Wednesday, August 26, 2009

r9 and r67

Here are two new releases of the Cool SL Viewer, available now

Cool SL Viewer v1.19.0.5 release 67 (stable branch, legacy renderer)
Cool SL Viewer v1.23.4.0 release 9 (stable branch, Windlight renderer)

New in these releases:
RestrainedLife updated to v1.20c (fixes a couple of crash bugs).
Updated ExplandedBuildTools (v1.19.0.5)/ImprovedbuildTools (v1.23.4.0) patches: now allow to set 100% transparency in the build floater tools.
Updated OldTrackingDotsInMinimap patch: because of server/viewer messaging limitations, it is currently not possible to distinguish between an avatar at 0m of altitude from another above 1020m of altitude (they therefore both appear as "below you" in the mini-map). To work around this problem, the Cool SL Viewer now uses a different symbol (a small, horizontal bar) for such avatars.
Updated PrimBackup patch: the primitives now got their name and description saved and restored.
New TextHistoryOnSendIMbutton patch (included in MUposeStyleAndOOCautoClose_v3): fixes a bug where the IMs sent by pressing the "Send" button (instead of the ENTER key) do not get saved into the input line history.
New MouseLookFocusSwitchQuirk and BuildFloaterMouseLookQuirk patches: fix quirks with mouse look and viewer window focus switching. The most noticeable changes are that loosing and restoring the viewer window focus no more resets mouse-look neither the camera zoom level (as set via the mouse wheel when not in mouse-look).
New LoadXUIfromXML patch (for v1.23): fixes a bug in the Advanced/XUI/Load from XML feature of v1.23 viewers.
PanelLoginFocusedGridSelectionCrash (for v1.23): fixes a crash bug when closing the viewer while on login screen with the grid selection combo selected.

15 comments:

Irdane said...

The interface in this 1.23 release seems t be broken, the viewer us unusable for me. Too bad I already deleted the last release of it You made so I had to turn back to Your 1.22 viewer.
Wouldn't it be possible to provide at least the last 2 or 3 of Your releases on Your site?
Thanks for Your great work. :-)

Hyang Zhao said...

hmm, cant get, what exactly broken, can you post screenshot somewhere and point on bug?

Irdane said...

My System: PowerMac G4, Mac OS X 10.5.8

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/2655/loginscreen.jpg
http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/5122/noprogressbarshowing.jpg
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/1779/settings1.jpg
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/1361/settings2.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/3539/inventoryf.jpg
http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5148/screenvlr.jpg

Furthermore nothing loads in-world, all stays grey.

nkt said...

Just a ditto on the comment, same problem same system!

Thanks for all your effort on the viewer, I really like it.

Hyang Zhao said...

yeah, i'm looking in it now, seems it problem with optimization for power pc, i will rebuild universal and reupload it, later today or tomorrow.

nkt said...

Yay it works now!!! Thanks!!!

I always liked your version but I didn't know how much until I went back and used the regular viewer. SL is much better now!

Thanks again!

Irdane said...

Works perfect again, Hyang, thx that much for Your great efforts. :-)

J. S. Gilbert said...

What is *better* about CoolViewer over Emerald? And when are we gonna see a build of Kirsten's latest stuff for the Mac? (If you don't have a Mac that's capable of running her build, tell me how to build it, and I will!)

Hyang Zhao said...

thought latest KLee changes was only about shadows, no?
Shadows will not work on mac's, afaik.

Hyang Zhao said...

Cool SL Viewer has old UI and for many people it advantage

J. S. Gilbert said...

When is snow leopard gona work with antialiasing

J. S. Gilbert said...

And why won't shadows work on macs? Doesn't OpenGL 2.1 (which is in Snow Leopard) fix that?

Hyang Zhao said...

shadows working now on 10.6, but how they working ... better has them off :/

Hyang Zhao said...

J.S. i built last S18, you can build it as well, it not much hard, i just cant see any improvements, like kinda nothing. Yes, it fast, same fast and snowglobe, but shadows screwed on 10.6 and almost useless.

Hyang Zhao said...

well, improvement from apple side, there are some shadows, but what happening with textures on flexi prims ... no comments, build it and have a look.

Disclaimer about all viewer builds

THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL AND UNSUPPORTED BUILD!

THIS RELEASE IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH LINDEN LAB IN ANY
WAY BUT PATCHED BY A THIRD PARTY. 

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

IF SOMETHING GOES BADLY WRONG, RESTORE FROM YOUR BACKUPS, OR JUST USE THE OFFICIAL BUILD IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY.

ALSO IF YOU DO NOT FIND THE AUTHOR TRUSTWORTHY AND IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS PROGRAM COULD CONTAIN INTENTIONALLY MALICIOUS CODE, PLEASE ALSO DO NOT USE IT.

IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT.