More than words – The Voice of There

Although there was no earth shattering changes mostly fixes and a few small additions, The Voice thought we would list what happened in Thursday’s Beta test for those of you who did not make it into Beta or read official forums.

Therecam – This was my favorite. This feature would totally make my life

easier with the staff writers using this built in screenshot feature. You have a choice of four sizes to take your pictures in and it will save your pictures to a folder of your choice on your hard drive.

Focus ThereCam

Now you don't have to struggle taking screenshots and pasting them into a graphics program to save them. We have added a camera to the There Client! The camera functions are accessible off the There menu. There -> ThereCam

Test:

Take Photo Now -> Your first time using this menu it should ask you where you would like your images stored. Once you have specified a directory, each time you select this menu option your photos will be stored in that directory.

Photo Size -> You can change what size the stored image will be, including the size of the image varying on your screen size.

Photo Album Location -> You can change the target directory at any time using this menu option.

The Keyboard command for taking screenshots is: CTRL-Shift-C

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Special Nerd Options:

These require that you know how to set There Environment Variables and spell accurately. The idea here is to find the right sorts of things that people might like to be able to do, and then promote the popular ones to a nice interface, while leaving the geeky ones in env variables, or possibly a second pane on thereTweaker.

Ooops... I guess there are only 2 I can mention today:

ThereCamUsePng -- values are 1 or 0, 1 means save as .png instead of .jpg

ThereCamPhotoQuality -- values are 0-100 (percent quality) for jpeg compression. 100 is better looking, and huge. 0 means 'use default'

(these will return to default value each time you launch the client)

Focus Miscellaneous:

We have several small changes to test:

1. Nametags - We have added another option on the Nametag Preferences

menu. (There -> Customize -> World -> Nametags) You can now select to have No Nametags visible. This was especially requested by our movie making community. Please test to ensure that all of the nametag options work.

2. ChangeMe - We resolved a bug in ChangeMe that affected a very limited subsection of our members. Please do a few wardrobe changes just to ensure that we haven't introduced any bugs to ChangeMe.

3. Event Invitation after Entry - We made some adjustments to the event invitation system. Specifically, the bug where you continue to be invited to 'Go Now' to an event that you are already in. Create events, and invite your friends. If anyone sees the behavior, please post:

* your Avatar Name
* the event id, the event time
* the Zone Name and Zone id.

(to get the id, right click on the information page for the event or zone, select properties, copy the number at the end of the URL)

The physics on dice have been adjusted to eliminate some odd behavior. They should no longer:

Stack
Bounce
Slide downhill (unless very steep... in which case they slide very slowly)

Avatars and Vehicles should: Bounce off of Dice

Avatars and Vehicles should not:
Get stuck on Dice. (more than on anything else, that is)

You've been saying it for years, and we've heard you! We have made changes to the Voice system so that if you have a 5.1 channel sound card, voice will now appear to come from the proper location.

What to test (if you have a 5.1 channel sound card with all speakers attached, including the center channel):

Set your Speakers to 5.1, and listen to nearby avatars speak, while you turn in circles. Do the voices sound like they are coming from the correct directions?

Note - If you have stereo speakers or headphones, and set your sound device to 5.1 speakers, you will have problems hearing the person in front of you, as their voice is directed to the center channel.

You should only tell windows you have 5.1 speakers, when you really do. Otherwise Windows will play the voice on speakers which do not exist, which will make it very hard to hear :-)

We have resolved the bug that when you give someone an item (Drink, Buggy, etc) the item remains in the inventory of the giver as 'Not Yours' and in the inventory of the receiver as 'On Loan to..'

Test:
Give of items transfers ownership and possession without retrieving items.
Trade of items transfers ownership and possession without retrieving items.
Lend still transfers possession of the item without transferring ownership.