Firestorm

This page lists all my articles on the Firestorm Viewer.

The Firestorm Viewer is a descendant of the Phoenix Viewer. Firestorm is a Series 2 viewer based on the newer Second Life Viewer 2 code. Firestorm as a Series 2 viewer will eventually replace the Phoenix Viewer a Series 1 viewer.

The viewer has many features not found in the Linden Lab viewers. The viewer can be considered a power user’s viewer. It is certainly a Second Life Power Builder’s viewer. Still it is a very good general use viewer. Phoenix has been a favorite among SL’s combat gamers. I suspect Firestorm will just as popular in that group.

For those transitioning from Series 1 viewers and the Linden’s Series 2 viewer Firestorm has a unique user interface that can be customized to be more Series 1 or 2 like.

The viewer is primarily for use on the Second Life grid. Its support of OpenSim grids is shaky and a secondary priority.

 

Firestorm Viewer 6.4.21

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The Firestorm Viewer version 6.4.21 had been out for a bit now. People are reacting to it. The thread Newest Firestorm version – lag monster popped up 8/4. Which made me curious because that is NOT my impression. So, I went and ran my tests, which I rate at one half-a-posterior. This version is covered … Read more

EEP Tutorial – Second Life

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Penny Patton has a new written EEP tutorial out about how to use the Enhanced Environment Project, the Windlight update, on your land. She uses the Black Dragon viewer in her tutorial for the source of the illustrations. Most viewers have the exact same panels for setting up the environment. So, the only problem for … Read more

Firestorm Updates to 6.4.13

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This week Firestorm release an update to their viewer, 6.4.13. For details of what got updated see Inara’s article Firestorm 6.4.13 Release. I am only going to talk about the stuff that interests me. The Bridge It seems they made the viewer easier to fix when it comes to the Firestorm Bridge. The bridge is … Read more

Firestorm 6.4.12 Shadows for Photography

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I recently saw a video about getting Firestorm Viewer’s shadows to look as good as Black Dragon’s shadows. Huh? What? The thing they were doing is getting hair shadows to render well on the avatar face. The video (4 min) I found has horrible audio. Luca The Guide, the author, was ill the day she … Read more

Catching Up in Second Life

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I have survived CoVid-19. It took me down for about 15 days. Still recovering, I easily tire. My four-mile hiking is down to a half-mile. What I learned about CoVid-19 is there is more confusion, contradictory information, and horrible reporting. The worst information and often deliberately injurious information is coming from California and New York. … Read more

The Firestorm Viewer and EEP

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EEP is the Enhanced Environment Project. I consider this a step in the Lindens rebuild of the render engine. Whatever it is, the Firestorm team has released a Beta version of their viewer with EEP. Beta, in this case, means the software is not yet ready for prime time. It also means it is your … Read more

Second Life: Moving/Positioning Avatars

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In 2013 Strawberry Singh posted a couple of articles (here & here) about positioning and moving avatars when setting up snapshots. This was needed for those areas where you do NOT have rez rights. Over time viewer upgrades broke those processes. Every so often I would check to see if the problems with those processes … Read more

Second Life’s Firestorm Viewer April 2020

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Everyone is interested in when Firestorm will release a new viewer with the EEP feature. Me too. However, it isn’t urgent for me as I may use the new Linden EEP viewer for a bit as it is said to have a really low crash rate. Something that has been an issue for me with … Read more