I was wondering how to fix my control settings as the way Firestorm has it because I really do love this viewer for pictures and most of all videos. I was wondering how to fix my control settings as the way Firestorm has it because I really do love this viewer for pictures and most of all videos. Black Dragon Viewer Forum. Information: This Forum is long dead, please do not register here or use it.

There's a new update to Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer with a cult following due to its amazing graphics and fast frame rate. Creator NiranV Dean lays out the top highlights here:

Besides fixing the broken group chat behavior options, a crash when trying to toggle borderless window mode off while in login screen, enter key not working properly in keybinding dialogs among some other minor things this update comes with a revamped Media-on-a-Prim floater.

So mostly minor technical fixes. The major reason for trying out Black Dragon, as always, is if you got a PC powerful enough to handle it, the viewer makes Second Life look like what you're seeing above (also shot by NiranV) -- a AAA videogame on the order of Fallout 4 or perhaps more appropriate a comparison in this case, the Dead Space series.

Hi I recently been trying to download the Black dragon viewer and every time I run it and install I click to open and it tells me I cannot open the file, I don’t know why and I’m not sure what else to try to get it to work my pc is Windows 10 and I’m not sure if that’s the problem or what, but I. As a viewer that is know for its great graphical capabilities especially for Machinima, I think this would be a worthwhile feature to leave in, even with its flaws. Maybe a popup appears when you check up the option for high res snapshot, saying just what you said about seams. And I am sure there are others who would like the return of it as well.

Yes, Second Life has a comparable experience to those horror sci-fi games:

It's called, of course, Dead Space, which has existed in some form for around a decade, and according to recent reports, now exists in Gibson, SL's oldest cyberpunk sim. (Yes, named after William.)

Black Dragon Viewer Tutorial

• 1Linden Lab Viewers
• 2Third Party Directory Viewers
• 3Other Third Party Viewers
  • 3.1Graphical Viewers
  • 3.2Text-Only Viewers

The following viewer is available on the official Downloads page:

Second Life Viewer (a.k.a. the official Viewer, regular Viewer, official viewer etc.)

Official Alternate Viewers

When Linden Lab viewer projects are nearing release they will often initially release a Project Viewer, and subsequently a Release Candidate Viewer (marked as 'Release') as they are nearing formal release. Occasionally a Beta Viewer may also be released for a particular project.

Linden Lab Official:Alternate Viewers

All the various official alternate viewers are listed here.

Development Viewer

Features and fixes that are still warm from the creative fires of development.

Old Releases

The Release Notes pages for many past versions contain links to the corresponding downloads. Note that some of these may be blocked from accessing the Second Life Grid because of their lack of support for new features.

Using third party viewers

You may connect to Second Life using software released by a third-party developer. Linden Lab provides a Policy on Third-Party Viewers to promote a positive and predictable experience for all Second Life Residents. Beware of third-party viewers that are not in the Viewer Directory: they have either declined to self-certify their compliance with Linden Lab policies or been refused for noncompliance with the policies.

Active Full Viewers

These viewers are projects that are updated regularly to track new developments in the Linden Lab viewer, and implement a full graphical environment.

Subset Viewers

These viewers omit some aspects of the full viewer functionality.

For developers: how to apply to list a viewer in this directory

1. Your Second Life accounts must be in good standing, must not be suspended, and must not have been permanently banned or terminated.
2. You must have valid payment information on file with us or have been age verified by us.
3. Review our Policy on Third-Party Viewers and the Second Life Terms of Service.
4. Make sure you and your third-party viewer are in compliance with our policies.
5. Open an Application Issue in the Third Party Viewer section of Jira and submit it.

Reporting policy violations

If you believe that you have direct evidence that any third party viewer (whether listed in the Third Party Viewer Directory or not) may be in violation of the Second Life Terms of Service or the Policy on Third Party Viewers, you can file a violation report to be investigated.

Whether or not a viewer developer chooses to self-certify by applying for listing in the directory, all viewers connecting to Second Life must comply with the Policy on Third-Party Viewers; listing in the directory is not a requirement.

Note to authors: If you make a viewer available make sure to include platform, version numbers and dates.

1. ↑ ^1.01.11.21.3'X': Available with binary distribution

Graphical Viewers

Cool VL Viewer

Description

This viewer was created and is maintained by Henri Beauchamp (This viewer was formerly known as the 'Cool SL Viewer' and its first public release was v1.18.4.3, released on 2007-11-16). It combines elements of several of the other viewers, as well as extra features, bug fixes and extra patches, all very carefully tested.

It puts emphasis on high UI coherency from one version to the other (meaning no bad surprise for 'old timers') while staying in sync with Linden Lab's official viewer features, high stability and reliability, and a high reactivity to new patches and bug fixes provided by the Open Source community.

The Cool VL Viewer is TPV policy compliant. Please see its TPV TOS.

Extra Features

• Reverses many of the unpopular interface changes, restoring separate friends and groups floaters and reinstating the packet loss and bandwidth indicators, the old toolbar and buttons layouts, the old/normal commands layout in the pie menus, the 'All(old)' search tab, the old style (name-sortable) 'Groups' search tab, the 'Fly' button in the movement controls floater, and optionally reinstating the old, more visible, status bar icons and/or tracking dots in the mini-map, and the old chat history floater (without chat input line). Also fixes some UI regressions (missing buttons in some floaters, or visited landmarks tracking in inventory for example).
• Implements the 'RestrainedLove' API (formerly known as 'RestrainedLife'), based on Marine Kelley's reference patch (switchable and disabled by default).
• Allows to configure the date and time formats to match your locale or personal preferences (including with optional seconds for chat and IM timestamps).
• Allows to wear/remove attachments and clothing items on double-click in inventory.
• Allows to optionally prevent notifications to show and be logged in the main chat.
• Allows to disable typing sounds.
• MUD/MUSH/MUCK/MUX style 'poses' (i.e. you can type ':' instead of '/me ' to emote), and OOC double parenthesis auto-close (i.e. you can type: '((phone, BRB' and it will show as '((phone, BRB))').
• Allows to hide the 'Master volume' when not needed in the panel overlay.
• Allows to build large prims (up to 256m in any or all dimensions) on OpenSim (not on SL, because of server-side limitations).
• Improved friends list floater (with info about what your friends allow you to see: tehri online status and/or their position on the map).
• Improved build tools floater (smaller increments in several parameters, extra 'slice' parameter for some prims, transparency up to 100%, check box toggle for drag distance limit, adjustable number of decimals in Object tab for the position/size/rotation parameters, 'Align' tool). Also allows to set the 'invisible' texture from the texture picker (for invisi-prims).
• Improved texture preview floater (with aspect ratio combo).
• Improved notecard floater (with Edit menu and Search/replace feature).
• Improved mini-map with panning, larger zooming range, specific symbol for avatars above 1024m (work around for a limitation of current server and viewer versions), etc...
• Improved beacons: can filter beacons based on owner (you, others or anyone), can highlight attachments, can dissociate non-object sound sources, can keep beacons 'always on' even when the beacons floater is closed.
• Allows to export and import objects you own and created as XML files (for backup and restore purpose, or to transfer objects from one grid to another).
• Allows to connect to all existing grids (and not only LL's) from the login screen.
• Allows network bandwidth up to 10000Kbps.
• Allows to save/compile scripts present in the inventory as Mono scripts.
• Allows to teleport to double-clicked locations on screen.
• Allows to sit anywhere 'on the ground'.
• Allows to adjust the Z offset (height above the floor) for playing animations.
• Allows to cache the inventory in the background after login (for faster inventory operations).
• Allows to preview animations on your avatar prior to uploading them.
• Implements a group titles floater.
• Implements a radar floater.
• Implements a teleports history floater.
• Implements a 'Worn' tab in the inventory floater, and a search/filter by item name, description or creator.
• Implements 'speed rezzing' on login and TPs.
• Implements an object 'area search' floater.
• Implements spell-checking.
• Implements a resizable text input floater (for para-RPers).
• Implements the newest LSL functions, highlighting them properly (with tooltips) in the script editor and allowing to compile them. Also implements fully llTextBox() and the AGENT_AUTOPILOT flag with llGetAgentInfo().
• Allows to ignore (and not only decline) friendship and calling card offers.
• Allows to change how minimized floaters are stacked (top/bottom, bottom/top, left/right, right/left, fraction of the screen width to use for the stack).
• Shows avatar keys in profile (in 'My notes' tab).
• Shows the avatar true height in the appearance floater.
• Renders properly objects worn on the illegal attachment points defined in some hacked third parties viewers.
• Provides Mesh rendering support.
• Provides Mesh upload support.
• Provides full support for the new Alpha and Tattoo wearables.
• Provides multi-layered clothes support.
• Provides inventory item links support.
• Provides multiple attachments per point support.
• Provides display names support.
• Provides navmesh and path-finding objects support and tools.
• Provides full shared media (AKA 'media on a prim') support.
• Provides server-side baking support.
• Provides materials support.
• Provides ribbon particles support.
• Provides fitted mesh support.
• Provides GetMesh2 capability support (i.e. with the new llcorehttp-based mesh data fetching).
• Provides AISv3 capability support.
• Provides LL's viewer-interesting new objects caching scheme.
• Provides group-ban support.
• Provides full Experiences and XP-Tools support.
• Provides Avatar Hover Height support.
• Provides Marketplace Listings support.
• Provides global clothing layers limit (60 in total instead of 5 for each of the 12 types) support.
• Provides the new mesh uploader/importer code.
• Provides CEF3 media plugin support.
• Uses LL's viewer-azumarill's coroutine-based LLCore HTTP code (with all the many nasty crash bugs fixed).
• Provides the new avatar complexity based visual auto-muting (AKA 'jellydolls').
• Provides Avatar Physics support.
• Provides the new SL web search engine as an option.
• Provides access to web profiles.
• Provides support for setting the new parcel flags (avatar visibility, sounds playing restrictions).
• Provides Lightshare (OpenSim feature) support !
• Allows to filter (Allow/Deny/BlackList/Whitelist) media and audio streams URLs to protect your privacy against IP snatchers.
• Many bugfixes by Henri Beauchamp, Nicholaz Beresford, Gigs Taggart, McCabe Maxsted and others.
• More minor features and improvements, to be discovered on the website...
• All switchable extra features easily configurable via a 'Cool features' tab in the preferences floater.
• Provides Bento-skeleton (AKA avatar v2.0) support.
• Provides support for the new HTTP fetching of assets.
• Provides Animesh support.
• Provides LSL and Lua scripts preprocessing.
• Exclusive: provides Lua scripting/automation support !
• NEW: provides avatar baked textures on attachments (AKA 'bake on mesh') and new Universal wearable support (including in OpenSim) !
• NEW: provides Extended Environment assets and parcel/region settings support (with EE to Windlight parcel environment conversion/rendering and with dual (!) EE and WL renderer) !
• NEW: provides optional (i.e. can be recompiled for) Animesh visual parameters support !

Links

• Website: The Cool VL Viewer homepage
• Message board: Cool VL Viewer forum
• Linux viewer: see the download section on the Cool VL Viewer homepage for files and installation instructions.
• Windows viewer: see the download section on the Cool VL Viewer homepage for files and installation instructions.
• macOS viewer: see the macOS Announcement forum for files and instructions.
• Source code: see the download section on the Cool VL Viewer homepage.
• Screen shots: Key features and screen shots

Version and timestamp

• Current stable version: 1.28.2.23 Date: 2021-05-15
• Status: Active.

Hippo OpenSim Viewer

Description

The Hippo OpenSim Viewer is a modified Second Life viewer, targeted at OpenSim users. It allows building up to a height of 10,000 meters, scaling prims up to 256 x 256 x 256 meters and other exciting features. More specific OpenSim features are under development.The last developer blog commented: Releasing Hippo OpenSim Viewer Version 0.6.3. This release adds a Windows uninstaller and small changes to comply to the Linden Lab Policy on Third-Party Viewers.

Availability Is currently available for Linux and Windows.

Links

• Website: http://mjm-labs.com/viewer/

Version and timestamp

• Version: 0.6.3
• Platforms:
  • Binary available for Windows and Linux
  • Source available (unspecified)
• Date: April 24, 2010
• Status: Discontinued, website offline.

Meerkat

Goals

• To create a fully GPL viewer (no proprietary dependencies)
• To encourage a community of developers that will submit patches for prompt integration
• To have the freedom to make the sort of changes that Linden Lab has traditionally been unable to integrate (translation patches, refactoring, fixing intentionally crippled features, changes that touch many files)
• To retain compatibility with Linden Lab's grid and protocols, present and future
• To implement a loosely coupled cross-grid functionality that requires no central authentication authority.

Extra Features

• Log out and back in without quitting
• Loosely coupled intergrid teleport -- In Process
• Most of the other changes common to third party viewers

Links

• Website: Meerkat Viewer (note: the Meerkat site is down)
• Direct download link: Download versions of this viewer
• Source code: svn checkout http://meerkat-viewer.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ meerkat

Version and timestamp

• Version : 0.2.x
• Date : September 6, 2009
• Status : Discontinued, website offline. Source and binary downloads still available on google code (see above).

Nicholaz Edition

Description

These are Windows viewer based on SL builds with a focus on stability, usability and performance (see Installation.txt for homebrew disclaimer). Mac and Linux variants are available through other open sourcers (links on the website).

Extra Features

• Improved stability.
• Lower memory footprint.
• GUI redesigns.
• Workarounds for common annoyances. (Group IM Filtering, 'Release Key' button, etc.)
• see this entry for an overview of different versions.

Links

• Website: Nicholaz Beresford on Blogspot
• Direct download link: Download versions of this viewer
• Source code: Look at the download site for the source-xxx-zip files in the respective folders and see the readme.txt inside the archives

Version and timestamp

• Date: September 7, 2009
• Status: Discontinued

Onrez Viewer

Description

The Onrez viewer was made by the Onrez company in connection with a Second Life themed story on the high tech forensics based TV show 'CSI: New York'.

Extra Features

• A back and history button for teleports
• In-viewer web browsing.

Comment The source code for this viewer is closed source.

Version and timestamp

• Status : Discontinued, download no longer available.

Rainbow Viewer / Cool Viewer

Description

Based on the offical SecondLife sourcecode licensed under GPL2, this speedy Metaverse Client can connect you to a huge variety of exciting Virtual Worlds! It incorporates a lot of improved, new, up- and backported features and fixes that make the fast and rock stable RV/CV the client of choice for many users.

This viewer includes many patches and changes from a lot of different people and sources which I am very grateful to be able to use. Credits are given to everyone I know, in case I missed someone I sincerely apologize.

Rainbow / Cool are TPV compliant.

Thanks to Henri Beauchamp who laid the foundation for this viewer with his Cool SL Viewer. Special thanks to Winter Ventura for the Cool Viewer logo and Jacek Antonelli and Peter Stindberg for the Rainbow Viewer logo :). And to all the others who helped and supported me, especially the people involved and behind Imprudence!

Some incomprehensive list of features

A major improvement is an up-to-date OpenGL implementation that especially helps users plagued by ATI's Catalyst drivers but also leads to measurable improvements of overall graphics performance by 30...100% compared to the official viewer; depending on your system. Rainbow Viewer features the current user interface whereas Cool Viewer spots the leaner cleaner and more configurable legacy UI. It's all about choice :).

• New 1.22.12.0 code baseline
• CV's legacy User interface with a clean, simple and userfriendly layout or Rainbow Viewers current official UI, you choose!
• Improved Graphics rendering, especially for ATI users (measured > 1/3 faster than the official viewer)
• Alpha and Tattoo Layer support from Second Life Viewer 2.x
• Updated tested list of Virtual World grids
• Marine Kelley's RestrainedLove (off per default)
• Full Adult Compliance
• Redesigned and 'up-ported' search functionality, probably the best search in any viewer nowadays
• Enhanced Breast Physics
• Temporary texture and animation upload
• Better inventory search for content, description and creator
• Low lag radar and AV management tools
• Viewer skinning
• Object and Shape export/import, limited to creator
• Bulk permission editing
• Last owner display to track content theft
• 'Worn' tab in inventory
• Double click to wear attachments
• Enhanced building tools
• Flexible Sculpties
• Large Prims (currently only for Opensim grids due to SL limitations)
• Maximized Network Bandwidth
• Flexible Grid selection at login for SL and all OpenSims
• Teleport History and speedy doubleclick teleport
• Avatar UUID in profiles
• Features tab in Preferences for easy switching of features
• Optimized latest OpenJPEG 1.3
• A large number of other goodies and stability fixes that improve your overall experience. Please check the Release Notes for details.

Links

• Website: Rainbow Viewers for Virtual Worlds
• Direct download link: Binary versions on Google Code
• Source code: Sources on Github

Version and timestamp

• Rainbow Viewer 1.22.12 R7
• Rainbow Viewer Cool Edition (Cool Viewer) 1.22.12 R13
• Rainbow Viewer Netbook Edition Version 1.2 (speedy pre-Windlight 1.19.0.5)
• Date: July 10, 2011
• Status: Active

RealXtend Edition

Description

The realXtend viewer is a heavily modified version of the Linden Lab's Second Life client by a partnership of two Finnish companies, ADMINO technologies and LudoCraft.

The successor to the realXtend viewer is Naali (release 0.4.0 on 21st January 2011, download from http://code.google.com/p/realxtend-naali/downloads/list).

Extra Features

Links

• Website: http://www.realxtend.org/
• Direct download link: http://www.realxtend.org/downloads.html
• Source code: http://sourceforge.net/projects/realxtendviewer/

Version and timestamp

• Version: 0.4.2
• Date: September 24, 2009
• Status: Discontinued, replaced by Naali.

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Combat Cubed

Description

This client is aimed mostly at the SL Military, but sports quite a few interesting improvements that make it worth taking a look at.

Originally known as Vertical Life.

Major Features

• Enhanced Look & Feel, for example flexible camera movement
• Prototype Script API, secure and parallel
• Slimmed down for FPS combat
• Identification, Friend versus Foe, mostly under the hood now but soon exposed

Links

• Splash: http://bit.ly/cXOcDX

Version and timestamp

• Version: 1.0
• Date: June 16, 2010
• Status: Active

TEKSTUFF Viewers

Description

The TEKSTUFF viewers are created to enable Youtube movies on TEKSTUFF media screens inside Second Life. The TEKSTUFF viewers are slight modifications of already available viewers like the regular SL 1.23.5 viewer and the Emerald 1634 viewer. Apart from that, the Emerald based viewer is fixed so it can be used in Opensim grids as well.

Links

• Web presence: http://www.tekstuff.net/

TODO

• Make a Linux viewer
• Make a Mac OS viewer

Major Features

• All the functionality of the viewer it was based upon (Linden Lab 1.23.5 or Emerald 1634)
• Will allow you to view Youtube movies on TEKSTUFF media screens
• The Emerald based viewer can also be used in OpenSim grids (texture loading is fixed)

Version and timestamp

• Version: 1.23.5 (Linden Lab & Emerald)
• Date: April 20, 2010
• Status: Discontinued

Text-Only Viewers

AjaxLife

Description Browser based Second Life client, created by Katharine Berry. The only web-browser client which made it a lifeline for residents who could not use a full graphical viewer, or who could not download other text-only clients because of limitations such as corporate firewalls.

(No longer working)

Links

• Website: http://ajaxlife.net/

Version and timestamp

• Version: 0.6.1.2
• Date: May 21, 2010
• Platform: Platform-Independant
• Status: Inactive

omvviewer-light

A Text client for the 3D Metaverse

Description omvviewer-light is a text client for the 3D Metaverse including SecondLife, written from Scratch (but using the libomv library for protocol handling). It's GUI is created in Gtk# which is cross-platform making this the only current Text client that is still active and cross platform. Tested on Linux (32/64 bit) and Windows (not 64-bit windows).

Features To many to list here in detail please see the project page below but in summary, Full inventory control, Full Chat/IM/Group IM's. Object search and interaction. Realtime local maps. Parcel displays. Read and Edit NoteCards and Scripts. View profiles. Friends Lists etc .....

Links

• Website: Project page
• Source code: Source details

Version and timestamp

• Date: August 25, 2009
• Version: 0.48.0.6
• Status: Active

Whisper (SlXSLChat)

A light-weight yet feature rich text-only Second Life client

Description Whisper is a text-only Second Life client that comes in two parts. The client is written in Java (so it can run on many platforms). The client connects to a 'transport', which is written in C# and uses LibOpenMetaVerse. The idea behind this architecture is that if you don't like the client, you can write your own and not have to worry about implementing the Second Life protocol yourself. The entire project is open source and published under the GPLv3 licence.

Features

• Public chat
• Instant messaging
• Group chat
• Search/join/leave groups
• Search for avatars
• Image retrieval
• Profile retrieval
• Notifications / popups as you would get in Second Life (e.g. group notices, balance changes, inventory offers)
• Teleportation (home, to area within current sim, to nearby avatar)
• Nearby avatar tracking on map of Sim
• Autopilot navigation to nearby avatars
• URL highlighting
• Encrypted traffic between client and transport
• Transport can be run anywhere, the client connects via TCP/IP
• Client only sends MD5 hashed password to transport
• On April 20, 2010, SlXSLChat has rebranded to “Whisper”.

Links

• Website: Whisper
• SourceForce Project Page: Project Page

Version and timestamp

• Date: May 9, 2010
• Version: 1.3
• Status: Active

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SLeek

First text only viewer ever, mentioned for completeness, not actively maintained anymore. MetaBolt is based on SLeek.

SLiteChat

A Lite IM/Chat Text-only Client for Second Life

Description SLiteChat (pronounced 'slight-chat') is a completely open source text-only IM/chat client for use with Second Life. Use it to talk to your friends without having to load up all of those heavy graphic goodies. Useful for those at work times.

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Features

• Communicate in-world with people on your friends list. Full adding/removing and search for Residents supported.
• Group chat is supported (however at this writing you cannot leave a group or search for to join).
• Local chat and IM history is supported.
• Can log into other grids.

Links

• Website: Project page
• Source code: Source details

MetaPay for iPhone and iPod Touch

Send L$ with a simple to use and free iPhone App.

Description

MetaPay is a simple and fun way to send Linden Dollars from your iPhone and iPod touch for FREE! Out with friends and want to pay your part of the tab but have no cash? Use MetaPay to send L$ to your friends in Second Life® instead. Or use it to send L$ for any in-world use without firing up the full Second Life® client.

Links

• Free in the AppStore: Open in iTunes

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