Sunday, 23 October 2011

Firestorm - By Lazy Bluxome

Ok, so I've been a bit lazy lately and been slacking off on my posts.

I want to talk about some of my favourite outfits, but first I'm gonna talk about SL viewers.

Like a significant proportion of SL's residents, I don't use the official Linden Labs viewer. When I first joined I used Emerald, but after privacy concerns were raised I switched to Imprudence, and then onto Phoenix, which became the most popular third party viewer on the grid.

Phoenix is a very good viewer, but the team behind it have another viewer too, Firestorm, based on Linden Labs Viewer 2/3 (rather than viewer 1.23 like Phoenix)

It's still in Beta, but after trying it for testing, its become my new mainline viewer.

There are still a few features to add, but it has some great features that make it worth using.

  • Outfits panel - Separate to the inventory, has an easy list of each outfit created, along with their components.
  • Multi Attach - The ability to attach more than one prim part to the same point on your avatar. Phoenix has this too, but won't do it automatically with outfits.
  • Multi Layers - A big one, you can have multiple items of clothing on the same layer, and the viewer remembers the order you put them on, so if you have a bikini top that the creator put on the jacket layer, you can still add another jacket layer over it. It also allows multi tatoo layers, which I need to be able to wear lipstick, a hairbase and eyebrow layers (and more) all at once.
  • Multiple inventory windows - great for sorting the inventory


There are plenty of other advantages, and plenty of things that are annoying (like the search), but it's looking good so far. :)

Edit: Awesome : http://phoenixviewer.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-so-quiet.html

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