The What has been added part people forget to read when installing the new client

Second Life 1.6.0(15) March 31, 2005
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New Features
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- International Language Support – Residents can now chat and communicate in
their local languages, including Asian character sets. Additionally,
European and alternate keyboards are correctly supported.

- Video streaming – In much the same way as streaming audio, both live and
on-demand video can be streamed into Second Life and played back on any
textured surface in-world. The QuickTime? engine is used for streaming
playback, allowing support for open standards like MPEG-4. Requires that
QuickTime? be installed. (See Note Below)

- Better frame rates through faster rendering of complex avatar attachments

- Linked objects will share a single drawable instance. End Results:
Attachments render faster, especially hair!

- Avatar Chat Bubbles: ptional ability to see chat shown as bubbles above
avatar's heads.

- Searchable Inventory: Inventory window now includes search entry dialog
box. Search within your inventory: Type a few characters and find anything
fast. Includes popup filter options for searching by type of inventory
item.

- Streaming inventory for faster startup of SL. Your inventory is no longer
loaded at start of every login, it comes in as needed.

- Friends: New Friend relationship is added that is separate from calling
cards. Calling cards have been changed to now make it possible to offer
your calling card without requiring trade. Friends are the new calling
card that requires a trade. Friends are managed through a new dialog
accessible from the pull down menu under 'Edit | Friends...' or on the
west pie menu after a context click on your own avatar.

- Steer your avatar more smoothly while walking by left-clicking on yourself
and driving with your mouse

- Buy without sufficient funds redirects to Second Life's Buy Currency Web
Page.

- Added the text "Searching..." to results window while searching to
indicate that a search is in progress.

- Land Management Improvements:

* Ability to sell a piece of land with the objects that are on it. UI
for this feature is on the "Objects" panel of the "About Land"
floater. Includes: See who has objects on their parcel, and how many,
and return them to owner.

* Ability to list objects on your land by their owners, and return all
objects belonging to a specific person

* Ability to track particle systems to their source objects and owners
(From View->Beacons)

* Added 'No Fly' for estate owners. Select Estate Panel and check the
box marked "Allow Fly"

* Private Island Deeding: Estate owners and group officers can now mark
their parcels on their island as deedable.

- Scripting Language Improvements:

* Allow users to query the position and status of simulators by name on
the grid using llRequestSimulatorData().

* Allow scripters to use llLoadURL() to display a dialog box on an
avatar's screen offering to load a web page using the residents
default web browser.

* Allow creators to automatically put a user who sits on an object into
mouse look using llForceMouseLook().

* Allow content creators to get the mass of another object or avatar
using llGetObjectMass().

* Give content creators access to more real time information about the
status of other agents using llGetAgentInfo().

* Make it easier for content creators to manipulate data by adding a
faster mechanism for replacing data in lists using
llListReplaceList().

* Improved handling of object inventory; added INVENTORY_ALL for
llGetInventoryName() and llGetInventoryNumber()

* Script permissions errors now appear as viewer alerts (non-
interactive pop-ups in the lower right corner).

* Scripts with animation permissions will now time out and lose
animation permissions if unable to find the agent for 1 second.

* Added ability to displace the center of mass from which the impulse
from the motor is applied from using VEHICLE_LINEAR_MOTOR_OFFSET.

* Added another link constant, LINK_THIS. This will allow the scripter
to specify the link the script is attached to only.

- Editing/Building improvements:

* Added the ability to edit sub-objects of linked sets in place, parent
and child included.

* UI Change: Snap to Grid and Show grid combined.

* Drag handles allowing free dragging constrained to X/Y, X/Z, or Y/Z
planes

* New snap to grid reference added: Object

* Color Picker now implemented in the client instead of calling out to
local system version. It is now possible to drag and drop colors to
the swatches in the color picker.

* Texture browser improved to work more like inventory view (NOTE: When
editing an object's texture, checking "Apply Immediate" will filter
out (no copy) and (no transfer) texture to avoid the object filling up
with texture you did not intent to move from inventory)

* You can no longer use (no copy) or (no transfer) textures for parcel
snapshots, or to create clothing, skins, etc.

* Object contents now reflect (no copy), (no modify) and/or (no
transfer) permissions in the displayed name, in the same manner as
items in user inventory.

* Added two new options in the Preferences that can disable automatic
camera movement when editing appearance and editing objects
respectively.

* Click anywhere in the world and drag the mouse to use the rectangle
selection tool. This allows you to rectangle select a large number of
objects while inside a building. Previously, you had to click on a
piece of ground or sky to start a rectangle selection.

* "Ruler" based grid snapping when using translate and scale tools.

- Improved server handling of groups; Backend changes, no functional
changes.

- New landmarks will reflect position changes of a simulator if it is
moved. Note: Landmarks made before 1.6 will not follow simulators that
have moved.

- Added 'fade' transitions at login to world


Bug Fixes
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- Fixed camera jitters on entering and exiting edit mode.

- Estate rules: "banned users" now takes precedence over "allowed groups"

- Rotations of prims are now clamped to the nearest half degree

- Fix for llRequestAgentData where it failed under certain circumstances.

- Fix for item on curser lost when an update is received from an object
being edited

- In script editor switched 'Undo Changes' with 'Help'.

- Mini position now correctly matches edit tools position

- Taking an object rezzed from trash now correctly goes to Objects.


Important Changes
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- Combo key commands that previously used the alt key have been moved to
the ctrl/command + shift keys. For example: Alt-1 is now moved to
Ctrl-Shift-1

- The texture picker has been changed to no longer display (no copy)
textures when "Apply Immediately" is selected.


Known Issues
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- Landmarks will not appear in the drop down menu list until your landmark
inventory folder has been loaded.

- There is a crash with the Quicktime DLL in certain rare situations while
viewing a parcel media.

- Objects which have had their floating text set to begin with a carriage
return will fail to load. When you are rezzing an item with this problem,
you will see the message: "Unable to create requested object - parse
failure." This will be fixed in the next patch.

- Some inventory items may incorrectly filter while using the inventory
search filters. These items will be automatically fixed over time without
intervention.


Notes
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How to Use Quicktime:
- See the wiki and the forums for detailed information on using streaming
media.

- In Brief
o Apply a texture to an object from your inventory that will eventually
be replaced with the media stream.
o From “About Land/Media” use the GUI to select the texture above.
o Enter the URL of your media stream
o Use the media controls in the client to watch your stream.

Currently supported llParcelMediaCommandList options are:

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_STOP - stop the media stream and go back to the
first frame

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_PAUSE - pause the media stream (stop playing but
stay on current frame)

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_PLAY - start the current media stream playing and
stop when the end is reached

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_LOOP - start the current media stream playing, loop
to the beginning when the end is reached and continue to play

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_TEXTURE - specifies the texture to replace with video

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_URL - specifies the movie url

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_TIME - specifies the start-time used when playing a
movie

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_AGENT - specifies a single agent to apply the media
command to

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_AUTO_ALIGN - sets the 'Auto Scale Media' option in
About Land

- PARCEL_MEDIA_COMMAND_UNLOAD - stop the movie and restore the texture that
has been replaced by the movie


Most of the QuickTime media formats are supported including

- QuickTime movies (.mov)

- Streamable stored QuickTime movies (.mov)

- Real time QuickTime streams (rtsp://)

- MPEG4 movies (.mp4, .mpeg4) (simple profile only)

- QuickTime VR scenes and objects (.mov)

- Flash movies (.swf) (only non-interative, version 5 and earlier)

- Many more - for a full list visit
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/specifications.html

- Note: not all of these may play - a good rule of thumb is if it plays in
the QuickTime Media player, it will play in Second Life.

- You may also retrieve the current URL and/or texture used for the movie
by calling llParcelMediaQuery - See the LSL documentation for more
details.

AKA FOOL

and an interesting little amendment to the ToS:

Updated Terms of Service

When Second Life comes back up later today, you'll be asked to read and agree to a revised Terms of Service. There are two primary changes:

First, we've revised Section 2 to allow people aged 13-17 to participate in a restricted area of Second Life, currently known as the Teen Grid. This change is in preparation for a test of a version of SL especially for teens. The Teen Grid is not yet widely available -- we plan to begin a test by invitation only very soon. The test region will be completely restricted from the main grid. More about that to come.

Second, we've added Section 12 to explain the DMCA process for registering a complaint about a copyright violation. This process is also explained on the website at DMCA.

*sigh*

*locks up her stuff*

Oh well, I guess it's not ALL bad, introducing the ability to stream porn AND upping the teen grid at the same time

time to start finding all the good small movie hosts I'll have to start making short clips again for this.

* Added two new options in the Preferences that can disable automatic
camera movement when editing appearance and editing objects
respectively.

Im easy to please, this is the biggest grief I had in world. All is well now

I have already installed the client and switched off these two options while dancing a celebratory jig

My son is anxiously awaiting this grid. How do i get him onto the invitation list? Anyone know?

Well, they were trying to make SL a place for education....

Children of the Feted Inner Core first. Are you fetid enough?

thanx Kris....... ~spraying windex on the monitor wiping with papers towels~

Yeah I think i need to be educated in the ways of the penis!

That is a lot of cool enhancements! I love the new inventory and land features.

Thank you LL!

Tito

I liked the friends bit on hte preview

and the search inventory WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

When I tried to watch a movie last night in the preview grid I got a message from Quicktime that a file was needed to watch a movie, but Quicktime does not make the file.

Yeah it told me I didn't have it installed, which I did, so I won't be watching Debbie Does Dallas I guess

Hmmm, erm, well, ahhhh, since I am not sure, I will boldly say yes hoping it gets the desired invitation.

Well, we'll be introducing the "Mouldy Outer Crust" group very soon, for people not quite fetid enough for the FIC.

In addition, there's the "super-feted, elite ultra-inner singularity" for those people way too feted for even the FIC. Currently, that's just Prokofy.

According to my profile, I am not only FIC, but a founder.

So, where's the invitation?