both OpenSim and SL):

New in these releases:
  • Fixed the crash bug that impacted logins on the InWorldz grid. See this thread for details.
  • Backported the Wavefront (OBJ) and Collada (DAE) exporters from Singularity. NOTE: only the original creators may export their mesh objects, even if the latter is "full perms" (also implemented support of the export permission flag, for when it will be ready and enabled in OpenSIM grids).
  • Improved some the object backup code (also, the menu entries for the object backup action were changed to "Backup" to distinguish it from the new export actions).
  • Backported a few minor improvements and bug fixes from LL's viewer-interesting.
  • Quite some shuffling around in the code to move source files that should have belonged from the start to some ll* libraries (llui, llmath, llrender, llmessages...) out of the newview/ directory.
  • Removal of some dead/unused code.
  • FMOD Ex updated to v4.44.24.
  • Various other minor fixes and optimizations.


Cool VL Viewer v1.26.4.96 (legacy stable branch with v2.6 renderer and mesh deformer support in OpenSim):

  • This is a catchup with all the bug fixes and some of the improvements that went into v1.26.8 since v1.26.4.95 was released.


Enjoy ! :D

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