Viewer 3 menus

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Important: This listing is for the Second Life Viewer 3.6.12 (plus viewer-interesting). Other viewers will have different menu layouts, and similar menu items on other viewers may do different things.

Tip: Been away for a long time? Watch the Video Viewer 2 Transition Tutorial: Menus

Me

• Profile... (your own)
• Post to Facebook...

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• Appearance... choose and edit avatar wearables.
• Choose an avatar... wear starter outfits from the library.

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• Inventory... Ctrl+I
• Places... My Landmarks, Teleport History
• Picks... edit profile picks and classifieds.

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• Camera Controls...
• Movement ▶
  • Sit Down Alt+Shift ⇧+S sit your avatar here, no prim required. Helps keep your avatar from being pushed around.
  • Fly Home start or stop flying.
  • Stop flying Home
  • Always Run Ctrl+R
  • Stop Animating Me stop scripted animations and cancel animate permission to nearby objects.
  • Walk / run / fly... open the movement controls floater.
• Status ▶
  • Away add an "Away" notice over your name tag.
  • Do Not Disturb add a "Do Not Disturb" notice over your name tag, suppress interruptions from chat and IM, and send automatic busy notices to avatars who IM you. (formerly "busy mode")

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• Buy L$...
• Merchant Outbox...
• Account dashboard... open a web browser window with your Second Life account page.

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• Preferences... Ctrl+P viewer and SL settings: General, Graphics, Sound & Media, Chat, Move & View, Notifications, Colors, Privacy, Setup, Advanced
• Toolbar buttons...
• Hide all controls Ctrl+Shit+U — press Ctrl+Shit+U again to restore.
• Show HUD attachments Alt+Shit+H — pick again to restore.

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• Exit Second Life Ctrl+Q close the viewer.

Communicate

• Conversations... Ctrl+T open/close the instant message floater.
• Nearby Chat... Ctrl+H open/close the local chat panel.
• Speak toggle microphone on and off.
• Conversation Log...

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• Voice morphing ▶
  • No voice morphing disable the feature.
  • (optional voice names) enable morphing using this voice font.
  • Preview...
  • Subscribe... open a web browser with the SL voice morphing] page.
• Gestures... Ctrl+G

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• Friends Ctrl+Shift ⇧+F
• Groups Ctrl+Shift ⇧+G
• Nearby people Ctrl+Shift ⇧+A
• Block List (formerly "mute list")

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• Do Not Disturb add a "Do Not Disturb" notice over your name tag, suppress interruptions from chat and IM, and send automatic busy notices to avatars who IM you. (formerly "busy mode")

World

• Landmark This Place add a landmark for this location to your inventory.
• Destinations open an abbreviated view of the Destination Guide.
• World map Ctrl+M
• Mini-map Ctrl+Shift ⇧+M
• Search Ctrl+F

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• Teleport home Ctrl+Shift ⇧+H go to your home location; if you have not set a home, go to a random infohub matching your maturity rating.
• Set home to here make the spot you are standing on your home location; details in the knowledge base.

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• Snapshot Ctrl+Shift ⇧+S screen capture.

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• Place profile brief view of parcel information.
• About land full view of parcel settings: General, Covenant, Objects, Options, Media, Sound, Access
• Region / Estate region owner information and settings: Estate, Covenant, Region, Terrain, Environment, Debug
• My land holdings...
• Buy this land

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• Show ▶
  • Ban Lines show yellow "no entry" and green "pay to enter" fences.
  • Beacons Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+N find objects by general properties.
  • Property Lines Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+P show parcel borders along the ground.
  • Land Owners tint the terrain: green = your land, cyan = one of your groups' land, yellow = for sale, purple = up for auction, red = not for sale, gray = unowned land (obsolete)
  • Coordinates add your X/Y/Z position to the navigation bar.
  • Parcel properties add icons to the navigation bar: no build, scripts, fly, push, voice; avatar visibility.
  • Advanced Menu Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+D

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• Sun ▶
  • Sunrise
  • Midday Ctrl+Shift ⇧+Y
  • Sunset Ctrl+Shift ⇧+N
  • Midnight
• Use Region Settings restore default sun and environment.
• Environment Editor ▶ (formerly Windlight)
  • Environment Settings...
  • Water Presets ▶
    • New preset...
    • Edit preset...
    • Delete preset...
  • Sky Presets ▶ Atmosphere, Lighting, Clouds
    • New preset...
    • Edit preset...
    • Delete preset...
  • Day Presets ▶
    • New preset...
    • Edit preset...
    • Delete preset...

Build

• Build Ctrl+B open the build tools floater with Create selected.
• Select Build Tool ▶
  • Focus Tool Ctrl+1
  • Move Tool Ctrl+2
  • Edit Tool Ctrl+3
  • Create Tool Ctrl+4
  • Land Tool Ctrl+5
• Link Ctrl+L
• Unlink Ctrl+Shift ⇧+L
• Edit Linked Parts
• Select Linked Parts ▶
  • Select Next Part Ctrl+.
  • Select Previous Part Ctrl+,
  • Include Next Part Ctrl+Shift ⇧+.
  • Include Previous Part Ctrl+Shift ⇧+,
• Linksets... locate pathfinding objects.

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• Focus on Selection H
• Zoom to Selection Shift ⇧+H

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• Object ▶
  • Take to inventory.
  • Take Copy to inventory.
  • Save Back to Object Contents replace an object rezzed from another object's inventory. Only works if you do not rename the edited item.
  • Return Object to its owner.
• Scripts ▶ applies to scripts in the selected object or prim's inventory.
  • Recompile Scripts (Mono)
  • Recompile Scripts (LSL) also called LSO.
  • Reset Scripts
  • Set Scripts to Running
  • Set Scripts to Not Running Careful, not-running scripts can lose data on region crossings or restarts.
• Pathfinding ▶
  • Linksets...
  • Characters...
  • View / test...
  • Rebake region

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• Options ▶
  • Show Advanced Permissions

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  • Select Only My Objects
  • Select Only Movable Objects objects you are allowed to move.
  • Select By Surrounding in edit mode you can drag the mouse to make a box around all objects you want to select. If on, include only objects totally inside the box. If off, add objects partially inside too.

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  • Show Selection Outlines draw glowing lines around selected objects, yellow=root prim, blue=child.
  • Show Hidden Selection draw outlines for selected objects to reveal geometry.
  • Show Light Radius for Selection draw selected local light sources as semitransparent spheres.
  • Show Selection Beam show the trail of glowing dots from your left hand to selected object, does not affect what others see.

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  • Snap to Grid G See video tutorial.
  • Snap Object XY to Grid Shift ⇧+X
  • Use Selection for Grid Shift ⇧+G
  • Grid Options Ctrl+Shift ⇧+B
• Upload ▶
  • Image... Ctrl+U
  • Sound...
  • Animation...
  • Model... for mesh: Level of Detail, Physics, Modifiers
  • Bulk... upload batches of assets, without preview.
  • Set Default Upload Permissions choose what permissions are initially used on uploaded assets.

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• Undo Ctrl+Z
• Redo Ctrl+Y

Help

• How to... F1 basics of moving around and communicating.
• Quickstart open Second Life Quickstart in a browser window.

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• Knowledge Base open Second Life User's Guide in a browser window.
• Wiki you are here.
• Community Forums open Second Life Forums in a browser window.
• Support portal open Second Life Help in a browser window.

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• Second Life News open Featured News in a browser window.
• Second Life Blogs open main SL blog page in a browser window.

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• Report Abuse
• Report Bug

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• About Second Life

Advanced

To enable, go to Me>Preferences, Advanced tab, and check "Show Advanced Menu".

Note: Many Advanced menu items were moved to the Develop menu. If you don't find it here, look there.

• Rebake Textures Ctrl+Alt+R no real effect since the change to server side appearance. It recreated worn avatar textures under old server versions.
• Set UI Size to Default
• Set Window Size...

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• Limit Select Distance to nearby objects.
• Disable Camera Constraints allow camera to pass through solid objects.

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• High-res Snapshot to disk, forces snapshots larger than screen.
• Quiet Snapshots to Disk don't send the message that triggers camera sound and animation.

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• Performance Tools ▶
  • Lag Meter
  • Statistics Bar Ctrl+Shift ⇧+1
  • Scene Load Statistics Ctrl+Shift ⇧+2 alternate statistics bar, with focus on object load and cache performance.
  • Show Draw Weight for Avatars
• Highlighting and Visibility ▶
  • Cheesy Beacon animate the red world map beacon.
  • Hide Particles Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+=
  • Hide Selected objects.
  • Highlight Transparent Ctrl+Alt+T transparent faces are tinted red, excluding invisiprims.
  • Show Mouselook Crosshairs
• Rendering Types ▶ show or hide:
  • Simple Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+1 textures without alpha channels.
  • Alpha Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+2 textures with alpha channels.
  • Tree Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+3 Linden plants.
  • Avatars Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+4 bodies and attachments, but not name tags.
  • Surface Patch Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+5 terrain/ground texture.
  • Sky Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+6 entire sky dome including clouds and sun/moon.
  • Water Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+7 water surface only, view when under water is still tinted.
  • Ground Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+8
  • Volume Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+9 all objects except Linden plants.
  • Grass Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+0 Linden plants.
  • Clouds Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+-
  • Particles Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+=
  • Bump Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+\ legacy bump map and shiny effects.
• Rendering Features ▶
  • UI Ctrl+Alt+F1 same effect as Me>Hide all controls but works independently.
  • Selected Ctrl+Alt+F2 display texture alignment crosshair boxes with "Select Face".
  • Highlighted Ctrl+Alt+F3 (not used)
  • Dynamic Textures Ctrl+Alt+F4 enable clothing and sculpt previews in texture upload floater.
  • Foot Shadows Ctrl+Alt+F5 show/hide.
  • Fog Ctrl+Alt+F6 show/hide.
  • Test FRInfo Ctrl+Alt+F8 (not used).
  • Flexible Objects Ctrl+Alt+F9 enable/disable flexible prim effect.
• Use Plugin Read Thread for web and media.
• Clear Group Cache from memory. You should close group floaters first.
• Mouse Smoothing
• Release Keys drop permission from any objects that took controls, and detach if worn.

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• Shortcuts ▶
  • Show Advanced Menu - legacy shortcut Ctrl+Alt+D
  • Close Window Ctrl+W
  • Close All Windows Ctrl+Shift ⇧+W
  • Snapshot to Disk Ctrl+` direct save without opening snapshot preview floater.
  • Mouselook M
  • Joystick Flycam Alt+Shift ⇧+F
  • Reset View Esc reset camera position, not FOV or other settings.
  • Look at Last Chatter Ctrl+\ avatar or object.
  • Zoom In Ctrl+0 narrow the field of view.
  • Zoom Default Ctrl+9 reset field of view to 60°.
  • Zoom Out Ctrl+8 widen the field of view.
• Show Debug Settings
• Show Develop Menu Ctrl+Alt+Q

Develop

The Develop menu is long enough to have its own page.