Catznip 3.2.0 Beta
After much hard work, tinkering and screaming fits we are very proud to offer up Catznip 3.2.0 Beta. This is a major release featuring all the new UI goodness from Linden Lab and the usual Catznip refinements you have come to expect. A lot of work has gone into improving framerates this release and we’re pretty confident this will be the fastest Second Life Viewer 3 to date.
The viewer 3 chat floater has been updated to add optional multi-line input support and can now be docked with the IM floater similar to Viewer 1.
Viewer 2 placed the IM & object notification chiclets to the bottom right of the screen and the Lab moved them back up to the top right with Viewer 3. Seems someone (looks at Kitty really hard) liked them so much in the bottom right that she just had to add the option to put them back down.
Snapshots to HD can now be saved to a specific location with custom filenames. Handy for professionals and habitual snappers alike.
Spell checker includes a couple of minor enhancements adding support for supplementary dictionaries. (If all goes well, this should eventually be the spell checker included with the official Linden Lab client. See Inara Pey’s blog; Viewer 3.x to get a speling cheker‘).
RLVa has been updated to work with the new UI and had a couple of bugs fixed.
There have been a handful of essential context menu enhancements; my favorite being right click a folder in your inventory and you can now open that folder in a new window, right click on someones name tag and you can teleport and copy their display-name.
Oh .. and we got rid of the huge BLOCK button on dialog menus, shessh, was way way to easy to just go around accidentally muting everyone who owned something that gave up a menu! (Don’t worry, you can still block by right clicking on the chiclet).
Check out the full release notes and downloads for both Windows and Linux.
I needed to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 to run the Catznip v3.2.0 Beta using windows XP service pak 3. I do not have .net installed and that might be why. After I installed C++ 2008 Catznip ran fine. If you need the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 you can find it here.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11895
Linux tester here! Before I start saying bad things, let me tell you that Catznip 3.2.0 beta works like a charm on my Linux system. So far, it is the fastest viewer I have ever used and the most gentle for my otherwise overtaxed CPU. My system cannot really handle shadows but it is possible and not totally unbearable.
During the few hours of my test, I experienced no crash, that is a good sign. I had just two massive slowdowns when I right-clicked on the ground to get “About Land” and the yellow lines appeared but that is really the worst which happened.
My only real problem was with hovertext which seems to have a much smaller spacing in between the lines and messes with some HUD displays.
I might consider it as a replacement for Imprudence… someday. But not now! I do not use voice and chat in v3.2 and derivative TPVs is too broken for my liking.
Being able to re-attach the chat with the IMs is a good point for Catznip, as well as its wide chat toasts, but I really miss a real chatbar in the bottom of my screen. Right now, we have the choice in between that floating chatbar which you never know where to put because its titlebar makes it larger than necessary or the big chat/IM floater which takes even more room.
Still, I am sending a truckload of chocolate coated cookies. Keep on the good work!
love the new viewer especially with the rlv on a fast mesh viewer