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In the epic tradition of me promising to followup when wishes come true… With the Viewer 2.4 Beta comes with the exciting, long-awaited GRADUATION of several “advanced” features to SUPPORTED* status, as denoted by their inclusion in the PREFERENCES window (instead of being buried obscurely under-the-hood).   You may know a lot of my video [...]

I won’t mince words, and I know it’s human to feel this way: IT SUCKS WHEN HELP EXISTS AND YOU CAN’T FIND IT. You search, it doesn’t turn up. You manually browse, you attack the darkness, still doesn’t come out. You’re all like “Double-you-tee-eff!!!!!” until a helpful fellow Resident points out that there’s a broken [...]

Along with general usability touch-ups, Viewer 2.2 also brings a builder-friendly feature, useful in situations like making a single texture appear cohesive across several prims. Esbee summarizes this as: Builders can more easily align textures across linked prims using planar mapping:  This feature allows builders to align textures across faces so that  several prims can [...]

Sharing is caring, right? Well, it’s not if you accidentally drag your gift into your house’s floorboards. True Second Life story I’ve heard many times over — but those drag-ang-drop mishaps are fading into the sunset because MUCH EASIER INVENTORY GIVING is possible in Viewer 2.1. While a Share button initially appeared in Viewer 2.0′s [...]