Viewers

Second Life Third Party Viewer Meeting 4/8

2016/04/11 by Nalates Urriah

The HTTP/Co-routines RC viewer promoted to the main viewer 4.0.3-312816…

The RC HTTP viewer has a bunch of voice fixes too. The Vivox people say considering how their software interacts with SL voice processes, the new Vivox code should just be a drop in update for older viewers.

The successful warrior is the average man, but with great focus.

There are a number of robustness fixes in voice. But, this update won’t fix the big drop outs we are seeing. Those are from DoS attacks on the Vivox servers.

Vivox and the Lab are working on a feature to restore service when voice drops… Those will be in the next round of improvements. Other coming updates provide better voice privacy and better security.

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CtrlAltStudio Updates VR Viewer News for Second Life

2016/04/08 by Nalates Urriah

I didn’t notice this until today. David Rowe has explained that his Rift supporting viewer is not going to update until he gets his updated Rift headset. Reference. He is also looking to hear something from the Lab on their Oculus Rift viewer. He tells us his code is more a quick and dirty to … Read more

Firestorm Viewer News Week 14

2016/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

There are several bits of news out from the Firestorm Development team.

RLV – Jessica Lyon gives us some history on the development of the RLV code. (See: RLVa) Marine Kelly is the author and developer of RLV and RLVa code for all third party viewers. Plus having a RL job she is having health issues making it difficult to sit and develop RLV for new viewer versions.

Second Life News Week 14

2016/04/05 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

There is no roll to main server channels this week.

The RC Channels all get the same package, a maintenance fix.

Fixes BUG-11163 llHTTPRequest returns 400 from some sims and not others
Minor internal improvements

Nothing there that will affect most of us. But, we probably use something that uses the llHTTPRequest function, so indirectly we are affected.

The main viewer from the Lindens is version 4.0.3-312816, aka HTTP RC or co-routines. This is a change from version 4.0.3.312684 of last week. I didn’t notice the update as I have been using the RC HTTP version of this viewer for some time. I found it to be an improvement over the previous default viewer.

Second Life News Week 13

2016/03/29 by Nalates Urriah

Servers

No updates to the main or RC channels of Second Life™ this week.

Second Life: Windlight Tutorial

2016/03/28 by Nalates Urriah

Daeberethwen Arbenlow has a 20 minute video (3/27/2016) on controlling your Windlight settings for photography in Second Life. She uses the Firestorm Viewer and the Photo Tools feature it has. Those using the basic Linden viewer can accomplish the same changes to Windlight, just not as easily nor will the video help you learn how to use the Linden viewer, just the Firestorm viewer.

Daeberethwen does a good job of explaining all the settings and what they do. Along with the verbal description is the video example allowing you to see the changes.

Firestorm has the best set of features for photographers and machinigraphers (or is that machinamists?).