Disclaimer

Black Dragon is MY Viewer, i decide which feature i want to add and which to remove, i share this Viewer to show the world that user base size is not important, i do rate quality by effort, thought and love put into the project, not some rough estimated numbers. I consider feature requests only if i you can name proper valid reasons i can agree on. It is my (unpaid) time i'm putting into this project, i'm not here to cater to every Joe's desires.

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Black Dragon 64x - Update 4.0.2 "Refreshing Dragon"

 For anyone closely following the development either on Discord or watching the blog version number know that there have been 2 updates (4.0.1 and 4.0.2). I just didn't feel like writing something for them because they aren't exactly spectacular to talk about. They are just bugfix updates.


I've been bugsquashing to get the Viewer in a decent shape to... well break it again of course! Now that all the major issues are resolved i think its finally time to get the latest code again (and break absolutely everything i fixed in the process).

Apart from that not much has been done a couple highlights from the bugfix list would be the Poser finally being able to delete presets with special characters, an option to allow stretching the field of view in local snapshots too, the environment editor no longer deleting textures out of presets when you have the permissions, not binding roll or zoom on the controller no longer resulting in those breaking, a long standing issue being resolved with shadow softness at certain angles simply "snapping" to new values making the transition quite harsh and several options not working and warnings being incorrect. I'm sure you'll find a fix or two for your issue too, especially if you had weird things happening like being unable to see the edit arrows or buying/paying items.

As always, report any bugs you see so i can shoot them!

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7 comments:

  1. Having issues taking snapshots, it keeps saying "failed to save to computer" my email is bleaneee@gmail.com. my iw iiivoryii

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  2. Hello! How can I share any screenshot that I've took using BD viewer? ^^

    Also - it seems that as for me, staying for longer in SL on the BD viewer is making my RADEON drivers crash - WattMan part of it, to be precise. I haven't noticed that it crashed during any other activity on my PC or with other game launched. The issue appeared on win 10 and it goes on win 11.

    Also, sometimes when receiving IM, the icon on taskbar isn't flashing. ^^

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    1. It's AMD and its a third party program that messes with wattages, i'm not surprised to be honest. I'd recommend not using it, it seems quite unnecessary anyway.

      The IM flashing can be blocked when the session said IM is received in is currently selected. Also for an IM to flash the task bar the option for said IM type (friends, non friends, local etc) needs to be set to at least flash i think (maybe even higher).

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  3. Hi, I seem to be having an issue with 'world' pieces disappearing. Sidewalks, walls, sometimes even a whole bilding will just disappear... I can still walk into those pieces, so they are there, just unexplainably invisable. I usually run with all the graphics set on low-med. CPU is ryzen 5 5200u, GPU radeon rx 560x, 8 gb ram, and I usually clear out the trash and the cache once a week. Any suggestions?

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    1. Do these "low-med" settings include Object Quality and the Jellydoll settings (specifically Object Surface Area)? If so you might want to raise those, especially the Object Surface Area (to infinite) otherwise things will get derendered.

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    2. I didn't know that! Changing both of those now! Thank you so much!

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