Comments on: Pushing the Limits II — Snowglobe and ultrafast texture download [UPDATED THRICE]

By: Gwyneth Llewelyn

Gwyneth Llewelyn — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:35:00 +0000

Indeed, Earl! Philip promised it last week, and I thought it was not part (yet) of server 1.40.4, but only of 1.42, to be deployed next week. But… apparently it has been activated sometime early this week! I noticed it by mere chance, when switching from OpenSim (where HTTP texture download already worked well for quite a while) to SL, and suddenly noticing that the texture console was also showing “HTP” for the transfers!

The Second Life wiki confirms this!

By: Earl Dinkin

Earl Dinkin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:20:00 +0000

It looks like http texture fetching is now live. I had a feeling textures were loading unusually fast, and a look at the texture debug console turned on, in Viewer 2 confirmed it.

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By: IYan Writer

IYan Writer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:27:35 +0000

I love Snowglobe too, got like 10 fps back. And textures load! Had big problems with that on my computer (although it worked for iAlja with the same client on the same OS version, weird).

Keep up the good work Snowglobe team

By: IYan Writer

IYan Writer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:27:35 +0000

I love Snowglobe too, got like 10 fps back. And textures load! Had big problems with that on my computer (although it worked for iAlja with the same client on the same OS version, weird).

Keep up the good work Snowglobe team

By: Snowglobe 1.1.0 Update Review « Nalates’ Things & Stuff Blog

Snowglobe 1.1.0 Update Review « Nalates’ Things & Stuff Blog — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:24:40 +0000

[...] to switch to the new texture download method. (Advanced -> Render -> HTTP Get Textures) On Gwyneth Llewelyn’s blog she has more detailed information that confirms this is not yet working, as in no textures [...]

By: Ari Blackthorne

Ari Blackthorne — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:48:08 +0000

I did a test similar to yours, Gwyneth - except I used a more control environment.

The rules were simple: Allow the viewer only 60-seconds to rez the world, clock starts counting from the moment the 'world' appears on screen. No moving the camera, the avatar or the mouse to ensure all processing cycles are dedicated to the viewer, thus being dedicated to rezzing the environment.

I told you I looked at the Emerald and also Gemini viewers before looking at Snowglobe. So I recorded my experiemnt with these constraints and the visual difference in this method is *STUNNING*.

I tested LL 1.23.4, GreenLife Emerald, Gemini and then Snowglobe.

HOLY SMACKERS Linden Lab should make SNOWGLOBE the "official" viewer and the 1.23.4 "Official" viewer the "secondary alternate'.

Here is my video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ZqmvHFJBQ

By: TC

TC — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:54:50 +0000

You will be able to tell when HTTP textures are in place beyond the map. The first thing you will want to do is enable Advanced->Rendering->HTTP Get Textures. This doesn't force HTTP GET attempts (well, it did force a try in early Snowglobe builds, instead it sends a capabilities query and switches to HTTP if the sim says it can handle it.

You can use the Shift-Ctrl-3 texture display to see when HTTP actually does something. In the status column where you see “SIM”, “NET” etc. now, you will begin seeing “HTP” at the start of transfers.

Babbage would be a good person to ask about the state of the server side of things, his group is the one that's been working on it.

By: spyvspyaeon

spyvspyaeon — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:51:34 +0000

Testing on Imac 2.4 ATI,RadeonHD2600 and works perfectly. The textures comes up so fast as the viewer can render the prims. On the RC or the official candidate, I have to wait viewer render the prims than (somewhere in time get the textures) . Much better than any other viewer that I have tested. Thnks for sharing your review.

By: Some thoughts on SnowGlobe « Ravishal Ramblings

Some thoughts on SnowGlobe « Ravishal Ramblings — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:15:31 +0000

[...] a week now and it is my default viewer now. A lot of other bloggers have written about it, notably Gwyneth Llewelyn. I’m not sure if she’ll bring this up in a future post but it occurred to me that the [...]