Timo Gufler

This is an interesting discussion to follow. Do you happen to know if there is a SL group with notices when new Bellisserian sims are opened? That would be really helpful.

At least Magnetic Falls which was released recently seems to have many parcels owned by Governor Linden still that means they should be available to the public. Notice that on the Customize Your Home page there is a link "(+)View all houses" which shows the Log Homes too if there are four styles visible already.

Hello, Sansar seems to have many interesting ideas compared to the current SL version, but my primary concern is, are you going to have a Linux viewer or not? If not, I better start preparing to say farewell to my SL friends...

Just for your information, that my friend ran several Windows updates and as a result, the problem vanished and she is able to use shadows. Hard to say, what really fixed the problem, but she is happy now.

Thanks for the response, Nalates! I will ask her to test different hardware features and viewers too. She has tested Firestorm and the official viewers at least so far.

My friend likes SL photography and decided to buy a new computer, to be able to shoot pictures more easily with powerful hardware. However, after getting HP Pavilion dv6 laptop with Radeon HD 7400M graphics card, she was disappointed, because the shadows didn't work at all, despite of SL graphics settings (I checked them out and all lighting and shadow settings should be fine). She updated the ATI graphics drivers in Windows 7, but that didn't help either. Does anyone have any ideas, what could solve this problem?

Maybe mesh will be the push the TPV's need to switch the focus to viewer2, there has to be a point when it's simpler to rebase rather than to try and back port a moving target. At least Imprudence has plans to migrate to the viewer 2.0 codebase and import/re-implement their current features. Let's hope others will follow this way too.

It's great to read, that align planar faces feature was included to make life of builders easier. Still, I doubt that this is enough for most of the them, who have got used to temporary & local textures, build math expressions, building hotkeys, rez (and copy) on land group, etc. There are also many non-building related features, including the radar, built-in AO, breast physics, ignore group chat, and so on, that people expect nowadays...