If you're in business in Second Life, especially, my kind of business, it's always wise to protect yourself by saving your Chat and IM logs to your computer. I've posted a video showing how to do it in Firestorm, Restrained Love, the Linden Viewer and Phoenix. Be careful how you use the logs, they're for your protection and enjoyment. Sharing them with others without their permission is viewed by some as a violation of the Terms of Service. Why get into the whole debate, be safe rather than sorry...keep them private. Click on the video and view it full screen and in HD (720p)
I've created a new video about RLV, Restrained Love, for Firestorm. If you are used to using the Linden viewer 2 / 3 platform, the Phoenix team and their V3 Default setting for the viewer makes Firestorm an attractive option. If you are unsure what Restrained Love means, see my blog post here What is Restrained Love (RLV)?
Watch the video for information on where to find Firestorm and then how to activate RLV. For the best results, open the video and watch in in full screen and HD
Oh my goodness! So much good news, I may just burst. I downloaded the latest version of the Firestorm viewer, still in beta, but, now enabled for Mesh.
Besides the Mesh ability (viewers not so enabled do not see objects in mesh properly) the viewer start-up screen now gives the option to mimic V3 (the Linden viewer) or v1 (the old style interface) when you install Firestorm. If you have been following my posts, you'll know that I created a video recently that illustrated how to make the standard Firestorm viewer look like the Linden Viewer. Happily, those instructions have been made unnecessary by the developers at Firestorm...Bravo!
Another piece of news hot off the presses for you viewer 1 people is that Phoenix will have mesh support. The developers at Phoenix correctly give credit to Henri Beauchamp (Cool VL viewer developer) for this development, but, caution that it's akin to ( I love Jessica's metaphor) "putting the diesel engine from a bus into a Ford Pinto". You can read all of her comments on the Phoenix blog. Phoenix Viewer Gets Mesh It should be required reading for anyone still using the Phoenix viewer.
See you in world! maybe more people will be able to see my pretty mesh miniskirt now.
Just my feeling that some of our residents who learned on Viewer 2 might like the magic decoder ring to help them find regular menus and the Sidebar. Firestorm is an excellent full featured viewer. The viewer has been set with defaults that in a few cases, not many actually, look like the old viewer 1 UI that some of you won't be familiar with. I hope the video helps. It is in HD, for best viewing click on it and watch in full screen and set to HD
The video is captioned, but, I've included the script here... The Firestorm viewer is a feature packed user interface
based on the Linden viewer 2.It was
developed by the Phoenix team, one of the most robust third party viewer
providers.Because the viewer is
intended to make the transition from the old style phoenix viewer, it contains
some elements that you may not be familiar with if you currently use Linden's
viewer 2.
The settings that I'll demonstrate here are only
recommendations. You will no doubt customize the viewer in the future.
If you haven't already downloaded the viewer, go to http://www.phoenixviewer.com/ and choose the Firestorm
Beta viewer for the platform you use.Once you install it, we will make some changes.
On the bottom bar there are a number of icons that we
can remove.The viewer comes without a
sidebar as the default.Later, we'll
learn how to choose a sidebar version.What you take out of the bottom bar is up to you, I've removed a few
things that are either repeated in the sidebar or on the top bar or seldom
used.
The old viewer one interface used a pie menu and that
menu comes as the default in Firestorm.The
pie menu does not exist in viewer 2, we'll learn how to change it.
Go to the Avatar (Me) menu item on the top bar, click
and from the dropdown menu choose Preferences.Now let's begin...
Under the general tab will set the away timeout to
"never" and turn off UI Hints.
On the next tab "Chat" we'll turn off the
typing animation and set chat to begin when we press letter keys. Turn on Group
Chat pop ups if you follow any groups.
In Sound & Media, I turn off sounds, strictly a
personal preference, not a recommendation.
In Network and Cache you can increase your bandwidth,
if you have a strong connection. this is where you can modify the location of
your chat logs, if you wish.
I like to use the arrow keys for movement, they're set
in the Move & View tab.
In the Privacy tab you can set the viewer to save your
chat and IM. Showing favourite LMs at login can be useful if you have favourite
locations set up in landmarks.
I sometimes use the Developer and Advanced menus, they
are set under the Advanced tab
Next we'll get rid of that pesky pie menu under the UI
Extras and at the same time have the script dialogs stay where we're used to
them by turning off the option to see them in the upper right
Now to get the Sidebar back...open the Skins tab and
choose a skin with Side Tabs
Only if you use RLV, you'll see an option under the
Firestorm tab to "Allow remote scripted viewer controls(RLVa)" make
sure it is checked. The same option is also available under the Advanced menu,
both do the same thing.
Many of the changes we've made require a viewer
restart, so click Apply then OK and log out. When you log back in the changes
will be in effect.
