Genesis Change Log R7

Genesis:  A high performance, low memory footprint viewer for Second Life.  For Windows 10/11 (64 Bit) . 

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory   

An active participant in Second Life's Third Party Viewer Program.

Download page: https://genesisviewer.org

FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions and Solutions

Nightly Builds

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July 15th, 2023 (1.7.880) (compiling at at 5am SLT)

- This version will be the same at 1.7.880 RELEASE

- Area Search: Added ability to search by name, description and groups

- Install banner cosmetics

- Debug changes: Make new AO floater the default,  

July 2nd, 2023 (867)

- Added new Genx2 skin, buttons with icons in Genesis teal colour.  Asking the community to help with mods for this skin.

- DPI size of text in chat floaters now in increments in 4, not 8.

- Changed debug value to display IM in chat console along with local chat, to False (previously true).  User should have to opt-in to see IM in with local chat (not out).

June 25th, 2023 (863)

- Fixed: Don't start AO Engine when opening AO Settings if AO is not set enabled.

- Investigating: TP disconnect (#323) To understand why the simulator sometimes assumes you have left the region and closes the connection before the teleport-out has completed.  Added temporary additional TP tunnel info to genesis.log to help us track causes of this issue when users share their log files with us.

June 22nd, 2023 (861)

- Further streamlining of internal AO engine.

- Fixes: AO engine - when notecard is null label now shows empty string.

- Remember last active AO notecard setting and persist on relog.

June 19th, 2023 (855)

- Fixed Multiple AO's (Build in AO engine) was not remembering your last chosen AO at login.

- Fixed French toolbar overlay.

June 16th, 2023 (852)

- Fixed buttons in Create/Edit object that were truncated as a result of the font change in 842.

This weekend we will be working on "applying some EEP settings to yourself make the viewer immediately crash to desktop".

June 15th, 2023 (848)

- Reverted an original font to better supports more Extended High ASCII (Unicode) characters than its predecessor. Less 'square blocks' in elaborate display names (for those who have not already installed Korean and Chinese language packs).

- Fixed "powered by" font issue.

- Changed, Prefs: Genesis: Font Size to use multiples of 8 on slider and set upper and lower limits to prevent an unusually large or small values from messing up the display.

June 14th, 2023 (846)

- Support for multiple AO set-ups.  Nightly testers please help us test this to make sure we got it right!  Thank you.  (See here)

- Moved position of stop animations on bottom bar.

June 10th, 2023 (842)

- Added ability to change font in floater size for Chat, Profiles, Search etc). Prefs >  Genesis > Adv. Features.   Use the slider to adjust between 88, 96, 104 (default), 112, 120. Too large a number will cause certain floaters to invoke tabs, for example  "notes" tab on profiles will scroll if you choose a very large value for the font size, but mileage will vary considerably depending on the users screen resolution.

June 2nd, 2023 (836)

- Fixed text in dialog boxes for very long text. Thought fixed in 828.  Redone.

- Reworked edit floater and fixed Land Impact truncating to 2 digits.

- Fixed: Holes in terrain at the bottom of the sea.  Due to some bizarre inherited hard-coded region configuration.

- Increased password length maximum from 12 to 16 characters (the maximum SL permits).  The 12 character limit was an old OpenSim limit we had overlooked.  Since Genesis does not support OS, the length can now be extended to 16.

May 22nd, 2023  (830)

- New Snapshot floater is set active.  Debug: GenxSnapshotFloater  True by default.  Set false for old styles floater

May 21st, 2023 (828)

- Fixed font size in dialog so text doesn't disappear behind the user input box. Issue remains on 830.

May 20th, 2023 (826)

- Genesis now supports uploading of 30 second WAV files at 44.1 kHz.

- Laying foundations for the reworking of Area Search.

May 13th, 2023 (824)

- Tweaked Preferences menu to suit new font.

May 8th, 2023 (822)

- New Feature: Ability to show avatar distance from you in name/group hover-text.

Preferences > Genesis > Tags:  Show Avatar Distance.

- New Feature, Snapshot floater rework: Ability to resize snapshot floater for larger or smaller preview. To try this, set Debug: GenxSnapshotFloater to True

- Begin Area Search rework.

 

- Fixed need to scroll tab profiles to "notes" using new font.

May 8th, 2023 (810)

- Replace default Roboto font with clearer Inter-Font from Google. We could all do with a bit of help seeing things.

- Begin foundation for snapshot window rework

- Begin foundation for ability to see Avatar distance from client via name tag

May 4th, 2023 (808)

- Added tool-tip to hit-boxes so we don't forget the shortcut key we created for it.

- Moved "stop anims" icon on the toolbar. Next to the music slider was not good!

- Began reworking on Area Search.

- Development Team has opted to use American English for the viewer,  Z's instead of S's and no U's in things like colour.   Release notes will probably continue in English English.  This is because the demographic for SL is heavily weighted in USA so we're going to use Englishification, lest you think we can't spell.

April 22nd, 2023 (804)

- Added a stop animation button to UI next to media play/pause

- Fixed: unlimited zoom via camera constraints. 

Genesis Change Log R5

 Genesis:  A high performance, low memory footprint 1.23 style, Third Party Viewer for Windows 10/11.

An active participant in Linden Lab's  Second Life, Third Party Viewer program. 

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory

Nightly Builds

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March 28th, 2023 (764 Release Candidate)

-Active Speaker panel to the right of local chat floater is open by default.  How the user sets it will be remembered and persist. (Close by clicking << )

- Search & Replace Links (Search & Delete) is now live.

- Added Group Notice position Left, Middle, Right, to Preferences (Genesis tab).  Default to right.

- Groundwork for 1.5 Release

March 26th, 2023 (759)

- Active Speaker side panel in local chat box will now persist through relog to its last setting on/off.

Before this feature appears in Preferences you can test it via Debug: 

GenxActiveSpeakerOpened

Group Notice set to Middle

- New feature, nominate where Group Notices open, top left, middle, or top right (currently in debug to test).

Before this feature appears in Preferences you can test it via Debug: 

GenxGroupNotifyPos: Set the position of group notifications (0 = top right, 1 = top left, 2 = top middle)

March 25th, 2023 (755)

Hit Boxes for combat players,  Shift + Alt + B

A portion of code for this feature is courtesy of Firestorm.

March 22nd, 2023 (753)

- Don't record group notices to genesis log they are of no use. 

March 21st, 2023 (752)

- Adjusted width of Search and Replace floater to accommodate message length.  Otherwise, no other issues with this feature have been reported thus far. 

March 16th, 2023 (750)

Significant New Feature: Search and Replace Links (and Search and Delete Links).

The ability to bulk search and replace inventory links through-out your entire inventory.

A scenario of use: Saved outfits that contain a link to a mesh body that has since been updated, where you want to replace every instance of that old link with a new link to the updated body, in all saved outfits in your entire inventory that contain the old link.

Since the start of this month we have been working on this feature.  We have now tested it internally as much as we possibly can and we are releasing it into the nightly build, but with it defaulting to disabled.

Experienced Genesis users can now test its functionality.    Please do not enable this feature unless you are willing to test it and possibly suffer inventory problems, that our extensive alpha testing failed to identify.  We suggest you test this first using an Alt account.

We have rigorously tested this feature on the beta and main grid using multiple accounts and we have reached a point where we now need the assistance of experienced Genesis Nightly build users to confirm that everything is working as it should.

Security added to this feature in recent days and now available in Build 750:

- Prevent viewer from accepting user input when replace links is running.

- Permit only one instance of replace links at a time.

- Do not allow close window during process.

- Display a wait message whilst processing.

- Add replace links to contextual menu.

- Added ability to replace -OR - delete links.

- Avoid double click on replace.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please do not attempt to enable this feature on any version prior to Build 750, as it will NOT contain the fixes listed above and may break your inventory.

 We have taken every reasonable precaution we can to ensure this feature is safe to use. To opt-in to test this feature, in debug change:    

GenxReplaceLinksFeature: Enable the replace links feature (Don't activate it!!)  -  to True.

March 15th, 2023 (749)

Final testing of new feature before making it available in Nightly for wider testing.  You will need to opt-in when this becomes available for wider testing.

March 14th, 2023 (743)

More fine tuning for continuous testing, ahead of launching new feature to the test cycle.  Feature is not live in this nightly build.

March 11, 2023 (735)

Back-end. Continuous testing throughout this period ahead of rolling out a new feature.

March 5, 2023 (733)

- Back end preliminary work: Find links (part 1/3 of internal test routine ready to go to wider test).

- New Feature: Customise your friendship requests in Prefs > Adv. Chat.

When left blank the friendship message will default to, "Would you like to be my friend?" (in the language you use).  You can permanently override the default friendship message here in Adv. Chat tab.

- Fixed "..is typing bug", when the user is not typing.  However if they press space-bar and nothing else, '..is typing', will display until one of you closes the chat IM.

February 27, 2023 (722)

- Fixed FPS read-out (when activated) appearing in snapshots.

- Changed reset value debug for RenderVolumeLODFactor from 1.0 to 2.5 which is already the default when using the low/mid/high sliders.

- Fixed typo's on cache start up and changed some

- Added new Genesis Team members, as shown in their profiles, in the account type box.

- Graphics Quality preset gestures are now available. You can create as many graphics settings as you like, by using the /setdebug gestures. Demonstration settings are now available from the Genesis store located at: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/105/239/24

February 20, 2023 (714)

- New Feature, Right clicking a persons name in their profile opens a menu of options.  AR option now auto fills their name in for the report.

- You can also AR an IM or Group IM, by right clicking the users name in the chat.

-  Group chat history, fetch group history only if it's not a P2P session

-  Code clean up for removal of  Opensim routines including the now redundant:  ImagePipelineUseHTTP and UDP defaults set True on some settings, none of which are used in Second Life.

- Filed SL Jira https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-233428  Requesting a clear indication of start and end of Recent IM group history chat on server side, for further refinement of this new feature.  Otherwise we will code it in to Genesis ourselves, but would prefer Linden took the hit their end instead of us introducing code viewer-side to compensate.  Every little helps!

February 15, 2023 (708)

-  Reinstated: Drag and Drop inventory from one tab to another.

How it works:   Left click the item or folder you want to move from "Recent Items" and with the mouse button still pressed move it over the "All Items" tab.  This will switch tabs, and whilst still holding the mouse button, you can now drag the mouse to the folder you want to drop the items into.

- Added Movelock Hud to Marketplace:

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Genesis-Movelock-HUD-10/24494232 

Genesis becomes first Third Party Viewer to fully implement Group IM History

 On Tuesday, Linden Lab announced:

The Second Life viewer and servers have added a feature for group chat, providing recent message history. 

Have you ever logged into Second Life and your group chat opens with the punchline of a joke? Now you’ll be able to read back and see what it was. The chat servers save messages from the last hour, so you won’t miss what’s happening.

A viewer update is required to use this new feature, and will be part of a future release.

Genesis Viewer is pleased to announce that we are the first TPV to have this feature fully implemented from our Nightly Build, 689 onwards.

Opening any group when you login will show you what was said in the hour before your session started.

Linden Lab intends to lengthen amount of time that group history is saved for, after initial testing.

You can download the Genesis Nightly Build 689 from https://genesisviewer.org

See the original post from LL here https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/12652-coming-soon-to-a-viewer-near-you-group-chat-history/