• 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
• 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.
  • Move Lock (Ctrl-Alt-P): When enabled, will lock your avatar in place so it cannot be pushed.
    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: 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:
  • 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
• Exit Firestorm (Ctrl-Q): Closes Firestorm

• Online Status: opens the Online Status sub menu where you can set yourself to:
  • Away
  • Unavailable (Busy)
  • 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
• Facebook…: opens the Post to Facebook window.
• Twitter…: opens the Twitter window.
• Flickr…: opens the Upload to Flickr 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.
• Conversation Log: Opens the Conversation Log window.
• Nearby Voice: opens nearby voice, aka active speakers
• Block List: opens the people window → Block List

• Resync Animations: 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
• 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
• 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.
• Sun Position: opens the Sun Position sub menu, where you can set the sun position to
  • Sunrise (Ctrl-Shift-U)
  • Midday (Ctrl-Shift-Y)
  • Sunset (Ctrl-Shift-N)
  • Midnight (Ctrl-Shift-X)
  • Estate Time
• Environment Editor: (Photographers might prefer that fast access available in QuickPrefs or Phototools) This has these sub-menus:
  • Environment Settings: Opens the environment settings window.
  • Water Presets: has sub-menus to allow water presets to be created, edited, deleted.
  • Sky Presets: has sub-menus to allow sky presets to be created, edited, deleted.
  • Day Presets: has sub-menus to allow day presets to be created, edited, deleted.
• Photo and Video: opens the submenu for
  • Phototools (Ctrl-Alt-P): opens the Phototools floater.
  • Cameratools (Ctrl-Alt-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 (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 (Ctrl-.)
  • Select Previous Part (Ctrl-,)
  • Include Next Part (Ctrl-Shift-.)
  • Include Previous Part (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

• 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.

• Enable Viewer UI Hints: enables the tooltips on objects; this can also be done in Preferences→ User Interface -> General→ Hover tips.
• 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

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.
• Allow Temporary Attachments
• Forbid Give to #RLV
• Show Filtered Chat
• Wear Replaces Unlocked
• Console: Opens the RLVa console window
• Restrictions: Opens the Active RLV Restrictions window
• Strings: Opens the RLVa Strings window

Please use with caution

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:
• Set UI Size to Default: 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 in red.
  • 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 will menu option will show if chose 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.

Please use with caution

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 Private Mem Info: Private pool stats 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:
• Render Metadata: Opens the Render Metadata sub menu; these are normally all disabled:
  • Bounding Boxes
  • Avatar Hitboxes
  • Normals
  • Octree
  • Shadow Frusta
  • Physics Shapes
  • Occlusion
  • Render Batches
  • Update Type
  • Texture Anim
  • Texture Priority
  • Texture Area
  • Face Area
  • LOD Info
  • Build Queue
  • Lights
  • Particles
  • Collision Skeleton
  • Joints
  • Raycast
  • Wind Vectors
  • Render Complexity
  • Attachment Bytes
  • Sculpt
  • Texture Size
  • 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.
  • 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

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.

: When hovering your mouse over this symbol, it 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.

• Language default: Choose System Default or the language of your choice from the drop down menu.

• Content Maturity Rating: Allows you to choose what maturity level of content you are able to access in-world:
  • General, Moderate and Adult: Allows access to all content. You must be over 18 to enable this option.
  • General and Moderate: Lets you access General and Moderate content.
  • General: Limits you to General content.

• Start Location: This allows you to choose what default login location shows on the login screen.
  • Show on login: Check this to enable the login location picker on the login screen.

• Name Tags: Here you choose how you display residents' tags. NOTE these apply to what you see, not others.
  • Off: Will set it so you do not see tags.
  • On: means tags will always be visible.
  • Show briefly: shows the tags temporarily.
    • And you can indicate how many second to show them; the default is 10.

• You can enable/disable the following:

  • My name: when unchecked, will not show your tag. Note this is for your view only, others still see it.
  • Group Titles: unchecked hides ALL group titles.
  • View Display Names: when checked shows display names.
  • Highlight friends: colors tags of those on your friends list.
  • Legacy nametag positioning: If enabled, the nametag will stay fixed at the avatar position and not follow the avatar head if it moves because of animations.
  • Show avatar complexity: Shows avatar complexity information in name tags. ¹⁾
    • Only if too complex: Only shows the information if the complexity value is above your maximum complexity setting, in Preferences → Graphics → General.
    • Show own complexity: Shows your own complexity in your name tag.
  • Usernames: when checked shows usernames names.
  • Hide own group title: If enabled, this will hide your current group title from others. (Versions after 3.2.2 only.)
  • Legacy names instead of usernames: will show legacy names instead of user names.
  • Trim 'Resident' from legacy names: self explanatory. (Greyed out if the option above is disabled.)
  • Show autorespond mode in nametag: This will show whether you have autorespond enabled, in your name tag.

• Away Time out: Will set you to away if there is no mouse or keyboard input for the minutes set:
  • 2 minutes
  • 5 minutes
  • 10 minutes
  • 30 minutes
  • 60 minutes
  • never
• Sit when away: Will sit your avatar when in away mode.

• Log out after being away: Will log you out after being away for the number of minutes you set here:
  • 2 minutes
  • 5 minutes
  • 10 minutes
  • 30 minutes
  • never

• Show Hover Tips: This allows you to set what hover tips, if any, you see. Disable this to disable all hover tips. Otherwise, enable it and then you can opt to indicate which hover tips you want to show:
  • on All Objects
  • on Land
    
    
  • Hovertip Trigger Delay: Allows you to choose how long your mouse has to hover over something before you get a hovertip. You can specify different delays for:
    • Tooltips
    • Avatars
    • Objects
      
      
  • Show extended information in hover tips: If this is enabled, hovertips will show details about the object your mouse is over, such as the owner, prim count, etc. Otherwise, hover tips will show just the object name.
  • Show avatar group titles in hovertips: If enabled, avatars' current group titles will display, along with the name, when your mouse over them.

• Floating text fade distance (in m): Sets the distance where floating text starts to fade.
• Floating text fade range (in m): Sets the range it takes for floating text to go from fully visible to fully invisible.

• UI Scaling (may cause side effects): Adjust the slider to choose the UI size. The maximum value depends on your OS: Eg, for Win10, it is 4.5, for earlier Windows, 2.5.
  NOTE that too high may mean you cannot see all of your UI. This may also “break” some UI elements.
  • Automatically detect UI scaling factor: (Windows only) Have FS determine the best possible value for your system.

• Script Dialogs per Object: Controls how many dialogs get opened:
  • One per object - means if a second one opens either the first or second will not appear.
  • One per Object & Channel - means you can have more than one per object but only if they use different channels to interact.
  • Unconstrained - means you can see as many menus/dialogs as may be generated.
    • Remove “Block” button: Popup windows that are generated by scripts have a “Block” button on them; this allows you to easily mute the object that sent the popup, in cases of popup spam griefing. If you find this confusing and think you might click it by mistake, then you can disable it here.
      Note: muting an object also mutes the object owner; do not block popups from vendors without very good reason, or you will not receive items you purchase from them.
      You can review your listed of blocked people and objects in the Block/Mute List.
• Script Dialogs Position: You can select where on the screen scripted popup windows should appear.
  • Animate Script Dialogs: Enable this to replicate old style (V1) behavior when opening script dialogs. Only works if they open at the top of the screen.

• Visible rows per script dialog: Maximum number of lines visible in a script dialog window.

• Use Pie Menu: Allows you to have pie menus (on by default). If disabled, this gives the V2-style vertical drop down instead. You can override the colors used by the pie menu in Preferences→ Colors -> Miscellaneous.
  • Enable text animation: If enabled, the text within the pie is also animated.
  • Enable outer ring shade: Adds shading to the outside of the ring, to further draw attention to the selected “slice”.
• Group Group Notices and chiclets in Top Right: Moves other dialogs (group notices, payments, etc.) to the topright corner (V1 style).
• Hide group and IM chat chiclets: If this is enabled, the chiclets representing open and new IM and group chat messages will be hidden, leaving on the general chat bubble; if this is clicked, you will get a list of open IMs/groups chats.
• Use legacy list layout for Notifications window: Enable this to use the old style notifications window.
• Remap shortcuts already used by Linux (Linux only;requires restart): Shortcuts already used by Linux (Ctrl-Alt-Fn) will be remapped to use Ctrl-Shift instead.
• Prevent statistics window from gaining focus

• Flashing IM tabs override: allows you to fine tune how long and fast the IM tabs flash:
  • Number of times IM tabs flash
  • IM tab flash rate (Hz)

• Show traffic indicator in upper right corner of the screen: Enable this if you want to display a small traffic meter in the upper right corner of the menu bar. This will show your current packet loss (left bar), and bandwidth usage (right bar).
  • Use legacy period mean per second display for lag meter: If enabled, Firestorm will use the legacy method of showing the period mean per second value in the meter instead of the current observed value.
  • Clicking on traffic indicator opens Statistics instead of the Lag meter: Opens Statistics instead of Lag meter.
• Show media controls in top menu: If you disable this, the media controls are removed from the upper right of the screen. You can still acess volume controls in Preferences→ Sound & Media -> Sounds, if needed, or just re-enable this option.
• Show Location in top menu: Shows the current region and parcel names in the top menu bar.
  • Show simulator channel in top menu: Shows the region channel name in the status bar. Nothing is shown for Main Channel regions.
• Show Menu Search: Enable searching the top menu bar.
• Show Currency Balance: Display your L$ balance in the menu bar.
• Enable mouse rollover popup on status bar menu icons: If enabled, displays tooltips when you mouse over items in the top menu bar.

• Show Favorites Bar: Display the contents of your Favorites folder.
• Show Navigation and Search Bar: Add this bar to the top of the screen.
  • Show Search Bar: Allows the search portion of the navigation bar to be enabled/disabled

• Open avatar profile directly when clicking on its name: If enabled, when you click on someone's name in chat, it opens the profile immediately. With this disabled, you get a small summary window.
• Use web profiles by default: Displays user profiles as web profiles rather than in a profile window.
• Disable automatic opening of block list: Enable this option if you do not want the block (mute) list to open when you block a person or object.
• 'Friends' and 'Groups' in 'Comm' menu opens the V5 based windows: If enabled, Friends and Groups will open in the People panel; otherwise they will open in the Contacts panel.
• Use legacy object properties: If enabled, this will show the old style window when right clicking an item in Inventory and selecting Properties. If disabled, properties will be shown within the Inventory window instead.

• Use stand-alone windows:
  • Group profiles: If enabled, group profile windows will open in separate windows; if disabled, they will open in the same window, with the second opened replacing the first.
  • Teleport history: if enabled, teleport history will open in a window separate from the landmarks window.
  • Block/mute list: Keeps the list of blocked residents separate from the people panel.
  • Landmarks, place details and teleport history details: Similar to the above, but keeps each type of “location” window separate, rather than grouping onto a single window.

• Extend teleport history by: Enable these options to record additional information in your teleport history:
  • Position
  • Date

• Contact list options: Options concerning what is shown in your friends list, and how it is sorted.
  Note that some options have no effect if you have the corresponding option disabled in Prererences → General. For example, if you have disabled display names, then sorting your friends list by display name will have no effect, and therefore is best set to Username.
  • Visible name columns: Here you can select which name colums to shwo in your friends list: username, display name, or full name (see below).
  • Sort list by: What to use to sort your friends list, username or display name.
  • Show full name as: a full name can be shown as Username (Display name), or Display name (username).
  • Show permissions column: If enabled, this shows what permissions you have granted to each friends (eg, online status, edit rights, showing location on map, etc), and which they have granted to you.
  • Show search filter: adds a search box to the list window.

• Inventory Options:
  • Hide empty system folders from inventory: If enabled, the inventory window will not display any system folders (eg, Favorites, Landmarks, etc) that have nothing in them.
  • Show the Received Items folder in normal inventory: If enabled, this folder will be show in the normal inventory list of folders, rather than as a panel under the folder list.
    • Always show Received Items buttons at th bottom of inventory: Only available if the option above is enabled. When this is on, you will also have the button showing on the inventory window.
  • Allow separate search terms on each tab in inventory: If enabled, you can enter different words/phrases in the search bar of the Inventory window: each of Inventory, Recent and Worn can be searched independently.

• Notification Display Settings (Popups, console, toasts): This is where you can fine tune the way your “Toasts” look and act:
  • Space between lowest Toast and bottom (pixels)
  • Notification Toast life (seconds): How long group notices remain open.
  • Tip Toast life (seconds): applies to notificants such as after a TP, you see “Teleport completed from…”. Also includes the friend on/offline notification toasts.
  • Nearby Chat Toast life (seconds)
  • Nearby Chat Toast z-offset (pixels)
  • Nearby Chat Toast fade time (seconds)
  • Startup toast life (seconds)
  • Normal Toast fade time (seconds)
  • Gap between Toasts (pixels)
  • Height of Overflow Toast (pixels)
  • Width of Nearby Chat Toast (%)

• Show toasts in front of other windows: If enabled, toasts will always stay above (cover) any other open windows; otherwise, other widows will be allowed to cover, and potentially hide, toasts.
• Use new region restart notification: Enable this to use the new system for region restart notifications, which can include a distinctive sound and screen shake.
  The alert sound feature can be enabled/disabled in Preferences → Sound & Media -> UI Sounds 3.
  • Don't shake my screen when the region restart alert message is shown: Check this to disable the screen shake feature.

• Font Scheme: Allows you to choose one of the following fonts from the drop down menu.
  • Dyslexia:
    
  • Celestia medium redux:¹⁾
    
  • Droid:
    
  • Mobi:
    
  • Ubuntu:
    
  • Liberation:
    
  • Deja Vu:
    
  • Roboto:
    
  • Noto:
    
• Font Size Adjustment: Lets you change the size of the font. NOTE that this may cause issues.
• Chat Line spacing: spacing between lines of text.
• Folder Item Height: Height of items in inventory.

• Show Hover Tips: This allows you to set what hover tips, if any, you see. Disable this to disable all hover tips. Otherwise, enable it and then you can opt to indicate which hover tips you want to show:
  • on All Objects
  • on Land
    
    
  • Hovertip Trigger Delay: Allows you to choose how long your mouse has to hover over something before you get a hovertip. You can specify different delays for:
    • Tooltips
    • Avatars
    • Objects
      
      
  • Show extended information in hover tips: If this is enabled, hovertips will show details about the object your mouse is over, such as the owner, prim count, etc. Otherwise, hover tips will show just the object name.
  • Show avatar group titles in hovertips: If enabled, avatars' current group titles will display, along with the name, when your mouse over them.

• Floating text fade distance (in m): Sets the distance where floating text starts to fade.
• Floating text fade range (in m): Sets the range it takes for floating text to go from fully visible to fully invisible.

• UI Scaling (may cause side effects): Adjust the slider to choose the UI size. The maximum value depends on your OS: Eg, for Win10, it is 4.5, for earlier Windows, 2.5.
  NOTE that too high may mean you cannot see all of your UI. This may also “break” some UI elements.
  • Automatically detect UI scaling factor: (Windows only) Have FS determine the best possible value for your system.

• Script Dialogs per Object: Controls how many dialogs get opened:
  • One per object - means if a second one opens either the first or second will not appear.
  • One per Object & Channel - means you can have more than one per object but only if they use different channels to interact.
  • Unconstrained - means you can see as many menus/dialogs as may be generated.
    • Remove “Block” button: Popup windows that are generated by scripts have a “Block” button on them; this allows you to easily mute the object that sent the popup, in cases of popup spam griefing. If you find this confusing and think you might click it by mistake, then you can disable it here.
      Note: muting an object also mutes the object owner; do not block popups from vendors without very good reason, or you will not receive items you purchase from them.
      You can review your listed of blocked people and objects in the Block/Mute List.
• Script Dialogs Position: You can select where on the screen scripted popup windows should appear.
  • Animate Script Dialogs: Enable this to replicate old style (V1) behavior when opening script dialogs. Only works if they open at the top of the screen.

• Visible rows per script dialog: Maximum number of lines visible in a script dialog window.

• Use Pie Menu: Allows you to have pie menus (on by default). If disabled, this gives the V2-style vertical drop down instead. You can override the colors used by the pie menu in Preferences→ Colors -> Miscellaneous.
  • Enable text animation: If enabled, the text within the pie is also animated.
  • Enable outer ring shade: Adds shading to the outside of the ring, to further draw attention to the selected “slice”.
• Group Group Notices and chiclets in Top Right: Moves other dialogs (group notices, payments, etc.) to the topright corner (V1 style).
• Hide group and IM chat chiclets: If this is enabled, the chiclets representing open and new IM and group chat messages will be hidden, leaving on the general chat bubble; if this is clicked, you will get a list of open IMs/groups chats.
• Use legacy list layout for Notifications window: Enable this to use the old style notifications window.

• Flashing IM tabs override: allows you to fine tune how long and fast the IM tabs flash:
  • Number of times IM tabs flash
  • IM tab flash rate (Hz)

• Show traffic indicator in upper right corner of the screen: Enable this if you want to display a small traffic meter in the upper right corner of the menu bar. This will show your current packet loss (left bar), and bandwidth usage (right bar).
  • Use legacy period mean per second display for lag meter: If enabled, Firestorm will use the legacy method of showing the period mean per second value in the meter instead of the current observed value.
  • Clicking on traffic indicator opens Statistics instead of the Lag meter: Opens Statistics instead of Lag meter.
• Show media controls in top menu: If you disable this, the media controls are removed from the upper right of the screen. You can still acess volume controls in Preferences→ Sound & Media -> Sounds, if needed, or just re-enable this option.
• Show Location in top menu: Shows the current region and parcel names in the top menu bar.
  • Show simulator channel in top menu: Shows the region channel name in the status bar. Nothing is shown for Main Channel regions.
• Show Menu Search: Enable searching the top menu bar.
• Show Currency Balance: Display your L$ balance in the menu bar.
• Enable mouse rollover popup on status bar menu icons: If enabled, displays tooltips when you mouse over items in the top menu bar.

• Show Favorites Bar: Display the contents of your Favorites folder.
• Show Navigation and Search Bar: Add this bar to the top of the screen.
  • Show Search Bar: Allows the search portion of the navigation bar to be enabled/disabled

• Open avatar profile directly when clicking on its name: If enabled, when you click on someone's name in chat, it opens the profile immediately. With this disabled, you get a small summary window.
• Use web profiles by default: Displays user profiles as web profiles rather than in a profile window.
• Disable automatic opening of block list: Enable this option if you do not want the block (mute) list to open when you block a person or object.
• 'Friends' and 'Groups' in 'Comm' menu opens the V5 based windows: If enabled, Friends and Groups will open in the People panel; otherwise they will open in the Contacts panel.
• Use legacy object properties: If enabled, this will show the old style window when right clicking an item in Inventory and selecting Properties. If disabled, properties will be shown within the Inventory window instead.

• Use stand-alone windows:
  • Group profiles: If enabled, group profile windows will open in separate windows; if disabled, they will open in the same window, with the second opened replacing the first.
  • Teleport history: if enabled, teleport history will open in a window separate from the landmarks window.
  • Block/mute list: Keeps the list of blocked residents separate from the people panel.
  • Landmarks, place details and teleport history details: Similar to the above, but keeps each type of “location” window separate, rather than grouping onto a single window.

• Extend teleport history by: Enable these options to record additional information in your teleport history:
  • Position
  • Date

• Contact list options: Options concerning what is shown in your friends list, and how it is sorted.
  Note that some options have no effect if you have the corresponding option disabled in Prererences → General. For example, if you have disabled display names, then sorting your friends list by display name will have no effect, and therefore is best set to Username.
  • Visible name columns: Here you can select which name colums to shwo in your friends list: username, display name, or full name (see below).
  • Sort list by: What to use to sort your friends list, username or display name.
  • Show full name as: a full name can be shown as Username (Display name), or Display name (username).
  • Show permissions column: If enabled, this shows what permissions you have granted to each friends (eg, online status, edit rights, showing location on map, etc), and which they have granted to you.
  • Show search filter: adds a search box to the list window.

• Inventory Options:
  • Hide empty system folders from inventory: If enabled, the inventory window will not display any system folders (eg, Favorites, Landmarks, etc) that have nothing in them.
  • Show the Received Items folder in normal inventory: If enabled, this folder will be show in the normal inventory list of folders, rather than as a panel under the folder list.
    • Always show Received Items buttons at th bottom of inventory: Only available if the option above is enabled. When this is on, you will also have the button showing on the inventory window.
  • Allow separate search terms on each tab in inventory: If enabled, you can enter different words/phrases in the search bar of the Inventory window: each of Inventory, Recent and Worn can be searched independently.

• Notification Display Settings (Popups, console, toasts): This is where you can fine tune the way your “Toasts” look and act:
  • Space between lowest Toast and bottom (pixels)
  • Notification Toast life (seconds): How long group notices remain open.
  • Tip Toast life (seconds): applies to notificants such as after a TP, you see “Teleport completed from…”. Also includes the friend on/offline notification toasts.
  • Nearby Chat Toast life (seconds)
  • Nearby Chat Toast z-offset (pixels)
  • Nearby Chat Toast fade time (seconds)
  • Startup toast life (seconds)
  • Normal Toast fade time (seconds)
  • Gap between Toasts (pixels)
  • Height of Overflow Toast (pixels)
  • Width of Nearby Chat Toast (%)

• Show toasts in front of other windows: If enabled, toasts will always stay above (cover) any other open windows; otherwise, other widows will be allowed to cover, and potentially hide, toasts.
• Use new region restart notification: Enable this to use the new system for region restart notifications, which can include a distinctive sound and screen shake.
  The alert sound feature can be enabled/disabled in Preferences → Sound & Media -> UI Sounds 3.
  • Don't shake my screen when the region restart alert message is shown: Check this to disable the screen shake feature.

• Font Scheme: Allows you to choose one of the following fonts from the drop down menu.
• Dyslexia:
  
• Droid:
  
• Mobi:
  
• Ubuntu:
  
• Liberation:
  
• Deja Vu:
  
• Roboto:
  
• Noto:
  
• Font Size Adjustment: Lets you change the size of the font. NOTE that this may cause issues.
• Chat Line spacing: spacing between lines of text.
• Folder Item Height: Height of items in inventory.

For a general introduction on how to move your avatar and control your view, refer to this page.

• View angle: Affects the camera field of view.
• Distance: Changes the distance that camera view follows your avatar.
• Transition Time: How long it takes for the camera to adjust to quickly changed camera positions/angles.
• Smoothing: Affects how smoothly the camera moves.
• Disable camera constraints: Allows you to move your camera further away from your avatar. (Same as top menu bar→ Advanced → Disable camera constraints.)
• Don't use the mouse wheel to control zoom level of the camera: By default, scrolling the mouse wheel results in the camera zooming in or out; enabling this option will disable that feature.
• Automatically pose avatar during (select one or more):
  • Build/Edit: When selected, the camera automatically moves to center on the object you're editing.
  • Appearance: (set by default) When selected, the camera automatically zooms in on your avatar when you enter Appearance mode. It also automatically focuses as you select different Body Parts and Clothes tabs. Deselect this to leave the camera where it is.
    • Add Additional Lighting: If enabled, when you go into Appearance, you will have extra lighting to iluminate your avatar. (This option is not available if the one above is disabled.)

• Clicking your avatar keeps camera position: When enabled, clicking on your avatar will focus the camera at the point that you click on your avatar.
• Reset camera position after teleport (within a region): If enabled, the camera will revert to the default position after a TP within the region; when disabled, it will remain where it is, relative to your avatar.
• Reset camera position on avatar movement: If you enable this, the camera will revert to its default position whenever you move your avatar; disable this to inhibit the camera reset. Useful when taking photos, if you need to move your avatar a bit without the camera moving from where you are pointing it.
• Disable minimum camera zoom distance: Allows the camera to zoom as far in as you want, allowing you to see inside prims.
• Turn avatar towards camera direction on reset view: If this is enabled (old default behavior), then when you hit Esc to reset your camera, the avatar will turn to face whatever direction your camera was pointing at when you pressed Esc; with this disabled, your avatar will not move, but instead the camera will rotate round behind it.
• Allow the camera to move without constraints through prims: If enabled will not keep your camera view on the same side of a prim as your avatar. For example put your back against a wall, and you see the other side of the wall. When disabled, your point of view would be over your head, and you see inside.
• Show the default camera controls minifloater always as opaque: If enabled, the camera conrols window will always be opaque.

• Render blocked (muted) avatars as particle cloud:

  Will render muted avatars as clouds.
• Re-render temporary derendered objects after teleport: If enabled, temporarily derendered objects will remain derendered until you teleport; otherwise, they stay derendered until your relog, or a manually re-rendered via the asset blacklist window.

• Enable Mouselook functionality: Enable this if you wish to use Mouselook.
  Mouselook can be entered either by scrolling forward with your mousewheel, or by using the 'M' key on your keyboard (which first equires enabling WASD for movement, in Preferences->General), or from top menu, Advanced → Shortcuts.
  • Show avatar in Mouselook: Will allow you to see yourself when in mouselook. Does not show the entire avatar, but looking down you would see your feet.
  • Show user interface in mouselook: Normally, in mouselook, user interface elements such as the inventory window, IM windows, etc, are hidden. If you enable this, they will remain on screen.
  • Don't close Conversations and Radar window when changing into Mouselook: By default, these windows close when you go into mouselook; enabel this if you prefer that they stay open.
  • Enable context menus in Mouselook: If you enable this, you will be able to open the pie/context menu using Alt Right click.
  • Leave Mouselook using the scroll wheel: If enabled, then you can exit mouselook by scrolling back with your mouse scrollwheel.
  • Show Mouselook Instructions: Will show the “press esc to exit mouselook” message while in mouselook.
  • Show Mouselook Crosshairs: when enabled, crosshairs are displayed in mouselook mode.
  • Enable combat features: Enables IFF (Identification Friend or Foe).
    • Draw target markers: Draws arrows pointing to friend/foe avatars.
    • Range: Max range for the above.
  • Mouselook mouse sensitivity slider: This affects how far your avatar turns in mouselook. Moving the slider to the right causes your avatar to turn farther When you move the mouse, with the same amount of mouse movement.

• Arrow keys always move me: The arrow keys move your avatar around if you hit them while chatting in the main chatbar. Disable this if you prefer to use arrows keys to move back/foward in text you have typed, so you can edit it.
• Pressing letter keys affects movement (i.e. WASD) instead of starting local chat: Enabel this if you wish to have the WAD keys move your avatar.
• Use AZERTY keyboard layout: Enable this if you have an AZERTY keyboard; if your keyboard has a QWERTY layout, leave it disabled.
• Tap-tap-hold to run: Allows you to double-tap and hold the up arrow key to run.
• Fly/Land on holding up/down: Allows holding the PgUp or PgDown button to fly/land, respectively.
• Enable crouch toggle mode: If this is enabled, pressing PgDown will put you into a crouch; you will remain that way till you press it again. Otherwise, you need to press and hold PgDown to stay in a crouch.
• Disable waiting for pre-jump and landing animations: In effect, a fast jump. Same as the option in the top menu, Avatar→ Movement → Quickjump.
• Allow avatars to walk backwards on your screen: If this is left off, your avatar will turn around to face the camera when you walk backward. This option affects only what you see, and does not work with scripted AOs, only the client AO (or no AO).
• Turn avatar towards a selected object: Disable this option if you do not wish your avatar to turn to an object when you select or edit it.

• If built in LSL Bridge movelock is active…
  • Always re-lock position after region change: If you enabled the movelock function in top menu, Avatar → Movement → Move Lock (Ctrl-Alt-P), then this keeps the lock enabled if you teleport.
  • Lock and unlock position after stopping or starting movement: With this setting enabled, you will be able to move even if movelock is enabled; movelock will still prevent being pushed.

• Single click on land: Clicking a spot on the ground can either do nothing, or cause you to walk to that spot.

• Double click on land:

  Double clicking a spot on the ground can:
  • Do nothing
  • Cause you to walk to that spot
  • Teleport you to that spot. (See also the Firestorm Bridge.)

• Joystick Configuration: Opens a window where you can change settings for other input devices.

• Play sound effect when teleporting:

  Allows you to hear the teleport sound effect.
• Always fly after teleporting: If enabled, your avatar will automatically fly when arriving at a new destination, after a teleport.
• Always show the Teleport cancel button: This allows teleports to be cancelled once started. Note that cancelling a TP in progress may log you out.
• Disable Teleport Beacons: Disables the red indicator arrows and the vertical beacons that sometimes are shown after a teleport. Thus if you do not land at the exact location you wanted to (due to teleport routing), you will not have the beacon to guide you to your intended destination.
• Disable Teleport Screens: Disables the black teleport screen during all teleports.
• Do not close the map when teleporting: Enable this is you want the map to stay open after a TP.
• Keep 'Show Friends Only' enabled after teleporting: If this is off, then the Show Friends Only option (top menu, World→ Show Friends Only) will automatically disable after teleport. Handy in case you forgot that you enabled it, and then wonder why you can't see anyone.

• Enable Minimap Rotation: When enabled the minimap will rotate when your avatar turns.
• Double click on Minimap: Select an action when you double click a point on the Minimap:
  • No Action
  • Open World Map
  • Teleport
• Pick Scale: Controls the radius of the pick range on the minimap.

Note: Other options concerning minimap are found under Preferences→ Colors -> Minimap.

• Filter duplicate landmarks on world map: If enabled, duplicate landmarks are filtered out of the Landmarks drop down menu on the world map.
• Show additional region information on World Map: Displays avatar count and maturity level on the world map.
• Show grid coordinates on the world map: Display regions' grid coordinates on the world map.
• Enable double click teleports on the World map: Allow teleport to a location on the world map by double clicking.

There are several volume sliders available here so you can customize the levels for each. Note that the master volume slider affects ALL volume.

• Mute when minimized: Checking this will mute all sounds when you minimize the viewer.

You can enable/disable Streaming music, Media (video) and Voice Chat from the the check boxes to the right of their respective volume sliders. For issues getting audio or media working, refer to this page.

• Play sounds from collisions:

  (to the right of the Ambient slider) Enable this to hear when collisions occur.
• Play sounds from gestures: (to the right of the Sound Effects slider) Enable this to hear sounds from gestures.

• Play a sound when my friends:¹⁾
  • Log in
  • Log Out

• L$ change theshold: This sets the value above which you will get an audible alert when you receive or spend L$. Amounts below this will not trigger a sound.

• Allow Media to Auto-Play: With this enabled, video will play automatically (not recommended).
• Allow inworld scripts to play media: Will allows scripts to automatically start media (not recommended).
• Play media attached to other avatars: Enables media attached to other avatars (media on a prim).
• Enable media filter (increased security): This will let you control what media stream you connect to, allowing you to whitelist or blacklist any media stream. See this page for more information.
  • Manage Media Sites (button): Allows you to edit your whitelist Domains and blacklist Domains by Adding and Removing from either category. More information is here.
• Media source volume rolloff distance:
  • Starts getting quieter at: This controls when a sound source will start to fade out.
  • Completely disappears at: This controls when a sound source will be no longer audible.

• Allow audio streams to auto-play: With this enabled, streaming music will play automatically (not recommended).

• Enable Parcel Audio Fading: Check this if fading should be used when the parcel audio stream changes.
  • Fade in: duration of the fade in seconds.
  • Fade out: duration of the fade effect in seconds.

• Show stream title notifications: For audio streams that supply this information, the song title will be shown. Can be set to:
  • Off
  • Toasts
  • Nearby Chat
    • Send stream title to chat channel: Lets you choose what channel the viewer uses for the above option.

• Enable Voice: Check here to enable voice.
  • Reset Voice (Circular arrow): If you have problems getting voice to work, try clicking this to reset the vocie software. Should that not help, refer to this page.
• Allow Voice in multiple viewer instances simultaneously: Enable this if you want voice capability in multiple instances of Firestorm.

• Hear Voice from Camera Position: Voices closer to your camera position appear louder.
• Hear Voice from Avatar Position: Vocies closer to your avatar position appear louder.
• Hear Voice equally from everyone: Hear all voices the same.

• Move avatar lips when speaking: (aka “lip sync”) Will cause you to see avatars' lips moving when they speak in voice.
• Show voice visualizers over avatars: Enable this to disaply a white dot over avatars who have voice enabled.
• Show voice visualizers in calls: Show voice indicator and move avatar lips while in a private call.
• Show voice channel state in conversation tabs: Indicate, in conversation tabs, when people have voice enabled.

• Automatically reject all incoming group voice calls: Enable this to automatically decline group voice chat.
• Automatically reject all incoming AdHoc (conference) voice calls: Enable to automatically decline voice conference calls.
• Automatically reject all incoming P2P (avatar with avatar) voice calls: Enable to automatically decline person to person voice calls.

• Toggle speak on/off when I press: Clicking the Set Key button allows you to assign a button on your keyboard to toggle voice.
• Audio Device Settings (button): Opens a section where you can choose your input and output as well as adjust the mic volume. You will be disconnected from in-world voice while this is open. To close simply click the button again.

Here, you can change sounds played when specific “events” happen (for example, the sound played when you get a new IM). You can also chose to disable (or re-enable) sounds on a case by case basis.

To change a sound, locate the “event” you are interested in (example: Taking Snapshot), then paste in the UUID of the sound you wish to use. To obtain the UUID of a sound in your inventory, right click on it and select Copy UUID.
Note that the sound clip needs to be full permissions in order for you to be able to obtain the UUID.)

If you wish to restore the default value, click the D button to the right of the UUID.

The drop down to the far right of each line allows you to enable or disable each sound.

See here for a video describing this.

This tab continues the previous one, with more “event” alert sounds you can change.

This tab continues the previous one, with even more “event” alert sounds you can change.

There is a helpful tutorial video here.

There is a helpful tutorial video here.

Radar is presently sortable by name, age, seen and range. Just click on the appropriate button.

• The untitled column to the right of Name shows whether the person is speaking on voice
• The next column will display a green square if the person is in the same region as you, yellow if in the same parcel (ie, yellow and green, usually, for both same parcel and same region).
• The next shows if the person is typing.
• This column indicates is the person is sitting.
• The next column will show a $ sign if the person has payment info on file, and a $$ for payment info used.
• Then comes Avatar has notes, which will contain an N if you put notes on that person's profile.
• Age indicates the avatar's age in days.
• Seen is the length of time the person has been within radar range.
• Range shows their current distance, in meters. Use of bolding and color distinguishes chat range, shout range, and beyond.

When you right click on a person's name you get the following options:

• View Profile: Opens a window showing the person's profile.
• Add Friend: This option is only shown if the person is not already on your friends list. It will send a friendship request.
• Remove Friend: This option is only shown if the person is on your friends list. Clicking it will dissolve the friendship. Currently, the other person is not informed, but one copy of your calling card will be removed from the person's Calling Cards folder (a second copy will remain there until/unless they choose to delete it; if the person is logged in at the time, the removed copy will appear in their Trash).
• IM: Opens an IM to the person.
• VoiceCall: Initiates a private voice conversation with the other person. Naturally, both need to have voice enabled and functioning.
• Map: If your friend gave you map rights, this item will be enabled. If clicked, it will open the world map and show the person's current location.
• Track: shows a beacon allowing to you locate the person and track their movement. (Versions after 3.2.2 only.)
• Share: If you click this entry, an IM window opens; you can then drag and drop inventory items into it, to give them to the other person.
• Pay: Opens a window, which you can use to pay the other person L$. Some default values are shown, or you can type the number in manually.
• Offer Teleport: Click this if you wish to offer to teleport the person to your present location.
• Teleport To: Teleports you to the other person's location.
• Zoom In: If enabled, moves your camera to view the other person.
• Invite to group: allows you to invite the person to a group you belong to; opens the Groups selector window.
• Get Script Info: Displays the script info for the avatar; requires that the Firestorm bridge be enabled and worn.

• Block/Unblock: aka Mute/Unmute. This mutes the other person, completely blocking them from contacting you. You will not see anything they type in local chat or receive any IMs they might send, and all inventory offers made will be automatically declined. Use with caution; muting a person can also mute their objects, which means that if you make a purchase from them, you are likely to not receive what you paid for.
• Report: Allows you to file an abuse report against the selected avatar. This should not be done lightly and never be misused. Click here for more information on what an abuse report is.
• Freeze: Estate managers/owners can use this to freeze an avatar's movements. This is a tool to be used in cases of griefing and not to be used frivolously.
• Parcel Eject/Ban: If selected, this will eject and ban the avatar from the parcel you are in. You must have the appropriate rights in that parcel or this will not work.
• Estate Kick/Ban: Similar to the above, but operates at the estate level. Therefore, this is only available to estate managers or owners.
• Estate Teleport Home: Selecting this will teleport the avatar to his/her home location. This does not ban them, however, and may fail if they have no home location set or if that location is not accessible (eg, the region is down).
• Derender: Temporarily derenders the avatar.
• Derender + Blacklist: Derenders and blacklists the avatar. This derender is permanent - unless you remove the person from the blacklist; see this page.

The Sprocket/Gear icon at the top of the Nearby tab has the same functions as the right click menu for individual avatar names.

The List icon, to the right of the gear, has the following radar functions:

• Show Minimap above Radar: If enabled, the panel expands upward to show a minimap of the current area.
• Limit Results to Specific Radius: If selected, a slider will appear at the bottom of the window, to the right of the sprocket/gear. Here you may change the range at which the radar is active. This allows you to monitor smaller areas than the radar normally can report. Useful if you only are interested in a parcel rather than an entire region and those adjoining. If you wish to have radar report at max range all the time, it is more efficient to just disable this option.
• Show muted and blacklisted Avatars: If enabled, radar will list people you have muted and/or derendered.
• Radar Name Format: Allows you to select how you want names to be displayed in the radar. Available options depend on how you have preferences set for display names and user names.
• Displayed Columns: You can enable or disable specific columns in the list. Handy if you want to reduce the overall width.
• Color names based on distance: same as the option in Preferences→ Colors -> Name tags.

• Report To: allows you to select whether to show radar notifications to chat or as notification toasts.
• Local chat distance ring in Minimap: Show chat raneg on the minimap. Same as the option in Preferences → Colors -> Minimap.
• Report Entering Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone enters your draw distance range.
• Report Leaving Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone leaves your draw distance range.
• Report Entering Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone enters chat range (20m).
• Report Leaving Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone leaves chat range (20m).
• Report Entering your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people entering the region you are currently in.
• Report Leaving your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people leaving the region you are currently in.
• Report Enter Alerts to Scripts: If enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Report Exit Alerts to Scripts: If this is enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Enhance Radar with LSL Bridge: ENhance radar functionality via the Bridge. Used to improve distance calculations.

• Open Blocked Residents & Objects:

  This displays the list of people and objects you have blocked (muted).

The '+' icon, to the right of the list (radar) icon, when clicked, will give the following message: “Friends can give permissions to track each other on the map and receive online status updates.” And it will ask you if you want to offer friendship to an Avatar that you highlighted. If they are already on your friends list, the '+' sign will be greyed out.

This tab shows the list of avatars, objects and groups which you have blocked (muted).

Right clicking any name gives the following options:

• Unblock: Allows you to remove the person, object or group from the block list.
• Profile: For avatars, opens the person's profile.

The gear icon on the top has the same fucntions as the right click menu.

The List icon has these otpions:

• Sort by Name: Sorts the friends list alphabetically by name.
• Sort by Type: Sorts the list by type (ie, Group, avatar, object)

The '+' icon allows you to add a person or object to your block list:

• Block Resident by name: Opens a person selector window, so you can pick who you wish to mute.
• Block object by name: Opens a window into which you should type the name of the object to block.

The trascan icon can be used to remove the selected entry from the block list.

This panel replicates many of the features of Contact Sets in the Conversations window.

Across the top, there are:

• Current set name: This drop down allows you to select a contact set.
• Gear Icon: Functions and Settings.
• + Icon: Add person or set.
• Trash Icon: Remove set or person.

Since these functions are all essentially the same as on the main Contact Sets window, please refer here for details.

This tab allows you to backup and restore your Firestorm preferences in a safe way. This is useful in a number of situations. For example:

• The viewer is behaving in an unusual way and settings corruption is suspected. You can create a backup of your settings prior to wiping them to defaults, to see if default settings solves the problem. If it doesn't solve the problem, you can quickly revert to your old settings.
• You are upgrading to a new version of the viewer. Generally, this requires you clean install (which implies not only removing the old version before installing the new, but also wiping settings), since settings files tend not to be compatible between versions. You can use backup/restore to save having to manually reconfigure all setting after the upgrade.

NOTE: Not all settings are backed up. Some are not considered “safe” to restore, particularly during a viewer update.

• Backup Path: Select the folder where your backup settings will be written; click the Set button to select the folder.
  (Please do NOT store directly to your dekstop.)

Below are three groups of settings which may be saved/restored:

• Global files: Settings which affect all accounts;
• Per Account FIles: Settings whcih can be different for each account;
• Folders: This includes custom selection beams, windlight, and so on

To select all of the available settings for backup/restore, click the Select All button; Deselect All unchecks all of them, allowing manual selection of just some.

• Restore global settings: Check this if you wish the restore operation to restore the settings listed in the Global Files column.
• Restore per account settings: Check this if you want the restore function to restore settings listed in the Per account Files column.

• Backup Settings: Click this button to create a backup of your settings, to the folder specified at the top.
• Restore Settings: Click this to restore settings previously saved by a Backup.

For step by step instructions, please refer to this page; there is a video tutorial here.

This tab alows you to set default behavior for the sending of creash reports to the Phoenix/Firestorm team, for analysis.

• Send crash reports to firestormviewer.org: Enable this to have crash reports sent to us.

• Minidump type: Not currently supported.
  Possible values are:
  • Minimal
  • Default
  • Extended

• Always ask before sending: If enabled, you will get a request after each crash, asking whether to send logs.
• Include settings.xml: If enabled, thsi will send your preference settings as well, which can be helpful in diagnosing the problem. Note that this file contains your SL name.
• Include Second Life name: If enabled, you SL name will be included with the crash info, which can allow us to contact you for mroe info, if needed.

NOTE: Please refer to our Privacy Policy.

• Show Hover Tips: This allows you to set what hover tips, if any, you see. Disable this to disable all hover tips. Otherwise, enable it and then you can opt to indicate which hover tips you want to show:
  • on All Objects
  • on Land
    
    
  • Hovertip Trigger Delay: Allows you to choose how long your mouse has to hover over something before you get a hovertip. You can specify different delays for:
    • Tooltips
    • Avatars
    • Objects
      
      
  • Show extended information in hover tips: If this is enabled, hovertips will show details about the object your mouse is over, such as the owner, prim count, etc. Otherwise, hover tips will show just the object name.
  • Show avatar group titles in hovertips: If enabled, avatars' current group titles will display, along with the name, when your mouse over them.

• Floating text fade distance (in m): Sets the distance where floating text starts to fade.
• Floating text fade range (in m): Sets the range it takes for floating text to go from fully visible to fully invisible.

• UI Scaling (may cause side effects): Adjust the slider to choose the UI size. The maximum value depends on your OS: Eg, for Win10, it is 4.5, for earlier Windows, 2.5.
  NOTE that too high may mean you cannot see all of your UI. This may also “break” some UI elements.
  • Automatically detect UI scaling factor: (Windows only) Have FS determine the best possible value for your system.

• Script Dialogs per Object: Controls how many dialogs get opened:
  • One per object - means if a second one opens either the first or second will not appear.
  • One per Object & Channel - means you can have more than one per object but only if they use different channels to interact.
  • Unconstrained - means you can see as many menus/dialogs as may be generated.
    • Remove “Block” button: Popup windows that are generated by scripts have a “Block” button on them; this allows you to easily mute the object that sent the popup, in cases of popup spam griefing. If you find this confusing and think you might click it by mistake, then you can disable it here.
      Note: muting an object also mutes the object owner; do not block popups from vendors without very good reason, or you will not receive items you purchase from them.
      You can review your listed of blocked people and objects in the Block/Mute List.
• Script Dialogs Position: You can select where on the screen scripted popup windows should appear.
  • Animate Script Dialogs: Enable this to replicate old style (V1) behavior when opening script dialogs. Only works if they open at the top of the screen.

• Visible rows per script dialog: Maximum number of lines visible in a script dialog window.

• Use Pie Menu: Allows you to have pie menus (on by default). If disabled, this gives the V2-style vertical drop down instead. You can override the colors used by the pie menu in Preferences→ Colors -> Miscellaneous.
  • Enable text animation: If enabled, the text within the pie is also animated.
  • Enable outer ring shade: Adds shading to the outside of the ring, to further draw attention to the selected “slice”.
• Group Group Notices and chiclets in Top Right: Moves other dialogs (group notices, payments, etc.) to the topright corner (V1 style).
• Hide group and IM chat chiclets: If this is enabled, the chiclets representing open and new IM and group chat messages will be hidden, leaving on the general chat bubble; if this is clicked, you will get a list of open IMs/groups chats.
• Use legacy list layout for Notifications window: Enable this to use the old style notifications window.
• Remap shortcuts already used by Linux (Linux only;requires restart): Shortcuts already used by Linux (Ctrl-Alt-Fn) will be remapped to use Ctrl-Shift instead.

• Flashing IM tabs override: allows you to fine tune how long and fast the IM tabs flash:
  • Number of times IM tabs flash
  • IM tab flash rate (Hz)

• Show traffic indicator in upper right corner of the screen: Enable this if you want to display a small traffic meter in the upper right corner of the menu bar. This will show your current packet loss (left bar), and bandwidth usage (right bar).
  • Use legacy period mean per second display for lag meter: If enabled, Firestorm will use the legacy method of showing the period mean per second value in the meter instead of the current observed value.
  • Clicking on traffic indicator opens Statistics instead of the Lag meter: Opens Statistics instead of Lag meter.
• Show media controls in top menu: If you disable this, the media controls are removed from the upper right of the screen. You can still acess volume controls in Preferences→ Sound & Media -> Sounds, if needed, or just re-enable this option.
• Show Location in top menu: Shows the current region and parcel names in the top menu bar.
  • Show simulator channel in top menu: Shows the region channel name in the status bar. Nothing is shown for Main Channel regions.
• Show Menu Search: Enable searching the top menu bar.
• Show Currency Balance: Display your L$ balance in the menu bar.
• Enable mouse rollover popup on status bar menu icons: If enabled, displays tooltips when you mouse over items in the top menu bar.

• Show Favorites Bar: Display the contents of your Favorites folder.
• Show Navigation and Search Bar: Add this bar to the top of the screen.
  • Show Search Bar: Allows the search portion of the navigation bar to be enabled/disabled

• Open avatar profile directly when clicking on its name: If enabled, when you click on someone's name in chat, it opens the profile immediately. With this disabled, you get a small summary window.
• Use web profiles by default: Displays user profiles as web profiles rather than in a profile window.
• Disable automatic opening of block list: Enable this option if you do not want the block (mute) list to open when you block a person or object.
• 'Friends' and 'Groups' in 'Comm' menu opens the V5 based windows: If enabled, Friends and Groups will open in the People panel; otherwise they will open in the Contacts panel.
• Use legacy object properties: If enabled, this will show the old style window when right clicking an item in Inventory and selecting Properties. If disabled, properties will be shown within the Inventory window instead.

• Use stand-alone windows:
  • Group profiles: If enabled, group profile windows will open in separate windows; if disabled, they will open in the same window, with the second opened replacing the first.
  • Teleport history: if enabled, teleport history will open in a window separate from the landmarks window.
  • Block/mute list: Keeps the list of blocked residents separate from the people panel.
  • Landmarks, place details and teleport history details: Similar to the above, but keeps each type of “location” window separate, rather than grouping onto a single window.

• Extend teleport history by: Enable these options to record additional information in your teleport history:
  • Position
  • Date

• Contact list options: Options concerning what is shown in your friends list, and how it is sorted.
  Note that some options have no effect if you have the corresponding option disabled in Prererences → General. For example, if you have disabled display names, then sorting your friends list by display name will have no effect, and therefore is best set to Username.
  • Visible name columns: Here you can select which name colums to shwo in your friends list: username, display name, or full name (see below).
  • Sort list by: What to use to sort your friends list, username or display name.
  • Show full name as: a full name can be shown as Username (Display name), or Display name (username).
  • Show permissions column: If enabled, this shows what permissions you have granted to each friends (eg, online status, edit rights, showing location on map, etc), and which they have granted to you.
  • Show search filter: adds a search box to the list window.

• Inventory Options:
  • Hide empty system folders from inventory: If enabled, the inventory window will not display any system folders (eg, Favorites, Landmarks, etc) that have nothing in them.
  • Show the Received Items folder in normal inventory: If enabled, this folder will be show in the normal inventory list of folders, rather than as a panel under the folder list.
    • Always show Received Items buttons at th bottom of inventory: Only available if the option above is enabled. When this is on, you will also have the button showing on the inventory window.
  • Allow separate search terms on each tab in inventory: If enabled, you can enter different words/phrases in the search bar of the Inventory window: each of Inventory, Recent and Worn can be searched independently.

• Notification Display Settings (Popups, console, toasts): This is where you can fine tune the way your “Toasts” look and act:
  • Space between lowest Toast and bottom (pixels)
  • Notification Toast life (seconds): How long group notices remain open.
  • Tip Toast life (seconds): applies to notificants such as after a TP, you see “Teleport completed from…”. Also includes the friend on/offline notification toasts.
  • Nearby Chat Toast life (seconds)
  • Nearby Chat Toast z-offset (pixels)
  • Nearby Chat Toast fade time (seconds)
  • Startup toast life (seconds)
  • Normal Toast fade time (seconds)
  • Gap between Toasts (pixels)
  • Height of Overflow Toast (pixels)
  • Width of Nearby Chat Toast (%)

• Show toasts in front of other windows: If enabled, toasts will always stay above (cover) any other open windows; otherwise, other widows will be allowed to cover, and potentially hide, toasts.
• Use new region restart notification: Enable this to use the new system for region restart notifications, which can include a distinctive sound and screen shake.
  The alert sound feature can be enabled/disabled in Preferences → Sound & Media -> UI Sounds 3.
  • Don't shake my screen when the region restart alert message is shown: Check this to disable the screen shake feature.

• Font Scheme: Allows you to choose one of the following fonts from the drop down menu.
  • Dyslexia:
    
  • Celestia medium redux:¹⁾
    
  • Droid:
    
  • Mobi:
    
  • Ubuntu:
    
  • Liberation:
    
  • Deja Vu:
    
  • Roboto:
    
  • Noto:
    
• Font Size Adjustment: Lets you change the size of the font. NOTE that this may cause issues.
• Chat Line spacing: spacing between lines of text.
• Folder Item Height: Height of items in inventory.

There is a helpful tutorial video here.

Radar is presently sortable by name, age, seen and range. Just click on the appropriate button.

• The untitled column to the right of Name shows whether the person is speaking on voice
• The next column will display a green square if the person is in the same region as you, yellow if in the same parcel (ie, yellow and green, usually, for both same parcel and same region).
• The next shows if the person is typing.
• This column indicates is the person is sitting.
• The next column will show a $ sign if the person has payment info on file, and a $$ for payment info used.
• Then comes Avatar has notes, which will contain an N if you put notes on that person's profile.
• Age indicates the avatar's age in days.
• Seen is the length of time the person has been within radar range.
• Range shows their current distance, in meters. Use of bolding and color distinguishes chat range, shout range, and beyond.

When you right click on a person's name you get the following options:

• View Profile: Opens a window showing the person's profile.
• Add Friend: This option is only shown if the person is not already on your friends list. It will send a friendship request.
• Remove Friend: This option is only shown if the person is on your friends list. Clicking it will dissolve the friendship. Currently, the other person is not informed, but one copy of your calling card will be removed from the person's Calling Cards folder (a second copy will remain there until/unless they choose to delete it; if the person is logged in at the time, the removed copy will appear in their Trash).
• IM: Opens an IM to the person.
• VoiceCall: Initiates a private voice conversation with the other person. Naturally, both need to have voice enabled and functioning.
• Map: If your friend gave you map rights, this item will be enabled. If clicked, it will open the world map and show the person's current location.
• Track: shows a beacon allowing to you locate the person and track their movement. (Versions after 3.2.2 only.)
• Share: If you click this entry, an IM window opens; you can then drag and drop inventory items into it, to give them to the other person.
• Pay: Opens a window, which you can use to pay the other person L$. Some default values are shown, or you can type the number in manually.
• Offer Teleport: Click this if you wish to offer to teleport the person to your present location.
• Teleport To: Teleports you to the other person's location.
• Zoom In: If enabled, moves your camera to view the other person.
• Invite to group: allows you to invite the person to a group you belong to; opens the Groups selector window.
• Get Script Info: Displays the script info for the avatar; requires that the Firestorm bridge be enabled and worn.

• Block/Unblock: aka Mute/Unmute. This mutes the other person, completely blocking them from contacting you. You will not see anything they type in local chat or receive any IMs they might send, and all inventory offers made will be automatically declined. Use with caution; muting a person can also mute their objects, which means that if you make a purchase from them, you are likely to not receive what you paid for.
• Report: Allows you to file an abuse report against the selected avatar. This should not be done lightly and never be misused. Click here for more information on what an abuse report is.
• Freeze: Estate managers/owners can use this to freeze an avatar's movements. This is a tool to be used in cases of griefing and not to be used frivolously.
• Parcel Eject/Ban: If selected, this will eject and ban the avatar from the parcel you are in. You must have the appropriate rights in that parcel or this will not work.
• Estate Kick/Ban: Similar to the above, but operates at the estate level. Therefore, this is only available to estate managers or owners.
• Estate Teleport Home: Selecting this will teleport the avatar to his/her home location. This does not ban them, however, and may fail if they have no home location set or if that location is not accessible (eg, the region is down).
• Derender: Temporarily derenders the avatar.
• Derender + Blacklist: Derenders and blacklists the avatar. This derender is permanent - unless you remove the person from the blacklist; see this page.

The Sprocket/Gear icon at the top of the Nearby tab has the same functions as the right click menu for individual avatar names.

The List icon, to the right of the gear, has the following radar functions:

• Show Minimap above Radar: If enabled, the panel expands upward to show a minimap of the current area.
• Limit Results to Specific Radius: If selected, a slider will appear at the bottom of the window, to the right of the sprocket/gear. Here you may change the range at which the radar is active. This allows you to monitor smaller areas than the radar normally can report. Useful if you only are interested in a parcel rather than an entire region and those adjoining. If you wish to have radar report at max range all the time, it is more efficient to just disable this option.
• Show muted and blacklisted Avatars: If enabled, radar will list people you have muted and/or derendered.
• Radar Name Format: Allows you to select how you want names to be displayed in the radar. Available options depend on how you have preferences set for display names and user names.
• Displayed Columns: You can enable or disable specific columns in the list. Handy if you want to reduce the overall width.
• Color names based on distance: same as the option in Preferences→ Colors -> Name tags.

• Report To: allows you to select whether to show radar notifications to chat or as notification toasts.
• Local chat distance ring in Minimap: Show chat raneg on the minimap. Same as the option in Preferences → Colors -> Minimap.
• Report Entering Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone enters your draw distance range.
• Report Leaving Draw Range: If enabled, this will report to chat when someone leaves your draw distance range.
• Report Entering Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone enters chat range (20m).
• Report Leaving Chat Range: If enabled, this reports to chat whenever someone leaves chat range (20m).
• Report Entering your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people entering the region you are currently in.
• Report Leaving your Region: Enable this to have the radar report people leaving the region you are currently in.
• Report Enter Alerts to Scripts: If enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Report Exit Alerts to Scripts: If this is enabled, the radar will send an avatar UUID to scripts. For more information, please refer to this page.
• Enhance Radar with LSL Bridge: ENhance radar functionality via the Bridge. Used to improve distance calculations.

• Open Blocked Residents & Objects:

  This displays the list of people and objects you have blocked (muted).

The '+' icon, to the right of the list (radar) icon, when clicked, will give the following message: “Friends can give permissions to track each other on the map and receive online status updates.” And it will ask you if you want to offer friendship to an Avatar that you highlighted. If they are already on your friends list, the '+' sign will be greyed out.

These classes are based on our official Firestorm release and are conducted in voice and text except when otherwise noted. There's no need to talk, but you may want to be able to hear. We also usually have help available to answer questions in text. This schedule is subject to change.

Note that it is best if you are on Firestorm for the classes.

Locations are indicated in the far right column as follows:

• FS: Firestorm Support region classroom, * Firestorm Classroom
• JU: Junkyard University, * Junkyard University Classroom

Class times and days change regularly. Classes may be held any day of the week, with start times from 8am to 7pm SLT. Nonetheless, if the class times are still inconvenient you may prefer to watch recorded versions of some of these classes on YouTube.

Unscheduled classes may also be held on an impromptu basis. If this happens, a notice will be sent in Firestorm Support English. secondlife:///app/group/3a1be8d4-01f3-bc1a-2703-442f0cc8f2dd/about

*All times SLT*

• Preset in use: Shows the name of the graphics preset in use.

• Quality and speed: Allows you to adjust the graphics quality (lower is faster). Many options are changed based on this setting.
  • Reload Defaults: The circular arrow to the right of the Quality and speed slider (above) will revert all graphics settings to default values. Use this if you have made changes that have a negative impact on the veiwer and cannot remember what you changed.
• Fullscreen Mode (requires restart): Enable this if you want to run Firestorm in full screen mode, as opposed to windowed.
• Shaders:
  • Transparent water: Allows water to look transparent instead of opaque. Enable this (if it isn't already) if you exeprience glowing water while wearing rigged mesh.
  • Bump mapping and shiny: Enables the rendering of shiny and bump mapped surfaces.
  • Local Lights: Globally enables/disables local lights.
  • Basic shaders: Allows rendering of high-quality water, basic lighting, and other graphical effects.
  • Atmospheric shaders: Enables advanced atmospheric and lighting.
  • Advanced Lighting Model: Check this to allow shadows and other features to be enabled. Note that enabling this can cause instability and performance issues; click here for known specifics. For more how shadows behave, see this SL wiki page.
  • Ambient occlusion: Checking this enables more realistic shadows; the stability and performance note above also applies here.

• Shadows:

  Lets you choose what light sources cause shadows; this is available only if the Advanced Lighting Model option above is enabled).
  • none
  • sun/moon
  • sun/moon and projectors
• Avatar Shadows: controls whether and how avatars cast shadows. The higher the setting, the more client lag it will cause.
  • None
  • Simplified
  • Optimized
  • Complex
• Water Reflections: Allows water to reflect terrain, objects, and avatars.
• Point Lighting: Affects the number of rendered light sources when Advanced Lighting Model (above) is disabled. A viewer restart is needed if this setting is changed.

• Draw distance:

  Affects how far out from your viewpoint objects will be rendered in the scene.
• Max particle count: Sets the maximum number of particles you are able to see on your screen at once.
• Maximum complexity: Controls at what point a visually complex avatar is shown as a jellydoll. ¹⁾ Current defaults are:
  • Low: 35,000
  • Low-Mid: 100,000
  • Mid: 200,000
  • Mid-High: 250,000
  • High: 300,000
  • High-Ultra: 350,000
  • Ultra: 350,000
• Max # of non-imposter avatars: Sets the number of avatars that will be fully rendered. See Avatar impostors below.
• Post process quality: Determines the resolution with which glow is rendered. A lower setting will cause glow to look slightly pixelated.
• Avatar Physics: Affects the detail of avatar physics. Set to 0 to disable avatar physics entirely.

• Level of Detail (LOD) Distance Factors:

  • Objects & Sculpts LOD: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering object shapes; a lower setting causes objects to appear more angular and polygonal.
    Setting this higher than 4 via Debug Settings is not recommended. Please see here for details on why high values are not recommended.
  • Flexiprims: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering flexible object shapes.
  • Trees: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering (Linden) tree shapes.
  • Avatars: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering avatar shapes.
  • Terrain: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering terrain.
  • Sky: Controls the detail with which windlight skies are rendered. Higher values mean better quality but lower performance.
• Avatar Rendering:
  • Avatar imposters: Allows far-away avatars to be subtly rendered as two-dimensional images in order to improve your frame rate in crowded areas.
  • Hardware skinning: This allows some aspects of avatar rendering to be handled by your graphics card to improve performance.
  • Avatar cloth: Allows the rendering of flexible cloth on avatar clothing, such as shirts and flared pants.
• Terrain Detail: Choose the amount of terrain detail you would like to see. Setting this option to Low replaces the ground texture with a low-resolution ground texture.
  This option is not available (ie, it is greyed out) if Basic Shaders is enabled, in which case it is always set to High.

• Presets: Three buttons which allow you to save, load or delete graphics settings presets.
  • To create a preset, set your graphics settings as you like. Click “Save” and give the preset a name.
  • To load a preset that you have created, click “Load” and choose the preset to load.
  • To delete one, click “Delete” and choose the preset to delete.
  • The presets can be accessed either from Preferences → Graphics → General or from the presets button in the upper right of the viewer, near the media and sound controls.

• Anisotropic Filtering: Enables anisotropic filtering to improve texture quality. This setting may reduce your viewer's performance. For more information see this wikipedia page.
• Enable OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects: VBO on modern hardware gives a performance gain. However, older hardware often has poor implementation of VBOs and the viewer may become unstable when this is enabled. VBO is explained in depth here.
• Enable Streamed VBOs: Allows the use of streamed VBO as well as static; only works if you have VBO enabled.
• Enable Lossy Texture Compression: If this is enabled, texture compression will be enabled for rendering. This gives improved performance, and a smaller grapics memory footprint, at the cost of lower quality rendered textures. Textures are compressed by the video card before being stored into video memory. Given that compressed textures can often end up pixellated, it is not recommended that this be enabled unless you have little video memory. Ref: SL JIRA MAINT-708.

• Antialiasing: Smoothes jagged edges. Renders a scene the number of multiple times that is actually shown and scales it down. Choose the level of antialiasing the viewer will use (requires restart).
• Gamma: Use the Windlight Sky Editor's Scene Gamma control on the Atmosphere/Sun tab instead of this; currently functional only if Atmospheric Shaders are disabled.
• Viewer Texture Memory Buffer (MB): This is the amount of graphics memory the viewer will use. By default, it is set to the size of your graphics card's memory.
  • 32bit versions only. This setting is hard limited to a maximum of 512MB. Lowering this value may resolve certain texture corruption and performance issues, but under normal circumstances you should not need to alter this setting.
  • 64bit versions only. This setting is hard limited based on the VRAM available with your graphics card. It is recommended you increase the slider to use the maximum available to prevent texture thrashing.
    • GPU 1GB = up to 768MB
    • GPU 2GB = up to 1024MB
    • GPU 4GB+ = up to 2048MB
• Fog Distance Ratio: Determines how far away Second Life's fog effect begins. Lower values = closer fog. Only used when you have Atmospheric Shaders disabled. If Atmospheric Shaders are enabled, this effect is handled by the Distance Multiplier control in the Advanced Sky Editor.

• Freeze updates to World (pause everything): This suspends rendering. Useful for picture taking, if you wish to capture a specific scene that might otherwise change while you are preparing.

• Use HTTP Textures: Uses the HTTP protocol to fetch textures as opposed to the older UDP. Always on, as it is required for SL.
• Max Texture Quality Level: If you have a poor connection, you may wish to reduce the level of texture detail. This can be set to Normal, Minimal or None.
  Naturally, setting this to anything other than Normal will result in textures displaying poorly, or not at all. Do not change unless absolutely necessary - for example, if you have a very poor connection but need to be online, and don't care if you can see textures or not.

These options control when alpha masking should be used in an attempt to mitigate the well known alpha sorting issue, in which prims behind other prims may appear to flicker in front. The two options are:

• Render alpha masks when “Advanced Lighting Model” is not enabled
• Render alpha masks when “Advanced Lighting Model” is enabled

• Render Glow: If enabled, shows the glow effect on any prims that have it.
  • Strength: Controls the intensity of the glow effect. The default is 2.
• Show avatars that haven't finished loading: Equivalent to the debug setting RenderUnloadedAvatar.
  Note that this is not a solution to a bake fail, as it doesn't actually fix anything; it merely forces the viewer to display whatever it happens to have managed to load. It is recommended that this be always left disabled.
• Limit Framerate: Yield some time to the local host if a threshold framerate is reached. The framerate limit is set with the slider to the right.
• Show the Scene as Wireframe: Enables wireframe display of everything. Note that this setting does not persist after a relog.
• Enable Attached Lights (Face Lights): Enable this if you wish to see the affects of lights worn by avatars.
• Render Attached Particles: Enable to see particles generated by worn attachments.

• Time to delay while pre-caching before showing world: Allows the world to start caching before it is shown, at login.
• Quality of the shadows: Adjusts the quality of shadows. Note that increasing this will significantly impact rendering speed (FPS).
• Scale of Terrain Texture Rendering (requires restart): Indicates the scale of terrain textures, with lower values being more compressed textures.

Depth of field simulates real life blurring that occurs when things are not in focus. For example, if you are taking a photo of a person, then typically, things in the background will be blurred; the futher away, the more blurred. If you shift your focus to a tree behind the person, then the person will, in turn, become blurred.

For more information, refer here.

You can adjust the following settings to mimic RL camera effects.

• Depth of Field: Enabling this causes out-of-focus objects to be blurred, depending on distance.
  • Enable while in edit mode: Normally, DoF disables when you edit something; if you enable this, DoF will remain active.
• Camera F Number: Controls maximum screen radius from which to sample from, to avoid graphics card In real world terms this is the aperture setting for the lens and the lower the value the shorter the depth of field will be. The same applies to SL.
  The default value is 9.00
• Camera Focal Length mm: This tells the viewer what Focal Length/Lens Length to simulate for the DOF effect. Higher numbers produce a narrower depth of field.
  The default is 50.0
• Camera FOV degs.: This tells the viewer what FOV you would like to simulate for the DOF effect. Higher values will produce a more narrow depth of field.
  The default is 60.00
• Camera Aspect ratio: This is supposed to be aspect ratio of the camera you're modelling. For example, a 35mm camera has an aspect ratio of 3:2 (1.5). Second Life will use this as a frame of reference for how field of view and focal length must be adjusted depending on window size.
  Apparently, this currently has no effect.
  The default is 1.50
• DOF Focus Transition Time: This sets the time in seconds it take to the viewer to change focus from one object.
  The default is 0.50
• DOF Rendering Quality: This determines the quality of the DOF Effect. For non-photography uses '.25' is good. For setting up shots '.50' or '.70' is very nice. For shooting quality images '1.00' is best. Note that High values will slow down your FPS.
  The default is 0.70

• Preset in use: Shows the name of the graphics preset in use.

• Quality and speed: Allows you to adjust the graphics quality (lower is faster). Many options are changed based on this setting.
  • Reload Defaults: The circular arrow to the right of the Quality and speed slider (above) will revert all graphics settings to default values. Use this if you have made changes that have a negative impact on the veiwer and cannot remember what you changed.
• Fullscreen Mode (requires restart): Enable this if you want to run Firestorm in full screen mode, as opposed to windowed.
• Shaders:
  • Transparent water: Allows water to look transparent instead of opaque. Enable this (if it isn't already) if you exeprience glowing water while wearing rigged mesh.
  • Bump mapping and shiny: Enables the rendering of shiny and bump mapped surfaces.
  • Local Lights: Globally enables/disables local lights.
  • Basic shaders: Allows rendering of high-quality water, basic lighting, and other graphical effects.
  • Atmospheric shaders: Enables advanced atmospheric and lighting.
  • Advanced Lighting Model: Check this to allow shadows and other features to be enabled. Note that enabling this can cause instability and performance issues; click here for known specifics. For more how shadows behave, see this SL wiki page.
  • Ambient occlusion: Checking this enables more realistic shadows; the stability and performance note above also applies here.

• Shadows:

  Lets you choose what light sources cause shadows; this is available only if the Advanced Lighting Model option above is enabled).
  • none
  • sun/moon
  • sun/moon and projectors
• Avatar Shadows: controls whether and how avatars cast shadows. The higher the setting, the more client lag it will cause.
  • None
  • Simplified
  • Optimized
  • Complex
• Water Reflections: Allows water to reflect terrain, objects, and avatars.
• Point Lighting: Affects the number of rendered light sources when Advanced Lighting Model (above) is disabled. A viewer restart is needed if this setting is changed.

• Draw distance:

  Affects how far out from your viewpoint objects will be rendered in the scene.
• Max particle count: Sets the maximum number of particles you are able to see on your screen at once.
• Maximum complexity: Controls at what point a visually complex avatar is shown as a jellydoll. ¹⁾ Current defaults are:
  • Low: 35,000
  • Low-Mid: 100,000
  • Mid: 200,000
  • Mid-High: 250,000
  • High: 300,000
  • High-Ultra: 350,000
  • Ultra: 350,000
• Max # of non-imposter avatars: Sets the number of avatars that will be fully rendered. See Avatar impostors below.
• Post process quality: Determines the resolution with which glow is rendered. A lower setting will cause glow to look slightly pixelated.
• Avatar Physics: Affects the detail of avatar physics. Set to 0 to disable avatar physics entirely.

• Level of Detail (LOD) Distance Factors:

  • Objects & Sculpts LOD: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering object shapes; a lower setting causes objects to appear more angular and polygonal.
    Setting this higher than 4 via Debug Settings is not recommended. Please see here for details on why high values are not recommended.
  • Flexiprims: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering flexible object shapes.
  • Trees: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering (Linden) tree shapes.
  • Avatars: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering avatar shapes.
  • Terrain: Determines the amount of detail the viewer will use in rendering terrain.
  • Sky: Controls the detail with which windlight skies are rendered. Higher values mean better quality but lower performance.
• Avatar Rendering:
  • Avatar imposters: Allows far-away avatars to be subtly rendered as two-dimensional images in order to improve your frame rate in crowded areas.
  • Hardware skinning: This allows some aspects of avatar rendering to be handled by your graphics card to improve performance.
  • Avatar cloth: Allows the rendering of flexible cloth on avatar clothing, such as shirts and flared pants.
• Terrain Detail: Choose the amount of terrain detail you would like to see. Setting this option to Low replaces the ground texture with a low-resolution ground texture.
  This option is not available (ie, it is greyed out) if Basic Shaders is enabled, in which case it is always set to High.

• Presets: Three buttons which allow you to save, load or delete graphics settings presets.
  • To create a preset, set your graphics settings as you like. Click “Save” and give the preset a name.
  • To load a preset that you have created, click “Load” and choose the preset to load.
  • To delete one, click “Delete” and choose the preset to delete.
  • The presets can be accessed either from Preferences → Graphics → General or from the presets button in the upper right of the viewer, near the media and sound controls.

• Anisotropic Filtering: Enables anisotropic filtering to improve texture quality. This setting may reduce your viewer's performance. For more information see this wikipedia page.
• Enable OpenGL Vertex Buffer Objects: VBO on modern hardware gives a performance gain. However, older hardware often has poor implementation of VBOs and the viewer may become unstable when this is enabled. VBO is explained in depth here.
• Enable Streamed VBOs: Allows the use of streamed VBO as well as static; only works if you have VBO enabled.
• Enable Lossy Texture Compression: If this is enabled, texture compression will be enabled for rendering. This gives improved performance, and a smaller grapics memory footprint, at the cost of lower quality rendered textures. Textures are compressed by the video card before being stored into video memory. Given that compressed textures can often end up pixellated, it is not recommended that this be enabled unless you have little video memory. Ref: SL JIRA MAINT-708.

• Antialiasing: Smoothes jagged edges. Renders a scene the number of multiple times that is actually shown and scales it down. Choose the level of antialiasing the viewer will use (requires restart).
• Gamma: Use the Windlight Sky Editor's Scene Gamma control on the Atmosphere/Sun tab instead of this; currently functional only if Atmospheric Shaders are disabled.
• Viewer Texture Memory Buffer (MB): This is the amount of graphics memory the viewer will use. By default, it is set to the size of your graphics card's memory.
  • 32bit versions only. This setting is hard limited to a maximum of 512MB. Lowering this value may resolve certain texture corruption and performance issues, but under normal circumstances you should not need to alter this setting.
  • 64bit versions only. This setting is hard limited based on the VRAM available with your graphics card. It is recommended you increase the slider to use the maximum available to prevent texture thrashing.
    • GPU 1GB = up to 768MB
    • GPU 2GB+ = up to 1024MB
    • GPU 4GB+ = up to 2048MB
• Fog Distance Ratio: Determines how far away Second Life's fog effect begins. Lower values = closer fog. Only used when you have Atmospheric Shaders disabled. If Atmospheric Shaders are enabled, this effect is handled by the Distance Multiplier control in the Advanced Sky Editor.

• Freeze updates to World (pause everything): This suspends rendering. Useful for picture taking, if you wish to capture a specific scene that might otherwise change while you are preparing.

• Use HTTP for receiving textures: Uses the HTTP protocol to fetch textures as opposed to the older UDP. Always on, as it is required for SL.
• Restrict maximum texture resolution to 512px (64bit only; requires restart) (default on 32bit already).

• Max Texture Quality Level: If you have a poor connection, you may wish to reduce the level of texture detail. This can be set to Normal, Minimal or None.
  Naturally, setting this to anything other than Normal will result in textures displaying poorly, or not at all. Do not change unless absolutely necessary - for example, if you have a very poor connection but need to be online, and don't care if you can see textures or not.

These options control when alpha masking should be used in an attempt to mitigate the well known alpha sorting issue, in which prims behind other prims may appear to flicker in front. The two options are:

• Render alpha masks when “Advanced Lighting Model” is not enabled
• Render alpha masks when “Advanced Lighting Model” is enabled

• Render Glow: If enabled, shows the glow effect on any prims that have it.
  • Strength: Controls the intensity of the glow effect. The default is 2.
• Show avatars that haven't finished loading: Equivalent to the debug setting RenderUnloadedAvatar.
  Note that this is not a solution to a bake fail, as it doesn't actually fix anything; it merely forces the viewer to display whatever it happens to have managed to load. It is recommended that this be always left disabled.
• Limit Framerate: Yield some time to the local host if a threshold framerate is reached. The framerate limit is set with the slider to the right.
• Show the Scene as Wireframe: Enables wireframe display of everything. Note that this setting does not persist after a relog.
• Enable Attached Lights (Face Lights): Enable this if you wish to see the affects of lights worn by avatars.
• Render Attached Particles: Enable to see particles generated by worn attachments.

• Time to delay while pre-caching before showing world: Allows the world to start caching before it is shown, at login.
• Quality of the shadows: Adjusts the quality of shadows. Note that increasing this will significantly impact rendering speed (FPS).
• Scale of Terrain Texture Rendering (requires restart): Indicates the scale of terrain textures, with lower values being more compressed textures.

Depth of field simulates real life blurring that occurs when things are not in focus. For example, if you are taking a photo of a person, then typically, things in the background will be blurred; the futher away, the more blurred. If you shift your focus to a tree behind the person, then the person will, in turn, become blurred.

For more information, refer here.

You can adjust the following settings to mimic RL camera effects.

• Depth of Field: Enabling this causes out-of-focus objects to be blurred, depending on distance.
  • Enable while in edit mode: Normally, DoF disables when you edit something; if you enable this, DoF will remain active.
• Camera F Number: Controls maximum screen radius from which to sample from, to avoid graphics card In real world terms this is the aperture setting for the lens and the lower the value the shorter the depth of field will be. The same applies to SL.
  The default value is 9.00
• Camera Focal Length mm: This tells the viewer what Focal Length/Lens Length to simulate for the DOF effect. Higher numbers produce a narrower depth of field.
  The default is 50.0
• Camera FOV degs.: This tells the viewer what FOV you would like to simulate for the DOF effect. Higher values will produce a more narrow depth of field.
  The default is 60.00
• Camera Aspect ratio: This is supposed to be aspect ratio of the camera you're modelling. For example, a 35mm camera has an aspect ratio of 3:2 (1.5). Second Life will use this as a frame of reference for how field of view and focal length must be adjusted depending on window size.
  Apparently, this currently has no effect.
  The default is 1.50
• DOF Focus Transition Time: This sets the time in seconds it take to the viewer to change focus from one object.
  The default is 0.50
• DOF Rendering Quality: This determines the quality of the DOF Effect. For non-photography uses '.25' is good. For setting up shots '.50' or '.70' is very nice. For shooting quality images '1.00' is best. Note that High values will slow down your FPS.
  The default is 0.70

• Allow Remote Scripted Viewer Controls (aka RLVa or RestrainedLove API): Enables RLVa (Requires restart).
  Documentation on RLV is available here and here.
• Always rez objects under the land group if possible: Many regions are set to only let objects be rezzed by group. When creating an object, the viewer will attempt to set the group of the object if the avatar is in the same group as set for the land. Note: This is not always possible due to circumstances beyond the viewer's control.
• Create particle effects when scripts communicate: If this is enabled, when a script “chats”, the object containing the script will appear to generate swirling particles. Disable this option to turn that effect off.
• Deactivate tracking beacon when reaching the targetted avatar (⇐ 3m): Normally, a tracking becon (such as one set via map will vanish once get get within 3m of it; with this disabled, the beacon will remain visible until clicked.
• Disable Login Progress Screens: Disables the black login progress screen.
• Disable Logout Progress Screens: Disables the black logout progress screen.

• Enable progressive draw distance stepping: Enables PDD; the slider allows you to adjust the time in seconds between each draw distance increment.

• Enable LSL-Client Bridge:

  Enables the Firestorm bridge. See this page for more on what the bridge is and what it does.
• Flight Assist drop-down: The bridge can offer flight assist functionality, if this is enabled. Note that you should not wear any other scripted flight assist if you turn this on, as they will conflict. (Requires the bridge to be enabled.)
  Flight speed can be boosted; you can select by how much.
  Note that the SL flight height limit is now 5000m; below this, a flight assist is not required.

• Block left-click sitting on objects: Some objects are set such that a left click will result in sitting on them rather than touching; enable this if you want to avoid accidentally sitting on such objects. But note that this will prevent all left-click sitting; you will need to explicitly right click and select sit from the menu.
• Allow scripts to show map UI (llMapDestination): Certain teleport systems open the map for teleporting when clicked. Enable this if you wish to allow this feature.
  If you find the world map unexpectedly opening for you at some locations, and re-opening if you shut it, disable this setting temporarily, until you leave that location.

• Revoke Permissions: Removes an object's permission to animate or control your input. If this is not done, the object retains permission to animate your avatar indefinitely¹⁾:
  • Never (original behaviour): Objects will retain permission to always animate your avatar.
  • Revoke on SIT: Revokes permission when you sit on the object.
  • Revoke on STAND: Revokes permission when you stand up from sitting on the object.
  • Revoke on SIT and STAND: Revokes permission when you either sit or stand.
• Texture Lag Protection:
  • Automatically hide large objects with high texture area: Enabling this will cause objects with large texture area to not be rendered. This can be used to combat griefing done via specific objects.
  • Threshold: Sets the threshold area to use; prims over this value will not be rendered. This may cause some normal objects to not display either.
• Enable Spam Protection: These items allow you to protect yourself against various forms of spam, such as might be used in griefing attacks:
  • Enable Spam Protection even for objects owned by you
  • Max lines in a single message: this is the limit where the spam protection will start blocking messages from that source. ie. anything over this number of lines will be clocked.
  • Max events from same source: indicates the maximum number of events that can be recieved from a single source in 2 seconds before the source is blocked.
  • Sound play requests multiplier:
  • Sound preload requests multiplier:
  • Unblock all spam sources: will unblock anything that was blocked by the spam protection.
• Confirm before paying. Threshold: Shows a confirmation dialog before paying sums over this value. To always show a confirmation, set the value to 0 (zero).

• Amount that Avatar's head follows Mouse: Set both these sliders to zero if you do not want your avatar's head following the mouse cursor for unfocused mouse movement. They do not affect whether your head moves to look at something your camera is focused on.
  • Vertical range that avatar's head follows mouse: Controls how far or how little your head moves up and down to follow the movement of your mouse cursor.
  • Horizontal range that avatar's head follows mouse: Controls how far or how little your head moves left and right to follow the movement of your mouse cursor.
  • Disable random avatar eye movements: As the title suggests.

• Selection beam particle effects:
  • Beam updates/sec: Controls how many particles the stream uses
  • Scale: Width of beam particle effect
• Enable selection beam: Disable/enable the display of the particle beam
• Send selection data to chat: (Formerly called SL Particle Chat). If enabled, selection start/stop information, and global position of an object being selected (edited) are sent on chat channel 9000.

• LSL-Client Bridge external protocol integration:²⁾
  • Allow OpenCollar protocol to enable or disable the built in AO
  • Allow LockMeister protocol to enable or disable the built in AO

• Automatically change environment to use region/parcel settings: If enabled, your WL settings will change if you TP into a region that has windlight region-level windlight settings. This is the same as top menu bar→ World → Environment Editor → Environment Settings→ Always use parcel/region settings.
• Crossfade region environment sky presets changes made from quick prefs: Dynamically transitions sky settings.
• Crossfade region environment water presets changes made from quick prefs: Dynamically changes water settings.

• Use Firestorm Parcel Windlight sharing: Enables parcel level windlight sharing.
  • Auto apply WL settings from friend's land: If enabled the viewer will automatically see the windlight settings (no prompt) on a friends land if set.
  • Auto apply WL settings from my groups' land: If enabled the viewer will automatically see the windlight settings (no prompt) on group land if they are set.
  • Auto apply WL settings from any parcel: If enabled the viewer will automatically see the windlight settings (no prompt)on all parcels with it set by the owner.
  • Crossfade region environment changes for Parcel WL: Allows for dynamic changes between WL settings when a region with WL settings has parcels with their own, different, settings.
• Crossfading duration: You can indicate how long the above crossfade transition effect should last.
• Cloud Texture: You can select a different texture to be used to create Windlight clouds. Select from the drop down list. A relog is mostly likely required after changing.

Please refer to this page for more information on using Windlight with Firestorm.

NOTE: For a video tutorial on setting custom default prim parameters, see here.

Allows you to change parameters of your prim when it is first rezzed.

• x/y/z Size: Sets the size, in meters, of the prim.

Default settings to use for newly created objects.

• Phantom
• Physical
• Temporary
• Material: Lets you choose the default material

Set default texture parameters for newly created objects.

• Texture: Select the default texture to apply to newly created prims. Click to open the texture picker window.
• Color: Click to open the color picker window, to select a default color.
• Alpha: default transparency value.
• Glow: Default value for glow.
• Full Bright: whether full bright should be on by default or not.
• Shiny: A drop down from which you can select the default shiny value.

It is possible to automatically include an item into newly created prims.

• Embed an item into new prims: Enable this to embed items.
  Then drag the desired item (for example, a landmark) into the space marked Drop an inventory item here. Once dropped, the space below will show the name of the item.

Default Creation Permissions Opens a window which allows you to select permissions to be applied, by default, to newly created items of different types. (Same as top menu, Build → Options → Set Default Permissions.))

Allows you to change the pivot point of an object.

• Show axis arrow on root prim position: Moves the axis from the center of the object to the center of the root.
• Values are percent: When enabled the values are percentages.

• Name of the font used in the LSL script editor
  • Monospace
  • Scripting

• Size of the font used in the LSL script editor
  • Monospace
  • Scripting
  • Small
  • Medium
  • Large

• Enable LSL Preprocessor: Enables the functionality offered by the LSL Preprocessor. This has a few additional options, if enabled:
  • Script optimizer: Enables the script optimizer
  • Switch() statement: Enables Switch/case statements.
  • Lazy lists Enables Lazy lists.
  • #includes from local disk Allows the use of the #include directive.
  • Preprocessor include path

• Enable highlighting of selected prims: Shows the yellow highlight on prims you select. Deselecting this can increase viewer performance when several prims are selected.
• Highlight boundary of currently selected parcel: When editing an object, this will outline the containing parcel.
  • Show boundary up to maximum build height: When this is enabled, the highlight will be extended up to the max build height (currently 4096m).
• Limit Select distance: Enable this is you wish to limit the distance at which you may select (edit) objects. To the right, you can specify the maximum distance, if this option is enabled.
• Limit drag distance: If enabled, you won't be able to move objects over a distance greater than the limit set to the right. Disable to remove limits.
• Constrain rotations to multiples of: Manual rotations will always “snap” to this number of degrees - when “snap to grid” is disabled.
• Show unlink confirmation dialog if linkset has minimum: When unlinking a linkset, you will be asked for confirmation if there are this many, or more, linked items.
• Use old “Set Object For Sale” behavior: Uses the old style for setting objects for sale. The new behavior safeguards against an object being purchased for the default 10L$ while you are setting the correct price. You click “For sale”, specify the price, then click Apply.
• Save scripts edited from inventory as Mono: Allows you to set that scripts edited in inventory, will compile with Mono rather than LSL2.
• Save textures from inventory to disk as PNG instead of TGA by default: Changes the default image save format, to save you having to change it manually.
• Use Ctrl+mouse to grab and manipulate objects: If this is enabled, pressing Control while left clicking an object, will allow you to move it in-world.
• Allow click-drag or click-scale (together with caps lock) of a texture face in build mode: If this is enabled, you will be able to click and drag - or scale- textures on a prim face. To do this, you need to be in Edit mode on the prim, enable Select Texture then click the prim face that you wish to modify.
• Preview animations on own avatar during upload: If enabled, animations will be played in preview on your avatar when uploading them.
• Enable extend script info details: Add Option to extend basic script info feature with various details useful for builders.

This tab shows default Inventory folders for various types of uploads. In order to change a default upload folder, right click the desired folder in your Inventory window, and select Use as default for, then pick the upload type.

Reset default folders button resets all upload folders to default destinations.