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 residents will be able to upload to their inventory on your land -subject to land rights- 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.

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.

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 likeliness that their region may not be included in the test, because we will not see their case.

• • Other documentation tips should include a full outline of the expectations surrounding performance and general errata that being on a test server tends to generate. Please discourage swapping, if they elect to participate, they should stick it out for the long haul. You can probably steal a lot of that blog post wording for the wiki page and make it fit this use case.