Avatar group photography

Stuff to do: Rough stuff! Gotta let mah notes gel...

Want to photograph or film multiple avatars but don't have friends to help you out? Here's how.

First, you'll need to have multiple accounts to login. You can create more accounts at the secondlife.com join page, within reason.

Then, you'll need to enable multiple instances of the Viewer to run:

1. Start the SL Viewer. On the login screen, change the Mode dropdown to Advanced and restart the Viewer.
2. Select Me menu > Preferences.
3. In the Preferences window, click the Advanced tab.
4. Enable Allow Multiple Viewers
5. Click OK.

On Windows:

1. Double-click a SL Viewer shortcut (installed by default on your desktop) to start the SL Viewer once.
2. Double-click it again to start another instance. Repeat this until you have the number of desired instances.

On Mac:

1. In the Finder, select Go menu > Go to Folder.
2. Enter /Applications/Second Life Viewer 2.app/Contents/MacOS and click Go.
3. Double-click the Second Life executable to start a new instance of the Viewer.
4. Double-click it again to start another instance. Repeat this until you have the number of desired instances.

You can right-click the Second Life executable and select Make Alias, then drag the alias to a convenient place (like your desktop) so you don't have to dig in the future.

The SL Viewer is rather resource-intensive. Even a powerful desktop computer will slow down noticeably if you're running 3 or 4 instances. If this proves too slow for a single machine, you may

There's also older technical details on running multiple Viewers.