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.

Monday, March 2, 2026

Black Dragon Viewer 64x - Update 5.6.0 "Favorite Dragon"

We back baby!

Does this update contain:
A: Changes?
B: Fixes?
C: Features?

The answer is: ALL OF THE ABOVE. (And probably new crashes)

HORRAY... not for the crashes.

Either way. Several crash fixes for the Pose Creator. Starting, Stopping, Previewing, all resulting in crashes... NO MORE. As a bonus, it should no longer break and corrupt your attachment slots anymore either!

Crashing on uploading .ANIM files? BEGONE.

I CAST FIREBALL

Crash died.
Crash died.
Crash died.
Crash died.
Crash died.

Wait, 5 crashes died? Yup. A startup crash was there too somewhere.

What else? We got 400 changes! Well idk what they are. They are Linden stuff. No one cares, they probably gonna break sum of ma shit!
"Niran, did you put features into the Black Dragon Update?" Dumbledore asked calmly... with the force of a thousand suns.

"Yes!" *puts on shades*

SMAA T2x, aka SMAA + Temporal Reprojection (essentially like TAA but less ghosty, woooooohooohhooo).
You can now also toggle off dates in snapshot names. Hopefully.
And finally... there's a secret.


WUHUHUUAHAUAHAUA.

CHANGES! Improvements! They are all the same.

Better Screen Space Reflections, working in High Resolution Snapshots now!
Better (hopefully) Chromatic Aberration.
Better shadow blur weeeeeee!



Certainly a spectacular release. Not so spectacular is that the Inventory issue might still be around. I don't know. Hopefully not.



19 comments:

  1. Niran, add ''black list derender'' (permanent derender) to Black Dragon, pleaseeee

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  2. I tried running the latest version after install and when I open it it just closes immediately, tried reinstalling microsoft visual c++ restarted, still won't open, it only worked after I reinstalled an older version of black dragon. Any fixes for this?

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    1. Tried a clean install? You might have leftover files from older versions which are crashing the Viewer.

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  3. can we get a Mac book black dragon too, I really wanna try it

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  4. I don't know why it was necessary to turn off the shooting date when saving photos. It was very convenient. Where can I turn it back on?

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    1. A lot of people complained about the dates in snapshot names and quite honestly I didn't like them either. Not to mention they use american dating which makes no sense and makes it weird to sort them by name. So it was changed back to how it was, the option to turn it back on can be found in Preferences - Viewer - Add Date to Snapshot Name

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  5. Why is it impossible to add the ability to permanently derender objects from neighboring lands? I would like to use BD all the time, but without this option it's impossible, because neighbors clutter their lands with junk and there's no way to make it disappear once and for all. All the questions here have been answered, only I was ignored.

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    1. It's not impossible. I just won't do it, at least there are no plans to. Maybe someday I'll just randomly add it.

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  6. Any possibility of making projection lighting volumetric as well?

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    1. I tried that long ago... it... kinda worked but it was really jank, maybe I'll try it again.

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  7. When I buy something on Marketplace, the product doesn't appear in my inventory, it only appears after logging back in

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    1. Check the inbox folder, open a second inventory window. The first one is currently bugged.

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    2. I tried that, it didn't work... so I always have to log in again 😐

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  8. Hello, isn't possible to apply collision volume to another avatar in poser?

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  9. Are there any compatibility issues with the 9070XT? When I turn on shadows, the frame rate drops to only 10 FPS... I need to take some screenshots—should I wait for an update?

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    1. AMD is generally known for bad performance in SL but not that bad, you might have some crazy settings for shadows

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