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Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM) Moves Ahead

2015/07/28 by Nalates Urriah

This is a Torley video that tells about the New VMM. This is a nice explanation of how VMM works. This video leads into three other tutorial Videos. Check them out. Remember Merchant Resource? Well, the second in that series of tutorials is out.

Second Life Servers Week 31

2015/07/28 by Nalates Urriah

This Tuesday the package running on the RC channels moved to the main channel. That package was said to be Simulator fixes… whatever they were. As of late Tuesday (5+PM PT) there was no information about what would or if any would roll to the RC channels Wednesday. Presumably the Lindens are still working on … Read more

Jelly Babies – Render Muting

2015/07/25 by Nalates Urriah

Inara made it to last Monday’s open source user group meeting where Oz Linden apparently talked about the Second Life Render Muting feature and where it is in the development pipeline. You may remember that a bug was causing the Jelly Babies to be invisible. That is fixed. Now the feature is waiting on UI … Read more

Black Dragon Viewer Update Week 30

2015/07/23 by Nalates Urriah

NiranV has made a couple of recent releases of the Black Dragon Viewer, now at version 2.4.4.1. Version 2.4.4 the previous version has a long list of fixes. The big addition is for Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM). Or maybe the more important change is fixes to the RLV section of the viewer. Whichever is more … Read more

RLViewer 2.9.12 Released

2015/07/23 by Nalates Urriah

Marine has a new version of the viewer out. See: RLV 2.9.12.

One of the interesting changes in this viewer is how you can control shadow render. Seems Marine got a Maitreya body and is wearing it. From what Marine wrote I take that it cut her FPS nearly in half in some scenarios. Looking at the Fast Timers (Ctrl-Shift-9) shadow render was taking more time to figure out how to render the attached mesh items. I wonder how many people check the render cost of that Maitreya body and compared it to other bodies? See: Second Life: Mesh Body Revolution.

Firestorm Viewer Next Release

2015/07/23 by Nalates Urriah

Lots of people want to know when the next release of the Firestorm Viewer will be. I’m one of them. Well, Jessica has explained when. See: When is the next release?

The TL:DR is the next release is soon… feel cheated? Oh well…