NiranV Dean

1.24 quick fix

2012-02-14T21:31:00.000-08:00

Yup its already quick fix time , fixed the not working cam preset spinners , tweaked advanced a lot , took out multiple threads option as it is forced on and therefor useless/not working , upgraded the people panel icon texture paths a bit ... level 2 with laz0r beamz now , and tweaked Topdown View a bit based on feedback

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have fun,
Niran

1.24
fixed hopefully all bugs and non functioning advanced cam preset spinners
tweaked people panel button textures internally
tweaked top view a bit based on some feedback

1.23(.5) Release

2012-02-14T11:56:00.000-08:00

ugh , i was "quiet" for a long time in my blog , im very sorry for that , but RL meeting with friends were more important atm , but dont worry i havnt forgotten you in this time, there were a lot of internal changes , fixes and even some render pipeline changes again :) , you may wonder why its called 1.23.5 , because its funny that its called like Lindens latest Viewer 1 was...

ok lets get to the important stuff , the changes...

User Interface:
A lot and probably the most changes have been done in the Interface again , some of those changes are... the Z coordinate in Script Errors , meaning whenever it compiles with an error it will give out a Z value additionally to the already 2 ones ...
another change is the font and coloring style of the Friend list or your "Acquaintances" , offline people will be shown in italic red and online people will be shown in bold italic green , making them differ a bit more , also new in the same window is the (like said before) renaming of Friends to Acquaintances (please correct me or tell me a better name for it) as a lot of people are just inviting people randomly or after a few hours already thats not what someone would call "friends" right? you only have a handfull of "Friends" and aslong as we dont have the ability to sort and organize those lists it will be called Acquaintances in my Viewer... the last change in this panel is the always on permission system which i´ve upgraded to finally be what i want it to be , it will now show ALL Permissions from beginning instead of showing it when it was hovered =D

Next section was Preferences which might seem to be in a total refactor state , ...well they are , atlast some parts of it , Advanced was redone completly , Camera , Movement and Mouselook Controls and Options are now "seperated" in different panels which can be opened by clicking the coresponding button , i guess i will transplant this look to Advanced Graphics and maybe Viewer Tab aswell depending on your feedback

...coming to Viewer tab , which has got a few new options , i thought it would be really important for you to add atlast simple protections like left click sit/touch disable and not just for protection , it REALLY FUCKING annoys me when i do something in my browser , move my mouse over to SL and just click into the window and for god´s sake ALWAYS hit something i can touch OR sit on.... its ANNOYING ... together with those you will also find the new auto hide topbar feature which will be explained and shown later

...and the Graphics panel , which has been redone atlast the shader part of it , you will notice no buttons anymore , just plain simple checkboxes again for those who are too "blind" to see the difference between pressed and non pressed buttons... (yea i know some people...)

...uhm well then there was a Local Chat option in the main menu which has been removed because of non functionality ... the Toolbar floater has been optimised to look ok for German translation aswell ... an stop all animations double has been removed and the ability to minimise the chat floater has been removed as it caused realy weird breakage sometimes

Features:
Nirans Viewer Labs Experiments present you the autohiding topbar , the topbar which is the Navigationbar , Favouritebar and the well known Statusbar (from Viewer 1) which holds the Time , Money , Net and Media controls aswell as the Main Menu ... it will now AUTOMATICALLY slide out and only leave the smaller mini top info bar whenever it is not hovered or used for 10 seconds! its off by default but you can find the Option in Preferences - Viewer - User Interface

again the Labs present you....customisable rotation speed and degree options! , now you can make your SL act like RPGs , or just act more sensetive , your Avatar can be set to rotate instantly , very slowly or very fast... you can also set WHEN your Avatar should start rotating in the camera direction , should your Avatar rotate whenever you move your cam only one single degree in any direction? should your Avatar rotate not at all? THIS IS FOR YOU! , note this is only local , others will see you rotating as their viewer have other non setable values and will use those on everyone , aswell as my Viewer will use those on anyone else , this goes for BOTH rotation speed and degree!

i´ve also added Jonathan´s "official" .anim file support , which now isnt hacked anymore , you can really select .anim files when clicking upload Animations , it comes with an animation and anim preview which are both seperatly now...

Camera:
as already explained above there were some "fundamental" changes on the behavior of the Camera and your Avatar but theres more , i´ve replaced the Front View in Camera floater with Top View , its like a Topdown View also known from some games (yea i really want to make SL feel more game like) ...and most important , you can now tweak ALL 3 presets via Preferences menu there will be spinners for each preset you want to edit in Preferences - Advanced (which has been redone completly) , cool eh?

Rendering:
rendering has probably had the tiniest changesets , all in one thing big has been done here except Tofu´s new project which has been merged , its called worldspace semi-random macro-dappling , which creates random big darkness spots on a SIM and your Avatar , depending on the sun positon , later this could be combined with the cloud X and Y movement to create a good but faked cloud shadow effect! awesome , for now you can only tweak the darkness strength , the option can be found in Preferences - Advanced Graphics - Lighting and Shadows

Building:
for those (like me) having problems clicking the stretch buttons for X Y and Z you can now hold down X while having them in edit to hide the edge stretch cubes making it easier to click only the colored ones

Fixes:
i cannot say much here , just a few logic changes , some little fixes like ad-hoc messages are now not recieved anymore if you ticked only friends and groups can call or IM me , some render fixes for mac and linux , some shader compilation errors here and there , a horizontal dof line has also been fixed , avatar bakes should work correctly now and not get some crap , 100% transparent objects shouldnt take up too much performance anymore as they dont get "rendered" anymore (i dont believe that because FPS would probably rocket if that would really happen)...and some misc stuff in my UI , german translations , english texts and labels etc etc...blub , really uninteressting stuff

Note:
i hope i havnt forgotten anything important here except that this only comes in LAA version again , before i do a non LAA please give me feedback about it if it helped in any way , otherwise i dont see a reason to do it again

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can you find the special "guest" on this pic?

Changesets:

VWR-27809 When building it is often diffcult to stretch an object along a narrow axis
STORM-1810 Display Z coordinate in Script Error window
STORM-1807 Play animation floater 2nd play button active while animation is playing
STORM-1804 Details... button on PERMISSION_DEBIT dialog triggers run_time_permissions() with a deny action
STORM-1803 Adding raw anim file upload support
STORM-1795 Ad-hoc messages are received even when "Only friends and groups can call or IM me"
STORM-1718 For notifications.xml Mute and Ignore in ScriptDialog and ScriptDialogGroup can collide with user-supplied fields causing unexpected behavior
SH-2964 Fix for shader compilation error on some older NVIDIA cards.
SH-2963 Fix for highlight transparent not highlighting 100% transparent objects.
SH-2908 Rework indexed texture rendering to use a uvec4 instead of a float for texture indices in the data stream. Also rework gl_FragColor overrides to not collide with some odd driver implementations.
SH-2902 Fix for avatar bakes etc. getting garbage data sometimes.
SH-2729 Fix for horizontal line of glitching graphics when DoF enabled
SH-2719 Fix for lines in off-sim water
SH-2592 (OS X Lion) Graphics issues with Atmospheric Shaders enabled on Intel HD 3000, 10.7.2
Fix for Debug GL generating errors when changing graphics preferences (reloading shaders).
renamed add Friend to add Contact and MY FRIENDS to ACQUAINTANCES
added autohiding Topbar (Nav/Fav/Statusbar)
added disable left click touch & sit options from NaCl
added quit Viewer button to login again
added more german translations
add worldspace semi-random macro-dappling to scene to try to reintroduce low-freq lighting variation in leiu of global illumination
replaced Front with Top View
tweaked Graphics panel to be more simple
tweaked toolbar floater
tweaked avatar list name coloring and font style
removed Stop Animating me double
removed abillity to minimize Chatfloater
removed nearby chat menu entry and combination

1.22

2012-02-02T11:16:00.000-08:00

*rolleyes*

i´ve sworn to allow negative values for animation speed spinners! here they are , and this little change brought two other friends , Volume Tree dropdown is now always available instead of only when animated Trees is on and right click pie/context menu in mouselook has also been inverted because it was only available when hide UI in mouselook was ticked.....o.ô...silly me......silly Niran....tears r 4 teh queers

uuuhhh blub?
blub!

INFO: both 64bit (LAA) and 32bit are included , the 64bit is named Nirans Viewer.exe as usual , the 32bit version is called Nirans Viewer(32).exe and can be found in the folder aswell

D0wNl0@D

1.21 wooo!

2012-02-01T18:33:00.000-08:00

yea about 2 days later and we got 1.21, it mainly features selfmade stuff , tweaks etc , no "real" merges

Time Factor Animation:
Factor your own new and exciting animations with Nirans new Time Factor Animation Feature!(HOT) , and it even works backwards! :O YES play your animations with 10 times speed , and then set them to -1.0 to make them play backwards , or -0.5 for backwards AND slow motion =O awesome! , sadly backwards is only possible via Debug atm because i´ve just noticed it while writing this o.o but will be possible in animation preview in next update i swear! but hey watch this Video!

:O *drools*

User Interface:
People got some updates , as inventory lost its action buttons , so did People Panel , but...wait...it didnt lost them....they were just moved into the bottom button bar! check it out!

also visible on this pic are the new Visual Auto-Mute controls with some indicators for you to get an idea whats ok and what shouldnt be anymore , i´ve also added the ability to disable mouselook grabbing/touching of scripts and objects ...sorry that you couldnt shoot anymore....

keen eyes will spot the new animation preview floater =D

Joystick Flycam:
As requested i´ve set the Joystick flycam controls to Xbox 360 layout like i used it in my Videos , so no long stupid fiddling anymore....

Viewer-Development:
probably the only thing i remember i´ve merged is a fix for a memory leak caused by mesh upload... btw Mesh upload STILL works! i´ve tested it!

Blog:
I´ve added infos on ongoing projects to the right side and also system requirements but be WARNED those are what I RECOMMEND , not LL nor someone else , those sys requirements should run SL in most cases with about 20-50 FPS with Shadows , DoF , FXAA and SSAO on , depending on the scene...

32bit Version:
as requested i´ve added a "32bit" version compiled without LAA , meaning it will plop on 1,25GB mem usage , you will ask where the point is in doing a release that will definetly plop at 1,25GB usage... well like i said it was requested and i just wanna show that it most likely wont change that this Viewer still needs high end and will plop anyway

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Niran

Release 1.20

2012-01-31T00:20:00.000-08:00

yayaaaayy... *rolleyes*

another Update, im somehow a bit lazy to write but i will try...

Direct Delivery:
I´ve merged the complete Direct Delivery Beta system , so from now on you can use it on Aditi as far as i´ve heard of the Open Beta... its totally up to date =D

Interface:
with Direct Delivery a lot of ui has been affected , especially layout panels have been revamped nearly completly , this forced me to fix a lot of floaters , one of those fixed floaters is the Inventory , you will notice that i wont have bottom buttons anymore , and because i were editing some XMLs i though , well lets tweaks some other floaters i just randomly opened and so i made the Toybox floater with its buttons even smaller , i mean isnt it cute now?

you can also see the Outbox floater which is new and the Inbox Button in my main Inventory Panel which is pretty old... the topbar has had some tweaking aswell , please tell me if theres something wrong with hiding the favbar , also preferences had some tweakage because of the layout panel changes which fucked up Sound , Viewer , Chat and Setup panels...again please tell me if you still find something that looks broken!

Shining:
this Build features all recent Shinings again , crash fixes , lighting updates etc etc

NOTE: im aware of the bug that lights (no matter if they are projected or not) act totally screwed up on alpha surfaces , will sort that out later, i already promised that there will be a 1.21 pretty quickly... cuz i fucked up something every big release

Performance:
should/could be a little bit faster due to some little tweaks and optimisations coming from Shining

Memory caching behavior:
seems to be less aggressive now , it also looks like my Viewer finally learned to clean up some shit , i´ve started at 0.8 GB usage , jumped to Help Island Public with about 20 AVs , got 1.2 GB , jumped to Ahern with again around 20 AVs , got 1.3 GB and then jumped back to the Sandbox and dropped to 1.1 GB and with every sculpt/object that has been sucessfully loaded it dropped even more , ending up on 1.0 GB again , seems fine to me as i started on a empty space and ended up in the starting area which has a bunch of sculpts n textures

SLKinect:
Tests have proven that SLKinect2 works , its buggy , but hell yea its alpha/beta software and might be a cool feature in future!

Webkit:
due to more and more people reporting Profile probs i´ve gone back to an old webkit version which didnt feature zooming which also fucked up my profiles with 1.2 UI size.... yea zooming was depending on UI size....what a crap feature...please report me if your Profiles do work now!

Linux:
No more Linux Releases anymore , im sorry ... Miguael Liamano not just only gave up because my commits fucked up his releases (also his commits fucked up mine...) he also seems to have blocked me as i made a joke about slavery in my Group Chat today , he probably thought it was meant serious , now he left my Group , kicked me off his FL and yea seems to ignore me...sad that it has to end in "Kirsten"-style ... anyway i wish him good luck in whatever he does now , im sorry about the joke and i can just thank him for his Linux Releases which were reported to be fast...

Group Chat Log:
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[2012/01/30 13:43] Tarnix (miguael.liamano): I tried to compile for linux.. Still broke.
[2012/01/30 13:43] Amethyst (niranv.dean): instead of saying its broken , you could tell me WHAT is broken
[2012/01/30 13:44] Tarnix (miguael.liamano): I did.
[2012/01/30 13:44] Amethyst (niranv.dean): u know i cannot even remember shit 5 minutes ago
[2012/01/30 13:44] Tarnix (miguael.liamano): I left a comment on bitbucket..
[2012/01/30 13:45] Tarnix (miguael.liamano): http://pastebin.com/ses3WqUk
[2012/01/30 13:46] Amethyst (niranv.dean): looks like the nsl cpp is missing
[2012/01/30 13:46] Amethyst (niranv.dean): will check that
[2012/01/30 13:46] Tarnix (miguael.liamano): ok ^^
[2012/01/30 13:47] Amethyst (niranv.dean): no one said you can be happy again!
[2012/01/30 13:47] Amethyst (niranv.dean): down with u
[2012/01/30 13:47] Tarnix (miguael.liamano): wth
[2012/01/30 13:47] Amethyst (niranv.dean): lick my backpaws slave!
[2012/01/30 13:47] Tarnix (miguael.liamano): shush
[2012/01/30 13:47] Amethyst (niranv.dean): down!
[2012/01/30 13:48] Amethyst (niranv.dean): i said get the fuck down!
[2012/01/30 13:48] Amethyst (niranv.dean): *grabs a whip*

------------------------------------------------------------<< about here he left the Group

[2012/01/30 13:49] Amethyst (niranv.dean): nope
[2012/01/30 13:49] Amethyst (niranv.dean): its there
[2012/01/30 13:53] Amethyst (niranv.dean): lol

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Changelog:

1.20

SH-2889 Add visual auto-muting controls
SH-2791 Use request class constructor/destructor for keeping track of concurrent requests
SH-2768 Put transparency checkerboard back in texture preview
SH-2684 FIX, SH-2716 FIX - bug was specific to running in non-english language
SH-2565 Move resetVertexBuffer operation to a consistent location
SH-1427 Fix for spot lights not working properly on alpha objects, and fix for alpha lighting of point lights not matching deferred lights.
STORM-1799 Object doesn't appear in Block list if trying to block from Remote object inspector
STORM-1798 'Block' menuitem title isn't changed after blocking item in object inspector
STORM-1796 Preferences->Privacy->Only friends and groups can call or IM me cannot be changed unless Voice Chat is enabled
STORM-1788 Clarify wording in About Land->Access and tooltips (and similar Estate panel)
VMRG-217 Direct Delivery Beta and all its 5 sites of commits
MISC-3 Use old Webkit
MISC-2 Gesture Panel tweaks
MISC-1 Inventory Panel tweaks

Pics:
cuz i can! =D be envious of my graphics!

haha! i´ve hidden the download here cuz i wanna "force" you to read the whole blog! whuahahaha11!!1!
no seriously i will continue to do that in future to hopefully prevent reports and questions that have been answered in my blog already...

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Enjoy,
NiranV Dean (Amethyst)

Second Life and Kinect

2012-01-25T19:37:00.000-08:00

did you ever imagine doing animations REALTIME while inworld , by doing them with your OWN BODY!? just imagination? future? BLUB! NO! its already possible since a long time and i need someone who has some basic Windows knowledge and who wants to try out if you can play animations with your Kinect, yea i added support for that and i wanted to test it but sadly i got a new Kinect which doesnt have the right USB port...

IM me inworld if interessted!

Release 1.15

2012-01-24T16:08:00.000-08:00

yea its Release time again....quick i know...

lets get to the changes , quickly...

Interface:
from now on you will be able to switch the quick home button off which is located between the windlight quick buttons and back/forth navigation arrows , i also made it possible to close Move , View(Camera) and Speakers floaters via X , both has been requested and with all those changes i also took another look into the Viewer tab in Azure and added some missing options aswell as i took out disable TP screens as this option will never be implemented again (sorry , but i´ve put too much time into them to allow people to just disable them , because thats often the first thing people do and then they wont even see it for the first time , so they wont notice that its actually not the same as in all other viewers)

as soon as i will get the opportunity to merge in the new Simple Inventory Project i will do so and do a in-between release for you to check out as im very interessted in it

also my F1 Main Menu has been updated again , it should now look like this which comes closer to a compass like game menu like Skyrim has , its definetly not final and the graphics will definetly change one or more times over time, but again its a WIP experiment...but its quick! and uhm looks good....a bit atlast

Snapshots:
i´ve added 2 experimental and totally NOT working but funny new modes for snapshot , the left one has been after edited (resized in width to fill the whole Full HD resolution again which you probably will have to do aswell so you will need some basic pic editing knowledge) and the right one works as it looks there , i think atlast the left one looks cool and adds some nice effects to the scene :O its also funky as this pic isnt grey at all! this pic is green and purple and will create an optical illusion of greyness , check it out yourself! take it into fullscreen and zoom into it, FUNKY!

Misc:
the rest of the party is , i added Dolphins unknown minimap indicator which seems to be not working right now , will have to investigate that (like a lot of other things too) and MU Pose style which has been set to off by default ...requested aswell

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have fun,
Niran

Patch 1.14

2012-01-22T14:18:00.000-08:00

Release 1.14 will soon hit the download place

it will contain a fix for the Sculpt-map texture picker which was overlapping the rest of the floater , also the Snapshot floater in which the pic preview was overlapping the info box which made it unreadable , you will also find a modded ESC menu , as it is atm , i know most of you wont like it as it is now as it contains a inventory which was put there for testing purposes , but again this feature is experimental and also has been moved to F1 now which was previously for Second Life Help which didnt work anyway (404) , meaning reset cam is now back to ESC... in future i will redesign it to something Skyrim like , which the basic idea came from anyway , meaning i will try to design a compass like main menu which then...uhm...yea shhh secret =3 dont wanna say too much here or it might be a big disappoint if it doesnt look or work as described , just stay tuned =)

well....and then there was someone really annoying...he was hunting my in my dreams...so badly that i decided to put his "wishes" to top 1 priority and fixed them , which would be a second black background panel in the topbar which will show after you´ve entered mouselook , making the topbar less transparent and also fucking up the topbar when you´ve hidden the favbar , thanks to Adeon hunting me until i´ve fixed it ...@-@

Edit: i also fixed the Statusbar background not hiding properly in Mouselook!

and happy news for all my non german speaking friends , i´ve finally installed WinRar in English , from now on all WinRar Setups will be in English!

Download will be here WHEN its up!

just check the download site sometimes

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1.13

2012-01-20T15:16:00.000-08:00

NOTE: Enjoy with care! dont forget that!

wow shit , it did take 5 days...i was like omg you didnt do something since ages ...need....to....release... and i took a look at my blog and was like wtf 5 days.... only... anyway

this time i had to fight off a lot of shit again... >.< whyyyyy me....but i think i got things sorted again so lets start

Interface:
In case of Interface i´ve worked more on the Tools floater based on user opinions and ideas , mostly just tiny things but hey its coming together nicely!...

so....there was also something about the Sidebar which i wanted to bring back , but again i failed , it was "working"....but somehow it didnt... it was on screen but not correctly aligned and shit still opened in floaters , so i had to give it up for the moment.... but i will re-try later on (Niran doesnt give up that fast) , i also wanted to bring you a hopefully working build again as 1.12 didnt work for a lot of people ....instant crash on login and i had no idea why...but i will go later on that

then... i´ve done....some experiments .... you know i like experimenting , thats why the Tools floater has been redesigned , just to find out how people like it , and so far people actually like it which i wouldnt have thought of , but this time i´ve done something you´ve seen in probably every game you´ve played... so i asked ...why doesnt SL have it? im talking about a Main Menu like it is in every game , you press ESC and viola it pops up and gives you some "button" to quickly go into preferences as example , i came to that idea when i was experimenting with a new fullscreen graphics panel which turned out to be ....cool....but it wouldnt look good on high resolutions ...sadly... so i´ve reworked it to a main menu which can be accessed by simply pressing ESC , the previous Shortcut "reset camera" has been moved to Shift + ESC because i want to make this game menu feel like a game menu and for that it must also use the same default key , i think you can understand me , just try it out , not everything works yet but its a good way to show you what can be done in SL!

cool eh? we will see....lemme know what could be done in there , the menu itself is also about to change , the "graphics" are just for testing purposes , later i want to add nice fading textures and a better background

another cool change i´ve done is that you can now use additional trigger keys for gestures , which are E Q R F I T Y Z G C V M O P and Space , you can set them in the Shortcut key combo NOT MODIFIER!

the snapshot floater has been completly re-aligned making it tiny and totally cute =3 , when Firestorm didnt want to merge it because of "Space" issues i could just smile and did my magic in there :) probably they will change their mind if they see my version which is smaller and has more features than the original one :P

for those that also havnt noticed (yea im talking about you Jay...as you were telling that Firestorms Vintage skin wants to come up with it too), i´ve Inventory Menus as DEFAULT since uhm... 1.00 or sooner i think.... maybe it was Beta already... anyway...take a look and you will see what i mean

my viewer also supports uploading .anim Animation files via Bulk Upload -> All Files* now, for testing purposes

yea...and the rest of what i´ve done in Interface were mostly translations for german in Inventory , Tools and Graphics floater

Shining:
Well with 1.12 i´ve added some Shining fixes that seemed to cause initial freezes on login , but no ....its your Inventory! IF you freeze several times on login before World turns smooth , then your Inventory has been fetched , dont ask me why Inventory does auto fetching out of the sudden but , well it just does it , IF you want i can do an option to disable initial fetching , apart from that i´ve added a few other Shining fixes which fixed the Underwater Crash i´ve noticed when you look into the "void" (the blue water fog at the end of a SIM) and transparent meshes -> meshes should now render correctly when setting them to 1% transparence or having a transparent texture on them ...instead of vanishing completly. Beware , the bumpmap on mesh crash is still present , dont set bumpmaps on meshes except you want to crash , the bumpmap will be set after your relog

RL:
please do not ask me how im feeling , im feeling like crap , for everything , imagine you know a person and you are interessted in him/her but you have a fun partnershit atm like him/her , later you find out he/she was also interessted in you but thought you were unreachable for him/her like you thought he/she is unreachable for you and you begin to think that you still might have a chance , so you try getting closer to her , showing her how much you like/love him/her and suddenly you find out he/she already has someone since a few weeks...and you are all like NOOOOO WTF! , then they seperate again because of some rumors...and you think OMG this is my chance ...so you try even more to get him/her and this continues some months until they come together again.... and a few hours before new year you get told by someone else that they are together again since months and everyone thought you know that but you didnt so you tried to come together with him/her the whole time...you could cry...all the time...and to top that even more he/she likes you very much but loves the other person and wants to give her a second chance after this person betrayed him/her , so you are even more like WTF I AM THE RIGHT PERSON , but you have to kneel before someone that betrayed him/her and cried so much for a second chance that he/she gave it to this person ...so you start asking why and you tell him/her that you were interessted in her all the time.... but he/she thought it was more like a friendshit...so again a random crap that happened which prevented you from getting together with him/her , and now you are trying to show him/her that you still love him/her after a whole year that you find out it was ...pointless.... and he/she can just answer that he/she cannot just tell his/her partner to fuck off because of you , so you are trying and trying ...and getting a "slap" every day until day X in which both come together forever ....marry....n shit....and omgaw....these thoughts what this person will do with him/her....gruesome...im sick...really....sick...it makes me go BOOM especially when you were happy the whole year just because you had a hope to come together with him/her ...you continued...in the hope everything will go better...but in reality everything just went even more CRAP ....seriously ... and im not that kind of person that keeps saying or listening to those fucking stupid "everything will get better" sentences cuz they are fucking wrong , i tell ya ...WRONG...stop fucking telling people that shit , you make people HOPES they will probably never have , at the end they will fall even deeper into a hole of depression...sadness...and might loose trust in everyone like i did long ago...im also not that kind of person who just takes the next one or waits for him/her ...no! i´ve decided i want him/her , JUST HIM/HER no one else , end of story , and thats where the real fuck up begins....when you know you cant have him/her...
just a short write up about i felt in the past 20 days.... anyway... i let you free again....go and grab the download...thats probably everything you want... for those that offered me to talk to, now i dont need it anymore , you can read up everything here. Oh and nope it didnt help me writing this down it just reminds me again of what im thinking and seeing all the time...

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Release 1.12 wooo...

2012-01-15T12:22:00.000-08:00

lately i´ve again worked a lot , this time i´ve got pissed about the Tools floater (yea im a freak of nature) , the Default upload permissions and the inventory filter floater... the last two ones were too big , and the tools floater needed a fundamental change , now i want your feedback about it! i´ve also included a bit more Shiny changes (which seem to freeze the Viewer 1-5 times at the start , will sort that out later , this is just compiled and directly packed , no test before meaning you will be my test dummys including myself :O )

so what has been changed exactly?

Interface:

the toolsfloater got an makeover , heres what it looks now

with it i changed the inventory filter floater and default upload permission floater (which is not on the next pic)

you might also notice that my right arm is used in both pictures , why is that? well , linden labs took that one out looooong ago because it could be used to do some....really...bad...gestures with it , anyway call me a racist because im german , but i do like using the right arm instead of the left because im right handed , its not a very usefull feature but it will give some of you are better feeling of mirroring your dreams and hopes aswell as something of your character in your Avatar , which i really like about SL , oh and btw , most of you wouldnt even care or think about using this right handed motion for bad things , because no one cares , i mean oh griefers and stupid idiots will always exist and they will always to bad gestures even without this right hand editing motion , if i wouldnt have told you that this can be used to do certain gestures you wouldnt have thought about it , right? anyway ....so...you can find the option to switch arms in Preferences - Viewer - Viewer General

the pie menu ...well i wanted to do a companion wheel or action wheel like pie menu , but sadly i got insufficent skills in programming to make pie menus able to use Icons , otherwise i would have done so and it would have probably looked really cool! but it will look different anyway , its hole has been made bigger and the whole pie menu aswell i hope you dont mind , again i need feedback on that ...i might do it as optional setting like nearly everything i do...

Mouselook:

after i´ve taken a look at what other viewers did , i´ve noticed that our Dolphin Viewer did some changes to Mouselook which really excited me =D , no UI hiding while in Mouselook! and nearly fully interactable UI in Mouselook aswell , you can now re-experience SL in mouselook :O just press and hold Alt and your cursor will go into Zoom mode allowing you to move your mouse and interact with the UI , cool isnt it!? theres also a option to enable UI hiding again , but appearantly i´ve forgot to include it...im sorry... just noticed while writing... but you can access it via Debug Settings , its called AllowUIHidingInML (off by default)

Shining:

to the Shining fixes i´ve included , i´ve just noticed (while writing this) that they might cause freezing on world ret , so dont get shocked about that , like said above i will sort that out and check if its really the Shining fixes

About FPS comparisons:

im often seeing Framerate comparisons in the last few weeks , which i personally dislike very much , the reason is simple , they all show the same , my Viewer is the way slowest of them all which comes from the overall higher settings i use , but people that dont hear about that my Viewer focuses on high graphics will probably focus on FPS first , which will lead them to other Viewers that might not even be focused on Machinima/Photos , which i really find dissapointing , not that people go to other viewers , more that its often not said that different viewers produce different quality pictures on default settings , that should been taken in account if you ask me , because i´ve said before , i dont focus on Performance , instead i only focus on high quality graphics , Performance is something you have , or you dont have , i could test through all viewers as often as i want , it will probably always produce the same result telling that Firestorm/Phoenix is one of the slowest for me , together with any other Viewer 1 , followed by misc viewers in which would mine probably fall aswell(Milkshape , Imprudence , etc etc) and then the probably highest Exodus and Linden Shining , which all and thats the reason why im so upset about it will not produce a similar picture to my own viewer without extreme tweaking in over 20-40 Debug Settings all over the Viewer , and then they would probably fall to the same value and maybe even lower than my Viewer....i had a bunch of people already telling me how great the viewer runs even after im warning that it might get slower every time , people came with storys reaching from "i get only 2-5 FPS in Linden and 20-30 in yours" to "i could never activate Deferred + Shadows in any Viewer , but in yours it works and its fast" , which tells me that apart from that im theoeretically doing nothing at the render pipeline :O i actually do something right whatever it is , might be that you get the "original" version of my viewer just like i use it packed into a WinRar file , completly ready to use after unpack without any shit installations ...anyway, my opinion , end of story

what are you still doing here?!

*uses force grip on you*

Download will be here soon

have fun!

Niran

Release 1.1(1) UPDATE

2012-01-12T14:03:00.000-08:00

please GRAB 1.11 if you got 1.10 i forgot compiling it with LAA , resulting in out of memory crash at 1.25GB mem usage!

Yea i know it has been a very quiet time...atlast in my blog
as the previous post already said i had and still have extreme problems , in case you think it gone better , nope its going worse every day...fuck who cares...atm im feeling like...some sort of everything is pointless , crap n shity ...useless...yea...you know... anyway

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me and mig continued working on some stuff both he and me fucked up a lot of shit in the meantime yea , so heres a short brief of what got fucked up in 1.1!

RENDERING:
for all you defaulters and those wo want to be defaulters, i´ve again redone the glow settings , with it i´ve redone the default Sky Preset (NOT DEFAULT its actually called Realistic 2 if you want to set it manually) aswell as sunrise , dawn and night... i did a new Daycycle for it and made that default too , mig came to me and told me someday... the nights in SL were darker and hell yea they are WAY too bright , so i made them way darker (they are also called Realistic, all of them) heres a something for your eyes to take a look at

Old Presets New Presets

you will probably notice that the overall glow has been turned down , yea i know it was extreme on sand and snow (i think on snow it wont help anyway) so yea , i changed everything a bit , reweighted glow a bit etc etc

MESH DEFORMER:
For all you that wanted to disable it , you will now find the option to do so in Preferences - Viewer - UI Settings (dont ask me why its there , probably because theres an Alpha/Beta Feature Section) Qarl Fizz´s Mesh Deformer , untick it and re-wear any mesh or the whole mesh AV to make it update and look normal , the reason why it doesnt auto update like in Exodus is easy, Qarls code adds an update to mesh nearly every second or less , this results in flickering mesh shadows and totally freaking Meshes on other people , i took that one out , contra is that you have to "refresh" it then , but it definetly works better :)

USER INTERFACE:
You´ve seen a lot of pics in which you can see my UI and you probably noticed that i only have 2 buttons left and nearly all Sidebar buttons right (V2 style), this is from now on the new Toolbar Layout as default , it consumes way less space than before and isnt filled with unnecessenarly buttons , if you need any , you know how to add them , right click , select buttons or go into main menu NV - View as far as i remember...

2. point , i´ve revised the graphic panel a bit , fixed some tooltips , added default indicators for those who want to know whats default (later half transparent numbers behind sliders will follow), tooltips to IM Panel buttons and a new option for Bumpmap strength/resolution

3. point is from now on you can search more than only one word in inventory search filter with + inbetween them! , thanks to Mig for porting it over

CURRENT VERSION:

as you were used of Kirstens Viewer , and my previous versions this is again bleeding edge , fully merged up to 3.2.7 Linden and all Shining Fixes!

NOTE:

If you encounter sudden FPS break , OS freeze followed by drivers crash , this is NOT my Viewer causing this , it seems that some funny people think they should TP around random places and start rezzing Invisible Prims (which cannot be seen with Transparent Feature) which are very complex and start fucking up your rendering pipeline , in this case you might wanna try disabling Shadows which seems to prevent that

CHANGELOG:

Sorry this time there is no changelog...in all those fuckups and problems i had , i lost my changelog textfile.... :( will have to recreate it...

ONE LAST THING:

PIIIIIIIICS! (they might be in Loading screen or Login screen in future , sorry havnt done it yet)

Not so bright future...

2012-01-02T12:02:00.000-08:00

Well , i havnt had a good start into new year , additionally i was told a whole story i would have never believed which hit me extremly hard ...then theres also my pathetic failing at trying to deliver you the best graphics in SL , as of Exodus´s new Release with Tone Mapping , Floating Point Object Buffers , HDR , Gamma Correction , Vignette Effect and tons of other awesome features i have simply been stomped to a pancake...

Im very ill at the moment (not directly physically) ...love really hit me with a baseball bat on my head , my whole life became pointless and goalless , i will probably retreat for an unknown time , maybe its a week , maybe 2 , maybe a month ...maybe i will never come back , everything is absolutely unsure now , i guess you know how someone feels when love breaks up , now add another one or two levels of hurt on it... anyway i might continue my Viewer internally , so keep an eye on Bitbucket for eventual updates ... when i ever regain my strength to continue i will probably instantly release a new Version with probably a lot of changes , you might wanna take a look at Exodus to find out what i mean with all those graphic effects and why they render my viewer totally unable to be compared when used right , if there are any questions , please use my group to ask i will try to answer
you can either find it in my Profile (secondlife:///app/agent/a7fe20fa-1e95-4f87-aa8f-86496c78c1e5/inspect) just copy the link in chat and click on it
or you can use the search , search for Niran , its called >Nirans Spiel- und Bauprojekte<

you also might wanna checkout Blue Galaxy (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caisteal/167/167/300/?title=Blue%20Galaxy%20Shop)
for this awesome Avatar and some really High Quality sculpt and mesh objects

if you just want to have a talk with me you can also IM me (inspector above) if you like
Best regards ,
Niran

Mesh Deformer Alpha 1.03

2012-01-01T07:47:00.000-08:00

Mesh Deformer Project done by our hero Qarl who did a lot of great things in the past finally gone Alpha , its included in 1.03 so all meshes (atlast those who are rigged correctly) should properly rig to your body , additionally it will also now change with your fat , boob size , ass size , head changes etc etc , all those tiny things that werent possible before now work! , even Avatar Physics should work like Qarl said :O

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have fun

Original blogpost by Qarl:
http://www.qarl.com/qLab/?p=76

Happy new Year to all but me...

2011-12-31T16:27:00.000-08:00

yea its again the end of a Year , this time it is 2011... it brought us a lot of good ....and a lot of bad things , but better not talk about the bad things...

As always i merged back and forth , tested , tried and fucked up my Viewer a lot of times , coming to the conclusion that its shit and i have to go back to the starting point , which leads me to that theres not much changed from PreRelease 1.02 to final 1.02 , all Major things were already included in 1.02 , but i dont want to come with empty paws so i´ve done atlast a few things here they are:

Multi-Level-Shadowing
Tofu keeps playing with his SSAO and Shadows and i keep merging his stuff up to a certain point where he went backwards instead of forward , at this point shadows look the best with maxmimum quality and minimum shadow resolution , i´ve explained and shown that already in the final Release one that High equivs nearly Extreme (2.5x Resolution) Settings before Tofu´s changes , but thats not enough , he kept doing awesome stuff and thats where Multi-Level-Shadowing jumps in

as you can see , alpha objects will throw shadows aswell , full shadows from 0-20 transparency , half shadows from 21-70 and no shadows from 71 onwards

Bugfixes & Changes
as Silverdragon told me , group profile buttons vanish when hovering over them , that came from me not able to find a way to seperatly tell the Viewer that Friendlist etc has them and group chatter list has info button only , this is "fixed" now , i removed the profile button completly as it is useless anyway , you got 3 other ways to open his/her profile...Button , right click and inspector...

I´ve modified the IM Panel aswell ...again, this time the Namedisplay has been changed , from now on it will not show User Name (display.name) anymore , it will ONLY show User Name OR Display Name (when i figure out why both doesnt work anymore i will add that aswell) depending on if you enabled Display Names in IM found in Preferences - Viewer - UI Settings

Double Click TP Shortcut was fixed and a crash on logout with active notifications which some of you might have encountered without noticing

Well...and then there are 2 special things , number one is working Mesh Uploads! Thanks to Nicky Dasmijn
who made this possible (havnt tested yet, this is up to you for now)... Number 2 are the new Loadingscreens , i´ve thought long about adding the hide Progressscreen option , then i thought about reasons why people hide them? annoyance? boredom? probably both , now they arnt annoying anymore , instead they are HELPFULL! and they look cool too , have a look

and sometimes they even have a funny joke for you!

to close this post finally i´ve collected some... pics again for you to compare

Windlight (Left) and Deferred (Right)

the Download can be found as soon as it is uploaded here

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Full Changelist:
-new Progressbarscreen with tips and pics (cycles through a few pics so there isnt always the same)
-working Mesh Uploads -fixed vanishing Group Icons (removed profile icon completly due to 3 already different ways to access profile...a 4. is not neccessenary)
-IM container doesnt show User and Display Name anymore , only one now depending on your settings
-CTRL + Shift + D for Double Click TP fixed
-Logout Crash caused by notifications left in sys tray
-better Linden Terrain texture quality from stock
-started some German translation in Preferences

Tests & Reviews

2011-12-26T23:45:00.000-08:00

if collected some Reviews/Tests all over the Internet for you if you still dont know what awaits you in my Viewer

English:

Beta:
https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/nirans-the-viewer-that-dares-to-be-different/
http://jayrcelasecondlifetechnologist.blogspot.com/2011/12/secondlife-nirans-viewer-build-8-beta.html
http://blog.nalates.net/2011/12/26/nirans-viewer-finalized-review/

Final and above:
http://jayrcelasecondlifetechnologist.blogspot.com/2011/12/secondlife-nirans-101-ultra-high-end.html?utm_source=BP_recent
https://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/nirans-viewer-daring-to-be-different-2/

Day-1-Patch 1.01

2011-12-25T16:46:00.001-08:00

1.01 released , find the patchnotes and download link here:
Forum - 1.01 Patchnotes

Merry Christmas! , Final Release

2011-12-24T05:31:00.000-08:00

Nirans Viewer 1.0 - The Viewer that dares to be different

Finally! 2 Months of continuesly working finally comes to an end, as some of you may already know (or not) , with this "Final Release" all Future updates will only be corrections , additional shinies or simply bugfixes , depending on how much stuff comes out and how important they are i will reduce or increase Releasing speed , meaning that it might be possible to get up to 2+ Releases a day. In future i will also think of a better System to announce those lots of bugfix releases , probably through a Forum. As of Nirans Viewer turning 1.0 officially , theres a lot of new stuff to explore and experiment with , but dont forget , this Viewer is based on Shining , Viewer-Development (not always recent as example the MultiCurl thingy was left out...because of you know...problems which i will check in future) , some Features of other Viewers like Firestorm , Kirstens , Catznip , and several secret (or not) Repositorys with nice (maybe some secret ones aswell) Projects i can find , all critically weighted good vs evil and decided if it fits my Viewer aswell as my Goals to create a Viewer with the probably best Graphics in Second Life. Well you might also noticed that my Builds are getting slower and slower by nearly each build i implement a cool new graphics feature or turn up graphics even more , logically thats normal , higher graphics mean less FPS on the same PC , even i have reached a point in which i feel.... old with my GTX 460 and AMD Quad Core again i mean , with all new shinies n stuff im getting about 20-40 FPS in average which is compared to Kirstens times not really less....even more but highest Values have fallen , so my times with 50-60 FPS are down to 40 MAX now... but you can also see the difference , it looks totally different as in ANY other Viewer. Why all this graphics , graphics and even more graphics? there are a few reasons , i think SL has come to a point in which it finally needs some change , SL graphics have been held back for faaaaar to long, now as i can decide how they should look and how far they can get , i say just MORE , theres so much SL still can do which NONE of us has yet discovered , and im striving to get to those limits without care about Performance , screw performance , we will gain it anyway , weither it is through upgrading our System , luck or optimisations i or LL or someone else does....

Anyway , lets come to the main thread again , the Release of Nirans Viewer 1.0 , theres a lot to say about it so lets start!

Graphics:
in Graphics i´ve a lot of stuff lately and the last few days , most noticable is that your FPS will again decrease (probably) because of the newly implemented Shadow rendering algorythm which gives way better quality , less pixelated mud and most importantly it extremly decreases the for long noticable pixelation when turning the camera around in a special position/angle , also shadows will reach a whole new level in resolution , i did a (unfair) comparison between them , i´ve set the old rendering to EXTREME (which caused my FPS to cripple to 50%) and the new one to High (which is default) , and guess what? on High in new rendering it looks very close to that of EXTREME in old rendering , you can see smaller shadows like from sticks , wooden fences , cables etc from way farther ahead in way higher quality because shadows doesnt pixelate that extreme anymore , making it a good replacement of the old rendering , in average you will probably loose 1-5 FPS (depending on how much you actually have) but as i said compared to what you would lose on way higher quality to archieve the same quality in old rendering its nothing, so YAY for that!

Old

New

Old

New

New (High)

Old (EXTREME)

, along this Major changes , there were some internal changes , and some extremly tiny minor changes to Depth of Field and SSAO again , i also made it possible for you to easily change the new SSAO back to the old style (seen in pics) aswell as the failish Shiny/Bumpmapping , you can switch between old and new to your liking but let yourself said , the new one is the Windlight one which has been posted as "fix" to SH-1912

IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE USED IN DEFERRED! STOP COMPLAINING IN JIRA!

IM SICK OF SEEING PEOPLE RUINING SL GRAPHICS WITH THIS KIND OF SHIT CHANGES

Also have a look at the soon deriving Animated Trees feature , which will obviously stay in my Viewer , atlast until somethig bad happens ...or will be replaced

Skins:

With 1.0 "Darkness" has been officially finished and set as new Viewer Default! , you can find it in Preferences - Skins/Themes , select it there and relog to see the new Skin , i´ve put a lot of time into this skin to make it completly different from everything you´ve seen so far , it makes a lot usage of fading , black and yellow/white.

Also with 1.0 comes Miguaels skin called Ashen Blood which is basically a recolor of my Skin as it looks , it was available as additional skin in Kirstens aswell , like my Azure long ago , it makes huge use of Black and Dark Red , so be carefull not to lose your last few blobs of life juice in there =D

User Interface:

The User Interface is the core of every Viewer , without it most of you (me included) wouldnt be able to use a Viewer at all...atlast for non command liners... over the past 2 months i´ve put alot of time and work into my UI , making it different , changing nearly every aspect of the UI without breaking it too much , a lot of ideas and suggestions from you the Community has been added in some way , another main Goal of my Viewer is reached with my UI , it gives you extreme control of how your Interface can look , you can rearange all buttons along the top/left/right and bottom bar , you can set them to Text and Icon or Icon only , you can move every Window around , customise the Topbar , disable the quickbuttons or enable them... , you can hide the navbar , the favbar , the bank display , the draw distance slider and in Azure you can even set transparency by disabling one or more of the topbar-texture-layers , not to mention that you can enable pie menus and also customise them in an extreme way ... color of text , background , selected pie , pie lines aswell as transparency and fade out of the menu background , you will also see a live preview for the colors you set beside the pie menu options , which allows you to directly see what you change and how it would ~look without having to right click something all the time! in near future i will also add the ability to customise Camera Presets like its possible atm via Debug , just in Prefs meaning way easier to find and customise.

I will also update and change the UI in future updates , and maybe i will completly redo it someday so stay tuned

apart from that i redid the IM Panel again , when i tried to clean up in code i found code pieces for Voice-Volume , Mute and Block/Unblock which i added to the IM Panel now and required me to rethink it a bit , you can now click on the wrench icon to slide all controls out and slide in the new voice/block/unblock/mute controls , same goes vise versa ...have a look!

theres also the now fully functional Optimizer Panel which can be found in Preferences - Graphics (yea RIGHT , Graphics 2 is gone and Advanced graphics is now a seperate tab) besides Reset.

This window is designed to be kept on for a long time on screen without decreasing FPS and taking up too much space , making it easier to compare graphic settings/options , it can be slid out/in by clicking the menu buttons , which then will reveal new options. Graphics 1 also has been redone and simplified a lot , no changing labels anymore , a few more hover tips , and some corrected

Bugfixes:

As always there has been a lot of fixing going on , some of you may encounter less crashs , some a lot more , some none at all , we all know SL is a crashy and unstable piece of....you know , thats because so many different systems and system setups aswell as OS´s have to run on so many different clients setups in so many special situations in many different SL Server Versions etc etc , atm theres simply no way to ensure stability , so i just hope you are lucky and dont crash all the time , because that would be bad...

Ahern:

I´ve done some test runs on Ahern but there never were enough people to crash the Viewer , so i cannot say for sure if its fixed or not , but you can try if you want , would be interessted in knowing if it works there now , if now , tomorrow will follow a "Fix" which MIGHT fix it ...we will see

Features:

Since i started from Shining 3.2.1 with default LL UI , there has been added a lot of stuff , you could watch the huge Todo list getting longer and longer , but atlast the most important have been finished , those that were in Kirstens and some little additional things , but theres one thing i want to tell you , you may ask for features or suggest a good one , if its a graphic related feature , and available somewhere there will be a nearly 100% of adding it as long as it isnt a stupid idea like the SH-1912 thingy.... everything else will be critically weighted and i will most likely discuss a lot with you about how bad it can be used and what reasons i have why i implement it or why not , i know theres no way to ensure that people wont use a feature in a bad way , but i will definetly take care of my Features and also try to make them as harmless as possible , because i simply wouldnt like hearing that my Viewer is some sort of a crash/grief or whatever Viewer because it has X Y Z....well theres another thing about those Features.... are they worth implementing? i mean this is obviously a Machinima/Graphics Viewer for Photoshooting , taking Videos , or just seeing/enjoying Second Life´s beautiful side , so please dont tell me i need a huge radar with lots of extra features because you are an estate manager , like i said this is not a multi functional uber viewer , its just a graphics specialised viewer created in a way i (more or less) want it.... well and LL gives us enough griefing tools from stock , the worst one is scripting and building if you dont know how to use it right =D

Forum / Website & Third Party Viewer directory:

Forum? Forum. Forum?! Yes , im planning to go TPV with my Viewer , when this will finally happen...idk , but to accomplish this i have to fundamentally change a lot especially on Web side, thats why i created a Forum for you to use (link is on the right side) , to post news , feature request , bugs , tutorials etc etc, i will also have to make a note you will have to read before downloading my Viewer that tells you what data i collect and what uses i have for them (well technically seen im not collecting any data except what a LL Viewer would also do , im also not using them , and even if i would collect any other data , its 99.9% not "wanted" , i prefer asking people personally or in Forums , PM/IM or whatever , thats why im often saying you should comment or tell me inworld or something like that in other Forums...) , anyway i have to write that down somewhere , place the download under it so YOU have to read it , think your blabla about it and continue downloading it as it was before. My blog will sooner or later get an upgrade aswell , maybe it will be transformed into a normal Website , maybe not , im not yet sure about it

Tests/Previews:

If you are still not sure what you will get to see you can check out some Previews , just search for Nirans Viewer on Google , i´ve also searched the biggest and most complete one here which will get an update after this release , so check it out again soon!

Nirans Viewer Preview

Linux:

Yes there will most likely a Linux version finally , Miguael which also "worked" for/with Kirsten joined me a while ago and is also working on some things i dont have time or hardware for , like a Linux Release , i know im a backstabbing guy but , if there are ANY problems with Linux , I AM NOT YOUR SUPPORT! i cant and wont help you , instead i will redirect you to Miguael or tell him as i cannot do a thing for Linux (i dont have Linux) so instead go to him directly ok? i will post the link here when the Linux download is ready

LINUX DOWNLOAD

LINUX DOWNLOAD #2

Windows:

nothing really changed here except that my download is below all this massive amounts of text and that i will maybe try to fix the installer in future releases by doing a normal installer asides the WinRar executable :)

WINDOWS DOWNLOAD

Future:

a short reminder , like said at the top i will probably do more frequent releases now , the first will be 1.01 tomorrow and the second on new year called 1.02 , i dont wanna stop you anymore now so go ahead and download it , have a MERRY CHRISTMAS to you all!

Changelist:

for all of you that want to see the complete changelist for everything from Build 5a/b up to Release ,here it is

VWR-27832 L$ Transfer failures show alert as if successful

ER-1473: fix teleporting in sit mode. Viewer fix - reviewed by Callum

SH-2743 Fix for shader compiler error on some GL 3.x implementations.

SH-2735: LLCurl causes SL to freeze when logout

SH-2734 trade HSV effect matrix for a simple value scaler, since that's all it's been used for for years now.

SH-2726 FIX -- Texture Console and Debug Console inaccessable

SH-2694 Fix for FPS drop when mousing over flexi objects (don't use an octree for flexi raycast)

SH-2680 Bring back blurred edges on objects closer than the near focal plane.

SH-2671: sometimes other avatar textures don't load

SH-2668: "ocean" water is always 20m high instead of the Region Water Height

SH-2658: crash in LLPluginMessage::parse

SH-2652 Add timers to relevant areas, pause render pipeline while occlusion queries from previous frame are still pending and perform texture decode work.

SH-2651: [crashhunters] Crash after google translate failure

SH-2614 FIX, SH-2684 FIX - fixed buggy state management in onPhysicsUseLOD

SH-2602: [crashhunters] crash on exit in ~LLPumpIO()

SH-2601: [crashhunters] crash in LLBufferArray::countAfter()

SH-2560: Nearby avatar textures fail to load

SH-2526: Second Life client quickly allocates all available RAM and crashes

SH-2512: Some avatar textures in welcome area never load on first visit; By Bao Linden

SH-2084 Don't error out on framebuffer mismatch

SH-1427 Fix for redundantly applying light intensity to deferred lights.

EXP-1742 FIX -- Clicking IM notification or receiving multiple IM notifications in quick succession crashes to desktop

EXP-1674 FIXED Disabled chrome for profile windows; adjusted floater height accordingly.

EXP-1664 FIX Toolbars visible in mouselook view and when hide all controls selected

EXP-1657 FIXED Change success/failure message text on posting to profile feed.

EXP-1654 FIX fast timers does not show entire frame when Full bar = Max

EXP-1649 FIX +1 (client) Turn off web loading spinner until a more visually pleasing one can be defined

EXP-1639 WIP Cleaning up to improve readability; added more debugging messages.

EXP-1635 FIXED Made it clear that inventory snapshots are limited to 512x512 px.

EXP-1631 FIXED (Selecting Edit for more than one Pick from Profile floater, breaks the navigation history in Picks Floater)

EXP-1596 : Fetch system folders so we're sure they are empty if we need to hide them

EXP-1588 Floaters do not snap to edge

EXP-1577 FIX Made agent profile position and size persistent.

EXP-1576 FIXED (Remove old profile window from People panel)

EXP-1565 FIXED Fixed IRC-style emotes in chat.

EXP-1554 FIXED (Selecting More Info for more than one Classified section in Search floater, breaks the navigation history in Picks Floater)

EXP-1544 FIX Remove 'Edit Terrain' from About Land floater

EXP-1515 FIXED Web Preference radio button must be clicked twice to engage.

EXP-1506 FIXED starting the toast fade timer when a toast is overlapped by other floater like avatar inspector.

EXP-1504 : Allow opening of tab in tab containers when drag and dropping things.

EXP-1501 FIX Specified help topic for the IM floater.

EXP-1498 : Hide empty system folders. System folders can be specifically marked to be hidden if empty in the LLViewerFolderDictionary constructor.

EXP-1498, EXP-1595, EXP-1596 : Hide empty system folders in a dynamic way, turn the setting ON by default

EXP-1489 FIXED (Cannot build notifications not being shown when chat floater closed with chat log toggled open)

EXP-1476 FIXED (Moving speak button to empty toolbar while incoming/outgoing call dialog is open does not move the dialog as well)

EXP-1451 FIX -- I want to put my NEARBY CHAT window at the bottom left, but then it obscures chatted text.

LLSD-14: Bring over llsd.{h,cpp} enhancements from server-trunk.

STORM-1737 panel_edit_skin.xml uses confusing historical terminology

STORM-1731 Ad-hoc confererence block failing. Residents using it to start massive multi-sim conferences, used as a griefing tool.

STORM-1729: ensure that cpu id has no leading or trailing spaces for ease of comparison and formatting

STORM-1728 Name truncation in the Region/Estate floater -> Covenant tab

STORM-1723: fix character display when a lot of different characters are used

STORM-1719 notifications.xml has two instances where a button shows as "Ok" and Not "OK"

STORM-1717: fix avatar names in object details floater

STORM-1713: Mouse pointer flickers when hovering over any active/clickable UI item

STORM-1712 Do not sort recent speakers list if mouse is hovered over it

STORM-1653 Group notices sent by muted residents are still displayed

STORM-653 As a user i would like to be able to see the available number of attachments and remaining free slots.

STORM-591 As a music fan, I want audio to fade in gently so my immersion is increased , Co-written with Robin Cornelius

NIRV-10 Implemented Tofu´s new Shadow Algorythm , way more quality for a little FPS cost

NIRV-9 Deprecated Delete presets floater and made presets deletable via edit floater

NIRV-8 Added Name fade duration and start fading after x seconds options

NIRV-7 Chat now closes/hides on hitting enter with empty Chatbar

NIRV-6 Added abbility to Whisper via Shift again

NIRV-5 Added different Folder Icons and made NV use them

NIRV-4 Added Optimizer panel which allows quickly optimising graphics without having preferences open (FPS drop)

NIRV-3 fixed Hide L$ Balance Option

NIRV-2 removed overwrite ATI rendertargets Option

NIRV-1 Fixed Viewer tab which was a bit too short to display everything correctly

MISC-6 trivial: change a log info for memory failure for LLImageBase

MISC-5 trivial: update the memory pool log info to the latest.

MISC-4 made slplugin less spammy when it fails to launch

MISC-3 Update LLQtWebKit to fix EXP-1191 Update loading overlay graphic to resemble a typical Web loading... spinner

MISC-2 call LLViewerTexture::isMemoryForTextureLow() less often and only for ATI cards.

MISC-1 Point to improved loading overlay and turn it on always

Pre-Release 2!

2011-12-18T19:35:00.000-08:00

last Pre-Release and the second last Release in general for this Year
this is Pre-Release 2!

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again nothing to say much here , more UI work , some finalisations on Darkness and some internal changes which are the reason im uploading number 2 , i wanna check if this is a crash monster or not , i dont wanna release a crash monster on christmas...u know...

NOTE: if you previously disabled CurlUseMultipleThreads , you now should be able to savely enable it again to prevent frame skipping (single frames that produce stuttering or freezing for a tiny moment in a super smooth picture) if not , keep it disabled , its your choice , i´ve enabled it and all my test runs until today worked without any crashes , also please be aware that crashing on ahern is "normal" behavior , i havnt got around to test it with this release but im pretty sure it will still accour after a few seconds on ahern , so please keep yourself away from this region until i mark it as save again , thanks

best regards Niran

Time´s running out

2011-12-17T00:07:00.000-08:00

get it while its hot!
Pre-Release weee!

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here a short list of Features:
we got lots of crashes
normal crashs
fast crashs
slow crashs
instant crashs
delicious crashs
awkward crashs
stinky crashs
ugly crashs
cool crashs
dark crashs
bright crashs
funny crashs
sad crashs
huge crashs
small crashs
freeze crashs
hard crashs
softie crashiieees
crashs before crashing
crashs while crashing
crashs for crashing while crashing
and the most important of all! an utterly and ugly designed UI to make the most out of your crashs, design them how YOU want them to crash, with cool sliders to adjust strenght of crashes , frequency and even the speed of crashs! all packed in a shity , stupid and totally useless nonesense WinRar Package in order to maximise uglyness all the way!

have a snapshot of the ugly UI for your crash-pleasures

grab your personal crash today and increase the amount of overall crashing on the grid!
awesome!

Note: today is not inverse-day or something like that im just having fun writing crash that often =D
seriously , no info sorry , i wanna do (like always) a huuge post about all the new stuff when Release hits SF on a special day...i also dont want to do a big announce over all this stuff when it might not work at all , this pre-release is there to have a look at whats coming in Release and probably my last chance to fix everything up to make the Release as good as possible

please reset your settings or if you dont want to , go to Debug Settings in Login Screen (activate by pressing CTRL + Alt + D and selecting Debug Settings in Debug menu) and disable CurlUseMultipleThreads , otherwise the above described funny joke will become true

About risks and side-effects read the package insert or ask your doc or apothecary

sorry ...german medicine info , but sounds funny anyway

SL Graphics in Detail

2011-12-08T13:00:00.001-08:00

ever wondered how many passes and shaders are needed to make awesome pictures and videos like i often did in the past or like im doing for my posts whenever i do a release? heres are 3 photo series showing you step by step how such scenes come together and what graphics are used and where they work

SL 2003 without Textures

Bumpmap added

Windlight Enabled

Vertex Shader enabled

Glow Enabled

Lights + Windlight enabled

Shadows Enabled

Deferred Enabled

Final Scene with textures and everything on

Ambient Occlusion enabled

Another example this time with textures from start

SL 2003

Bumpmaps

Vertex Shader

Windlight

Windlight + Lights

Glow

Deferred (light disabled)

Deferred (lights + projected lights enabled)

Ambient Occlusion

Final Scene with Depth of Field (Extreme(easy to spot))

And a final tiny comparison

Windlight only

Deferred without Projected Lights and Shadows

Deferred with Shadows , without Projected Lights

Deferred with Projected Lights, Shadows, without DoF

Deferred with Projected Lights , Shadows and DoF

and for god´s sake NORMAL snapshots *rolleyes*

Build 8 Beta 5 B! Released

2011-11-30T13:54:00.001-08:00

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as promised i wanted to do a little update that mainly updates the UI to contain all RLV Options , Menus and Prefs aswell as RLV floaters , it also contains a little SH fix which adds back environment shiny to Lighting & Shadows shiny , making it a bit more chrome like (like in Windlight without Deferred)

also a little (dumb) bug was fixed causing the viewer to crash because of my new Windlight Edit floaters , because of a missing string (predefined text)...but we already know that LL based Viewers are.... really... hurtable with such tiny things...

also a little update to Beta 5 in general , see it as additional info to the already really big Release Post

Yes i changed the whole Camera Settings , the Presets , where the camera focuses and where it starts at , aswell as its general options , i changed the zoom time minimally , and adjusted the smoothness settings to make the camera smoother instead of doing those ugly hardcuts all the time (exception in build mode)

if you want to change them you can do so in Preferences - Advanced , thanks , thats all....yup im a bit pissed about that

Beta 5 Part 2!

2011-11-29T23:35:00.001-08:00

Yes there will be an update to the existing fixed Beta 5 , it will add all missing RLV options like the Z offset , yes! RLV brought the Z Offset option , atm it can only be found in Debug , also the 2 Information floaters of RLV will follow , they allow you to check all RLV relevant options like lockings/unlockings etc etc it will mainly just an UI update so dont expect to much :)

Nirans Viewer Build 8 Beta 5!

2011-11-29T11:12:00.001-08:00

Yes! it happened , i finally decided to pack and upload everything for you to test
sorry for beeing so extremly quiet....i know that doesnt fit to me

UPDATE! Beta 5A is online grab it if you grabbed just 5 it will fix ruthness and non changing shape , again thanks to Kitty!

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NOTE: PLEASE LISTEN TO ME , ONLY ONE TIME! - RESET ALL YOUR SETTINGS OR YOU MIGHT GET RRRREAAAL EVIL PROBLEMS WITH RLV , REZZING ETC
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Nirans Viewer and delete the user_settings folder!
make sure to do a backup!

this Test Build comes again with a HUUUUGE amount of changes , so lets start
the most notable thing is probably the new IM Control Panel i made , i completly redid it aswell as the Conversations Floater to fit this new Control Panel and cuz i was happy and people want customisation i also added the abbility to switch between vertical (new default) and horizontal tabs

then we have the big task to implement RLVa ,... i´ll say it simple: Its done and functional! :O it took me extremly stressing 10 minutes to implement it and fix it the merge errors , a really REEEEALLY HUGE thanks to Kitty Barnett who was so nice to give me a completly done patch file for the whole RLVa , which saves me from checking all 1000+ files manually and merging all lines

*aplauds to Kitty*
Thank you so much!

please have a laugh with me Kitty, at this pic i made with RLVa Game items!

i mean , isnt that a reason to go totally high and drunken?

heres also a Video of me running around totally high and drunken with RLVa xD

back to Customisation , i added the abbility to customise the Topbar even more! you can now enable/disable all 4 Topbar texture layers , layer by layer... for if you want a more transparent topbar or a completly transparent one!

theres also the possibility to disable the top toolbar to give floaters the space up there back , so they can be moved to the topbar (see first pic)

the UI has had some maintenance too , i aligned and eye-candy´d some sidebar floaters to make them look more readable , less space missusing and look better in overall

(left is new / right is old)

also a really ninja-like bug sneaked into my Viewer (which came from my new Topbar layout) which i fixed aswell , the X Y and Z Coordinates at the top screen part were hidden behind the Topbar itself making it nearly impossible to read them , no i assasinated this ninja

for gods sake ...and the failure of Local Bitmaps 2.0 i implemented the Local Bitmap Browser like Firestorm has it until Local Bitmaps 2.0 works again!

Next section is the render pipeline , Runatai has made some fixes which all have been included , as example the bug that caused this to look wrong

the most notable thing in the render pipeline will be the new SSAO settings and the according new SSAO which forced me to redo them , so please use the default SSAO settings ok? otherwise it will look ugly

heres a comparison of old / new

old

new

old

for those that want to read the whole changelog here it is:

STORM-1685 Wrong named control in floater_world_map.xml
STORM-1679 Avatar Draw Weight number is always red
STORM-1663: allow wider range of pitch, make range the same for sitting and otherwise
EXP-1555 FIX -- Double-click is inconsistent between inventory and Received Items
EXP-1548 FIX -- Clicking show on inventory offer does not open inventory (or received items panel)
EXP-1547 FIX -- drag/drop inventory to agent - delivers to Objects, not Received items.
EXP-1539 FIXED (Viewer crash when clicking twice on slapp link secondlife:///app/classified/create)
EXP-1537 FIXED (Selecting More Info from Classified section in Search floater launches People panel with inactive Edit button and access to OLD profile window)
EXP-1482 FIX LLInitParam::Parser spam in secondlife.log file when entering a search term in location bar launching the search window
EXP-1459 FIX Places panel shown on logni when destination selected from login page
SH-2713 FIX -- modified code to call LLPipeline::refreshCachedSettings only when settings that could affect it are modified.
SH-2712 FIX -- added caching to isFullyLoaded
SH-2710 FIX -- Removed calls to getChild happening every frame and during idle calls.
SH-2708 Fix for broken shadows on alpha objects
SH-2700 Fix for random black textures due to texture index out of bounds.
SH-2699 Potential fix for occlusion culling being overly aggressive on 9800 GT
SH-2690 Fix for spammy triangle death on GeForce 7800 Go when selecting flexi attachments.
SH-2681 Fix for shader compiler error on GLSL 1.30 and later
SH-2675 Fix for shadow appearing on terrain at midday when terrain is totally flat and there are no prims visible
SH-2670 Fix for terrain being wrong detail.
SH-2666 Fix for pixel doubling failsafe on out out of memory.
SH-2652 Fix for linux compile error
SH-2650 Fix for avatar eyeballs protruding from lower eyelids
SH-2621 FIX
SH-2591 WIP -- fix for UI disappearing, introduces some artifacts in rotation ring, committing to debug elsewhere
SH-2563 FIX -- Added diffuse map to the avatar rigid pass to properly set up the eyeball texture for Mac OS Lion
SH-2559 Remove fast timer (could be responsible for some crashes).
SH-2449 Preserve texture scaling when animating textures when "size x" and "size y" parameters to llSetTextureAnim are zero.
SH-2240 Make alpha mask cutoff even less aggressive (fix for eyes on Curious Ringtail avatar)
SH-2240 Make alpha mask cutoff a little less aggressive (err on the side of not creating an alpha mask)
SH-1865 FIX -- removed some old non-deferred rendering code that was preventing AA from working when GL_ARB_texture_multisample is unsupported
SH-1620 FIX
SH-1619 FIX
SH-1618 FIX
Simpler and more symmetric interpolation/ease-in for DoF focus shifts.
more general SSAO for personal use with 20 samples instead of 8 plus some minor tweakage
use different distance weighting, probably more correct, removes an unintuitive artifact.
Changed default settings for new SSAO , enabled much higher Values in graphics panel
fixed Max Avatars visible option in graphics panel
Removed unused code from alpha fragment shaders to fix some mac rendering glitches with non-fullbright alpha objects.
"Show" button from p2p transfer now opens inventory window and inbox panel, setting focus to the item
Removed Media Browser , replaced by the Web Content Floater now
Greatly reduced the number of memcpy operations done on the media plug-in message output pipe
Add "Use Region Settings" to World->Sun menu
added RLVa 1.4.4
added Optional tab alignment option to IM Settings
added Local Bitmap Browser
made a new IM Control Panel to better fit the new IM Convo Floater layout

Build 8 Beta 4B

2011-11-10T01:16:00.000-08:00

!Download will appear! -Please redownload Beta4B

HERE

NOTE: THIS IS ABSOLUTELY BLEEDING EHEEEEDGE! dont forget that...
NOTE2: Good news , someone griefed our SIM and tried to crash us with "the Light" , the viewer staid completly unimpressed of it , FPS went down to 3-5 FPS , but no Driver crash or Viewer Crash
NOTE3: The red moon is a known problem im just merging the fix for it , will upload Beta 4a when ready
NOTE4: Another little quick fix , refreshing the code again to bleeding edge and fixing the Chat history scrollbar, also adds another new DoF Quality slider (Resolution)!

ok *takes a deep breath* ...this is going to hurt , this Beta has been turned upside down in many areas , i added a lot of features , you might noticed that in my ToDo list: so heres a look on what will await you

the toybox had a redo , aswell as the Toolbars were completly upgraded and modded to fit my 4 way Toolbar style, it also has a clear all button and a right click remove button option

we got a whole new Snapshot floater allowing you to post the snap to your profile directly , save it to inventory , send it as postcard or save it to your harddrive , also the Freeze Frame feature had an overhaul , now it doesnt just freeze the frame after you hit snapshot , when you move your cam the frozen frame will blend out and the world will appear again BUT the world will be completly frozen , all Physics , Flexis, Textures , Animations , Positions , Avatars etc are completly frozen , they dont move anymore , perfect to choose a good camera position or do more than one snapshot of the same moment , in different camera angles

i continued working on cleaning up the preferences panels and also added a selfmade hacky XML skin selector which re-uses LL´s Mode selector as Skin selector , YES! its super effective! also the first 2 skins have been "added" but disabled as they are not done yet , heres an impression of them

ATI "Theme"

the Darkness "Skin"

the People panel now hasnt just 3 distance rings showing ~shout , chat and whisper range , it also shows the distance in meters and if someones typing

Pie menus have been re-added , depth of field has had a few redos , and the underwater distortion option should also work for them now , you can show Streaming Media titles , the Microsoft and Google v2 Translation has been added with a whole new window to set everything up , i´ve added Neck and Avatar Center attachment points , Derender is functional but temporarly , right click get UUID also works again for Objects and Avatars....

on a request of Adeon i modified the Topbar to allow hiding the favbar (needs relog in order to look and align 100% correctly)

now to Linden Labs repository, ... i´ve merged everything up to 3.2.3 , completly , meaning i included all their changes , fixes , features etc etc , i also included all changes of Dave P. meaning this Beta is absolutely bleeding edge and contains EVERYTHING from today , theres simply nothing newer

i will now continue to do some last little UI bugfixes and performance/crash/memory tests and then will upload Beta 4 for you to test out , this is by far the greatest change in the short history of my Viewer =D
for all wanting the complete changelist... well here you go

EDIT: i´ve now added the old fonts (still fiddling around with them) might change in future , but for now they are in especially the ugly emote font is gone now , for the notecard alignment.... write one letter and place your cursor before it like this |a instead of a| , then write stuff , that should temp fix the aligning problem

EDIT2: Memory test was successfull , ANYONE NOT able to do THIS without crashing , is weither doing something wrong , is unlucky or , has probably too less memory , sorry guys :(

also readded my bigger Profile icons to the Notification tips (online/offline messages)

SH-24114 Remove unused vectorization code (outdated/unused with SSE2 requirement and llvetor4a et al)
SH-2652 Fix for black bands in high-res normal maps
SH-2652 For for screen going white when enabling anti-aliasing.
SH-2652 Faster depth of field
SH-2652 Slightly slower DoF (quality), apply FXAA *after* DoF, fix for some render targets not getting allocated when needed.
SH-2634 Fix for land overlay not showing colors
SH-2633 Fix for avatar hair turning white when editing appearance
SH-2624 Fix crash at LLPrivateMemoryPoolManager::freeMem: ASSERT (!addr)
SH-2623 debug code for crash at LLViewerTextureList::removeImageFromList()
SH-2620 Force FXAA shader to off on OSX
SH-2608 Fix for debug beacons not rendering properly.
SH-2586 Fix Texture Memory (MB) preference refuses to set above 128mb
SH-2573 Fix Flaw in Purging Texture Cache when it Exceeds Limit
SH-2559 Fix [crashhunters] crash in LLPluginMessage::generate()
SH-2546 Fix for black water under terrain (use vec3 instead of float for vary_AtmosAttenuation
SH-2546 Make sure terrain shaders don't attempt to use indexed texture rendering.
SH-2546 Fix for black avatars and terrain on GF Go 7800 (use vec3 instead of float on varying parameters).
SH-2521 Put back "high detail" terrain render when basic shaders disabled (still broken).
SH-2516 FIX Full Bright Geometry Rendering Increases Rapidly, Destroying Frame Rate.
SH-2507 Fix for crash when rendering axes (develop->render->show axes)
SH-2391 some debug code for [crashhunters] pre-login crash at
SH-2240 Fix for core profile assertions when Debug GL enabled.
SH-2240 Fix for heap corruption under debugger when starting viewer with basic shaders disabled.
SH-1427 Fix for shader compilation failure when detail set to "mid"
SH-1427 Fix for sunlight color getting clobbered for non-deferred atmospheric shaders.
VWR-26120: Add attachment points for Neck and Avatar Center
STORM-1695 FIXED Visual fixes in the "snapshot options" screen of the Snapshot floater.
STORM-1691 WIP Visual fixes in the Postcard panel.
STORM-1690 FIXED Constrain Proportions option was broken.
STORM-1688 FIXED The camera icon next to the "refresh snapshot" button is now always visible.
STORM-1677 FIXED Fixed gcc 4.5 build.
STORM-1674 Set Help ID for new Translaton Settings floater
STORM-1659 dates reported as "2035" within groups
STORM-1622: Fix viewer-side wind turbulence simulation
STORM-1580 Implement new Snapshot floater
STORM-1577 WIP Implemented translation via Microsoft Translator and Google Translate v2 APIs.
STORM-1105 "Traffic: 0" shown for two cases (traffic actually 0, and waiting for data)
STORM-1068 Add optional range ring(s) to the mini-map
STORM-959 Adding syntax highlighting for /* */ style comments
EXP-1541 update -- Route inventory items sent in a Notecard to correct locations rather than auto-sorting by asset type
EXP-1538 FIX -- New tags shown for items in subfolders in received items panel which remain after minimizing parent folder
EXP-1533 FIX -- As a FUI user, I'd like to be able to remove toolbar buttons without having to drag them anywhere
EXP-1516 : FIX. Typo Enviroment -> Environment (/me face -> palm)
EXP-1514 : FIX. Tweak jacket editor to prevent UI text truncation
EXP-1505 : FIX. Dropping a folder in current outfit would result in broken links and lost inventory.
EXP-1500 : Hide the toolbars whenever the login box is shown. Also clean up some old FUI debug that is not necessary anymore
EXP-1489 FIXED (Cannot build notifications not being shown when chat floater closed with chat log toggled open)
EXP-1487 FIX -- Minimum window size on mac
EXP-1486 FIX -- Minimum window size on windows //tweaked to 720 to allow HD recording
EXP-1479 FIX Chat history does not open when selecting toggle on chat floater and issue with minimizing and opening chat floater
EXP-1475 Tongue out of position when incoming/outgoing call dialog shown for first time when speak button is left toolbar
EXP-1474 FIX -- Create Classified does not work from Search Window
EXP-1473 : FIX. Added an onOpen key to open directly on the Landmarks list.
EXP-1472 FIXED (More spillover list scrolls up after selecting any content menu item)
EXP-1471 WIP Add support for zooming web pages by a scale facxtor
EXP-1469 FIX -- Changing toolbar from "icons only" to "icons with text" while incoming/outgoing call floater is open causes crash on mac
EXP-1468 Incoming/outgoing call floater tongue position doesn't follow floater
EXP-1466 FIX Viewer reloads default settings.xml file during launch (under some conditions)
EXP-1465 FIX Crash in IM panel destructor
EXP-1462 FIX -- Moving speak button or voice settings button between toolbars can cause viewer to crash on Mac
EXP-1461 FIX Incoming Nearby chat not visible in chat toasts/bubbles to user when chat window is minimized with chat history opened
EXP-1460 : Make the caret in favorites toolbar display more consistently and with less finicky hit testing
EXP-1458 FIX Chat text entry bar does not have focus when chat floater is opened while chat history is toggled open
EXP-1456 FIX NEARBY CHAT window sometimes opens at the top of the screen.
EXP-1454 FIX People floater 'cascades' as if opening a new window while looking at group profiles
EXP-1452 FIX minimum height of NEARBY CHAT window can be circumvented by minimizing it.
EXP-1439 : Fix potential crash when the favorites bar is empty
EXP-1439 : Modify DaD on the Favorite toolbar so that reordering visible landmarks don't send any back to the end of the list
EXP-1430 FIX -- Minimizing voice settings floater corrupts layout throughout rest of session
EXP-1417 FIXED (Docked Notifications window tears off from the dock icon when deleting notifications one by one)
EXP-1416 FIXED "Speak" and "Voice controls" buttons added as control views in LLTransientFloaterMgr to prevent hiding the transient IM floater.
EXP-1404 FIXED (Dock icon shown in lower left corner of call dialog when user has speak icon hidden)
EXP-1400 FIXED (Call request docking icon overlays other toolbar buttons when speak button in side toolbar)
EXP-1398 FIX -- Viewer Crash when moving Speak button from bottom toolbar to side toolbar with call request dialog active on Mac
EXP-1354 : FIX. Force loading the default toolbars if the user toolbar loading fails somewhat.
EXP-1354 : Fixed. Toolbars now saved whenever changing their config and only if initialized correctly.
EXP-1178 FIX -- Places floater sorted weird and landmark folders inside are open
Fixed destination guide floater to display on login based on per account "DisplayDestinationsOnInitialRun" setting or initial agent SL login.
Added toolbar enumeration for toolbar view so queries for commands can now indicate where the command currently is on the top, left, right or bottom toolbars.
Updated toybox toolbar button tooltips to indicate where the command currently resides in the view.
Added unused function to allow toolbar buttons to be changed to flash indefinitely.
added Underwater distortion Slider and re enabled all DoF Settings
added Pie Menus + flipping fix
re enabled Search from Adressbar and some Pie Menu options
tweaked Snapshot Preview Image
allow up to 4GB Texture memory displayed
Removed text spam about range of spatial partition, per davep.
Disabling display of inbox unless the Received Items folder exists already.
Added "clear all" button to the toybox floater with corresponding functions added to LLToolBarView to perform the action.
Added support for items at the top level of "Received Items" instead of just folders.
Updated inventory code to handle creation of the "Received Items" panel when the sim notifies the viewer that the folder is created.

Cleaning up the UI

2011-11-07T12:23:00.000-08:00

man...the UI is a MESS especially Preferences ..., im handchecking every Preferences panel right now , reordering them , realigning them and overall giving them a more constant look , instead of thousands of button heights , checkbox heights , text lengths , chaos alignment, different spaces between each button etc...

the worst were the Graphics panel and Chat which both had those Accordions hidden until you click on the first one , which MUST be changed , so i realigned those whole panels and even could make the preferences panel 8 pixel thiner and 10 pixel shorter , how´s that possible you may ask? magic? no , if every button is 7 pixel away from the above one you can save 2 pixel per button when reducing it to 5 which looks better anyway now we got 10 buttons x 2 pixel makes space for 20 pixel which is equiv 1 new button

left Panel is the new one , right panel is the old original one

New stuff

2011-11-07T07:47:00.000-08:00

it took me the whole morning to implement Pie menus and fixing those stupid "unknown" errors ,thanks to Visual Studio which gives me soooo much information....oh wait right , it doesnt give me information where a bug is...grr anyway , Pie menus work now , as many other things they are optional and can be customised in color , transparency and fade out background

the next thing i worked on were some UI fixes LL borked , like the Active Speakers panel , and no there was a fix for it but it didnt fix the minimising problem at all.... so i manually fixed , it should restore correctly now.
then the chatbar looked somewhat broken because the history button was "cut off" ....fixed now hehe.
the hide Minimap option in People - gear menu should work now as intended

i did some hard work this morning on allowing floaters to go higher (up to the topbar) all i got was a partly broken UI... i will keep trying to solve this but a little note here , it is intended that floaters dont go higher than the upper toolbar , it was not intended that they can go outside of the screen on the left/right and bottom... but its better anyway ...cant imagine how that should work on a low resolution....anyway if i get it to work somehow i will probably post it or you will see it in the next build

i´ve also had some thoughts about a new skin , i would like to call it ...the Darkness... hehe , which brings me to that i have to implement the Skin selector quickly...

the last thing i did was some work to the snapshot floater KL did loooong ago aswell , he made the snapshot preview way bigger , so i did ...take a look

i will probably redo it completly in future ...so dont get too used to it until i say i wont redo it :)

Water Reflections

2011-11-05T16:03:00.000-07:00

Water! Water? Yes! huh? Water!! What? Water Reflections!
me was bored , so me tuned Water reflections , me added option to set quality(resolution) of reflections

me is happy now!

see this

(Linden Default) Normal Settings

(My new default) High Settings

Very High Settings

Ultra Settings

Supreme Settings (OVERKILL the reflection looks smoother than the actual world)

Depth of Field (UPDATE)

2011-11-05T10:23:00.000-07:00

UPDATE:
Beta 3A is now downloadable , it contains the M$ & Google v2 Translation API , re enables all DoF Sliders and adds a new one for setting the underwater distortion strength , which will not grip if you go underwater , the normal settings will be set again as soon as you leave the underwater level with your cam

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Hellooooo! new Depth of Field and with you welcome back Circle of Confusion option for DoF
the new DoF seems to be still WIP but its all in one thousand times faster , see it yourself

i´ve set all DoF to extreme , ultra extreme DoF blurring everything extremly , normally that would cripple my FPS from 40 down to 5-10 FPS , now it doesnt do ANYTHING at all! crazy!!

Also tested it underwater , making the whole screen go blurry like crazy ... nothing , even more FPS than before

regarding Local Bitmaps 2.0 and stuff

2011-11-04T20:34:00.000-07:00

oh yea you will probably say now, i say oh no! no Local Bitmaps 2.0 , atlast not the one i used for Build 7 :( why? it doesnt work in the new Viewer , it makes compiling impossible , i will use the old way instead which Firestorm uses aswell until STORM-64 aka Local Bitmaps 2.0 is completly done and works for V3

oh before i forget it , i uploaded a Test build of Build 3 , its just a tiny quick refresh of the shining branch which adresses this bug: SH-1427

heres the proof!

i also changed the minimum size of some "sidetray" floaters to this

Build 8 Beta 2 has been released! (UPDATE)

2011-11-01T18:15:00.000-07:00

PLEASE REDOWNLOAD!
Make sure you got Beta2a

grab it here

:O

so many new shining features (see the todo list at the side)

REMINDER: dont forget to try out the new graphics panel! or i will have to do reeeeeaaaaally evil things.....like IMing you...and....and.... reminding you again! *looks seriously*

heres the finished Panel

its basic functionally doesnt change , just its look!
I call it the Streetpanel...
lemme explain it short:
- one Bar consists either of a bunch of Options that are packed together as example the 2. bar, which is the Fullscreen street, 3. the performance street , 4. the misc street
- those options are combined with | which means they are unlocked alltogether as pack (if unlocked) or they have nothing to do with each other in this case
- the 5. and 6. street is the Basic Street and the Deferred Street , options will enable more options to prevent options to be enabled that doesnt work in your current shader level , which options are activated by one previous option is indicated by a > and all at the same unlocked options are packed together (like explained above) with |

Example: Lighting + Shadows enables all following options (>) until (|) Depth of Field and Depth of Field again enables Underwater Distortion (>)
the end of a Shader street (Basic or Deferred) enables the next shader level street , meaning that enabling Glow enables Lighting + Shadows and if there would be something higher than deferred , it would be enabled if everything in Deferred street was on but because GI isnt anymore i changed the layout in this street a bit to not have a shader-street-unlocker as the last option like it was with Glow
that all sounds complicated and probably useless ...yea the information itself is useless , when you try it you will notice you will do the same as all the time *click* *click* *click* *click**click* just clicking one option followed by the next one , only that they are brought in order and with nicer graphical buttons and should also have a better enable/disable logic to prevent enabling as example Depth of Field and wondering why it doesnt work (in this example you dont have Deferred on , nor Atmosshader or Basic Shader ((we have really no idea in this example...)))

see the 2 pics for an example how the streets will enable but note that i had glow enabled in the first pic so the deferred street doesnt hide! , normally it would be hidden and show when you enable glow!

Build 8 Beta 2 is close

2011-11-01T11:16:00.000-07:00

well i fixed , merged , added , changed and tweaked everywhere , Beta 2 is very close , i´ve already written a few times in my group that Beta 2 will be released when my new Graphics Panel is ready in meantime i´ve added lots of stuff as you may noticed through my last few posts , heres a snapshot of the current state of my new graphics panel

dont be shy , try it when Beta 2 is released , it will be optional like on this pic , it can be found in Preferences - Graphics 2

i also made more snapshots to show SSAO in action

No SSAO SSAO enabled

Welcome back Features!

2011-10-31T21:10:00.000-07:00

Derendering , copy UUID of agents and objects via right click , aaaand Media Stream Info!

Why did they take out DoF Underwater?

2011-10-30T13:47:00.000-07:00

Question is up there , answer is unknown , i like it underwater , it does a cool underwater distortion effect without crippling fps (as long as you dont set it too high) , so i brought it back in!
like always i will try to do an Option for it :) so you can decide if you want underwater blur or not

soooo.... it can look really different depending on if you login underwater and what your settings are at , here are 2 examples how it might look

an extreme but somehow more realistic one normal underwater with my new default settings

How about some realistic look you old virtual ham!

2011-10-30T09:48:00.000-07:00

Did you ever notice SSAO at all? , do you even KNOW what SSAO is and what it does? SSAO means Screen Space Ambient Occlusion and makes SL look better in many Ways , the most noticable difference is smoothend shadows , the second one is the dark corners thingy according to Wikipedia it can be easily implemented into any Modern Video Game , also according to Wikipedia the first game ever with SSAO was Crysis (which sounds VERY VERY unbelievable) as SL got Deferred and SSAO at a similar time and SL is about 10 Years old (Real, it was officially released 2003 so its normally just 8 Years) , anyway...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Space_Ambient_Occlusion

for those who want to read about it,
for people that want to see it in SL , i changed the default settings of SSAO , Glow and DoF again , but this time correctly (i hope so >.<) and SSAO has been changed more than in Build 7

My new SSAO Settings My my SSAO Settings Extreme (via Graphics Panel)

Default SSAO No SSAO (Ambient Occlusion off)

UI updates and more

2011-10-30T07:56:00.000-07:00

today i worked again a bit on the UI making more floaters more transparent and stealing their ugly half-transparent black background as for now it looks better but still needs much work , i also included Qarls aligning tool which sadly doesnt work with the new render pipeline anymore , i hope Qarl will help me and others with it, then there were those pie menus , i worked back and forth for them just to see that i can start Pie Menus all over again , so i was too lazy to implement them for now (will do later) instead i played again a bit with the permission icons in People panel and made them stay visible whenever you´ve hovered over them for atlast one time , and Profile/Info buttons are visible always now =D again a little progress , heres a pic like always (cant talk about progress and ui and this stuff without posting a pic...)

oh and if you happen to meet this Chinchilla directly....

RUUUUUUUUUN!

LL Default Water? NO!

2011-10-29T12:16:00.000-07:00

i made a new default preset which i think looks much better in many cases , and if not , you know how to edit it heres the preset in action

Lindens default Water Preset and Normal Map Nirans Viewer Water Preset and Normal Map

the UI is regaining its powers!

2011-10-29T07:13:00.000-07:00

today i worked a bit on merging some new stuff , and a wind fix , wind should now work again , and it gets even cooler , they added debug displays to show you from where wind is coming and where it goes , like a real weather announcer thingy!

while doing so i started readding all my tricky options i made for my UI , meaning you can now switch all the Quick Buttons , Draw Distance Slider and Search off again if you wish

the next thing was Chat range rings which i readded , this time (like i will do a few more times in future) with 3 rings , so i added another one (like i added a fourth toolbar at the top) , which indicates Whisper range, i will later also allow them to be toggled off seperatly and maybe colored seperatly aswell

my next step will probably to add Local Bitmaps 2.0 again which i personally dont use ...or atlast very very rarely , but will be usefull feature and addition to Building , aswell as simple maths will come into the viewer again to allow calculations in spinners like 274.02 + 40.5 = 314.52 (if its not in the viewer already)
chat floater will remain as floater for a while , i will wait for LL to see what they will do , if they revert it back to a panel , i will do aswell , if not , i will revert it back to a panel on my own (maybe they will add an option to toggle it)

Release and Beta

2011-10-28T11:15:00.000-07:00

Choose wisely Neo , your choice cannot be undone (joke)

Take the blue pill....or the right pill.... the choice is yours!

Blue Pill Red Pill

the blue pill comes with Build 7 Release and will give you a last look at what has been done... and the red pill will come with a Beta of Build 8 and will give you a look at the future of the Viewer in 3.2.1 , many parts of the UI are still WIP , and many options have been disabled (dont work) but the worst things have been already finished , IM/Notifications are back at the bottom and a fourth Toolbar has been made at the top of the screen to allow dragging buttons up there like you can to left , right and aswell the bottom , please make a copy of your settings and delete them if you wanna use Build 8 , as this is a whole new Viewer , with whole new Option set , your old options may cause curruption or crashs , also dont be too hard to it , its the beginning , it might crash a few times at login so make sure you keep trying

tell me what you think about the changes i made to the FUI and lemme know your performance and overall opinion about it

2011-10-27T10:13:00.000-07:00

uhhh shiny bling bling ding bing , IM/Notification toasts in BOTTOM Corner instead of UPPER corner =D , this is the START of V3.2 Nirans Viewer

Move&View Tutorial Video

2011-10-24T09:51:00.000-07:00

For all people out there that dont know the alternative controls of SL , and how to use the cam without those shity Move&View floaters

this video was recorded with Beta 4 which you can find normally at Sourceforge like all the other version before

Beta 3

2011-10-18T13:10:00.000-07:00

just a little bugfix release , and WIP changes you wont see as normal user, the fixes include correct glow settings again (i found the bug i accidentally set max alpha glow to 0.36 instead of 0.036 which made glow EXTREME) , fixed Project S19 default settings , meaning that all bottom buttons should be hidden now and project S19 should be active as default , aswell as some other little options....and the last fix is a desyncronisation between your clicks and the actual click-hit position which was caused by forcing the chatbar to be BEHIND the Voice controls as default....i forgot that moving the Chatbar as default will cause the whole "screen" to move making you click on yourself and hitting the ground a few pixels away instead of yourselfthis build is mainly good for people that noticed those above bugs and for new people that will be shocked at start with the glow settings (not on my watch! not anymore)

find the download here

New Video :)

2011-10-18T01:34:00.000-07:00

Check out my new Video! im planning to add it as Experimental animated background for login like i wanted before but this time it autoresizes so the problem that stopped me from doing it is gone :)

Build 7 Beta 2

2011-10-13T03:01:00.000-07:00

Ok here we go with Beta 2 , also this time i´ll hand out a Dave P. Shining fixes Viewer for you to test one of the most recent Render Pipeline Viewers , with lots of changes in Render Pipeline , i ask you to try both and tell me which runs better in general , faster , not stable (i know the answer already)... also try new Video Cards with Shining Fixes and especially try Antialiasing with Deferred Rendering and Depth of Field , leave me a comment , because this will decide if i go directly to 3.1.1 or stay at 2.8.2 base im (still) at with fixes and some changes of higher Versions

Download for Beta 2 or Sourceforge
Download Shining Fixes

Changes include lots of fixes , some for crash , fading Login (will later better used) , also some tweaks to Progressscreen , now it allows clicking the interface during TP / Login , oh and dont let us forget the last letter missing fix when you select bunch of text and copy it :)

Heres the full Changelist of Beta 1/2:

ER-70: from a sim bug, but object can also crash viewer.
EXP-939 Fade from intro/loading page to world, not to image of last login
EXP-938 Turn off in-world audio until fade from intro/loading page complete
EXP-932 Implement system that fades from login page to (either) intro screen or loading screen instead of using a hard cut
EXP-880 FIX Enable navigation chrome in search floater
STORM-1417: [crashhunters] crash at [0]
STORM-1311 FIXED Provide more space for parcel description in the Place Profile when coming from search.
STORM-1234 FIXED text editor selection which was skipping the last character in line.
SH-2454 Fix for head attachments not casting shadows when in mouselook mode.
SH-2276 Remove some log spam to alleviate stalls on login.
SH-2276 Update window often during login to avoid windows TDR events
SH-2242 FXAA support instead of unreliable multisample textures
SH-2218 WORK AROUND -- v2.8.x Viewers crash consistently when I actively use other applications
SH-2200 Fix for BSOD on 7800 Go on Vista when setting graphics detail to "High"
SH-1838 Add error handling for allocation of off screen render targets.
Re-enabled Fulscreen
modified Chatbar to autohide when losing focus

here some snaps taken with Shining Fixes at 512m Render Range , 16x AA , Deferred Rendering + Shadows , Depth of Field and default SSAO/Glow Settings during Livestream at 5-10 FPS near Ahern

heres also a pic of the new Statistic floater which a bunch of more stuff and much more precise information

Build 7 Beta 1

2011-10-09T07:17:00.000-07:00

Yea Beta 1 is out

a little bugfix, hopefully fixed glow settings , autohiding chatbar and nearly always show permissions (selfmade :3) and UI/Skin updates to match the new stuff , also check out the Graphics Panel for the Fullscreen feature! you´ll need a restart btw

Download

Build 6 Release

2011-10-01T01:05:00.000-07:00

ok Ladies n Gentlement , Build 6 is out now! =D
i reworked plenty of Settings and a bit of my UI , removed some unnecessenary options and sliders from Build 5 , added some new like a whole new additional glow strenght slider.
Project S19 has been redone , 1080p is now gone as it isnt needed anymore , the buttons will now autoresize automatically to the middle of your screen (mostly) and because of this i made it default , my whole new UI is now completly default , too see all my new default settings including the graphic tweaks i did , you´ll have to delete/rename your settings , the viewer should now also use a seperate cache folder :) , it features Local Bitmaps 2.0 (which is still beta but works great) , a new object weights floater with all needed information in one little window and all my Mod Skins i made for Kirstens , they are beta but because im now working on my own Viewer i will have to update these over time as they are now inofficially officially supported hehe...
build 6 final comes with some additional bugfixes up to 3.0.6 , you can look them up at the end of this Post

Download

new default glow , ssao , shadow and dof settings

new object weights floater

Changelist:

EXP-1107 FIX Crash in LLFastTimer::NamedTimer::accumulateTimings
EXP-1080 FIX Console gets spammed with VertexShaderEnable messages making the viewer unusable
EXP-1065 FIX -- Inventory has slowed to a crawl. Clicking between items has an average one second delay. Same with switching between tabs.
EXP-700 FIX SLPlugin(s) takes high CPU%
EXP-700 WIP SLPlugin(s) takes high CPU%
fix for SH-2315: crash at LLVOCacheEntry::~LLVOCacheEntry() line 138
fix for SH-2307: crash at LLImageGL::setCategory(int) line 1890
fix for SH-2215: [crashhunters] crash at LLPluginClassMedia
fix for SH-2177: Second Life Crashes On Startup in Advanced Mode
fix for SH-2023: Brightness Bump maps don't load when shadows are enabled
Fix for SH-1783: [PUBLIC] Crash when adding a physics shape.
Fix for SH-1637 and SH-1638
Fix for SH-1586 & SH-1654 # Alt-zooming camera flipping
fix for SH-1498: crash at LLImageGL::deleteDeadTextures() line 1429
fix for SH-1142: HUD objects do not display bumpmaps when Lighting and Shadows are enabled.
fix for SH-1069: [REGRESSION] Sometimes bumpmaps load only partially
STORM-1599 FIXED Scrolling search history with mouse wheel now doesn't zoom the wold view upon reaching the end of list.
STORM-1595 FIXED Removing a wrong debug assertion.
STORM-1566 FIXED Sidebar tabs didn't detach by drag-n-drop.
STORM-1562 Potential fix for crash in LLCurl::run -- make sure all ref counted members of llsecapi are thread safe
STORM-1546 FIXED Fixed a crash caused by a race condition in LLRefCount.
STORM-1532: Don't re-request ParcelVoiceInfoRequest capability if the region definitely doesn't have it.
STORM-1512 Fix for crash when rendering impostors.
STORM-1458 FIXED [crashhunters] crash at LLParticipantList::LLParticipantListMenu::isGroupModerator() [secondlife-bin llparticipantlist.cpp]
STORM-1427 FIXED Fixed a debug assertion triggered in the world map floater.
STORM-1355 Memory issues from UI for very large groups
STORM-1041 FIXED "Remove all clothes" item of the avatar menu didn't actually remove all clothes.
STORM-918 Changes in Group Role Titles or Assignments Not Reflected in Title Dropdown
STORM-638 FOLLOWUP Fixed a silly pointer usage mistake.
STORM-638 FIXED "Object Return" didn't return distant objects if the confirmation dialog wasn't suppressed.
STORM-519 FIXED "Delete" is enabled in the context menu for folders which contain worn items
STORM-64: Local Bitmaps 2.0 - Fixed early returns, LLLocalBitmap constr, logging.
STORM-64 Local Bitmaps 2.0
SH-2472 FIX - avoid accessing nonexistent texture entries in lineSegmentItersect
SH-2440 FIX - first build, then test, then commit
SH-2440 FIX - avoid calling initInstance() on LLVOAvatarSelf if it already exists
SH-2179 Fix for active UI elements glowing when basic shaders enabled.
SH-2169 SH-2170 SH-2171 New object weigthts floater
SH-2120 Better fix for water being very dark when basic shaders disabled (sinA might be negative)
SH-2120 Fix for water being very dark when basic shaders disabled.
SH-2048 Fix for invisiprims infecting neighboring prims with their invisi-ness.
SH-2038 Potential fix for a myriad of performance problems concering VBO usage.
SH-2031 Fix for sometimes deadlocking a curl thread.
SH-2031 Cleanup from threaded curl implementation (remove errors/loops on shutdown).
SH-2031 Disable usage of glMapBuffer (again). Despite using MapBufferRange, this is still a source of frame stalls.
SH-2031 Followup to curl threading work -- don't start and stop the thread on every request, use a signal (cuts time spent in Pump IO down from 1-2 ms to 0.1ms)
SH-2031 Don't do network I/O from the main thread in llcurl.
SH-2031 High risk changeset, but potentially high reward. Addresses frame stalls in renderer by never using the fixed function pipeline if shaders are available.
SH-2021 Fix for black water at the horizon from occlusion culling madness.
SH-2020 Fix for avatar skin/eyes and trees being bright/black/busted underwater.
SH-1990 Fix for redundantly applying some color scaling to sky and water (also add some snazzy specular bloom from the sun)
SH-1838 Add error handling for allocation of off screen render targets.
SH-1601 SH-1958 FIX large objects cannot always be selected/modified
VWR-24316: Implemented optional YBS Star Sky
VWR-26066: FIXED request LLFloaterWorldMap child "zoom slider" with correct type
LLSliderCtrl instead of LLSlider to get rid of warning when opening map flaoter
Fix for annoying assert that gets triggered when your first login attempt fails.
Added support for apple flush buffer range
improved fast timers display ,can move and resize ,better visualization of timer history ,can click drag to browse history ,increased frame history to 300
tweaked login Panel texture loading

Build 6 AA

2011-09-28T09:48:00.001-07:00

i´ll make it short , it contains even more bugfixes , especially inventory lag fix , some new features , check out texture selection on objects , also the new "more info" text in Render Cost Info and make sure to bring much of RAM

Download

full Changelist (moved) see next Post

last try

2011-09-26T00:40:00.000-07:00

UPDATE IMPORTANT
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PLEASE COPY THE GPU TABLE OF ANOTHER VIEWER OR OLDER BUILDS INTO MY VIEWER FOLDER AS I FORGOT IT SO IT WILL RESET GRAPHICS EVERYTIME AND YELL IT DOESNT KNOW YOUR VIDEO CARD!

i released Build 6 A (later i will upload B which will contain more bugfixes and Local Textures again)

====this Viewer is just made for you , that cant wait for KL to return!====

the Changelist (which is totally obselete because it will crash anyway no matter how much shit i fix , it simply runs out of memory at 1,25 GB)
EXP-700 FIX SLPlugin(s) takes high CPU%
EXP-1107 FIX Crash in LLFastTimer::NamedTimer::accumulateTimings
fix for SH-2177: Second Life Crashes On Startup in Advanced Mode
fix for SH-2215: [crashhunters] crash at LLPluginClassMedia
fix for SH-2023: Brightness Bump maps don't load when shadows are enabled
STORM-1546 FIXED Fixed a crash caused by a race condition in LLRefCount.
EXP-1080 FIX Console gets spammed with VertexShaderEnable messages making the viewer unusable
EXP-700 WIP SLPlugin(s) takes high CPU%
STORM-1427 FIXED Fixed a debug assertion triggered in the world map floater.
STORM-1355 Memory issues from UI for very large groups
STORM-1458 FIXED [crashhunters] crash at LLParticipantList::LLParticipantListMenu::isGroupModerator() [secondlife-bin llparticipantlist.cpp]
Fix for annoying assert that gets triggered when your first login attempt fails.
Fix for SH-1783: [PUBLIC] Crash when adding a physics shape.
Fix for SH-1586 & SH-1654 # Alt-zooming camera flipping
STORM-1512 Fix for crash when rendering impostors.
SH-2179 Fix for active UI elements glowing when basic shaders enabled.
SH-2120 Fix for water being very dark when basic shaders disabled.
SH-1990 Fix for redundantly applying some color scaling to sky and water (also add some snazzy specular bloom from the sun)
SH-2021 Fix for black water at the horizon from occlusion culling madness.
SH-2020 Fix for avatar skin/eyes and trees being bright/black/busted underwater.
SH-2048 Fix for invisiprims infecting neighboring prims with their invisi-ness.
SH-1838 Add error handling for allocation of off screen render targets.
SH-2031 High risk changeset, but potentially high reward. Addresses frame stalls in renderer by never using the fixed function pipeline if shaders are available.
Added support for apple flush buffer range
SH-2038 Potential fix for a myriad of performance problems concering VBO usage.
VWR-26066: FIXED request LLFloaterWorldMap child "zoom slider" with correct type
LLSliderCtrl instead of LLSlider to get rid of warning when opening map flaoter

Download

Unknown Future

2011-09-21T08:22:00.000-07:00

my Viewer is currently at Build 5 which is unstable like hell as soon as you try to do Snapshots , thanks to the fucking Memory Project... the problem is i cannot go around it i have to take it with me as future updates will most likely build on them , on the other side if it will be stable in future , its better than without , for now its just a broken piece of shit of a project making the Viewer reload all textures permanently .... i hope LL will get that under control , in the meantime i will probably slowly continue to merge Socks 5 Proxy and release Build 6 , maybe i will start with Build 4 again or Build 3....Build 1 is possible also , and redo all good stuff and let projects like the Memory one out ... stay tuned , contact me inworld maybe that will encourage me a bit, atm im not even in mood to continue my UI...

Kirstens Viewer continues?

2011-09-13T13:21:00.000-07:00

YES! , its not yet dead i want to continue it , im having fun merging bugfixes and features atm , building my own Viewer and using it =3 *proud is*

Anyway heres Build 3 for everyone! it contains many bugfixes , also the new Progressscreen fading System (will redo that someday)

Downloads will be (here) in future (when sourceforge stops fucking my upload all the time)

but for now it will be here

Changes:
STORM-1567 Mute button for llDialog popup
STORM-1566 FIXED Sidebar tabs didn't detach by drag-n-drop.
fix for sh-2307: crash at LLImageGL::setCategory(int) line 1890
fix for SH-1498: crash at LLImageGL::deleteDeadTextures() line 1429
fix for SH-2315: crash at LLVOCacheEntry::~LLVOCacheEntry() line 138
STORM-1041 FIXED "Remove all clothes" item of the avatar menu didn't actually remove all clothes.
fix for SH-2215: [crashhunters] crash at LLPluginClassMedia
STORM-1546 FIXED Fixed a crash caused by a race condition in LLRefCount.
EXP-1080 FIX Console gets spammed with VertexShaderEnable messages making the viewer unusable
EXP-700 SLPlugin(s) takes high CPU%
STORM-1427 FIXED Fixed a debug assertion triggered in the world map floater.
STORM-565 FIXED Allow inventory offers from objects in Busy mode.
merged fade to progressscreen/to world system

S22, Youtube , Mod V5, Viewer 3 n stuff

2011-08-21T11:37:00.000-07:00

Ok ok , in the past few weeks there were many things that happened , Viewer 3 was released in Dev and later as Beta (whooooh) so im expecting that Kirstens will follow Viewer 3 and update soon and i´ll follow Kirsten and update my Mod to Version 5.0 which will bring a lot of bigger changes that can actually be seen , heres a preview of the new IM Windows i´ve done

Profile pic and drag place can be slit out by pressing the looooooongbutton between History and Pic

As you may notice the Menu now says S22 , i renamed it because its planned for S22

then there are a few new buttons for the Inventory i added , from left to right:

close all folders (folder icon), copy (2 folders) and paste (folder with arrow)

i´ve also tried a open all folders but that sadly doesnt work ,so i concentrated on other things like tweaking the Online Notification Profile pic size which now fills the whole Notifiaction, Chat history is now halftransparent , aswell as the Chat headers , making everything look better ... Texture Previews are automatically big now instead of tiny , you can type into cloud texture selector to allow own textures without editing the XML files , Debug Settings is now minimisable, right click pie menu has reset script now as option, options to enable the Direct Delivery UI in Inventory and some other little tweaks for my skin. I´ve also updated Citrin a bit with some new textures and made everything compatible for Viewer 3 Dev.

And dont let us forget another big change , the windlight floaters , they became quiet a mess , they are huuuuuuuge even for my screen , they use up so much space and then those windows are simply empty... so i filled them with stuff , tried to organize them exactly as the original ones where (also the buttons) and shrinked them extremly , see the results here:

so thats about my mod and Kirstens and Viewer 3 , now to my newly uploaded Video which was easily doable because of those finally (again) usable Windlight floaters and some nice DoF tweaks with my Graphic Settings Panel :) , its recorded in HD so dont miss that i converted it to a format Youtube doesnt fuck up like my Previous Videos

This and much more to come , and oh , please dont forget im doing this for you guys , im using my free time to give you something unique and special no other Viewer has , im also trying to make everything as bearable as possible especially those changes we dont want... i just want to help you , and please stop freaking out because i dont do stuff like Friendlist in IM or Combined Local and IM Chat , i wont , its not optional, it would be forced to everyone , and thats an absolute no go i want to make everything as optional as possible ->

NiranV Mod Rule#1 - Optionality

#2 - Invidualisability

#3 - User friendly

#4 - Community driven (yes i actually do stuff you want....many things)

enjoy and stay tuned for V5 and Viewer 3 Kirstens :)

NiranV Mod? (WIP)

2011-07-06T14:56:00.000-07:00

Ok i like talking about my Mod and especially repeating everything thousand of times , and often i forget so many things and aspects , so this post will clear hopefully all questions about my mod , shows side by side what has been changed , added or deleted so lets start with a Table of Contents:

1: Main UI

the second most hated thing in V2!

2: Sidebar

the most hated thing in V2!

3: Preferences
4: Other Stuff

including Skins , Colors , Customisation etc

Lets go!

1: Main UI
The main user interface in V2 is the reason for many people especially V2 haters to hate V2 even more , as it doesnt just only look grey in grey with a touch grey , no! it is also space consuming with very less information output and interaction possibilitys. Meaning that my goal is to fill in unused space with usefull options , buttons n stuff AND reduce overall Space usage at the same time! Lets begin with the Topbar... so lets start off with the first topbar , this is my Topbar with all functions and options enabled , you can see that all previous content of the original Topbar is still available and even more , the Menu´s "S21" "Edit" "World" etc have been moved into one big Main Menu called "S21" that gave me a HUGE amount of space to work with , so i decided to lift the Navigation Controls up to where the Menu´s were before. Back , Forth, Home , Sky and Water Preset Editor aswell as Land Info all of them are still there just pushed together , only thing i left was the Preferences Button , simply because its pointless up there. The Location Bar has been slighly changed to fit and auto resize the new overall size , so it will shrink on lower resolutions without overlapping with the other stuff. Now the interessting part , the "Customisation" part, this part contains the Draw Distance Slider for quick access to you render range with text entry possible , the search bar and the L$ status , all of them can be disabled (hidden) and will create more space for the Location bar to extend , except the L$ status which wont change the size of the Location bar at all, the last in this row is the Quick-Sound control panel which allows muting or editing master sound volume quickly if needed. The next row contains the Favourite bar which will reach over to the L$ status and then show >> if more fav´s have been added , followed by the clock and the Quick-Media control panel which allows quick and seperate control over active Media , the last 2 black rows are the network stats which show your actual upload and download activity. NOW my UI extends the whole thing into a new Row (again only if you want) which obselete´s the bottom buttons and brings back the top-middle action buttons like Inventory , Search , Map , Build and Snapshot for quick access. The bottombar itself had some minor and some major changes , the buttons now resize automatically to match the whole available space , or can be resized manually , there are also 2 new buttons and all of them can be switched between , show icon (like original Kirstens) , Full name (Like official Viewer) , and First letter (New) in Preferences - Viewer - UI Settings...

2: Sidebar

I know you hate it , many of you do , when not all , but in its core its such an usefull and quick drop-in/out menu which is also pretty small i think , those pesky big floaters from V1 were much bigger in most cases. Well my changes spread all over the Sidebar starting of that there is no (spoon)home button anymore! no more this stupid home button! its gone , forever, finally... instead the first button is your Profile now (yay) that means 1 button less , 40x40 pixels screen are again saved left one is the original, and on the right you see my modified one with one button less, better isnt it? ok then lets come to the Sidebar Menus which had a makeover too

we´ll see that in the next few pictures starting with the Profile , bigger Picture , button moved below it and Display name aswell as your real name moved onto top , looks better doesnt it?

then People , most people actuall doesnt realize that this is the Radar known from older Kirsten Viewers or whole other Viewers , it shows you distance , voice , typing and name aswell as real name (if you wish) , a quick inspector (miniprofile) if you click the small (i) Icon or directly his/her Profile (vcard Icon). In default it has the Minimap , which some people want seperatly and be disabled in People panel (not me) , so i added an Option (long before LL and Kirsten) to disable it and use the free space for the Radar list to extend, you can also resize it if you want. The range slider was also tweaked as you can see you are able to set it up to 4800m which would the whole SIM & more just in case....

little addition and oh....

2011-06-29T13:37:00.000-07:00

one thing less Firestorm has and KV not, tabbed Friendlist:

Download 4.1.265 to see it yourself!

oh sh**

2011-06-28T13:59:00.000-07:00

sorry , please download the newest version 4.1.263 it contains an important fix for Lighting & Shadows and Global Illumination Tab not working, it also fixes the cof_wearables.xml (idk atm what it is , probably the wear or outfit list)

because i can

2011-06-28T13:05:00.000-07:00

nothing new here just 2 nice snaps i want to share :)

Windlight

Deferred (Lighting + Shadows)

Here we go and uhm upload...

2011-06-26T13:19:00.000-07:00

Coming with some fixes new Features and also some behavior tweaks here a short list

-Customisable Pie Menu Colors
-fixed Grid/Starting Place entry hide function
-deleted deprecated features like Sidebar controls in Topbar
-changed hide behavior of some options in Viewer and Graphics Tab
-a new and this time working Text Font DPI Option
-and most important fix for RC3 to make it work with it

Download

I´ll also change this stupid version numbering , idk how i could get that idea of making a 1000 changenumber system in this way , the new System will probably lighten the whole thing a bit up and i can finally come out of 4.1.2 which is now old like my grandpa...the new System will look like this then 4.1.2 (1261) will become 4.1.261 internally and public it will be only 4.1.2 , downloads will be named after the internal way and the main version will only be 4.1.2 again and soon 4.1.3, to round this whole post up , because they must not be forgotten!
Pics like HELL , oh thats the Theme of 2 of the following shots :3

oh and before i forget sorry that im so slow with updating the past few weeks im loosing interesst and ideas every day , please help me a bit , IM me inworld , tell me what i could add , what could be changed or moved etc ,some of you might say now WTF you are releasing 1-2 versions every week why is that slow....well personally its SLOW , im just lazy , compared to the time of S19 its nothing , at S19 times i released 1-3 versions every day xD...

anyway ENJOY ,
NiranV Dean

L..L..L...Looooog Iiiiin Panel wow a new one!

2011-06-12T11:50:00.001-07:00

Yup i made a new one just because i were bored...again! a new part of the Viewer i modded! dun dun....duuuuuun soon i´ll start modding the First Universe...called First LIFE! , some of you know it as R.E.A.L Life i would just call it the dimension in which im not so furry as i want , hehe... anyway heres a Picture of what criminal masterpiece i did today!

will be in next release!
Enjoy!

RC2 ,RC2a and my Mod

2011-06-11T14:40:00.000-07:00

RC2 has been released and it contains so much bugs its nearly unusable for Nvidia Users , crashing their Video Drivers all the time or nearly all the time , im getting about 9 crashes on 10 start try´s , only trick you can try is to start without Deferred active and activate Deferred inworld , that should raise your change extremly , to get rid of those annoying rendering bugs or at last for the performance ones you should install RC2a :) for those of you that can run RC2 or RC2a without problems and wish to use my Mod with it , i´ve updated my Mod to work with RC2 and RC2a and it brings some cool new things like the new redone World Map , take a look at it!

awesome huh? , well i fixed some things here and there and also updated my Skin again so it uses the new Kirsten Bottombar Textures and Sidebar button textures to get an overall better look, you can download my Mod like always at the right side in the Changelog

Meshes are in second Phase now , second Preperation Update for the Servers, its in the Official Viewer aswell , so we are close to release...but LL announced them for the end of August....

Ohhhh look an awesome new Video

2011-06-02T07:45:00.001-07:00

i managed to upload my new Video , FINALLY!
watch it here in HD

Kirstens S21 Build 8 RC1 finally!

2011-05-30T15:59:00.001-07:00

Yay finally RC1 got released (after KL teased me with the Release beeing on Monday (at Sunday evening....) i´ve updated my Mod to work along with it aswell and will upload it in a few minutes ,it only contains fixing for RC1 Build 8 and all its new Features and changes (hopefully) next release will be a bit more bugfixing again and maybe some major changes in UI and HOPEFULLY I start to finish my other skins soon (evil Niran doesnt do his work....)

Download as always on my Sourceforge Page

Oh and i updated the Changelog at the right side , aswell as i will do for the Sourceforge Changelog with the upload...

So... uhm... 3D n Stuff.... ENJOY it... because i cant , i dont have 3D glasses...

NiranV Dean

Oh and congratz to this ultra sexy and super cute Furry that has drawn my attention for about an hour in which i was busy making snapshots of her all the time :3

Update! and anything else

2011-05-23T08:47:00.000-07:00

My Mod

Well as Kirstens development continues , my mod does aswell, more or less , im very bored and often not in mood to do anything else than just updating my Mod to make it work with the latest Release , but this time i did a bit more and made it compatible with the coming Release too! - as long as things dont get changed too much now.
Download is available like always on the right site at the top of the Changelist or here

Me

Nothing special here i just had my RL birthday yesterday (yay...)... uhm and im working on some things here and there...

About Second Life

well i´ve seen that LL merged the Mesh Viewer into the Development Viewer recently , which will become the official Release soon, so i started to merge some Mesh options , repair or add the missing and start to do a Tab for Mesh Objects in Build Floater but its not finished yet and not functional aswell as it looks pretty borked atm , but will be fixed in future releases when Meshes will be released Officially! YAY

Anyway i hope you still Enjoy my Mod

Lazyness n stuff....

2011-05-07T17:04:00.000-07:00

As you might have noticed i didnt do anything big over the past few weeks , and im hoping to start changing that today , starting off with some new pics i´ve done , then i´ll add some things here and there in my mod and start translating the whole stuff...finally... maybe i can find some other cool things in the debug settings , oh and i´ll probably continue my S16 Skin a bit

Twitter

2011-03-26T05:50:00.000-07:00

omgaaww its on Twitter now!

Update

2011-03-23T10:16:00.000-07:00

besides a new Update (1059), -yes its getting extremly frequent now- i used my old rusty Group i created ages before (something like stoneage if i remember right) to write about Updates there you can find it inworld by going into my Profil and searching for a Group called Nirans Spiel- und Bauprojekte (sorry for the german name, like i said its old) or by simply asking me, make sure to download (1059) it fixes a really bad bug that i´ve overseen somehow (O.o) which caused the Group Chatter List and Chatter Action Buttons to not show , it also updates the Navigation bar so it will extend into the free space when hiding Search Field or Render Range Slider

oh and dont forget to visit my new Galery
Black and White art:
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/22605078/1/Black%26White?h=cb32b5
and some other cool random Snaps:
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/22605078/1/Second%20Life?h=4f5e8a

Enjoy,
Niran

regarding new Versions

2011-03-20T07:34:00.000-07:00

well to make it short im sick of RC´s and Experimentals and that stuff , no more fixed Versions , i´ll release it more frequently now , until it reaches 4.1.2 and then i´ll search for a new way to destribute it more frequently than doing thousand uploads everytime and write about it...
to start this more "frequently" release plan i´ll upload the newest version now and post it here as soon as it is online
DOWNLOAD

oh and 2 pictures of the new Ruby Skin (in heavy development):

thanks to all visitors and readers and all other people that still use my Mod :)
Enjoy, Niran

2,5 Years ago...

2011-03-15T14:12:00.000-07:00

It was the time when the first Shadow Draft Clients of Kirsten came out , at this time it was simply amazing how it looked and Sys Requierements were tiny for this time i only got a GTX 260 , 4 GB RAM and a AMD Athlon Dual Core 3200mhz and it run very good , i could even record it.... the first Video i´ve ever done...come and watch it here

i´ve found my first few Shadows Draft Snapshots aswell , saved them out of my Inventory and uploaded them just for you :)

Experimental 4 PLEASE REDOWNLOAD

2011-02-26T02:19:00.000-08:00

PLEASE REDOWNLOAD

i´ve fixed some small meaningless Syntax Errors and a BIG Showstopper that made inworld-right click context menu´s dissapear instantly

ok i finally decided to stick Experimental up your *** :P becaaaaauuuse everyone wants it and it should be ready , if problems accour tell me , if real showstoppers accour (instant viewer startup crash etc) tell me even FASTER if nothing happens and everything works fine tell me INSTANTLY - THAT IS NOT A NORMAL BEHAVIOR!
PLEASE ONLY USE THIS ONE WITH BUILD 5 OF KIRSTENS VIEWER S21!
Make sure you enable Navigation and Favourite Bar , and disable ALL Bottom Buttons before activating Project S19 , after all is done DO A RELOG!

You can find it at the right side , a BIG DOWNLOAD Text! -->

and like always some nice Pictures at the end :3
because i like to spam with these ;P

Ohhhh what do we have here?

2011-02-22T11:57:00.000-08:00

Well , "we"(me) have got some cool stuff i want to show you , the past few days i worked a bit harder than just sleeping in front of my PC , hammered and made some OP´s the Viewer 2 UI of Kirstenviewer needed for a LONG TIME NOW, i merged the whole Statusbar with the Navbar and Favbar , shrinked everything a bit , used every tiny Pixel of available space , done some little HAX and voila i got a new Topbar AND a new Bottombar aswell , my long promised Project S19 is now working and looks already VERY Good
i got a Snapshot of it too! here:

Nice isnt it? i know i think its much better , it feels lighter , interessting and a bit retro like (Yay for S19 one of the best Viewers ever)
but there´s moaaaar , there is ....this Video.... dunno....its strange... i..i cant describe it , better you watch it yourself , i found it in my Youtube Channel as Uploads O.o dundunduuuun

i hope thousands of new Ideas will overcome me to continue my Mod minimum as long as it already exists!

Enjoy!
NiranV Dean

GET THIS THING AWAY FROM ME!

2011-02-15T05:54:00.000-08:00

AHHH, its hunting me! its HUNTING ME! omg get this Minimap awwwwaaaayy!
*magic light appears*
Your wish shall be granted!
*minimap in sidebar vanishes*

WITHOUT Minimap

WITH Minimap

YES the Peeople thingy has been corrected already!
Happy waiting!

Valentines Day

2011-02-14T14:29:00.001-08:00

Today is Valentines Day , that does not only mean that everyone is in love , it also means that you could find your love today :3, i found mine already
But today was more , the Second Life Valentines Day Event , and my first official Event i joined, i saw that you can hug Lindens and other Residents there so , i took on my clothes (PG SIM) faster than lighting! , went to the Event shared some huggies with a Linden :) Courtney Linden was the lucky one =D

some Snapshots too!

Thanks Courtney for an love filled Day :)

Whats new?

2011-02-13T10:07:00.000-08:00

well im doing much atm , doing extreme changes, heres a small sumary of what i´ve done:
tweaked Bottombar a bit
started to translate the Main Menu
some little Sidebar tweaks
and some extreme sidebar tweaks like the tabbed Appearance
extended Sound Controls
extended Web and Media Controls
dozens of new Options , UI Options and other stuff

now im planning to finally introduce the Project S19 , start to merge the Nav/Status/Favbar together , make some Empty Buttons up there which can be filled with Functions like About Land ,Windlight Settings etc , make the Minimap in Sidebar Optional , probably a few texture updates and im trying to make it LL Viewer Compatible :)

no Post without Snapshots!

4.1.2 UPDATE (11. Feb)

2011-02-05T06:23:00.000-08:00

UPDATE (11. Feb)
check out this new tabbed Appearance Sidebar!

...i continued my mod , but since im not on Kirsten´s Forum anymore , im getting nearly no Downloads anymore, maybe because i cant announce the releases anymore.... whatever ... 4.1.2 has got 2 Experimental releases now , they can be found on Sourceforge like always , just click Download on the right side in the Changelog , but be warned it works only for special Versions of a Client,
Experimental 1 is for Kirstens S21 Build 4 Release 1 ONLY
Experimental 2 is for Kirstens S21 Build 4 Release 4, Second Life 2.6 219999 and
Second Life 2.6 220434

Enjoy, your Niran

The end of my Mod?

2011-01-27T08:44:00.000-08:00

im not sure yet , my account is perma banned now , all my Posts,Comments,Threads etc gets removed , my Guide gets deleted , my Skin taken out and all memories of me shred...
i´ll try to get over it and continue my mod , but this will be very hard

New Video!

2011-01-15T21:24:00.000-08:00

yesterday i got bored and made a new video showing S21´s awesomeness
see it yourself

Happy New Year!

2010-12-31T10:11:00.001-08:00

Its not yet 2011 here but i wish everyone a Happy new Year anyway , i hope this Year will be a good one for all of us, i got a little present too

Version 4.0.4 released!
DOWNLOAD

its tiny very tiny but fixes a real bad shapecrusher , it adds the missing Undo Changes button again to the Appearance Editor and does some other small things!

Have Fun and enjoy!

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-24T09:06:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas to all of YOU!

I got a Present for all Kirsten and NiranV Mod Users :3
Version 4.0.3 is finally released and has a big package of changes , see the Version History on the right side.

(DOWNLOAD 4.0.3!)

A nice Snapshot mustn´t be forgotten

Youtube likes me :3

2010-12-18T18:10:00.000-08:00

Yay Youtube really LIKES me, thats so AWESOME!
i just wanted to upload a Video and BING - this message popped on my screen =D

Congratulations! Your account is now enabled for uploads longer than 15 minutes. Click the Upload button below to select a video.

isnt that AWESOME? , now i can torture you with more than 15 minutes in one Video (not that i´ll ever reach 15 minutes.... except for non SL Videos but..anyway...)

and now some other good news

Mod Version 4.0.3 is very close to be finished , and it contains again a massive amount of new stuff aswell as German translations for those who cant read a word in English.
I plan to release it at Christmas as Christmas gift for all my loyal NiranV Mod Users :3

Here some random Snapshots and a very Special Desktop Snapshot :3
Desktop

Meshes!

2010-11-12T06:33:00.001-08:00

Ok Guys as you probably noticed , Meshes have been arrived at the Aditi Grid , the Test Server , you can upload your Meshes which must be in Collada (.dae) format easily , its toooootal simple , just make your object , export it as collada and upload it , no more preparing a UV map doing stuff here and there and watching the Vertice Limit....its gone people...ITS GONE!, you can even Rig the Mesh to your Avatar!!! that means ....yes! new forms ,shapes ...whole new Avatars much more detailed than the LL one ever could!, the dark side of this Feature is its cost , Meshes will cost much L$ depending on how complex your Mesh is (how much vertices/triangles it has). You can make own UV Textures , you can make one whole avatar with one Mesh! or with a few!, you can make new awesome deforming clothes which will bend and stretch with your body if they´re rigged! AWESOME mh? , yes! Meshes are extremly less Hardware hungry , even with Meshes at the Limit (65.000 vertices) didn´t impact my FPS that much like a single Furry Avatar with sculptys (awesome!) and the best , those meshes can be edited like normal prims , even if they´re rigged to your Avatar! means ...yes! Shiny and Glowy Bodys! xD but ok enough Info , see it yourself!

You can find more Pictures here

and my Video here!

Comparison between Deferred and Non Deferred

2010-10-17T06:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday i were on the Doomed Ship again , and took some Comparison Pictures to show you the difference between Deferred and Non Deferred Mode

Deferred Mode (Shadows Enabled + SSAO + 2x AA)

Non Deferred Mode (Windlight Enabled + 2x AA)

Thoughs about Meshes + MOAR

2010-10-04T09:45:00.000-07:00

You´re probably wondering "oh Niran is unbanned in Kirsten Forums and seems to be active anyway O.o" yes!, i am , because im bored hehe. As we all know (hopefully), meshes will come on 13 Oct. , but how would Avatars look when they would be Meshes , i´ve made a nice Snapshot that probably "fakes" the look of those Mesh Avatars , its NOT edited , its shot in Second Life with Custom Settings

Normal

Can you see those ugly Prim Edges? , you do? really? i too.... they are ugly , VERY UGLY , but luckily its time for them to go , it will take some time but maybe Avatars will look like the Screenshot below in the near future...

Shadowed one

You don´t see those ugly Edges anymore? don´t worry , you don´t need glasses , they are REALLY not existant :) i know its totally "faked" because im standing in Shadows which lightens everything on the same way , but thats how Future Custom Avatars could look like if they´re done right

now the MOAR

ever visited Doomed Ship? No? No Problem! i´ve checked it out , and its build for future graphic settings too! means it contains Projected Lights! and its build not too Light intensive as normal Builder would do, i´ve made Snapshots for all who can´t see it in Maximum Graphic Settings :)

Doomed Ship 1
Doomed Ship 2
Doomed Ship 3
Doomed Ship 4
Doomed Ship 5
Doomed Ship 6
Doomed Ship 7
Doomed Ship 8
Doomed Ship 9
Doomed Ship 10
Doomed Ship 11

Enjoy! Niran

Im back!

2010-10-02T07:09:00.000-07:00

Yes! Im unbanned! means the Mod can now be unfreezed :3
oh wait theres more , 3.2.5 FINAL Released! Finally!
[Download 3.2.5 here!]

many many added Tranlsations , a few new Options for Minimap (some which had to be deactivated because they don´t work since last Minimap Update from Snowstorm X( ) and some stuff here and there, its completly Build 39 Ready!

Enjoy, NiranV

Some new Snapshots

2010-09-30T13:59:00.000-07:00

As im not very Busy atm , and bored im building some stuff sometimes to test how cool it would look in Second Life with some Settings im hammering together , and here are the end products :3

Darkscene 1
Darkscene 2
Darkscene 3
Darkscene 4
Darkscene 5
Darkscene 6
Lego Shotgun 1
Lego Shutgun 2
Daylight Scene 1
Daylight Scene 2

visiting NEMO

2010-09-26T02:16:00.000-07:00

Yea after my ban in the Forums i got very much free time , i mean i can´t see who´s posting , and the chat is.... boring...., ok back to "NEMO" , yesterday i´ve visited NEMO in Second Life, and made some nice Snapshots for all who don´t know it or who can´t see it with Deferred Renderer as i did, the SIM is filled with wonderfull designed and very much detailed objects, its a wonderfull dream for Steam-Punk Fans

Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2
Snapshot 3
Snapshot 4
Snapshot 5
Snapshot 6
Snapshot 7
Snapshot 8
Snapshot 9
Snapshot 10
Snapshot 11
Snapshot 12
Snapshot 13
Snapshot 14
Snapshot 15
Snapshot 16
Snapshot 17
Snapshot 18
Snapshot 19
Snapshot 20
Snapshot 21
Snapshot 22
Snapshot 23

Enjoy :3, NiranV Dean

Don´t wonder

2010-09-25T08:00:00.000-07:00

Yep don´t wonder why i won´t say anything until Oct. 2, today i´ve written a comment about Emerald / Phoenix Viewers stupidness , just the truth if you ask me , and got banned from Kirstens Site for a week , i can´t even login and check my PM´s etc...well thank you , this means there will be NO Updates , NO Uploads , NO News , and NO Version History changes, NOTHING , my Mod is paused until im unbaned again

write me inworld if you want to ask anything , Chat or Forum doesnt work for me anymore as i mentioned before

Finally an UPDATE!

2010-09-14T09:36:00.001-07:00

Yea finally! heres an Update for my Mod , its the long awaited Version 3.2.4 , YAY , much much Bugfixes, Changes , New Options... i´ve started German Translation of some lost Strings , Menu´s and Panels , my Mod integrates a new Panel Style which can be easily switched if you want..
one of the new Options are Spotlights for Non Deferred Renderer as example, i´ve recolored some things like Names , yes i´ve recolored them! Friends are green now , UUID Keys in Profiles too , btw Profiles have been fixed too!... ahww...Niran stop talking hand out the Download Link and read the Changes in the Text file or at the side of my Blog

NiranV Mod 3.2.4

I hope you Enjoy my new Version , if you find a bug or anything i could do better or simply change , let me now , my inworld name is NiranV Dean

Flycam Test with PS 2 Gamepad

2010-08-06T14:47:00.000-07:00

yea you read right , i made a Flycam test with my USB PS2 Gamepad , i were so fascinated that i recorded it , it looks just Awesome!
but watch it yourself here in HD

Im alive... Update

2010-07-13T09:18:00.000-07:00

Long time since i did something , yes it seems that im Dead...no im NOT Dead , im actively working on Kirsten S20 UI Mod and hanging around SL, so as you can see , my Download Section and my Change List gets Updated but i didnt find any time to write a new Post....
So im here , im alive and i have some things i did in the past Time...

*Update*
I´ve uploaded Mod Version 3.1.5 for Build 29 aswell to Rapidshare , Megaupload , Hotfile and Zshare
Hotfile
Rapidshare
Megaupload
Zshare

First i RE - Uploaded my S19 Mod
Hotfile
or
Rapidshare
YAY

Second i made a FULL HD Video of Global Illumination with my Custom Sky and Water Preset aswell as my new Graphic Menu

Third, i Updated my Mod for S20 to work with Build 29 and has all its new Options + more , and made a screenshot of the new Viewer Invidualisation Screen too...
Yay

click to enlarge

and at last, i made some cool screenshots on my Way trough SL and the Options

so Stay tuned to my Work =D

Eternal Glory - YAY

2010-04-20T03:18:00.000-07:00

Many Thanks to Kirsten , he´ve chosen one of my Pictures for his 10 Shots he want to have in the Login Screen HURAY!

This Shot was chosen :3 and its aviable here in Full resolution for Kirsten to Download

Other Things
im working on a new S20 Skin , it should look like the old S19 Nvidea Skin but not too much, there should be some S20 elements still there...
then im making a new S19 Skin as well, recently i completly re-skinned my Windows as you can see here

now i want to take this black-orange glassy look to Second Life,which would fit to my Windows as well :3