Windlight is now a Release Candidate!
Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 7 March 2008
I wasn’t able to get on SecondLife yesterday, but today I found out some awesome news! SecondLife has taken the most recent First Look Windlight client, updated a few things, fixed a few bugs, and presto! We have SecondLife 1.19.1 RC0, complete with Windlight!
There’s a whole slew of bug fixes in the new RC so rather than my trying to post them all I’ll just refer you to the official announcement. Included in the update is the ability to open web pages right within SecondLife (you can disable this on the Web tab of the Preferences window). Voice within the Linux viewer seems to be fixed, and the settings from a previous RC are remembered, so if you used the previous RC and had Voice turned off it will be off when you fire up this new RC. There’s also a way to use audio and video media currently on the Web and put it on a prim, but I’ll have to look into that more to see how it works.
REQUIRED CAVEAT: The Release Candidate is still a testing version that may include more bugs than the regular version of the SecondLife software. It is not intended for general use by everyone, so use it at your own risk. If you find a problem, don’t just bitch and moan to your friends or on the SL blog, instead you need to visit the JIRA and make sure the bug’s been reported. If it hasn’t been, you need to report it yourself. That’s the only way problems can get fixed.
Also, some people have problems running Windlight due to video card issues. If you decide you don’t like how Windlight looks you can go into the Graphics section of your Preferences and disable the Atmospheric Shaders.
In addition, if you have installed Torley Linden’s awesome settings pack for Windlight you will need to reinstall it. And if you haven’t installed them yet, giive them a try. It’s a great demo for some of what Windlight can do.
8 March 2008 at 7:01 am
I had a problem with the colors in the RC-client. I disabled Basic Shaders to get the looks of the current stable release back, Atmospheric Shaders does something else, not sure what it does, but I’ve got that on I suppose…
8 March 2008 at 12:03 pm
I had seen something about that in comments on SL’s blog for earlier WL clients, but haven’t found that in any of the WL clients I’ve tried. I hope you made sure it was in JIRA so they can get it fixed before WL becomes the official release.I mentioned the Atmo shaders because that’s what Pastrami Linden confirmed as being the setting to change to get “a look very similar to old-school Second Life, just with nicer- albeit flat-looking -skies.” (Comment #55 on the official announcement)