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by Cobalt Ambassador Of Boink

Posted 16 years ago

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Goofing around in SecondLife. The new 2.0 client has some nice shadow effects in it. Pity the new interface is so lousy.

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Category Theme Species Resolution File Size All All Bear (Other) 569 x 1280 157.4 kB

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tardis male u_cobalt c_all t_all s_bear_other

RIPPL3R ~rippl3r

Watcher

16 years ago

You're the new Dr.Who then ?

JeremySkunk ~jeremyskunk

Anthro Artist

16 years ago

Wow. The new Doctor's going to be even more controversal than previously thought ;)

KatEllis ~katellis

Anthro Artist

16 years ago

If I see any schoolteachers lurking about, trying to find out why one of their students is such an unearthly child... O_O

Mok ~mok

Watcher

16 years ago

Bear in the Blue Box :P

KV1NN4 ~kv1nn4

Freelance Artist

16 years ago

Very convincing!

leoni2 ~leoni2

Writer

16 years ago

I know a few heads are going to explode over this.

FuzzWolf

~fuzzwolf

Publisher

16 years ago

I like the telesnap archive format here. *g*

ShujinTribble ~shujintribble

Photographer

16 years ago

Downloaded the 2.0/Linux.. going to try and see how she does in a little bit.

netreek ~netreek

Art Whore

16 years ago

*pounces the cutie bear*

kngru ~kngru

Digital Artist

16 years ago

I stopped using the main client and Windlight since a few furs convinced me to use Emerald. Mind you the actual buttons themselves haven't changed much, but there's lots of more options available in the menus. Heh, I love the thought of a Cobalt going around through time and space sexing up various lonely people to improve their lives and inspire them to do something with their lives.

Cobalt ~cobalt

Ambassador Of Boink

16 years ago

Heh, yeah. I've switched to emerald too. I only load the 2.0 client up to poke at. You can't do any actual building in it, it's just too screwed up.

Fingers crossed for an emerald 2.0 with all the new features, and the old interface.

kngru ~kngru

Digital Artist

16 years ago

I'm totally confused then since I've been building with the new version, what exactly is screwed up with it?

Cobalt ~cobalt

Ambassador Of Boink

16 years ago

Things that used to take one click now take four or five. The removal of the File, Edit and View menus breaks basic interface design rules, the amount of screen space wasted by the new UI is pretty heavy, too. Having a huge klunky "drawer" that shoves your screen aside any time it's open, and ends up filling almost half the screen, versus the old version with a few small buttons at the bottom of the screen to pop up small, resizable windows? Just one bad design choice after another.

It feels cheap and outdated, compared to the previous versions, too. Moving from the current version to 2.0 feels like moving from Windows XP back to windows 95.

kngru ~kngru

Digital Artist

16 years ago

Oh, I had just downloaded a new version they released and I had assumed it was the same one you're referring to but I found out I'm using ver 1.23. Still, what do you expect for it being free and in beta?

Cobalt ~cobalt

Ambassador Of Boink

16 years ago

I don't expect much from Linden Labs anymore.

I hope the emerald version happens soon.

GeneCatlow ∞genecatlow

Traditional Artist

16 years ago

Seems he never told us about *all* his regenerations ^_^

Zerozero204 ~zerozero204

16 years ago

Well it's better cgi then the slitheen and better characters then torchwood. Perhaps a return to the 60's peace and love and carealot ti-quan-do?

microbuss ~microbuss

Photographer

16 years ago

neato Always wanted to build a TARDIS

jim094 ~jim094

Art Whore

16 years ago

Hmm, I wasn't even aware that a new client existed!

Cobalt ~cobalt

Ambassador Of Boink

16 years ago

It's a beta. Yoy can DL it from the website, but be warned - the interface on it is crap. It was aparrently designed by someone who has never used SL, and thought it should be more like facebook.

jim094 ~jim094

Art Whore

16 years ago

Ugh!

That's not encouraging. :/

I wonder how many fewer features the Mac version has compared to the Windows version.

The rendering looks great though. The shot of your face looks really smooth, more like it was from a dedicated 3D application than from SL.

Cobalt ~cobalt

Ambassador Of Boink

16 years ago

Yep. There are some great features in 2.0 - if the interface wasn't such a wreck then Linden labs would probably be getting some serious PR boost off of it. Instead it comes off as just another Linden-Brand failure.

I'm waiting for the emerald guys to put their version of it out. Their devs hate the new interface, and are likely to keep the old one in place.