[sldev] Small easy target features to consider for Snowglobe

[Philippe (Merov) Bossut]

Re-directing to sldev.

- Merov

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Laurence Brickner <brickrte at hughes.net>wrote:

>  Hi all,
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> Could someone aim me at the right area file wise for SNOW-386.  BTW, I’m
> re-installing 2005.
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> Shor
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> *From:* Philippe (Merov) Bossut [mailto:merov at lindenlab.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2009 13:00
> *To:* brickrte at odyssey.net
> *Subject:* Re: [sldev] Small easy target features to consider for
> Snowglobe
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> Hi Shorahmin,
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> Great to hear you're considering building and may be contributing to
> Snowglobe. The best way to get support in building and getting things set up
> is to email the sldev list: lots of great folks there with experience on all
> sorts of build environments.
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> Welcome to Snowglobe!
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> Cheers,
> - Merov
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Laurence Brickner <brickrte at hughes.net>
> wrote:
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> Hi all, (Hope I’m doing this right)
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> I’ve just started trying to set up the environment etc.  Using VS2008.
> Lotsa C++ experience, now retired.
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> The Show-Look thing looks like a great way to learn the whole cmake – VSN –
> patchy – thingy system.  So if you have the patience, I’d like to give it a
> shot.
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> BTW, where could I get some TLC on setting up?  Right now I get about 11
> unresolved externals.
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> Shorahmin
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> *From:* sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com [mailto:
> sldev-bounces at lists.secondlife.com] *On Behalf Of *Philippe (Merov) Bossut
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2009 01:40
> *To:* Second Life Developer Mailing List
> *Subject:* [sldev] Small easy target features to consider for Snowglobe
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> Hi,
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> It was suggested to me that some small relatively easy to hack features
> would be cool addition to Snowglobe. Additionally, those are small, limited
> tweaks to existing functionality so they should be nice targets for would be
> contributors looking for first contributions. Here are those 3 features:
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> SNOW-386 : Improve "Show look at" feature : We have this under the Advanced
> menu as a debug feature already but it needs some polish to look less
> "geeky". I added some ideas of improvements suggestions in the JIRA record.
> Seems like an easy target as there's code already in there that just need
> love.
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> VWR-7427 : Allow custom texture for selection beam particles : This is a
> year old request. Got some votes, no patch. The related code looks very
> small and easily hackable (I checked tonight). I'm not convinced of the
> importance of this as a feature but it's an easy and truly cool "first
> contribution" target :)
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> VWR-7604: Suggested behaviour change for "Sit here" when targeting the
> ground : The JIRA description makes a lot of sense and is very clear. No
> patch though. That one is a feature I would use for sure. I haven't looked
> in the code but it seems possible to expand from the existing "Sit here"
> behavior (at least, start to understand that before moving to expand it).
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> Any takers?
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> Cheers,
> - Merov
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