A new Beta version 1.2 is of the Imprudence viewer is out. New World Notes has a good review of Beta version.
Original Imprudence Review
I have been hearing about this viewer. I decided to try it out in my ongoing quest for the best Second Life viewer. While looking for information I came across Gwyneth Llewelyn’s review of Imprudence (11m/25d/09y). It is an interesting read and covers much of the philosophy of the Imprudence developers, of which the sort summary is, they are developing a viewer for Second Life Power Users. Ok… sounds cool.
The Imprudence Viewer release notes tell one what is new and what is still a ‘known’ problem. I’ll give you the short version here.
Viewers are changing rapidly and there is lots of new information and mis-information. For Combat RPG’s some of the information is critical. (Continued from GreenLife Emerald Viewer Review)
Update 12/3/09: This viewer updates rapidly. I have made several posts here about the different features being added to Greenlife Emerald viewer and provided reviews. There is a trail of links you can read through to read them in order. Or you can click on the Archive page and select the Emerald Viewer Reviews to see all the posts that relate.
Most of the new viewers have a thing some call Radar and in Emerald it is labeled Avatar List (Ctrl-Shift-a or via menu Emerald -> Avatar List). In some other places in Emerald it is referred to as radar. In Emerald it is a handy floater listing all the nearby avatars and some handy information. See the image.
Once upon a time the mini-map was called radar, until Linen Lab renamed it for a better new player experience. But that is not the radar usually meant in comabt SIM’s.
Radar in Second Life previously was a script in a prim or HUD that used a SCAN feature in Second Life’s LSL scripting language. SCAN’s are notorious for creating lag. It’s just the way it works in SL. Good programmers avoid it as much as possible. Combat SIM operators simply ban prim/hud based radars or any high lag producers within their games. There are several reasons for the radar ban with lag being the biggest one. Since prim/HUD based radars were the only ones in existence, SIM operators never bothered to specify which types radars were banned or why, they just simply said radar is banned.
Update 10/5/09 Today Massively is reporting that a number of those using the Neil Life Viewer for IP theft have been banned. See; Linden Lab rounds up and ejects a bunch of copyright infringers Original Post New World Notes posted a warning about the Neil Life Viewer. The viewer is said to have been made by Gwyneth Llewelyn, it … Read more
At the present time it is easy for alternates with no payment information to rip-off goods and sell them. There is a whole big thing about Stroker Serpentine versus anonymous, unregistered Volkov Catteneo. It’s hard to go after an anonymous person. This new system, if done right, has the potential to stop these content theft problems. The Lindens expect to see many of the new features implemented this year. So, get involved in the discussion in the forums.
Some people are getting stuck in encrypted IM sessions. Try closing the session and restarting. The latest update of the viewer is supposed to resolve the problem, I don’t see the problem since I turned it off (see original post below).
Some builders working with small objects have found the edit arrow used to move objects are too far away from the object. Check this post to correct the problem. Emerald Pivot Point
Bug Tracker
Greenlife Emerald (GLE) Viewer Bug Tracking has its own issue tracker system. You can find it here: Emerald Viewer Issue Tracker
Those of us using Greenlife Emerald viewer version 1.23.4 (439) have started seeing this message popping up in IM’s, “Unverified conversation started. (some name here) has not been authenticated, …” followed by a link one can click. Dare you click it? Did you click it without thinking?
Massively has posted an update on Snowglobe. They have a Snowglobe Review with a list of changes, fixes and additions.
Update 7/30
Something is happening with the new server updates… I am seeing ‘This Region is running a different version…’ notices. I’ll check that out once I have time. But the effect is I’m seeing Snowglobe lockups in just a few minutes. However, the Emerald lockups have stopped…
Update: The final half of the grids are in update (server 1.27.1) and rolling restarts as of this morning. Yesterday the first half were done between 7 and 10:45 AM SLT (PST).
A even more recent version is Snowglobe 1.1.0.2558, July 23, 2009. Use it at your own risk. This is the newest, most advanced and the most unpredictable version. It too is available at the link above.
