Monday, September 2, 2013

Final Beta release (hopefully) for V3.3 (Beta5)

The one thing that always surprises me is once you have the basic prototype working how much work it really is to make it production quality.  My management always struggles with that in my RL job.

Thanks to the close work of a good colleague (you know how you are!) this release is amazing.  The interface was refined significantly in beta3 and with this release there is a ton of interface issues cleaned up as well as a complete reorganizing of the color choices into a much more coherent system.

There are a list of things that i cleaned up that have been bugging me personally as i used the lumipro in my own work as well as customer feedback.  I've addressed most of them in this beta5 release as well
  1. Authentication system added for future product stuff.  we'll see if i use it but it allows users to wear the hud and select help about and it broacasts an crypto signed message on a secret chat channel that i can then use for handing out free goodies in the future.
  2. Rotation of the sit ball is now repetative.  just click and hold and it rotates
  3. REM type cast checks and doesn't report errors with the talent TPs or logs out
  4. no more derezzing the projectors or sitballs after 4 days.  They announce and become visible.  This was causing problems during set development that took longer than 4 days
  5. the backup server deals with correct color names
  6. help->lighting details reports the correct model's colors, not just the owners colors.
  7. Joystick steering the projector now has an icon vs transparent to address a viewer bug

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