Tag Archives: Firestorm

Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.17

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Ai Austin

Download link: https://github.com/humbletim/firestorm-gha/releases/ Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.17.70368 is the final Pre-PBR (Pre Physically Based Rendering) Viewer. Firestorm VR Mod is a version of the popular Firestorm Viewer for Second Life and OpenSimulator with modifications to provide VR capabilities for VR … Continue reading →

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Firestorm PBR Alpha Tests for VR Mod

Posted on January 29, 2024 by Ai Austin

This is an experiment by @Sgeo to test Firestorm VR Mod 7.1.2.72850 PBR Alpha Test version to check whether the VR Mod approach works – and the good new is that it does. The above images are all taken using … Continue reading →

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PBR Materials on OpenSim

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Ai Austin

This blog post reports early testing of the use of a virtual worlds viewer capable of rendering Physically Based materials (PBR) in OpenSimulator (as well as Second Life). A blog post describing PBR and giving some resources is available here. … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.3

Posted on September 18, 2022 by Ai Austin

Firestorm VR Mod 6.6.8.68380 is an update to version 6.6.3. See this blog post. Firestorm VR Mod is a version of the popular Firestorm Viewer for Second Life and OpenSimulator with modifications to provide VR capabilities for VR Head Mounted … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.5.6

Posted on July 28, 2022 by Ai Austin

Firestorm 6.5.6 + P373R VR Mod: This build includes P373R’s VR Mod 6.3.3 changes merged into the Firestorm 6.5.6.66221 release branch. The VR Mod approach takes a minimalistic approach to inserting VR capabilities into the viewer in order that the … Continue reading →

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360° Snapshots in OpenSim

Posted on February 1, 2022 by Ai Austin

We have had the capability to create 360° Snapshots in Second Life since 2016 and the full release of the capability in the default viewer from 2021. Now Firestorm 6.5.3 is incorporating the same capability, allowing 360° Snapshots in both … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.4.13

Posted on March 17, 2021 by Ai Austin

Firestorm 6.4.13 + P373R VR Mod: This build includes P373R’s VR Mod 6.3.3 changes merged into Firestorm 6.4.13 release branch. It is created using “GitHub Actions” (GHA) thanks to humbletim… see https://github.com/humbletim/firestorm-gha/releases/tag/v6.4.13-vr-alpha-0 The user instructions are identical to Firestorm VR … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.4.12

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Ai Austin

Firestorm VR Mod 6.5.3.65659 was released on 30th March 2022 and created using “GitHub Actions” (GHA) thanks to @humbletim. The user instructions are identical to Firestorm VR Mod 6.4.12 as described below. Firestorm VR Mod is a version of the … Continue reading →

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Grid Hopping

Posted on November 15, 2020 by Ai Austin

Firestorm 6.4.12.67792 (15-Nov-2020) is now at Release Candidate stage and undergoing final QA testing. There are improvements to the handling of OpenSimulator “hop” addresses, especially to ensure that the current grid is inserted into Hypergrid addresses rather than always (incorrectly) … Continue reading →

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Firestorm VR Mod 6.3.3

Posted on November 28, 2019 by Ai Austin

A later version of Firestorm VR Mod 6.3.9 is available. See this blog post. On 28-Nov-2019 Peter Kappler provided an update to his Firestorm VR Mod Viewer at https://gsgrid.de/firestorm-vr-mod/ – go there to download the latest version and for usage … Continue reading →

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