Pathfinder Linden suggested I post this issue to this list. Of which I am thankful, because I've been meaning to subscribe to it for a while and haven't gotten around to it, and now I had a direct link to it.
The subject-line bug is here: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-3669 In version 1.24 and before, we could play a large number of animations on top of each other. Version 1.25 only allows for 11 simultaneous animations. When you're standing, two spots tend to be taken up by stand and stand_# lowering it to 9. Either user animations don't knock built-in animations off the list, or the built-ins replay themselves often enough that they don't stop playing. The issue became apparent to me when a Seawolf Dragon ( http://www.seawolf-monsters.com/wiki/Dragon ) walked into a 1.25.3 server and started waddling on two legs. Deformations, which is what the dragon uses to be large yet maintain articulate joints ( https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-2242 ), uses 18 animations to fully deform an avatar as there are 18 animatable parts to the avatar. When only 11 will play you get a dragon with stumpy, overlapping limbs. When you try to undeform the avatar back to their original shape, you don't fare much better. I like to call it "teleporter accident" syndrome. http://stickman.mach5.org/temp/teleporter_accident.jpg (SL screenshot) During normal use, since the deformations need to be always playing, the AO's stand/walk/fly animations will fall off the list as new animations play. While my issue with the bug is specific to the Seawolf Dragon avatar, I'm wondering if anyone else is aware of products that use a large number of simultaneous animations that this would effect. I've had a few ideas for products that would use a lot of animations, but not done development on them. And I don't get out much to see what the rest of SL is up to. Also, comments or votes on the issue would be appreciated. Thanks, -Stickman _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
