In the LL viewer I can not see that far, the only name that pop up on my radar is my own.
The only option I miss here at the moment is the shadow one, turning that on and off quickly would be great because it has a huge effect on performance but its also one you want to use a lot when making pictures.īut after mentioning this here on my blog, my readers informed me that I could edit this Quick Preferences menu myself and add or remove whatever I wanted, how brilliant is that!Įvery time I start SL again, I get bothered by group chat messages again… ironically enough its usually the Firestorm group chat that pop ups the most.Īs a sim owner and manager I have to keep an eye on what is happening, even when I am in my skybox workshop far away. In stead of having to go into your preferences and graphics settings, it’s just handy to have that button right there on your screen, I know, I’m just lazy. There are some things you need to change regularly, for instance your draw distance when SL becomes a bit laggy or when you teleport into a very busy sim. What I also miss is the little Firestorm window that gives you some of the more important settings for easy access. To me this has become a much loved and often used tool that I would miss, a lot, if I returned to the Linden Lab Viewer. Of course I could just manually copy and paste these settings one by one, or even write them down somewhere, but that is just a lot of extra work.Īnd when you’re very busy building something huge and complicated you sometimes need to copy and paste these settings all the time. I have copied the exact grid location and put that in the description of the building, so all I have to do is take it from my trash, rez it and put it back in the same position. Imagine if you accidently delete a building or even half a city, no problem. Some of these are missing in the Linden Lab viewer.įor instance, Firestorm allows me to copy the grid position of a prim, size, rotation and the texture settings. In both viewers you can uncheck “receive group notices” but Firestorm also allows me to turn off group chat, which I’ve done with almost all of my groups.Īs a builder to me the Firestorm building tools are very important, without them things would be a lot more difficult.
KOKUA VIEWER TEXTURE FLICKERING WINDOWS
I am a member of about 40 groups, some of them use group chat a lot, so the second I log on, the window pops up with all sorts of chatter I am not that interested in.Įspecially when I was trying the Oculus, the last thing I wanted to see was all these windows opening, it wasn’t easy to close them and I even had to remove the headset to do that in some cases.Īnd if you crash or just want to log on for a short moment, this becomes even more annoying. One of the first things that annoys me about the official viewer is the group chat messages that start bombarding me.
KOKUA VIEWER TEXTURE FLICKERING INSTALL
I first need to install an update, unfortunately that keeps crashing, can’t write some file or another, so I’ll have to skip that. Please take note though, this is a very personal choice, I will judge both viewers by the way I use them for Second Life, you may not need the tools that I find essential.Īnd also remember that I haven’t used the official viewer in a long time, so I may just not realise that some of the options I am missing are actually there but I just can’t find them. Nevertheless I felt it was about time I compared the two to see if and why I am sticking with Firestorm. Only recently, when trying the Oculus Rift, I tried the official Linden Lab viewer again and it made me remember why I never use it. I’ve been in Second Life for over 5 years and for almost all of that time I’ve been using alternative third party viewers.
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