Second Life and Virtual Worlds
General Viewer Information
A new release is out. It is primarily for users with AMD/ATI video cards. Unless you are having a problem, you don’t need this release.
You may be aware of a recent AMD/ATI driver update to stopped mesh items from rendering. This isn’t a Singularity problem. It affected all viewers as it was a driver problem. If you had an ATI/AMD video card and updated your driver, you had the problem.
If you know the viewer, you know it is an experimental viewer. The author of it tries all sorts of things. Like Benjamin Franklin and others NiranV has lots of what I label failures. But, the gems that do work out make it worth it.
A current feature Black Dragon has is Volumetric Lighting, previously labeled GodRays. This is a rendering process that reveals light interacting with air… the atmosphere. The feature makes for dramatic images. I think this is going to be an awesome features for those using Oculus Rift type displays.
Marine Kelley has posted that a new version of the RLViewer is out.
This version has the new Hover Height adjustment. Right-click your avatar and adjust away. The adjustment is saved as a setting and so, persists across logins.
Marine points out that ONLY viewers with this new feature can see the results of your adjustment. I expect most viewers will have this feature with their next release.
The Kokua team seems to now be generating a steady stream of viewer releases. A week ago they release this new version. This Kokua viewer is on par with the SL Viewer 3.7.25-299021. The SL 3.7.25 version was a maintenance release with mostly bug fixes.
With this release the dual releases of Second Life and OpenSim versions stops. This version runs on both SL and OS grids.
The main viewer is 3.7.25-299021.
This translation thing is present for me now. I decided to try and get the Bing Free Translation API working in my viewer. That would save me using Discord’s Metanomics, that he really doesn’t seem to want out there.
The result of my effort is: BUG-8794 – The Bing API used by the viewer is depreciated.
The Lab was making the change over to a viewer based translator in late 2011. That was in response to Bing, Google, Yahoo, and other players in the translate game deciding they would charge for their translation service.
RC Maintenance Viewer version 3.7.26.299610 – This is the version with lots of bug fixes – It has problems. So, it’s a weak candidate for promotion next week (12).
RC Hover Viewer version 3.7.26.299635 – This version is considered very new and therefore needs more testing. However, word is it is working very well. So, we may have our avatar hover issues resolved soon.
RC ToolsUpdate Viewer version 3.7.26.299443 – This one might be promoted. It is Oz Linden’s choice and it is looking good for being the one as of Friday.
If it promotes, it means all future viewers will use the new tools, VS2013, for compiling.