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Catznip Viewer R7 Soon

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A new post on the Catznip site announces the coming Spell Check and Auto-Replace features coming to Linden Lab’s Beta Viewer. The LL version is from Kitty Barnett and I think first seen in Catznip R6, the current release of Catznip. In the back-and-forth development to submit the code to the Lab the features have … Read more

Emotes and Slow Motion

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Juicy Bomb has a fun and interesting article on how to make animations run in slow motion. The trick when used with a good emoter (she recommends one) is GREAT for fashion and other photography. See the short article here: Emotes & Slow Motion Animation.  

Firestorm Announcement Today

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We have some news from the Firestorm Viewer Development Team today. Seems they have been suffering from burnout for a time. So, they have taken some time off and are now back.

It seems they have some new developers. Holy Gavenkrantz has apparently been a code contributor to Phoenix and Firestorm for some time. Now he is officially on the development team.

Navmesh (white) w/Static Objects (red) Showing

Armin Weatherwax was a lead developer for KoKua viewer. For whatever reason he has moved over to the Firestorm team and will be handling development of Firestorm for other grids, like OSGrid.

You may remember there is a thing floating round not so officially called the Havok Licensing thing. That is about Pathfinding, which if you don’t know is about creating Artificial Intelligence Characters or NPC’s (Non-Character Player) and your hopelessly uninformed, which I don’t understand if your are reading this.

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