Preferences - 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 age verified 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.
- 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.
- Complexity if too complex: if enabled, the nametag will show the avatar complexity if the avatar is too complex and has been rendered as a jellydoll. 1)
- 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.
- Always show complexity: If enabled, the tag will always show avatar complexity.
- 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
See this page for documentation on Firestorm 4.7.7 (48706) and earlier.