For more on the Guidebook, please refer to: The Project UI viewer: a look at the new user Guidebook.
The new user Guidebook, as developed by Linden Lab as a part of a new user experienceThe Guidebook is access via a dedicated Toolbar Button, which if not automatically displayed in your viewer (clean installation) can be accessed by opening the Toolbar Buttons panel (right-click any button area and select Toolbar Buttons …) and then dragging the Guidebook button to your preferred button area.
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This viewer introduced the first in a series of viewer UI updates, these specifically aimed at new users, notably a new Guidebook to getting started in Second Life following sign-up, and which is intended to be used within the new Welcome Islands. UI and Voice Updates Viewer, June 2021 New Guidebook Love Me Render 5, June 2021Ī maintenance viewer focused on rendering and graphics fixes, including a number of EEP improvements. Perhaps most notable among them changes to the detection of Intel HD 25 and 400 GPUs (if running the latest drivers), that result in users of those graphics cards now being offered the 64bit version of the viewer. The Custom Key Mappings panel in Preferences Maintenance Eau de Vie, April 2021Ī further round of viewer bug fixes from Linden Lab.
This release allows users to define their own key mappings for a number of viewer functions, via Preferences → Control. This viewer introduced a less complex file caching system to save local copies of frequently used assets such as meshes, sounds and animations, but without the issues that impacted the original deployment of that viewer. No longer have any attachments or other customisations rendered and do not play animations.Are now rendered a single grey, rather than appearing in a range of solid colours and as a basic humanoid shape.
via Quick Prefs → Max Complexity slider) : Those avatars explicitly set not to render or have an Avatar Rendering Complexity (ARC) that exceeds the threshold set within the viewer (e.g. Most notably, this alters the behaviour of “jellydolled” avatars for better performance. Again, please refer to the Firestorm 6.4.21 release notes for additional details of all changes and updates in this release.įirestorm 6.4.21 incorporates updates from a number of recent Linden Lab viewer releases, as follows: Jelly Updates, February 2021.Do, however, make sure you back-up all your settings safely so you can restore them after installing 6.4.21.There is no need to perform a clean install with this release if you do not wish to.Support for clickable links to Preferences Tabs and Search Terms.Additions Via the Official UI Viewer Updates.Rather, it is an overview of those changes that will be most noticeable to the majority of users. Given this, please refer to the official release notes for a complete list of fixes and changes. Īs is usual for me, this is not a review of every individual change to be found within this latest release of Firestorm. That said, as well as fixes and updates, this release includes a number of additional and new capabilities added by the Firestorm team, and these form the focus of this overview. The majority of the updates contained within this release are from recent releases of the official viewer, with a minimal number of Firestorm-derived updates, as Firestorm continues to move closer to a quarterly cadence of releases. On Wednesday, July 28th, 2021, the Firestorm team released version 6.4.21 of their viewer.