Develop menu

Develop

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

• Consoles ▶
  • Texture Console Ctrl+Shift ⇧+3
  • Debug Console Ctrl+Shift ⇧+4 scroll activity log on the main viewer window.
  • Notifications Console Ctrl+Shift ⇧+5 trace dialogs, alerts, notifications.
  • Fast Timers Ctrl+Shift ⇧+9 shows tasks performed per frame, see How do I get my Fast Timers results?.
  • Scene Stattistics plot complexity of objects in view.
  • Scene Loading Monitor (not used)

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• Region Info to Debug Console dump region flags and stats to log.
• Group Info to Debug Console dump summary of active group info to log.
• Capabilities Info to Debug Console dump capability names and URLs to log.

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• Camera camera and agent position/rotation overlaid on screen.
• Wind region wind speed and heading is overlaid on screen.
• FOV camera field of view angle overlaid on screen.
• Badge Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+H Addresses VWR-11118.
• Show Info ▶
  • Show Time elapsed viewer run time overlaid on screen.
  • Show Upload Cost (not used)
  • Show Render info render stats overlaid on screen.
  • Show Matrices OpenGL matrix info overlaid on screen.
  • Show Color Under Cursor rendered RGBA values overlaid on screen.
  • Show Memory total viewer memory used overlaid on screen.
  • Show Private Mem Info private pool stats overlaid on screen, use with MemoryPrivatePoolEnabled debug setting.

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• Show Updates to Objects Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+U

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• Force an Error ▶ These intentionally crash the viewer, for debugging only.
  • Force Breakpoint Ctrl+Alt+Shift ⇧+B
  • Force LLError and Crash
  • Force Bad Memory Access
  • Force Infinite Loop
  • Force Driver Crash
  • Force Software Exception
  • Force Disconnect Viewer
  • Simulate a Memory Leak
• Render Tests ▶
  • Camera Offset shortcut to CameraOffset debug setting.
  • Randomize Framerate add a random duration sleep with each rendered frame.
  • Periodic Slow Frame sleep half a second every 10 frames.
  • Frame Test capture buffer and pause.
  • Frame Profile dump GL stats to log.
• Render Metadata ▶
  • Bounding Boxes render bboxes color coded by type.
  • Normals  Normal_(geometry)
  • Octree render bounding boxes color coded by  octree buffer usage and activity.
  • Shadow frustrum render each  frustum as a shaded box.
  • Physics Shapes render terrain and objects as they appear to the simulator's physics engine.
  • Occlusion highlight objects that are hidden behind others.
  • Render Batches highlight rendering groups with different colored tints.
  • Update Type highlight each object by last update performed.
  • Texture Anim highlight animated texture faces in yellow.
  • Texture Priority highlight redder for high priority, bluer for low, pecking order as float text.
  • Texture Area show min:max rendered texture area for each face.
  • Face Area show min/max rendered area for each face.
  • LOD Info (not used)
  • Build Queue draw boxes around objects being rebuilt.
  • Lights highlight local light sources and bbox of the light they cast.
  • Collision Skeleton show avatar's "collision volume" joints. Used with fitted mesh. Not used with simulator physics.
  • Raycast show mouse targets for selection and touches.
  • Wind Vectors red lines overhead show wind direction.
  • Render Complexity (not used)
  • Attachment Bytes hover text with memory and size of avatar attachments.
  • Sculpt hover text with sculpt map sizes.
  • Texture Density ▶ (check)
    • None
    • Desired
    • Full