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Unofficial downloads page. Please see the secondlife.com Community:Downloads page for the latest versions.

For details on the GPLv2 licensed source code for the Second Life Viewer, visit the Open Source Portal. For the source code archives, read the Source downloads article.


Linden Lab Viewer


Third-party Viewers

Third-party Viewers are those which have been created by developers not working for Linden Lab. These Viewers offer extra or altered functionality than is present in the official Second Life Viewer.


The Extended FAQ states that it is okay to create and distribute homebrew viewers as long they adhere to the respective licenses for code usage and server usage.


The code itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which governs modification and redistribuition of the source code. Use of Linden Lab's servers will still be governed by the Second Life Terms of Service].


<font-color="red">Homebrew viewers are not associated with LindenLab, are governed by their own respective licenses. LindenLab is not responsible for any desired or undesired results in association with those viewers.


Note to authors: If you make a viewer available make sure to include platform, version numbers and dates.

     


Able Edition

Description

This is a Windows viewer is an unofficial build which adds a Mute Visibility feature, which allows objects in-world to be rendered partially or entirely invisible.

Extra Features

  • Mute Visibility
  • Improvements to the Mute List
  • Muting objects applies to entire linksets

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : Build 41752, compiled on SL official viewer 1.18.0.6
  • Date : 07/18/2007
  • Status : Discontinued

     

Dale Glass Edition

Description

This is a Windows (soon Linux) viewer which adds new experimental features. The features are intended to give users more information about the world and to simplify moderation by making it easier to tell where people are and what they're doing.


Extra Features

  • Avatar Scanner
    • Shows nearby avatars, roughly in drawing distance range.
    • Shows name, age, payment info, current activity.
    • Land and estate commands for ejecting/banning multiple avatars at once
    • Integration with Luskwood moderation tools
    • Buttons to open profile, IM, teleport to or track selected avatars
  • Event Log: Experimental feature, shows a list of active particle effects (soon sounds too), and their owners. Allows moving camera to emitter.
  • Branding: Replaces LL branding with my own. Different login page, checks for updates against my server.
  • Logging of the owner and location of speaking objects

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : 1.18.3.5.285, compiled on SL official viewer 1.18.3.5
  • Date : 09/30/2007
  • Status : Discontinued?

     

Gemini Viewer

Description

Alternative viewer for Windows compiled from C++ for Power Users and high end graphic environments (Mac and Linux builds coming soon)

Extra Features

  • sleek ergonomic UI theme in dark grey
  • IM encryption and auto response
  • Preconfigured for advanced users and high end graphic environments
  • Clientside radar with alot of extra info
    • Buttons to open profile, IM, teleport to, offer TP, track selected avatars etc.. Ability to chat radar info (keys) to boost lsl radars
    • Ability to display chat notifications for entering sim, exiting sim, entering chat range, exiting chat range, entering draw distance and exiting draw distance respectively.
  • Clothing Layer Protection + Detection of cooperating alternative viewers
  • Implementation of the "Restrained Life" API (RLVa, disabled by default)
  • Ability to open and display the owner and location of objects that IM you
  • Teleport to positions by double clicking
  • Option to disabling progress screens (teleport, login, and logout respectively)
  • Customizeable IM Autoreponse system, including giving inventory in the response
  • Can enable the attaching of objects in inventory by double-click
  • Extra settings for: teleports; IM auto response; flying; and radar
  • Extra and configurable command line parameters
  • Debug settings for several new tweaks
  • Supports Flexi Sculpties
  • LookAt Beacons now remember their state after logouts and show avatar name above every beacon
  • Additional system messages to chat like for example on money spent/received events or when someone dissolves your friendship.
  • Ability to turn off object selection outlines for selecting many complex objects at once
  • Ability to turn off viewer effects (Other people won't see your selection beam, head/eyes-movements and no LookAt beacon.)
  • Can turn your avatar 'visually phantom'
  • Stability fixes and crash protection against most known crash exploits
  • Worn tab and Quickfilter drop-down list in the Inventory floater
  • Scripts are compiled to mono by default in agent inventory
  • Inventory is fetched in background immediately on login
  • Group info can be accessed in about land, even if group is not deeded
  • Free uploading of "temporary" textures
  • Prim import/export functionality! (respects permissions)
  • over 300 Windlight settings included
  • Additional functions for roleplayers (alt+enter - OOC chat etc)
  • Build Floater Enhancements
    • Shows object last owner in build floater
    • More object choices (from the drop down that lets you change a cube to a sphere)
    • More precision information (5 decimal points)
    • Ability to set all prim parameters without changing shape (easy prim torture)
    • Ability to easily change skulpt stitching
    • Can set transparency to 100%
    • Can set texture repeats above 100
    • 1.23 Bulk Permissions
    • New Input Field for sculptie and texture UUIDs (respects permissions)
  • Animation Info Floater
    • Shows you all current animations being played on your avatar
    • Allows you to stop, or revoke permissions of animations you do not want
    • Ability to detect owner of the animations being played, as well as their name
  • Area Search Floater lets you find any object in the sim by name or other parameters
  • Option to block the 1 click auto sit for security reasons
  • Spam protection
  • Profiles show agent key and you can open profile pictures in full size
  • Minimap converted to XUI
    • shows dot colors, yellow for friends, blue for lindens, grey for muted
    • tooltips show avatar names and distance plus sim host IP
    • Debug setting to specify the max size of prims being displayed in the minimap

Links

  • Blog and Download: [1]

Version and timestamp

  • Version : 1.22.11 (3)
  • Date : Jun 18 2009 06:10:44
  • Status : update

     

Greenlife Emerald Viewer

Description

This is a homebrewn viewer which adds new functionality to the viewer with the intent of easing the users interaction with the environment. It's developed by multiple people. Versions for Windows and Mac are released, an internal Linux version exists as well.

Extra Features

  • Avatar Scanner
    • Full sim range (detects over 1M in the air)
    • Shows name, age, payment info, current activity.
    • Land and estate commands for ejecting/banning multiple avatars at once
    • Buttons to open profile, IM, teleport to or track selected avatars
    • Ability to chat radar info (keys) to boost lsl radars
    • Ability to display chat notifications for entering sim, exiting sim, entering chat range, exiting chat range, entering draw distance and exiting draw distance respectively.
  • Different login page
  • Ability to open and display the owner and location of objects that IM you
  • Teleport to positions by double clicking
  • Option to disabling progress screens (teleport, login, and logout respectively)
  • Clothing layer protection (prevents sending of individual clothing textures to other clients, ensuring they can't copy the clothing)
  • Customizeable IM Autoreponse system, including giving inventory in the response
  • Fly can be set to always enabled, even with Admin menu closed
  • Can turn your avatar 'visually phantom'
  • Allows ground sit anywhere
  • Can enable the attaching of objects in inventory by double-click
  • Can block object sit-on-click
  • Chatbar as a command line for rezzing platforms, teleporting to coordinates or sims, or teleporting to particular heights.
  • Various crash fixes
  • Free uploading of "temporary" textures (sim-local and disappear on relog)
  • Notification when a friendship ends
  • Detection of cooperating alternative viewers
  • Shows object last owner in build floater
  • Scripts are compiled to mono by default in agent inventory
  • Inventory is fetched in background immediately on login
  • Group info can be accessed in about land, even if group is not deeded
  • Profiles show agent key
  • More minimap dot colors, blue for lindens, grey for muted, and purple for friended lindens
  • Build Floater Enhancements
    • More object choices (from the drop down that lets you change a cube to a sphere)
    • More precision information (5 decimal points)
    • Ability to set all prim parameters without changing shape (easy prim torture)
    • Ability to easily change skulpt stitching
    • Can set transparency to 100%
    • Can set texture repeats above 100
  • Can turn of the typing sound
  • Teleport History Floater
  • Animation Info Floater
    • Shows you all current animations being played on your avatar
    • Allows you to stop, or revoke permissions of animations you do not want
    • Ability to detect owner of the animations being played, as well as their name
  • Included the 1.23 Bulk Permissions Setting
  • Option to block the 1 click auto sit
  • New custom skin

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : 1.22.11 (Win: 1.22.11.112ts, Mac: 1.22.11.112, Lin: 1.22.11.112ts), based on Second Life Open Source 1.22.11 (r113941)
  • Date : 05/02/2009
  • Status : Active

     

Henri Beauchamp Edition

Description

This viewer, codename "Cool SL Viewer" combines elements of several of the other viewers, as well as some extra patches very carefully tested.

Extra Features

  • Reverses many of the unpopular interface changes made in the transition to voice being standard (including reinstating the packet loss and bandwidth indicators, the old toolbar and buttons layouts, the old, more visible, status bar icons, and optionally reinstating the old, more visible, tracking dots in the mini-map).
  • Implements the "Restrained Life" API discussed more fully in the Marine Edition client (switchable and disabled by default).
  • Allows to configure the date and time formats to match your locale or personal preferences.
  • Defines double-click default actions for many types of inventory.
  • Allows to optionally prevent IMs to show in the main chat.
  • Allows to optionally prevent notifications to show and be logged in the main chat.
  • Allows to hide the "Release Keys" and/or the "Master volume" in the panel overlay.
  • MUD/MUSH/MUCK/MU* style "poses" (i.e. you can type ":" instead of "/me " to emote), and OOC double parenthesis auto-close (i.e. you can type: "((phone, BRB" and it will show as "((phone, BRB))").
  • Allows to build and TP over 768m of altitude (and up to 4096m).
  • Allows to build large prims (up to 128m in any or all dimensions) on OpenSim (not on SL, because of server-side limitations).
  • Allows to build flexible sculpties (BEWARE: flexible sculpties are laggy !... Please, use sparsely).
  • Improved build tool floater (smaller increments in several parameters, extra "slice" parameter for some prims).
  • Allows to bulk-set permissions in an object (handy for scripters/builders).
  • Allows to connect to all existing grids (and not only LL's) from the login screen.
  • Allows to save/compile scripts present in the inventory as Mono scripts.
  • Implements a teleports history floater.
  • Implenents in-world double-click to teleport.
  • Implements a new "Worn" tab in the inventory floater.
  • Implements various backports for the v1.19.0.5 version (Mono compilation support, security fixes, etc).
  • Various patches by Nicholaz Beresford, Gigs Taggart, Blakar Ogre, McCabe Maxsted and others, fixing a lot of bugs and memory leaks.
  • More minor features and improvements, to be discovered on the website...

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : i686 1.19.0.5 CoolRelease 62 (stable viewer with legacy renderer)
  • Date : 2009/06/24
  • Version : i686 1.22.11.0 CoolRelease 11 (old stable viewer with Windlight renderer)
  • Date : 2009/06/03
  • Version : i686 1.23.4.0 CoolRelease 4 (new stable viewer with Windlight renderer)
  • Date : 2009/06/24

   

  • Status : All Active

     

Imprudence

Usability, Stability, Flexibility

The Second Life Viewer suffers from a stifling atmosphere of non-change. This atmosphere emanates from Linden Lab, whose attitudes and policies discourage all but the smallest and most superficial improvements. This is the result of the nature of Linden Lab as a corporation, thus rendering Linden Lab ineffectual at dealing with the fundamental usability problems that plague the Viewer.

Description

The primary goal of Imprudence is simple: to greatly improve the usability of the Viewer. In particular, there are 3 aspects of usability that we intend to address:

  • Approachability. Improving comfort and ease of use, especially for new or non-technical users.
  • Efficiency. Improving speed and ease of common tasks and workflows.
  • Satisfaction. Improving the emotional effect of the software on the user.

This is not to minimize other aspects of usability, such as reliability, accessibility, or internationalization/localization. We recognize their importance, but lack the expertise to properly address them. We welcome people with such expertise to join the project and help.

Enhancing the flexibility of the viewer makes all other goals easier to achieve, and hence is a generic target. Client-side scripting is being investigated as an enabling technology in this area.

Note: This viewer is fully GPL compatible, so the Imprudence Project cannot ship the SLVoice module and its associated files. These can be added back from the official client for those needing voice. Check the Imprudence Project wiki for instructions.

Extra Features

  • Hidden prim parameters are exposed - you can slice/dimple boxes, pyramids, and other non-spherical prims.
  • Stability patches by Nicholaz.
  • Invite button in the Groups list, Teleport button in the IM window.
  • Inventory quickfilter and worn tab.
  • Build window math.
  • Many other usability improvements.
  • Full comparison vs. SL 1.21.6: http://imprudenceviewer.org/wiki/Release_Notes
  • Socket-connected plugins for language-agnostic client-side scripting are in the planning phase.

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : 1.1.0
  • Date : 06/07/2009
  • Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac
  • Status : Active

     

Marine Edition

Description

This viewer, codename "RestrainedLife" is an attempt at enhancing the experience of people who practice BDSM in Second Life. It is used jointly with simple scripts made to use its features in-world, such as making an attached object undetachable, preventing chat and such. An API (Application Programming Interface, a text file) is provided so that every content creator can create their own scripts to interface their own items to the viewer and use its features.

Extra Features

  • Attachments can be made undetachable
  • Chat and IM prevention on demand, with exceptions if needed
  • Teleport and sit-tp prevention on demand, with exceptions if needed
  • Editing and Rezzing prevention on demand
  • Adding/Removing clothes on demand, + force remove clothes and force remove unlocked attachments
  • Force sit and prevent stand up (even after a relog) on demand
  • Manual (by IM) and automatic (by script) version checking
  • Force attach objects and outfits
  • API for content creators
  • And more...

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : 1.16.1 , compiled on SL official viewer 1.22.11
  • Date : 13/03/2009
  • Status : Active

     

Meerkat

Goals

  • To create a fully GPL viewer (no proprietary dependencies)
  • To encourage a community of developers that will submit patches for prompt integration
  • To have the freedom to make the sort of changes that Linden Lab has traditionally been unable to integrate (translation patches, refactoring, fixing intentionally crippled features, changes that touch many files)
  • To retain compatibility with Linden Lab's grid and protocols, present and future
  • To implement a loosely coupled cross-grid functionality that requires no central authentication authority.

Extra Features

  • Log out and back in without quitting
  • Loosely coupled intergrid teleport -- In Process
  • Most of the other changes common to third party viewers

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Date : 010/2008
  • Status : Active, but On-Hold Due to Funding Issues

     


METAbolt

Text Based SL Viewer/Reader Edition

Description

METAbolt is a non-graphical (text based) viewer/reader. It is light weight and cross grid, which means it will work in Second Life as well as other grids that are based on OpenSIM. METAbolt is Open Source so it's free...it is built ground up using libopensv and it is not a modified version of the official SL viewer. Currently METAbolt is only available for Windows platforms.


METAbolt is ideal if:

  • the graphical viewers are not allowed at your work place
  • you have a low powered computer that has difficulty running the SL viewer
  • you have a low speed internet connection e.g. dial up/ISDN
  • you need to run multiple alts at the same time for land security, modelling, group management functions etc
  • you can't or don't want to run the SL viewer all the time but need the ability to stay online for communications or other reasons

Extra Features

Too many to be listed here! Here are just a few:

  • Ability to mass distribute products, objects, scripts etc
  • Ability to start multiple instances for different alts from a command and/or batch file
  • Auto log-in upon SL disconnect
  • Built in Machine Translation with 16 language pairs
  • Emoticons on chat & IM. Feature can be switched on/off
  • Land monitor: monitor parcels that are for sale on a SIM
  • Object Manager: Detailed object information & stats
  • (optional) Group Manager plug-in for sending direct group invites
  • Uses extremely low computing power and bandwidth
  • Displays advertising from various partners
  • One-to-One technical support via METAforums

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : 0.9.2.4 BETA (at the time this page was prepared)
  • Date : 05/30/2009
  • Platform: Windows Only
  • Status : Active



MonoVida Studio

"Your Viewer; Your Imagination"

Description

MonoVida Studio is like an IDE to virtual reality and your imagination. While it may seem like what was the regular Second Life viewer with its UI guts torn out and surgically replaced, it uses LL's code to render a scene and network with the grid as you expect, and everything else is the Studio, which constitutes your viewer. MonoVida Studio is built with .Net/Mono and Snowglobe, so you gain all those powerful development tools. Several namespaces exist, with widgets, gadgets, and classes, to help you build your desired component, your custom UI, and maybe your custom AI.

Features

  • Uses omvviewer as an upstream source for GPL goals.
  • Purely based on Gnome (Gtk) (in source, llwindow/* has been removed, see also: MVS-1)
  • Universal/Metaversal object hierarchies. See here for further explanation: MVS-32
  • Total rewrite of the UI (in progress): MVS-2 (llui)
    • And, rewrite of all Viewer Panels: MVS-6
    • Like, the Communication Panels: MVS-25
      • They can be overlaid or detached from the main view.
  • Skins: Several hundred skin themes available to choose from:
  • Complete power of .NET/Mono
  • Snowglobe DLL: The base code derived from LL's viewer made into a dynamically shared library.
  • Snowglobe-Sharp: The C# to Snowglobe DLL bridge
  • Screenshots (of themes and work in progress): #1 #2

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Date : 21/June/2009
  • Version : (Front-end) Alpha, (Back-end) Snowglobe 0.8 (1.22.11)
  • Status : Active

     


Nicholaz Edition

Description

These are Windows viewer based on SL builds with a focus on stability, usability and performance (see Installation.txt for homebrew disclaimer). Mac and Linux variants are available through other open sourcers (links on the website).

Extra Features

  • Improved stability
  • Lower memory footprint
  • GUI redesigns
  • Workarounds for common annoyances (Group IM Filtering, "Release Key" button, etc.)
  • see this entry for an overview of different versions

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Date : 15/04/2009
  • Status : Mostly discontinued (occasional security fixes)

     

omvviewer

Goals

  • To create a fully GPL viewer (no proprietary dependencies)
  • To enable easy building of the source code on various Linux distros including 64 bit distros
  • To Get the viewer packaged with in Linux Distros

Packages available (32 and 64 bit)

  • Debian Lenny
  • Ubuntu Intrepid
  • Arch
  • Gentoo

Extra Features

Various extra features found in other viewers, UI changes are kept to a bare minimum as this is a packaging project not a code base fork. Stability fixes are given high priority.

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Date : 27/March/2009
  • Version : 1.22.11
  • Status : Active

     

omvviewer-light

A Text client for the 3D Metaverse

Description

omvviewer-light is a text client for the 3D Metaverse including SecondLife, written from Scratch (but using the libomv library for protocol handling). It's GUI is created in Gtk# which is cross-platform making this the only current Text client that is still active and cross platform. Tested on Linux (32/64 bit) and Windows (not 64-bit windows).

Features

To many to list here in detail please see the project page below but in summary, Full inventory control, Full Chat/IM/Group IM's. Object search and interaction. Realtime local maps. Parcel displays. Read and Edit NoteCards and Scripts. View profiles. Friends Lists etc .....

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Date : 27/March/2009
  • Version : 0.47
  • Status : Active

Onrez Viewer

Description

The Onrez viewer was made by the Onrez company in connection with a Second Life themed story on the high tech forensics based TV show "CSI: New York".

Extra Features

  • A back and history button for teleports
  • In-viewer web browsing.

Links

Comment

The source code for this viewer is closed source.

Version and timestamp

  • Status : Discontinued ?

     

Rainbow Viewer / Cool Viewer

Description

Originally based on Henri Beauchamp's "Cool SL Viewer" both the Rainbow Viewer and Cool Viewer emerged as forks in reaction to avoid trademark infringement of the "SL" brand. Although similar in features they are not identical with Henri's viewer. A major improvement is an up-to-date OpenGL implementation that especially helps users plagued by ATI's Catalyst drivers but also leads to measurable improvements of overall graphics performance by 30...100% compared to the official viewer; depending on your system. Rainbow Viewer features the current user interface whereas Cool Viewer spots the leaner cleaner and more configurable legacy UI. It's all about choice :).

Available in versions for Windows and Linux (thanks Balp!).

Extra Features

  • CV's legacy User interface with a clean, simple and userfriendly layout or Rainbow Viewers current official UI, you choose!
  • Improved Graphics rendering, especially for ATI users (measured >1/3 faster than the official viewer)
  • Marine Kelley's RestrainedLife (off per default)
  • Bulk permission editing
  • "Worn" tab in inventory
  • Double click to wear attachments
  • Enhanced building tools
  • Flexible Sculpties
  • Large Prims (currently only for Opensim grids due to SL limitations)
  • Maximized Network Bandwidth
  • Flexible Grid selection at login for SL and all OpenSims
  • Teleport History
  • Avatar UUID in profiles
  • Cool Features in Preferences for easy switching of features

...and a large number of other goodies and stability fixes that improve your overall experience. Too many to mention here :). Please check the Release Notes for details.

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Versions : RV: 1.22.11.0 R2, CV: 1.19.0.5 R59 / 1.22.11.0 R9
  • Date : 03/06/2009
  • Status : Active

     

RealXtend Edition

Description

The realXtend viewer is a heavily modified version of the Linden Lab's Second Life client by a partnership of two Finnish companies, ADMINO technologies and LudoCraft.

Extra Features

   * Second life compatibility mode for use in SL and Opensim worlds
   * Teleports between realXtend and Secondlife

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version : 0.3
  • Date : 07/28/2008
  • Status : Active

     

SLiteChat

A Lite IM/Chat Text-only Client for Second Life

Description

SLiteChat (pronounced "slight-chat") is a completely open source text-only IM/chat client for use with Second Life. Use it to talk to your friends without having to load up all of those heavy graphic goodies. Useful for those at work times. :-)

Features

  • Communicate in-world with people on your friends list. Full adding/removing and search for residents supported.
  • Group chat is supported (however at this writing you cannot leave a group or search for to join).
  • Local chat and IM history is supported.

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Date : 10/June/2009
  • Version : 1.1.1
  • Status : Active

Vertical Life Client

Description

This client seems to be aimed mostly at SL Gamers/Role Players, but sports quite a few interesting improvements that make it worth taking a look at.

Extra Features

  • CV's legacy User interface with a clean, simple and userfriendly layout or Rainbow Viewers current official UI, you choose!
  • Improved Graphics rendering, especially for ATI users (measured >1/3 faster than the official viewer)
  • Marine Kelley's RestrainedLife (off per default)
  • Bulk permission editing
  • "Worn" tab in inventory
  • Double click to wear attachments
  • Enhanced building tools
  • Flexible Sculpties
  • Large Prims (currently only for Opensim grids due to SL limitations)
  • Maximized Network Bandwidth
  • Flexible Grid selection at login for SL and all OpenSims
  • Teleport History
  • Avatar UUID in profiles
  • Cool Features in Preferences for easy switching of features

...and a large number of other goodies and stability fixes that improve your overall experience. Too many to mention here :). Please check the Release Notes for details.

Links

Version and timestamp

  • Version: 1.5.5
  • Date : 2009 May 27
  • Status : Active

     

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