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Black Dragon Viewer Update Week 30

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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.

Year of the Dragon
Year of the Dragon

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 important to you, the viewer is better.

VMM is coming to all the viewers. When your favorite viewer gets the feature is not all that important. The only think you cannot do without a VMM compatible viewer is add items to the marketplace. All other tasks can be handled through the marketplace web site.

RLViewer 2.9.12 Released

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

Snail Racers & Hedgehog Spectators
> Snail Racers & Hedgehog Spectators

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.

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SL’s Viewer Managed Marketplace

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Or shortened to VMM… The RC Viewer: VMM Viewer version 3.8.2.303583 has been out for a few days and may make it to being the main viewer this week. On the 23rd the Lab will begin moving the marketplace to the new system. But, how will you know how to work with Second Life’s™ new marketplace?

Diva Lingerie - Raine by Posh Pixels
Diva Lingerie – Raine by Posh Pixels

Canary Beck is pointing out a new tutorial on the marketplace. Auryn Beorn is writing a series of guides and Canary is helping with the marketing side of the guides.

While this first guide is oriented toward opening a new store, there is a lot of information that will help exiting store owners.

Second Life: Server Scripting

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There was no Second Life Server-Scripting UG Meeting this week.

Big Decisions
Big Decisions

The main channel got last week’s package of simulator fixes. The 3 RC channels all get  the same but new package on Wednesday. This package is also about simulator fixes.

This breaks the every other week rollout pattern that has been building up.

New Second Life Promotional Videos

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Canary is a voice in this new round of Second Life promotional videos. The Lab released these via their YouTube channel. Several sites have talked about the new videos.

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Server Scripting

There was no Server-Scripting UG Meeting this week.

The main channel got last week’s package of simulator fixes. The 3 RC channels all got  the same but new package, or will Wednesday. This package is also about simulator fixes.

This breaks the every other week rollout pattern that has been building up.