Feature Requests

PBR has knocked a lot of us out of SL due to unusable frame rates of 4-6fps or worse. The choice to do a cut-over to PBR with no backwards comparability option available for people with older computers was clearly a mistake. If Phillip Linden needed to personally email us all to test the new viewer version it means we lost a lot of Residents. By the way, the new viewer Phillip asked us to try is still giving the unplayable 6fps for me. Secondlife is NOT Fortnite; Our residents are not hardcore Gamers with the latest hardware. Secondlife was the game that until recently was still playable on 20 year old graphics hardware, which helps greatly with player retention. Lets not lose that inclusiveness! The SL Viewer has always been able to turn off features that are overly taxing for people's computers and should retain that functionality going forward, even if it means we need to include two graphics engines for a few years while people upgrade.

Currently, if you teleport to a region, especially an event region, it takes forever for assets to download. It would be nice if we could create a "snapshot" of all the region assets, minus the avatars. Think of it like this: A region owner sets up all the static objects. Said region owner has anyone who wants static objects inside Once they are ready, the region "bakes" a package that contains all the assets, and maybe the object cache. This bake can only be done once per day. Viewers can then pre-cache, even if it is full, the entire region while they wait. When a agent enters the region, the region loads almost immediately for them, because the cache has been downloaded and added to the viewer cache. This is isn't for regular use, but rather when someone wants to teleport into a region for the first time, they can download the entire region's static object cache before entering. If they enter the region without pre-caching, the region just streams the assets as usual.

As recent upgrades on the go are focusing on getting a better performance, Jpeg XL would make better quality smaller size files (quicker to load). It outperforms all other image formats in terms of image quality and compression ratio (in both the lossless and lossy modes), and many other factors. Cf. https://jpegxl.info/ Here is a good and easy to understand comparison too to some other formats: https://beebom.com/what-is-jpeg-xl/

We shouldn't have any error when it's about Cashout and RL moneys !

I switched to a PBR enabled viewer this month, basically when Firetorm released V7.1.x I noticed that this version of SL was shredding through data, anything up to 4x the usual rate. This causes problems for me as I'm often using a metered connection which will get throttled. I've rolled back to V6.x of Firestorm for the forseeable future.

Scripts owned by estate managers can use new function llGetRegionHVM(); to return true or false

Allow us to have regions with 10K LI.

here is their link (below because it is rather long /: ) I just saw this and just came off trying out the new iOS version - gave feedback on that (mostly have the control on the RIGHT SIDE so my right thumb (for a right-hander {and suggested having the location as an option <obviously> } was suggested in the iOS suggestion box) Seeing the MX Creative Console promotional video ((apparently they are focused on working with Adobe software - and have not investigated what are the options of modifying those "cute" button graphics)) and it REALLY STRUCK ME that those buttons - if customized for SL - could make SL easier for newbies as well as experience residents., Just a heads up - maybe someone at LL could get a MX Creative Console andf play around to see if this idea is at all viable ok - thanks for listening here is the link I got in their promotional email - hope it works for you https://t.ecom1.logitech.com/r/?id=h45b0db0e,1b130b17,1b43b4aa&e=dXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249ZWNvbV9OQU1fMDkyNDIwMjRfR2FyYW1vbmRQcmVPcmRlckFsbFN1YnNfYW1fQU0mdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lY29t&s=VXE_IONIFgr4G03mMdhKVIcxdR4nE175ogGALu-ehgk

As discussed briefly at the Server Users Group on 2025-10-15: it is apparent that the graphics team is interested in exploring the possibility of integrating certain virtual reality features into the standard SL viewer (again). Attendees brought up concerns including challenges maintaining a high framerate and the low market penetration of VR hardware. This post was revised on 2024/10/24 in light of Crexon's remarks that telemetry already exists in the SL viewer via the tracy library. To substantiate these anecdotes with concrete data, I'd like to propose a strategy for collecting and sharing information: Conduct a hardware survey to assess the market for adding VR features. This could be as primitive as a Google Forms page with voluntary data submission, or something more sophisticated like adding a hardware profiler to the viewer itself. An explicit poll might be useful for gathering data about VR hardware deployment or the potential of buying VR hardware. Open up basic aggregated data gathered by the profiler so SL residents can see what counts as 'typical' performance. Present average FPS, normalized by polygon count and m² of visible textures, as well as standard deviation of framerate (FPS stability). Segment on teleportation or graphics setting change. Also aggregate performance data on a per-region basis. (No idea if you guys do this already—sorry if this is redundant.) Prior to anonymization, aggregate data on a per-region basis, allowing establishment of a performance index for each sim. This can then be used to normalize data over a certain time period, correcting for biases in data caused by popular or overdecorated regions. Present alongside figures for mean region FPS (time dilation) and population to establish a sim performance score.

Ich finde es so klasse das sie sichj immer viel mühe geben aber denken sie auch an die Menschen die hier geld reinstecken aber keinen guten rechner haben. die können sl bald nicht mehr betreten und dann. ich würde mich freun wenn sie eine alte version mal für die menschen lassen die sich keinen teuren rechner leisten können. Ich bedanke mich für die hilfe und würde mich über eine antwort sehr freun smile