October - New Builds
Bridie Linden
Hi everyone!
Happy October! We have a lot of updates to share with you in today's builds -- AND a new video to share, too!
Linden Dollars
You can now pay objects inworld through the long-press menu, and other avatars from their profile. You can also see your L$ balance.
Voice Support
We now have experimental support for WebRTC voice in the mobile client. To enable it, select ‘Show Speak Button’ in the menu.
Thermal and Low Battery Throttling
Your device will heat up slower, and use less battery while in menus and chatting. We also drop the rendering resolution, quality and framerate when your device is hot, or you are in battery saver mode. This should help with longer sessions, also, we’ve added some extra options including a framerate cap in our developer settings.
Switching applications
Second Life will now run for longer while a background application; and should behave better when you’re frequently switching back and forth.
Messaging Improvements
Group messages, and messages sent after your avatar has recently teleported will now be delivered more reliably.
Rendering improvements
We’ve improved avatar feet placement, sculpt rendering, and some material types. We’re still working on a few more fixes, which we hope to release in the next update.
Known issues:
- Logging in while you are already logged in, or have very recently logged out, may result in a ‘gray screen with clouds’, but no avatar rendering.
- Non-mesh objects may have their texture repeats handled incorrectly, resulting in upside down textures.
- Avatar shapes, especially around the shoulders may still render incorrectly.
Teleports
- Changing your outfit immediately after teleporting may fail.
- Sometimes when teleporting, you may receive a message “You are too close to the destination”.
Full Change List:
- Generic Errors from the simulator are now presented to users.
- Improved handling of server-side avatar appearance baking, multiple fixes, and adds a retry mechanism.
- Inventory related errors have better internal logging
- Fixed issue with group details when viewing other avatars profiles
- Corrected sculpted primitives texture coordinates
- Simulators track how long they have been connected for, and delay certain actions which are unreliable immediately after teleporting.
- Long pressing on an object will now more reliably give you the name of the object
- Added Pay option to Object Interaction
- Added the ability to Pay an avatar
- Added ability to see your L$ balance
- Fixed IMs not arriving for ~15-30s when teleporting to another sim
- Improved handling of group messages
- Blurs the scene in the background when viewing the menu, and lowers the underlying rendering resolution significantly
- Lowered the framerate to 20fps when in low battery, or your device has heated up.
- Lowered the resolution of rendering when in low battery, or your device has heated up.
- When the application is running in the background, framerate and resolution will be lowered to avoid wasting battery.
- Added a Framerate Cap setting to developer settings ("Target Framerate")
- The application should not log you out when in the background, or at least do so less often.
- Added access to a new debug menu in developer settings (“Show Wrench”), these tools control how avatars are rendered.
- On iOS the app is now marked as a VoIP and Audio/Music capable application and should be allowed to run for longer in the background.
- Avatar feet placement is now much closer to correct, especially for avatars with significant hover height adjustments.
- Input / joystick styles are now as the designer intended!
- Added Voice controls to main UI
- Materials: Correctly handles 'Clip Only' materials
- Streaming audio will no longer carry across parcels when you hit 'Play' in a new parcel without streaming audio.
- Time of day setting has been fixed, and has new option names.
- Avatars now use on-GPU skinning calculations exclusively (this may help with certain devices where avatars show incorrectly, but other devices render them okay)
- Rapidly changing outfits should no longer result in major issues
- Changing outfits immediately after teleporting should no longer result in your avatar being half dressed
- Upgraded engine to Unity 2021.3.41f and Universal Render Pipeline 12.1.15
- Lowers Android minimum to Android 10
- Lowered the opacity on background overlay (adds a blur)
- Fix to prevent automatic login after signing out
- Added filter to Settings > Developer tools
- Added link to forgot password
- Bristly Bottom removed from Places > Mobile showcases
Phew! We hope you enjoy all of these updates. Please continue to share your feedback and report issues at feedback.secondlife.com
Thank you!
--Bridie Linden
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AAngel Braveheart
Just tried the new version, at last I can TP to my home, moderate zone. BUT it is a black silhouette and so am I. Went to my Linden home, my dress is transparent. It is a PBR dress and Purple. Still not a usable app.
Momokothewolgonat Resident
when will it be available to those who can't afford any kind of membership on SL? The app page says it will be available to everybody soon. I just wanna know how soon, soon actually is.
KiraYoichi Resident
Momokothewolgonat Resident you just have to wait. No one will know until the team is fully confident it is ready. That's just how they roll.
Momokothewolgonat Resident
KiraYoichi Resident That’s kind of a rude way to answer and doesn’t really give me, a chronically ill user, an idea of when I’m allowed to participate in SL without being in chronic pain all the time. I don’t care for exact dates, was looking for something like “a few months to roughly a year give or take” I do game testing I fully understand that it’s not going to be ready until they say it is. So respectfully, if you aren’t a team member, you are not who I was asking.