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Forked from Inertia, Ascent's goal is to "clean up" the code, removing "bad" features and limiting as necessary to provide a stable, powerful client with features for both content creators and general use that adheres to the Linden Labs Third Party Viewer Policy.
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Since the initial fork to take in Inertia's useful asset browsing features, alpha skins on a Snowglobe base and other numerous attractive features, the code has been extensively modified to make sure that it is a legit Second Life client. Code from other Third Party Viewers has been merged extensively as well -- Including Emerald, Imprudence, and Nano.
Sin-gu-la-ri-ty (noun) - a distinctive feature, a uniqueness; a point at which
continuity breaks up; a point in history at which machine becomes smarter than
humanity and/or fuses with it indivisively; or simply a cool sounding word with
my initials in it :)
Singularity Viewer is a Second Life protocol compatible client application. It
can be used to access Second LIfe service as well as a number of other such as
those based upon OpenSim plattform. It is directly based upon source code of
Ascent Viewer by Balseraph Software Group, which is in turn based upon source
code released by Linden Lab, with contributions from various sources.
Far from being just a fork, we aim to aggregate useful features from all clients where content development is concerned, to provide builders, modders, programmers and all other creators in Second Life a powerful toolset to work their trade, without having to compromise their privacy or security by using TPVs such as Emerald.
I, Siana Gearz (Second Life Resident) am the soul maintainer of Singularity
Viewer, and to the best of my knowledge and effort, Singularity is fully
compatible to Second Life/ Linden Lab Terms of Service and Third Party Viewer
Policy and shall stay that way.
Following features are the focus of my work to distinguish it from Ascent:
* Ongoing effort to improve stability and performance beyond that of Ascent, and
hopefully also beyond that of any other Second Life viewer. In particular,
base code was upgraded from Snowglobe 1.4 to 1.5, texture fetch and texture
decode reimplemented based on work from Imprudence Viewer project. Several
performance and stability related improvements were implemented from scratch
or backported from more recent Linden Lab codebases.
* For roleplaying: RLVa system 1.1.3 which supports in-world RLV compatible
wearables. Thanks to Kitty Barnett for contributed implementation!
* Display names - partial support ported from Phoenix Viewer. Not as complete
as in Phoenix so far, needs further porting, and after that is done, needs
even more work.
Following features are present in Singularity, distinguishing it from official
Linden Lab viewers. These particular features have already been present in
Ascent Viewer, unless noted otherwise.
General conveniences:
* Identification of other viewers, avatar idle time
* Double-click local teleport (partial support)
* Phantom Avatar lets you avoid physical push when you're being harassed
* Script counting to check yourself and those around you for your impact on the
simulator performance
* Multiple attachments per attachment point. Incompatible with Emerald system,
but compatible to Viewer 2.1 and more recent. Nonetheless, Emerald-compatible
attachments on other avatars can be displayed too. [NEW] in Singularity:
the worn items in inventory managed in Viewer 2.2 compatible manner
* Vertical IM tabs
* Quick settings for performance and windlight in lower right
* Command line from Emerald for common operations
* Area search
* Windlight editor
* Built in pose stand
Improvements for content creators:
* Free texture upload for testing textures and sculpties.
* Copy and Paste in build panel
* Embedded Animation Override editor
* Rez Objects As Land Group option
* Math expressions in build panel, from Imprudence
* Alignment tool, by Qarl Fizz
* UUID display for various things - full perm textures, prims, avatars
* Enhanced inspection floater
Roleplaying:
* Fake away status
* Mu style posing, auto close AAC brackets
* Bouncy Breast physics effect
* Emerald-style privacy controls
And possibly some or many that i forgot.
System requierements: Dualcore CPU with SSE2 support, NVidia or ATI/AMD graphics
chip, 2GB RAM, Windows XP or newer, Ubuntu Linux 10.4 or newer.
Other systems support pending.
Thanks go to following people:
* Linden Lab for publishing viewer source code
* All the various TPV developers and Snowglobe contributors for creating a
huge body of code to borrow from and compare against
* Hazim for developing Inertia on which Ascent is based. A really fine dude,
although his viewer is not TOS compliant
* Shyotl Kuhr who did many of the oprimizations incorportated in Ascent and
some new for Singularity.
* Beeks and Charbi for Ascent. Ascent was started as a project to bring
Inertia to TOS compliance, and went on further to incorporate more features
* Robin Cornelius and Thickbrick Sleaford from Imprudence.
* Henri Beauchamp and Lance Corrimal for being a great source to borrow from
.oO(if Henri just wasn't such an unapproachable arse who doesn't respond
to IMs or contact me when he bugfixes my patches?)
* Tonya Souther and Wolfspirit Magic from Phoenix.
Time for some FAQ! The questions are anonymized.
Q: I heard your viewer is malicious! I hate you!
A: This was not a question. Also the person who came up with the rumor is
malicious, whoever they might be.
Q: You are only 6 months old, thus you can't code!
A: And you don't have a life.
Q: You are only 6 months old, thus you must be a griefer alt!
A: Still not a question. And no, i'm really an angel kitty -.-
Q: You are only 6 months old, thus you cannot know what Residents need!
A: Even if i was 1000, i'd still only know either what i myself need, or
whatever needs any Residents have expressed to me. Go ahead, get in touch.
Q: But all TPVs are shady!
A: You are shady. Still, not a question.
Q: Why isn't your viewer listed on Linden TPVD?
A: Oh thanks, a first real question! Because i haven't applied for it.
If there is a demand by real userbase someday, TPVD application will be
considered. It shouldn't be a problem because i check all of the code which
i commit, and borrow basically only from well known viewers from TPVD.
And oh besides, that the viewer is on TPVD doesn't mean it's safe. It is not
an unreasonable guess that it is, but there is quite a bit outside anyone's
control, unless Lindens set up a build farm which builds TPVs automatically
from publically released source, you just can't know that it matches up.
Q: I like your viewer! How can i help?
A: If you are able to, fork my viewer source on GitHub, work your magic there,
ping me on it, and i'll see whether i want your changes back in my viewer.
Or build my viewer from source and find bugs.
If you don't have necessary skills for that, your bug reports are somewhat
unlikely to be processed because of lack of time on my hands.
Oh, and position of localization manager might be open.
Also needed: someone to report building failures on Mac and provide binaries.
If you don't trust us or the legitimacy of our code, please, take it upon yourself to download our source and take a look. We have nothing to hide, and we will never obfusticate our code with encryption or closed-source DLL bundling.