Copying vectors can be done by right-clicking an object, selecting the Object tab and then clicking the round (C) button next to either position, size or rotation input boxes. Then, by pressing Ctrl+V or using the menu Edit→Paste.

The shortcut to print a texture info is: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T

This can be accessed from the menu as well, in Viewer 2+, Develop→Rendering→Selected Texture Info. On Viewer 1, it is under Advanced→Rendering→Selected Texture Info.

After some testing, we consider this light-speed rezzing… It really blasts all other methods away.

Some *nix flavors, as well as Windows, have options for creating (mounting) a drive that represents a slice of your RAM. Consider, if you have memory to spare, offshoring the entire cache to RAM. There may be solutions around that would offer safely mounting and unmounting the drive by writing the cache files to harddrive after shutting down the viewer. This would have the effect that all your transactions are made directly from RAM, which would offer an incredible speed compared to hard storage.

If you are on Mac, Snow Leopard onwards, try the following in a Terminal:

imp:~noob$ diskutil erasevolume HFS+ "ramdisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://2097152`

which will create a new ram-disk of 1GB size.

You can check by issuing the command in a terminal 'df -h':

imp:~noob$ df -h
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk2     1.0Gi   12Mi  1.0Gi     2%    /Volumes/ramdisk

Next, configure your cache to write to that folder:

• Based on the former, how about running the entire viewer in RAM. The viewer itself is only a couple 100MB in file-size. The cache, Imprudence's cache is limited to 1GB so you are looking at up to 1.5GB of RAM usage. This may not be too much for newer machines. Just drag and drop the viewer into the newly created ramdisk.

Keep in mind that by using a RAM-disk, whenever you restart your machine, the cache will be purged. If you want to take this to the next level, consider a commercial/third-party solution that swaps out your ramdisk to your hard storage before resetting and then loads it back. You probably could script that as well and spare your money.

Ctrl+Alt+F1

Third party viewers, in particular, those that have forked off Snowglobe have a built-in AO that can be enabled via the options and allow an avatar to substitute in-world AOs for viewer-based AOs.

The main difference between the two is that in-world AOs rely on scripts that run server-side on the region that the avatar is currently occupying such that they are less prone to lag that would affect the viewer whilst viewer-based AOs run on the game client (the viewer) such that lag affecting the viewer will make the avatar animations lag.

On the other hand, viewer-based AOs reduce the overall lag to the server since the animations are triggered by the viewer directly without having any active scripts running.

Perhaps the easiest way to activate the viewer-based AO is to go to the debug settings by following the menu items Advanced→Debug settings… and then searching for:

• EnableAORemote,
• ToolbarVisibleAO

and enabling them by toggling the True radio button.

The toolbar should now have a button named AO Settings that will load up an interface allowing the avatar to configure the viewer-based AO. Perhaps the easiest is to unpack a commercial AO and adjust the notecard following the viewer-AO pattern: the Animation Overrider UI for configuring the viewer-based AO has a New Notecard Template button that will generate a blank template for the viewer-AO.

Once the notecard is configured, it can be dropped on the interface and then by pressing the Reload button, the animations should be loaded on the right.

One of the problems with the built-in viewer AO is that the typing animation will override the "Play typing animation when chatting" setting such that even if the user disables the "Play typing animation when chatting" from the viewer settings and additionally the viewer AO is enabled and has a typing animation selected then the avatar will still animate in local chat when the user types text.

Unfortunately, the viewer AO has been a little neglected over the development cycle such that it is very difficult to get rid of the typing animation: even if the user deletes the typing animation or even the entire [Typing] section from the viewer AO notecard, the viewer will not remove the typing animation.

A workaround is to load the debug settings by following the menu items Advanced→Debug settings… and search for:

• AODefaultTyping

and then click on the Reset to default button.

If everything was done correctly, then the UI to configure the viewer AO should reflect the change and the Default Typing drop down box should be blank. Now, when typing on local chat, the avatar should not animate anymore.

Textures uploaded in SecondLife for the purpose of becoming part of the avatar's profile are distorted by the thumbnails that are generated by the profile popup panel. One trick to get the images right is to take a screenshot of the panel that the image is supposed to fit into and then overlay the image and resize accordingly. Otherwise, the following sections define the correct aspect ratios and sizes for the various images displayed in an avatar's profile.

• Search > All for "Classifieds", "People", and "Places" – (256×192 pi×els)
• Search > Places and Classified tabs – (398×282 pixels)
• Search > Land tab – (358×252 pixels)
• Profile > 2nd Life tab – (178×133 pixels)
• Profile > Picks tab – (288×162 pixels)
• Profile > 1st Life tab – (133×133 pixels)
• Profile > Classifieds tab – (206×137 pixels)
• Profile > Web tab – (400×400 pixels)
• About Land > Options tab – (178×117 pixels)
• Group Information > General tab’s "Group Insignia" – (126×126 pixels)
• A scrollbar uses 15 pixels on the right-hand side.

• Search > Classifieds thumbnail – (101×69 pixels)
• Search > Classifieds expanded – (159×120 pixels)
• Search > Classifieds expanded > More Info – native aspect ratio
• Search > Destination Guide thumbnail – (101×69 pixels)
• Search > Destination Guide expanded – (159×120 pixels)
• Search > People – (100×100 pixels)
• Search > Places expanded (159×120 pixels)
• Place Profile – (290×197 pixels)
• About Land > Options tab – (195×150 pixels)
• Profile > Picture – native aspect ratio; thumbnail cropped to 72×72 pixels; zoomed uncropped up to 300×300 pixels
• Profile > Real world picture – native aspect ratio; thumbnail cropped to 45×45 pixels; zoomed uncropped up to 300×300 pixels
• Profile > Picks thumbnail – (60×45 pixels)
• Profile > Pick expanded – (320×240 pixels)