Monthly Archives: September, 2009
Sorry
I’m fiddling with the blog yet again… You may experience changing layouts etc. But at least there wasn’t an interruption when I moved to a paid service (rather than the free hosting on wordpress.com).
Bare with me… By the end of the week all my removals will be finished (if not earlier). Thanks.
Snowglobe FE 1.0.0 is out!
I’m proud to announce public availability of Snowglobe FE 1.0.0.
At the same time, I’ve moved the viewers off from this site to the Frequency Editions project page. There, both my viewer editions found a new home, which provides better usability than this blog or Google Code, in my opinion.
Check it out! And have fun [...]
From scratch: Snowglobe FE
This is sort of follow-up to my previous article. I spent a whole day hacking, and this is what I came up with so far. The new Snowglobe Frequency Edition contains these features:
original Snowglobe codebase from Linden Lab
RLVa 1.0.2c
custom tagging (text & colour) on a per-avatar basis
payment info and age in days included in name [...]
Emerald FE 1.0.2, and other thoughts
First of all, Emerald FE 1.0.2 is out. More details can be found on the release page.
And what are those “other thoughts”? Well, I was thinking if, rather than slimming down Emerald, it wouldn’t be much more reasonable to take a current pristine viewer version, say SnowGlobe 1.1.2, and add the major features like all [...]
Emerald Frequency Edition 1.0.0
I’m happy to announce that my special edition of the Emerald Second Life Viewer is out now!
For more details see my Emerald Releases page.
Emerald Viewer
At first, I was a bit reluctant to use the Emerald Viewer, simply because it didn’t compile on Mac OS. The prepared OpenAL library (fmod replacement) couldn’t be downloaded (Error 403), and it didn’t seem to be available in that version anywhere else. But finally I found it on Google Code. With a bit of [...]