Avatar Render Problems: Ghost Cloud Smoke Ball Ruth

Update: 2013-08-20 – Server Side Appearance rolled out to the main grid today. The avatar bake process described here is no longer in use. It will take some time to see if the problem is completely solved or whether more removed causes prevent avatar rendering in the future. Search this blog for bake fail to find newer articles. This blog uses an enhanced search tool.
Update: 2010-09-30 – added tidbits of information – Update 2010-10-04 – added links

See the date to the right for the latest update. I come back and add new info and update existing information from time to time.

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Second Life Avatar Ghost

This problem seems to have become a recent epidemic (2010). There are a number of reasons for why now. I suspect people are more interested in how to fix it and get their avatar rendered. Here is the information I have come across.

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Phoenix Viewer Fixes

Bunches of people have had problems getting Phoenix to run. Actually regardless of which viewer you use you are likely having problems. Tuesday Linden Lab rolled out a server upgrade, so hopefully some of the problems will stop.

For those having problems there are two things to consider. The Phoenix Viewer Wiki article: Troubleshooting and Quick Fixes. The other is the Phoenix Viewer Additional Downloads.

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KirstenLee S20 (38) Release Review

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KirstenLee S20

Today KirstenLee announced putting out the standard release versions of the S20(38) viewer. The post precedes posting of the download files. The various platform downloads will appear today as they get to them. Windows, Mac, and Linux versions will be posted. See: S20 Build 38 – ReleaseAs I write this the windows release is up.

KirstenLee has begun providing optimized versions of the viewer for specific hardware. There is a single download. To take advantage of the optimizations one must rename a file in the install folder. So, may be I should say they providing optimized versions of OpenJPEG.dll. Kirsten is now making versions of the file with SSE2 and 3 optimization and some versions only run on dual core2 Intel CPU’s and higher end graphics cards.

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Second Life Viewer 2 Controversy

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SL Viewers

Drama swirls around the coming end of the Second Life Viewer 1.23 (SLV1) and SL Snowglobe 1.4 & 1.5 viewers and possibly some Third Party Viewers (TPV). If you are interested in getting perspective and an idea of what is coming and why, read on.

It appears to have many upset and predicting the end of SL over the viewer change from the SLV1 to the SLV2 series viewers.  I personally think these are people not paying attention to what is happening at Linden Lab.

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Imprudence 1.3.0 RC3 Released

A new Release Candidate (RC) is out. Release candidates are about stability. If this one proves to be stable it will be come the main Imprudence Viewer. For new features check out the Experimental Viewer. You can down it here: Imprudence 1.3.0 RC3 Released Imprudence Viewer now has selectable fonts. Click Edit->Preferences->[Fonts] Gray map tiles has been fixed. … Read more