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Second Life: Who is Using Which Viewer?

2015/04/03 by Nalates Urriah

We seldom get stats on how many are using which viewer. But, there is a post over on Gaming World about the Imprudence Viewer and they include the most stats I’ve seen in a long time. Or so I thought. This page just popped up in my reader, but it is dated 2/23/2015… and the data seems to be much older.

It Can Be So Nice by Mr S. is looking at you, on Flickr

See: Gaming World Imprudence Viewer. (read on before you click) If you are clicking to the page, WARNING: be careful where you click. The page is full of ads and most clicks will speed you to someone’s ad site.

Second Life: Crap… SL Go Closing

2015/04/032015/04/02 by Nalates Urriah

They could not announce this yesterday. No one would have believed it. I still chased down the announcement just to be sure. It is on the SL Go site. It seems SL Go was bought out by Sony. There has to be some tech there that Sony wants for their VR. But, they aren’t interested … Read more

Second Life Server & Viewer Update

2015/04/02 by Nalates Urriah

Viewers

A new version of RC Maintenance Viewer version 3.7.27.300323 is out as of 3/31. I am running it. I have had had little time with it. I can’t tell if it is a problem or if the Second Life™ servers were just lagging. Whichever it was, rendering was painfully slow. Every time I moved or turned my head FPS would drop to 5 or 6.

Yesterday 3/30, RC Tools Update Viewer version 3.7.27.300242 appeared. This version is about the build tools related to Visual Studio 2013, Xcode 6.1 compilers used to build the viewer.

Second Life: How To Do Windlight

2015/04/01 by Nalates Urriah

Chic Aeon has done three little video tutorials on Second Life™ Windlight. Chic uses the Firestorm Viewer for this tutorial. The ideas apply to all viewers, you just find the controls in different place. See: Windlight – Getting Started – 3:27 Windlight – Shadows – 2:28 Windlight – Making Skies – 5:13 @ SLartist – … Read more

Second Life: It is April 1

2015/04/01 by Nalates Urriah

The Lab has released a new viewer using a new display mode. The announcement is titled: Introducing 2DSS Mode for Second Life. If you like Facebook games then this is the viewer for you.

Second Life: How to Fix CDN Problems

2015/04/01 by Nalates Urriah

Well, this may or may not fix your problem. But, it is a chance to improve things.

System Failure - Survival Horror Game — System Failure – Survival Horror Game by Loverdag, on Flickr

The problem some are seeing is texture and mesh fetching errors, which means regions and/or avatars are failing to render. When that happens things may be odd shaped or never appear and they stay gray. If you look in your Second Life™ log files you’ll find errors like these: