Genesis Viewer, Release 1.9.1032

We very much hope that our current Genesis testers will continue to use the Nightly Builds. It is thanks to your testing that we can find and fix issues quickly. Those people using the Nightly build will always get features and fixes quicker than the Releases.  This release build is identical to the Nightly build of the same number.

Genesis Viewer, Release 1.9.1032 (August 2024)

Main changes since: 1.8.957

Download:  https://genesisviewer.org

For a log of all that has transpired from the last Release, please see the Nightly build notes listed immediately below this story.

This will be the last release version that still contains the original Vivox voice system before it is replaced with WebRTC.

New:

- Friends Volume (aka Hearing Voices).

This feature permits the users to reduce the volume of nearby avatars who they are not friends with.  This makes it easier to hear your friends in busy voice places.

Open the Quick Pref for Sound (Bottom Right) and use the "Non Friends Att(enuation)"  slider to reduce the volume of non-friends.  

You can still raise and lower individual volumes of friends and non friends from the main chat menu.  Click the >> chevron at the top right to expand the names on those on voice, click their name to highlight, then use the slider at the bottom to adjust the volume on the resident you selected.

(Can also be applied in Active Speaker floater).

- Additional 'Contact Set' preference options.

These control how the contact sets colors are displayed for the avatar: Tag, Local/IM chat, Radar and Nearby Voice window.

Preferences: Genesis > Contact sets.

- 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.

- Added Crashpad to help diagnose issues for users wherelogging is unhelpful or non-existent. Limited to 24mb.  Privacy: Please note this does not store or send information to us.  To share your dump file, you have to manually email it to us. Even when you do, it does not contain any sensitive information, only details of the driver versions the program is using and information about the operating environment.

- Refinement of ability to temporarily derender assets from the pie menu ('more'option).  Previously an asset was permanently blacklisted until removed from the mute menu.  Temporary blacklisted objects will be cleared from the blacklist upon teleport or on the next session.

Fixes:

- Updated runtime libraries (DLL's) that had caused login issues for some users when their computer's version was older than the library the viewer was built with.

- Fixed aspect ratio in snapshot, i.e. the saved output now matches preview.

- Fixed: Material folder name (llbadfolderlookup), the code was not included in the last release.

- Inventory can now edit/save and manage Material Assets.

- Fixed inherited bug where script error floater fails to identify owner of object with issues.

- Fixed info freeze about Computer and Operating environment in "About Genesis" menu. 

- To fix the 'hover/flight at login' issue, the debug value for Nimble now defaults to True.

- Updated terminology for region maturity ratings to bring us in parity with all other viewers,  replacing PG with General and Mature with Moderate.

- Fixed bug where the viewer forgot if you had the favourites bar enabled. It now remembers and persists to next session.