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Firestorm User Guide

• General Index
• Tag Cloud

Basic Functions

• Login Screen Layout
• Viewer Modes
• The Viewer Layout
  • Top Menu Bar
  • Toolbar Buttons

• Movement and Camera
• Chat
• Inventory
  • Replace Inventory Links
• Profiles
• Outfits
• Gestures
• Mouselook
• Editing Shapes and Other Body Parts
• People Panel Nearby (Radar), Friends and Groups are accessed here
• Contact Sets
• Using Search
• Streaming Audio and Video
• Voice
• Uploading Textures, Sounds, etc
• Right Click Menu

• Preferences
• Backing Up Settings
• Quick Preferences
• Cache - What It Is
• Keyboard Shortcuts

• Reporting Abuse
• Avatar Complexity Settings

Advanced Topics

• Client AO (animation overrider)
• Managing Groups
  • General
  • Roles & Members
  • Notices
  • Land/Assets
  • Experiences
• Parcel Management
• Region Management
• Windlight: Water and Sky
• Avatar Physics
• LSL Bridge
• Move Lock
• Adjusting Font Sizes
• Building, Editing, Terraforming
  • Edit: General tab
  • Edit: Object tab
  • Edit: Features tab
  • Edit: Texture tab
    • Local Textures
  • Edit: Content tab
• Running Multiple Firestorm at Once
• Exporting and Importing Linksets
• Pathfinding
• Displayed Time Format
• Joystick and Space Navigator

• Firestorm LSL Preprocessor
• Debug Settings
• Understanding Lag
• Avatar Hitboxes

For documentation on the old Phoenix viewer, please click here.

Tutorials

Firestorm Tutorial Videos

• Phototools
• Backup / Restore
• Render / Derender
• Pose Stand
• Quick Preferences
• Custom Default Prim Parameters
• Customizing In-World Sounds
• Customizing the Button Bar
• Client AO
• Camera Control
• Autoreplace
• People Panel / Radar
• Contact Sets
• Using the Command Line
• Build Tools
• Colour Scheme Tutorial

• Obsolete Tutorial Videos

Getting Help

Support

• Basic Info on Getting Help
• Troubleshooting Guide
• How to File a JIRA
• How to Contact Support
• Is My Viewer Safe
• In World Support Locations

Classes

• Firestorm Classes

Downloads

• Downloads
• Firestorm Release Notes

Firestorm Gateway - For New Residents

Joining Second Life

You can join SecondLife via the web page given here:

• Create Second Life Account

If you want to invite friends to join, then please do share the link above with them.

The Firestorm Gateway

The Team

• Firestorm Gateway Team

In-World Locations

• Firestorm Social
  Firestorm Gateway & Support Regions. Welcoming & Helping new residents into Second Life and oldies with Second Life. Social Area, RP, Sandbox, Freebie's, Classes, tutorials, games & lots of experiences to explore. Helpers always available to assist.
• Firestorm Aerodrome
  Flyable airplanes, helicopters, skydiving, scuba diving, boats and JetSki's.
• Firestorm Combat & Weapons Range
  Shoot weapons at hostile aliens, target shooting range, nearby avatar-to-avatar combat area.
• Firestorm Dow Forest
• Firestorm Golf by CrowleyCorp
• Firestorm Lodge
• Firestorm Sandbox
• Firestorm Sci-Fi Portal & RP Area.
  Entry portal to SciFi & RolePlay area. Visit Trek starship, explore space station, fly shuttles, visit Callahan's Bar, workout in space gym (near bar), supply deck freebies, functional holodeck, Firefly Companions RP, Star Trek RP, individual quests, and more.
• The Ghost Town by MadPea
  Immersive and interactive adventure game.

We also offer classes on how to use the viewer. See this page for the schedule and in-world locations.

Getting Help

Please refer to this page for the many ways in which you can get help with using Firestorm.

For Developers

• Firestorm Source repository
• How to Make a Patch
• How to be a Good Development Neighbor
• Compiling Firestorm ViewerUnder Construction
• Translating the Firestorm UI

Events and Involvement

SciFi Portal

• Firestorm Gateway SciFi Portal

Joining the FS Team

• Support/QA Application
• Applying to Beta Test

Contact and Policies

• Firestorm Licenses
• Firestorm Privacy Policy
• Firestorm Viewer Communications to the Firestorm Server
• Firestorm Blocks
• Firestorm Credits
• Message of the Day Advertising
• Main website

• SL 2.0 - Explanation and Discussion Reference
• Firestorm Q&A Recordings
• Team April Fools' Pranks
• MOTD Blurbs