Really, really crashy and problematic - warning, rant borne from frustration inside!

[Siddean Munro]

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I just logged into the mesh beta viewer after a couple of months hiatus due to the frustration of using this viewer on these test sims.  The viewer is buggy.  Or the sims are buggy.  I crash on uploading new models, or randomly walking around empty sims, the viewer never lets me log back into the place where I left - always throws me over to the Gibson sim, I cant detatch objects once they are attached unless I close the client and log back in, which takes a good 5-7 minutes, I can't see anything in my objects folder, at all, not even stuff I just uploaded in a previous session.  I see why I stopped using it in the first place.  How do you people keep coming back?  My excitement about this mesh project is waning with every buggy, frustrating day. :(  Meh.   :(

 

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[Mira Kamiguwa]

Download and install the mesh project viewer (as of 2011 February, 14 a Mesh Development viewer build is required. The "stable" Mesh Viewer is out of date and will provide invalid results).

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh

[Siddean Munro]

Mira!!  Thank you so much for the link to the latest viewer build!  It's so much better, I could kiss you!  :smileyvery-happy:

[Siddean Munro]

Oh but now I can't upload my weighted meshes anymore.  The older viewer uploaded them ok, between crashes, but as soon as I tick "skin weight" in the modifiers tab in the developer build, the upload button greys out.  :smileymad:

[Nalates Urriah]

In the last couple of months a lot has changed. There are a number of mesh and viewer changes that make older meshes a problem. Also, depending on how you are building the meshes you may have some problems. Blender Collada has received a lot of attention over the last 2 or 3 weeks. See http://www.letworyinteractive.com/

I haven't done anything with weighted mesh, so you might want to search and read through posts here regarding weighted to see what has changed since you started.

[Siddean Munro]

Thanks for the info Nalates, looks like other weighted meshes upload fine, just the particular set I am testing.  I will have to revisit them.  I'll have a good read at that link, your help is most appreciated!