OOF.
Well here we are, back again at it. People have been crying for an update (people actually want to update?). So, here we are, merged with the latest Linden code and on par with the "ForeverFPS" release that came out a week ago, armed to the teeth with support for 2k PBR Terrain, which should complete 2k resolution support and a billion crash fixes (probably also a billion new crashes), most notably a fix for crashing when adding someone to the group banlist.
Now i don't know if the changing the view angle still crashes or if that has been fixed too (since i cannot reproduce it) but i suppose we'll see. So if you still crash on changing the camera angle (zoom in/out) please let me know, i have some ideas how i could get to the bottom of whats happening.
Either way, this release also comes with some new options, options to set the Tone Mapper as well as how much it is mixed into the final image, both of these options did not work in my testing, so i don't know what's up with them.... but they are there, maybe they need some other setting to work... i really don't know, i'll have to test these options in the Linden Viewer, they are not yet supposed to be surfaced. Also an option to limit texture resolution... because 2k textures are really big you know.... we can also now choose between FXAA and SMAA antialiasing. Honestly in all my years i've played games SMAA has always been absolute trash, costing more performance (sometimes 2-3 FPS) for what looks essentially like no AA at all, i'd still recommend FXAA over SMAA any day but it is there if you want it. Lastly an option has been added for "Vintage Mode" which turns off some advanced PBR rendering things internally which can improve performance (if the description is to be believed), if you are having issues with performance this might be worth a try. All of these can be found in Preferences - Display as usual.
I'd also like to say sorry for the long silence... a lot has happened... and its not doing me any favors, the last few months have been very stressful and involved a lot of extra work keeping me busy all day to make up for the low patreon amount, which meant i had little time to work on the Viewer. Whenever i get around to make another update video (which has been on a long backburner too) i will most likely not be able to hold myself back and will want to talk about this, so expect it to be a long video, unless i manage to cut it shorter somehow.
Crashing whe i use Sky Editor.
ReplyDeleteUse the .RAR package instead. It seems like your install is corrupted. I'm investigating if its an issue with the installer itself missing some crucial files or if its simply an issue with people's antivirus/defender blocking something.
DeleteYea okay, i can confirm its the .EXE package thats faulty... it also still shows 7.1.1 instead of 7.1.2... i'll have it recreated.
DeleteNow even the .rar version is crashing when using the Sky Editor.
DeleteWeird, using the RAR file fixed it for me. It was clearly showing an old version after download still so it was mixing files. Make sure you completely delete the old version manually, leave no files. Then reinstall it to make sure theres no leftover old files that could cause this crash.
DeleteCrashing whe i use Sky Editor ... Yes :(
ReplyDeleteStill crashing when use sky editor, I can only use it when I open it from the main menu of the world.
ReplyDeletehello im a former blackdragon user and i just re downloaded it and whenever i log in it kicks me back out can u please tell me how to fix this issue
ReplyDeleteCrashing when I use Sky Editor here too. Also my dream is Black Dragon stop loading entire cache all time I log in, that's so bada
ReplyDeleteDisabling ''notifications'' is broken, I can't disable some notifications
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