Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
Early this morning Kirsten released a Release Candidate of the new S21(6) version. KirstenLee’s announcement lists the significant changes in this version. See: S21(6) – RC1 shipping now! Read on for my experience with this version of the viewer.
The new SL Community Web Site has roles, or ranks. Mine is ‘Honored Resident’… which sounds kinda nice. It does make me wonder if they have one for AH or DS… for my opposite. 😛 Probably not. Whatever, we do have roles now. Apparently one’s role or rank determines what one can do in the SL Community Web Site.
The SL Community now has a series of roles to recognize users who contribute content valued by the community. I’m not sure how much the community contributes to one’s rank or how they do that. There is a FAQ on the subject here: Roles and Ranks
The main developer of Astra Viewer is Siana Gearz. (See comments for a correction) Posting in SLUniverse’s forum Siana wrote:
Oh and never mind my fork of Astra, forget it, it’s for private OpenSim/AuroraSim installation only, It’s a special purpose version of Imprudence.
Siana was writing in a thread about the Singularity Viewer to answer someone question about Astra. If you have questions about Astra, contact Siana.
So, Astra is not a Second Life Viewer or at least not intended for use on the SL Grids.
If you are playing or working on OpenSim then download a copy of Astra. Astra Viewer Download (broken) Update: Astra Viewer Download (from Google 11/2011) which eventually leads to a Singularity Viewer download.
USE: Astra Viewer Download (1.6.0.2) – See: Astra Viewer 1.6.0.2 Download Review
The web site is mostly empty. Update: 11/2011 the site is gone.
Most of the viewer work is still boring technical stuff… button fixed here, arrow fixed there… important stuff, just not very exciting. But, there is lots of work going on. Here are the items I think are somewhat interesting.
STORM-610: Changes to Environment Editor: water color change is not saved – This one is still in progress. The latest fix failed and the change was backed out.
STORM-680: Avaline callers are added to the Recent list – The expected behavior has been adjusted and the fix is in… as of yesterday. This means one will see it in version SLV2.7.0-222124 Development.
Yay, we have a new release. You can find the Dolphin Viewer 2 Download here. There is also a new version of the Snowglobe version Dolphin Viewer 1.5.46.3627 (download on the same page). This article is about my experience with 2.5.1 version.
Typical, easy.
The settings from the previous install are retained. I installed over the top of the previous version. All seemed to work without a cache clear.
The Imprudence team has released an update of Imprudence 1.3.0 to 1.3.1. They say if you are a 1.3.0 user you should update. Those of us using the Experimental versions will have to wait. The team says a new version of the Experimental should be out end of next week.
This version does not have the features from the Experimental back ported. There is a list of the features added to 1.3.1 on the Imprudence site: Imprudence 1.3.1 Released
I use the Experimental, so once it’s new version is released I’ll check it out.