Viewers

KirstenLee Viewer S19 (407) Released

2013/05/16 by Nalates Urriah

KirstenLee has posted an announcement about the release of a new version of the viewer: S19 (407). See: What dreams may come! In this post KirstenLee explains why version S19 is being used. Basically because this is the version of the viewer KirstenLee likes working with and using.

This is not a cutting edge viewer. Basically it is a V1 viewer being adapted to V3 three features and recent SL system changes. It is easy on hardware. So, I would class it as being in the same field as Singularity and Cool VL Viewer; V1 interface viewers.

Restrained Life Viewer Update Released

2013/05/132013/05/13 by Nalates Urriah

I have not been a fan of RLV until recently, not the viewer the feature. A friend formerly from Land of Nor has been showing me how it could be used to improve roll play and combat games. I was impressed and have sense been spending more time paying with it. Marine Kelley posted about … Read more

Firestorm Problems 2013-18

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

Lette has a new page up with solutions for the top three problems Firestorm Support is seeing: Frequently Asked Firestorm Support Questions: May 1.

Hippo Hollow - Phoenix Area — Hippo Hollow – Phoenix Area

The three top problems are:

Missing Inventory Items
Textures Not Rezzing
Black Rectangles in Pictures

Lette has provided the fixes the Firestorm Team has.

Second Life Viewer Release Changing

2013/05/01 by Nalates Urriah

You probably know that the server updates come through 3 releases channels; Blue Steel, Le Tigre, and Magnum. This is sort of having 3 Beta versions running at the same time. It allows 3 different sets of code be tested at the same time. The best performing of the three gets promoted to the main channel.

The result is the server code update at a pretty fast pace. In fact so fast that several server updated features are waiting on the viewer to update.

Second Life News 2013-18

2013/04/29 by Nalates Urriah

All the blogs are covering Fantasy Fair, the fund raiser for Relay for Life. So, I’m not saying much, figuring you are hearing plenty. But, if you haven’t been to Fantasy Fair, get over and check it out.

Other Events

There seems to be lots of things happening in Second Life. Daniel Voyager wrote about Tribute City Fashion Week 2013 that starts May 31. It looks fun.

SL10B is coming too. Important dates are:

May 20 Volunteer/Performer, Exhibitor Applications close
May 27 Sims open to builders
June 16 Grand Opening
June 23 Official Birthday day
June 23 Final day of performances
June 29 Sims close to the public
July 1 All builds to be dismantled – sims go offline

Not much news. The SL Beta Viewer 3.5.1 (274588) is the Lindens’ test viewer for SSA. The Beta version has to pass before they can seriously think about rolling out SSA. Once we see the SSA code roll into the main viewer release, it will be some time before SSA goes live. How little or much time is dependent, in some measure, on how fast people upgrade to the SSA capable viewers.

SL Materials Viewer

2013/04/27 by Nalates Urriah

Friday a new version of the Materials Project Viewer was released: 3.5.1 (274847). I am away from home this weekend, so I won’t get to play with it until Monday. I have a link titled SL Materials Post QA that leads to the Alternate Viewers page where you can download a copy.