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!
Fantastic work as always. The whole posing gives so many things to do by now.
ReplyDeleteStill got a few questions or requests even if possible. It's merely a few things that always hinder using the viewer smoothly (especially if you move from a different viewer)
Few things are simple. First would be a few options the others have. Clicking on my avatar for example i would want to be able to rotate the camera around me. Another one option is setting hotkeys i love to use like sitting down on the ground with CTRL+ALT+S or resycn animations with CTRL+S (Maybe you already can set up these things, but i looked everywhere in the settings now and even tried to fiddle with the dev settings. You took those options out to be activated)
I know. I know. It is your viewer and YOU decide what you want in it and what not. You said that often enough, yet i just want to ask for it to think about it. I see no harm in at least giving people the option to fiddle with all the settings like they can in other viewers. And frankly it would make things a lot easier to swap to your viewer, if they can change things to their liking.
Sit down is by default Shift + Alt + S, because CTRL + ALT + S is a shortcut used for camera controls thus overlapping them, hence why it was moved. Resync animation is not a feature (hence why its not a shortcut) however the Animation Controls window offers restarting selected people's animations, which is effectively a "resync", it needs to be done manually though. Advanced/Develop menus have not been taken out, just the shortcut for it has been removed because it also overlapped the camera controls and was not necessary because the Viewer by default shows both menus at all times.
DeleteI cannot offer changing shortcuts (sadly, i wish it was possible) due to the way shortcuts work (with the stupid menu system). You can however manually edit them by changing the menu (and their shortcuts), although that needs to be done for every update anew.
When mac support with metal?
ReplyDeleteNot from me ever, i cannot support Mac, i cannot test Mac and i cannot guarantee if even works.
DeleteI downloaded Black Dragon but I cant launch the viewer....it keep stucking and my pc totally freeze...any hint, please ? thanks ;)
ReplyDeleteHello, i would like to ask if in this version there's some limitations about the numbers of account cached by the viewer. I'm asking about because before i was able to save and retrieve 5 different account, and now just 2, third one and so one is never saved. Please let me know, and compliments for your outstanding work.
ReplyDeleteNone that i'd know of, LL might have changed this at some point but it wouldn't be specific to this version.
DeleteI've tried further, and i've added another account. To do this, i've checked and unchecked the checks relative at remember password and username. It's still unclear how to be sure to make remember the new accounts to the viewer, apart set the checks accordingly. Where these info's are saved locally (if they are) please? i see they remain even if you empty the cache.
DeleteSorry, again me. I think i've find the trouble. The viewer don't save other accounts if you have active one viewer, then you log with another account wich is not saved yet. If you just login with the new accounts with no other BD running atm, they being saved. Was not easy to understand, we use always more than an avatar cause we make shows. Thank you for your time. :)
ReplyDeleteI downloaded BD and its missing windlights i thought the windlights from firestorm would be on there and its not. Theres not many to choose from
ReplyDeleteThey are hardly missing then? They are Firestorm's windlights. You can copy over any windlight from any Viewer (that still uses them) the same way you installed new windlights long ago.
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