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.

Pre-Download Page

 


PRE-DOWNLOAD WORD OF WARNING, READ!


Before you continue to the download page you should read the following blog pages, they might answer a lot of your questions before they even form.

Automatic Alpha Masking
Movement Controls
Spotlights
User Interface Tour
Complexity
FAQ

You may want to visit the Discord Channel too!

You might want to read the Privacy Policy too if you are into that stuff.

The Viewer requires these Visual C++ Redistributables to be installed:
Visual C++ Redistributable 2013 x64 (MSVCR120.DLL)
You may have to uninstall them first and then reinstall the latest versions from Microsoft if it doesn't work after installing them.

DO NOT download the Viewer anywhere else other than from these links! The Viewer is ONLY available from here and only for Windows.



This software is not provided or supported by Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life.

50 comments:

  1. BD for Mac anytime soon? Now that Mac has powerful M1 and up chips that can process the rendering needed.

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    1. Yes, please... we need BD for Mac!!!

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    2. yes , that would be amazing.

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    3. Yeah that would be nice if they make versions for Mac and Linux :))

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  3. Hello, my viewer usually opens as if it has zoomed in without me doing anything, what can it be?

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    1. I have the exact same problem and nothing seems to fix it.

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    2. Zooming in? Care to show a picture/video of what you mean?

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    3. No, it looks like my viewer is set to a smaller screen than my monitor, I wanted to know how do I set it to a 1920x1080 screen

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    4. You can simply drag the window edges or click the windows maximise button on the window to maximise it to your entire desktop.

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    5. Maybe you have increased the UI size. Set it back to default.

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  4. hello when i download the viewer it shows on my system that a virus was detected: Trojan:Win32/Spursint.F!cl

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    1. false positive, ignore and whitelist it

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    2. how do i whitelist it just tried to download n it said virus/threat on it.

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    3. I do not know, it depends on what program is complaining, you're best bet is googling how to do it with whatever program is detecting it as virus.

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  5. can not update says it has a virus for me as well

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  6. Hello. I just finished downloading the viewer but when I open it, it says MSVCR120.dll was not found and I just bought myself a new gaming PC costing about $1.6k with a 3070 graphics card and all... So please helppppp!!! Thanks.

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    1. It reads right up there that if you get said error message you need to install VCRedist 2013. Please read the very page you are commenting on next time.

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  7. cant not download sayin its a virus :(

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  8. hey can you Put the Link To VCRedist 2013 so people dont have to go looking for it and dont know what they are looking for because im having the same MSVCR120.ll Problem and i have a 2023 brand new gaming laptop also 3070 graphic or put the old links back up from previous versions please

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    1. I will never put up old releases. They also all require msvcr120.dll (all the way back to Nirans Viewer).

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  10. hey when I want to start up Black Dragon I get the 0xc00007b error

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  11. says im missing a .dll file , im on windows 11 which one do i download it

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    1. Read above. It tells you where and which to download.

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    2. but its not working

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    3. Make sure its properly installed then. Go to Features and Programs, uninstall the VCRedist 2013 x64 and VCRedist 2015/17/19/22 x64 and restart your PC, reinstall the latest version from the Microsoft website and then restart your PC again.

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  12. 0xc00007b error - no matter what i do i cannot seem to fix this

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    1. You are missing one of the VCRedists as described above.

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    2. I have all VCs

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    3. for me still dont works

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  13. and I reinstaled them

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    1. Did you manualy uninstall beforehand? Did you restart your PC? It must work afterwards unless you are doing something wrong.

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    2. Did all thet

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    3. and reinstaled black dragon and it done nothing

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    4. and I done thet 5 times

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    5. VCRedists, not BD. Reinstalling BD doesn't do anything, nothing is wrong with your BD install.

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    6. VC dosent work

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    7. What do you mean it doesnt work. Uninstall VcRedist 2013 64bit and then reinstall it from with the latest 2013 64bit from the website

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    8. did black dragon still dont work

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    9. nothing I do works for black dragon and I use a softwere to see wich dll are curupted it seys all are

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    10. A software to see what dll's are corrupted? That doesn't sound legit.
      The software wouldn't even be able to tell if they were corrupt or not.

      I'd recommend redownloading the latest release, make sure your browser, antivirus or defender do not block/delete the file, install the latest version and then try again. If you installed all VCRedists correctly it should run, if it doesn't and still gives you an error on startup it means that the VCRedists are not properly installed (or at the very least cannot be found in their correct windows folders where they should by default go)

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  14. BLACK DRAGON FOR MAC USER PLEASE!!!!!!!!

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  15. Just wanna say massive thank you for this viewer. Works flawlessly and it feels more fluid to create in second life now. Heartiest thank you.

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  16. Hi, It came up for me as detecting virus in both download areas!!

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  17. Can't seem to save images using the camera feature. If I try to save to disk, I get an error saying the image can't be found. If I try to overwrite an older file, it just fails.

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    1. Make sure you have permission to write into the selected save folder, also make sure the Viewer has permission to do so and is not blocked by Defender or other Antivirus apps.

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  18. hey everytime i open bd it gets stuck at precaching 77%

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    1. Stuck or crashing? That sounds like your Depth of Field settings need to be reset (turn off Depth of Field or set them back to default)

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