The long awaited update to the Second Life avatar skeleton, nicknamed Project Bento, has been in beta for over a year now. On the 5th of December this year, the project was finally pushed to the live version of the Second Life viewer. Project Bento offers additional bones to the…
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Third Party Viewers for Second Life – An updated look
It has been a while since we wrote about third party viewers here on The Torch. A lot of old ones have been updated and a few new ones have popped up. Here’s what’s on the menu at the moment. Alchemy Alchemy viewer has been around for about 2 years…
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New magic ~ Viewer managed Marketplace
Direct Delivery returns but not the magic boxes. At the Third Party Viewer meeting on 10th of this month, linden Labs announced that they would be modifying market place. The changes will take effect for the end user in first quarter 2015. The first beta change for a few merchants…
Read MoreSecond Life Server Update
If you are a part of Second Life, you’ll need to update your viewers this week. Earlier this week Linden Labs began to the changes for their project Sunshine. It allows avatars to load quicker, according to the Second Life Community Website: Project Sunshine stands up a Texture Compositing server…
Read MoreThoughts from the Cyberverse – Jessica Lyons defense of Firestorm 4.4.0
Disclaimer: This post contains subjective opinions from the author, Morphman The Clown. There has been some talk about the latest release of Firestorm viewer being unstable and full of bugs and debates have gone into flamewar territory. Jessica Lyon, project leader of the Firestorm project, wrote a message to the…
Read MoreSL Viewer Walktrhough – Starting at the top, V3 Walkthrough
So you want to get into Second Life? Well, for that you need a client to run Second Life from, in addition to an account. The client is called a Viewer and in the next few weeks I am going to try and explain the difference between different viewers for you,…
Read MoreExodus of SL
Exodus is one of the newest additions to the SL Third Party Viewers and it’s with mixed feelings I do this review. It is still in beta, so there will be changes before the final release. The interface is a slimmed down version of the Viewer 3, with a few notable…
Read MoreThird Party Viewer policy change from LL puts third party viewers at risk
At 2pm PST yesterday (friday 2/24) Linden Labs announced that they will change the policy for third party viewers. This change brings a lot of discussion material to the table, as they seem to want to eliminate all third party viewers without actually ban them. The most discussed change is…
Read MorePhoenix Firestorm 3.2 is OUT!
Love Mesh? Love Phoenix? Love Firestorm? Well Phoenix Firestorm 3.2 has been released, following a few weeks after Linden Labs’ own Viewer 3.2, which got rid of the Basic and Advance Menus (Thank GOD!). While the previous Phoenix Firestorm Viewer Mesh was a beta, this is, according the Phoenix Viewer…
Read MoreMesh Viewers – Where are they?
We have talked a lot about what mesh is, but not how you can experience it. Therefore I’ve taken the liberty of compiling this list of mesh-able viewers for you, just click the name for a link to the download page. Viewer3 The standard SL viewer from Linden Labs. Great…
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