Viewer 2.6.3 Avatar Physics in Second Life

[SweetiePiyo]

Very cool avatar physics, but the song... is really really cool. Sounds great with the proper bass, too. I watched this video a second time just to listen!! :D

[kitsune0video]

Just a question. This only affects your own avatar, so others avatars that you see with phys have their own settings?

[BlakOpalDesigns]

@kitsune0video Yes. The settings you create/use for your avatar are only for *your* avatar. But it's how others (who are using avatar physics) will see you. You'll see others the way they want you to see them.

[Royoku]

@BlakOpalDesigns I have tested this with a friend and from what we could tell her and my avatars breasts responded to my settings when viewed on my screen. When we looked on her's (She set hers to crazy extremes) both our breast physics reacted to her settings on her computer. So it would seem it is client side only which makes sense cause otherwise that could make for some horrendous lag transferring different physics of every avatar in an area!

[BlakOpalDesigns]

@Royoku that's a bug in the system that's appeared a couple times since the technology was introduced, and not the normal behavior. Normal behavior is for physics settings to be unique to the individual and for different avatars to appear differently (which is how we've been seeing it over the last few months).

[SabreKitteh]

Also, great music choice.

[BlakOpalDesigns]

@SabreKitteh thanks - the music is from a friend of ours' project, called Strangers. The track is from their debut EP, available on iTunes now. :-)

[SabreKitteh]

I wonder if the Phoenix team will bother to backport this feature into Phoenix viewer? Would beat using the current system it has.

[BlakOpalDesigns]

@SabreKitteh difficult to say - they never bothered to backport proper multi-wearables support (multiple attachments that look right to others regardless of viewer PLUS multiple layers), and that's been in the viewer since last summer. They may be devoting all/most of their resources to their Phoenix Firestorm (2.x) project.

[SabreKitteh]

@BlakOpalDesigns I'd imagine so. I saw a preview video of Firestorm a few months ago and it looked quite nice. It had several features that would appeal to fans of both viewer 2 and viewer 1. They haven't put out a new release of Phoenix for a while, unless you count the beta with the media filter.

[Godfather300C]

@SabreKitteh They just released this in the new update.

[SabreKitteh]

@Godfather300C Lol finally.