Firestorm Beta 3 with Mesh Support!

[Phoenix Bot]

Due topopular demand we’ve decided we can't hold back the Firestorm with Mesh support release,however this hasn’t been an easy decision. Unfortunately LL Mesh code comeswith a lot of new bugs and undesirable behaviors which we honestly aren’tcomfortable releasing with. Many of these issues we would consider blockers fora release. The issues which we wouldn’t consider blockers simply do not reachour expectations for a quality release. However, you asked for it! And you’regetting it in its current state!


For a listof LL Bugs effecting this Firestorm release, please see:
http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.p...ll_jira_issues


When youfirst log into this Firestorm release you will note a few things. First, yoursettings ‘should’ get reset automatically and your cache will be cleared. Thisis a must for this release because so much has changed that if you didn’t getsettings and cache cleared you WILL have loads of problems. You must alsoensure you install this to an empty directory on your computer and not over an existinginstallation.


Also, please be patient during your first login on this version asperformance will be significantly degraded while your inventory and texturecache gets populated. We suggest just standing around for a few minutes whilethis occurs. The best way to know when it's complete is to open your inventory and watch the numbers at the bottom. These represent how many inventory items you have loaded. When they stop, your inventory has completed the fetch and your ready to enjoy Firestorm with Mesh support.


We hadhoped that this would be our official release and we would by now have reachedour feature goals for the “Official release”. However, fate has stepped in theway. Since the release of our Beta 2 we have had a large number of our developerteam going on vacations IRL, and thus slowing down the development process,(Though I think they all earned it). Also, many features have had to take aback seat to mesh for obvious reasons; things like Spell Check simply couldn’tbe completed in time. The good news though is that this is not our officialrelease and we still have plans to reach our official release feature goals soon!


The betternews is that we have achieved many of our release features already. Here’s asummary of some of the new features in this Firestorm release besides the Mesh,improved shadows, Depth of Field and other things we adopted from LL.


Defaultinterface choices from login page. Phoenix/V2/Hybrid
Custom Coloredname tags and more
Contactsets - see following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3zA24-Bi-U
Phoenix style contacts/Friend list
LGGSelection beam particle effects
Build in Flightassist with Bridge!
Scriptcount!
AutoCorrect
Fontoptions!
New starlightskins
V1 similarvolume controls so you don’t have to go into prefs
Volumesliders in the local speakers panel
Ability tofully disable your camera target hints
ImprovedCamera floater
Greater OpenSimSupport
Calc andCAO from command line
Z-Offset isfixed, for changing the height offset of your avatar.
UpdatedRLVa
Ability toautomatically undock side bar tabs
Group IM’sin nearby chat & Console
ItalicizedEmotes
and more!




Remember to take advantage of our wiki where we host loads of information about Firestorm and Phoenix Viewers.


Jessica Lyon
Phoenix Viewer Project







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[Lance Corrimal]

pfft.

[Beezle Warburton]

*burp*

[Lance Corrimal]

i am *not* holding my breath waiting for a firestorm *release*.
firestorm reminds me of duke nukem 3d.

[Lance Corrimal]

Have you heard the one about the three female avies in a bar?

They sit and drink and invariable start on talking about their boyfriends.

The first one says, "My boyfriend is a roleplayer... when we make love he really puts a lot into his emoting. I printed out some of our chat logs and might be publishing them as erotic novels..."

The second one says, "My boyfriend is more of a technology fan... we got us every little gadget from that one shop that you can get and girls this 'touch' technology really blows your mind."

The third one says, "You lucky bitches. My boyfriend is on the firestorm team. All I got so far was vague promises that it would be really great once it was finished."

[Beezle Warburton]

[Beezle Warburton]