0h nooo release candidate 1.23 a forced upgrade

Because its name is "Release Candidate", the purpose of its existence is not to give you a better experience but to give you the opportunity to test the client before it being the current one and to do so, you must use it.

This is what we think works so far. We haven't completely tested it yet. Please try it out and let us know what works for you. Use of it is completely voluntary and for debug purposes only. We will not be responsible for any damages, lost data, ruined content, or microwaved kittens as a result of using this program.

But it's nice to be able to see the improvements, even if it has bugs. Making an RC that has no improvements but has bugs would be pointless!

The RC is buggy by design, regardless of the version. (^_^)

That's the whole point of the RC process. A Release >>Candidate<< is an pre-release version of a product that users are allowed to utilize and report the bugs on prior to it being the next standard client. It should be used for testing, new feature verification, and pre-release bug reporting only. Embracing an RC as your every day client is a foolish venture, indeed. (^_^)y

The alpha-masking that's coming is *much* better than either of the preceding avatar-hiding hacks. They actually rushed to get in the change than breaks the complexity hack before any more content was made based on it; it's said to be totally unsupportable. (I get the impression that the invisiprim hack continues to be a pain to keep working, too, but they know that tons of stuff depends on that because it's been around for years.)

Here's a shot from Nyx's office hour yesterday, showing an avatar with alpha-masking:

Wasn't speaking of invisiprims.

speaking of the giant megaprims you wear that render the AV invisible. Much better looking then the old invisiprim hacks that cause shaders behind not to render. Fly near water and your AV looks stupid with the invisiprims sticking out due to the water behind not rendering.

However, if all we have to do in the future is wear alpha skins.... that would be great.

How big a megaprim are we talking, 20x20x20 or 256x256x256 or bigger?

65536x65536x65536 or bigger, I believe. It's so big that it can't be rendered, and the avatar mesh doesn't render either as a result. It's a hack.

65536x65536x65536 or bigger, I believe. It's so big that it can't be rendered, and the avatar mesh doesn't render either as a result. It's a hack.

So does one of these mean everyones avatar mesh in a 4 sim radius is also affected?

3 or 4 people walking around in a sim would have to screw something up I suspect.

Sounds like an insane hack to me, I've got a copy of that huge megaprim in my inventory, but never been crazy enough to rez it inworld.

wear that then check your avatar rendering cost. it will be a really big number, i assure you.

No, of course not. It's never rezzed in-world, it's attached to the avatar, and only effects the attached avatar.
The only effect attached prims have on a sim is via the scripts in them. The sim doesn't even see the geometry.
It's not rezzed inworld, it's attached.

So if the prim doesn't rez, why couldn't a .01x.01x.01 prim be used instead and just placed in the body of the avatar.