[sldev] 1.20 release notes (rough draft)

Soft soft at lindenlab.com
Wed Apr 9 09:53:10 PDT 2008


> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Mike Monkowski <monkowsk at watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>  > Soft wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >  1.  What's coming in 1.20?

This is rough, and some items may be added or removed before the final
release notes:


New features and changes:
* Updates to the user interface (UI) visual design and architecture:
** A new, lighter color scheme
** Improved UI graphics (icons, buttons, etc)
** Ability to customize text color of Instant Messages
** Enhancements to the UI texture rendering system
** Ability to reference textures by filename
** Support for non-powers-of-two textures
** Support for PNG textures

* LSL scripting for object glow!
** Script a prim's glow attribute, details here:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetPrimitiveParams

* Improved Joystick and 3D input device support
** Integrated a new open source library created by 3Dconnexion
designed to integrate multi axis input devices with Second Life
** Joystick devices can now control the Avatar, Edited Objects, or the
Flycam (View menu > Joystick Flycam)
** Added a "Joystick Setup" window to the Preferences under "Input &
Camera" for adjusting multi axis input devices
** Settings are currently optimized for Logitech's 3Dconnexion
SpaceNavigator but should be tunable for any joystic or 3D imput
device

Changes:
* DEV-7118 Remove voice setup wizard from Viewer
* DEV-11631 Remove "Detecting hardware" from first-use startup to save
10 seconds of start time
* DEV-11208 Remove "Critical Message" string from startup community
standards dialog
* DEV-9641 Remove "Start Gesture" from menu bar
* DEV-7119 Remove "do you want streaming audio" dialog
* DEV-4898 Get rid of Friends dropdown on Map
* DEV-2370 Display the Camera and Movement controls by default
* DEV-9779 Add online offline notification to open IM windows
* DEV-3677 one click sit should not be available if you're already sitting
* DEV-11714 Replace "(hippos)" and "(waiting)" with "(Loading...)"
* DEV-4952 Print the name of the missing gesture in the error message
* DEV-4706 Make running more intuitive by double-tapping forward
* DEV-11146 Move the right justified text on the splash screen just a
bit to the left
* DEV-6876 Ctrl-shift-1 needs to be in a floater someday.
* DEV-2558 Make login progress bar an indefinite status indicator
* DEV-7112 Option to turn off all group titles to make name tags smaller
* DEV-5502 Small UI tweaks to the "near me" floater for usability

Fixes:
* DEV-7746 SVC-1072: Havok 4 -- Objects can exist up to 4096 meters
up, but scripted rez above 1024 meters fails silently
* DEV-2886 SVC-747: Estate Banned Residents list doesn't increment
higher than 252
* DEV-12266 VWR-5498: WindLight Release Candidate doesn't rembember
correct size of IM window between sessions
* DEV-11416 VWR-747: Texture preview should not have constrained aspect ratio
* DEV-8349 VWR-3984: WindLight: Certain snapshot options incorrectly
capture a part of the screen
* DEV-6547 VWR-3438: WindLight: Glow (including water reflections)
shows through HUD objects
* DEV-10647 VWR-4616: Snapshot, clicking on more removes current pic
* DEV-2071 VWR-1405: llMapDestination does not work as designed for OS
X/Intel viewers
* DEV-6928 VWR-3625: Highlights don't affect non-root prims
* DEV-3809 VWR-2113: Mac Auto Updater "hides", giving appearance of failing
* DEV-10214 VWR-2755: duplicate PARCEL_FLAG_RESTRICT_PUSHOBJECT line
in keywords.ini
* DEV-2473 VWR-442: Require confirmation when inviting a new group owner
* DEV-10694 VWR-4903: Show avatar's name in the "Eject" and "Freeze"
confirmation screens
* DEV-13168 VWR-6066: "Are you sure you want to clear you browser
cache" in "Perferences > Web > Clear Now" has a typo
* DEV-12878 VWR-5656: Secondlife icon missing in Linux version 1.19.1 RC1 ?
* DEV-1022 VWR-2600: Add option to enable Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing
(FSAA) in the viewer
* DEV-7665 VWR-3633: Avatar impostor of not-yet-rezzed avatar not appearing
* DEV-2010 Localize LLFloaterCamera / llcameraview.cpp
* DEV-6672 glow is rendered on property lines and selection silhouettes
* DEV-9868 LLImageJ2C should be able to tell us what en/decoding
implementation is being used
* DEV-8015 Residents That Have Been Granted Modify Rights Can TAKE the Objects.
* DEV-3770 Estate tools in non-english UI cannot change maturity level
of islands from PG to Mature.
* DEV-1625 Agent Limit spontaneously resets to zero
* DEV-9600 Web control code does not correctly reject sl:// links
* DEV-10205 Wait before printing missing gestures if the name isn't
yet available
* DEV-9991 camera smoothing
* DEV-7110 LSL call to open place dialog to move user around without opening map
* DEV-9605 Cannot close Buy Land floater when (waiting for data) from web site
* DEV-9634 Gestures appear in random order - Part Two
* DEV-9865 Preference Help button is not pointing to the correct url
* DEV-4906 Add Hyperlink to MOTD.
* DEV-13163 Occlusion crash on SIS cards
* DEV-13045 VBO related crash on ATI R100 cards
* DEV-5192 lowest avatar detail is higher than before
* DEV-5848 Avatar Impostor sprites have opaque black edges
* DEV-5942 impostors tilt
* DEV-6662 impostors need to update once after they stop walking
* DEV-9854 Give residents the means to detect laggy avatars and
visually mute them.

Source changes:
* The settings system has been significantly revamped.
llcontroldef.cpp has been replaced with an XML file controlling all
settings values: app_settings/settings.xml
* The command line parser has also been revamped. All but a few
special arguments are now associated with control settings and
controlled by the file app_settings/cmd_line.xml
* DEV-10213 VWR-2645: Source typo RELEASE_FOR_DOWNLOAD should be
LL_RELEASE_FOR_DOWNLOAD ?
* DEV-9937 g++ 4 viewer compile issues
* DEV-10091 Dead code removal createLegacyWearableFromAvatar


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