Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
Another third party Viewer meeting and some more interesting news.
The Lindens have promoted the Maintenance RC viewer to the main release. That makes the main viewer 3.6.7-281793. You can see the release notes here.
This release has improvements for avatar render speed and other fixes and improvements. Most notable are:
This update is for 3D viewers. It is not an update for Oculus users. Version labeled 1.1 as a series for Oculus users. You can install this version over immediately previous 1.0 version series, notice that is just the immediately previous version. Otherwise you need to do a clean install. The viewer omits the Havok® … Read more
Many of us like seeing what is new or need to get a bug fix that is in the works. Before the new viewer pipeline was implemented we just downloaded and installed beta versions of the viewer. With the new pipeline that is still possible, but it has gotten rather complex. It is easier to just install an RC viewer over the top of our main install of the SL Viewer and run a single SL Viewer.
I’m trying that for now and watching how things work. In general, pretty well. There are some Windows oddities I am still sorting out.
You can download a copy of the current Maintenance Viewer 3.6.7-281236 RC from the Beta/RC page. Before you install it, open your SL Viewer and check that you have Auto-Update and ‘willing to install RC’ options enabled. Then just install it as you could the main release SL Viewer. Some versions do wipe out your settings when installed manually.
A new Kokua viewer is out. This version has an OpenSim fix for the 4096 Bug. That is going to make lots of OS users happy. Latif Khalifa, the Singularity Viewer developer, made a patch that fixed the issue. The patch was distributed to Kokua and Firestorm. So, three of the popular viewers in use … Read more
Niran has release a new version of his viewer. This release has Screen Space Reflections. The images on the blog show it working. It is an interesting feature. Check it out. Black Dragon Viewer Alpha 2.3.2
Alpha 3 or version 1.1.0.34268 has been released. Cinder Roxely has made a Mac version. There are changes for the Oculus Rift: Added looking around with the Rift in 3rd person view. Fixed projected light not being rendered correctly. Fixed bad display with only Basic Shaders turned on. Fixed Rift full screen resolution being used for … Read more