Firestorm - viewer 2 differences

[Boudicca Littlebird]

Have any of you noticed that some scuplts and textures show in viewer2 but not firestorm, also I have found viewer 2 won't close since the last update, but what concerns me is that if I use viewer2 to make things and then log in with firestorm some textures are always grey and some sculpts are always balls, anyone else having the same problems?

[Dilbert Dilweg]

You dont have both viewers sharing the same cache folder do you??

Either way i dont use both .. I only use viewer 3 now days. Not worth all the bugs for me

[Boudicca Littlebird]

I ment the latest SL viewer didn't know it was called 3 i still call it 2, it wont work as it should since the update a few days ago, it wont close and crashes and never send s a bug report, it did a few days ago, plus in fire storm i can't use touch, it don't work for just the av that makes things but does for the others, as if the viewers are giving lucinda special treatment, lol.

[Boudicca Littlebird]

Just tried another machine that only has firestorm and not the new sl viewer, and fire storm works great, so it would seem that it is the new sl viewer that is only doing it to the one av, on the big machine I can run more than one av in more than one viewer, well could until the last update, seems you can't have the sl viewer on the same machine as others or things won't work.

[Dilbert Dilweg]

Thery do conflict with eachother

Making sure the cache folders are totaly separate helps....

Uninstalling viewer 2 or 3 clflicts with settings etc with firestorm/phoenix...

[Boudicca Littlebird]

TY, yes i am taking all the viewers off the main machine.

[Alicia Sautereau]

Just run firestorm again to have 2 clients running at the same time from the same cache, worked fine the few times i tried

[Boudicca Littlebird]

ok, i reinstalled it all and changed the location of the cache for each viewer, i have 4 av's logged and they are all working fine, got one av out of the box that has been alseep for 2 years, all are working fine now.

[Perrie Juran]

 

Check your LOD (Levelof Detail) setting in FS. Make sure it is at it's highest setting.  I have also read about people setting it higher than 4 in the debug settings, "rendervolumeLODfactor."  Whether this actually works I wonder about.  I've been meaning to ask the "SL Techies" if this really can force the detail above "4."

By default, Firestorm and Phoenix install into their own folders so you shouldn't have a conflict with them sharing the same cache.  What I do find experientially when I switch between Viewers is that often it requires a relog after my initial log in for things to run smoothly. I think that it is just the nature of things.

The Viewer Version numbers is confusing now,  Why LL did not renumber the current official viewer as Version 4 like Firestorm did I don't understand because what we have now is this:

SL Version (Firestorm Version)

Viewer 1  (Phoenix)  -  The original Viewer

Viewer 2 (Firestorm 2) - The oft maligned SL viewer - Pre Mesh.

Viewer 3  (Firestorm 3)  -  Introduced Mesh Support

Viewer 3  (Firestorm 4) -  Flexible User Interface (FUI). -  The introduction of FUI was a big enough change to the Viewer that LL not renumbering  the Version seems odd.  Firestorm did the right thing because it avoids a lot of confusion.

 

 

[wiked Anton]

i am still using phoenix and never had any problems. i tried firestorm and sl viewers but didnt like them ( guess i am still suck in the emerald years) but i dont do scuplts but pretty sure i can see them all