User:Aimee Trescothick

Virtual Worlds specialist for Boxapixels Oy[1]. I also enjoy working on improving the Second Life client as part of the open source effort. Builder and co-owner of the Carpe Diem Gallery[2], with my partner Trinity Dechou.

General Skills and Interests

1. Electronics.
2. Sound Engineering and DSP.
3. Programming.
4. User Interface design.
5. Architecture (both in the bricks and mortar sense, and computing).
6. Photography both RL[3] and SL[4].

SL Open Source Special Interests

1. The Snowglobe project.
2. Joystick/Space Navigator support or other alternate input devices (see VWR-6363 and VWR-8465).
3. Mapping (VWR-11548).
4. Anything to do with the Mac OSX client.

Viewer Patches Submitted

Pending

1. SNOW-42 : Eliminite harmless warnings building mac-updater (remove deprecated Apple FSCopyObject code).
2. VWR-13221 : Allow panning of the mini-map.
3. VWR-7800 : Maintain the camera position when leaving flycam mode until the avatar moves (needs some more work).
4. VWR-6891 : Present list of alt avatars upon login (based on original patch by Felix Duesenburg)
5. VWR-5308 : More efficient wind synthesis algorithm (with Gigs Taggart) now needs reworking to fit OpenAL.
6. VWR-4137 : Use ISO 8601 date format in the group info window, to ensure correct list sorting (should really be extended to use ISO 8601 throughout the client).
7. VWR-675 : In client maths parser.

Imported to another branch somewhere (Hopefully will hit 1.24RC)

1. VWR-11111 : Const correctness issues compiling with GCC4.2 on the Mac.
2. VWR-11100 : Prevent Space Navigator left button toggling flycam when the window is not in focus.
3. VWR-10990 : Vestigial reference to friends_only_check in llprefsvoice.cpp
4. VWR-10717 : Right Space Navigator button should toggle fly in avatar movement mode, instead of jump, when auto-fly is off.
5. VWR-9352 : Prim falls to 256m when moved off world.
6. VWR-6432 : Makes it possible to fly or drive vehicles with the joystick.

Proposed for inclusion in SnowGlobe 1.2

1. SNOW-159/VWR-14087 : Add GT 120 and GT 130 to the table of supported GPUs
2. SNOW-190/VWR-13516 : Fix warning "createDummyWidget: Making dummy text named ne_label in mini_mapview"

Committed to SnowGlobe 1.1

1. SNOW-79/VWR-12631 : Provide a setting to adjust the maximum size of objects displayed on the minimap.
2. SNOW-78/VWR-6918 : Add a menu option to hide selection outlines.
3. SNOW-71/VWR-14278 : Gesture auto-completion adds uncommitted suggestions to the line editor history.
4. SNOW-69/VWR-14267 : Clicking send in an IM window does not add the sent text to the line editor history.
5. SNOW-68/VWR-13227 : Mini-map text labels incorrectly shown in black on the silver skin.
6. SNOW-67/VWR-4106 : Mini-map beacon icon doesn't display correctly when beacon position above or below camera.

In SnowGlobe 1.0

1. VWR-12748 : Increase MiniMap zoom range, and magnify avatar markers at higher zoom levels.
2. VWR-12696 : Minimap object overlay blurred, or only rendered within a restricted area after resizing the floater.
3. VWR-8008 : Drop-down to select preset aspect ratios in texture and snapshot preview floaters.

In the 1.23.4 Release Viewer

1. VWR-11844 : MiniMap - Conversion to XUI, and code clean-up.
2. VWR-11453 : Relative path to fmod_hidden_symbols.exp breaks Makefiles build on the Mac.
3. VWR-9255 : Open source build fails on mac_updater and mac_crash_logger targets due to info.plist problems.
4. VWR-8482 : Exit flycam mode when the joystick is disabled.
5. VWR-8430 : Various improvements to the land tools floater.
6. VWR-8341 : Indicator button for flycam mode.
7. VWR-7383 : Wakes from AFK when moving the joystick, preventing sleeping avatars walking around!
8. VWR-6583 : Turns manipulation of objects with the joystick in build mode off by default.
9. VWR-6550 : Makes the avatar run when you push the SN harder.
10. VWR-6482 : Enables the full range of motion when walking (i.e. allows walking diagonally etc.)
11. VWR-6360 : Makes the autofly option also apply to the joystick and makes it jump in no-fly areas.
12. VWR-6358 : Adds OK and Cancel buttons to the joystick setup window.
13. VWR-6354 : Stops the jump button interrupting other movements.
14. VWR-6348 : Allows the joystick to be used to move the avatar while in build mode.
15. VWR-4083 : Clicking "Land and L$" tab in group info window crashes the viewer.
16. VWR-3903 : Object layer on the mini-map misaligned.
17. VWR-3336 : Fix to display friends on the mini-map in yellow instead of green.
18. VWR-3321 : Turn off the microphone when ending private voice calls.

Obsolete(ish)

1. VWR-12766 : Text entry box disabled on received group IM sessions.
2. VWR-6368 : Prevents involuntary camera movements when leaving build mode.
3. VWR-4371 : Ambient sounds should be affected by the master volume. Work was duplicated internally, not made it to a release yet though.
4. VWR-3257 : More visible land brush. Still using in my own viewers as I find the new land brush arrows hide the land contour too much for accurate terraforming.
5. VWR-328 : Optionally hide voice indicators.

View the issues Aimee Trescothick has filed at jira.secondlife.com