The Signature Gag 4.1.0 Release Candidate (late beta) is out now. If you have some time to test and break the gag, go get them at the Secret Warehouse 🙂

• Up to 65% lighter in scripts.
• Avatar Rendering Cost reduced by over 50% – via strategically fewer prims.
• Rez/unrez anims: introduced in 4.0.0, but were subsequently “lost”. Now they’re back.
• Starburst on rez: Now gag will starburst on rez.
• Re-size: Sub’s owner can now re-size the gag for her after putting it on.
• Setup: Improved check for a devious SL bork, and recover accordingly.
• Garble: garbled text on /8 (or RLV) will no longer be preceded by emote text.
• Short name “sigGag” is now “SigGag”.
• Label command: label command can take both “,” and “:” for color (e.g. label <255,255,0> test). Entering “,” will no longer crash the gag.
• New prefix option: To target a specific sub, you can now use any part of her first name as prefix (minimum 2 chars). e.g. in the past you say “/1 Olivia g” – now, “/1 ol g” works, or “/1 liv g” works as well.
• More accurate positioning/rotation: Newly-rezzed gags now use a more accurate positioning and rotation system to overcome default SL inaccuracies.
• Detaching HUD: Instead of detaching worn gag, gag will remain, but will not be operable till after HUD is reworn. If gag is locked, a detach will be recorded.

Where to get:

Secret Warehouse, at the BETA boxes right inside. You will need to setup everything you have (cuffs and gags) – nothing can be transferred over from you current gear.

Enjoy! Lulu

2.4.0 Beta Cuffs:

1. 50-71% fewer scripts: All eight cuffs have a script footprint that is 29% to 50% the size of previous versions. The heaviest combination of scripts will see the maximum reduction of 71%. This means better TPs and faster rezzes, barring the usual SL issues.
2. White leather option: this fixes the SL rollback of v2.3.0 white leather option.
3. Owner re-size: Sub’s owner can now re-size sub’s cuffs for her. Look out for the new option in the cuff menu (under “other…”)
4. Improved setup: Now Setup detects an SL “feature” that sometimes would kill cuffs as they rez, and repeats the setup step automatically.
5. New options: Now Drop-Rez (cuffs dropping from the air) and Starburst (the flashing light around cuffs as they rez) are options – only sub’s owner can change these. Regardless, re-rez are always direct snap (without dropping).
6. SigCuff short name: Short name is changed to SigCuff (instead of sigCuff -> short name necessary because of limited space in object names).
7. Prettier menu: Menus look a little better.
8. New prefix option: To target a specific sub, you can now use any part of her first name as prefix (minimum 2 chars). e.g. in the past you say “/1 Olivia c” – now, “/1 ol c” works, or “/1 liv c” works as well.
9. More accurate positioning/rotation: Newly-rezzed cuffs use a more accurate positioning and rotation system to overcome default SL inaccuracies.
10. Detaching HUD: Instead of detaching worn cuffs, cuffs will remain, but will not be operable till after HUD is reworn. If cuffs are locked, a detach will be recorded.
11. Various Bugfixes, including problems remembering chain links through rezzes (thanks Frank Skosh for the bug reports)

Where to get:

Secret Warehouse, at the BETA boxes right inside. You will need to setup everything you have (cuffs and gags) – nothing can be transferred over from you current gear.

Enjoy! Lulu

Coming soon with Signature Cuffs v2.4.0:

• sub’s owner can now choose to have either of the following on or off when cuffs are rezzed:

1. Starburst (the shining burst of light on rez)
2. Drop-Rez (the cuffs dropping to the ground before attaching).

• for re-rez, Starburst and Drop-Rez will be off, for the quickest possible re-attach.

Coming soon with Signature Gag v4.1.0:

• Starburst on rez. (No drop-rez for gag).

Stay tuned,

Lulu

Seems SL played a nasty trick – all 2.3.0 cuffs in SL have been rolled back to an earlier version that doesn’t recognize the white leather. The menu’s still there, but the cuffs can’t recognize the white leather. So don’t be surprised if your white leather cuffs are suddenly tan color now.

Instead of rolling out a 2.3.1 update (which means re-setup for everyone), I’d rather include it in the 2.4.0 update, which will have performance improvements. So the re-setup will have more benefits. Hopefully within the week.

Thanks to Chartruse Skytower, our latest Fashionista (voluntary helper) for reporting this and helping me test this.

[Update] Seems that not everyone is affected by this. lovelygirl Allen has reported that her white leather cuffs have rezzed just fine. She got her v2.3.0 cuffs from the earlier  v5.5.0 HUD though.

Lulu