Black Dragon SL Viewer Gets UI Upgrade, New Feature for Avatar Animations

Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer with a cult following among hardcore graphics fans, has a new update that should improve its usability --  "Fancy new tooltips, some UI improvements," creator NiranV tells me -- and comes with a new feature with a lot of potential for screenshots and machinima:

"A timeline feature for animations. It's just the first step to the planned animator. Hopefully most of everything a normal non super-professional high-tech $500 animator tool can do too, like creating and editing animations in SL directly with basic functionality like adding/editing/removing keyframes export feature. Possibly some keyframe transition shenanigans and extra features like importing your poses as keyframes.

"It will basically be the poser just with keyframes and a timeline plus some extra things for animations which will replace the hacky animator in the poser."

Much more here on his blog, where you can also get the new download.

And oh yeah, consider donating to NiranV's Patreon. Because if you're using Black Dragon but not sending some dollars Niran's way, dude what the actual fuck.

Comments

[Caitlin Tobias]

Yeah, all nice and well but for this 'every Joe' (or rather Jane in my case) who tried his viewer... his website for when you need some guidance (yes, I had trouble with movement control, is a big turn-off.
Yeah, please explain it for the Two-hundred-and-sixteenth time. Hello, I am new to your stuff.
Thanks for pissing me off. I probably won't bother anymore.

[NiranV]

@Caitlin

Gosh what's your problem?

[Fionalein]

NiranV said "@Caitlin

Gosh what's your problem?"

Just in case you are missing the obvious: It might be you ;-)

(her problem, that is)

[NiranV]

@Fionalein

Captain Obvious.

I was asking her, i want her to say that she's pissed that i'm pissed having to explain quite a simple task for the (now) probably 1000th time. I want her to tell me that i cannot vent on a blog, that is on top of that my own blog and that i should rather yell at you when you come asking for help inworld because that would be the other option. But rather than people actually trying to understand whats going on they are just quick at pointing at people. Who even said she was meant with the headline? Why did she even felt talked to, wasn't the whole point of the blogpost that i'm sick of having to explain it and that's the reason i made the blogpost in the first place? So people don't have to ask anymore? Given they'd read it. What even is the matter, she obviously figured out how to find the guide in the first place, thats more than 99% of the rest which is what i'm saying in the very blogpost she's apparently pissed at.

Nowadays you can't even point out a thing anymore, you can't even say anymore how shit something really is, without some people lurking around the corner to point fingers at you. That's what you're doing here Fiona. You're literally just sitting there waiting for another post mentioning me or my Viewer to take a shit on it because you think i'm the bad guy because i have the balls to tell you what kind of shit person you are.

[Fionalein]

Hamlet is advertising your viewer, Caitlin is telling others about her experience with it. I bet she hopes to sprae others the smae experience. By your reaction to her you pretty much affirmed the concerns she raised. Thank you for that ;-)

Have you tried applying at LL? I bet with your attitude you'd fit right in.

[Caitlin Tobias]

'Hamlet is advertising your viewer, Caitlin is telling others about her experience with it. I bet she hopes to sprae others the smae experience. By your reaction to her you pretty much affirmed the concerns she raised. Thank you for that ;-)'

This. I admit I tried this viewer because of the exposure Hamlet gives it.
I now know I am apparently not the kind of user the developer wants, he made that very clear.
It's all good, I have talked to others who confirmed my experience and while most of them just shrug it off with 'oh hey, that's how he (developer) is, yes it is hard and near impossible to use it for daily SecondLife but hey hoo, for a picture it is okay!' and I get that. It is indeed an awesome viewer for a short video clip or a single picture and then you log off and get back inworld to another viewer to go on about your SL.
I am apparently one of the very few to have voiced my frustration about the tone of voice in the Q&A on the website, in public.
So gosh, what is my problem, Niran? Read my first comment. For the 2nd time.