With this release we bring you Pathfinding documentation, tools and scripting functions in Firestorm, as well as an RLVa 1.4.7 update, more crash fixes, stability and performance improvements and a bunch of new features too! New in 4.2.2.29837 - Skin improvements to Starlight, Vintage, Metaharper, FS High Contrast and Ansastorm. Firestorm Viewer - The Phoenix Firestorm Project Inc. Firestorm is to Virtual Worlds what Firefox and Google Chrome are to the Internet. We develop and distribute an open source viewer for accessing Virtual Worlds. Firestorm 6.4.13 (63251) RELEASE! March 16, 2021 Jessica Lyon. Firestorm 6.4.13 (63251) RELEASE! Firestorm Holiday Party! 10th Anniversary Party! Firestorm Project Turns 10! Firestorm 6.4.5—EEP Public Beta! Firestorm Update 6.3.9.58205! KittyCatS CareKitty! Mankind Tracer returning to SL!
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Description
Firestorm is a community development project headed by The Phoenix Firestorm Project Incorporated as an alternative viewer for Second Life. Our primary goal is to improve the user experience with new features while extending usability, functionality and flexibility of the Viewer 3 code base. Our secondary goal is to lessen the learning curve for users migrating from older V1 viewers, while still being easily accessible to users of Linden Lab's latest viewer offerings. We package contributions from various community developers along with code from Linden Lab and of course ourselves to bring you a quality, feature-rich viewer experience backed up by a large volunteer support team available 24/7 in various languages. More information on support can be found from our website. Documentation here http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=firestorm and Tutorial Videos here http://youtube.com/user/PhoenixViewerSL
Feature list
Above and beyond the standard V2 features like multi attachments/tattoo layers/av physics, Media on a prim, shadow capability.. etc...
- Separate text entry for bottom chat bar and nearby chat
- Option to have group notices in the top right
- Mesh upload (including fix for CTS-627:Mesh upload crashes Linux)
- Spell Check Feature
- Beacons show in mouselook
- CTRL+H brings up chat history in mouselook
- CTRL+I brings up inventory in mouselook
- CTRL+T brings up conversations window in mouselook
- Local bitmap browser
- Spam blocker
- Script count from right click
- LSL Preprocessor
- Right click > Script options
- Texture refresh from right click
- Option to view Web Profiles or In-world Profiles
- Optional channel box in chat window for speaking to scripts
- Text search to Notecards
- Cam to on minimap
- Option to always add attachments instead of wearing them
- Inventory search: Multiple substring filters separated by '+'
- Ability to move folders from outside of root inventory
- Invite to group from profile or people tab
- Client-side visible hint for typing avatars
- Zoom in Mouselook with Right mouse button
- Easy toggle on/off of name tag display in Quick prefs
- Quick access to inventory filters next to inventory/recent/worn tabs
- Ability to fly over 4096m
- Day Cycle Slider in Quickprefs
- Option to display World Map without the text alongside it
- More compact conversation floater
- Inventory allows multi-selected items to pull up properties
- Improved Environment Settings Floater to minimise wasted space
- Ability to auto-clear red Map Marker after TPing
- Ability to adjust a worn attachment's position values in the edit window
- Keyboard shortcuts for Sunrise & Midnight
- Opensim hop protocol
- Optional Pie menu or Context right click menus.
- Color and opacity options for Pie menu
- Brand new built in AO
- Brand new built in full range Radar with lots of options
- Radar can report when an avatar enters or leaves draw distance and/or chat range
- Extra Estate Management tools
- Growl support
- Estate/parcel management tools in radar right click menus
- Region/parcel information in menu bar (optional)
- Lots of skin customization options and changes from LL V2
- V1 style Communicate window
- Ability to close floater windows
- Ability to show/hide ALL windows via bottom bar buttons
- Viewer remembers window state/locations on relogs
- Several additional skins with side tabs and without side tabs options
- Additional Graphics settings and options
- Seperate Movie/Music stream controls
- Ability to quickly open locations for crash logs, settings, cache, chat logs etc.
- Greater camera freedom
- V1 style Dialogs in top right of window
- V1 style nearby chat
- V1 style profile windows, ability to open multiple profiles
- Vertical side tabs for IM's
- Show look-at, and selection crosshairs beacons
- Hide my look-at, and selection crosshairs beacons
- Allow multiple viewer instances
- Allow login to other grids (has known issues)
- RLVa
- Disable TP screens, log in and log out screens
- Disable TP Sounds
- Rez objects under land group
- Filter duplicate landmarks on world map
- Ability to not send av physics to server
- Display name/user name options for displaying and sorting in multiple lists like friend list, radar etc
- Clicking your av keeps camera position option
- Disable minimum camera zoom distance
- Allow camera to move without constraints through prims
- Minimap rotation options
- Role Play Chat options
- Friend on/offline notices to nearby chat
- Show IM's in chat console
- Use full screen width for chat console
- Group moderators can be shown in bold text
- Disable all group chats
- When receive group notices is disabled, disables group chat as well
- Keyword alerts
- Improved Area Search
- Command line options for chat bar (not all functions work yet)
- Shared Parcel Windlight
- New Bridge for improved viewer functionality
- Window size presets for Machinima makers
- KDU for greater performance, stability, and reliability in decoding images
- Configurable Auto responses to IM's
- Snapshots can upload directly to your Flickr account
- Set Default upload permissions
- Improved Camera control and movement control windows
- Separated Media/music stream controls
- Media Filter for your security
- Prim Alignment tool
- Inventory collapse/expand buttons
- Inventory right click> wear and replace/add outfits on inventory folders
- Cut/copy/paste on text editors like notecards, chat windows, scripts etc.
- Worn tab in inventory
- Ability to hide bottom chat bar via unrestricted resize
- Dragable group notices
- Group UUID and Link copy button for groups
- User UUID's in their profiles
- Stream artist song and artist information in chat
- All builds are Large Address Aware for systems with greater than 2 gig memory
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Part II.
For those interested in the back story behind why we had to pull the 4.2.1 release, have a read on Tonya's latest blog post. If you installed the 4.2.1 release we recommend you update to this one and we apologize for the inconvenience!
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With this release we bring you Pathfinding documentation, tools and scripting functions in Firestorm, as well as an RLVa 1.4.7 update, more crash fixes, stability and performance improvements and a bunch of new features too!
New in 4.2.2.29837
- Skin improvements to Starlight, Vintage, Metaharper, FS High Contrast and Ansastorm.
- New windlight sky settings, including Ambient Dark, Grey and White and a new Tron Legacy series.
- Added pathfinding LSL functions from Linden Lab.
- Ability to disable group chat on a per-group basis!
- Snapshot uploads to Flickr (thanks to Katharine Berry and Exodus Viewer for that work).
- Temp uploads from snapshot floater.
- Cool new SLurl command line feature!- New toolbar buttons for ground sit, sound explorer, asset blacklist.
- Our own less intrusive 'Rebake terrain' button next to no build/no script/no push icons in menu/nav bar.
- Improved AO handling with other animating inworld objects.
- Ability to join our support group from Help menu.
- lots more!
OpenSim specific
- LSL Bridge disabled on OpenSim.
- Grid manager help link and docu on login page.
- Group creation cost corrected.
Phoenix Firestorm Viewer Downloads
- Mapto command now working in OSgrid.
- Upload cost amounts corrected.For complete release notes, including new features, fixes, improvements, changes and known issues please see our change log here:
http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/firestorm_release_4.2.2.29837_change_log
Please note: As usual we highly recommend performing a clean install.
We may be a little while before our next release since it's going to require considerable work, like merging to LL's latest code, Havok, setting up our separate builds for SL/OpenSim, and most importantly... stabilizing all that new stuff.
Enjoy the update!
The Phoenix Firestorm Project, Inc.
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