Mesh/LiveVolunteers

What is Mesh?

"Mesh upload" is the ability for residents to important 3D mesh objects from many popular programs, like Maya, 3DSMax, Blender, and others. If your region is mesh enabled, then you and other residents will be able to upload to their inventory and -subject to land rights of course- be able to rez and interact with mesh objects. A Mesh Project Viewer is required to see mesh objects; all other viewers will not see mesh objects, only a placeholder triangle or possibly an invisible object.

What are the limitations in this release?

If you move rezzed mesh objects from a new mesh-enabled version to a sim running the current release version, they may be destroyed or broken permanently. This applies to attachments as well as objects like vehicles, etc. If you attempt to rezz mesh objects on a regular sim, it will rez invisible. During this phase of the rollout, we may alter the Prim count for mesh objects and cause returns. The returns are not guaranteed to be mesh objects, they might be anything in the parcel. We may do rollbacks and deploys with little or no notice; our focus is not short-term sim stability but rather long term code stability as we prepare to deploy this grid-wide.

Am I eligible to participate

Only private island owning Residents may participate, specifically Full Private Islands - No Homesteads or Openspaces. Additionally we're going to set up some sandboxes for people test in.

What are we looking for

• We'd like to see people uploading and interacting with mesh objects.
• Just as important, we want people to continue using/interacting with prims and sculpties. We don't want to break anything already there.
• Old viewers (1.x based) should continue to work, but won't have support for mesh. You'll see a triangle, or possibly meshes will be invisible objects. Viewer 2 also cannot read mesh objects.

What we're NOT looking for

Don't move mesh objects between mesh regions and non-mesh regions - We aren't interested in testing that because soon it won't matter. Don't sell things on the marketplace - we're not looking to test marketplace yet. Also, you'll likely end up with angry customers. Don't test mesh support on 1.x based viewers, or currently released 2.x viewers.

How to volunteer

• Resident submits a case under a specific case type with specific fields filled in using keywords that will enable us to find the cases:
  • Case Type to be filed: Land & Region -> Region Performance Issues
• Specific case field input instructions:
  • "Provide region name" field: Resident puts in name of 1 region to be included on micro channel, only
  • "Please provide us with a SLURL or Parcel Coordinates to the region/parcel location in-world" field: Resident MUST place the word "Mesh" (no quotes) in this field. This will enable us to filter these specific cases out of the normal cases being submitted in that category.
  • "Provide us with details regarding your region performance issue" field: Resident can simply state something along the lines of "Please place my Region X, in the Mesh (whatever we call it publicly).
  • Example Screen Shot of case submission page:

failure to follow this procedure will lead to sadness and the likelihood that your region will not be included in the test, because we will not see your case.

How to Report Bugs

If you find a problem related to mesh, or one which does not happen on a current production sim, please create an item in the public issue tracker at http://jira.secondlife.com/.

• • How do I tell if I'm in a mesh region?

To submit a mesh bug: 1) Log in to the https://jira.secondlife.com/ page with your Second Life avatar name and password. 2) Click “Create New Issue” 3) Set PROJECT to “Mesh-Beta CTS” and ISSUE TYPE to “Bug” 4) On the next page, type step-by-step instructions for how to create the problem, and if specific products are involved include the product vendor name and specific product name and version. IMPORTANT: Please state what region you encountered the problem. If it's related to an upload and you have a generic test model, please attach the .dae file. If it's proprietary object, mention that you have the model and we can arrange to get it in a secure manner.

For a demo of the jira public issue tracker, see Torley’s great video “how to report a bug“. Thanks in advance for helping to test the next generation Second Life simulator. We really appreciate your help in making Second Life better. As we resolve issues and get closer to a version for release to the Second Life Grid, we will be deploying updated versions to our Early Adopter regions.