INCOMING!

INCOMING! is what soldiers shout when they hear a bomb coming in on them so everyone can take cover.

Well Linden Lab has launched a volley our way for sure.

Affects: Second Life 1.23.1 (119104) May 4 2009 17:53:10 (Second Life Release Candidate)
Also affects the OSS build I tested that never fully rezzed anything. (working on improving the texture pipeline finally).

More people need to be testing this latest release candidate. Linden Lab has yet to assign anyone to work on it but has imported VWR-13097 into their internal jira. So look at the pictures and if you think something like this might cause you some problems maybe you need to download and commence hammering the release candidate and providing some feedback on these defect reports. Imagine what would happen if this, the adult oriented filter version, was forced onto the community as a mandatory update and almost all prim content in Second Life was broken as a result.

Current jira issues that all seems to be related to the same area of code:

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13097
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12987
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13038
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-13471

Here is the example I chose to use to demonstrate the problem:

rezzed_cam_focus_on_backdrop shows what a necklace is supposed to look like. To see the necklace properly I had to focus the cam on a different object (the backdrop). The prims in the necklace appeared properly only with the cam focused on the backdrop.

rezzed_cam_focus_on_necklace shows what happens if the cam is focused on the necklace. Many prims just vanish.

worn_normal_view shows yet a different set of vanished prims because it is worn. No amount of editing will help this problem. The missing prims are visible as ghosts in edit but do not rez.

worn_view_transparent is the same as worn_normal_view but with view transparent on so you can see the missing prims are not transparent at all. They are simply not rezzed yet are there if you edit. You can see the ghost outlines.

I suspect this catastrophic failure is somehow related to whatever was done to kill the “megaprim hack” that has the furry/tiny community furious. Just a hunch though.

So if you have not ever participated in evaluating a release candidate you might want to give this one a whirl and give Linden Lab some input.

Oh and if you don’t think that affects you then have a look at this one:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8080

Linden Lab allowed an open source programmer to change the right click pie menu around without getting much feedback from the residents. Much anger is ensuing. You really need to have a look at that one.

This is why testing the release candidates is so important. We residents are the only Software Quality Assurance there is for Second Life.

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