Changes
- At last, Sharpview is no longer locked into a single region. Multiple regions are displayed and region crossing works.
Known problems
- Some Second Life regions will be slow to appear. Wait one minute and the region should appear.
This is the "EstablishAgentCommunication bug", and it is a simulator bug being worked on by Linden Lab.
Walking into a region that's not visible yet will usually make it appear, but this may result in a region
crossing failure.
- Region crossings in Open Simulator only work in some regions with a recent fix. Ubittest <-> Ubittest2 works.
Results in other regions may vary. We're working with the Open Simulator developers to clean this up.
- Frame rates vary too much. This is a problem with lock conflicts at the Rend3/WGPU level.
Working on that.
- Open Simulator regions larger that 1024m x 1024m will cause an error, because the land mesh builder does not yet optimize large land meshes.
1024 x 1024 regions and smaller work.
There's also 1-meter gap in the ground at each region boundary, because region splicing is not implemented yet.
Notes
- The four nearest regions are displayed. Objects are always shown at High level of detail.
The world looks good, but we pay for that in network bandwidth.
200Mb/sec is normal and 400Mb/sec is possible. If your Internet connection has data transfer limits,
this can result in high bills.
- If the viewer's cache is on a rotating hard disk, performance will be disappointing.
A solid-state disk is needed.
Unimplemented features
- Avatars are still blocks. Viewpoint is always first-person.
- Texture animation is unimplemented.
- New materials (PBR) are unimplemented.
- Teleports are unimplemented.
- Very little of the standard user interface is implemented.
- There's no way to select objects or sit on anything yet.
- Windows and Linux are supported, but not, as yet, MacOS.
Reporting bugs
- If there's a panic, there should be a popup. Please take a screenshot
and send to "info@animats.com".
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