Download page: https://genesisviewer.org
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions and Solutions
Nightly Builds
August 24th, 2024 (1.9.1032) Release Candidate
- Preparing 1.9 Release.
- Updated members and contributors credits for 'About' floaters.
August 22nd, 2024 (1026) Release Candidate
- Potential Release Candidate as the final Vivox version before WebRTC supersedes.
August 22nd, 2024 (1025)
August 22nd, 2024 (1021)
- Updated DLLs are now included in the Genesis folder.
Out of date DLLs was causing a Quit to Desktop on login for some users. Our build environment uses a more recent DLL than some users have installed on their computers. This update to the build environment happened after version 1005 was compiled.
- Added Crashpad to help diagnose issues for users where logging is unhelpful or non-existent.
- Crashpad is configured to use no more than 24mb of disk space. Enough for approximately 12 dump reports to diagnose issues. These files are stored under the logs part of appdata/roaming/etc. It is up to the user if they want to manually share these reports or not. No data is collected by anyone automatically and dump reports are only about DLLs in use by the viewer anyway.
- New Feature: Additional 'Contact Set' preference options, to control how the contact sets are displayed in the avatar Tag, Local/IM chat, Radar and Nearby Voice window.
- Removed Builds, 1007, 1010, 1012, 1015, 1017 for failing QA
August 18th 2024 (1007)
< Investigating: Quit to desktop bug after 'loading world' message on this build for some users >
- Contact sets extended to 9 (was 3) - per Shep.
- Resolved a show stopper issue with WebRTC:
The ProvisionVoiceAccountRequest cap request gives unexpected response.
June 8th, 2024 (Internal)
- Test refs/heads/439-implement-webrtc-which-will-succeed-vivox
June 1st, 2024 (1005)
- To fix the 'hover/flight at login' issue, the debug value for Nimble now defaults to True.
May 30th, 2024 (1004 )
- Starting implementation of WebRTC in viewer, the replacement for Vivox (Voice Chat).
- Particles slider in QuickPrefs previously offered zero then 256 as its first increment. It can now be increased in 64s, i.e. 0, 64, 128, 192 etc. This is a good feature for admins who want to easily detect particle griefers without running the risk of their GPU being overtaxed.(debug value: RenderMaxPartCount)
February 27th, 2024 (Nightly 1001)
- Removed FriendsBoostLevel debug and from settings.xml. Superfluous setting for vivox friends volume boost.
February 26th, 2024 (Nightly 999)
- Reworked 'hearing voices', the ability to change the default incoming voice volume to make your friends louder than non-friends in busy places.
This now works by attenuating non-friends instead of boosting friends volume which caused distortion under certain conditions.
Related debug value: NonFriendsAttenuationLevel
You can access this setting from QuickPrefs Volume:
You can still adjust individual volumes for residents via Active Speaker or by clicking the chevrons in Local Chat box.
Fixed: Genesis 997 forgot if you had favourites bar enabled or disabled and would set to disabled. It will now remember the setting. The default setting for new install is off.
February 10th, 2024 (Nightly 997)
This feature has been reworked in Nightly 999. You only need to set the attenuation level for non-friends.
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of 0.5 to 0.3. I have done this, because I am about to boost the volume of my friends.. |
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friends by is also located in the volume panel |
To adjust individual volumes, this can be done via 'Active Speakers' option, or by
clicking the two chevrons in local chat and adjusting individual people there.
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| Click >> in local chat to open voice panel, click the name, adjust their volume. |
- KNOWN ISSUE: Favourites bar now defaults to off on new installation. You currently need to reactivate it by going to Prefs > Genesis > Adv. Features (Display favorites bar)
- Inherited bug fix: Inventory filters can now exclude links to objects being displayed. (Further refinement from Nightly 993).
February 3rd, 2024 (Nightly 993)
- Inherited bug fix: Inventory filter to prevent links from displaying now works.
- Fixed: Boosting friends volume beyond 1.00 can cause Vivox to drop out.
February 2nd, 2024 (Nightly 989)
- Default volume for friends on voice, can now be set at a different default level to non-friends. Located in main volume settings (bottom of main gui).
Use: Handy for busy voice places. When there are a lot of people you don't know, mashing their gums and you want to talk to your mates. It is like squelching out people on a CB :)
- Updated terminology of region maturity ratings to bring us in parity with all other viewers, replaced PG with General, and Mature with Moderate.
- Materials work continues.
This replaces 986 compiled earlier today.
January 17th, 2024 (Internal)
- PBR Base textures are fine. Metallic overlays need work. Work continues.
December 19th, 2023
- Work continues on PBR rendering but several issues exist in library code and therefore in all viewers. This is slowing us down slightly as we continue to develop our own implementation.
Problems affecting PBR:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-234706 [GLTF] [PBR] Performance unstable / massive performance loss
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-234672 [GLTF] Random stuck texture causes bad performance
December 16th, 2023 (internal)
- Testing PBR implementations whilst preserving shader settings.
November 30th, 2023 (internal)
- Render work for materials
November 21st, 2023 (internal)
- Continuing internal development of material asset rendering.
November 15th, 2023 (internal)
- RenderAttachedLights PBR.
November 3rd, 2023 (982)
Materials work for 'PBR':
- Edit floater contains PBR as texture option.
- Add Material to inventory, Create Material in inventory, Edit, Open from inventory.
- Material texture picker.
- Added Save and Cancel options to floater.
- Fixed: Material folder name (llbadfolderlookup).
- Added generic streaming dummy handler.
November 1st, 2023 (978)
- Genesis Viewer is now able to edit and save material items from inventory (in PBR enabled regions).
October 29th, 2023 (internal)
- log markers pbr.
October 17th, 2023 (internal)
- Removed "incidents" marker from splash screen until it is ready to use.
- Back end work, no front facing user discernible changes:
i. Materials need to include xxhash in licences
ii. Use xxhash instead of MD5
October 16th, 2023 (967)
- Fixed aspect ratio in snapshot, i.e. saved output now matches preview.
- Inventory can now manage Material Assets.
- Add and Edit Materials from Inventory window.
- Early preliminary PBR work, getting our ducks in a row.
PBR enabled regions will correctly send this warning to the genesis.log as the viewer does not yet have instructions on how to interpret the assets: LLTemplateMessageReader::decodeTemplate: Message #1
October 15th 2023 (963)
- Fixed info freeze on "About" menu. Tested on both AMD and NVidia. Mileage may vary on cards we haven't been able to test.
October 15th 2023 (961)
- Working on info freeze on "About" menu. Fixed for AMD, not so great for NVidia.
October 10th, 2023 (959)
- Fixed inherited bug where script error floater fails to identify owner of object with issues.
