Rohacan Hirons
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About clicking on rigged items here is the JIRA : https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-229845
LLab was about to include changes into a viewer, then suddenly went backwards
QuoteI certainly do not see any FPS drop change, here (with the Cool VL Viewer) when I enable the ”Pick rigged meshes” option.
If I remember well, this setting is shunted in multiple places in the code, then no matter if you set it on/false in your viewer option it has no effect. That's why in first place I had to compile my own viewer, then I learned about the FPS drop issue and the fact that someone decides it was better to shunt it (why... ? I don't know. Setting it to false by default whould have been enough I think). When I started to work with RezzRoom I was really needing this feature because we often have to manipulate animesh, click on them, alt-zoom on it, etc.. often without those "helper" prims, and even with them it was painful. Then I wrote a workaround, shared the code and add some fixes when I found some special cases where there was still FPS drop.
QuoteI do not see why a user or creator would voluntarily degrade the LI of their builds, if the old LI system gives them a better ”value”...
I don't understand where this can be an issue if you have the choice. If I'm a creator and upload a new mesh I have two options :
- I do as I'm used to, create my LODs (or let the viewer do it, probably set them to High/High/0/0 xD), upload the mesh.
- I know there is another way to create meshes with another way to calculate the LI, I create LODs thinking about this fact, upload my mesh, drop it without carrying about the big LI I will see because I know I only have to activate an option and voila, my LI is OK.
Fun (or not) fact: I made an ambulance few years ago, when LLab started to talk about these new calculation rules that will apply to animesh in the first place then for all meshes, I made it with this in mind, I was so proud of myself, talking about this to everyone, talking to creators around me about what was coming, about how they will have to change their methods.... 2, 3 years (?) later this never happened
To come back on the main purpose of this thread (at least for me xD), I'm curious, what people think about the latest and incoming improvements of SecondLife ? Am I the only one thinking the "game" will be a bit more optimized and looks better (for those with a decent graphic card) but that's all, no way to improve our creations ? WE WANT MORE POWER !!
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Hi, thanks your reply.
QuoteNobody could come up with an LI charging scheme which both improved things and didn't cause existing objects to increase in LI
There is a feature actually that can update LI on a single click and works very nice... animesh. We only have to check on "Animesh" and voila, the LI changes. Does it sound crazy to think about one more option "Use LI calculation v2" ?
QuoteThe trouble is, the info that tells viewers to run animations is in UDP messages, and changing that format, even a little, breaks all existing viewers
I'm not sure the hardest part is the way messages reach the viewer, everything (almost everything?) in SL was in UDP, now we have HTTP messages, CDN, ... add new LSL commands, clone the code related to animations, update it to use the time variable (maybe the hardest part, no?) Sure viewers have to be updated to execute new feature. Was it an issue when sculpt prim arrives ? Was it an issue with mesh ? Animesh ? Bake on mesh ?
QuoteAbility to click on animesh to finally remove those invisible "helper" prims? (Not clear on the problem.)
Sorry, I was talking about the invisible prims that creators have to add to rigged mesh (not only animesh) to allow users to click on their items and alt-click to zoom on it instead of clicking on whatever is behind the object. The viewer code contains the necessary lines to allow users to click on rigged mesh but this make FPS to drop drastically. I wrote some code modification to work around this FPS drop (my compiled viewer is still functional and I had no issue with this since late 2020 / early 2021, I wish all viewers can have this, and we can finally remove these invisible prims)
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QuoteAll that is for followers, I expect. Animesh were originally intended as standalone characters, not body parts. That you can attach them was an unplanned feature
Ok, then I can only hope this will finally be a thing. Some people worked hard to imagine and suggest how these features could be implemented, what was the good or bad points of those ideas, ..
QuoteHierarchy of links instead of root/children only? (Recently "accepted" in JIRA, might happen someday.)
Yay, one point! Hope it's not a "possible future work for a future project"
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Hi,
I'm a bit curios, where SecondLife is going on ? Why the hell technical improvements for creations are often throw to the trash ?
- New mesh LI calculation to improve LODs creation and rendering cost ?
- Animesh position/rotation offset ?
- Animesh attachment points ?
- Animesh resizing ?
- Grid wide experiences ?
- Ability to click on animesh to finally remove those invisible "helper" prims ?
- Animations syncing allowing obviously to sync animations but also to start animations with a time offset ?
- Hierarchy of links instead of root/children only ?
- ... and a lot of other one maybe even more important than these ones (feel free to complete the list)
I know there are works in progress in many different aspect of SecondLife (rendering, better UI, marketplace, viewer perfs, ....) but right now when I look at what's coming next I'm thinking "Ok, soon even poo in SecondLife will be shiny". While I agree that visual improvements are nice and not useless at all, I would like to know when will we be able to create better stuff, when devs will have time to come back on those kind of abandoned / never started improvements? I'm tired waiting for new features in a random other new project viewers/servers that finally disappear from the roadmap everytime someone at the lab has a new idea.
What do you think ? What is for you the better future for SecondLife ?
- A beautiful world where you can do a few things
- A world where you can do a lot of things even if sometime it's awful
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Hi, same issue for me, running on Windows8
Edit : I tryed the dev version 3.4.6 and have the same issue -
Hi Oskar, thank for this anwer. I really hope to see this feature back soon
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"releasing dangerously exploitable code onto the grid" .. LLabs will never be able to prevent grieffing. A grieffer can work around a new feature in Aditi, not talk about it, and wait that this feature has been deployed in Agni.
It would be nice if I could, as a region owner, go in "Region/Domaine" => "Version" and select the previous one (12.05.??????) and continue to work with thoses features in my region
But I will survive, I have many other things to work on, hopefully
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Hi, a question : When will you re-enable Experience Tools in Magnum regions ? I was working with thoses news features
SecondLife "roadmap"
in General Second Life Tech Discussion
Posted · Edited by Rohacan Hirons
I totally understand this agree, that's why I was really happy with this incoming change and so sad that a few years later this looks abandoned.
I still think if more and more creators adapt their workflow to create better mesh and make use of this to promote their brand like "Build for new LI, optimize the world, better rendering, save your CG, ..." a kind of "new" business will arrive, forcing all creators to do better, then players will by themself drop their "old ***** stuff" to the trash. For sure creators will have to work hard to create nice LODs with limited LI. And if we're a dreamer, we can even think that if everything goes well, this massive optimization may allow a higher prim count limit in the future. Yes, I'm a dreamer
Edit: Of course, I don't think we need a higher prim count limit, people often rezz too many stuff already, everything is overcharged, region are laggy, ... but I think it can help players to prefer a 3 LI nicely built chair instead of a table + 4 chairs + 1 shelf and 1 carpet for only 1 LI with poor LODs.