Release Notes for Second Life 1.11.0(0) June 29, 2006

Release Notes for Second Life 1.11.0(0) June 29, 2006
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Features:
* Zoomable UI
** The entire UI can be scaled (including in-world text, manipulators, etc) by a user-supplied scale value (Preferences->Graphics->UI Size)
** When running fullscreen, the additional option "Use resolution independent scale" should ensure that the UI looks the same at all resolutions
** Additionally, changing to a resolution with a different aspect ratio than your monitor's aspect ratio should not result in any squashing or stretching of your display
* Improved Snapshot functionality
** When taking a snapshot, the world will freeze in place and the snapshot will be previewed over the entire screen (but under UI elements)
** The camera tool will be active by default, allowing you to click and drag to move the camera around while objects/avatars/etc are frozen in place, without having to hold down ALT
** You can also change snapshot parameters (resolution, JPEG compression level) and the snapshot will update on the fly
** Any time the camera moves or a parameter is changed, the existing snapshot will "drop" away and be replaced by a new one
** You can also take snapshot of arbitrary resolution, up to 6000x6000
*** Be aware that the larger the snapshot is, the more system resources are needed to create it -- you can potentially run out of memory and crash if taking very large snapshots on a low-end system
* Eyedropper tool
** Added the ability to pick colors and textures from objects in view (and that you own) inside the color picker and texture picker
** When depressed, the button changes the mouse cursor and activates a "pipette" or "eyedropper" tool
** The user can then click on another object in world to grab the texture/color of the face that they clicked
* Gestural pie menus
** Pie menus now provide a gradually faded border when the right mouse button is down to suggest that you can use them by moving the mouse in a given direction, which is faster and easier than clicking on a pie wedge directly
** Also, pie sub-menus can be accessed with gestures, making it possible to chain gestures together to perform any operation in the pie menu by memory
* Tear-off menus
** Added ability to click on a double line at the top of any menu or sub-menu and pin it in place on the UI as a "floater"
** All of the menu items should still work, as well as branching menus, etc.
** Closing the floater will make it disappear
** Accessing a detached menu via it's parent menu will bring the floating menu to the foreground, but not reposition it

Other changes:
* Improved text field support for INSERT key

Bug fixes:
* Profile can now be viewed after searching for one Resident in the finder
* Preferences > Network > Clear Cache > Apply no longer starts parcel music stream

Hmmm . . . more stuff I don't understand in the abstract. (And may not in practice.)

So . . . what's the good stuff in this, and what does it mean?

coco

Sweeeeeet! Thanks! Now I know what to play with.

I think they missed this one in the release notes:

On the world map, when you search for a region now it displays all the search results in a box on the right side!

I crashed it. Excellent! The more we crash it in preview the less likely it will be to crash when it goes live.

If you don't have anything better to do you might as well be in preview grid.

It got a scaleable interface.


Uh oh, the About Second Life doesn't work. It displays the "About Second Life" at the top of the dialog box, and the minimize and close icons, and that is it.

Excellent!

Oh god the pie menu does some kind of animation zooming.


Wahhhhh hahhhhhh . wahh
This is sincere crying. I hate that. I run XP with all effects turned off.

sincere crying ? wow.

I see they failed to implement the 'Maim' pie option when clicking on other avatars.

sincere forum crying.

actually i am more mad, but crying should get more sympathy than anger, so the big strong programmers will get out their wrenches and fix this stupid broken zooming problem.

Insincere forum crying would be followed with a joke or something.

On a rural road a state trooper pulled this farmer over and said: "Sir, do you realize your wife fell out of the car several miles back?"

To which the farmer replied: "Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf!"

Try holding down the right mouse button instead of just tapping it. You can get through some pie menus in one click now.

omfg eyedropper tool <3 <3 <3

Thanks.

I still don't wan't any zooming, spinning, pulsating, revolving, gyrating, warping, undulating, etc.

I don't want a program's interface to be trying to entice me.

Clean and simple, minimalist.

It's gonna take me a bit to get used to it.

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The snapshot preview just lost the shot I had when I changed eesolution to 512.
So set it to desired resolution before doing your shots.

it has options for color, depth, and object ID
Color was the normal one, depth produced a white uniform screen, and object id was a solid love for each object.

what is depth supposed to do, and what good is object id?