- #Latest black dragon viewer viewer for second life install#
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But they did find a near-perfect way to hide your identity while in the club. But your avatar’s ID is way public, like living under the UK cameras. This anonymous thing had me curious how will they do that? Plus, the place is secret and you supposedly can’t find it without the mask. I won’t spend L$200 without a demo first. But a thousand Linden, that would have put me off. If it is about new features, or something, in SL I haven’t seen in SL then I’m interested. O.O So, yeah, I thought I better get my little tush down there and get one.
#Latest black dragon viewer viewer for second life free#
So, I hadn’t noticed the club opening until Caroline sent me an invitation to get a free mask. Alas I only occasionally check in on her blogs. She has written about it ( here and here) in her blogs. One of the more recent efforts is her Secret Hideaway. Second Life’s Caroline has a Secret Hideaway This makes it so easy to fix you could add it to your first steps of troubleshooting. Poof the problem bridge is turned into free electrons to evaporate into the valley of lost bits. Click Avatar->Avatar Health->Recreate LSL Bridge. Now there is a BUTTON! Yay! Well… more a menu command than button, but you get the idea. Then it can be a pain to fix the bridge… and often a headache figuring out just what the problem is. The viewer is smart enough to resolve most problems on its own when something goes wrong with the bridge. Also, the general flakiness of a connection to a virtual world can cause problems with the bridge. The techy details are here: Firestorm Bridge.Īs one bounces between viewers, like I do, one can run into problems. Basically, it gives the Firestorm viewer more capabilities. It provides an interface between in-world scripts and the viewer. The bridge is an attachment the viewer puts on your avatar. Posted in Firestorm, Second Life, Viewers. My four cores are all carrying about the same load but the overall use is about 50%, which is similar to past versions. There are 20 to 30+ Firestorm threads running at anyone time. So, detecting a slowing or a speed-up due to the new multiple threads is tricky. That is what I experience… sometimes… There are some oddities happening when one teleports. I guessed that I might even see FPS dip while textures were decompressed as more CPU cycles would be getting used by the texture processes. I wouldn’t expect a higher FPS (Frames per Second) rate.
#Latest black dragon viewer viewer for second life upgrade#
Beta testers for Firestorm will have had the upgrade for some time.įrom the changes the FS Team has made, I would expect this viewer to be faster at rendering a scene. I think this is the first release of Firestorm that has this upgrade. I think this should only affect your first-time post-install-visits to places you frequent.Ī while ago the Firestorm Viewer was upgraded to use the simplified cache developed by the Lab.
#Latest black dragon viewer viewer for second life install#
One thing that can affect our perception is this install clears our viewer’s cache of downloaded content. Neither is precise and measurements are highly influenced by our location in the region, which way we are looking, our cache – when did we last visit, the region’s construction, and avatar occupancy.
A few of us may now and then even time it. I suspect most of us hit a region and consider how long it takes for the place to render. But actually, measuring it well is quite complicated. The major effect of texture decompression is in scene render time. But since it has had little effect on Frames per Second numbers it doesn’t seem to have been a high priority to change. Decompressing is a task that has bottle-necked performance forever. The big thing is Firestorm’s viewer now uses multiple threads for decompressing textures. My experience is: this version is better. I just want to consider what people are experiencing based on what I can see and measure. I’m not going to repeat what she has already written.
This version is covered in detail over on Inara’s blog here: Firestorm 6.4.21. So, I went and ran my tests, which I rate at one half-a-posterior. Which made me curious because that is NOT my impression. The thread Newest Firestorm version – lag monster popped up 8/4. The Firestorm Viewer version 6.4.21 had been out for a bit now.