Release Candidate 1.23 has arrived....sort of

Well the dreaded arrival of the "Adult Content" 1.23 client is here, kind of....

RC 1.23 has numerous great features included with it that will be of good use for builders and content creators. You can now set the perms on textures, and many other items you never could in the past. That's deffinately a plus.
The "About Land" menu is much more informative than ever before. That's nice too.

The Adult stuff...well it seemed pretty simple at first. If you wanted to get your perv on, you go to Edit>Preferences>General and selected "PG,Mature and Adult" option. Eazy-Peazy, right? Wrong. With every re-logged the option goesback to the default choice of "PG and Mature" only and you have to remember to reset it to include Adult. Failure to do so will disable the ability to perform a search for 'Adult' stuff (which includes a very poorly filtered variety of words) and any attempt to TP, or cross into land that is "above your maturity level" gets you a snooty litttle error message and a reference to the knowledge base

The worst part for me....the effects of the appearance of avitars! Skins look distorted, uneven and overly ruddy, eyelashes are either white or just plain bizarre looking, everyone appears to be wearing gobs of black mascara giving us all a sort of 'junkie-look'
Female avi's that have a make up look on their faces, now look like clown faces. It'sreally quite a mess.
I personally have always apppreciated the looks of some avi's where the person has clearly spent some time and effort in making their avi's appearance something nice to see, and having just completed a complete makeover of my own avi in an attempt to make him look closer to the RL me (not so easy to find Polynesian skins, I actually cheated and used a Latino skin, shh...don't tell anyone). To have completed my makeover only to log-in to RC 1.23 and see that I have turned into a freaked-out junkie with bad skin and mascara, and not a dermatologist in sight was just too much for me to handle. i wuickly logged off and logged back in on the nice safe and familiar regular viewer.
Now a few moments ago in a couple of the more reliable and informative news blogs that RC 1.23 is no longer available for download - hopefully this means a 1.23.1 is on it's way soon! Sphere: Related Content