Radegast version 1.18 has been released.

This release adds many new commands to the Radegast command interface. Try typing //help in the main chat console once you are logged in for a list of supported commands. It is now also possible to chose from many more grids to login at startup, edit your profile, eject and ban people from your parcels and more. Hopefully this release will solve problem where people logged in with Radegast would under some circumstances appear not to wear any clothes, as well as several other bug fixes. For the full list of changes see the release notes below.

Release Notes: New Features and Improvements

• [RAD-59] – Play animations from inventory
• [RAD-62] – Improve usabilty for users who routinly login to more than one grid
• [RAD-71] – tp to avatar in radar range, where land permits
• [RAD-151] – Add ctrl-up arrow and ctrl-down arrow shortcut keys in chat input lines to repeat previous input lines
• [RAD-158] – Add support for viewer 2 style “slurls”
• [RAD-114] – Ability to edit resident profile.
• [RAD-123] – Ban/Eject controls within Radegast
• [RAD-125] – Ability to create friends conference
• [RAD-147] – Keyboard commands to improve accesibility
• [RAD-148] – Add “go” command
• [RAD-149] – Add “face” command
• [RAD-150] – Add “tp” command
• [RAD-153] – Add “follow” command
• [RAD-154] – Add “status” command
• [RAD-155] – Add “unsit” command
• [RAD-156] – Add “sit” command
• [RAD-157] – Add “find” command

Bug Fixes

• [RAD-126] – Avatar Clothes are not shown
• [RAD-135] – Clothing not visible or becomes invisible after tp’ing.
• [RAD-143] – Clicking on links in chat has no effect
• [RAD-146] – RLV setrot does not match RLV viewer rotations
• [RAD-152] – Follow option in avatar dropdown mislabeled when already following someone

Download

Don’t forget that .NET framework version 3.5 or newer is required on Windows and Mono 2.4 and newer on Linux (2.6 highly recommended). You can download this release from our downloads page.

Moreover Radegast was submitted for approval for listing in the official TPV directory. The application is still pending, but we hope that it will appear on that list shortly.

Update April 30: Radegast is now listed in the official TPV directory

This release features improved user interface that minimizes the number of floating windows, packing them all neatly into tabs. It also includes support for playing parcel music streams, which for now works on Windows and some Linux systems, we will be working on improving Linux sound support in the future releases.

Release Notes: Improvements/New Features

• [RAD-9] – check for double instances of windows like group information
• [RAD-21] – Play parcel music
• [RAD-31] – Implement viewing of historic group notices
• [RAD-34] – Event to tell when Notification has been closed
• [RAD-38] – Improve User Interface/Easier way to toggle tabs
• [RAD-41] – preferences setting to switch off/on friend online notifications
• [RAD-43] – Differentiate color of chat coming from objects using llOwnerSay()
• [RAD-44] – Add ability to see profile picks
• [RAD-22] – Plugin System for using and adding in new Commands from chat
• [RAD-24] – Keep group IM’s closed once closed.
• [RAD-36] – Add ability to check for newer versions

Release Notes: Bug Fixes

• [RAD-23] – Keyboard focus gets stolen in the middle of typing
• [RAD-28] – ContextMenu missing options on inventory options
• [RAD-29] – Group Info and Notices window will not close
• [RAD-30] – Can not select a Friend by typing leading characters
• [RAD-32] – Notice attachments shown incorrectly
• [RAD-33] – Map warnings about unknown region when connected to non-linden grid
• [RAD-40] – Typo: (no trasnfer)
• [RAD-42] – time stamp is sometimes highlight in black.
• [RAD-45] – MENU key does not bring up context menu on Objects console

Download

Don’t forget that .NET framework version 3.5 or newer is required on Windows and Mono 2.4 and newer on Linux. You can download this release from our downloads page.

opensim4opencog - the first project to utilize the plugins interface.

The goal of this project is to develop an interface to Opensim for OpenCog and other AI systems. It provides a means of connecting external AI bots over a socket to an avatar in the OpenSim Simulator. It uses TextSL as base and updates it to use libopenmetaverse, and includes DotLisp and a simple task queue processor as a persistent middle layer.

LookingGlass Virtual World Viewer – now comes with a plugin interface which allows it to be started from within Radegast and use it’s GUI, while in turn Radegast gets 3D world rendering.

The LookingGlass Virtual World Viewer provides a modular framework for a client viewer of virtual world systems. LookingGlass is written in C# and licensed with a BSD license. The current version has a communication module that talks Linden Lab Legacy Protocol (“LLLP”) which is compatible with Second Life(r) and OpenSimulator. A rendering module exists which uses the Ogre3D graphics engine. Of course, other communication and rendering modules will be added in the future.

Radegast Speech – is a plugin that aims at making virtual worlds more accessible. It uses speech synthesis and recognition which allows users to hear what is going on in a virtual world, as well as participate by using voice commands.

It’s been exciting to see how these plugins showed up from independent developers in such a short time. Our aim is to produce documentation that will make it easier to use Radegast as a platform to interface with virtual worlds, and hopefully even more plugins will show up in the future.