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Second Life Viewers

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Naali Viewer
Naali on Nokia N900

I’m starting to see those creating third party viewers dividing into separate groups. One group is those developing primarily for Second Life (SL) and supporting OpenSim grids as a secondary consideration. Another group is the developers primarily supporting OpenSim grids with SL as a secondary consideration.

I think the Imprudence Viewer Team is leading the way in the second group. Jacek Antonelli posted about their decision to begin having in world meetings in the 3rd Rock Grid (3RG) rather than in SL. So, this isn’t war of the worlds. It is reported to be about finding a ‘viewer’ developer friendly grid.  

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Video Recorder for Second Life and Myst-Uru

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Screenr Logo

I came across Screenr this morning. I tried it out. One signs up using a Twitter account. This seems to be an nice free service. It has some problems. But it seems to work well.

The recording was certainly easy. There is a record button. It gives you a ‘frame’ you can slide around the screen and resize to let you capture the part of the screen you want. You can start and stop recording, pausing. The max recording is 5 minutes. Surprising how fast that goes by.

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Avatar Alternates w/SL & 3rd Party Viewers

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Many of us have learned we have fewer problems if we use separate caches for each viewer. Going into Preferences, Network tab, and changing the cache location is a basic post-install step. What many of us miss is the idea of having a separate cache for each alternate avatar. Plus there are other settings we may want to change from avatar to avatar. Those changes have been an annoying part of the pre and post login process for those of us that need to have separate settings for an AV. However, there is an easy way to create a settings file to remember those changes and create a desktop icon to start your viewer of choice using different settings for each avatar.

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Imprudence Viewer Bug (Beta 3)

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Imprudence Viewer 1.3.0 Beta 3 has a serious bug. Appearently this is a difficult one to fix as it involves some Linden Lab problems. Whatever, there is a fix placed in Beta 4. Get your update now.

Problem: Warning: Serious bug in 1.3.0 beta 3 on Second Life

If you are using Beta 3, DO NOT rez inventory items while in build mode. Objects may have their permissions messed up. This is especially true for no copy items. It can render them useless.

Emerald Viewer & LSL Editor

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For those of us that script in Second Life the LSL Editor is a time saver. The author of LSL Editor, Alphons van der Heijden, has donated the program to the public domain, it’s now open source. Reference: LSL Editor

LSL Editor allows one to work off-line and to debug scripts outside SL. This can be a huge time saver. Plus the editor has lots of handy features. The latest release is 2.40. It runs only on Windows machines.

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