Snowglobe
Snowglobe is the name of a new viewer (in development) for Second Life. Older documentation will refer to it as the "SLDev Viewer" (and some will refer to "HTTP Texture", the first project we're working on).
For more info about the Snowglobe viewer, see Philip's blog post: "Intensifying Open Source Effort" which describes our new approach to open source. See Philip's mail to sldev for a little bit more about the name.
Philip's blog post: "Intensifying Open Source Effort" - Blog post describing our new approach to open source. Watch this space for more information/links/new name/etc. We're finalizing the name for this project. In the meantime, much of our documentation focuses on "SLDev Viewer" (and some will refer to "HTTP Texture", the first project we're working on):
- Browse source: http-texture branch in Trac - browse the source code we're working on
- Downloads
- Snowglobe 1.4 Release Candidate (1.4.1.3614, August 8, 2010) (release notes)
[ Windows | Mac | Linux ]
- Very latest installer downloads: look for most recent build on the sldev-commits mailing list.
- Look at the page Version control repository for information about how to checkout the source code with SVN.
- The page Get source and compile gives general information about how to compile the source.
- Current Release Cycle - information on features and patches pending for the current release cycle
- HTTP Texture - Project to transition from custom UDP-based protocol to HTTP for texture delivery
- S3 based viewer map - Utilizing HTTP Texture for the in-viewer map
- Commit mails and build system notifications: sldev-commits mailing list.
- Developers discussion: sldev mailing list.
- Snowglobe Committer List - List of people with direct commit access who are working to build this viewer
- Snowglobe Development Process - Development practices for everyone working on the Snowglobe viewer
- Snowglobe Test Plans
News
- 2009-06-24 - Snowglobe 1.0 now available - Rob Linden's announcement post.