Viewer Roadmap

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Overview

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

Author

User:Steve Linden

See Also

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
  • Media on a parcel
    • Support HTML, textures, and other URL formats for parcel media