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Some trees fail to render at certain graphics levels
The introduction of emojis has made script dialogs more messy with inconsistent conversion to emojis between button text and the text string above the buttons. Additionally, emojis tend to be wider than characters to anything that relies on unicode character alignment is going to look strange until LL fix it
Although reduced from the initial PBR release there are still scenarios where the entire scene gets a blue hue, particularly noticeable on shiny surfaces
The viewer performance is bumpy right after login resulting in jerky movement or short freezes. This clears up quite quickly on Windows and Mac but seems a lot more noticeable on Linux systems. It should be noted that PBR places an increased load on the graphics capabilities of the computer so Kokua may no longer run in some situations (eg in an emulated Linux enviornmentenvironment) or run less well than before. We don’t consider the Linux performance acceptable on a Nvidia GTX 1050 system that we use but have chosen to include Linux in this release to find out whether the problems are still apparent on newer/more powerful Linux systems.
Following the latest update to the CEF browser the build platform for Linux Kokua is now Ubuntu 20 LTS. Kokua is unsupported and likely not supported for earlier versions and probably will not run on anything earlier.
Those of you who follow LL’s technical messaging will be aware that LL is intending to move away from Vivox for voice support and switch to WebRTC instead. We are watching this initiative and will port it into Kokua when we judge it has become mature enough to be included (this will likely be once a Release Candidate viewer with WebRTC becomes available).
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