Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Firestorm Released

The Phoenix Firestorm Viewer has finally moved from Beta to Release! The team behind the Phoenix and Firestorm viewers ( http://www.phoenixviewer.com/ ) made the announcement a couple of days ago and I've been spending what spare time I had on doing clean installs on my two PC's and Laptop.

I've still only had a chance to tweak settings and get things set up, but it's going well so far. I can finally switch on shadows, ambient occlusion, and depth of field with my Radeon HD6970 (something only my old GTX260 could do in the mesh beta) it seems faster in general too.

The bug that stopped me from saving changes to an outfit while the bridge was attached is gone.

Not everyone is finding improvements in framerate though, there are some open gl problems with the latest nvidia cards/drivers apparently but I don't have the kit to experience that firsthand.

This viewer will allow you to view Mesh items properly (joining V2/3, dolphin, & CoolVL et al). The team promise a mesh compatible version of Phoenix to follow soon.

I like it, you should try it.

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