Black Dragon Viewer

Transmuted Development Hub. In this video we're having a very quick peek at the black dragon viewer and why it's well loved by other photographers. The results in photos are obvious, an. Watch: How to Use Black Dragon, the SL Viewer With Great Graphics Options But a Challenging User Interface Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer, has a cult following among hardcore graphics fans, but many SLers complain that its user interface for everything beside s graphics is, well, challenging.

Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer, has a cult following among hardcore graphics fans, but many SLers complain that its user interface for everything besides graphics is, well, challenging.

'It’s worth noting that while I think Black Dragon is unbeatable for visuals in Second Life, it’s not as easy for just about anything else,' as blogger Mericat Ireland notes. 'Communicating, getting changed etc. is all a bit more difficult than with other viewers (although entirely possible).' That in mind, Mericat shot this tutorial/walkthrough above, and opened up her blog to questions from other Black Dragon users.

It should be noted that none of the SL viewers, including (especially?) the official Linden Lab-created viewer, are user friendly, which is a key reason why roughly 99.9% of new users quickly leave. So really, we're just talking about which set of complex commands you prefer to learn/tolerate.

As for whether it's worth learning how to use Black Dragon, here's a sample of what it looks like in action, in a machinima created by Black Dragon creator NiranV:

NiranV, by the way, hosts his own Discord channel for Black Dragon users here.

There's a new update to Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer with a cult following due to its amazing graphics and fast frame rate. Creator NiranV Dean lays out the top highlights here:

Besides fixing the broken group chat behavior options, a crash when trying to toggle borderless window mode off while in login screen, enter key not working properly in keybinding dialogs among some other minor things this update comes with a revamped Media-on-a-Prim floater.

So mostly minor technical fixes. The major reason for trying out Black Dragon, as always, is if you got a PC powerful enough to handle it, the viewer makes Second Life look like what you're seeing above (also shot by NiranV) -- a AAA videogame on the order of Fallout 4 or perhaps more appropriate a comparison in this case, the Dead Space series.

Yes, Second Life has a comparable experience to those horror sci-fi games:

Black Dragon Viewer

It's called, of course, Dead Space, which has existed in some form for around a decade, and according to recent reports, now exists in Gibson, SL's oldest cyberpunk sim. (Yes, named after William.)