Torley/Viewer setup

As of May 2013, from out-of-the-box official Viewer installation:

PREFERENCES

• General tab
  • Name tags = Off
  • Away timeout = never
• Graphics tab
  • Quality and speed = Ultra. Also see related photo checklist.
  • Click Advanced and enable Depth of Field.
• Sound & Media tab
  • Mute Streaming music, Media, and Voice Chat unless needed.
• Move & View tab
  • Single click on land = No action
  • Double click on land = Teleport to clicked point
• Notifications
  • Uncheck When my friends log in or out
• Setup
  • Maximum Bandwidth = 10000 kbps (This should be the default!)
• Advanced
  • Cache = 1024 MB
  • Check Allow Multiple Viewers
  • Check Show Advanced Menu
  • Check "Show Developer Menu

DEBUG SETTINGS

• BackgroundYieldTime = 0

Graphics

• RenderShadowBlurSize = 3
• RenderVolumeLODFactor = 4
• WLSkyDetail = 256

Depth of field

• CameraDoFResScale (Blur Quality) = 0.25
  • Lowered from the default of 0.7 so that there's more of a gradual ramping when you zoom into a subject. Can provide some analogue-feeling "diffuse blur", like smearing Vaseline on the lens.
• CameraFNumber (F-Number) = 1
  • Adjust per scene: lower it to something like 0.05 if zoomed out and shooting tilt-shift-style cities
• CameraFieldOfView (Field of View) = 1
• CameraFocalLength (Focal Length) = 250
  • Lower it even further if zoomed into an avatar's face or object close-up you want to remain tack-sharp.
• CameraMaxCoF (Circle of Confusion) = 20
• CameraFocusTransitionTime = Increase this to 1 or even 2 seconds for certain machinima shots.