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.

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Sweet Donut Viewer 64x - Update 4.3.1 "Kneading Dragon"

 You may have noticed that since a bit there's been an update and no post.


Before making this post i was waiting to get the update video recorded. Turns out i'm not going to, i wasn't talking about much interesting stuff anyway.

There isn't much to talk about really, this update introduces full keyframe capability to the animator/pose creator allowing you to create (and reimport) full animations, this also fixes a couple problems the previouss "create" mode had, for instance it including a keyframe for all bone transforms (rotation, position and scale) effectively copying your deforms into the animation... which was kinda bad when you switched avatars... well no longer!

With full keyframe support comes adding, removing and changing/editing keyframes, i know its slow and clunky right now but its also the first release ever (in the entire history of SL) to allow doing this directly inworld on your avatar inside the Viewer without the need of any third party tools, so keep that in mind, over time i will add more features, QoL, better UI and management tools to make it faster and easier. Do note that the animator development also hinges on the Poser. Should the poser ever get a better way of editing bones, so will the animator. Oh and before i forget, the animator can now be found in the new menu entry "Pose Creator".

Outside of the Viewer i've also upgraded the installer a bit, added options to automatically download and install VCRedists (so people stop asking and reporting it) and removed the Google Drive "too big to be virus scanned" warning, note this will not stop Defender (or other apps) from flagging it as false positive virus, that would need signing.

And in case you are interesting in seeing me cook up this update live, i've got a video for you!

It was originally part of the update video and much shorter... but since i got so much footage and it was the only usable i decided to make an extended version of it.

Oh yea the Viewer is now called Sweet Donut Viewer. Because donuts!