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Black Dragon Viewer Updated Week 22

2015/05/26 by Nalates Urriah

Inara is covering the update of the Black Dragon Viewer for Second Life™, version 2.4.2.5. See: Black Dragon 2.4.2.5: snapshot floater and cinematic camera. The effect of the new Cinematic/Head Tracking Camera is shown in the video. I would have to play with the camera to see if I like it and think it useable, … Read more

Second Life: Viewers Week 15

2015/04/06 by Nalates Urriah

Black Dragon Viewer

Niran has a new release out. Black Dragon Viewer – Update 2.4.2.1. This viewer fixes 3 annoying problems. A crash from a texture error, broken Volumetric Lighting direction control, and a Sound Preference not working.

Second Life: Black Dragon Viewer Week 14

2015/03/30 by Nalates Urriah

Mana Dragon by Sora Ashbourne, on Flickr

Niran has a new version of the Black Dragon Viewer out: 2.4.2. You can read the announcement and downloads can be found here. Some of the changes are:

Second Life: Black Dragon 2.42 Released

2015/12/182015/03/27 by Nalates Urriah

If you know the viewer, you know it is an experimental viewer. The author of it tries all sorts of things. Like Benjamin Franklin and others NiranV has lots of what I label failures. But, the gems that do work out make it worth it.

A current feature Black Dragon has is Volumetric Lighting, previously labeled GodRays. This is a rendering process that reveals light interacting with air… the atmosphere. The feature makes for dramatic images. I think this is going to be an awesome features for those using Oculus Rift type displays.

Black Dragon Viewer

2015/03/11 by Nalates Urriah

A new release of this experimental viewer is out: 2.4.1.9 – Feature Update. This version has the Volumetric Lighting. It also has a change to how video memory is used. Both of these changes are something people have been interested in for a long time. The memory change could reduce texture thrashing(repeated render sharp, blurry, … Read more

Black Dragon Viewer

2015/03/03 by Nalates Urriah

Inara has an article up describing a new feature in the Black Dragon Viewer. See: Volumetric lighting: soon for SL? (Inara has a video of the feature)

Pretty gross beasts — Dragon by Benjamin Hollis, on Flickr

Inara is speculating on whether this feature will make it into the SL Viewer. Her’s is educated speculation. She and Niran, the developer of Black Dragon, think it will make it into the SL Viewer.