<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Regarding a "recommended" viewer for the OpenSimulator Community Conference, we are certainly not saying that other viewers aren't great to use - many of them are! And we will have a panel of viewer developers in the Developers & Opensource track as part of the conference program, including Firestorm and Kokua, so we'd encourage you to attend that session to learn more about the various options available.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, we have many newbies and people who don't have much experience with OpenSimulator or third party viewers in general planning to attend the event, so we needed to pick one viewer to document instructions and settings in order to make the event as accessible as possible to people who aren't "power users". We also wanted to make sure our (tirelessly hardworking) volunteer team could focus on supporting one known viewer rather than trying to learn all the ins and outs of many viewers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Singularity was chosen because it supports Mesh and MOAP, and because the viewer interface is relatively uncluttered. It may be a judgement call, but the conference planning team reviewed all of the viewers that support Mesh and MOAP, tested them for performance, and we made a choice based on what we felt would offer the best, least confusing option to the least experienced user. </div>
<div>I'm sure you can appreciate that it just simply wouldn't be feasible for us to try to support every viewer out there.</div><div><br></div><div>We know that many experienced OpenSimulator users have their own preferred viewer - and that's fine! We're providing basic instructions and connection details for other viewers as well, so anyone who feels comfortable using a different viewer can do so, but we expect those folks to need a lot less hand holding in general. So long as the viewer supports Mesh and MOAP, it should work great for the conference, and we encourage experienced users to use whatever viewer they are most comfortable with - it's just that we can only offer support for the one viewer we've tested, documented, and that our volunteer team has trained on.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think it's a strength of the OpenSimulator ecosystem that we have so many viewers to choose from, and though we've chosen one viewer to recommend for the conference, that is not meant to imply in any way that other viewers aren't also good. It's simply the logistics of trying to support hundreds of users with varying degrees of experience. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I hope that clarifies things a bit!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>- Chris/Fleep</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris M. Collins (Avatar: Fleep Tuque)</div><div>Vice President, AvaCon, Inc.</div>
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Mike Chase <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.chase@alternatemetaverse.com" target="_blank">mike.chase@alternatemetaverse.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 20:03 -0400, Dr Ramesh Ramloll wrote:<br>
> Hello there,<br>
> I am wondering why singularity is a better viewer than firestorm. I<br>
> suppose it is because I see the opensimcc is recommending to use it.<br>
> Ive never used singularity. Please share your thoughts. Is the fps for<br>
> e.g. significantly better, shadow rendering etc... etc.. I am always<br>
> willing to learn more.<br>
> Thank you.<br>
> Ramesh<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>They're not better, or worse, just different. Firestorm has some<br>
advantages as does Singularity. It's really a matter of preference.<br>
Sort of a shame a specific viewer was "recommended" for the conference<br>
if it was. I don't see a good reason for it (other than singularity<br>
added the conference grid but its a small matter of doing that).<br>
<br>
For the record Melanie is a commit-er on the Singularity project so she<br>
might be a tad biased. Just saying.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Mike<br>
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