{"id":1724,"date":"2012-01-15T13:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T13:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2012-01-15T22:42:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T22:42:03","slug":"qarls-alignment-tool-this-why-tpvs-prosper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"Qarl’s Alignment Tool – This Is Why TPV’s Prosper"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a bit of a hoo ha about Qarl’s alignment tool being rejected by Linden Lab for implementation in the official viewer, this discussion takes place in Jira Storm 468<\/a>. I’ve never used this tool, so I can’t comment on how awesome or not it is, I did try to install Firestorm last weekend but Norton 360 threw a wobbly about slplugin.exe, this is a known issue. I’m not a big fan of third party viewers (TPV’s), however this issue highlights why TPV’s are a useful community addition.<\/p>\n

Let’s just rewind slightly to try to demonstrate why Charlar Linden isn’t acting like Darth Charlar over this issue. I recently blogged on how Blender may drop COLLADA import\/export from the official release<\/a>. Collada is the export tool to make Mesh items in Blender compatible with Second Life but it creates support issues for Blender as a whole. Blender have as an option thrown this over to the Blender community to fix COLLADA issues, as Sergey Sharibin explained:<\/p>\n

“More optimistic targets would be find volunteer to pick up this stuff who will make it usable (maybe rewritting this stuff from scratch..)<\/em> ”<\/p>\n

Linden Lab’s approach to the prim alignment tool is very similar, only of course, it’s not already in the official\u00a0release viewer.<\/p>\n

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Charlar’s reasons for rejecting the tool have been widely reported, Tateru Nino covers it here<\/a> and Inara Pey here<\/a>. In the Jira Charlar states:<\/p>\n

“Thanks for making this effort. Alignment and snapping are an area where there are useful enhancements to be made. However, we are not able to accept this contribution as it is.<\/em><\/p>\n

These are the primary issues we found which resulted in that decision:<\/em><\/p>\n