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Login Failure
This section covers problems that happen after entering your login information and pressing “Log In.”
It explains some of the more common reasons for login failure, and what you can do about it. For information on other kinds of login problems, refer to SL's Login Failure page and SL's Error Messages page.
NOTE: Before doing anything else, check the Second Life Grid Status page to see if there are any known issues reported. If so, that might explain the issues you are having.
Sudden Crashing During Login, Usually on Only One Account and One Viewer
If you have recently started crashing during login, AND you have display names enabled, see if this page helps: Login Crash Due to Display Names
Firestorm 6.3.9 Only - Viewer Crashes Right After Loading
Firestorm 6.3.9 Only: There is a bug in the Firestorm 6.3.9 AO that will cause you to crash in certain situations. Please see AO Crash on 6.3.9 for more information and instructions on how to fix it.
Viewer Freezes While 'Loading World...'
If you have Intel Graphics, please refer here.
'Unable to Connect to Simulator' or 'Despite Our Best Attempts...' or other connection messages
At times, when attempting to log in, you will get a message like “Unable to connect to simulator”. Unfortunately, this message can be the result of several different things. This page covers some of the more common - and more rare - cases when this might occur.
- Your Internet Connection Is Down: Check whether you are able to connect to the 'net using a web browser; try to use it to visit a known website. If that fails, then the first thing to try is to unplug your modem/router for at least a full minute, then once plugged back in, allow then to go through startup, after which reboot your computer. If after this you are still unable to connect to the Internet with a web browser, you will probably need to contact your ISP to have your connection checked.
- Your Router and/or Modem Has Problems: Repeat the same things as above.
- Your Firewall Is Preventing the Connection: Try disabling your firewall software completely and then try to log in again. If you are successful, then you need to allow the viewer access through the firewall. Some tips on how to do that are here: Second Life wiki: Configuring Your Firewall.
- Domain Name Server (DNS) Issues: Users of Firestorm may get “Unable to connect to simulator”, or a message specifically saying that there are issues with the DNS. In that case refer to the DNS Failure page for how to proceed.
- Region Is Down: It is possible that the region you are trying to log into is down. So try again but select a different region name at the log in screen. Some regions you can try: Hippo Hollow, Aich, Hatton, Pooley.
- Group Tag Preventing Login: There are cases when your active group tag will prevent log in - most usually when the tag contains unicode characters (though there have been isolated cases where even standard Latin characters have prevented log in as well). If this happens, you can attempt to log in using a text based viewer such as Radegast or MetaBolt, and change your active group in that viewer (preferably to None), log out and then log in with your usual viewer.
Should that not be an option, you will need to find a way to get word in-world, to the group owner, and have them either edit the group title tag or, should that not be an option, eject you from the group.
If that too is not a viable option, then the only other recourse is to file a support ticket with LL and have them change your active group.
This is a server issue, and is reported in this LL JIRA.
- Unknown Settings Issue: Try clearing your viewer settings: How to Clear FS Settings. You can make a settings back up first (see How to Make a Settings Backup) – but be sure to test on cleared settings before restoring your backup.
Viewer 'Not Responding' Error
Waiting for Region Handshake
This error occurs when the viewer is not getting an acknowledgement from the server. See above for how to deal with connection issues.
Login Failed; Your Account Is Not Accessible Until (date/time)
This usually happens when you attempt to log in immediately after a crash. When you crash out of SL, the servers do not “realize” it immediately. This is part because it might simply be a case of a brief loss of connection, so SL allows for that. In fact, if anyone is near where you were at the time of a crash, they will continue to see your avatar for several minutes.
When you attempt to log back in, SL sees this, and starts to shut down the session that was running when you crashes. People will see your avatar vanish at this point.
So if you get the above message, wait for a minute, then try to log in again.
Login Fail Without Cache Clear
When things are running normally, you should never have to clear cache in order to log in. If you experience either of the following problems when logging in without clearing cache…
- You disconnect from Second Life as soon as you log in, with the View IMs/Quit message; or
- You are able to log in but find yourself under water (all you can see is a blue screen) at coordinates 10, 10, 10 (if you log in to an all blue screen, check your location, see if you are near the region's corner, at 10, 10, 10).
…then refer to this page. Both problems have the same root and thus the set of solutions.
'Despite our best efforts...'
If logging in fails on the first attempt only with a message like “Despite our best efforts…”, and you use Kaspersky password manager, reset your login info for Second Life in the password manager, then try again. (Information provided by Valeries Muircastle.)
I Get a Captcha Screen on the Login Page
The Firestorm login screen consists of a large upper display of information from the Firestorm web site, in addition to the smaller login panel at the bottom of the screen.
If your IP address range has a poor reputation (listed as having recently been involved in shady activities such as being part of a DDOS or a known IP that is malware infected), you will get a captcha form to complete before you can view the Firestorm web site. Captcha image
To view the upper part of the login screen normally, simply fill in the Captcha.
NOTE: You can log in to SL without doing the Captcha.
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Intel Issues
Windows 10 and Intel Stuck at "Initializing VFS..."
If you have Intel Graphics HD, Intel Graphics HD2500 and Intel Graphics HD4000, and are using the 64bit version of Firestorm 5.0.7 or later, on Windows 10, refer to this page.
Viewer freezes while "Loading world..."
If you have Intel HD 530, Intel HD 620 or Intel HD 630, and Windows 10 – This is an Intel driver issue.
The fix is to roll back to driver 24.20.100.6025.
Direct download Legacy Intel® Graphics Driver for Windows® 10 Version: 24.20.100.6025– Unofficial download; Intel has removed the driver, it seems.
Manual update How to manually update Intel Drivers.
(Ref. BUG-225655.)
Outdated Driver Error
If you are on Windows 10, and get an error such as this:
First, make sure your drivers are fully updated
- Visit Intel and try to update your drivers there.
Next, verify that your graphics card is one of the affected versions. You can find a table of affected versions here: Graphics Drivers Supported Operating Systems, but most frequently we have seen Intel HD 2000 and Intel HD 3000. You should be able to verify your graphics in the system info of your computer.
If this does not help, then download and install and 32bit version of the viewer. Firestorm Viewer Downloads
Load Library failed with error 1114, Dynamic Link Library (DLL)
If you are on Windows 10, and get this error:
Check first for switchable graphics card: Dual Graphics Issues
Verify that your graphics card is one of the affected versions. You can find a table of affected versions here: Graphics Drivers Supported Operating Systems, but most frequently we have seen Intel HD 2000 and Intel HD 3000. You should be able to verify your graphics in the system info of your computer.
If this does not help, then download and install and 32bit version of the viewer. Firestorm Viewer Downloads
Graphics Issues After Win10 Update
If you start experiencing graphics issues after a Win10 update, such as driver crashes, or simply very poor performance, the first thing to try is a full computer reboot.
If that doesn't help, reinstall your graphics card driver from the card maker's website, not from Windows. That is, from nVidia, AMD, or Intel.
If you have Intel HD 2000 or 3000 graphics, refer to this page.
Laptop dual graphics issues
If your laptop has an Intel CPU and also has either an AMD or Nvidia graphics system, it may have the ability to switch between the Integrated Intel graphics (for power savings) and the AMD/Nvidia (for performance). But sometimes Firestorm isn't automatically configured to use the high-performance graphics.
You can confirm this issue by looking at Help → About Firestorm and checking the name of the graphics card listed. If it says Intel, please follow the steps on this page.
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Dialogs
Many of the dialogs, warnings and confirmations that the viewer generates can be suppressed so you don't see them again.
Any viewer-generated dialog that can be suppressed is listed in Preferences→ Notifications → Alerts, in the upper “Always Show” field.
Dialogs that have been suppressed are listed in the lower “Never Show” field.
System-generated dialogs, meaning generated by SL itself, cannot be suppressed.
Suppress a Dialog
Most of those dialogs would show an option in them saying “Do not show me this again”, or something very similar. Clicking that will suppress that dialog.
If you don't see the option, go to Preferences→ Notifications → Alerts, look in the upper “Always Show” field, click on the dialog you want to suppress, then click the button to move it to the lower “Never Show” field.
If the dialog you want to suppress is not listed, it cannot be suppressed.
Restore a Dialog
To start seeing a dialog once more go to Preferences→ Notifications → Alerts, look in the lower “Never Show” field, click on the dialog you want to restore, then click the button to move it to the upper “Always Show” field.
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Firestorm Documentation
Firestorm User Guide
Basic Functions
- People Panel Nearby (Radar), Friends and Groups are accessed here
Advanced Topics
- General EEP Information - Environments: Water, Sky, and Day Cycles
- Windlight: Water and Sky - Applies only to FS 6.3.9 and earlier
For documentation on the old Phoenix viewer, please click here.
Getting Help
Support
- How to Take a Screenshot—often needed so we can see the problem
Classes
Second Life Related
Firestorm Gateway - For New Residents
Joining Second Life
You can join SecondLife via the web page given here:
If you want to invite friends to join, then please do share the link above with them.
The Firestorm Gateway
The Team
- Firestorm Gateway Team
If you are interested in becoming a part of the gateway team, then please see the Involvement tab above.
In-World Locations
- Firestorm Social
Firestorm Gateway & Support Regions. Welcoming & Helping new residents into Second Life and oldies with Second Life. Social Area, RP, Sandbox, Freebie's, Classes, tutorials, games & lots of experiences to explore. Helpers always available to assist. - Firestorm Aerodrome
Flyable airplanes, helicopters, skydiving, scuba diving, boats and JetSki's. - Firestorm Combat & Weapons Range
Shoot weapons at hostile aliens, target shooting range, nearby avatar-to-avatar combat area. - Firestorm Sci-Fi Portal & RP Area.
Entry portal to SciFi & RolePlay area. Visit Trek starship, explore space station, fly shuttles, visit Callahan's Bar, workout in space gym (near bar), supply deck freebies, functional holodeck, Firefly Companions RP, Star Trek RP, individual quests, and more. - The Ghost Town by MadPea
Immersive and interactive adventure game.
Getting Help
Help for those new to Second Life may be found here.
If you need help with Firestorm viewer, please refer to this page for the many ways in which you can get help. We also offer classes on how to use the viewer. See this page for the schedule and in-world locations.
For Developers
- Compiling Firestorm ViewerUnder Construction
Involvement
Firestorm Beta Testing
Firestorm Gateway for New Residents
The Firestorm Gateway is a Community Gateway for new residents coming into Second Life where we provide a safe and welcoming learning environment. Help is freely given for users on any viewer by our Gateway Helper volunteers.
New Helper Applicants are required to have been in Second Life for at least 1 year and go through a process that includes filling out an application (which requires some knowledge of the Gateway regions and basic knowledge of second life) and following through a series of steps and training. The final step would be an interview with the Gateway HR Manager at which time both sides would discuss and determine if being a volunteer helper is right for you. If both sides agree at this point you would become a member of the Firestorm Gateway Team.
Previous Gateway Helpers that have left the team for any reason: If you have been gone longer than 6 months or more you will need to start the process over again and reapply. If you have been gone for 3 - 6 months, you will need to contact the Gateway HR Manager about coming back. If you are accepted back this will likely include a brief interview and a retake of part of your helper training. If you have been gone under 3 months and are accepted back, you can begin as a helper again after reading through any changes that have been made in your absence.
If you are interested in applying to join as a helper, please complete the form.
SciFi Portal
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Exploring Second Life
Second Life is vast in size, and rich in things to do and places to see. The map here shows the primary Linden mainland continents, just to give an idea of how really huge SL is.
You can find a small sampling of places by looking in the viewer's top menu bar, World → Destinations.
A much larger list may be found on the Second Life Destination Guide. You can also explore Inara Pay's blog. In the top menu, click on SL→ Exploring Second Life.
Another way to explore is via Flickr groups. There are a very large number of Flickr groups devoted to Second Life, on many themes. landscape group often require that each photo include the location in the description, so you an visit the place if the photo inspires you. A few such groups include:
Much of SL consists of resident-created builds and venues. Some of these last a very long time, but in general, places come and go quite quickly, for a variety of reasons. However, there are a large number of places which have been created by SL for the enjoyment of residents, and which are unlikely to vanish. Some of them date back to the early years of Second Life, and so are constructed using basic prims only, making them all the more amazing, in a way.
The team tasked with creating these places is known as the Linden Department of Public Works - or LDPW. The places are spread out all over the mainland continents, and so may be difficult to find. Most residents have probably only seen a small handful of them. The “Grid Hopping” section of this page (see tab above) lists primarily LDPW locations. The “Sight Seeing” section, instead, discusses ways in which you can explore SL yourself.
Use the tabs above to navigate the pages in this section.
Grid Hopping
The term “grid hopping” refers to teleporting from place to place using landmarks or SLURLs 1). It is the most common and certainly the fastest way to get around the grid.
This section lists Linden locations round the grid. They are sorted according to the continent they are on, or the closest one for those that are off-shore. Within each section, locations are grouped by maturity rating. Press Ctrl-P to open Preferences, look in the general tab, and ensure that your content rating is high enough to go to the location. If you are under 18, you will not be able to access locations designated Moderate or Adult. Also ensure that your attire suits the maturity rating of the location. Refer to Maturity ratings for details.
The list of locations here is by no means complete. The locations were researched from various sources, but most simply by looking on the world map and hopping round the grid. Therefore, no doubt, there are many places yet to be discovered, and some might be listed under the wrong continent. Nonetheless, for those who want to explore, to see great builds, learn about about the history and folklore of Second Life, maybe find quiet places to hang out with friends, or even have a laugh at some of the fun and quirky things around, then you'll find a starting point here. There are plenty of freebies (some obvious, some hidden), some games and quests.
Some locations are not technically LDPW, but they are public and can be explored. Also, in some cases, the location has a landing spot at some distance from the actual place; use your map marker to guide you in walking or flying to the correct spot.
Click the bars below to expand the section.
Bay City
Bay City is attached to Sansara, so technically part of that continent. However, it was created much later than Sansara, and has significant LDPW infrastructure, so is treated separately.
General
- Channel Island Mental Hospital - Horror
- Falmouth Hotel - Horror
- Hairy Hippo Fun Land - Amusement park
Moderate
- Battery Passage - Scenic
- Hot Balls - Bowling alley
- Molexandria - Labyrinth and game
- Planets - Monument to the first Mole on the moon
- Port Authority - Extensive docklands
Bellisseria
This continent is devoted to free homes for Premium members. However, the LDPW have created a huge number of public spaces, small and large, for residents to enjoy. Given how many such locations thre are, the list below is intended as a sample. Explore, there is so much to find! The continent also has a railway; see the map under Heterocera, below.
Moderate
- Backhill - Secret cabin trail
- Campwich Lodge - Large lodge on a lake
- Carcossa - Gator rock
- Chippewa Junction - Rail yard
- Decker - Angle fish (no that isn't a typo)
- Franklin Hollow - Dinosaur fossil
- Gaim - Swimming pool
- Glistening Woods - Picnic area
- Gridlock - Dragon skeleton
- Methuselah - Volcano
- SSPE1146 - Molehenge
- Moonia - Ice fishing shack
- Oh Buoy - Lighthouse and beach
- Picards Wharf - Reef
- Piranhaconda Bay - Large public beach
- Placid - Winter cabin and picnic
- Randelsham Forest Tree house lodge
- Red Hook - Promontory, rail Station
- Seal Point - Underwater house
- Springhurst Gulf - Hermit crab island
- Tusktooth - Mermaid garden
- Varmint Hills - Mountain lakes
- Waterbury - Picnic under the redwoods
- Wheelhouse - Public beach
- Winters Elm - Dog park
- Yew Betcha - Mysterious vortex
Blake Sea
The Blake Sea is a collaboration between SL and residents. Only a couple of LDPW locations are listed here. Explore the rest in a boat!
- Blake Sea - Half Hitch - Fishing village; free boat available; go through the cleft in the hill.
- Blake Sea - Kraken - Island
- Blake Sea - Windlass - Bungalows on the island's hills; boat available
Corsica
General
- Betacourt - Water vortex, shipwreck
- Degrand Channel - Underwater grotto
- Eleazer - Grotto
- Frumatay - Underwater structure
- Getachew - Underwater plane wreck
- Sarante - Treasure chest - and there are more around… find them all
- Shoebow - Lighthouse and underwater grotto
- Twogood - Hole in the sea, submarine nearby
Moderate
- Degrand - Free boat available
- Sunrise Islands Waterway - Paddle round on inner tubes, or sail a boat
Gaeta I
General
- Dimpf - Undersea wreck
- Lastness Marina - Sail boat available
- Rauban - Ancient statue
- Sandy Beach Trail - Life saver for fun on the water
- Sandy Beach Trail - Beach, pier, boats available
Gaeta V
Moderate
- Frostar - Beach and jetty, free boat available
- Fuerte de San Phillipe - Fort
- Hyannisport InfoHub - Large beach, lighthouse
Heterocera
Heterocera has an extensive rail network, which will be covered separately in the Sightseeing section.
General
- The ANWR Channel - Oil Rig - Where is the oil pumped to?
Moderate
- Atoll Point - Light house
- Crumbi Junction - Several railway lines meet here
- Lapara - Route 6 avalanche tunnel
- Mole Lido - Swimming pool
- Pavonia - Route 6 meets the SL railroad; old locomotive and station
- Mole Mart - Freebies inside; jetty down the road
- Moma - Route 2 lighthouse
- Spini - Route 6 viaduct
- SLRR Bhaga Station - Ferry stop here too.
- Sallow - Ocean view Route 2 rest area
- Sallow - Satellite Market Square
- Temple of Iris - Infohub; Linden historical site.
Horizons
Horizons is a retro sci-fi themed adult continent just to the north of Zindra. It is also home to a quest, in the 6 central regions. There are many landmarks and small hangouts here; only some are listed.
Adult
- Horizons Cirius - One of several infohubs where you can learn more about Horizons.
- Horizons Andromeda - Park
- Horizons Ariel- Drone statue
- Horizons Bianca - Weather stone
- Horizons Galatea - Fountain
- Horizons Halley - Skyscraper statue
- Horizons Mars - Fountain
- Horizons Proteus - Park benches
Jeogeot
General
- Hotel Adriano - Michael Linden's home; free boat available on the wharf.
- Pyri Amusement Park Boat Service - Hop on a boat, ride to the amusement park.
Moderate
- Barneys Bay - Seaside town, overrun by strange creatures
- Barneys Bay - Fishing trawler
- Ichelus Village - Village near a volcano
- Mos Ainsley - Moon base to explore
- USS Reprisal - Aircraft carrier; free uniform available, if you can find it
Nautilus
General
- Dizadare - Surf shack; underwater ruin
- Elhaddad - Ship wreck
- Kenosaki - Small atoll; kayak and floatie
- Leoming - Beach; boat available; underwater wreck
- Meltons - Mini Falling Water house
- Pledder Beach - Small island
- Psychwar - Beach
- Skradski - Small castle
- Tomasina - Underwater ruins of an ancient city
Moderate
- Arezzo - Surf shack
- Arnthrud - Small island with ruin and wreck
- Asterbit - Beach; offshore submarine wreck
- Cividale - Aztec pyramid
- Codlet - Tiny island, pier
- Cortona - Tree house on a forested outcrop
- Denny - Small harbor
- Fantazia- Mysterious magical hidden location
- Galgano - Small toll; underwater crash site
- Milio - Tiny island; drifting raft
- Montefalco Small island
- Nimitz - Lighthouses, longship and wrecks
- Perugia - Mysterious underwater structure; ridable catfish monster nearby
- Pienza - The Blake Sea Drainage Plug
- Pieve - Small island with strange creatures
- Pulciano - Ancient lighthouse
- Sarpesi - Undersea ruin
- Soncino - Hilly island with sun beds
- Triora - Beach with shack and strange creatures
- Urbino - Beach and surf shack
- Villaamil - Ship wreck
- Vipiteno - Sea prison
- Volterra - Small island with waterfall; underwater wreck
Nautilus City
Nautilus City is part of Nautilus (above), but it has unique infrastructure and a mythical back story, so is listed separately.
General
- Weiland - Floating crane; caution,
Moderate
Premium
This section refers to the old premium home continents, as opposed to the far more recent Bellisseria, for which see above. Access to these locations requires premium membership.
General
- The Wilderness - Six region tropical jungle
Moderate
- Cape Ekim - Quest
Sansara
General
- Bay of Space Pigs - Harry's Island - Wrecked pig space craft
- Bay of Space Pigs - Kremer - Huts and airplane landing strip; boat available
- Bay of Space Pigs - Omidyar - SL logo; view on map
- Brenner - Dinosaur skeletons
- Governor Linden's Mansion - SL Heritage site2)
- Iapetos - Cavern
- Koios - Overlook
- Luna Shores - House below by the sea; giant birds nest high on the mountain
- Mare Secundus - Elderbridge Dock - Small forested islands and a mysterious symbol
- Mare Secundus - Orrery and Flight to the Forbidden World - Discover ancient secrets
- Murray Infohub - Beach pavilion, boat available
- Mnemosyne - Unusual laboratory? Beach chairs on mainland
- Project Kapor Rosedale - Easter-themed strip.
- Rizal Games - Game arcade, pirate ship, maze, bridge to forest
- Sea of Fables - Bacchus Island - Sculpture park; Teen Grid Transfer Station
- Sea of Fables - Bothnia - Sunken temple ruins
- Sea of Fables - Carpentaria - Sunken ruins
- Sea of Fables - Gorgon Island - Small rocky island
- Sea of Fables - Hephaestus Isle - Temple ruin
- Sea of Fables - Isles of the Blessed - Connected islands with small temples
- Sea of Fables - Joppa Island - Dwelling
- Sea of Fables - Mount Olympus - Seating on plateau
- Sea of Fables - Perseus Island - Village
- Sea of Fables - Poseidon Island - Town inspired by Santorini; quest
- Sea of Fables - Seriphos Island - Village and temple
- The Bazaar - Loads of freebies of all kinds!
- Voss - Pier; start of alpine road
- Wengen Chairlift - Go up the mountain, then ski down; ski lodge across the road
- Zermatt Winter cabin; grab ice skates across the frozen lake
Moderate
- Adelais - Classical style temple
- Bertrada - Classical style temple
- Gisela - Classical style temple
- Gulf of Lauren - Island with a home
- Hildegarde - Classical style temple
- Linden Playground - Located on what is reported to be the first region in Second Life
- Lothair - Home on the water
- Valda Wave Energy Hub - Generating power from wave energy; explore underwater
Satori
General
- Meauxle Bureaux - aka Moleville
Moderate
- Arabian Nights - Large desert island
- Danu - Beach shack, and unusual creatures
- Fairy Grove - Magical home of faries
- Formidable - Small castle on volcani rocks; large flower pot or nearby island
- Glorieux - Construction abandoned
- Gunport - Fortress
- Genereux - Unusual pot-shaped dwellings and temple
- Impetueux - Island with shack
- Pirate Cove - Pirate island and treasure horde
- Rodel - Shack and lighthouse; free boat available. Unusual observatory on a nearby island
- Salty Mole - Pirate village
- Tiny Isle of Mist - Small overgrown islands; coracle boat avaiable
- Tweendeck - Floating island with strange creatures
Sharp
The remnants of the SL Teen Grid. Since it closed, several spaces have been left unused.
General
- Bleu Bay - Oil rig
- Dougall Public Stage - Birthday Torch
- Chalet Linden - Ski lodge; festival bears
- Harry's GoKarts - Kart track
- I-World Village - Former in-world support location
- Lewis Forest - Tea party in the forest, and small folk.
- Loki - Monorail junction
- Pullman Square - Large space to sit and relax round a large fountain
- Svecia Gorge - Careful, narrow ledge
Zindra
Second Life Endowment for The Arts
A group of regions, sponsored by SL, to create a space for residents to showcase art of all kinds. Exhibits vary over time, so perhaps the best place to start is:
There is an in-world group you can join to be informed of events and new exhibits:
For more information, see here.
SL Historical Preservation Society
These locations were not built by SL, but by residents. They were subsequently “adopted” by SL in order to preserve them for residents when the original owners left. They are included here as they are yet more places to explore.
General
Moderate
- SS Galaxy Cruise Ship - Midsection; the ship is 3 regions long.
Sightseeing
There are a great many ways to explore Second Life: sharing landmarks, reading blogs, checking the SL destination guide, and so on. The “Grid Hopping” section provides quite a few locations as well.
However, it is arguably a lot more enjoyable to simply set out and see what you can find on your own, rather than simply hopping around. Taking the time to wander alone or with friends can fun fun, relaxing, and enjoyable.
There are many ways to explore, from pod tours which follow a predetermined itinerary, to getting a vehicle and just going where you like. This section explore these methods.
Click the bars below to expand the section.
Pod Tours
Pod tours were set up many years ago by SL resident Yavanna Llanfair, and they cover all the Linden continents, except Bellisseria thus far. You may see a pod by chance on roads, or you can go to any pod station and hop into one. If you don't want to wait for a pod to arrive, you can click on the pod's sign in a station to rez a temporary one, which you can ride immediately. On sitting, you will be offered a menu; this can give you a notecard with info on how to use pods, and the complete list of pod stations.
Pods will give a commentary as they travel, directing you to interesting things to see. They travel on road, on the water, and in some place, in the air. They will often change shape accordingly.
Pod stations may be found at the following locations:
Bay City
No signs here; wait for one to arrive.
Corsica
Gaeta I
Gaeta V
Heterocera
- Ar bwys y Rheilfordd - Pods are outside
Jeogeot
Nautilus
- !Explorers Info Center - Pods are outside
Sansara
- Y Lanfa - ferry; pods on upper level
- Laconelli Sail Club - very small sign on post
Satori
Sharp
Zindra
Sailing
Sailing is incredibly popular in Second Life, be it for the simple pleasure of getting out on the water, or to race.
Most seas and waterways in SL are open to sailing, one of the most popular being the Blake Sea, which is also where many races are held.
Finding a Boat
Many places offer boats in a wide range of types: motor boats, sail boats, pirate ships, submarines, you name it. You could start with a free boat, to get the hang of it all before spending money:
- The Bazaar - In-world location with a ton of freebies, including a few boats.
Before buying a craft, it is strongly recommended that you try demos, to get a feel for how they handle and what functions they have. If you know anyone who sails, you can also ask for recommendations.
Where to Sail
In order to go sailing, you will first need to set your boat down somewhere on water - that is, rez out out. So the first thing to do is locate a “rez zone”. There are many of thsse, particularly in and around the Blake Sea. The list below, therefore, offers just a few, leaving you to find more as you explore.
Note that the Blake Sea connects Nautilus and northern Satori, along with several large private estates, all of which have publicly accessible waterways. From Nautilus you can sail north up to Corcisa. It is also possible to sail from Heterocera, down through Sansara, Belliseria to Jeogeot.
Bellisseria
Blake Sea
Corsica
Gaeta I
Gaeta V
Haterocera
Jeogeot
Nautilus
Sansara
Satori
Zindra
Groups
Given the popularity of sailing in SL, there are many in-world group dedicated to it. Perhaps the best one to begin with is
Flying
Flying is another popular activity in Second Life, and is supported by airports (generally privately owned but open to the public) on most continents. Flying takes a bit more skill than other types of vehicle in that you have to get used to navigating in 3D: not just on a surface, but also up/down. And landing without crashing is a challenge.
Finding an Aircraft
Many places offer aircraft in a wide range of types: small prop planes or airliners, fighter jets and biplanes, to give but a few examples. You could start with a free one, to get the hang of it all before spending money:
Where to Fly
You will need to find a place where you can rez your aircraft, and where there is room to take off and land - in other words, an airstrip or airport. Most of these are privately owned, but allowed aircraft to be rezzed for long enough to allow you to fly. Be sure to read any rules and respect them.
Only a few airports are listed here, leaving you to find more on your own. If you are new to flying, it is recommended that you start at a smaller, low traffic airport, so as not to intefere with others in case you obstruct the runway as you learn.
Bellisseria
Corsica
Jeogeot
Heterocera
Nautilus
- SLHA - Hollywood Airport - Reportedly the busiest airport in SL; avoid while learning the basics
Sansara
Satori
Groups
There are many in-world group dedicated to flying. A good one to begin with is:
More Information
Driving
All continents have public roadways on which you can drive and explore, except for Gaeta I, it seems, which has no roads as such. It must be said, however, that road driving doesn't seem to be all that popular. However, racing is. There are many racetracks in SL; use search to find some.
Finding a Vehicle
You can find all kinds of vehicles to drive, from cars of all kinds, trucks, motorbikes and bicycles. As usual, try demos before buying.
Where to Drive
There are just a few places where you can rez a vehicle and set out to explore.
Bellisseria
Corsica
Gaeta V
Heterocera
Jeogeot
Nautilus
Premium
This location requires Premium membership to access.
- Racers Gulch - Four region desert race track
Sansara
- Georgean Test Track - Race track
Satori
Sharp
Zindra
Rail
Heterocera has an extensive rail network, as shown in the map.4) You can grab a free train and explore by rail. Note that only a handful of the many train stations are listed here. A few other places also have railway lines, but not all allow public rez.
Finding a Vehicle
You can find free trains at:
Where to Drive
Bellisseria
Heterocera
- Bhaga - Lines 1, 3, 4, 6
- Lappet - Line 5
- Neumoegen - Lines 1, W
- Plusia - Line 4
- Spangle - Line 3
- Tuliptree - Line 1: Virtual Railway Consortium HQ
- Vicina - Line 2
- Yucca - Line 7
Premium
This location requires Premium membership to access.
- Railway in the Snow - Four region railway line
Sansara
ONSR - Snowlands railway. There is a regular automated service but you can rez your own train in certain spots.
The Great Second Life Railway is privately owned but publically accessible.
References
A great free reference to SL continents is Mainland Maps & RezZone LandMarks & FinderHUD from LorenFox. This package includes maps showing each continent and their road and rail networks, plus rez zone locations.
Most of the links below are very much outdated, but they do provide background for the Linden continents.
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Whitelisting the Viewer in Anti-Virus Software (plus Firewalls and Anti-Malware Software)
Introduction
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.
Click Here if you were advised to reinstall
Reinstalling
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:
- Uninstall the viewer normally.
- Disable the anti-virus software completely.
- REBOOT your computer to make sure that the AV is not running anymore.
- If needed, download the viewer from here.
- 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.
What to Whitelist
In your anti-virus program, whitelist the following, per the instructions below (or better, consult the manual for your anti-virus software):
- The viewer:
- On Windows the viewer install folder is by default
- 64-bit - C:\Program Files\Firestormx64-Release
- 32-bit - C:\Program Files\Firestorm-Release
- 32-bit on x64 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Firestorm-Release
Inside this, the viewer itself (firestorm.exe), slplugin.exe, slvoice.exe and dullahan_host.exe (inside llplugin folder)
- On Mac: the Firestorm application (normally in your Applications folder)
- On Linux: the executables in /path/to/installation/bin/ (do-not-directly-run-firestorm-bin, dullahan_host, SLPlugin and SLVoice)
- The 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 64-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm_x64
- Windows 32-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm
- Mac: /Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Caches/Firestorm
- Linux: /home/[USERNAME]/.firestorm_x64/cache
- The Settings 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 settings folder:
- Windows 64-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Firestorm_x64
- Windows 32-bit: C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roaming\Firestorm
- Mac: /Users/[YOUR USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Firestorm
- Linux: /home/[USERNAME]/.firestorm_x64 (which also contains the cache)
- The Chat Transcripts folder
- In its default location, this is the same as the Settings folder. If you have relocated your chat files, then note that path.
REBOOT your computer at this time.
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.
Re-enable your anti-virus software if you disabled it, and run the viewer again, repeating the tests above.
Whitelisting Steps for Specific AV Software
of date, check the help files or support site for your antivirus program.
Adaware free
- Open the Adaware user interface
- Click Scan Computer (second icon from top)
- Go to Manage Exclusions and click View
- Click Add
- Navigate to main Firestorm application folder
- Click OK
- Repeat for Firestorm folders in User/Local
Advanced System Care
If you run the “junk files cleanup” function, then Advanced System Care is liable to trash your settings. Further to this, this program can also severely interfere with viewer connection to SL servers, as documented here.
Avast
2019-09-18 Update
it seems that in the early hours of 2019-09-18, an update was issues for Avast, and that update began “mangling” Firestorm. One user 1) provided the following:
So what this is about is just to let you know that I didn't have to go through the procedure to Whitelist, in case you want to let others know who may have put it in the chest.
I reinstalled Firestorm over my present one just so I could get the shortcut (icon) again…logged on and all is well.
Basic Whitelisting
Refer to this page for how to whitelist. Please ensure that you whitelist both the viewer and the viewer cache folder.
If you cannot save snapshots to your hard drive
- Go to Settings → General tab
- Go to 'Blocked and allowed apps'
- Click 'Allow App' and scroll the list of programs to find Firestorm and select it (see picture below)
AVG
- Open the AVG user interface.
- Click Tools→Advance Settings.
- Resident Shield→Exceptions.
- The Add the program (or file, directory) you wish to be excluded from scans.
2019-09-18 Update
it seems that in the early hours of 2019-09-18, an update was issues for AVG, and that update began “mangling” Firestorm.
BitDefender
Please see How to add Antivirus exceptions (exclusions) in Bitdefender 2019
Bullguard
- Open Bullguard as normal
- Click on “Settings”
- Click on “Advanced”
- Go to “Antivirus” in the lefthand column
- Open the menu (down arrow)
- Select “Tuning”
- In the selection of tick boxes on the righthand panel, select Skip File/Folders
- Click on Files/Folders
- This will bring up a probably empty set of lines, so click on the “+” sign
- This should allow you to navigate to the particular folder, in this case the Firestorm Cache folder
- Select that and it will appear in the first line of the box
- To add other Firestorm folders listed at the top of this wiki page, repeat as needed
- Here is also a check box to allow you to skip processes. The procedure is the same: Click on “process”
- Click “+” and navigate to the .exe you wish to whitelist
- Close Bullguard.
Credits: Thanks to user Aishagain for this information.
Comodo
Apparently Comodo adds a green border round the viewer screen. This can safely be ignored.
F-Secure
(derrived from https://community.f-secure.com/t5/Security-for-PC/How-do-I-exclude-a-file-or/ta-p/15398)
- Open Computer Security.
- On the main page of Computer Security, click Settings.
- Select Computer Security > Virus and spyware scanning.
- Select Other settings > Manual scanning.
- Click the Exclude files from the scan link. The Exclude from scanning dialog is displayed.
- Select the Objects tab.
- Select the Exclude objects (files, folders…) check box.
- Click Add.
- Navigate to and select the Firestorm install folder
- Click Add again
- Navigate to and select the Firestorm cache folder
- Click OK to close the Exclude from scanning dialog.
Gatekeeper (Mac OS X)
Gatekeeper is not an antivirus. It is Apple software that checks software the first time you run it to make sure it is from a known developer. It will flag Firestorm as unknown and will ask you if you want to let it run.
If Gatekeeper prevents you from opening Firestorm, there is a simple workaround: See “How to open an app from a unidentified developer and exempt it from Gatekeeper” on this page. Once you have allowed Firestorm to open via this method, Gatekeeper will not flag it on subsequent launches (until you reinstall Firestorm again).
For a longer-term method, please visit here for a tutorial on whitelisting using the Gatekeeper software.
Kaspersky
In order to create an exclusion rule:
- Open application settings window.
- Select Protection on the left.
- Click the Trusted Zone button in the Exclusions block.
- Go to the tab Exclusion rules and click Add.
- Select an exclusion type in the Properties field: Object and/or Threat type.
- Object
Click select object and choose a file, folder or a mask to exclude. - Select a Component in the corresponding field. The rule will apply to the selected component.
- Threat type. Click enter threat type to select a file, folder or a mask to exclude.
Rules can apply to the following protection components:
- Virus scan,
- File Anti-Virus,
- Mail Anti-Virus (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations 6.0.4.x only),
- Proactive Defense (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations 6.0.4.x only),
- Web Anti-Virus (Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 for Windows Workstations 6.0.4.x only).
A scan if a disk or folder containing excluded objects scans the entire disk/folder except the excluded objects. Yet you can force scan excluded objects from the contextual menu (by right-clicking).
Also you can create an exclusion rule from within a report window:
- Right-click the report object you want excluded.
- Choose the option Add to Trusted Zone.
An Exclusion rule window will open. Make sure that you are satisfied with the new exclusion rule settings. Object name and threat type fields are assigned automatically on the basis of the report data. Click OK to create the rule.
Malwarebytes
For general whitelisting steps, visit Exclude detections in Malwarebytes on Windows devices
McAfee
We do not have specific details for McAfee. Check the McAfee control panel, or visit McAfee Consumer Support
Norton
Add exclusion to Auto-Protect and Risk scan
- Start Norton 360.
- Click Settings.
- Click Antivirus Protection.
- On the Scans and Risks tab, under Exclusion/Low Risks, click Configure next to Scan Exclusions.
- Under Scan Exclusions, click Add.
- Browse and select the disk drive or folder or file you would like to exclude and click OK. If you want to include subfolders within the folder, check Include Subfolders.
- Under Auto-Protect Exclusions, click Add.
- Browse and select the disk drive or folder or file you would like to exclude and click OK. If you want to include subfolders within the folder, check Include Subfolders.
- Click Apply > OK.
- Click Apply > Close
Download Intelligence
Norton Internet Security includes a feature called Download Intelligence. This works such that the user community reports downloads as good or bad. While this may be very helpful, it can also be unfairly detrimental to programs, especially when they are updated as they are then treated as totally new.
Therefore, if you use Download Intelligence, you are urged to disable it before attempting to download any of our viewers, in order to avoid them being incorrectly reported as infected with a virus. Refer to this page for instructions.
Panda Cloud Antivirus Free (version 2.1.1)
- Click on the “Antivirus” section of the UI.
- Click on “Advanced Settings” (bottom of the panel current version)
- Click on “Exclusions” tab
- Choose “Add”, then navigate to your Firestorm installation folder and put a check in the box to the left of slplugin.exe (and llceflib_host.exe for FS 4.7.7 and later), and everything else you want to exclude. Once you've checked something, the “exclude” button at the bottom of the panel is enabled. Click it when you've finished checking off everything you want to exclude.
- Click “OK” at the bottom of the “Exclusions” tab.
See this page for additional Panda tips for whitelisting files and folders: http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/downloads/docs/product/help/is/2012/en/709.htm The page is out of date but the methods may still work.
PC Tools Spyware Doctor
- Right click PC Tools icon in taskbar → Open
- Go to Settings → Global action list
- Click “Add”, choose “File” & browse to your Firestorm installation folder & choose slplugin.exe - and llceflib_host.exe (for FS 4.7.9 and later).
- This will add the plugin(s) to the global whitelist.
Webroot
To date (August 2015), there is no way to whitelist the entire cache folder in WebRoot. Therefore WebRoot may continue to cause severe problems including slow rezzing and viewer freezing.
If you test with WebRoot off and find your SL experience greatly improved, the only suggestion we have is to choose another antivirus program.
Some more more info on Webroot and the problems it has been known to cause, see this page.
For additional information:
Windows Defender/Microsoft Security Essentials
Basic Exclusions
For Win 10 (possibly also Windows 8.x):
- Open Settings and in the search field at the top right enter defender
- In Windows Defender click Virus & Threat Protection → Virus & Threat Protection Settings → Exclusions → Add or remove exclusions
- Exclude the cache:
- Click Add an Exclusion
- Click Exclude a folder
- Click in the address bar and type %LOCALAPPDATA% and press Enter
- Click the Firestorm folder
- Click the Exclude this folder button
- Repeat this if you have more than one Firestorm folder (64-bit and 32-bit, for example)
- Exclude the viewer executables
- Click the Exclude a .exe, .com or .scr process button
- Navigate to C:\Program Files\Firestorm-Release64
- Click Firestorm-Releasex64.exe
- Click the Exclude This file button
- Repeat this for SLPlugin and SLVoice - and dullahan_host.exe (for FS 5.1.7 and later).
- Repeat this for 32-bit Firestorm ( C:\Program Files (x86) )
Can't Save Files to Hard Drive (Snapshots, Chat Files, Backups, etc.)
Additionally, if you're on Windows 10 and you can't save snapshots to your hard drive (https://jira.firestormviewer.org/browse/FIRE-23347), adding the viewer folders to the exclusion list may not be enough if you have 'Controlled Folder Access' enabled; you will need to add Firestorm to the allowed apps.
Try following these steps:
- Right click your Windows Defender icon on your system tray > View Security Dashboard > Virus and threat Protection > Virus & Threat Protection Settings > Controlled Folder Access
- Click the 'Manage Controlled Folder Access' link
- Under 'Controlled Folder Access' click the 'Allow an App through Controlled Folder Access' link
- Click '+ Add an allowed app'
- Browse to the viewer executable in the installation folder, left click to select , click Open at the bottom of the files explorer.
Alternatively, you can also simply disable the Controlled Folder Access feature by clicking the on/off button after Step #2.
Can't run Firestorm installer
See this page.
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Keyboard Shortcuts
Note: this is a list of standard keyboard shortcuts for these menu functions. Your keyboard may differ.
AVATAR MENU
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-Q | Avatar → Quit |
Ctrl-Alt-S | Avatar → Movement → Sit Down |
Alt-Shift-H | Avatar → Show/Hide HUD Attachments (will not work if any HUD is RLV-locked) |
Alt-Shift-U | Avatar → Show/Hide User Interface |
Ctrl-P | Avatar → Preferences |
Ctrl-Alt-P | Avatar → Movement → Move Lock |
Ctrl-I | Avatar → Inventory |
Ctrl-Shift-I | Avatar → Inventory (additional window) |
Ctrl-Shift-S | Avatar → Snapshot |
Ctrl-O | Avatar → Appearance |
COMM MENU
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-G | Communication → Gestures |
Ctrl-Shift-F | Communicate → Friends |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F | Communicate → Contacts |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C | Communicate → Contact Sets |
Ctrl-Shift-G | Communicate → Groups |
Ctrl-H | Communicate → Nearby Chat |
Ctrl-Shift-A | Communicate → Nearby People |
Ctrl-T | Communicate → Conversations |
WORLD MENU
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-S | World → Resync Animations |
Ctrl-Shift-A | World → Nearby Avatars |
Alt-H | World → Telport History |
Ctrl-M | World → World Map |
Ctrl-Shift-M | World → Mini-Map |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-P | World → Show → Property Lines |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-N | World → Show → Beacons |
Ctrl-Alt-O | World → Show → Land Owners |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D | World → Show → Advanced |
Ctrl-Shift-C | World → Photo & Video → Cameratools |
Alt-P | World → Photo & Video → Phototools |
Ctrl-Shift-H | World → Teleport Home |
Alt-R | World → Region Details |
Ctrl-Shift-Y | World → Sun → Midday |
Ctrl-Shift-N | World → Sun → Sunset |
Ctrl-Shift-E | World → Sun → Sunrise |
Ctrl-Shift-X | World → Sun → Midnight |
BUILD MENU
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-U | Build → Upload → Image (inventory windows) |
Ctrl-Z | Build → Edit → Undo |
Ctrl-Y | Build → Redo |
Ctrl-X | Build → Edit → Cut |
Ctrl-C | Build → Edit → Copy |
Ctrl-V | Build → Edit → Paste |
Del | Build → Edit → Delete |
Ctrl-A | Build → Edit → Select All |
Ctrl-E | Build → Edit → Deselect |
Ctrl-D | Build → Object → Duplicate |
Ctrl-B | Build → Build |
Ctrl-1 | Build → Select Build Tool → Focus Tool |
Ctrl-2 | Build → Select Build Tool → Move Tool |
Ctrl-3 | Build → Select Build Tool → Edit Tool |
Ctrl-4 | Build → Select Build Tool → Create Tool |
Ctrl-5 | Build → Select Build Tool → Land Tool |
G | Build → Options → Snap to Grid |
Shift-X | Build → Options → Snap Object XY to Grid |
Shift-G | Build → Options → Use Selection for Grid |
Ctrl-Shift-B | Build → Options → Grid Options |
Ctrl-L | Build → Link |
Ctrl-Shift-L | Build → Unlink |
H | Build → Focus on Selection |
Shift-H | Build → Zoom to Selection |
Ctrl-Shift-E | Build → Edit Linked Parts |
Ctrl-. | Build → Select Linked Parts → Select Next Part |
Ctrl-, | Build → Select Linked Parts → Select Previous Part |
Ctrl-Shift-. | Build → Select Linked Parts → Include Next Part |
Ctrl-Shift-, | Build → Select Linked Parts → Include Previous Part |
CONTENT MENU
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-Alt-F | Content → Legacy Search (4.3.1+) |
HELP MENU
Key | Function |
---|---|
F1 | Help → Firestorm Wiki |
ADVANCED MENU
Key | Function | |
---|---|---|
Ctrl-Alt-D | Toggle “Advanced” Menu on/off | |
Ctrl-W | Advanced → Shortcuts → Close Window | |
Ctrl-Shift-W | Advanced → Shortcuts → Close All Windows | |
Ctrl-` | Advanced → Shortcuts → Snapshot to Disk (some keyboards use Ctrl-' for this) | |
Ctrl-F | Advanced → Shortcuts → Search | |
M | Advanced → Shortcuts → Mouselook | |
Alt-Shift-F | Advanced → Shortcuts → Joystick Flycam | |
Esc | Advanced → Shortcuts → Reset View | |
Shift-Esc | Advanced → Shortcuts → Reset Camera Angles | |
Ctrl-\ | Advanced → Shortcuts → Look at Last Chatter | |
Ctrl-Shift-1 | Advanced → Performance Tools → Statistics Bar | |
Ctrl-Shift-2 | Advanced → Performance Tools → Scene Load → Statistics | |
Ctrl-Shift-T | Advanced → Highlighting and Visibility → Hover Tips → Show Tips | |
Ctrl-Alt-T | Advanced → Highlighting and Visibility → Highlight Transparent | |
Ctrl-0 | Advanced → Shortcuts → Zoom In | |
Ctrl-9 | Advanced → Shortcuts → Zoom Default | |
Ctrl-8 | Advanced → Shortcuts → Zoom Out | |
Ctrl-R | Advanced → Shortcuts → Always Run | |
Home | Advanced → Shortcuts → Fly | |
Ctrl-Shift-D | Advanced → Shortcuts → Double Click Teleport | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-1 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Simple | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-2 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Alpha | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-3 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Tree | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-4 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Character | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-5 | Advanced → Rendering Types → SurfacePatch | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-6 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Sky | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-7 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Water | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-8 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Ground | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-9 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Volume | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-0 | Advanced → Rendering Types → Grass | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift– | Advanced → Rendering Types → Clouds | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-= | Advanced → Rendering Types → Particles | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-\ | Advanced → Rendering Types → Bump | |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-S | Advanced → Opens Debug Settings | |
Ctrl-Alt-F1 | Advanced → Rendering Features → UI (Note: This includes nametags. Alt-Shift-U, in the Avatar menu, does not.) | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F1 |
Ctrl-Alt-F2 | Advanced → Rendering Features → Selected | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F2 |
Ctrl-Alt-F3 | Advanced → Rendering Features → Highlighted | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F3 |
Ctrl-Alt-F4 | Advanced → Rendering Features → Dynamic Textures | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F4 |
Ctrl-Alt-F5 | Advanced → Rendering Features → Foot Shadows | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F5 |
Ctrl-Alt-F6 | Advanced → Rendering Features → Fog | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F6 |
Ctrl-Alt-F8 | Advanced → Rendering Features → Test FRInfo | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F7 |
Ctrl-Alt-F9 | Advanced → Rendering Features → Flexible Objects | Linux only: Ctrl-Shift-F8 |
Ctrl-Alt-R | Advanced → Rebake Textures | |
Ctrl-Alt-V | Advanced → Fly Override | |
Ctrl-Alt-Q | Advanced → Develop Menu |
DEVELOPER MENU
Note: The Developer menu must be enabled for these key combos to work: use CTRL-Alt-Q to enable it.
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-Shift-3 | Developer → Consoles → Texture Console |
Ctrl-Shift-4 | Developer → Consoles → Debug Console |
Ctrl-Shift-5 | Developer → Consoles → Notifications Console |
Ctrl-Shift-9 | Developer → Consoles → Fast Timers |
Ctrl-Shift-` | Developer → Consoles → Region Debug Console |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-B | Developer → Force an Error → Force Breakpoint |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-T | Developer → Rendering → Selected Texture Info |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-M | Developer → Rendering → Selected Material Info |
Ctrl-Shift-R | Developer → Rendering → Wireframe |
Ctrl-Shift-O | Developer → Rendering → Object-Object Occlusion |
Ctrl-Shift-P | Developer → UI → Print Selected Object Info |
Shift-P | Developer → UI → Print Agent Info |
Ctrl-Shift-Z | Developer → UI → Web Content Browser |
Ctrl-Alt-L | Developer → Network → Drop a Packet |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-U | Developer → Show Info → Show Updates to Objects |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-A | Developer → Avatar → Debug Avatar Textures |
Alt-Shift-M | Developer → Avatar → Dump Local Textures |
Ctrl-Alt-V | Developer → Show Admin Menu (no shortcut) |
Ctrl-Alt-G | Developer → Request Admin Status |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-G | Developer → Leave Admin Status |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-H | Developer → Consoles → Badge |
ADMIN COMMANDS
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-O | Admin → Object → Take Copy |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Del | Admin → Object → Delete |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L | Admin → Object → Lock |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-I | Admin → Object → Get Asset IDs |
Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C | Admin → Parcel → Set to Linden Content |
MOVEMENT CONTROLS
Key | Function |
---|---|
A or Left | Turn left |
Shift-A or Shift-Left | Move left |
C or PgDown | Crouch / Fly down |
D or Right | Turn right |
Shift-D or Shift-Right | Move right |
E or PgUp | Jump/Fly up |
F or Home | Fly on/off |
S or Down | Walk backward |
W or Up | Walk forward |
Space | While moving, press Space for slow motion (WASD must be enabled) |
CAMERA CONTROLS
Key | Function |
---|---|
Alt-up/down arrow | Zoom camera |
Alt-left/right arrow | Rotate camera left/right |
Alt-Ctrl-up/down arrow | Rotate camera up/down |
Alt-Ctrl-Shift-arrows | Pan camera |
LOGIN WINDOW
Key | Function |
---|---|
Ctrl-Shift-G | Grid selection pulldown |
Ctrl-T | XUI Preview Tool |
OTHER
Key | Function |
---|---|
Shift-Enter | Whisper |
Alt-Enter | Talk in (( OOC )) |
Ctrl-Enter | Shout |
Ctrl-Shift-Enter | In Nearby, IM or group chat will add line break |
Ctrl-Up | Recall previous chat/IM input line |
Ctrl-Down | Recall next chat/IM input line |
Ctrl-S | Save notecard/script |
Legends
Key = Key Sequence
fs_menus - [Avatar] added Show UI info
Firestorm Top (Menu) Bar
Avatar
- Account: will prompt you to open your SL dashboard in a web browser
- Marketplace Listings: Manage your SL marketplace listings.
- Buy L$: opens the floater to let you buy L$
- Inventory (Ctrl-I): opens your inventory
- Protected Folders: opens your Protected Folders window.
- Favorite Wearables: opens your Favorite Wearables
- Picks: opens the Picks and Classifieds window for creation and editing of picks and classified ads.
- Experiences: opens the Experiences window.
- Profile: opens your profile
- Appearance: opens the appearance floater at My Outfits (will be greyed out if you are a cloud; see here if that has happened to you)
- Choose an avatar: opens the Choose an Avatar window.
- Movement: opens the movement sub menu where you can set
- Sit down (Alt-Shift-S): will sit your avatar down (not available if already sitting)
- Fly (Home): this toggles will turn on fly mode (not available if sitting)
- Stop Flying (Home): this toggle will turn off fly mode.
- Always Run (Ctrl-R): toggles run
- Force Ground Sit (Ctrl Alt S): This forces your avatar into a ground sit regardless of where your avatar is.
- Movelock (Ctrl-Alt-P): When enabled, will lock your avatar in place so it cannot be pushed. This will show text in bottom right corner stating that Movelock is enabled.
You will not be able to move yourself either, unless you enable Preferences→ Move & View -> Movement→ Lock and unlock position after stopping or starting movement. - Quickjump: If enabled, the viewer suppresses any pre-jump animation.
- Move Controls: toggles the movement controls floater
- Camera Controls: toggles the camera controls floater
- Avatar Health: opens the Avatar Health sub menu
- Stop avatar animations: used to stop animations acting on your avatar
- Stop avatar animations & revoke permissions:
- Undeform Avatar: Attempts to undeform your avatar, to recover its normal shape after deformation after the use of oversized avatars or griefer objects.
- Force appearance update (Rebake)(Ctrl-Alt-R): rebakes your avatar's textures
- Refresh Attachments (Alt+Shift+R): In cases where attachments are “ghosted”, it will attempt to reattach them. Ghosted attachments are those that shows attached to you but others don't see them.
- Reset Default Male Avatar (Character Test): forces your avatar to the default male
- Reset Default Female Avatar (Character Test): forces your avatar to the default female
- Show Avatar Complexity Information: This shows complexity plus:
- * Rank (how close the avatar is to your camera; the closest is 1, next closest is 2…);
- * VisTris: recursively counts the number of triangles in every attachment at the current rendered LOD;
- * EstMaxTris: represents the sum of the estimated triangle count for each attachment to the avatar; and
- * attachment surface area in square meters.
- Scripts: Opens a window displaying script information for your avatar and includes details such as script size, the name of the object that the script resides in, the attachment point of that object and overall Script Memory used. Scripts
- Lag Meter: Opens the Lag Meter window.
- Recreate LSL Bridge: creates a fresh copy of the LSL bridge
- Snapshot (Ctrl-Shift-S): opens the snapshot floater
- Money Tracker: Shows a list of who last paid you; see this page for more information.
- Pose Stand…: Open the Pose Stand window; replicates the functionality of a pose stand.
- Preferences (Ctrl-P): opens your preferences window
- Toolbar Buttons: Opens the toolbar buttons window, allowing the button layout to be customized.
- Show HUD Attachments (Alt-Shift+H): Shows all HUDs that you have attached
- Show User Inferface (Alt+Shift+U): Shows the User Interface (use Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Shift-F1 in Linux to also show/hide nametags)
- Exit Firestorm (Ctrl-Q): Closes Firestorm
Comm
- Online Status: opens the Online Status sub menu where you can set yourself to:
- Away
- Unavailable (Busy):
- New incoming group chats are disabled; missed messages will not be shown afterwards.
- Existing group chats (the ones already open in the Conversations window) will continue normally.
- Group notices are hidden until unavailable mode is disabled; they will all be shown afterwards.
- Notifications are not shown
- Voice calls are rejected
- Inventory offers from objects are rejected, so use with caution.
- Inventory offers from avatars are automatically accepted.
- TP offers are rejected and will not be shown to you later.
- Toasts for both group and individual IMs are not shown.
- Chiclets are shown.
- Individual IMs are still shown in the Conversations window. Other users will received your “Unavailable” autoresponse as set in your preferences.
- Auto-respond: (the auto-response messages are set in Preferences→ Privacy -> Autoresponse)
- Autorespond to non-friends
- Reject teleport offers and requests
- Reject all group invites
- Reject all friendship requests
- Friends (Ctrl-Shift-F): opens the Friends tab in the contacts list.
- Contacts (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-F): Opens or closes the contacts list.
- Contact Sets (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-C): opens the Contact Sets window, to manage your own groups of contacts
- Groups (Ctrl-Shift-G): opens the Groups tab in the contacts list.
- Chat (Ctrl-H): opens the nearby chat tab in the Conversations window
- People: Opens the people window.
- Conversations (Ctrl-T): opens the Conversations window
- Gestures (Ctrl-G): opens the Gestures window
- Flickr…: opens the Upload to Flickr window.
- Discord…: opens the Discord window.
- Voice Morphing:
- No voice morphing: Enables/Disables voice morphing provided you are already subscribing to Linden Lab's voice morphing.
- Preview: Opens the Voice Morphing Preview window.
- Subscribe: Opens the Second Life Voice Morphing web page.
- Premium Perk: Opens the Premium Perk Voice Morping web page.
- Conversation Log: Opens the Conversation Log window.
- Nearby Voice: opens nearby voice, aka active speakers
- Block List: opens the people window → Block List
World
- Resync Animations (Ctrl-S): Restarts animations within your view; this allows couples dances to be resynchronized.
- Nearby Avatars (Ctrl-Shift-A): Opens the Nearby tab in the People window.
- Radar: Opens the Radar window.
- Teleport History (Alt-H): Opens the Places window, teleport history tab.
- Places: Opens the Places window.
- Destinations: Opens up Destination window.
- Events: Opens the SL Events web page.
- Mini-Map (Ctrl-Shift-M): Opens the Minimap
- World Map (Ctrl-M): Opens the World Map
- Region Tracker: Opens the Region Tracker window.
- Landmark This Place: Creates a landmark of your current location
- Location Profile: Opens the Places Profile window
- Parcel Details: Opens the About Land window
- Region Details: Opens the Region/Estate window
- Set Home to Here: sets your home location to the point you are at; also saves a snapshot, which will be displayed when you log in to your home location.
- Buy This Land: oOpens the Buy Land window (If you are on land that is not for sale, this will be greyed out)
- Show Owned Land: Opens the Owned Land window
- Show More: opens the Show More sub menu where you can chose to show
- Ban Lines Enables or disables the ability to see ban lines around parcels to which you are not allowed access.
- Beacons (Ctrl-Alt-shift-N) Hide/show beacons for some types of objects, like sound sources, particle sources, and so on.
- Property Lines (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-P) Enables or disables showing lines at property boundaries.
- Land Owners Colors land: Green is land owned by you, red is land owned by others, yellow is land for sale.
- Coordinates: Shows your current coordinates in the menu bar.
- Parcel Permissions: Shows icons of your parcel rights.
- Advanced Menu (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D): Hides/shows the Advanced Menu. This can also be done in Preferences→ Advanced.
- Teleport Home (Ctrl-Shift-H): teleports you home.
- Environment: opens the Environment sub menu.
- Set the sun position to
- Sunrise (Ctrl-Shift-U)
- Midday (Ctrl-Shift-Y)
- Sunset (Ctrl-Shift-N)
- Midnight (Ctrl-Shift-X)
- Use Shared Environment: This removes any Personal Lighting you have set and allows you to see the current Parcel or Region settings.
- My Environments: Opens your “My Environments” window, which gives you access to all Sky, Water, and Day Cycle settings in your inventory.
- Personal Lighting: Opens your Personal Lighting window, which allows you to change environmental settings for yourself, on the fly.
- Pause Clouds: Freezes the clouds in their current position. Useful for photography.
- Photo and Video: opens the submenu for
- Phototools (Alt-P): opens the Phototools floater.
- Cameratools (Ctrl-Shift-C): opens the Cameratools floater.
- Area Search: Opens the Area Search window
- Sound Explorer: Opens the Sound Explorer window.
- Animation Explorer: Opens the Animation Explorer window.
- Asset Blacklist: Opens the Asset Blacklist Window.
- Avatar Render Settings: Opens the Avatar Render Settings window.
- Always show Friends normally: This will show all friends as normally rendered avatar instead of a “jelly doll” image.
- Show Friends only: This will temporarily derender all avatars except those on your friends list. If you leave Preferences→ Move & View -> Teleports→ Keep 'Show Friends Only' enable after teleporting disabled, then this option will disable itself after teleport.
Build
- Build (Ctrl-B): opens the Build/Edit window
- Select Build Tool: opens the Build Tool sub menu where you can select
- Focus Tool (Ctrl-1)
- Move Tool (Ctrl-2)
- Edit Tool (Ctrl-3)
- Create Tool (Ctrl-4)
- Land Tool (Ctrl-5)
- Link (Ctrl-L): will link multiple prims
- Unlink (Ctrl-Shift-L): will unlink prims in a linkset
- Edit Linked Parts: allows you to edit individual prims in a linkset
- Select Elements: opens the Select Elements sub menu where you can choose:
- Select Next Part or Face (Ctrl-.)
- Select Previous Part or Face (Ctrl-,)
- Include Next Part or Face (Ctrl-Shift-.)
- Include Previous Part or Face (Ctrl-Shift-,)
- Focus on Selection (H): will focus your camera on an object you have selected
- Zoom to Selection (Shift-H): will zoom your camera on an object you have selected
- Object: opens the Object sub menu that allows you to:
- Take: Takes the object back to inventory
- Take Copy: Creates a copy of the object in inventory.
- Duplicate (Ctrl-D): Creates a duplicate of the object next to the original object.
- Edit Particles: Opens the Particle Editor.
- Save Back to Object Contents If you drag the contents of an object directly onto the ground (rather than into your inventory first, then out onto the ground), and make changes to it, this function allows those changes to be saved back to the original object.
- Return Object: Returns the object to the owner.
- Save as:
- Backup: Opens the Backup window, allowing you to save the object to your hard drive.
- Collada: Opens the Collada Export window, which you can use to export the object as mesh.
- Scripts: opens the Scripts sub menu where you can:
- Show Script Warnings/Errors
- Script Info (Counter): If the object is moddable, this will show script information for it.
- Recompile Scripts (Mono)
- Recompile Scripts (LSL)
- Reset Scripts: this will only work if the object is moddable.
- Set Scripts to Running
- Set Scripts to Not Running
- Remove Scripts from Selection: If the selected object is moddable, removes all scripts from it.
- Pathfinding: Options concerning Pathfinding.
- Region Objects: Opens the Region Objects window.
- Characters: Opens the Pathfinding characters window.
- View / Test: Opens the Pathfinding console.
- Rebake Region: Rebakes the region NavMesh, if there are pending changes - assuming you have rights to do so and Pathfinding is enabled for the region; will by greyed out otherwise. This can also be done by clicking the Pathfinding icon in the top menu bar.
- Options: opens the Options sub menu where you can:
- Show Advanced Permissions: Refer to this SL Wiki page for more on Advanced (Debug) permissions.
- Select Only My Objects
- Select Only Movable Objects
- Select Only Locked Objects
- Select Only Copyable Objects
- Select By Surrounding
- Include Group-Owned Objects
- Show Physics Shape When Editing
- Show Selection Outlines (Ctrl-Alt-H)
- Show Hidden Selection
- Show Light Radius for Selection
- Show Selection Beam
- Snap to Grid (G)
- Snap Object XY to Grid (Shift-X)
- Use Selection for Grid (Shift-G)
- Grid Options (Ctrl-Shift-B)
- Set Default Permissions: Opens the Default Creation Permissions window.
- Upload: opens the Upload sub menu which allows you to choose what to upload (Same as the Upload item in the Avatar Menu):
- Image (L$10): Opens a file selector, then the image upload window.
- Sound (L$10): Opens a file selector, the the sound upload window.
- Animation (L$10): Opens a file selector, then the animation upload window
- Mesh Model: Opens a file selector to upload a mesh model; see the SL wiki for more info.
- Bulk (L$10 per file): Opens a file selector where you can select multiple image files for upload.
- Import Linkset: Opens the Import window, to upload a previous exported object.
- Undo (Ctrl Z): will undo the last changes made in the edit /build window
- Redo (Ctrl Y): will redo the last changes made with the undo command
Content
- Search (Ctrl-F): opens the Search window
- SL Marketplace: prompts you to open the Marketplace web page
- L$ Market Data: prompts you to open the L$ market Data web page
- Script Library: prompts you to open the Script Library web page
- Firestorm Blog: prompts you to open the Firestorm Viewer Home web page
- Firestorm Flickr: prompts you to open the Firestorm Viewer Flickr web page
- Firestorm YouTube: prompts you to open the Firestorm Viewer YouTube channel
- Firestorm Twitter: prompts you to open the Firestorm Viewer Twitter web page
- Firestorm Plurk: prompts you to open the Firestorm Viewer Plurk web page
- Message of the day: this will show the message of the day in local chat. This also is shown during the login phase.
Help
- Enable Viewer UI Hints:
- Firestorm Wiki (F1): opens the Firestorm Wiki page
- Troubleshooting: opens the Firestorm Troubleshooting and Quick Fixes Wiki page
- Join Firestorm Support Group: opens a window listing in-world support groups you can join, to get help.
- Firestorm Classes Schedule: opens the Firestorm Class Schedule page.
- Check Grid Status: opens the Grid Status web page
- Report Abuse: opens the Abuse Report window
- Report Bug: opens the "how to file a JIRA" page on our Wiki
- Bumps, Pushes & Hits: opens the |pushes and bumps window
- Enable Sysinfo Button: enables a button in IM window that lets you send your sysinfo
- About Firestorm: opens the About Firestorm window
RLVa
This menu is toggled from Advanced Menu (Ctrl-Alt-D) → RestrainedLove API (RLVa) or from Preferences → Firestorm → Extras → Allow Remote Scripted Viewer Controls (RLVa). This will require a restart of the viewer to show this menu.
- Debug: Opens the Debug sub menu where you can enable:
- Show Top-level RLVa Menu: Enables showing the RLVa menu in to menu bar. If disabled, RLVa menu will show in Advanced Menu.
- Show Debug Messages: Used when debugging RLV scripts and also to know when something RLV is being done to you by either a person or object.
- Hide Unset or Duplicate Messages
- Show Assertion Failures
- Hide Locked Layers
- Hide Locked Attachments
- Enable Legacy Naming
- Enabled Shared Wear
- Rename Shared Items on Wear
- Locks: Opens the Active RLV Locks window
- Allow OOC Chat: Allows Out Of Character (OOC) chat.
- Show Filtered Chat
- Split Long Redirected Chat: Splits long nearby chat lines across multiple messages when @redir* restricted.
- Allow Temporary Attachments
- Forbid Give to #RLV
- Wear Replaces Unlocked
- Console: Opens the RLVa console window
- Restrictions: Opens the Active RLV Restrictions window
- Strings: Opens the RLVa Strings window
Advanced
This menu is toggled via the Ctrl-Alt-D key sequence, or from Preferences→ Advanced
- Rebake Textures (Ctrl+Alt+R): (same as Avatar→ Avatar health → Force Appearance Update).
- Refresh Attachments (Alt+Shift+R):
- Set UI Size to Default (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-R): Reverts any changes made in Preferences→ User Interface -> General→ UI scaling.
- Set Window Size: Allows you to set the window size.
- Limit Select Distance: Limits your select distance to about 50m.
- Disable Camera Constraints: Allows camera to pass through solid objects.
- High-res Snapshot: Enables high resolution snapshots.
- Quiet Snapshots: Disables the snapshot sound and animation.
- Performance Tools: Opens the Performance Tools sub menu where you can enable:
- Lag Meter: Opens the Lag Meter window.
- Statistics Bar (Ctrl-Shift-1): Displays the Statistics window (often called the “stats bar”).
- Scene Load Statistics (Ctrl-Shift-2): Displays the Scene Load Statistics window with focus on object load and cache performance.
- Show Avatar Complexity Information: Displays an indicator of client draw “cost” above each avatar (replaces Avatar Rendering Cost).
- Highlighting and Visibility: Opens the Highlighting and Visibility sub menu where you can choose:
- Cheesy Beacon: Animates the red world map beacon to make it look “cheesy” (enable it to see the effect).
- Hide Particles (Ctrl Alt Shift =) : Disables rendering of particles. Another way of achieving this is to go to Preferences→ Graphics -> General and setting Max particle count to zero - or doing the same in the Quick Preferences panel.
- Hide Selected: Makes the currently selected (edited) object invisible, until they are no longer selected.
- Highlight Transparent (Ctrl Alt T): Makes transparent objects visible by highlighting them:
- Red: alpha blended textures,
- Blue: alpha masked textures,
- Green: invisiprims.
- Show Mouselook Crosshairs
- Hover Tips: Opens Hover Tips submenu
- Show Tips (Ctrl-Shift-T): This allows you to set what hovertips, if any, you see (please check this first to enable hover tips)
- Show Land Tooltips:
- Show Tips On All Objects:
- Rendering Types: Opens the Rendering Types sub menu, which allows types of things to be shown or hidden. By default, these are all enabled. Disabling some can be useful if you are trying to find a lost object.
- Simple (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-1): Textures without alpha channels.
- Alpha (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-2): Textures with alpha channels
- Tree (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-3): Linden plants.
- Avatars (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-4): Bodies and attachments but not name tags.
- Surface Patch (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-5): Terrain/ground texture.
- Sky (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-6): Entire sky including clouds and sun/moon.
- Water (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-7): Water surface only, view when under water is still tinted.
- Ground (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-8)
- Volume (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-9): All objects except Linden plants.
- Grass (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-0): Linden plants.
- Clouds (Ctrl-Alt-Shift- -)
- Particles (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-= )
- Bump (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-\): Legacy bump map and shiny effects.
- Rendering Features: Opens the Rendering Features sub menu:
- UI (Ctrl-Alt-F1): Be VERY careful when using this, as the menu bar is hidden as well; make mental note of the key sequence so you can re-enable the UI when you need it.
- Selected (Ctrl-Alt-F2): Display texture alignment crosshair boxes with “Select Face”.
- Highlighted (Ctrl-Alt-F3)
- Dynamic Textures (Ctrl-Alt-F4): Enable clothing and sculpt previews in texture upload floater.
- Foot Shadows (Ctrl-Alt-F5)
- Fog (Ctrl-Alt-F6)
- Test FRInfo (Ctrl-Alt-F8)
- Flexible Objects (Ctrl-Alt-F9): Enable/disable flexible prim effect.
- RLVa: This menu option will show if you choose not to show RLVa menu in top menu bar. This will show RLVa submenus.
- Media Streams Backup
- Import Stream List XML: This will import the stream_list.xml file.
- Export Stream List XML: This will export the media stream list from top menu → World Menu → Parcel Details→ Sound tab to a file called stream_list.xml to a folder of your choosing
- Use Plugin Read Thread: Uses a separate thread to read incoming messages from plugins. So in theory, this should give you a slight performance increase if you have a multicore processor and using the internal web browser or playing quicktime videos and so on.
- Clear Group Cache: Clears group cache
- Mouse Smoothing: Should help smooth mouse movement
- Release Keys: Releases permissions taken by worn attachments.
- Shortcuts: Opens the Shortcuts sub menu, showing some of the common keyboard shortcuts:
- Search (Ctrl-F)
- Show Advanced Menu-legacy shortcut (Ctrl-Alt-D)
- DoubleClick Teleport (Ctrl-Shift-D)
- Always Run (Ctrl-R)
- Fly (Home)
- Close Window (Ctrl-W)
- Close All Windows (Ctrl-Shift-W)
- Snapshot to Disk (Ctrl-`)
- Mouselook (M)
- Joystick Flycam (Alt-Shift-F)
- Reset View (Esc)
- Reset Camera Angles (Shift-Esc)
- Look at Last Chatter (Ctrl-\)
- Zoom In (Ctrl-0)
- Zoom Default (Ctrl-9)
- Zoom Out (Ctrl-8)
- Fly Override (Ctrl-Alt-V): Allows flight in no fly areas - NOT recommended
- RestrainedLove API: Enables/disables RLV (also in Preferences→ Firestorm -> Extras→ Allow scripted viewer controls)
- Show Debug Settings: Opens the debug menu window; use with caution.
- Show Develop Menu (Ctrl-Alt-Q): Shows or hides the develop menu on the menu bar.
Developer
This menu is toggled via the Ctrl-Alt-Q key sequence, or from Preferences→ Advanced
- Consoles: Opens the Consoles sub menu. These should all be disabled in normal use. If you find your screen filling with “strange” graphs and data, check here to make sure all are off.
- Texture Console (Ctrl-Shift-3):
- Debug Console (Ctrl-Shift-4): Scroll activity log on the main viewer window.
- Notifications Console (Ctrl-Shift-5): Trace dialogs, alerts, notifications.
- Fast Timers (Ctrl-Shift-9): Shows tasks performed per frame.
- Scene Statistics: Plot complexity of objects in view.
- Scene Loading Monitor:
- Region Debug Console Opens the Region Debug Console.
- Region Info to Debug Console: Dumps region flags and stats to log
- Group Info to Debug Console: Dumps summary of active group info to log.
- Capabilities Info to Debug Console: Dumps capability names and URLs to log.
- Camera: Camera and agent position/rotation overlaid on screen.
- Wind: Region wind speed and heading is overlaid on screen.
- FOV: Camera field of view angle overlaid on screen.
- Badge (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-H) (This won't toggle off……)
- Show Info: Opens the Show Info sub menu:
- Show Time: Shows the time spent logged on in the lower right.
- Show Upload Transaction: Gives a notification on upload, showing how much you were charged.
- Show Texture Info: Shows texture information for the object under the cursor.
- VRAM usage per object:
- Show Avatar Render Info: Show load state and attachment weights for visible avatars.
- Show Render Info: Displays information about the scene currently being rendered.
- Show Matrices: OpenGL matrix info overlaid on screen.
- Show Color Under Cursor: Shows the RGBA values for the color under the cursor, in the lower right.
- Show Memory: Shows total viewer memory use overlaid on screen.
- Show Updates to Objects (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-U): Displays “clouds” of different colors when objects update.
- Force an Error: opens the Force an Error sub menu. Using any of these will probably crash you. Aimed at viewer developers.
- Force Breakpoint (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-B)
- Force LLError And Crash
- Force Bad Memory Access
- Force Infinite Loop
- Force Driver Crash
- Force Software Exception
- Force Disconnect Viewer
- Simulate a Memory Leak
- Render Tests: opens the Render Tests sub menu:
- Camera Offset
- Randomize Framerate: Add a random duration sleep with each rendered frame.
- Periodic Slow Frame: Sleep half a second every 10 frames.
- Frame Test: Capture buffer and pause.
- Frame Profile: Dump GL stats to log.
- Benchmark: Measure GPU performance and sends results to log.
- Render Metadata: Opens the Render Metadata sub menu; these are normally all disabled:
- Bounding Boxes: Renders boxes colored by type.
- Avatar Hitboxes:
- Normals:
- Octree: Renders bounding boxes color coded by octree buffer usage and activity.
- Shadow Frusta: Renders each frustrum as a shaded box.
- Physics Shapes: Renders terrain and objects as they appear to the simulator's physics engine.
- Occlusion: Highlights objects that are hidden behind others.
- Render Batches: Highlights rendering groups with different colored tints.
- Update Type: Highlights each object by last update performed.
- Texture Anim: Highlights animated texture faces in yellow.
- Texture Priority:
- Texture Area: Shows the min:max rendered texture area for each face.
- Face Area: Shows the min:max rendered area for each face.
- LOD Info:
- Triangle Count:
- Build Queue:
- Lights: Highlights local light sources and bounding box of the light they cast.
- Particles: Shows hover text with particle parameters at each emitter.
- Collision Skeleton:
- Joints: Shows lines in the avatar of joint locations and connections to other joints.
- Raycast:
- Wind Vectors: Renders red lines overhead to show wind direction.
- Sculpt: Shows hover text with sculpt map sizes.
- Texture Size: Shows hover text of texture sizes.
- Texture Density
- None
- Current
- Desired
- Full
- Rendering: Opens the Rendering sub menu
- Axes: Draw XYZ axis display centered on avatar plus region origin marker.
- Tangent Basis
- Selected Texture Info Basis (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-T): Show size and alpha channel presence for faces selected in editor.
- Selected Material Info (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-M):
- Wireframe (Ctrl-Shift-R): Show object geometry.
- Object-Object Occlusion (Ctrl-Shift-O): Optimization, skip rendering objects that are hidden behind others.
- Advanced Lighting Model: Enable deferred rendering.
- Shadows from Sun/Moon/Projectors
- SSAO and Shadow Smoothing: Wikipedia:Screen space ambient occlusion
- Debug GL: Enable extra OpenGL error checking.
- Debug Pipeline: Subset of Debug GL.
- Automatic Alpha Masks (deferred): Force alpha test instead of blend if texture has little transparency (when advanced lighting on).
- Automatic Alpha Masks (non-deferred): Force alpha test instead of blend if texture has little transparency (when advanced lighting off).
- Animation Textures: Allows texture to be animated per llSetTextureAnim.
- Disable Textures: Stop fetching new textures from the network.
- Derender all animesh: Removes all animesh from your scene.
- Full Res Textures (dangerous): Disregard LOD and display all textures at full resolution. Increases network and memory use.
- Render Attached Lights: Render local light sources on avatar attachments.
- Render Attached Particles: Render particle systems emitted by avatar attachments.
- Hover Glow Objects:
- Network: Opens the Network sub menu:
- Pause Agent: Stop avatar movement updates. Local turns and interpolated motion will still appear.
- Enable Message Log: Dump every protocol message to log.
- Disable Message Log: Stop protocol message dump.
- Velocity Interpolate Objects: When enabled it allows smoothed object motion between updates and for llTargetOmega motion to work. When it's disabled, stops “rubber band” effect at cost of these features.
- Ping Interpolate Object Positions: Factor ping time into interpolation.
- Drop a Packet (Ctrl-Alt-L): Simulate loss of a data packet.
- Dump Scripted Camera
- Recorder: opens the Recorder sub menu. This is used to record, and then playback, a sequence of your actions. For example, you can record yourself walking round, then when you play it back, your avatar will repeat that exactly. Useful for machinima.
- Start Playback
- Stop Playback
- Loop Playback
- Start Record
- Stop Record
- World: Opens the World sub menu:
- Sim Sun Override
- Fixed Weather
- Dump Region Object Cache: Send object cache statistics to log.
- Dump Simulator Features to Nearby Chat
- UI: Opens the UI sub menu:
- Media Browser Test: Opens embedded browser with Viewer URI Name Space test page.
- Region Restart Test:
- Web Content Browser (Ctrl-Shift-Z): Opens the internal browser.
- FB Connect Test: For checking Second Life ShareAPI.
- Dump SelectMgr: Info about selected objects to log.
- Dump Inventory: Inventory UUIDs and names to log.
- Dump Timers: Function call stats to log.
- Dump Focus Holder: What UI element has keyboard focus to log.
- Print Selected Object Info (Ctrl-Shift-P): Object details to log.
- Print Agent Info (Shift-P): Avatar name and camera to log.
- Double-Click Auto-Pilot
- Double-Click Teleport
- Debug SelectMgr: If this and Limit Select Distance are active, dump auto deselects to log.
- Debug Clicks: Mouse button changes with coordinates to log.
- Debug Views: Identify UI elements on screen.
- Debug Name Tooltips: Identify XUI source for UI element under cursor. (alias of Show XUI Names)
- Debug Mouse Events: Info about what has mouse focus to log.
- Debug Keys: Text entry field activity to log.
- Debug Window Process: Low level info for main viewer window to log.
- XUI: opens the XUI sub menu:
- Reload Color Settings: Refresh from skin's colors.xml
- Show Font Test: Open floater with type specimen.
- Load from XML
- Save to XML
- Save XUI Names: Identify XUI source for UI element under cursor.
- Show debugging info for views
- XUI Preview Tool
- Send Test IMs: Send dummy messages to test accounts.
- Flush Names Caches: Clean avatar name cache.
- Avatar: Opens the Avatar sub menu:
- Grab Baked Textures
- Iris
- Head
- Upper Body
- Lower Body
- Skirt
- Character Tests
- Appearance To XML: Saves your avatar shape to a file; opens a file picker to allow you to select the destination folder, and file name. Shapes exported this way can be re-imported in the Appearance window.
- Toggle Character Geometry
- Test Male: Shortcut to wear “Male Shape & Outfit” from inventory Library/Clothing.
- Test Female: Shortcut to wear “Female Shape & Outfit” from inventory Library/Clothing.
- Allow Select Avatar: Avatars can be selected and “moved” with object editor, local effect only, movements do not appear to others.
- Animation Speed
- All Animations 10% Faster
- All Animations 10% Slower
- Reset All Animations Speed
- Slow Motions Animations
- Force Params to Default: Clear and refresh tweakable appearance settings.
- Animation Info: Text over avatars with running animations and priorities.
- Show Look At: Shows look at crosshairs.
- Show Point At: Show destination for selection beam as a red crosshair.
- Debug Joint Updates: Rapid summary of updates to log.
- Disable LOD: For avatar bodies.
- Debug Character Vis: Dump avatar and attachment visibility to log.
- Show Collision Skeleton: Show avatar's “collision volume” joints. Used with fitted mesh and touch/select. Not used with simulator physics.
- Show Bones:
- Display Agent Target: Crosshairs with avatar's actual and rendered positions.
- Dump Attachments: Attachment points, UUIDs, positions, visibility to log.
- Debug Avatar Textures (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-A): Shows component textures for own avatar.
- Dump Local Textures (Alt-Shift-M): Avatar texture info to log.
- Reload Avatar Cloud Particle:
- Compress Images: Select a file and convert to .j2c, results to log.
- Enable Visual Leak Detector:
- Output Debug Minidump
- Console Window on next Run: Opens a window on the next run of the viewer, which shows internal information as the viewer runs. Useful for developers' to debug the viewer. Otherwise, keep this disabled.
- Set Logging level: This allows the level of detail of logging to be changed from the default (Info). The support team might request that you change this if attempting to diagnose a problem; otherwise, it should always be left at default.
- Debug
- Info
- Warning
- Error
- None
- Request Admin Status (Ctrl-Alt-G): Request privileges. Only works if you are a Linden.
- Leave Admin Status (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-G)
- Show Admin Menu
Searching
It is possible to search the menus for specific words or phrases, by typing into the search bar at the top. For example, typing in the word upload will result in matches on up to four top menu items: Avatar, Build, Advanced and Develop. In short, using search will filter out what is shown in the top menu bar, removing all items except those that contain what you searched for.
Matched items are highlighed in color (you can change the highlight color in Preferences → Colors -> Miscellaneous→ Preferences Search Highlight Color).
To clear the search, and have the Preferences window revert to its normal state, just click the 'x' at the far right end of the search field.
Menu search is enabled (or disabled) in Preferences -> Advanced→ Show Menu Search.
Camera Presets
Hovering your mouse over the small camera icon, or clicking it (depending on your preferences setting), will open the Camera Presets window. Camera presets can be created in Avatar menu → Camera Controls → Position.
Graphics Presets
: Hovering your mouse over this symbol, or clicking it (depending on your preferences setting), will open the Graphics Presets window. Please note that this symbol will only show if you have created a graphic preset in Preferences→ Graphics -> General.
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Movement Issues
My Avatar Can't Move
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. (For instance, one user has reported this problem with the Lelutka Axis face HUD.)
- 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.”
Related Preferences
You can control the MoveLock behavior in Firestorm 4.6.5 and newer via Preferences→ Move & View→ Movement:
- Always re-lock position after region changes > When enabled, MoveLock is disabled during teleport, then re-enabled it after you arrive. When disabled, MoveLock is not re-enabled after a teleport
- Lock and unlock position after stopping or starting movement > When enabled, MoveLock is temporarily disabled when you manually move your avatar, and re-enabled when you stop moving. When disabled, you will be unable to move your avatar while MoveLock is enabled.
Also in Preferences→ Firestorm→ Extras, at the bottom, is Enable LSL-Client Bridge. This must be enabled in order to use MoveLock.
Can't Turn After Failed Region Crossing
If, after a failed region crossing on a vehicle, you find yourself unsat from the vehicle, and able to walk forward/backward, but unable to turn left or right after stopping animations then recreate the bridge: top menu, Avatar → Avatar health → Recreate LSL Bridge.
My Avatar Is Stuck in an Animation
- Tap your PageDn key and see if the animation stops. If it does, you were in crouch.
- Try Avatar menu → Avatar Health → Stop Animations & Revoke Permissions.
- Try right clicking your avatar → Reset Skeleton & Animations.
- If the above 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. Please don't assume that any particular attachment is not the problem. Take them all off.
- 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:
- Go to Preferences → Firestorm → Protection → Revoke Permissions.
- Temporarily set this to “Revoke on Sit and Stand.”
- Sit on the item, then stand. This should stop the animation.
- CRUCIAL: 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.)
Furniture or Pose Ball Does Not Animate Me
- 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.
Mousewalk Doesn't Work
Remove all attachments, then add one by one, testing in between to see if one causes the problem.
The TMP “Legacy” body HUD is known to cause this problem. Turn off the cam control located on the HUD.
My Avatar Is Rubber-Banding
“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.
My Avatar Slides When Trying to Walk, but No Animation Is Playing
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.
My Avatar Keeps Spinning
- Try turning the opposite direction to the spin.
- Try pressing BOTH right and left arrow keys at the same time, repeatedly.
- Relog.
My Avatar Jerks When Changing Animations
- Remove other attachments that contain animations.
- Remove or turn off ankle-locks.
My Avatar Is Floating a Few Meters Above the Ground
This is a possible bridge problem: recreate bridge by going to Avatar menu → Avatar Health → Recreate LSL Bridge.
My Avatar Goes Forever Upward
This is a possible bridge problem: recreate bridge by going to Avatar menu → Avatar Health → Recreate LSL Bridge.
My Head Keeps Moving Even When "Head Follows Mouse" Sliders Are Set to Zero
For unknown reasons, some users need to change an additional setting:
Go to Preferences → Privacy → Lookat, and tick “Don't send any look at targets at all, even to myself”
I Am Stuck Running
- 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.
I Can't Get My Lips to Stop Moving
- 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.
When Standing Up from a Groundsit, I Start Running
This is a known SL bug also affecting the SL viewer. Refer to this SL bug report for more information.
My Head Bobs After I Type
This happens if you turn off this setting: Preferences → Chat → Typing → “Play typing animation when chatting.”
* To stop the head-bobbing, go to Preferences → Chat → Visuals, and disable “Play avatar animations (such as shouting).”
Note: If you can't get your avatar to stop typing, see Turning Off Typing.
My Stand Button, or Stop Flying Button, Is Missing
Refer to this page.
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My Stand Button, or Stop Flying Button, Is Missing
The Stand button and Stop Flying button can appear in two different places: on the Move Controls floater, or lower left above the Nearby Chat bar.
Missing Stand (or Stop Flying) Button on Move Controls
If you have the Move Controls floater open, and you are sitting/flying, the button will appear on that floater. If it isn't there, you are probably not sitting/flying. Make sure you are really sitting/flying; the button should appear.
Missing Stand (or Stop Flying) Button Above Nearby Chat Bar
If you do NOT have the Move Controls floater open, the button will normally appear lower left on your screen, above your Nearby Chat bar.
Stand button above Nearby Chat:
If you can see your Nearby Chat bar, and there is no button, then one of these is happening:
- You are not sitting/flying. Try sitting on something, or make sure you are flying.
- The Move Controls floater is open (see above). Find it on your screen and close it if you wish. If you can't find it, look in the Avatar menu. If there is a checkmark next to Move Controls, uncheck it, and then the button should appear lower left, above your Nearby Chat bar.
Missing Stand (or Stop Flying) Button When You Have Nearby Chat Set to Auto-Hide
Stand button if you have Nearby Chat hidden:
If the button is not there, one of the following is happening:
- You are not sitting/flying. Try sitting on something, or make sure you are flying.
- The Move Controls floater is open (see above). Find it on your screen and close it if you wish. If you can't find it, look in the Avatar menu. If there is a checkmark next to Move Controls, uncheck it, and then the button should appear lower left.
- You have shrunk the Nearby Chat bar off screen to the left. If you do that, the button will also disappear off left. To check, click in-world anywhere on the screen but not in any windows. Then click Enter on your keyboard to activate the Nearby Chat bar. The Nearby Chat bar should appear lower left on your screen, and if you are sitting/flying, the button should be above it.
- If the Nearby Chat bar does not appear, it is probably off left. To get it back, look in the lower left corner for a portion of it. Hover your mouse over it until you get a double-pointed arrow. Then grab and move it to the right.
- If you can't see any part of the Nearby Chat bar, and hovering your mouse doesn't give you a double arrow, you may need to clear your settings and set them from scratch. See How to Clear Your FS Settings.
Workarounds
Other ways to stand:
- Right click your name tag and choose Stand from the menu.
- Select Avatar menu → Movement → Stand Up.
- If you have the Groundsit button on your toolbar, it will be highlighted. Click it to stand.
Other ways to stop flying:
- Select Avatar menu → Movement → Stop flying.
- If you have the Fly button on your toolbar, it will be highlighted. Click it to stop flying.
- Press PageDown on your keyboard until you stop flying.