[Mesh goes gridwide: Create, sell, buy & enjoy all-new things in SL]

@Kylie

Yeah, it was real possible to make a stable viewer using mesh code that was changing every other day. Yes, I'll wait for Firestorm thank you very much. LL's UI, even having been improved from the first version, is still clunky and takes up more screen space than it needs.

 

@Arduenn

It's the same codebase just version 3. It will continue to show as viewer 2. I'm guessing LL just wanted a clearcut version change for the mesh capable viewers going forward.

 

I expect mesh will make for some really nice new content eventually. In the short term, we're going to see a lot of abysmal content using mesh for mesh's sake whether or not it's the best tool for the job. And as was pointed out, it's going to be a somewhat slow takeoff given over half the grid uses viewers that can't render them currently.

[Mesh goes gridwide: Create, sell, buy & enjoy all-new things in SL]

Yeah, woo hoo (waves a strand of limp spaghetti.) First off it's broken stuff all over the grid. Secondly, given the choice of viewers that support it.....well....I'll be waiting a bit before bothering with it. The larger regular prims will be nice though.

 

[[GUIDE] 10 tips to get the most out of web profiles!]

Sorry, I see no real upside to web profiles at all. It was ill concieved and is badly executed. I would have thought LL might have learned about forcing crap on their users that the users didn't want after the Viewer 2 fiasco. I fully plan to strip my profile down to an "Ask for my profile notecard in-world" notice with everything else blank and would encourage everyone else to do the same.

[[TIPS] Get the most out of your input devices!]

If you can get a Space Navigator for $60 it's well worth it. This is a solid professional tool mainly designed for 3d cad work. It's not a toy. The base is machined stainless steel. Having had mine for a bit over a year, I will say there isn't anything I can think of that will improve your enjoyment of SL as much as using one. I've had three people try mine and within 10 minutes each of them wanted all the specifics on where they could get one.

And Torely, if you could PLEASE poke whomever needs to be poked to add the flycam indicator back into the viewer?

[Viewer 2.5 with Web Profiles Has Arrived]

Having seen the web profiles, I find them to be pretty awefull. They are slow to load, clunky looking, and take up far too much space on the screen. Beyond that, I don't trust that the privacy settings LL implemented would stop web crawlers and services like Google and Facebook from harvesting info from them. All it takes is one oops to lose all credability. I'm considering stripping everything out of my profile other than instructions to ask for a notecard in world that would then have my profile info on it.

[Welcoming Teen Grid Organizations to the Main Grid]

Why wouldn't they be able? I can sit in one sim and cam pretty much the entire area of every sim surrounding it regardless of it's rating. I would hope LL has the sense to place the really underage sims so far out away from anything that that wouldn't be a danger. Now if they'd do the same for the 16-17 year olds and limit them similarly, the issue would be solved.