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.
The funny part in this Viewer , this time i didnt do that much noticable , just the hover volume pulldown has been removed (when hovering over the sound icon at the top right) and has been replaced with a full sound quick sound & media control panel , which can be slid out by just clicking the sound icon , dont worry , it wont mute your Second Life!
Bugfixes:
I´ve potentially fixed a crashed caused when the Viewer gets an Invalid Texture Index
Aswell as potentially fixed an RLVa issue not working on the Minimap in People floater
The Viewer also should recognize its set Window Size now when you drag-resize the Viewer window instead of using the Set Window Size floater, thanks to MyBrains for telling me
Windlight:
As it was already seeable on SLUniverse Forums , i´ve completely redone the Realistic 6PM Sky Preset and i think it looks WAY better now , have a look!
AFTER
BEFORE
Linden Default with Tone Mapping as diff
THATS a difference , isnt it? Well this wouldnt be Nirans Viewer if it wouldnt be different eh?
I´ve also added my Crazy Night Water and Sky Preset which are watchable in action in Login screen and on this pic!
Translations:
Well just the usual translations everywhere i´ve found something important not beeing translated , that includes some right click menus , the new quick sound & media control panel aswell as some preferences
Linux:
Im not sure whats going on with Mig , he seems very pissed that i stated my opinion about that i dont care about other OS´s than the one im using on my own. As it looks for me he threw the towel and left me once more , now doing his own Viewer called "Artvi". I guess he will say something on his own about that on my or his own blog later on. Patience is asked now
fixed Window size not getting saved when resizing via drag fixed (potential) Invalid Texture Index crash fixed (potential) RLVa not restraining Minimap in people added quick sound & media control panel added Crazy Night Water and Sky preset tweaked default preset removed volume pulldown redone Realistic 6PM Sky Preset renamed Buttons to Interface translated quick sound & media control panel translated alerts/notifications panel translated active speaker menu translated some missing right click menu entries translated Merchant outbox toolbar button translated Scripts toolbar button cleaned up Settings.xml a bit
And there we are, at 1.40
one of my "Niran was lazy" versions again , i´ve strictly tried to not work much and decline as much work as possible except that what i promised and i still ended up doing way more than planned.... ugh lol
so lets see what changed this time....
User Interface:
I tweaked the star brightness slider to allow up to a value of 50! , you can use this to make extreme bright skies at night , at day it might just cause some weird looking starts ...
The ability to color text and disabled text is now yours... aswell as the ability to color the Voice dot and the visualization waves , just like in this pic :)
btw , what do you think about my new mesh harness? =D
I´ve added Picks and Places to NV - Edit menu in suggestion because it wasnt available without the toolbox buttons otherwise
I´ve added some experience tools script functions so they will be highlighted like any other LSL function =3
Login has now a new background video again , my newest Video , which i also made a pic of , the video itself is forced to play in Full HD if your bandwidth allows it else it might load or stutter , you can watch it completely here aswell
Machinima Sidebar:
Has been changed to an overlay behavior like promised last week , it will now slide OVER the User Interface instead of pushing stuff aside , however , i missed that behavior instantly ... so i made a switch to toggle between pushing and overlaying Sidebar via Preferences - User Interface - Customisation - Experimental section
Now has a Machinima Sidebar button , by default its at the left hand toolbar , it will open whatever Machinima Sidebar version you´ve activated at that moment , the Sidebar will also switch dynamicaly when you switch its behavior :)
Bugfixes:
Mig has ported a potential fix for editing objects crash , we will see , since i´ve implemented it i´ve been freezing a lot of times when editing a mesh object....
added ability to color Legacy Names (suggestion) added Picks and Places to Viewer - Edit submenu added ability to color Textlabels and disabled Textlabels (suggestion) added ability to color Voice Dot and Visualization added Machinima Sidebar button to toolbars added ability to switch Machinima Sidebar between pushing and overlay (default) added Experience Tools script functions to library fixed an edit objects crash fixed an SSL issue (Linux) fixed AGENT_BY_LEGACY_NAME LSL constant highlighting merged some Linden commits , need to get up to date now updated Special Thanks page with Katharine Berry tweaked star brighness to allow values up to 50 (!) tweaked snap to grid translation translated Restore to last position translated Enable Java Bridge checkbox changed login page background video to newest one
IMPORTANT: If you are experiencing black flickering flies on sculpties , clear your settings and cache! NOTE: Not saved transparency settings is NOT a bug! you have to edit the transparency , then select the color picker and just press ok , the color picker is important as it sets the color , NOT the transparency slider!
Phew...
it was a real pain , i was about to pull everything together and suddenly people came out of their holes and nuked me with bugs everywhere.... darn... one worse than the other , i cannot release with the knowledge that those showstoppers exist , so i had to fix them first!
but finally , half a day too late... Release 1.39 coming with lots of homebrew fixes!
User Interface:
Niran hit really hard here... really really hard , some of you might have seen my "secret" project already which wasnt that secret then anymore.... well i cannot keep such awesome news sorry , i can only keep booring secrets like you murdered someone ...something like that...but Graphics? , User Interface? no way of beeing quiet! anyway , my "secret" project was a little revival of the Sidebar known from Viewer 2 , but stripped down and redesigned from scratch for Machinima use , its called , The Machinima Sidebar! tadaaaa
what is it? basically a panel like the sidebar which slides into your User Interface and reveals lots of important options for Photography and Machinima! how does it work? Space Magic! , however in this release it will push Toolbars , Floaters , IMs and your IM Chiclets away and will retract them on hiding , next week i will release the second version of it that acts like shown in the video , as overlay which will not slide into your UI , it will slide OVER your UI , not pushing anything aside , but it will overlap chiclets , maybe toolbars and floaters depending on where they are placed and what screen resolution you use
Theres more , i temporarly moved the Progressscreen below the UI and on top of world rendering , that will cause your Viewer to appear while TPing , so dont worry , thats not a bug , i will later add the ability to switch that to old behavior where the UI is hidden during TP , for those (like me) that do not want the UI in a progressscreen...
Optimizer floater has been removed , the machinima sidebar is now the "new" Optimizer
The place profile has been revamped....well better said it has been taken from my old Kirstens mod.... im curious why no one ever noticed that... me included...
I added Texture Refresh and Inspect to some missing places in non-pie menus and pie menus and translated them aswell as the rest that were missing
oh , probably a very funny but maybe buggy feature is the ability to switch the tools floater to old layout via a simple checkbox option in User Interface - Customisation , in Experimental section below Experimental login in page , it will need a relog!
one of the most enjoying things before you even log in , specially for new users is that media sound now works in login page , meaning that my video will FINALLY play with music! , go and watch it again , it feels different with that sad music!
for those that cannot watch it for some reason , i recorded it :)
oh and before i forget , yes , the blue topbar and sidebar are default now , dont be surprised , i think it looks very nice so i´ve set it as default , you can however revert it back to black if you want
Bugfixes:
Recently i checked my log because someone had a problem again... and what i found...was everything else than funny , error lines.....warning lines... thousands of them.... crazy , so much widgets that cannot be found because i revamped the UI and didnt reflect those changes in code , alot as been done now , the log should be WAY more error/warning free on initial start and User Interface initialisation resulting in a cleaner log , maybe a bit faster Viewer , sometimes a bit less code meaning a smaller and cleaner Viewer , and less bug stacks that might lead to a crash or more bugs :)
Rendering:
Only trivial changes have been done here , nothing you will notice anyway , i just removed the old hoverglow feature which was introduced with Viewer 2 and were also available in Kirstens S19 (which worked way better there than in V2) because it didnt work with shaders anymore , if it ever gets fixed , tell me , i would be more than happy to reimplement it!
added option to change between vertical and horizontal layout build floater added a slidable Machinima panel for quick machinima related options + translation added Object Inspect to pie menus added Texture refresh to some right click menus changed Scripts can use UI german translation moved progress screen temporarly below UI but on top of World rendering to ensure usability of UI during TP moved progressscreen below UI , so we found a good thing between hiding it and fully having it removed Vetgrid due to TPV n stuff...sorry removed old disabled AnimateTrees checkbox and Tree Details dropdown removed HoverGlow feature from render pipeline and preferences aswell as its debugs removed a bunch of first start and help aswell as intro video debugs removed Optimizer button and options aswell as code removed ability to fix IM Container and Floaters for now tweaked skins panel tweaked places profile layout translated attached particles and light options reduced application size by 23kb of code! thats a lot of code reduced skin folder sizes by deleting lots of deprecated textures cleaned up a lot of skin textures fixed IM Containers fucking up child panel resizing every time a new session is started fixed appearance shape edit resizing logic fixed Streaming media sound label translation fixed Media sound not playing in login , enjoy the music now =D fixed shitloads of log errors and warnings fixed german scripts translation fixed some missing right click non-pie and pie menu translations MAINT-841 FIXED ([PUBLIC]Folder "Lost and found" isn't cleaned)
NOTE: I´ve read some new reviews on Sourceforge , this Viewer is Windows and Linux (seperatly , not on this blog - open links at the right side , theres a link to Tarnix´s blog) only , no Mac because i dont have a Mac compiler , Movement can ALSO be changed to defaults at all times in User Settings - Advanced - Movement!
Remember that im a stupid Windows user , i cannot compile for a OS i dont own, that includes Linux (thats why its done by Tarnix)
Finally its Monday again =D
you know what that means! - lets jump right into the changes
User Interface:
I´ve been doing some cleanup here and there , moved some options to the moon and back , Chat panel got a bit cleaner and those hit Enter options are clearly seperated now
Favoritebar was ripped out of the Navigationbar and transplanted into the Statusbar making it able to go from far left to far right - time display , depening on if its shown or not
Red colored "special" options in main menu (top right) have been tweaked a bit , they should be better readable now
I´ve moved Right handed editing arm motion to Viewer and added an automatic fly option replacing it
(automatic fly = hold jump to toggle fly)
I´ve also moved Edit Toolbars menu entry into Edit menu instead of View
Windlight floaters where known to have sliders only , to some of them i added spinners in order to make setting smaller and precise values easy and possible at all
I reworked the classifieds and picks panel , changed them from accordions to tabs which should be way easier to use , note that an empty classifieds panel is not a bug! , it shows empty if you dont have classifieds yet , same for picks
Achievements:
Added a bunch new Achievements , those are Oh, this looks shiny , Nice pic of me , Second Life Fanatic , Stability Test, Check! , Faster than Lighting .... aswell as fixed French Lesson and Getting Sorted
Bugfixes:
I fixed lots of logspamming caused by an Achievement , also fixed some Errors
Window size shouldnt revert to default of 1280 x 720 anymore
Favoritebar was reported to disable completely after the topbar hides automatically and another tick of 10 seconds run out , this behavior should be fixed now
Movement:
Only the Space key has been set for jumping when in mouselook with Shooter keyboard layout , nothing too serious here
fixed non maximised window size reverting to defaults after restart fixed favoritebar getting disabled after second tick of topbar runs out fixed logspamming due to Packmule Achievement fixed some errors in Log fixed wrong labels for rear view text in camera panel reworked set window size floater reworked picks and classifieds floater , still bit WIP tho renamed Lighting to Lightning since i mean the lightning not the light itself rearranged Chat settings for a bit cleaner look added spinners to some windlight sliders to ensure text entry added automatic fly option to movement panel added Stability Check Achievement added Faster than lightning Achievement added Looks shiny Achievement added Nice Pic of me Achievement added Second Life Fanatic Achievement translated Camera floater shoulder view modes tweaked some Windlight spinners and sliders tweaked mouselook jump key to space aswell with shooter layout tweaked time display to nicely slide out/in making more space for favoritebar tweaked color of main menu special options moved edit toolbar buttons to Edit menu moved right handed editing to Viewer panel moved Favoritebar from Navigationbar to Statusbar making it able to use the full length
IMPORTANT: Please do not report any bugs related to that you cannot put items into another inventory window , on ground or into landmarks , this is related to lag and the lack of permissions you may have on that object!
NOTE: People demanded a 32x version again so i included one :) , keep asking nicely and you may get what you want
Monday , release day!
Version 1.37 (1169)
User Interface:
I changed the layout of name list items in people to 2 lines like i already did with online notifications , this counters a huge problem , names were cut of previously after a certain length , this cutoff limit has now been moved a huge bunch so names can be way longer before they get cut , distance display is now in a second line and that looks like this:
I also reworked and fixed the Set Window Size floater which is horribly broken in any V3 out there , it adds/subtracts numbers to your set resolution depending on window position on desktop, everytime you move the Viewer around your desktop and click set on the same resolution again it will change...NOT ANYMORE!
Mig continued implementing another Achievement , "High End Rig" , you will have to obtain 45 FPS in Deferred Rendering for a few seconds in order to successfully achieve it
I added a button to the login menu to show the initial selection screen again also , like suggested :)
Rendering:
Well.. not much has been changed here , just a tiny tweak on glow warmth weighting that might easen up the lines in the sky a bit due to my different glow settings
Meshes:
Mig was poking every few days that i have to fix those damn mesh booms , so i checked a few files and managed to fix this issue :) no more mesh booms anymore!
Release Cycle:
From today on i will change to a weekly release in order to make staying in TPVD and accumulating 200.000 mins / week realistic , this does not count if theres something that must be fixed immediately
Third Party Viewer Directory:
Some may have noticed that my Viewer finally pop´d in the TPVD , im really not sure if this will continue due to my Viewer still not having the 200.000 mins /week , but its atlast something , and im even over Exodus :) which surprised me
I´ve also started building a "bunker" on the Open Source Sandbox on my parcel where you can re-read my blog , navigate through the forums , watch videos , pictures , hang out , maybe meet me , ask me something or give feedback, in future i will continue expanding it to contain some "test areas" for advanced rendering features :) , oh and the bunker is build to be viewed with Deferred Rendering and NO windlight shiny!
NOTE: This release doesnt include OpenMP anymore , it might mean a tiny decrease in Performance for those the Viewer worked perfectly
Release day!
something very important at first
Due to so many people having those Application Errors which someone explained why they happen , in one of the comments and no one seeming to be able to fix this issue on their own , i´ve fixed it myself by just taking out OpenMP again, again OpenMP is a huge fail , more than last time where it only caused crashing viewer for some people...
anyway heres Release 1.36
and heres a note you should remember for the next few updates + this one , a lot of bugs have been reported and they are getting more , just like they are multiplicating , without me doing anything , meaning i dont code anything that could even cause something like that , so please double check your end , "most issues sit between chair and keyboard" , thats a fact , not harassment. Im saying this probably very wise sentence not because im wise , im saying it because its true , 89% of all issues lot of people having are issues i dont get , some of them are also Server Side issues , i mean atm we cannot know whats server side and what not as it seems servers can fuck up more than we think...atlast in SL
Achievments:
I´ve finally come along to hook up the Achievment floater and finish some Achievments , meaning you will be able to collect a huge bunch already! And i think you will like it if you care. (another great way to extend our e-peen without having features like ultra long radars =D) You can find them in NV - View - Earned Achievments
User Interface:
Some bugs reported involved the Autohiding topbar feature which reactivated the favbar after it slides out again , i fixed that and while beeing at it i revamped the system a bit , whenever the topbar hides now or parts of it hide , the toolbars will slide , like on the pic below which awesomely demonstrates how clean my UI can be if Autohiding Topbar is on , if i would be a shortcut junkey now and remove all my Toolbar buttons , i wouldnt need a User Interface checkbox in Snapshot floater anymore as my UI is hidden anyway!
And someone suggested me to make Group Notice Panel resizable... or atlast make it resize automatically with the floater , so i did that , note some other panels will still not resize , thats intended for now. Remember , im working on a lot of things at the same time (sorry i simply cannot work on one thing after another...) so a lot of things will be created , released in a half done way , then finished and finetuned
I´ve also done several tiny UI tweaks and works here and there , more german Translations , moved Admin options to Admin Menu , renamed Recent panel to History panel , fixed [COST] in Inventory menu which i previously fixed by just writing 10L$ but now its [COST] again which will be converted to 10L$ after the Viewer got the prices (i know i could have left 10L$ and instead remove the check code , thats unnecessenary code as those 10L$ upload fee will most likely never change)
oh and...something special... i fixed the Volume Pulldown , it will appear below the button again , not correctly centered but it appears below it! , will fix it that it will show up centered next time ... atlast its usable again! but it only works (Captain Obvious stating the obvious now) for objects you have taken on the SIM you are on. There must NOT be a relog inbetween this take action and your try to restore it!
Misc:
I remember someone suggesting me the restore to last position feature of other Viewers.... so i reactivated it ... yes , it was there... all the time... it was just deactivated because of a DEV-XXXXX Jira entry , i dont know what this DEV Jira entry said as it is not available anymore , but hey! we got the feature back!
NOTE: This release contains OpenMP again! This time i included the vcomp100.dll in order to prevent the missing error message and the need for you to download it manually
Release ...again too late...
Interface:
Interface, interface , interface.... its in nearly every post ... becaaaaauuuuse its one of the core parts of the Viewer that constantly and most obviously changes , this time i worked on some bugfixes and a bit of help.
The probably best , especially for newcomers and people that are confused by the different keyboard layout by default, you all will now be presented by this screen on the first run , asking you which overall Viewer layout you want to use for my Viewer
I´ve also "fixed" the mini locationbar which auto resized depending on the text and icons , i´ve taken that behavior out and made it go from left to right , that renders the need to hide those controls up there obselete, as they can now still be seperatly hidden
On the way while doing some things i also added the missing Object Profile option into the pie menu
When aborting a TP , your Field of View and Glow will also reset to normal values again , thanks to Penny Patton for telling me
Oh... and Group notes notifiers have been changed , previously they displayed Sendername / Groupname , that often looked like this then [niranv.dean / nirans vie...] ... it cuts because the notifier is not big enough , so how to solve that without making it bigger?! its simple , do what i did to online notifications aswell! make it appear in two lines!
NOTE: those are made with my Viewer! and arnt after edited , its something i was busy half the week but its just too buggy to take that into release...sorry , even if it looks awesome
Changelog:
1.35
fixed abort TP causes glow strenght and fov to stay as it was while TPing instead of reverting
tweaked Group notes header layout to be better readable
tweaked Group notes text and attachment layout
tweaked Topinfobar to be resized from far left to far right
added OpenMP Support again and this time with vcomp100.dll :)
added missing Object profile menu entry to Pie menu
added Gameplay style selector to login screne on first start
translated Bubblechat color text
STORM-1841 Provide improved flow for selling objects in world - self Fixed
Sorry that i promised this Release for yesterday....i fell asleep
well and then i used the bit of extra time to quickly fix some things and record a video =D
User Interface:
Im working on a Secret Project , some might have seen some snapshots already so its probably not that secret anymore... anyway...if i manage to get it working it will be fun i think , it will also support people to try and experiment more
i also fixed the SSFUI dependance of the "enable left-click sit" feature ... sorry for those whose IM/Group headers didnt show up...
oh and someone suggested adding a RLVa main menu toggle so i added that one too to the RLVa main menu
Minimap:
The Minimap will now act a little bit different , previously "double click tp" on minimap always rendered "double click opens world map" unusable and overwrote it , now its vise versa , whenever you enable "double click opens world map" , "double click tp" will be overwritten and therefor the world map will open when you double click the minimap , with "double click opens world map" disabled it will behave like it was previously - will TP you at that spot
Inspectors:
We all know them or did atlast see them once , those small thingies popping up when you hover your mouse over Objects (must be enabled) or Avatars which will show their name and a small (?) icon , which will when clicked , reveal a "mini profile" and some options and buttons , in which i now added the abbility to copy the Avatars SLURL and Name aswell as fixed the copy UUID, all 3 of them will work now! awesome
Crash Tests:
Well....i guess this explains itself...
for those it doesnt explain itself: i asked a few people for help in Second Beta Group , i asked them if they got some....crashing tools and could try them at me, i also asked some friends... and well no one managed to crash me nor log me out...
TPV:
When i get my parcel on Hippo Hollow (Open Source Sandbox) i will put up this Bunker there which i will then fill with Terminals for Videos , Informations , Tutorials and maybe even test chambers for "advanced" graphic features xD ...Welcome to Test Chamber 5 Subject # XYZ....reminds me of Portal...
Translations:
I fixed up some translations i totally borked and added a few more missing like the right click menu on toolbars
Teleport:
i added a nice zoom/glow warp effect to the teleportation , see it in action here
Snapshots:
The usual Snapshot things :)
DOWNLOAD Sourceforge is down atm... may take some while
Changelog:
1.34
fixed IM/Chroup Notifications depending on enable left-click sit fixed Other Devices button beeing out of the panel fixed Fix button for chat not beeing clickable fixed wrong name for Allow Display Names translation fixed keyboard layout stranslations fixed wrong naming and translation for Avatar keeps position option fixed copy SLURL, UUID and Name in Inspectors for Avatars tweaked IM/Group Notification headers to allow a bit longer names before cutting them tweaked length of on/offline notifications to allow longer names without going into second line tweaked Doubleclick open world map/teleport option order tweaked login Appname label added Glow/Zoom effect on TP added RLVa toggle to RLVa Main menu added second Inventory Window shortcut again added requires restart label to keyboard layout updated special thanks and contributions translated right click toolbar menus MAINT-813 FIXED crash when trying to access the region info after viewer disconnect. STORM-1842 Don't save per-account settings if login not fully successfull
