We're patching again, with several changes to serve you better!
We'll be down from about 6 AM to 9 AM Pacific Time. www.secondlife.com/status will have an update if we come back online early.
Here's the change list for the new release:
* Groups must have at least three members or risk being
automatically disbanded. If a group has fewer than three members
for three days, a warning will be issued from the system to the
group members. The group will be automatically disbanded the next
day if it still has fewer than 3 members. No refund of the group's
creation cost will be given.
* Grass and trees now decay to public just like other objects.
* Several animations have been changed to make them blend
together better with gestures. These include backflip,
kick_roundhouse, sit, turn_180, turnback_180, and yoga.
* Fixed a problem where the head appeared to flicker briefly
when you click the mouse.
* Our most common server crash is fixed. Long lists of images
waiting to be sent combined with poor alignment of the planets
and a butterfly flapping its wings in China used to make it
explode, but no longer.
* Linking together several fireworks and an object with no
script no longer causes a server crash when you try to
launch the fireworks.
* Added support for the latest ATI Catalyst 3.5 + hotfix drivers,
which will be posted to www.secondlife.com/drivers
* Secret Debug Feature: Second Life movies!
This is not yet a supported feature, but you can try it out if
you like. Press Ctrl-Alt-D to access the Debug menu and you'll
see an option to record a movie to your hard drive.
You should run in a window when doing this, and make the window
small (otherwise your computer won't be able to keep up saving
the video).
In order to use it, you will need to pick a compression format
(indicated by a "codec"
. The default ones in Windows are not good, so to get better ones, go to:
www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx
and get the 8.0 and 9.0 codecs. Once these are installed, they
will appear in the codec picker that pops up when you start
a capture as MPEG4 and Windows Media respectively.
The 8.0 codec is faster, but produces larger files.
James
(Edit to fix codec versions)