If the UI is too complex in BD but not in FS then something is horribly wrong with the way you go on to things. I've spend more time than i can count trying to deliver something usable without filling your screen, without resorting to handholding and handfeeding you all while making it look somewhat consistent and still functionally good and easily understandable. The user experience is a very complex topic and making it work for most people without dumbing it down to LL or Firestorm levels (seeing as they throw notifications at you at every corner and naming options for idiots: "Advanced Lighting Model" which tells you jack shit what it is and doesn't allow you to read up on it but rather just hopes that it gives you a general "idea" what this entail). (Last example of this was my latest update where Nalates immediately commented this with a comment in her blog that implied she wasn't all too happy about seeing UI changes again even though these UI changes did not change anything she'll ever see). Whenever i touch the UI someone starts shouting from around a corner "OMG NOT AGAIN" without reading the changes or even trying to understand what they do. This all the more true in Second Life where it seems like a dangerously big part of the entire SL community has build up extreme resistance against any kind of change. Most importantly user experience is as the name suggests a user-specific thing, it is different for everyone but generally speaking and without trying to sound like an asshole here: "most people are simply too lazy to get used to something that is even slightly different". It is also noteworthy that the Viewer is meant to be used with a full color range enabled, this is by default disabled (for NVidia GPU's) in the driver settings because most monitors are not configured to view the full color range properly and because most people find it annoying when full darkness actually shows as complete pitch black darkness rather than bright-greyish/dark, this goes both ways, white will be real white, meaning a bright background like those in browsers will be much brighter and might be blinding if you're not used to it.ΔΆ) The use(r) experience is a very complex topic topic too. The default settings are matched for my setup and my color/brightness settings because i think i've set up a good color/brightness preset in my monitor (using online color diagrams and whatnot to properly configure it). Failing to enable any of these settings will completely change how colors and specifically how bright or dark the world in the Viewer looks. Generally speaking however the Viewer settings were built with "Deferred Rendering", "Shadows", "Tone Mapping" and "Color Correction" enabled at the very least. ![]() On top of your monitor settings, Viewer settings also play a big role, what kind of graphic settings are enabled, how are they configured and then on top of that there are also windlight settings, every windlight is different and customizing it means there are uncountable numbers of extra possibilities how dark or bright a part of a whole scene can be. not only does Black Dragon make SL look like a AAA game, it also helps you make Second Life images and video look like they were shot by a fancy ass film Brightness is a complex topic, everyone uses a different monitor (or TV like in my case), your screen settings and even your color settings play a vital role in how everything looks in the end. Hopefully that helps! The image above, by the way, was shot using Black Dragon's keyboard controlled camera roll. ![]() Choose the version without "64x" in its name. Your Windows is not 64bit and thus cannot run neither of the latest two 64bit versions.Choose the version without "AVX" in its name. Your CPU does not support AVX (Advanced Vector Extension) thus cannot run the latest version.Fortunately, Black Dragon creator NiranV is in NWN comments to help out: Which also mean some of them are sometimes having trouble even launching it on their PC. Last week's posts about Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer that makes SL look like a AAA videogame and is a dream for taking great screenshots, were the most popular by far - which means many readers are trying out Dragon right now.
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