Release Notes/Second Life Release/3.8.7.306758

Release Notes for v3.8.7 (306758) - Second Life Viewer

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Second Life Release Viewer version 3.8.7.306758

Released on November 12, 2015.

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Release Notes   This viewer introduces two sets of improvements intended to make your Second Life graphics experience better: Graphics Presets You can now create different saved "presets" for your graphics preferences, and quickly switch between them using a new top bar pulldown. Create one with a short draw distance and support for lots of detail to use when going to a dance club, another with long views for exploring, and any others that you find yourself using frequently. Avatar Rendering Complexity Controls For many users, the most expensive part of rendering a Second Life scene is rendering the avatars around you. For some time, the viewer has had a measurement of how much each avatar around you is affecting your performance; this viewer introduces some control and feedback based on that measure. A new *Avatar Maximum Complexity* control lets you prevent expensive avatars from lagging you; any avatar over the limit is displayed as a solid color rather than rendering full detail. A default limit is set based on the rendering performance of your system. You'll also get a notice when your own rendering complexity changes, and an indication when you're over the limit of too many of the avatars around you. See more about this on the Avatar Rendering Complexity page

Resolved Issues   MAINT-4506 Polish translation update MAINT-4677 Unexpected behaviour when blocking objects with a / in their name when using compact chat view MAINT-5331 [viewer-render-weights] Advanced Graphics Preferences floater is too tall MAINT-5378 Add avatar complexity information notices MAINT-5537 Advanced Graphics Preferences sliders are incorrect if you click Cancel rather than OK MAINT-5542 [QuickGraphics] cannot select default option using quick change menu MAINT-5557 [QuickGraphics] Estimates of how many users can show you are incorrect immediately after changing an outfit. MAINT-5560 Avatars with negative attachment bytes or surface area shown as colored blobs MAINT-5569 [QuickGraphics] everyone starts as a jelly teleporting into a crowd MAINT-5570 [QuickGraphics] Visual complexity notifications are confusing. MAINT-5600 [Project QuickGraphics] Chat log dropdown menu is always grayed out MAINT-5607 [QuickGraphics] Avatar set to always render turns solid when Avatar Impostors are triggered MAINT-5610 Misspelling MAINT-5612 [Project QuickGraphics] Avatar Complexity reading remains stuck on zero after removing an alpha layer created in a certain way. MAINT-5615 [Project QuickGraphics] Visual complexity notifications are usually wrong. MAINT-5622 Blocking an avatar renders them alpha not gray MAINT-5632 [QuickGraphics] Max. # of non-impostors should default to 3 when Graphics Quality is set to Low MAINT-5637 Replace Quick-settings icon MAINT-5663 Very short session can cause crash in mesh handlers SL-217 Document Avatar Complexity STORM-2082 Allow saving and loading of graphic settings and ability to control view of "blinged" avatars STORM-2083 LLCalcParser calculates inverse trigonometric functions wrong STORM-2085 Spelling error and duplicate entry in notifications.xml STORM-2086 Convert old style llinfos and llwarns to new format STORM-2088 Minimap no longer remembers zoom setting between sessions STORM-2094 Save button not activated if spelling corrected in Notecard and no other changes made STORM-2097 Polish translation update STORM-2098 Crashfix; enable_object_edit() crashes when called without being logged in STORM-2099 Minor formatting issue with logged out message STORM-2120 Graphics Quick Preferences should be account specific

Known Issues   BUG-10447 Unable to see group members belonging to any group role in the Roles tab until you switch to the Members tab and back to Roles tab.