I never had issues crossing regions in past like this. Now i cant boat or fly, i dont know what happened but if i am lucky i can cross 2-3 regions before crashing. It works much better flying over Bellisseria though.

It might be worth mentioning that I had a bad case of ghosted attachments. After I had been sitting on the test train and completed the corner crossing more than 60 times, at 19:40 SLT, I added an item to my avatar that attaches to avatar center, and my attachments on chest, left shoulder, nose and all HUDs (3 in total) got detached. I hadn't looked at my Appearance tab before this happened, so I don't know if they showed red, but it looks like they were ghosted. The unusual thing about this is that my ghosted attachments normally detach only when I detach something, if I attach something else, they usually stay attached.

After 110 corner crossings I hopped off the train and noticed that the exact same attachments showed red in my outfits now, so at 20:48:58 while standing at secondlife://Aditi/secondlife/Blake%20Sea%20-%20Hawser/249/238/22 I attached the same item that had triggered the detachment earlier, however this time it didn't result in anything else detaching. Only when I detached it at 20:51:07, all the ghosted attachments detached with it as well.

Caught a failure with Sharpview logging:

12:23:23.753 [WARN] From (291072,268800), message: MsgDisableSimulator

That's Blake Sea, Thunderer, region [1137, 1050], at 5:23 AM SLT (12:23 UTC) on 2026-08-08. The simulator just told the viewer to disconnect from that region, and the main agent was in it. That kills the viewer.

Animatsalt is riding the train, controlled by a Sharpview viewer instance, with Animats also on the train, controlled by a Firestorm instance. Everything was going fine, then, out of nowhere, Thunderer sent that message for the region with the main agent. That should not happen unless the region goes down. That's not right. Please take a close look at the server logs at that moment.

When animatsalt was forcibly logged out, the avi disappeared in the Firestorm instance running animats. No more zombie avatar visible but connected to no viewer. That was the latest fix installed in the server last night, and it seems to have worked.

Pepper Linden installed a new simulator (Rider's Test Channel 2026-08-08-31237647022) on the Blake Sea aditi test regions on the evening of August 7th. This has some fixes related to avatars falling off and being logged out, but remaining visible to other viewers. So I started up the train again, with animats and animatsalt on board. Running fine after 1.5 hours. But with only 2 avis, it usually works fine for hours. If you have time, hop onto the train and stay logged in while doing something else.

To increase load, I tried a cube object that moves rapidly back and forth across a region boundary using keyframe animation Six of those run for 10 minutes had zero effect. I suspect the load has to be avatars for it to matter. I've seen an avatar fall of the train right after someone TPd into the area.

I've noticed something else here as well that I had never seen before. The terrain textures shift when I cross these regions:

The only thing I can see here is that Blake Sea - Thunderer has a different terrain texture order, otherwise all regions have the same settings.

This has nothing to do with what we're testing here, but this definitely shouldn't happen. Pepper Linden or Maestro Linden could you please set up the terrain textures in Thunderer to match the other three regions, so we could see if this still happens when all four regions have the same layout? As you can see this happens on my screen even when crossing between the other regions that have the same terrain texture layout, but this is the only thing I can think of that might be causing this interesting glitch.

I built a car test platform in the air at secondlife://Aditi/secondlife/Blake%20Sea%20-%20Thunderer/15/15/502 (same 4 regions where Animats' railroad track is) and started testing the corner crossing with a car. The seabed is not great for ground vehicle testing with all the dunes, so I needed a flat platform.

Out of 100 deliberate corner crossings, the 57th, 67th, 68th and 75th were rough, but they didn't fail eventually. It just looked like the simulator or the viewer had no idea where exactly I should be - same as yesterday.

The 76th crossing failed much more, it unseated me temporarily at 15:34 and sent me flying off the platform and I stopped at secondlife://Aditi/secondlife/Blake%20Sea%20-%20Nelson/195/241/183 when I regained control.

The 87th crossing failed too, at 15:40, but eventually I only lost 3rd person camera position and everything else was fine when I landed in the water in Thunderer.

The 95th crossing was long and rough as well, but it didn't fail.

This means I had 7 problematic corner crossings out of 100, but only 1 of them forced me to have to stand up and sit in my car again, and even that one wasn't a hard failure.

I was driving in mouselook and it was really smooth, but whenever I got out of mouselook, my camera position and 3rd person control inputs were lost. As others mentioned this issue as well, it would be really nice to have these sorted out, too, if possible.

We should still lift our control inputs when crossing, I was playing with this randomly and every time I kept accelerating into the corner, it sent me flying, more or less. None of these attempts resulted in a failure, though, which is impressive. When I lifted as we normally do on every crossing, the corner crossing was very smooth, except the 7 rough ones I mentioned above.

I did this test while Animats and Animatsalt were going round and round with a train on the ground, so I wasn't the only traffic in these regions.

I left my test platform in place up here, I hope it won't be in the way. If anyone wants to use it to test the region corner crossing with cars, bikes, trucks, etc, feel free to.

I've done a fair bit of testing flying one of my planes at full throttle(and it's not a slow plane) around the Blake regions on the Beta server to test the new crossing code.

OVERALL, extremely promising. I barely even notice the normal crossings at all(though this could be due to the more limited nature of the beta grid, being on separate servers with very few people, attachments, scripts, and objects around... probably needs a proper stress test with lots of people at once.)

I turned off the corner crossing script built into my plane(made specifically to deal with the problems of corner crossings), and slammed full speed through a whole bunch of them. Other than the very occasional hitch or visual delay in completing the crossing, no issues at all. Didn't fall out of my plane, or lose it, or end up disconnected. If this new setup proves out and behaves on the live grid as it does here, I dare say the corner crossing scripts in my vehicles may end up being mostly obsolete. So good job on that.

NOW, here's where I DO run into a problem... I had a friend come on to ride as a passenger while I flew around full speed and slammed into the corner crossings.. Firstly, it seems like the sims will refuse to let my craft enter, until my passenger seems to make the crossing. It bounces me off the edge like a void-edge until it recognizes the passenger passing over and lets me through. MOST of the time this only takes a few seconds, when being slow, other times it's smooth and near instant... However, if my passenger crashed(which they did, a couple times as we tested all this), I suddenly end up stuck in the sim I'm in, because the sims can't recognize the passenger passing over, since they're in the process of crashing and not really there... It seems to take a while for this to clear up and finally let me cross into other sims again, at which point it behaves normally. So this COULD be a major issue for anyone carrying passengers, if those passengers then crash, and they end up stuck in the sim for a while...

Hopefully a solution can be found to this passenger crashing issue, but otherwise the rest of it seems very good, very promising. It's just going to need some good stress testing to see how it behaves under a heavy load. And I'm sure I can gather a good handful of other sky pirates to help add bodies for stress testing.. so if/when you're ready to look into that, please do reach out! And good job so far!

I tested this with a boat last week and now again with a boat and with an airplane as well. It is really impressive!

Last week it wasn't really smooth, I wasn't unseated and I kept control of the boat the whole time, but I had camera and animation issues during my brief test.

Now I did roughly 100 corner crossings with a boat and then about the same with an airplane (my beta grid inventory is messy so I couldn't attach my trip HUD to count how many crossings I actually did), and .

I had a very long crossing once while flying, about 20 seconds, which was very scary, but then I finally regained control and everything was OK. I had a few other weird corner crossings later as well where it seemed like I was already in the third region, but then apparently zapped back to the first, then the second, and back to the third region again (??? - not entirely sure, it was very fast). Knowing what happens on corner crossings on the main grid, these weren't bad at all.

There are a few things however that I'd like to point out:

1: The beta grid is very small with only a few regions.

2: There are only a handful of people logged in here, no constant login-logouts, teleports, chat, etc that put a lot of strain on the login, simulator, IM and other servers which indirectly affect region crossings as well.

3: These Blake Sea regions have nearly no objects and scripts in them, so they are very light.

There have been examples of this before.

If you think this is good enough on the beta grid now, you should roll it out on the main grid to see what happens under real pressure, , so we won't have to sit at home for a week.

All in all this looks so much better than how corner crossings and single region crossings work on the main grid that I think it can't be a disaster on the main grid either, but we won't know until we try.

I've had a train running around a track loop at Blake Sea - Thunderer for two days now. The track goes right through a region corner, so every 30 seconds, the train and any onboard avatars go through a double region crossing. The train itself is fine. It's been running for two days now. The train has now had about 5,000 successful double region crossings without a failure.

Avatars aren't doing as well. We started with four avatars on the loco, and after two days, all but one has now fallen off and its viewer disconnected. They're all still listed in People->Nearby as seen by the one remaining avatar. I can zoom to them, and some are underground. None will accept an IM. Failures have been seen with several different viewers. The Firestorm instance shown has been logged in for two days, and the screenshot shows what it's seeing.

This is easy to reproduce - just put some avis on the train, and wait.

So, I gave a (short) try at Blake Sea regions on Aditi, using a speed boat of mine, with two avatars on board (each running the same viewer but on a different computer).

I tried to reproduce region crossing failures (like crossing a border then crossing it back immediately in opposite direction, or turning round and round at max speed around a 4 sims corner), and I must say I'm impressed at the result (but of course, there were only two avatars in the sims: that would have to be to be checked when many more avatars are around and the sim servers' load is therefore much higher).

However, I found a weird issue with the camera axis (which focus is set by the script via llSetCameraEyeOffset() and llSetCameraAtOffset()) sometimes getting lost when crossing a corner. This could be a race condition in scripts state (de)serializing. I made a short video of it for demonstration: https://sldev.pages-perso.free.fr/misc/BlakeSeaTest1.mkv