Fooled you! I bet you thought this would be an April Fools' prank, but it isn't! The 0.2 version of the Naali viewer and the 0.1 version of the Taiga server are now available. There are a lot of exciting new features we wanted to show you already, although there's still stabilization work. After this release we'll focus on updating the documentation and polishing the current features.
Those of you who haven't compiled the source codes between the releases should get ready for some major changes. The most immediately obvious difference is the new UI. Avatar and world selections are now done in the new "Ether" interface that makes surfing the immersive web simpler than before. It's not just a visual treat either, thanks to the (rather rudimentary) Mumble integration Naali now has. For now you have to separately install the Mumble client to use the in-world spatial voice, but a better integration is on the way. There are also multiple improvements to in-world editing and scripting tools. There's a Mumble-enabled server at world.realxtend.org:9000for you to test (cosmic rays broke the scripts, though, and we're working on a fix). Don't forget that you're still looking at an early version of the Naali viewer and even more so with the Taiga server. There's a lot you can already do with the software and we'd like you to give it a shot and report back, but at this stage bugs and missing features are to be expected. With the Taiga 0.1 released we can finally say that the next-generation realXtend we started working on a little over a year ago has arrived. Taiga is basically the good old OpenSimulator plus ModreX combination (now based on ScienceSim) with the advanced Cable Beach functionality included. To make life easier for server admins we have included a GUI for the management functions. Now would be a very good time to start reporting and (even better!) fixing the bugs together with the rest of the community. Your contributions are greatly appreciated and as the platform matures we hope to see more and more interest from developers who wish to participate in developing realXtend with us. I hope you will all have as much fun using realXtend as we've had developing it. Naali 0.2 Donwload: http://github.com/realXtend/naali/downloads Taiga 0.1 Donwload: http://github.com/realXtend/taiga/downloads Instructions (under construction, updated shortly): http://wiki.realxtend.org/index.php/Main_Page#Naali_and_Taiga_releases -- http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend http://www.realxtend.org To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
