Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
A new release of the Alchemy Viewer is out. The announcement is here: Alchemy Release 3.8.2. The highlights of this version are: OpenSimulator Support Build tools improvements Second Life 3.8.2 Base and library updates Update to the Visual Studio 2015 toolchain for Windows Support for up to 2 gigabytes of texture memory New features: Add … Read more
We have a new release of the Project Viewer version 3.8.4.304916 that came out last Thursday. I saw it update my install when I went into SL this morning. This version apparently has some fixes that improve performance. Or it may just be that debug code has been removed. Whatever, I get way faster frame … Read more
This Friday (9/11) there was a Third Party Developer’s meeting. This is where most of the early news comes from. These days this meeting is pretty much The Source for any word about anything new or in progress.
The main viewer is currently (9/12) Release/3.8.3.304115. This release is based on a maintenance package of fixes. Release Notes
Kohua has a new viewer out (3.8.4-37026). This one has an updated RLV. They can’t really test it because no one at Kokua is a RLV user. So, if your into the RLV feature use, help ‘em out. See: Kokua RLV merge is available for testing.
Second Life™ is getting a new tool to hopefully induce people to reduce avatar generated lag; the Avatar Complexity Rating. I’ve written about it before and I am trying to play with the Project Quick Graphics Viewer version 3.8.4.304761, which adds avatar complexity settings and notices. The notice that appears in the upper right of … Read more
As of 9/3 we have a new version of Project Quick Graphics Viewer version 3.8.4.304761. My first experiences using it are not good. Within 5 minutes is was getting 2 or 3 FPS and going Not Responding. Memory use wasn’t all that high, 1.3gb. But, using System Explorer (free program) and clearing memory still helps. … Read more