Viewer 2 no longer contains the default avatar assets (i.e. "Ruth") that would appear if the user had insufficient body part/clothing entries.
Instead, avatars always appear as a cloud, which is a very bad experience for out-of-the-box OpenSim.
Default is currently off. My intention is to switch it on for standalone shortly.
This is not particularly flexible as "Ruth" is hardcoded, but this can change in the future, in co-ordination with the existing RemoteAdmin capabilities.
Need to fix creation of suitable entries for users created as estate owners on standalone.
Avatars still appear with spooky empty eyes, need to see if we can address this.
This commit adds a "Default Iris" to the library (thanks to Eirynne Sieyes from http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=1461) which can be used.
These are appropriately licensed and include plant, tree and miscellaneous textures (face target crosshairs, etc).
Many thanks to Nebadon for sourcing and packaging these.
I don't think this is the only problem with avatar appearances though, as I've still seen the puffs of smoke even with that texture set correctly. Seems that anytime where before you would have seen a grey ruth, you now get a puff of smoke. So looks like a urgent drive is needed to fix the avatar appearance system.
Justin Clark-Casey (justincc)