New Second Life Windlight release - 1.18.6.77495

The First Look release of the Second LifeWindlight project has been updated with a number of bug-fixes wrapped up in a tasty new First Look viewer. What the heck is Windlight all about? Check out our feature on it here.

More details and a list of fixes and changes after the fold. Major highlights include a bundle of fixes for some Mac bugs/crashes, which appear to have a flow-on effect of also producing improved frame-rates for other systems. There are still a couple of major outstanding issues for MacBook Pro users that are in Apple's court right now, but fixes appear to be on the way for those.

The First Look browser is a beta-test browser that runs against the main (Agni) grid. If it eats your inventory, your files and your dog, that's at your own risk. The viewer is available from the First Look downloads page right now. We recommend the use of a download manager to save download time - it can cut 90% or more off the overall download time for many users.

Changes for this release:

• WindLight: NVidia 8600 Mac Book Pros are dropping to software shaders

• VWR-1560: WindLight: Object culling clips too near and looks very harsh

• VWR-3283: WindLight: Camera focus doesn't center on certain objects

• VWR-3732: WindLight: Avatar attachments aren't lit in Appearance mode and look too dark

• VWR-3903: WINDLIGHT: Minimap object and ground layer not aligned

• VWR-4083: Clicking "Land and L$" tab in group info window crashes viewer

• VWR-4184: WindLight: Changing Graphics between Ultra<->Low causes crash in LLVOWater::updateGeometry

• Crash when tracking avatars

• Viewer crashes when turning on "Beacons Always On" with "Render Beacons"

• Crash on mac... another glFlush outside

• r76886: MAC - Failed to log into Aditi

• texture animations are mis-scaled

• bumpmapping flips on active objects

There are presently 207 open Windlight issues, down (for the first time) from 249 last release.