Ana Stubbs

Can anyone point me in the direction of the most recently stated stats for mesh capable viewer usage?

I need to know them, and my google-fu is failing me

Chalice Yao

It was something in the middle 90 percent range, if I recall correctly. And that number was several months old. Basically the only people unable to see mesh are users of Imprudence, vanilla 1.23 and people who are stuck on versions old enough not to show mesh, all of which just don't matter much in the overall statistics. Let's not sugarcoat it.

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Kadah Coba

I've posted it here a few times in the past, but my old numbers from like last Septmber or before were showing like >95%. I'll have recent numbers on these soonish when I get more work done on my new stats reporting system.

ETA: If I had a copy of Excel 2010 on this comp, I could script out that report real fast, except I don't, so it'll be likely Tuesday when I can.

Adeon Writer

I have been wearing an attachment message that is invisible to mesh viewers, but non-mesh viewers can see it clearly and will almost certainly IM me about it.

I have had no takers for a few months now.

I'm not saying what it says or my plan falls apart.

Ana Stubbs

Adeon wouldn't talk to me, so I rolled my own, and made this in a bit of a hurry https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p...tector/4540279

I was sorely tempted to make it say "Click me for Lindens!!!!!!".

Madison Talon

wow maybe I am finally part of the 1 percent

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Adeon Writer

Sorry about that. Very scatterbrained lately. Looks like you figured it out though! Mine is a six-sided cube on both viewers, but on mesh all sides use the same texture, on non-mesh you see one side has a message, and the script only responds to touching that side (impossible on mesh viewers)

Ana Stubbs

Mine's a cuboid on nonmesh, on mesh it's two parallel planes with inverted normals. I squished it down to 0.010 width to make a billboard and made every face except the two billboard faces transparent. I arranged the faces so that the area between the planes = the size of the box that appears to nonmesh viewers, for ease manipulating in build mode.

Again, it's physically impossible to touch the visible faces in a mesh viewer, though I forgot to include a filter for touches on only those faces in the script. I'll slip that into version 2.

I'll be placing these boards all around a sim I frequent, as we have more than a usual share of people who either never update their viewer, or are running SL on an electronic typewriter and don't think they can (thank God for Henri and CoolVL). We even have at least one person whose computer cannot cope with SSE2. As we're a church, we need to be extra extra EXTRA careful about this sort of stuff.

Kadah Coba

97.1% as of 2013-02-10. I don't yet have data for last week but given trend of the last 5 weeks, I would say about 97.2%.

Disclaimer: The numbers might be slightly higher than this, my viewer channel versions matrix table is still in rough draft and I might have some viewer channels incorrectly marked as not supporting mesh. The mesh release was technically 3.0, but the code was there since 2.8.x, and different viewers may have enabled it earlier.

Ana Stubbs

Exactly what I needed, thank you very much!

Kara Spengler

That is mesh capable though. I thought you could turn it off via graphics options?

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Adeon Writer

I'm not aware of this. Phoenix Mesh required a certain graphic setting (basic shaders I believe) but that's because it was a hack (leading to the "my computer isn't good enough for mesh" drama) but all other viewers can show mesh even on minimum graphic settings, not the type of thing that should be optional.

Kara Spengler

Thanks, I knew you could turn it off somehow in phoenix but had not explored if I could do that in other clients.

Kadah Coba

Nope.

That's just a bug affecting rigged mesh. Might have been an old limitation of the mesh code, no idea.

Ana Stubbs

The legacy branch of CoolVL has the same limitation. And my alpha layer didn't cover everything

Adeon Writer

Experimental branch of Cool VL works fine, though.

Samantha Poindexter

I use the legacy branch of CoolVL... in testing just now, rigged mesh does work with basic shaders turned off.

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Adeon Writer

It might be hardware skinning. Memory is foggy.

Daniel Voyager

Interesting mesh stats and the graph above.

Da5id Weatherwax

Interesting... I'm presuming that the viewer channel matrix data for that graph excluded non-graphical viewers.

That percentage does show that taking precautions for non-mesh users is still a requirement though, at the reported percentage by the time 25 random avs have you within their draw distance, there's already a 52% chance that at least one of them can't see mesh.

Adeon Writer

That's not how caring works.

Also playing SL isn't a random sample. The majority of people who can't see mesh will be recluded up in their own skybox and haven't bothered with strangers in years, and they don't care that they see you incorrectly - why should you?

There are people who can't see mesh, but we are a year past their grace period for accommodation.

Lil Hapmouche

Technically, there is no way to make a graph to show how many users actually have deferred rendering activated - perhaps even without the shadow casting part, just seeing projected lightning?

Typical dialogue for my surroundings:
Me, "The lights you put up are too bright. They light up every space across half the parcel."
Them, "No they aren't."
Me, "Yes, they do... here's a screenshot, see for yourself."
Them, "That's not what I see. I have a typewriter resurrected from the ashes, I barely get 5 frame in a quiet place. Here is my screenshot to prove that my world looks like a flashback to 2006."
Me, "*le sigh*"

Da5id Weatherwax

maybe so, Adeon, but it doesn't alter the math. if 97.1% of sessions can see mesh, on average you only need 24 of those to walk past a mesh build before you hit one that sees it as an ugly set of polygons.

Personally I dont build for those guys and dont care HOW obsolete viewers see my gear, but I could understand another builder, designer or artist caring about it, or the manager of a RP environment worrying about that number when thinking about their audience.

Kadah Coba

What does that have to do with mesh? And no, that is not possible with LL current stats gathering, but I know it would be quite low, maybe a few percent at best.

Ana Stubbs

Yes, this was what I was alluding to before. We're not a fashion outlet, and need to be open to all in SL. No discrimination between rich and poor, geek and technically-ignorant or hardware-haves and have-nots.

I already identified an extra two people using 1.23 who didn't know they couldn't see mesh just by plonking down my detector for an hour or so last week. It may boggle some peoples minds, but there are definitely people out there who don't get around enough in SL to notice, or are possibly just too polite to ask why people are wearing boxes on their heads these days.

I suspect you get a sort of critical mass effect, too. Get enough of these 3% folks in one place and they have even less reason to notice, as (obviously) none of them will be wearing mesh!