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Viewer Updates

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Most of this weekend I was working on RL pay me money projects. This afternoon I’m playing and finding the viewer updates. There are more updates out there than I can get to. I did play with Kirsten’s for a bit.

Emerald Viewer

They have 1.4.0.2270 out. More of the SL 2.0.1 updated have been added in. Looks like mostly bug fixes.

Imprudence Viewer

A new weekly is out. This does not replace the recent Beta release. The weeklies are for those that want to be on the bleeding edge and help with development.

The interesting feature is the addition of menu entries for taking off Alpha and Tattoo layers. That is nice.

Several bug fixes are in this release. One was an incompatibility with Emerald and the chatlog file names. I keep my viewers and their caches separate. So, may be that is why I haven’t seen the problem. There is a fix for viewer crash caused by trying to load empty textures. Memory leaks and few other things that have probably caused me problems.

WINDOWS version 1.4.0.2270 not likely to be available this week… unless someone wants to do the Windows compile…

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Second Life Popular Viewer? Review?

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I’m into viewers and new viewer features. I’m interested in photography, a little machinima, building, and the ability to important and export things I build between OSGrid and Second Life. Most of you know I’m impressed with the Kirsten and the Emerald viewer people. I also like Hippo and Imprudence viewers. All while being underwhelmed by Linden Lab’s SL 2.0 Viewer.

When I started getting comments about the Emerald viewer being crap and I should get a real viewer called ‘Second Life Popular Viewer’ I expected they were another ego-centric narcissistic web persona with little if any social skills. But, that doesn’t make the viewer bad and I was still curious about it.

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Imprudence Viewer Beta 5 Review

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Imprudence has a new build out, released Sunday. This apparently is not considered a weekly build, but it is this week’s build. The viewer installs over the Imprudence Viewer, not the weekly Imprudence Viewer. This is a standard and SSE2 optimized viewer. See Imprudence SSE2 Optimization to know if you can use the optimized verion. Get the viewer here: Imprudence 1.3.0 beta 5 Released

I am excited about this viewer. What has me excited is server side Windlight. Imprudence calls it LightShare. Oh why… don’t we have this in SL? Apparently this is a feature implemented by Magne Metaverse Research back in December 2009 and now added to Imprudence and is where the name comes from. (Lightshare)

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Kirsten Viewer Build 26

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Second Life Viewer
KirstenLee Viewer 26

Sunday Kirsten released a new build. I was the 226th to download a copy… Kirsten’s viewer is about as bleeding edge as one can get. Her site has a warning to that affect. So, don’t jump on this viewer if you want perfection. It has been known to crash and have problems. However… problems seem to be quickly repaired.

Kirsten says this is a massive rebuild because of some foundation type problem. This version is described as a versions 2.1.0 beta viewer. This means it has voice morphing. If you have not heard about voice morphing see: Second Life Viewer 2.1 Alpha.

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Emerald Viewer Build 2165

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Update: June 25 – New version 1.4.0.2270

Emerald Viewer version 1.4.0.2165 is the actual version number on the Modular blog.

The web site, forum, and blog at Modular have changed. The new alpha and beta versions are available via the blog. See: http://blog.modularsystems.sl/

To access the rest of the Emerald information start at the web site. From there you can reach Help and the Forum. See: http://modularsystems.sl/

I suspect the intended new home page is: http://emerald.modularsystems.sl/index.shtml  But, one can’t find the blog and beta versions from there.

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Second Life Viewer 2.1 Alpha

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Second Live Viewer 2.1
SL 2.1 Alpha Version DL

The Alpha version of this viewer was released Thursday June 10. See: Announcing Viewer 2.1 Alpha and Voice Morphing. …O.O… voice morphing? There is a big demand for that? Aaah… ok.

A big item for me is they plan to make weekly releases of the new viewer, alpha version I expect. This seems to be the trend with all the viewers, faster releases. Emerald, Kirsten, and Imprudence are all releasing versions of their viewers faster than I can evaluate them, especially with RL paying work returning to keep me busy.

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