As excited as I was at the announcement that I could now test LSL Running on Mono on the Beta Grid, I immediately downloaded the new client and signed in to see how the C:SI scripts would run under this fancy schmancy speedy new backend.

And…  They don’t.  Well, most of them do, though not all that well, but as you will see from the following snapshots, several of them flat-out refuse to even compile ( I didn’t bother to post the duplicates, these two messages were oft-repeated ):

I left those that didn’t compile as standard LSL scripts (because I didn’t have any choice), and tried using the swords.  Most things worked fairly well, but among the most obvious symptoms was the fact that any attempt to dash or double-jump would delay by anywhere from 2 to 5 seconds.  In other words, when I’d press W twice in quick succession, I had to wait for a very long time before the dash would kick in.

This puts a severe crimp in my plans to get a few people (thanks for volunteering, Colin!) to test this out, since I already know for certain that several scripts won’t even compile, and I’d have to guess at any symptoms I saw as to whether it was Mono at fault or the fact that the sword contains both Mono and LSL scripts.

While I’m on the topic of the Beta Grid, I have another snapshot that I’d like to share.   It’s not specific to the Beta viewer, the problem I’m about to complain about is common to *all* viewer versions.  You can click the image to see the full version:

Now, just in case the problem’s not immediately obvious, lemme just point out that the Search dialog is fecking huge, is not resizable, and you cannot click the teleport button under the location you finally found after 20 minutes of Search not working AT ALL.

There are several other places in the user interface where you get a dialog too large to be useful when you are running in 800×600, which I am forced to do because of the atrocious performance of the viewer in full screen.

It’s pretty clear that either: 1) Linden Lab’s user interface people never actual use what they build in any other configuration, or 2) They just don’t care whether the interface is useful to people forced to run in 800×600.  Either way, I’m sorely disappointed.

Popularity: 33% [?]

Share This