Snowglobe

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This article is out of date! This page is here only for historical purposes; Snowglobe is no longer being developed. See Project Snowstorm

Snowglobe was the previous Second Life open source viewer project (before Project Snowstorm). It created the viewer of the same name, which added many new features on top of those supported by Linden Lab's official Second Life Viewer.

Trivia: Some abbreviations are commonly used to refer to the different meanings of "Snowglobe" in the Second Life context: SNOW The Snowglobe Project SG The Snowglobe Viewer(s) SG1 SG2 Snowglobe Viewers from the 1.x or 2.x development branch

Downloads

Snowglobe download links removed to discourage any new users. Oz Linden 13:44, 16 May 2011 (PDT)

License

Snowglobe source code is offered under the GPLv2 license with FLOSS exception.

Developers are encouraged to complete the Second Life Viewer Contributor Agreement. Submissions to Snowglobe cannot be included in the official Second Life Viewer without this agreement in place.

Get Source Code

The most recent source code for both Snowglobe and the SecondLife Viewer (viewer-external) is available through SVN. See Version control repository for information about where to checkout the source code from.

You can also download source packages for released versions from the source downloads page.

Build Instructions

The Get source and compile page gives general information about how to compile the source. For a quick step-by-step instruction for building on Linux, see Compiling the viewer (Linux).

Features

• Current Release Cycle - information on features and patches pending for the current release cycle,
• Main features in Snowglobe 1.2 that are not in the Second Life 1.23 viewer:
  • Media Rendering Plugin System - Plugin architecture enabling media of all kinds to render in Snowglobe.
  • Interop Viewer Open Grid Protocol - Documents how OGP (now VWRAP) is implemented in Snowglobe
  • HTTP Texture - Project to transition from custom UDP-based protocol to HTTP for texture delivery.
  • S3 based viewer map - Utilizing HTTP Texture for the in-viewer map.

Development

• Commit mail and build system notifications: sldev-commits mailing list.
• Developers discussion: opensource-dev mailing list.
• Snowglobe Committer List - List of people with direct commit access who are working to build this viewer
• Snowglobe Development Process - Development practices for everyone working on the Snowglobe viewer
• Snowglobe Quality Assurance - More details on the process we'll use to maintain high quality releases
  • Snowglobe Test Plans
• Open Source Meeting - Regular in-world meetings where residents and Lindens discuss Open Source development issues, mainly focusing on Snowglobe.
• Browse source: snowglobe branch in Trac - browse the source code we're working on
• Snowglobe 1.x Doxygen
• SnowGlobe 2.0 Doxygen
• Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - Instant communication with developers

For an introduction to the goals of the Snowglobe viewer, see Philip's blog post: "Intensifying Open Source Effort" which describes our new approach to open source. See Philip's mail to sldev for a little bit more about the name.