Imprudence Viewer Release and Changes – Review

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The newest release is: Imprudence Experimental Release: 2010.09.04

The Imprudence team is changing the name of their Weekly Release to Experimental Release. They feel the term “Weekly Release” has some people thinking the Weekly is a required download and install, which it is not. The hope is this change will make it easy for new Imprudence Viewer users to tell the latest Stable Release from the Experimental Release. I have both but I actually use the Experimental most of time.

This release has several new features. See: Imprudence Experimental Release: 2010.09.04 Viewer

Voice chat using Vivox is now part of the install. That makes voice chat on SL much easier. Continue reading

Imprudence 1.3.0 Weekly Review

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Each week more features and fixes are added to the Imprudence viewer. Many are considering using it after Emeraldgate splashed across SL. I’ve used it for some time as it has a great Grid Control System that allows me to easily login into OSGrid or SL. Plus it has build math built in.

It like most viewers has it’s peculiarities. Finding how to handle various settings can be a pain. Imprudence has a decent manual, wiki.

Update 2010-08-27: Imprudence 1.3.0 RC2 Released – Voice is now included in the package. OpenJPEG has a problem or two and you may see black textures in place of the actual texture. Do the llkdu.dll copy thing to fix the problem. With HTTP Texture Get on your AV may go clear/invisible, do a rebake to fix it (Ctrl-Alt-R). A volume control for gestures was added. Several RLVa bugs fixed. Clearing cache on OpenSim will cause AV to render as a cloud until you change your shape. Clicking ABOUT for an LM will crash the viewer on OpenSim. There is more info in the Release Notes.

Breasts

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Imprudence Breasts Settings

Imprudence has jiggly boobs. Or at least it has the settings for boobies. They are hidden in the Debug Settings. Ctrl-Alt-D to reveal the Advanced menu item. At the bottom of the drop down is the Debug Settings item. Type in Emerald, then click the drop down arrow to see the settings. I have yet to get jiggle to jiggle well in OSGrid. Others seem to have it working fine. It may be a physics thing rather than a viewer thing. I had less success on OSGrid than in SL.

The boobies settings are confusing. The default settings aren’t that great. EmeraldBoobFriction has a default value of 80 and a note to never set it above 1. Right… The recommended settings on the Imprudence forum don’t seem to work that well.

After a few tries I had invisible breasts, an old Emerald problem. Continue reading

Imprudence Release 1.3.0 RC1

The release news has come up on the Imprudence blog today. Imprudence 1.3.0 RC1 Released

There are Windows, Linux, and Mac Intel versions. I’ll get a review as soon as I have time. But, Imprudence does a good job of getting new features listed in there blog.

It may just be me but when I rez a new cube it comes in with all dimensions set to zero, which means it is invisible. Set the dimensions to something more than 0.0000 and it becomes visible.

Imprudence Viewer Beta 5 Review

Imprudence has a new build out, released Sunday. This apparently is not considered a weekly build, but it is this week’s build. The viewer installs over the Imprudence Viewer, not the weekly Imprudence Viewer. This is a standard and SSE2 optimized viewer. See Imprudence SSE2 Optimization to know if you can use the optimized verion. Get the viewer here: Imprudence 1.3.0 beta 5 Released

I am excited about this viewer. What has me excited is server side Windlight. Imprudence calls it LightShare. Oh why… don’t we have this in SL? Apparently this is a feature implemented by Magne Metaverse Research back in December 2009 and now added to Imprudence and is where the name comes from. (Lightshare) Continue reading

Imprudence Viewer Bug (Beta 3)

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.

Imprudence Viewer 1.1.0 Review

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Update 10/12/2009

October 12, 2009 – Another Beta version has been released. See Imprudence 1.2 Beta 2 Viewer Review here for a link to more information.

Update 10/1/2009

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.

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