05.13.08

Able Edition, release 4

Posted in Able Edition at 4:40 pm by able

Okay, once more, with feeling.

This release introduces two new features:

  1. A small button on the Tools floater to quickly reset the new prim size to <0.5, 0.5, 0.5> (actually this was in release 3 but I forgot to mention it)
  2. An Advanced menu option, “Allow Editing Large Prims”, that re-enables editing or manipulating the scale of large prims. This will allow you to use my viewer to edit large prims in grids that fully support them (like OpenSim, for example)

And a couple of bug fixes:

  1. Setting the position of an object at heights above 768m actually works. (I kicked myself for not noticing this before. Sorry!)
  2. The viewer fixes the most serious memory leak inherent to the officially-released 1.19 series of viewers.

Once you’ve read the instructions and disclaimers, go ahead and download Release 4.

If you like having megaprim support in the viewer, feel free to vote on JIRA issue VWR-7192.

(And a hat tip to the constantly-helpful Nicholaz Beresford for helping me fix the major memory leak.)

Able Edition, release 3

Posted in Able Edition at 11:08 am by able

One more update to the patch (and probably the last, unless I find another bug).

Changes:

  1. max prim scale is reduced to 100.0m
  2. min prim scale is increased to 0.01m to reflect the fact that microprims cannot be created
  3. because resizing megaprims causes them to snap back to 10.0m, the “scale” spinners on the object floater, and the scale manipulators are disabled when a megaprim or a linkset containing a megaprim is selected, to prevent breaking megaprims

Download Able Edition, release 3 once you’ve read the notes and disclaimers.

05.12.08

Able Edition, release 2

Posted in Able Edition at 4:44 pm by able

I found and fixed a minor bug with Release 1, so here is Release 2. It’s the same deal as before, so see the disclaimers and instructions on the previous entry before downloading.

One important note I accidentally neglected to mention before is that, for a variety of reasons, my viewer is compiled without Apple Quicktime support, so streaming movies will not work.

Once you’re all caught up, you can download Able Edition, release 2 and enjoy.

Able Edition, release 1

Posted in Able Edition at 1:14 pm by able

The wonderfully mad patcher, Nicholaz Beresford, was kind enough to include most of my megaprim creation patch with his Release: Eye Candy EC-f. I say “most” only because Nick didn’t want to modify the official UI xml files (understandably so).

However, I’ve gotten some requests for a compiled copy of my viewer with the megaprim patch (VWR-7192) and the bling and facelamp patch (VWR-6540) included, along with my UI changes, so here you go: Release 1 of the Able Edition viewer. (Currently available for Windows only.)

This is a no-frills release, with no installer, and is entirely unrelated to my previous viewers with visibility muting features. Please only download it if you’re comfortable mucking about with changing some of the files that are installed with the official viewer.

Before you download Release 1, please note that it will require version 1.19.1.4 of the official viewer (not a Release Candidate viewer). You can download the official viewer from the official download page.

Once you’ve installed the official 1.19.1.4 release, you can download the Able Edition Release 1.

[Updated: Release 2 contains a small bug fix. Once you’ve installed the official 1.19.1.4 release, you can download the Able Edition Release 2.]

Please read the “README.txt” file included in the archive, as it has some important notes and caveats for installing and using this viewer.

And, as Nick always says:

Disclaimer: This viewer is unofficial and although I am doing my best to make it better than the release viewer, it may contain extra bugs and you will have to trust me that there is no malicious code in it. Please also understand that it runs on the main grid with your real SecondLife account and inventory.