Viewer Roadmap

Overview

• The purpose of this wiki page is to describe general Second Life Viewer projects that are in progress or consideration by Linden Lab.

See Also

• Linden Lab Projects
• User Interface Roadmap
• Render Roadmap
• Viewer Software Overview

Projects

• This page contains projects focused on the general Viewer architecture. See above fore links to related roadmaps.

Stability

• Viewer App Cleanup
  • Clean up initialization and argument parsing
  • Create an error handling thread for watchdog and crash handling
  • Clean up warnings
• Viewer Crash Reporting
  • Make it completely automated, scalable, and easy to use
• Viewer Memory Manager
  • Find a high performance cross platform memory allocation library that supports memory tracking
• Viewer Statistics
  • Better, scalable internal viewer statistics
  • Better measure and report viewer framerate, bandwidth, etc

Optimization

• Viewer Frame Sync
  • Allow users to sync/limit the viewer framerate and/or sleep a certain amount per frame

Features

• Voice - Phase 1 Complete - Phase 2 In-Progress
  • Provide Voice Chat in Second Life
• SL Search - In-Progress
  • Improve search in Second Life