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In addition,Â NÃ¸klebye, as the owner of an OpenSim grid, is particularly interested in OpenSim development. “So we bring Linux and macOS support, complementing her releases,”Â NÃ¸klebye said.

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The main viewer that supports it, Marine Kellyâ€™sÂ Restrained LoveÂ Viewer, only has a Windows version.

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Kokua also has full support for the “Restrained Love” roleplaying functionality.

“We try to be good neighbors to all third-party viewerÂ projects,” Perian added.”Sometimes we fail and then try to make amends and move on.” The Kokua viewer also only has the most-used chat commands, a single skin, and fewer preferences, adding Kokua developer Nicky Perian. Other differences between Kokua and Firestorm is that Kokua does not have radar functionality, a viewer-based pose stand, or a way to backup the settings, which some people use during a viewer upgrade. Kokua also supports the new OpenSim-only “Export” permission setting, first developed by Avination and Singularity in 2013. Kokua tries to keep it simpler but still much richer and satisfying than the standard Second Life viewer.” “Many users find the Firestorm user experience overwhelming. “For someone who started out with a version 1 interface viewer, Kokua became the least frustrating version 2 viewer for me, and it increasingly grew on me where I can do most building, traveling and grid management task comfortably without being overwhelmed by the interface,” he said. Some users prefer to Kokua viewer for particular tasks, andÂ NÃ¸klebye himself is one of those users. “But takes a solid ground in providing a great set of tools wrapped up in an interface that is familiar to the majority of Second Life users, and increasingly OpenSim users.” Logging in to Kitely with the new Kokua Viewer. “The Kokua viewer does not have all the bells and whistles of Firestorm or even the Singularity viewers,” Â said NÃ¸klebye.

The new release isn’t intended to compete with those viewers head-on. Kokua doesn’t have the user base of some other viewers, like Firestorm, which is the viewer recommended by most grids, as well as by Hypergrid Business, and is the most popular viewer in both OpenSim and Second Life. “At least for the time being it also means we need to keep a sharp eye on the Second Life viewer so we donâ€™t loose content compatibility.”

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“We can remove some code duplication, and finally it means we can start to add to, and refine OpenSim functionality,” he said. The new release includes some minor improvements, but the next release will actually remove some Second Life-specific functionality like experience keys, pathfinding, and the Second Life Marketplace. “It also turned out that Linden Labs had done a significant amount of development to prepare this since early 2015 without us knowing anything about it, and the barrage of code changes they released was simply too overwhelming to be integrated into one functional viewer in a short timespan.” “I thought the timing was right to make a split,” he said.

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Mac usersÂ were also having problems with image quality, due to changes on Apple’s end that weren’t reflected in the viewer code. Then, in the spring, Linden Lab announced thatÂ hey would turn off fundamental communication protocols and messages the viewer used with OpenSim, he said. “The next realization came last fall when Linden Lab announced they would no longer develop the Linux version of the viewer,” he added. He is also a developer on the Kokua project. “My own first realization that a change to the viewer in the direction of pure OpenSim support came at the announcement of Sansar, and the fact that the client for Sansar would be close sourced,”Â Xmir gridÂ founderÂ Geir NÃ¸klebye, who is also known as Gavin Hird in-world, told Hypergrid Business. Why an OpenSim-focused viewer? Geir NÃ¸klebye The viewer can also be used to access Second Life, but the new low-impact simplifiedÂ Jelly Doll avatar viewsÂ are not supported, according to the release announcement. Default login screen on the new release of the Kokua Viewer. Full list of active OpenSim grids and the loginURIs are here. Users can also add their own grids, as well. Other grids included are Craft, InWorldz, Kitely, FrancoGrid, OSgrid, SirinHGpole, Spellscape, and Tangle. The Kokua Viewer team has released an OpenSim-friendly version of their viewer this week, and 3rd Rock Grid is set as the default grid in the grid manager.