In response to my last update on the SL 2.1 Viewer Opensource Obscure pointed out another third party viewer (TPV), Icesphere. For a verity of reasons I’m interested in viewers and how they work. Research leaves me wondering whether and where this software is going. Calling it a viewer is a loose use of the label viewer. Icesphere has a blog: Icesphere … with information and links. Dzonatas Sol seems to be the one developing the viewer. He has th… Continue reading
Kirsten released a new viewer version today… well yesterday now that I’ve been playing with it for hours. I’m always eager to see Kirsten and Emerald releases. Mac users can use this release too. New World Notes has a machinima video up showing a unique use of Kirsten’s shadows, Playing With Kirsten’s Second Life Shadows It is one of the really neat displays of shadow use, shown below. See NWN for details on the machinima. [youtube=http://www.you… Continue reading
KirstenLee Viewer Shadows (29) Kirsten’s viewer is a rapidly changing and is a bleeding edge viewer. Things that worked well in a previous version may not work in the latest version. Also, the default install process sometimes works well and sometimes it does not work so well. So, knowing the tricks and gotcha’s is essential for those using Kirsten’s Viewer. Niran put up a post on Kirsten’s forum with a load of tips and tricks. Niran´s Guide for … Continue reading
Kirsten Projector In my July 14 article Kirsten Viewer S20 (29) Released I included a video by Marx Catteneo showing the use of Kirsten Dynamic Shadows and a Projector used like a flashlight. I think it is very neat effect. Of course I wanted to know how it is done. So, how does one make a projector? Well, it’s easy. One does have to be using the Kirsten Viewer S20 (24) and newer. (Opensource Obscure points out this works in SL 2.1 viewer too.) I… Continue reading
SL 2.1 Shadow Controls I had to do some searching to find out how to turn shadows on in the current SL Beta 2.1 viewers. The former instructions found on New World Notes, or Gwyneth Llewelyn’s SL 2.0 Beta still running too slowly on your Mac? No worries! are a bit out of date. It is easier now. Juicy Bomb’s Second Life 2.0 Shadows instructions are good… plus all the cute clothes are fun. Turning on dynamic shadows is done in the Developer’s Menu … Continue reading
Linden Lab (LL) has fixed Second Life Search… well somewhat. Getting listed in search took time and some regions would never make it into the listings and others already in would fall out. Also, search has changed how it works or may be more accurately said, how it ranks the results. Those changes are important to merchants and shop owners. The listing problems have reportedly been fixed. Instead of taking 72 to 96 hours for the search engine to … Continue reading
Update 2010-09-15: From one of the Snowstorm office hours meetings comes word that some releases of the viewers are not registering the Webkit, Quicktime, Flash, and other DLL’s correctly.I don’t have a fix. This problem is popping up again. My previous post is here: Second Life Media Plugin Webkit Fail – The comments there have more suggestions and fixes. Jesica Brown found a new solution I had not heard. Find the slplugin in the SL Viewer folde… Continue reading
Update 8/15/2010 – Be sure to read Emerald Viewer Scandal Erupts… Again Update II: 2010-08-11 – More information was posted about 2439. It seems some security issue came up and they are fixing it. Some number of Emerald users are running into problems, inventory loss, av not rez’n, failure to login, viewer crashes… seems to be a small but significant percentage. There are apparently some problems on the Modular servers which are slowing the fix p… Continue reading