The new release of Firestorm has not been without its
fans or its critics. The critics have even gotten to Firestorm project manager,
Jessica Lyon, who took to the official Firestorm blog this week to voice her frustration at
the criticism of the latest Firestorm release.
I currently use Firestorm as one of my main Second Life
viewers, Singularity being the other one that I use frequently. In the latest release, Firestorm added many
features. The biggest one was the
ability to render avatars using the new Server Side Baking process, which will
replace the old HTTP way to render avatars.
Server
Side Baking is part of the Linden Lab’s Project Shining,
which is aimed at improving avatars and object streaming speeds.
In addition to incorporating this major change, Firestorm
also has the ability to back up and restore your viewer settings, which is a
very helpful command to have, when your computer dies and you have to reinstall
Firestorm and you cannot remember all of those special settings. The Firestorm
team has also included a more streamlined and easier way to customize some of
your favorite viewer settings, by creating a Quick Preferences panel:
For all of you fashionistas out there, the new Firestorm
has a built in pose stand, which saves you the trouble of purchasing or rezzing
a pose stand, when you want to try out those new clothes in Second Life!
If you are a Second Life photo enthusiast and regularly
find people who are blocking those perfect photos, then Firestorm has a
solution! The viewer has a temporary derender option, where you can derender
objects or other avatars as invisible for a short time.
Firestorm did not forget about builders and has included
new building prim parameters. Builders
can change the default object size, prim settings, the texture parameters, set
permissions, and change the pivot point of an object. Many of your favorite and
default object settings can also be found in Firestorm.
One of the biggest changes in the new Firestorm is the
drag and drop toolbar buttons. You have many toolbars which can be displayed as
icons, text labels or both in Firestorm.
If you are missing the viewer 1 search experience, then
this version of Firestorm contains viewer one and viewer 3 search capabilities.
Both legacy and web search for events, places, groups, and property are
included in the new version.
The Firestorm team, mindful of the fact that many Second
Life users also use other grids, have built an OpenSim version of the latest
version of Firestorm. The OpenSm version includes vast improvements, such as
being able to save usernames from any other grid, hypergrid jumping support,
and OpenSim Lightsharing.
If you are finding the new features of Firestorm overwhelming,
then check out the official Firestorm blog, which includes a vast user and knowledge base, tutorials,
and a great
support section. The
Firestorm team also offers in world classes and
24/7
viewer support.
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