Avatar Complexity and graphics presets update

Inara reviews the official Second Life viewer from Linden Labs, which has some cool graphics updates:

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Avatar Complexity (aka Jelly Babies) is now available in the Quick Graphics project viewer Avatar Complexity (aka Jelly Babies) is now available in the Quick Graphics project viewer

On Friday, August 21st, the Lab issued their Project Quick Graphics project viewer. Version 3.8.4.304433 brings with it the much-anticipated Avatar Complexity and graphics presets capabilities, both of which are intended to assist in improving viewer performance for those on lower-specification computers.

I provided an overview of the viewer while it was still in an early version, so this is offered as a further update.

Avatar Complexity  introduces a new slider to the viewer which can be used to set a level above which avatars requiring a lot of processing will appear as a solid colour (including their attachments), giving them the nickname ” Jelly Babies” after the sweet (candy) of the same name.

As avatars can often be the single biggest impact on the viewer in terms of rendering, particularly in crowded places, using this…

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