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Preview Grid with Updated Interest List?
SuezanneC Baskerville
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01-07-2006 11:45
Is there a preview grid running now with new interest list code and if so how does one access it?
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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01-07-2006 13:08
Someone said they have a preview grid running with code that improves the interest list problems.

Is it true?

Is it for Lindens only?

I'd love to give it a try.
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Torley Linden
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01-07-2006 13:42
Where did it say this? I'd like to give it a spin too!
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01-07-2006 14:10
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Nathan Stewart
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01-07-2006 14:22
Well i've not seen or heard anything about it, there may be some slight confusions in that the old preview grids are up and running, but they are all restriced to employees, there will be some testing going on but no idea for what and on what grid.
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01-07-2006 14:41
What's the interest list?
SuezanneC Baskerville
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01-07-2006 14:45
Darn it, I forget his name, last name Petunia, first name starts with I.

Introvert Petunia said it.

From: someone
There was an announcement from the development manager today (sorry, too tired to search and link) acknowlegding that they broke something in the interest list in 1.7.x and that they think they've unbroken it on the preview grid already. This is good news.


what he said

There is a group called Introverts but it only has one member and doesn't accept outsiders.
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Nathan Stewart
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01-07-2006 14:50
From: nimrod Yaffle
What's the interest list?


Its a list of textures assigned a priority based on their physical size and distance from your location, this happens dyamically as you move around so textures move up and down the list, textures located higher up the list are loaded into the client first and so on down the list.

Its like the list that loads and unloads objects when you have passed them.

There are problems with how this list is working as people see the grey textures, either images are loaded or unloaded too quickly, this can be because of the shape of an object or the distance it is from you, also the list might not be handling them in memory properly so textures get bumped off the bottom. There may be issues where its not processing the optimal amount of textures perframe, either loading or moving them around the list, or sending the requests off to the asset server/cache, and handling them when they come back.

So as you can see it has many failure points for something that seems quite simple as to load your textures.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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01-07-2006 14:56
From: Nathan Stewart
Its a list of textures assigned a priority based on their physical size and distance from your location,

What about camera angle?
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Nathan Stewart
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01-07-2006 14:59
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
Darn it, I forget his name, last name Petunia, first name starts with I.

Introvert Petunia said it.



what he said

There is a group called Introverts but it only has one member and doesn't accept outsiders.


I've tried to search and cant see anything from either karen or chris, the last development update didnt mention texture problems
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Introvert Petunia
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01-07-2006 15:04
From: someone
Introvert Petunia said it.
what he said
Sorry, I mis-remebered Karen Linden's Post which does say:
  1. They found and think they fixed a texture decompression bug
  2. Which is on Preview 1.8.0(5) (but not specifically that the preview was open)
  3. They are on the hunt for the interest list problems introduced in 1.7
Sorry for any confusion caused by my premature senility.
Nathan Stewart
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01-07-2006 15:05
From: SuezanneC Baskerville
What about camera angle?


Yes i think camera angle is used as well, as well as hovering over/selecting a texture/object with your mouse will move it up the interest list.
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Nathan Stewart
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01-07-2006 15:07
From: Introvert Petunia
Sorry, I mis-remebered Karen Linden's Post which does say:
  1. They found and think they fixed a texture decompression bug
  2. Which is on Preview 1.8.0(5) (but not specifically that the preview was open)
  3. They are on the hunt for the interest list problems introduced in 1.7
Sorry for any confusion caused by my premature senility.


Ahh yes that bug, which only allowed 1 image to be decoded per frame, the fix for that was in that release and is on the main grid.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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01-07-2006 16:08
Well PHOOEY!!!
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