- Daniel says: "Here is the unofficial, but 100% nicholaz style "EC-b2" source and linux binary:source code and binary. Binary has been compiled with -O3 and -march=pentium4. Just unpack into your Linden release Windlight 76886 folder. Hope this works as smoothly for you as it does for me."
- Balp says: "Also I made a version of Nichlaz patches for WL-16886: Release notes in my blog"
- Henri says: "The latest Windlight (77495) experimental build of the Cool SL Viewer is available on my site (http://sldev.free.fr/). It uses many of Nicholaz' patches as well as many others. Boy Lane also compiled a Windoze binary of the normal (not Windlight) Cool SL Viewer version."
- Boy Lane says. "The latest Cool Viewer for Windows in normal and WindLight version including the RestrainedLife v1.10.1 fixes is ready for grabs at (link) or (link)"
Thanks Daniel, Balp, Henry and Boy Lane for the builds.
Also see the comments for updates on these versions.
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Something for the queue for when you're working on patching again...
Insert an option to save the crashlogs to a different directory?
The executable doesn't have perms under vista to save out crashlogs to the c:/windows location when it crashes. :(
the balp build does not work at all on my suse 10.2 systems, it just gets stuck on the "loading" screen even before that spinning hand appears.
Just want to mention that my unofficial EC-b2 patchset drops in smoothly into new WL 77495. After a quick testrun in some minutes I will upload the binary for linux again.
Due to the login problems today it took some longer to test it, but nevertheless, the test was a great success, viewer is fast and flawless.
Sources stayed the same:
http://files.myopera.com/windseeker/files/source-EC-b2.zip
and binary is updated for usage with WL 77495 with full O3 optimization as last time:
http://files.myopera.com/windseeker/files/nicholaz-EC-b3.tar.bz2
I'd like to know some feedback if this viewer works for anybody else than me lol so please comment, folks ;) Thanks!
anyone want to make us Windows folk a binary??? ((flutters eyelashes))
Looks like Suse and Ubuntu have several stuff that don't like with each other. Also made use of the 77495 version now. Looks good in world.
Hmmmm perhaps somebody can give the exact error message when running on SuSE? Perhaps I just need to build this or that statically to make it run everywhere.
The latest Windlight (77495) experimental build of the Cool SL Viewer is available on my site (http://sldev.free.fr/).
It uses many of Nicholaz' patches as well as many others.
Boy Lane also compiled a Windoze binary of the normal (not Windlight) Cool SL Viewer version.
Enjoy !
Dear Nicholaz,
THank you very much for you work on improving the SL Viewer! I am interested in downloading it, however may I ask what the system requirements are? I unfortunately do not see it anywhere. Thank you very much in advance!
Sincerely,
Therese Tammas (in SL)
Hi Therese!
This is a enhanced version of the normal SL viewer. Basoically you have the same requirements as with the viewer of Linden Labs.
http://secondlife.com/corporate/sysreqs.php
But as Nicholaz' patches fixes some bugs that enhance performance quite a bit, you can expect the requirements to be a tad lower, or spoken the other way round, this version should run a tad smoother than the original version of Linden Labs.
BTW: I hate this bug here: Jira #VWR-3101 because I can't use athmospheric shaders on a second machine, the GPU is too weak there. Especially I hate the comment from Runitai Linden, because this bug is so obvious if you have a test plan where you try just some of the big graphic option once... And athmospheric shaders is one of the most important WL features, isn't it?
Just wanted to share my rants, sorry ;)
At Henri Beauchamp
I don't think it is cool to advertise your viewer in Nicholaz his Blog. Did you ask him specific first?
Hi Silvia!
Calm down, nothings bad here :D
We are one big family, all acting in concert. Henri gives fixes to Nicholaz, Nicholaz gives fixes to Henri and now we end up having a biiig pool of fixes and patches and enhancements and everyone can choose from this pool.
If you like henris viewer better, nobody is mad bout that. In fact, lots of his changes are nicholaz' ones ;)
As we all don't earn money through that, we can't "loose customers" here :)
Those posts are welcome. I welcome and applaud anyone who makes a better viewer than the Lindens :-)
Working with someone on an intel chipset... they don't have the option to UNcheck "object object occlusion", and yet it's marked "on" while being grayed out.
Maybe next version have this automaticaly off, or at least enable the check/uncheck regardless of chipset?
Hi Nicholaz,
I'm sure you know how we'll all miss you, but I know you have to earn some money to pay for all of these toys.
Gary
Hi,
I keep hearing everyone say how the Windlight viewer is faster. I quite frankly don't see it.
I've run both the RC and Nicholaz viewers side by side and with Windlight set at the default setting it is faster, but the graphic detail is nill, particularly the terrain. But when I set Windlight to the same graphics quality as the Nicholaz viewer Windlight is much slower. And the graphics are about the same.
So where is the benefit of Windlight?
Gary
Any chance we can get a windows build of the windlight nicholaz? I like windlight's eye candy, but hate the memory leaking and overuse of the CPU that both standard and windlight viewers currently hit me with.
I have a previous build of the nicholaz viewer for the standard viewer, but I noticed that if I have two SL's running, and if either one happens to be Nicholaz, both crash almost immediately at the same time.
The latest Cool Viewer for Windows in normal and WindLight version including the RestrainedLife v1.10.1 fixes is ready for grabs at http://my.opera.com/boylane or http://www.freewebs.com/boylane
Now that 1.19 is there, will there be a Nicholaz version for it?
I looked at their new detachable friends list but they are still soooo wide of the mark (that being old school interface) and now the "Release keys" button is where "IM Received" used to be...!
I had a got at it but the result wasn't usable. Was trying to integrate stuff from 1.18.x to make it work with the Chatterbox patch, but they changed the codebase too much for that approach. You know the code much better than I do, in those dark corners.
For the Cool Viewer, should also work with the other 1.18 Windlight versions: After the latest aweful update to 1.19.0 the older version was blocked from the Lindens. To make it working again you need to add the following command line switch to your SecondLife Windlight.lnk shortcut: -settings settings_coolslviewer_wl.xml -channel "Cool SL Viewer". This will also store your settings no longer in C:\Documents and Settings\NAME\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings_windlight.xml but in settings_coolslviewer_wl.xml. You can simply rename the old file to keep your existing settings.
@ melanie
I just made the Cool SL Viewer v1.19.0.1 release 1 (experimental viewer) available (http://sldev.free.fr): it reverts everything to the good old UI... How to revert in one day of work what Lindens took two months to ruin. ;-P
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