This window is normally accessed via the Texture tab of the Edit window, but also from any location that allows textures to be selected.

The texture picker allows you to select a texture to apply to an object (among other things) - assuming the object is modifyable for you. If not, then you will not be able to do anything with this window.

The large square will display the current texture for the object. If the objects has multiples textures, then the box will display this (in text). This warns you so that you do not inadvertently change textures you did not intend to change.

Below this is the size of the currently displayed texture, in pixels.

The Default button will apply the standard plywood texture (shown in the image to the right).
The Blank button will apply a blank white texture.
Transparent applies the standard transparent (invisible) texture.
None Removes the texture entirely. This is not used on objects, but it is useful, for example, to remove a profile picture, or the image associated with a parcel.
Apply UUID Enter the UUID of a texture into the field and click Apply UUID to apply that texture to the object. When editing, this field will only display the UUID of textures which exist in your own inventory.

The Apply now checkbox will immediately apply any changed texture to the object, so that you may preview it.

On the right side are two radio buttons: Inventory and Local. These allow you to use textures from your inventory, or directly from your hard drive.

The folder list shows your inventory folders, and the textures they contain. You can use this to select a new texture to apply. Another way of selecting a texture is to drag it from your inventory window into the large box at the top left.

A third way to select a texture is to use the dropper icon, which is below the large texture square. You can then click on any texture on any in-world object and, providing that you have that texture in your inventory, it will be used by the texture picker. This is a very handy and rapid way of selecting textures while building.

Once you have finished, Click Ok to apply any changes made, or Cancel to revert to the original texture.

In this view, you can access a list of textures (images) that are on your hard drive. This allows you to preview how a texture will look, prior to uploading it. It is an alternative to using temporary uploads.

NOTE: An applied local texture will be visible only to you, and only until you relog. You can get around others not seeing local textures by uploading the image to a picture sharing site (eg, Dropbox, Photobucket, Flickr, Imgur, etc) and then using media on a prim to display it in-world. You can also work on beta grid, where uploads do not affect your SL L$ balance.

This view has a few buttons, and below that, a list of the textures you have already added.

• Add: this opens a file picker window, which you can use to select a new image from your hard drive, to add to the saved list. The texture selected is not automatically uploaded; it is merely referenced in the list below.
• Remove: deletes the currently selected texture from the list.
• Upload: uploads the currently selected texture to SL.

• Apply now: If you click on a texture in the list, you will instantly see it applied to the item that you are editing. Note again that this will be shown to you only.

Some use scripted systems to apply temp textures for testing, such as on various mesh body parts, but since a local texture doesn't shown in inventory, you can't get the UUID to add to the script. Solution: Surprisingly, llGetTexture can actually get a UUID for the local texture when it is applied to a prim, and llSetTexture can apply it.

This window is used to customize the layout of the on-screen buttons. The window is accessed by right clicking any of these buttons.

You can drag and drop buttons to and from this window, from the tool bars. Tool bars exist on both sides of the screen, and at the bottom.

The buttons will be displayed according to each toolbar's settings: icons, text labels, or both.

The following toolbar buttons are available:

• About Land
• Animation Overrider
• Appearance
• Area Search
• Asset Blacklist
• Avatar
• Beacons
• Block List
• Build
• Camera Controls
• Chat
• Contact Sets
• Conversation Log
• Conversations
• Create Landmark
• Debug Settings
• Destinations
• Facebook
• Favorite Wearables
• Flickr
• Fly
• Gestures
• Grid Status
• Ground Sit
• Group Titles
• How To
• Inventory
• Map
• Marketplace
• Mini-Map
• Mouselook
• Movelock
• Nearby Voice
• People
• Phototools
• Phototools Camera
• Picks
• Places
• Pose stand
• Preferences
• Profile
• Quick Prefs
• Radar
• Region Tracker
• Region/Estate
• Report Abuse
• Resync animations
• Search
• Show Friends Only
• Snapshot
• Snapshot to Disk
• Sound Explorer
• Speak
• Statistics
• Stop Animations
• Teleport History
• Twitter
• Walk / run / fly
• Web Browser

Below are these three buttons:

• Clear all toolbars will remove all buttons from all toobars.
• Restore defaults will restore buttons as they would be on a clean install.
• Locked: If you enable this, it will prevent you from accidentally moving or removing buttons from the toolbars.

See this video for a tutorial.

This window is accessed from the About Land→ General tab. It gives a detailed list of all scripted objects and their script memory consumption, for all parcels you can edit in the region. This is similar to the information given in World → Region Details→ Debug→ Get Top Scripts, though it provides fewer options and functions.

The information you see depends on your rights to the parcel you're inspecting:

• If you are the estate owner or an estate manager, each individual object in the region is listed:
  • Total memory used for the entire region.
  • Total number of URLs used and available for the entire region.

• If you are the parcel owner, or have object return powers for the parcel through a group, individual objects on all parcels in the region owned by the owner of the parcel being inspected are listed:
  • Total memory used for all objects on all parcels in the region that are owned by the owner of the parcel.
  • Total URLs used and available for all objects on all parcels in the region owned by the owner of the parcel.

• Otherwise, no individual objects are listed:

The window has two tabs.

The top gives some basic information about the region and script usage in it:

• Number of parcels
• Total memory used
• Number of URLs used ¹⁾.

Below this is a list of scripted objects, with information about each - presented in column format:

• Size (kb): Indicates how much memory is used by the script(s) in the object.
• URLs: Indicates how many URL(s) the object is using.
• Object Name: Name of the scripted object.
• Object Owner: Name of the object's owner.
• Parcel: Name of the parcel on which the object is located.

You can click on any column header to sort the list.

Below this are 3 buttons:

• Refresh List: Self explanatory.
• Return: Immediately return the highlighted object to its owner; there is no confirmation request, so be careful!
• Highlight: Displays a beacon showing the location of the highlighted object.

The General Tab shows basic information about the current parcel. It can be accessed by first clicking the parcel's name in the top-bar of the client. The general tab also allows parcel owners to customize various essential aspects of their land.

• Name: The name of the parcel which will show on the top of the viewer when you are on the parcel, and in search if the parcel is set to show in search.
• Description: An additional description of the parcel which is visible in this window and in search results if the parcel is set to show in search. This also can be used to place keywords about the land to increase search results.
• Type: The type of region the parcel is located on (types being: Mainland or Estate/Full Region, Homestead, or Openspace).
• Rating: The maturity rating of the region, which can be: General, Moderate, or Adult. Depending on the rating, certain ages or those that are not age verified will not be permitted to enter.
• Owner: Indicates who “owns” the parcel, usually a specific resident, or group. Normal users do not actually have ownership rights like in real life. They have control over the parcel as long as they pay monthly maintenance fees directly or indirectly to Linden Lab (usually a premium and tier), who actually own the servers the region is hosted on. In this sense it is more like a lease in real life. The info (the “I” icon”) button will open the 'Profile' floating window for the listed owner.
• Group: In some cases it may become necessary to have a parcel set to a group (for instance, to grant access to a club based on who is in the VIP group). The Set button will open the Groups tab of the Communicate or Contacts window in order to set or change the group assignment.
• Allow Deed to Group: Allows the landowner to sell the parcel to the assigned group. The owners of the group become the new owners of the land. The Deed button opens the 'Deed to Group' window in order to transfer ownership. (See Group Land Ownership.)
• Owner Makes Contribution With Deed: When transferring ownership to a group, this check box also assigns land area from the owner's land allowance to the group at the same time. (See Tier for more information).
• For Sale: This shows for sale or not for sale status. If for sale, it shows price and whether for sale to anyone, or a specific person. If you own the land, buttons to set for sale, not for sale, or abandon the land will appear.
• Claimed: The date and time the current owner became the owner of the parcel.
• Area: The horizontal area of the parcel. Sloped land is measured in the XY horizontal plane, not along the slope. Land is divisible into units of 4×4 meters in size, so the minimum parcel area is 16 sq.m., and can be any multiple of 16 up to the full area of a region (256x256m or 65,536 sq.m.). A single parcel must be entirely within the boundaries of one region, but may consist of discontinuous pieces.
• Traffic: The number of avatar-minutes present on the parcel over the last measurement interval. Thus one avatar present for one hour = 60 traffic. The normal measurement interval is over the previous 24 hours, and is updated 2 times a day. (See Land Traffic For more information.)

There are buttons at the bottom of the window:

• Script Info: Opens the Script Information window giving details about script usage on the region.
• Buy Land: If the parcel is for sale, this will open the Buy Land window, giving details so you can decide whether you wish to purchase it.
• Buy Pass: If the parcel requires paid access, you can click this to purchase an access pass.
• Abandon Land: If you own or rent the parcel, you can click this to return it to Linden control. You receive no payment for this.
• Buy for Group: Similar to Buy (above) except that you are purchasing the land for a specific group. See this SL Wiki page for more information.

This window opens when you select Get Top Colliders or Get Top Scripts from the Region Details→ Debug Tab. It will show either objects experiencing collisions or information for scripted objects on the region. This can help potentially problematic physical or scripted objects, which might be generating high region/server lag.

NOTES:

• Top Colliders: Since readings shown are for a brief instant in time, repeatedly click the refresh button to observe if activity is sustaining or spurious. Something that's rapidly colliding at one moment may settle to rest the next.
  Note that any prims acting as floors will show collisions if an avatar is walking on them; this is normal and expected (were there no collisions, the avatar would fall through the prim).
• Top Scripts: Times reported are the average script time per frame for the last 30 minutes for all scripts on the object. If the object has been in the region for less than 30 minutes the number reported will be the average time per frame since the object entered the region.
• Normally, you don't have to worry about removing anything if performance feels fine and looks OK in the Statistics window.
• Only use this tool with great care after you've learned the technical aspects involved: while you can remove troublesome objects, you can also inadvertently destroy content.

Click on column titles to sort them in ascending or descending order. The columns are:

• Score: The higher, the worse, but consider it relative to the total shown in Statistics. (Only shown in Top Colliders.)
• Time: The total average script time per frame over the last 30 minutes for all scripts in the object. (Only shown in Top Scripts.)
• Name: The object's name.
• Owner: The Resident who owns the object; if the owner is unfamiliar and the region just started behaving slowly, it may be worth checking out.
• Location: Coordinates of where the object is located in the region.
• Time: When the object was rezzed inworld. Older objects are more likely to be intended to stay.
• Mono Time: The amount of time spent specifically running scripts compiled to Mono. (Only shown in Top Scripts.)
• URLs: Which URLs are being used per the LSL HTTP server. Only shown in Top Scripts.

Other fields and buttons on this window are:

• Object ID: The object's UUID.
• Show Beacon: Select an object in the list, then click Show Beacon to visually pinpoint the object's Location.
• Object Name & Owner: For each of these, type in a specific name, then click Filter to only show matching results. Partial searches work: “car” shows objects named “red car”.
• Refresh Button: Refreshes the list.

• Return Selected: Returns the selected object in the list to its owner. Be careful, there's no confirmation!
• Return All: Returns all objects in the list to their owners. Asks for your confirmation; there's no undo!
• Teleport to: TPs you to the object selected in the list.
• Script Info: Shows detailed script information for the selected object. This requires that the Firestorm bridge be enabled and worn.
• Profile: If an avatar is selected in the lsti (as opposed to an object), this button will display the person's profile.
• Estate Kick: Ejects the selected avatar from the region.

From http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Viewerhelp:Top_Colliders_and_Top_Scripts

This window opens when you select, from the top menu bar, Avatar → Upload → Import Linkset, or Build → Upload → Import Linkset.

It allows you to import objects which you have previously exported. For more general information on exporting and importing, see here.

First click on the Choose File button, which opens the file picker window so you can browse to the file you wish to import.

Once the file has been selected, you can specify import options:

• Do not attach object: Enable this if you do not wish to automatically wear objects that were exported while worn.
• Restore Region Position: Create the imported object at the same region coordinates at which it was exported.
• Upload: Upload any associated content (textures, notecards, scripts…) as well; this has a L$10 cost per texture.
  Note that if you disable this, but already have the textures in your inventory, the object will have the textures correctly applied - since you own the texture referenced by the UUID.

Click the Import button to start the import. The object will be created near you - unless you are importing an attachment, in which case it will automatically attach once created.

Closing the Import window before import has completed, may crash you, so don't do that.

This window opens when you select, from the top menu bar, Avatar → Upload → Import Linkset, or Build → Upload → Import Linkset.

It allows you to import objects which you have previously exported. For more general information on exporting and importing, see here.

First click on the Choose File button, which opens the file picker window so you can browse to the file you wish to import.

Once the file has been selected, you can specify import options:

• Do not attach object: Enable this if you do not wish to automatically wear objects that were exported while worn.
• Restore Region Position: Create the imported object at the same region coordinates at which it was exported.
• Upload: Upload any associated content (textures, notecards, scripts…) as well; this has a L$10 cost per texture.
  Note that if you disable this, but already have the textures in your inventory, the object will have the textures correctly applied - since you own the texture referenced by the UUID.

Click the Import button to start the import. The object will be created near you - unless you are importing an attachment, in which case it will automatically attach once created.

Closing the Import window before import has completed may crash you, so don't do that.

This window is opened by double clicking a script which you can modify - or by right clicking it and selecting Open. It edits, compiles, and saves scripts written in LSL. For more information about scripting, visit the LSL Portal.

If a script is no-modify, you are notified that “You can not view or edit this script…”.

• Description: Description of the currently open script. Not shown when editing a script in-world.

• Menu: Beneath the description is a menu bar. Some of the menu functions are replicated in the buttons below it.
  • File:
    • Save: Save changes to th script - if it has been modified.
    • Revert All Changes: Reverts to the last saved version of the script; any changes made since that point will be undone.
    • Load from file: Loads a LSL script from your hard drive. A file picker will open, allowing you to browse to the saved script.
    • Save to file: Save the current LSL script to your hard drive.
    • Script Editor Preferences: Opens a window where you may change defaults for the script editor window.
  • Edit:
    • Undo: Reverts the last edit action.
    • Redo: Reverts the last undo.
    • Cut: Removes the selected block of text to the clipboard (from which it may be pasted).
    • Copy: Copies the selected text to the clipboard.
    • Paste: Pastes the contents of the clipboard at the current cursor locations
    • Select All: Selects all the text in the script, for later copy or cut.
    • Deselect: Deselects all selected text.
    • Search/Replace: Opens a window which you acn use to search for, and/or replace text in the script.
  • Help:
    • Help: Link through to the LSL portal on the SL Wiki.
    • Keyword Help: Opens the LSL Refernce on the SL Wiki.
    • Script Library: Opens the script library web page in your browser.

• Status Indicator On the top right is a square colored status indicator. By default, this is dark yellow/orange.
  • D.Yellow: Script has been opened but not modified and resaved.
  • Green: On script save, shows that the script compiled and saved correctly.
  • Red: On script save, this shows that there were errors in compiling and/or saving the script.

• Buttons: Most of the buttons are duplicates of the menu items listed above:
  • Save Script
  • External Script Editor: Load the script into an external text editor. The program to be used may be defined in the ExternalEditor debug setting. Alternately, if this is not defined, Firestorm will use any program that is defined for the .lsl file extension, in your operating system.
  • Load Script from Hard Disk
  • Save Script to Hard Disk
  • Cut
  • Copy
  • Paste
  • Undo
  • Redo
  • Search/Replace
  • Script Editor Preferences

• Main editing field: Contains the actual LSL code. The editor highlights relevant LSL keywords and attempts to maintain your indentation based on bracket usage. You can hover your cursor over any keyword for a brief tooltip description of its functionality.

• Log: Under the main editing field, displays messages regarding save and compiler status. If the compiler finds an error when you try to save, it displays the line and column number where it was discovered, along with a brief message about the nature of the problem.

• Reset: Restarts execution of the script from the beginning. Can be useful to “refresh” malfunctioning scripts. Not applicable if you are editing a script in your inventory.

• Running: Sets the running state of the script. Uncheck this box to stop execution. Not applicable if you're editing a script in your inventory.
• Mono: Runs the script on the Mono scripting engine for better performance. Enabled by default. If there are compatibility issues, uncheck this to run the script on the older, original LSL engine. If you're editing a script in your inventory, then normally, scripts are saved in LSL2; however, you can change the default to mono in Preferences→ Firestorm→ Build 1 tab.

• Insert: This dropdown contains a list of every built-in function in LSL. Choose a function to paste its name into the editing field at your cursor's location.

• Use Experience: This checkbox appears only if the script is contained in a rezzed item. Scripts opened directly from inventory will not display it.

Note: this is a list of standard keyboard shortcuts for these menu functions. Your keyboard may differ.

Note: The Developer menu must be enabled for these key combos to work: use CTRL-Alt-Q to enable it.

Key = Key Sequence

LMR - Love Me Render: Mac retina display, and graphics related changes. See release notes below for more details.

EAM - Estate Access Management: Improved estate tools. See release notes below for more details.

The pages below have been updated to reflect some of the changes since Firestorm 6.0.2. These pages are continually being updated. Please do not bookmark them, as they will disappear once 6.2.4 goes to public release.

• LookAt: Limit distance from head: Clamps your lookat target around your head. Limits the lookat crosshair to a fixed distance from your avatar, showing the general direction of viewing but not the actual lookat target.
• Graphics - Hardware Settings: Enable support for HiDPI displays: (Mac OSX only; requires restart). This will generally give you a sharper display but a lower frame rate.
• Avatar Menu - Avatar Health - Scripts: (previously found in About Land - Script Info - Avatar). This window display your avatar script usage, memory used and attachment point.
• Preferences - Chat - CmdLine: Added the ability to teleport to specific coordinates in a region. See FIRE-23939.
• Inventory Texture Refresh: Added the ability to texture refresh via right click menu in inventory. This option is only available if the object is currently being worn and refreshes the texture of the worn object.
• Apply UUID Texture Picker: Added the ability the apply a texture using UUID. When editing, this field will only display the UUID of textures which exist in your own inventory.
• Backup settings confirmation Added modal to verify you wish to overwrite (update) your existing backed-up settings.
• External Editor: Added pathname field for external editor.
• Separate Transcripts and Logs Folders for Agni and Aditi - Firestorm Havok version. See FIRE-24023.
• “Specify Version” (for FS Support groups) and “Specify Build” (for FS QA groups) viewer tags updated to offer more efficient support. Now includes current version or build, operating system, viewer skin, RLVa status. Tooltip and modal updated to reflect these changes. Setting in support and QA groups work independently of each other.
• Toolbar Buttons - Stop Animations: - Added Stop Animations toolbar button.

Catznip RLVa 2.2 Release Notes

Release Notes for v6.2.3 (527758) - Second Life Viewer Released on June 5, 2019.
https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/6.2.3.527758.html

This fixed an issue with Windows OS on exiting Second Life system video is distorted due to custom color profile

Release Notes for v6.2.2 (527338) - Second Life Viewer Released on May 20, 2019.
https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/6.2.2.527338.html

Teranino is an authentic Istrian liqueur made with Istrian Teran grapes, with addition of fruit brandy, and 10 different spices. Alcohol volume is 15.9%.

This build has removed a change to the lsl scripting touch_start() function which caused BUG-226970. All other changes are listed as part of 6.2.1.526845.

Release Notes for v6.2.1 (526845) - Second Life Viewer Released on May 03, 2019.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/6.2.1.526845

Teranino is an authentic Istrian liqueur made with Istrian Teran grapes, with addition of fruit brandy, and 10 different spices. Alcohol volume is 15.9%.

Maintenance release of assorted bug and crash fixes.

Release Notes for v6.1.1 (525446) - Second Life Viewer Released on March 26, 2019.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/6.1.1.525446

Love Me Render and HiDPI Retina Display

This viewer adds retina display support on Mac, and has a variety of graphics-related fixes.

Note: for Mac displays with HiDPI support, retina display mode will be enabled by default. This will generally give you a sharper display but a lower frame rate. If you want to disable HiDPI display, go to the preference settings page Me→Preferences→Graphics→Advanced Settings, and uncheck the box “Enable support for HiDPI displays (requires restart)”; then restart the viewer.

Release Notes for v6.2.0 (526190) - Second Life Viewer Released on April 12, 2019.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/6.2.0.526190

This shiny new viewer is a brave foray into improving the state of Estate Access Management! We can’t wait to see what you think about it. Here’s what you’ll find:

New “Access” tab in the Region/Estate floater with subtabs for “Estate Managers”, “Allowed”, “Allowed Groups”, and “Banned” Recording banned date, banned by, and last login for each banned account †
Search & Sort within each of the sub-tabs
Copy Banlist & Allowed-list
Added a confirmation for adding or removing from a list
More Estate Managers!
We’re upping the number to 15. Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.
†these features only available going forward.

Known Issues There is an issue where newly added Estate Managers will need to relog in order to view access lists.

Release Notes for v6.1.0 (524670) - Second Life Viewer Released on February 26, 2019.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/6.1.0.524670

BugSplat viewer

Update changes This viewer introduces a revised updater, replacing the current Viewer Manager Process (VMP). Instead of running the VMP before every viewer session, we now run the updater as a child process of the viewer. Viewer notifications are used to alert the user to a pending update.

This viewer starts more quickly than with the VMP. It displays only one Taskbar or Dock viewer icon. Pinning that icon should behave exactly as expected, going forward.

Pinned icons for the Viewer Launcher and VMP-driven viewer may need to be deleted and recreated.

We still run the updater before _first_ launching a newly-installed Windows viewer, to address the potential problem of installing a 64-bit viewer on a Windows system that does not support it. Similarly, if you install a 32-bit viewer on a Windows system that can support the 64-bit viewer, it retrieves the 64-bit viewer instead.

Bugsplat If this viewer crashes, the crash report is sent to BugSplat rather than to Linden's internal crash reporting system.

(Third party developers: the existing Breakpad crash-reporting code is still present in the code base. BugSplat integration is enabled by a CMake variable.))

FMOD Studio 2.00.01 (updated Windows, Linux, Mac)

KDU v7.10.7 (updated Windows, Linux, Mac)

Voice Server Version: Vivox Version 4.9.0002.30313 (Windows and Mac)
Voice Opensim 4.6.0017.22050 (Windows and Mac)
Linux uses native voice files Version: Vivox 3.2.0002.10426

LibVLC Version: 2.2.8

Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Dullahan updated:

• Dullahan: 1.1.1320
• CEF: 3.3626.1895.g7001d56
• Chromium: 72.0.3626.121
• Page of test URLs for Dullahan. With the Developer Menu enabled (Ctrl Alt Q) press Ctrl+Shift+Z then the Home page button.

• FIRE-21269 - Groups flash unselectable in legacy profiles, but only on some avatars
• FIRE-22497 - Splash / Login Screen extra lines since CEF merge
• FIRE-23012 - Windows 10's UTF8 beta breaks URL parsing
• FIRE-23155 - AO request to stop stand animations is handled incorrectly
• FIRE-23401 - Firestorm locks up Win 7 on login - Malwarebytes
• FIRE-23508 - Pull in mesh uploader fixes from LL before full Animesh release.
• FIRE-23641 - Show parcel name in world map feature fails if the parcel has a null name
• FIRE-23663 - crash on using world map, xui file floater_world_map.xml might be corrupt
• FIRE-23665 - starlightskin original teal - colors of some UI elements are from original orange
• FIRE-23667 - missing 3p package
• FIRE-23674 - configure_firestorm.sh
• FIRE-23686 - Exported Scripts Not Importing
• FIRE-23692 - [BUG-226482] [SL-10284] [BUG-226490] [SL-10702] [BUGSPLAT] Viewer crashes in vivox code after teleport
• FIRE-23703 - Firestorm locking up when using texture preview or any other inventory view window.
• FIRE-23719 - SL Voice not launching on recent nightly build
• FIRE-23745 - Linux Build Failure Changeset 57082
• FIRE-22751 - Flash media not working in Linux 64 build
• FIRE-23755 - Italian UI Region / Estate - Region tab - expand fields for limit and bonus
• FIRE-23846 - llRequestExperiencePermissions triggering “Runtime script permission not recognized”
• FIRE-23892 - Crash on re-enabling Render types → Avatars
• FIRE-23963 - Latest LGPL source fails to build on windows
• FIRE-23969 - Preferences search is borked since the Maint Teranino merge
• FIRE-23985 - [BUG-226977] View Area Offset on World Map
• FIRE-24016 - [PATCH] Collada export broken for large meshes
• FIRE-24051 - Removing a resident from the blocklist hangs the client
• FIRE-24081 - [MAC] [HiDPI] Prefs Graphics Hardware Enable support for HiDPI change to off by default
• FIRE-23549 - Unable to load driver swrast_dri.so
• FIRE-24049 - On Intel UHD 620 and Intel HD 620 graphics, wearing a jacket layer results in viewer hang, rendering avatar unuseable
• FIRE-24111 - [Beta] Selection particles orbit around you when “Don't send my selection target hints” is enabled.
• FIRE-24117 - Stand portion of FS AO broken
• FIRE-24132 - Fix for errors in FMOD System

• FIRE-16102 - Please add texture refresh to right-click menu in Inventory
• FIRE-22353 - Clear inventory cache button can malfunction
• FIRE-22747 - Timed Land Ban, reorder fields
• FIRE-23603 - [LINUX] autobuild line 3666
• FIRE-23606 - Reveal path to external script editor in prefernces
• FIRE-23723 - Change “sim” to “region” in Preferences
• FIRE-23765 - Preferences - Autoresponse - add text to point to Comm Menu - Online Status to activate
• FIRE-23775 - Confusing message when 'max texture quality level' is set other than 'normal'
• FIRE-23874 - Improve wording of “Show IMs in Nearby Chat Window”
• FIRE-23907 - When Max Experience Level too Low, Error Given is Incorrect
• FIRE-23939 - Add ability to specify coordinates to TELEPORT TO SIM X (mapto) chat command
• FIRE-24113 - Texture Picker UUID string change to 0s when you don't own the texture

• FIRE-13234 - Request: Option to set sound output device for all sounds
• FIRE-17839 - Settings Backup modal confirm overwrite yes/no
• FIRE-23524 - [PATCH] Option to limit look at target to a sphere around the avatar's head.
• FIRE-24023 - Separate Transcripts and Logs Folders for Agni and Aditi - Firestorm Havok version

• FIRE-23592 - Update Japanese translation

• INT-142 - add build number to 'Specify version' in Firestorm groupchats
• INT-143 - Update “Specify Version” Tooltip and Opt-in Modal

If you haven't logged into the Aditi Grid recently, you will likely need to contact LL Support to gain access as well as have your inventory synced. Please review this page carefully http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Aditi. Also ensure you have this viewer setting enabled in Preferences - Advanced - Allow login to other grids.

Some anti-virus programs (and firewalls and anti-malware programs) will incorrectly flag a viewer - or necessary components of a viewer - as a virus or threat. They may remove the suspected part completely, rendering all or part of the viewer slow or non-functional. There is at least one anti-virus program which will scan every file placed on your computer, even if created by an authorized program. This can affect Firestorm (or any viewer) in that it will scan each and every texture placed in cache, slowing down performance of the viewer significantly, keeping objects and/or textures from rezzing, and keeping CPU usage high.

There is nothing we can do about this. However, it should be possible for you to tell your anti-virus (firewalls/anti-malware) that the viewer is safe; you will need to whitelist the viewer program as well as some components.

The following is a list of some protection software and how to whitelist. Naturally we cannot provide instructions for all existing programs, and the information here may be outdated. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you consult the software manual for the specific program you use, for accurate and up to date information.

In the instructions below, substitute “firewall” or “anti-malware program” for “anti-virus” as needed.

See the Malwarebytes tab below.

Here are the steps to follow to reinstall and whitelist a viewer in such as way that the anti-virus program doesn't “mangle” the viewer yet again:

1. Uninstall the viewer normally.
2. Disable the anti-virus software completely
3. REBOOT your computer to make sure that the AV is not running anymore.
4. Reinstall the viewer.
   • On Windows, make sure you do not install it back to the default folder suggested; INSTALL TO A NEW FOLDER. This step is vital.
   • On Mac, simply reinstall to your Application folder as usual.
5. In your anti-virus program, whitelist the following, per the instructions below (or better, consult the manual for your anti-virus software):
   • Windows: the viewer install folder
     • inside this, the viewer itself (firestorm.exe), slplugin.exe, slvoice.exe and dullahan_host.exe
   • Mac: the Firestorm application (normally in your Applications folder)
   • the viewer cache folder
     • In its default location, the folder is hidden on most OSs. To find it, you will need to show hidden folders. Now you need to locate the cache folder:
       • Windows Vista/7/8/10: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm
       • Windows Vista/7/8/10: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm_x64
       • Mac: /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Caches/Firestorm
6. REBOOT your computer at this time.
7. Run the viewer to ensure that it is working correctly; do a test of search and voice to ensure that both work, checking that the respective plugins get loaded. LOG OUT of the viewer.
8. Re-enable your anti-virus software and run the viewer again, repeating the tests above.

If you wish to take in-world snapshots, click the Snapshot button on the bottom button bar, or from the top menu bar, Avatar → Snapshot. ¹⁾ The Snapshot window gives options which allow you to control where to save, how large the image should be, and several others. They are explained below.

On the right is the snapshot preview area. This shows what part of your view will be included in the snapshot. Click Refresh, upper left, to refresh the preview.

If you click the « to the right of Refresh, the snapshot window changes orientation, becoming vertical with a smaller preview window. Click the » to revert to the default layout. This page describes the default, but the same principles apply to the vertical layout.

To the left of snapshot preview area, there are several options:

• Capture section: you may select what you wish to take a snapshot of:
  • Colors or Depth: Colors speaks for itself. Depth creates a grey-scale image where objects close by are dark, while those further away are light. Such an image can be combined with the Color image in image postwork. Note: This option can only be changed when saving to disk.
  • Interface: If enabled, this will include the viewer interface in the picture.
    • L$ Balance: Whether to include your on-screen L$ balance in the snapshot.
  • HUDs: If enabled, any HUDs you might be wearing will be included in the picture.
• Freeze Frame: If you click this, the entire scene will freeze (except particles) allowing you to capture that perfect moment, and then spend time in getting exactly the right camera angle. Uncheck this to disable the “freeze”.
• Auto-Refresh: If enabled, the preview window will be updated every time you move the camera. Causes noticeable client lag while enabled.
• Filter: Allows you to apply some interesting effects to the image. If you are interested in the technical details behind filters, refer to this SL wiki page.

The buttons below allow you to select where the image should be saved.

Select the size of the snapshot from the drop-down. You can do the entire current window, or chose from several pre-defined sizes, or use a custom size, which you can type in below. ²⁾

Below, select the image format. You can select one of: PNG, JPG or BMP. If you select JPG, you will also be able to select the quality. Lower quality results in smaller file sizes.

Save location and filename between sessions.

Click Save to save the image to your hard drive. Click the down arrow to change to Save As if you want to select a folder for the image, and/or change the name of it. Selection button returns to the main window.

As above, you can select the size of the image to save to inventory. Note that sizes are constrained to square images, and powers of 2 (ie, 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, etc).

Click Save to upload the image to your inventory. Note that this will cost L$10, which you must have on your account. Selection button returns to the Main window.

This saves the snapshot to your web profile feed.

Again, you may specify the image size. Furthermore, you can also type in a caption for the image, and indicate whether the in-world location should be included once the image is posted.

Click Post to upload the image to your profile, or Cancel button (used in versions 4.7.1 and 4.7.3) or Selection button (used in version 4.7.5) to return to the main snapshot window.

Clicking this will open a new window with multiple tabs. The active tab will initially be the second, Photo, where you will see a small preview of the snapshot, and where you can type in a comment to include with the picture.

If you have not yet connected your Facebook account, click on the Status tab, then the Connect button. More info on connecting to Facebook can be found on this SL wiki page.

From the Status tab, you can also make text-only posts to Facebook. Simply type in the What's on your mind? field, then click Post.

The Check In tab allows you to post your current SL location to Facebook, including some text about it.

Friends will show your FB friends.

If you wish to disconnect from your FB account, go to the Status tab, and click the Disconnect button. To remove SL sharing from Facebook, go to the App Center, find the Firestorm application, mouse over the app, then click the “X” on the upper right of the field. Click Remove.

Click this will open a new window, with two tabs, the first of which, Compose, will be active.

If you have not yet connected to your Twitter account, click on the Account tab, then click the Connect button. You will need to authorize Firestorm to post to your Twitter feed. More info in this SL wiki page.

Once the account is connected, you can write tweets on the Compose tab. Just above the text area, on the right, you are shown how many characters remain available for your tweet. The #SecondLife hash tag is supplied, but you can erase that if you like. You may opt to include your SL location, and/or a photo. Doing so reduces the number of available characters for the tweet itself.

Below, you can select the size of the image to include (if you have opted to), and where to apply any image filters to it. a small preview is shown under this.

Click Tweet to post to your Twitter feed, Cancel if you have changed your mind.

Clicking this button opens a new window for Flickr upload, with two tabs.

If you have not yet connected to your Flickr account, will will need to do so before you can post pictures. So click on the Account Tab, then Connect to authorize Firestorm to post to your Flickr feed. Further details on this SL wiki page.

Once you have connected to your Flickr account, click on the Photo tab. As with other snapshot windows, you have a small preview, and can set the image size, and apply various types of image filter.

Below the preview, you can specify a title for the image, and give a description. Optionally, you can include the SL location, and supply tags for the image.

Lastly, you should select the appropriate rating for the image. Please be sure to do this or you may find your account being “frozen” till you correct any incorrectly rated images.

Click Upload to post the image to your Flickr feed.

Here, you can send pictures from SL directly to someone via email.

In the Message area, supply the name of the person you're sending to, the name of the sender (your SL user name is filled in, but you can change this), a subject line, and a message.

In the Settings tab, you can change the size of the image to be sent, and also select the image quality. (Images will be in JPG format.)

The Selection button will return to the main window.

If you can turn in circles but not move forward/backwards, you probably have Movelock enabled.

• Go to the Avatar menu→ Movement submenu and make sure Movelock is not ticked.
• See Movelock info for more information or if you are unable to change the Movelock setting.

However, there are a few other things to try:

• Go to a different region and see if you are able to move there. If so, something at your original location is causing the problem.
• If you are using a LAQ mesh head, make sure you don't have the Pose feature turned on.
• Make sure you don't have some other HUD with a pose feature.
• If you can't find what attachment is causing the problem, try going to Advanced menu (Ctrl-Alt-D ) → Release Keys.
  • Note: Release Keys will be greyed out if RLV has locked any of your attachments. To disable RLV, go to Prefs → Firestorm → Extras, untick the top item, and then relog.
• Make sure you don't have the Firestorm pose stand active.
  • If you have the Pose Stand button on your toolbar, make sure it's not “on.”
  • If you don't have the button, go to Avatar menu → Toolbar Buttons, drag the Pose Stand button out to your toolbar, and make sure it's not “on.”

• Try Avatar menu → Avatar Health → Stop Animations & Revoke Permissions.
• Try right clicking your avatar → Reset Skeleton & Animations.
• If the above two items did not work, go to a different region and try them again.
• If you have the animation in your inventory, play it from inventory, then click Stop.
• Remove attachments one by one until the animation stops. (This will eliminate worn items as a cause.)
  • Note: Animations can be in ANY attachment.
  • Note: Attachments are anything with a box icon. Look in Inventory → Current Outfit folder to see all your attachments.

• Make sure the Firestorm AO is off:
  • On the AO button on your toolbar, untick the checkbox.
  • Note: The Firestorm AO can be active even if the button is not on your toolbar. If it is not on your toolbar, go to Avatar menu → Toolbar Buttons, drag the AO button out onto your toolbar, and make sure it is not ticked.

• If you know that a “sittable” item gave you the animation:
  1. Go to Preferences → Firestorm → Protection → Revoke Permissions.
  2. Temporarily set this to “Revoke on Sit and Stand.”
  3. Sit on the item, then stand. This should stop the animation.
  4. Change Preferences → Firestorm → Protection → Revoke Permissions back to either “Never” or “Revoke on Stand.”

• Try Advanced menu → Release keys. (After doing this, you will need to recreate the FS bridge: Avatar → Avatar health → Recreate LSL Bridge.)

• You may simply be experiencing lag: See Troubleshooting Lag for tips to reduce this.
• Many pose balls will request permission to animate you. If you did not see the animation request, look in your Notifications window for the message. Click “Accept.”
• Make sure you have not blocked the item or its owner: Look in Comm menu → Block List, see if the item or the item's owner is there, and remove the item/person from the block list.
• Go to Preferences → Firestorm → Protection → Revoke Permissions. For normal use, this should be set to either “Normal” (no protection) or “Revoke on Stand.” It should normally NOT be set to “Revoke on Sit” or “Revoke on Sit and Stand,” as both of these will prevent items from animating you when you are sitting.

“Rubber-banding” is when you try to walk forward and then suddenly snap back to a previous position. Sometimes you will seem unable to stop walking. This is caused by region lag, when the server can't keep up with processing avatar movement (collisions).

• For info about region lag see here: Region Lag
• For some things that region or parcel owners can do to reduce region lag see here: Reducing Server Lag.

This typically happens when you have two or more conflicting AOs (animation overriders) on.

• Start by removing known AOs until you are wearing only one known AO.
• If that doesn't help, start by removing other HUDs, then all other attachments, one by one, until it stops. Any worn item can contain an animation, so don't assume that some items are “ok.”
• Note: Attachments are anything with a box icon. Look in Inventory → Current Outfit folder to see all your attachments.

• Try turning the opposite direction to the spin.
• Try pressing BOTH right and left arrow keys at the same time, repeatedly.
• Relog.

This is a possible bridge problem: recreate bridge by going to Avatar menu → Avatar Health → Recreate LSL Bridge.

This is a possible bridge problem: recreate bridge by going to Avatar menu → Avatar Health → Recreate LSL Bridge.

For unknown reasons, some users need to change an additional setting:

Go to Preferences → Privacy → Lookat, and tick “Don't Send My Selection Target Hints.”

• In most cases, pressing Ctrl-R to toggle run mode will get you back into walk (though it may in some cases be necessary to hit Ctrl-R more than once).
• If you are wearing a scripted AO (animation overrider), turn off any “running” features it has.
• If you are using the Firestorm built-in AO (animation overrider), make sure there are no running animations in the “Walking” or “Standing” categories.

After Strafe

Ref. BUG-6825

In one specific case, the above will not work. Specifically:

• You have Preferences → Move & View → Movement → Tap-tap-hold to run enabled.
• Press shift, then tap-tap-hold the left or right arrow key

That gets you running sideways. If you release shift before the arrow key, you will be stuck running.

To stop running, you have to repeat the sequence: press shift, then tap-tap-hold left or right arrow.

• Go to Preferences → Sound & Media → Voice, and deselect “Move Avatar Lips When Speaking.” Note: This is the only viewer feature that affects lip movement.
• If you are wearing a mesh head, turn off any animations in the head. For more help, ask the support group for that head.
• Go to Comm menu → Gestures. Tick “Active only” at the bottom of the window. Review the list for any gestures that might contain a face animation. If in doubt, turn them all off, one at a time, to find the one responsible for the lip movement.

This is a known SL bug also affecting the SL viewer. Refer to this SL bug report for more information.

This page shows all changes since the Firestorm 6.0.2.56680 Animesh Release.
If you are updating from an earlier version then 6.0.2, see HERE for previous release notes.

For a summary of all the major new features and improvements in this release, please
see Inara Pey's FIXME blog post.

Too many to list them all here.
See the full change log FIXME for details.
Highlighted fixes are listed below.

• Merge up to Linden Lab viewer code-base
  Firestorm is fully merged up to the Linden code-base, plus some cherry picked fixes from upstream.
  Ansariel Hiller

Firestorm is still using the RestrainedLove API: RLV v3.2.1 / RLVa v2.2.0.56680

Here are the full RLVa 2.2 Release Notes

• German - Ansariel Hiller
• Polish - PanteraPolnocy Resident