Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.2.2 "Mirroring Dragon"

Happy New Year.

Quick update, just fixing some issues that cropped up. Selecting bake regions for textures should work again, the german UI hopefully shouldn't crash anymore... again.... and uh... that white line thingy in windlight... you know in certain windlights... yea that thing that goes across the entire screen... that should be fixed too.

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.2.1 "Mirroring Dragon"

 Just a quick little update.

Fixing some crashes... and some more crashes... and some issues with the build tools... did i already mention the crashes? Oh and of course the Poser list should now list you and all animeshes properly and immediately again without requiring five quadrillion refreshes and a sacrifice of your unborn.

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.2.0 "Mirroring Dragon"

FINALLY.

Mirrors,

PBR Terrain,

2K textures,

performance improvements,

even more performance improvements.

You name it. We got it!

Sorry for the long delay... a lot has happened, financial troubles with Patreon slowly dropping forcing me to take on comissions to make up for the missing moolah to keep the lights on. When i get around to record the update video i'll talk a bit more about this and explain the situation. In the meantime, enjoy this update that has been WAY too long in the making.

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.1.3 "Birthday Dragon"

 Happy Birthday to me!

Also one year ago is when i released 4.3.2, the last pre-PBR update. Coincidence? I think not!

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.1.1 "Probing Dragon"

Did i not release a 5.1.0 blogpost? Wow.

Anyway, here is 5.1.1 and it brings a good chunk of fixes for a lot of your issues! Yay!

NOTE: Make sure you fix your light count setting as instructed in the video, also CLEAN INSTALL the viewer, that means MANUALLY deleting everything in the Viewer folder and then installing the update, this gets rid of leftovers and ensures you get the same Viewer as everyone else. (Looking at you people that still have unsupported language files)

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.0.4 Beta "Probing Dragon"

First update of the year! Aaaand its just a quickfix. Hopefully this time fixing the startup crashes for real. Oh yea also the light brightness option works again...

A big update is coming later. Prepare for more glorious PBR breakage.

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.0.3 Beta "Probing Dragon"

Quickfixing some startup crashes for some people.

Nothing to see here.

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.0.2 Beta "Probing Dragon"

Merry Christmas Everyone!

This one's a really small update, i got sick (Covid) over the course of this month which almost threw a wrench into this update. Nevertheless here's an update to adress some critical issues.

Most importantly textures for some people shouldn't stay gray anymore because they for some reason disabled HTTP Textures (probably accidentally through the menu), but also the HDR options in the sky editor are now there and the texture scale spinners in the tools window will no longer reset and break. Shadow resolutions should now also work fine again (wohoo).

(Possibly no update video) *sad face*

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.0.1 Beta "Probing Dragon"

Quick update fixing some of the most pressing issues reported with 5.0.

I highly recommend you update to this one asap.

Noteworthy changes: Lots of extra options for sky auto adjustment, fixes for getting stuck on loading screen, next/prev item buttons not working, land edit not working, HQ DoF making a first return. I sadly couldn't yet fully finish the front blur toggle, while it is implemented it does not properly refresh the shader yet it seems, it was more important getting this pushed out as more and more people were failing on login inventory creation...

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.0 Beta "Probing Dragon"

6 long months has it been and its finally here! The PBR (beta) update!

Thanks to everyone who has been testing this as we went from a barely working alpha to a stable beta that runs decently well enough to release it to the public.

I'm also sorry that it took so much longer than the planned 28th November for this, video editing is hard especially if you are trying something new but here it is, i hope it was worth it and you are having a laugh at least.

Noteworthy changes since 4.3.2 are the new first person aiming system, the Pose Creator animation corruption fixed, a first revamp to the tools window, fixes to animated linksets breaking apart while moving in mouselook, a revamped login progress screen that should hopefully eliminate a lot of cases of getting stuck on inventory creation and MOST IMPORTANTLY: A fix for a right-click crash with pie menus, it MIGHT just be THAT crash, FINALLY after 10 years i caught it.

Sadly going forward i might stop featuring images from BD users as Discord made another stupid change that makes image links "run out" after a while. So unless i reupload them on blogspot or take them from somewhere else (or Discord reverts this stupid decision) i'll most likely not feature images anymore. BIG SAD.

I think it goes without saying that this is a massive major update and you should absolutely clean your cache and do a clean install (you shouldn't need to delete settings, just the Viewer folder and Cache) this will prevent a potential startup crash if you install it over the old versions.