[Opensim-dev] thinking about a viewer

[Kevin Cozens]

On 14-08-04 09:08 PM, Mister Blue wrote:
> I've been seriously thinking about creating a new viewer project. But with
> Maria's survey[1] and all the different virtual world announcements
> happening and the lively OpenSimulator vs Unity discussion on the
> opensim-user list, I'd like to open up the discussion to the OpenSimulator
> development community[2].
[snip]
> What do you  think? Evolution or revolution?

At the moment I'd vote for reliable and stable rather than either evolution 
or revolution. With most viewers sharing a certain amount of common ancestry 
all the ones I have tried for the Linux platform have problems.

I used to like Singularity. It was good back in the early 4000 revisions but 
I have had issues with it since it hit the 5000+ revision. Common issues 
with viewers is a tendency to crash when switching workspaces, voice chat 
from other avatars can start breaking up after a while making it impossible 
to understand what is being said, and the worst problem is the viewers that 
push the CPU to near 100% (often while caming around) which leads to lag or 
to practically locking up the viewer and preventing one from doing almost 
anything in it.

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Cheers!

Kevin.

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