Windlight First Look viewer looks…. amazing
The Windlight First Look Viewer was released today. As usual, it’s a buggy viewer that doesn’t pick up a lot of the configurations from the standard viewer. No big deal though.
I mean, check those clouds out.
Linden Lab, you really came through when it comes to making the environments a joy to be in and to not produce the snowglobe effect. I seriously thought that this implementation would have taken a lot longer due to the acquisition of Windward Mark Interactive happening only last week, but it seems that there were already plans in the works.
Congratulations on your fine work in the First Look viewer (Mac version seen here on your left). But don’t get too comfortable. I’m still ready to rock’n'roll on some of those bugs that are still out there and there’s still a lot of refining work along with bug fixes that need to happen before you convince this guy that you’re game to play in the big leagues. But be assured that this was a huge step in the right direction. Huge. Enormous. Gigantic. Gi-normous!
Okay, back to your regularly scheduled programming while I stare at the sky for a while, and watch all of the flags that I see blow in different directions.
May 29th, 2007 • 
Darius Sartre • 
comment | May 29, 2007 at 13:43 | individual comment-link
This viewer is a tad buggy… but the difference in experience is incredible. This and voice… OK, and maybe some more realistic avatar rendering, and I’d be in heaven.
comment | May 29, 2007 at 14:37 | individual comment-link
The first look viewer intentionally doesn’t pick up your preferences from prior versions. The idea is that the new settings test better from a known start position. This also solves the problem with incompatible configurations between the Beta, First Look, and Release clients.
You can just save and copy over an older configuration file to the new first look viewer file and it will attempt to read it, though. This works 90% of the time, and is what I do.
comment | May 29, 2007 at 15:05 | individual comment-link
I’ll be downloading this shortly, but is that flag fluttering realistically in the wind?
comment | May 29, 2007 at 16:27 | individual comment-link
No… Actually, I’m not sure how the flag was made. I believe there is actually wind effect now, but those flags were made before this WindLight feature existed.
comment | May 29, 2007 at 16:31 | individual comment-link
Hmm… I do see something messed up though. The brightness and color is way off on this viewer. It usually is a lot darker on the normal viewer, but this one has been set with brightness off the scale. Looks nice with the environment, but blacks and greys look totally washed. Could be the Mac version, but still annoying.