Kokua Viewer – Page 10 – Nalates’ Things & Stuff

Kokua Viewer 3.6.2 Released

2013/08/17 by Nalates Urriah

Late yesterday a post appeared on the Kokua-Imprudence blog about the release of a new Kokua Viewer version. See: Kokua 3.6.2 is released.

Kokua is one of the third party viewers (TPV) testing the new Linden viewer update pipeline. That process has been added to Kokua. It will of course update from the Kokua downloads rather than Linden downloads. This will allow them to push updates to you.

I still find it annoying to be in a hurry to log in and get popped in the face with a “Youse gotta update NOW…” message. It will be interesting to see how TPV Dev’s handle this annoyance.

There are other fixes and new features.

KokuaViewer.org Down

2013/07/252013/07/25 by Nalates Urriah

I’m not sure what’s up today. The kokuaviewer.org blog and wiki are down today, just when I need a copy of the viewer for my new Win7. I’ll use an older copy.

The domain name is still working but PING is dead and a TRACERT dies in Comcast’s LA area. So, I don’t know if it is Kokua’s site or Comcast that is the problem.

Their back!

Kokua Mesh Deformer

2013/07/12 by Nalates Urriah

A blog post on the Kokua/Imprudence blog states the 3.6.1 version of Kokua is out in a test version that includes the Mesh Deformer. See: Kokua 3.6.1 Mesh Deformer Test Viewer.

The download is here: Additional Test Viewer Downloads. The version you want that has the Deformer is at the bottom of the page.

Viewer Updates 2013-27

2013/07/01 by Nalates Urriah

We seem to be coming to a crunch point in viewers. The Lab is changing things so quickly third party developers have a challenge keeping up. Henri Beauchamp does well with Cool VL Viewer, which is a viewer based on V3 code with a vintage V1 user interface.

Niran seems to have leapfrogged the Niran’s Viewer to having all the latest Linden features by jumping to a recent SL Viewer V3 model. Niran’s Viewer is now Nirans Black Dragon viewer. Niran’s features from previous versions are being added to the new SL V3 Viewer code in Black Dragon. Eventually Niran will have Black Dragon on a feature par with his previous versions.

So, both of those viewers have materials. Firestorm 4.4.1 doesn’t and Tonya Souther of the Firestorm Team explains why, in a blog post: Tracking LL’s big changes, and why the 4.4.2… well now that there is an emergency roll out… 4.4.3 version won’t either.

Kokua Viewer Update 2013-25

2013/06/22 by Nalates Urriah

The Imprudence-Kokua people have released Kokua Viewer version 3.6.0-28975. This version has the Materials System updates. Plus several other feature updates.

Chat got a rework of the newer Firestorm chat.

New Point-At and Look-At options were added. Top menu, Develop->Avatar->…

The Build Panel got Copy/Paste for prim dimensions, rotation, and location, which I think is a big thing. The base code for that feature came from the Zen viewer with tweaks from Firestorm added.

Kokua Viewer on TPV List

2013/04/24 by Nalates Urriah

I see today that the Kokua Viewer, the successor to Imprudence Viewer, has been added to the Second Life Third Party Viewer (TPV) Directory. You’ll find it listed in the second section of the list. The Kokua wiki page is here: Kokua Viewer.

The second section of the directory is for viewers that do not report crashes or do not have enough users to report a significant number of reports. So, it may move to the first section when enough reports are collected.

The Kokua team has announced the release of Kokua Viewer 3.5.1. The Release Notes are here. The notes are difficult reading. The Kokua Viewer Download is here. I only see Windows and Linux versions.

They also have a development viewer: Kokua Viewer 3.5.2.