![]() ![]() In all fairness, if you have read my previous post on performance, this viewer is fast, just a tad behind Emerald 1.23.5.136, so I know the potential is there. I'm done, this is a piece of crap, and totally unusable. I said this month's ago and I'll say it again, this UI looks like a 10th grade Computers 101, High School Class developed it. Located the search feature, OMG what the hell is this mess? I continue to open menu's and press buttons, seems like most of the features I use on a daily basis are gone, or buried in the debug menu now. ( have you ever been ejected from a place or logged out of SL because of inactivity ? ) I have stepped away from the keyboard for to long and my avatar is now sleeping with the away indicator floating above my head, unable to locate the setting to turn this off feature off. I cant build anything until I clear up the screen and maneuver the way to big camera controls into a better area of my screen, so i can actually see what I am doing. Oh and now, I am receiving group messages in huge ugly opaque black box on bottom right hand corner of screen. I have no location coordinates displayed on the top bar, no fly button, no build button, the local chat area is way to small to carry on a conversation, and is not detachable. I'll play around with preferences, figured out how to stop the screen from shifting to the left when side bar is opened, Wow that's real progress! How many months did it take the Lab to figure that one out ? Oh cool I found the mini map, and it can't be re sized. Next I access the camera controls which have an opaque black background. Linden ( I am so glad he is gone and Philip is back in charge ) Ok I got that out of my system, ready to start the review :_) I guess I will blame it all on former CEO M. How on earth a company can release a product with so many well documented flaws is beyond me. I IM a friend and asked her to pay me 1L$, this brings my account to 981L$, need I mention this is yet another bug LL has been well aware of with Viewer 2 for a long time now. ![]() I notice 960L$ were missing from my account balance, my last log out showed 980L$, now there are only 20L$. ![]() So far things are not looking so good, but there's more. Another well documented bug from the Alpha stage of development. It is now almost dead center in the middle. Next, one of my Hud's, normally located at the top center of my screen was out of whack. No problem, once my inventory had loaded, I located my shape and skin, and I was back to normal. Since this is supposedly what V2 was designed to do, is attract and retain new SL customers, you would think the Lab would have made this a top issue to be fixed. Now right here I have to say this has been a well known bug since the Alpha development stage of Viewer 2, hardly an ideal environment to thrust upon a new customer. This solved that problem, but my Avi was all mushed up ( Ruthed ) and I was wearing an outfit from 2 months earlier ( the last time I had tried Viewer 2 ). This did not work, so I opened the Debug dialog box, and navigated down to (renderunloadedavatar) and set the value to True. I rezzed as a poof ball, after about 5 minutes and still no change, I activated the Advanced menu ( ctrl+alt+d) and selected Rebake Textures. ![]() I'm going to go back a to the first time I opened up this new client, it was a less than ideal experience. So before I get started, I need to rant a bit. And I am bound and determined to pitch in, with the goal to make Viewer 2 the most robust, easy to use, yet powerful SL client yet. However I do recognize the potential possibilities this new platform is capable of with help from the Open Source community. Now I must admit, I have never been a fan of Viewer 2, so my experience is very limited. Since Philip's return to LL as CEO, and his honest admittance, that the UI for Viewer 2 is less than Ideal, and him asking the SL Customer and Developer base for help, I have decided to pitch in as best I can. This will be the first time I have ever attempted to do anything like this, so please bear with me. I am going to start off with the official Second Life Viewer 2 v. Today I will begin exploring the UI of the 4 different SL clients, reviewed in the previous post's beginning on July 31. ![]()
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