Seeds of Fire in Dream

I was visiting a friend and she showed me her blank new island sim. Amazing. I’ve seen details and little animation enhancements on that thing that I haven’t ever seen on any other part of Second Life.

The frames per second are amazing. When I took out my new cutlass, I was able to go HACK HACK SLASH SLASH and make it work very quickly.

Ahhh, so *this* is what Second Life is *supposed* to look like.

Still, I have to ask LibSL and others to *hurry up* and make the Second Life Lite viewer. I want something where I can log on to SL and have a graphics-lite environment that even a crappy computer can display. Maybe even just a chat client.

Or a “shopping client.” What would it take to get that? Hmm. You could create a viewer that logs you on to SL, but is very restricted in terms of movement of the camera. In fact, there is just a slide-show style click-through. You can teleport to various participating shops. They have pre-programmed positions in the shops your camera will automagically follow. All you can do is click on Pay or not. Set-up could be simple: you just place a prim object where you want each shopping position to be, and the shopping client camera avatar follows those positions just like Alt-Zoom’s special camera system does.

Now *that* would be nifty. You could add chat functionality to that. But make it VERY simplistic. I wonder if that could run on older, crappy computers? Of course the idea is that you have that for your lesser machines, and one better, top of the line machine at home to use to access SL.

I just wish my crappy 128 MB GeForce 5200 card wouldn’t keep having a thread locked in driver and crashing my whole system on me. This has happened so many times now that Windows no longer even sees it as an error; it just says, “Oh Well, you lose.”

I’m told that it’s a really old video card, but it was a jump up when I bought it.

I’m hoping to get a new one soon. A friend of mine is giving me her old one - eventually

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