On a Clear Day

I have too many viewers. I have beellions of viewers. I could use a different viewer every day for weeks. I need to sort out a bit, but I'm not hanging on to old ones because of sentimentality or laziness - they all are slightly better/worse in every area, and since they all work at the moment (they won't, at some point), I suppose I should luxuriate in my viewer wealth instead of thinking, "ZOMG I have too many viewers."

For instance, Kirstenlee's early Shadow Draft still does a better job of alpha rendering than her later ones, Boy's Shadow Viewer, or LL's RC. Boy's takes snapshots, though, has implemented textured light, and gets better FPs. KLee's has the asset viewer. The Hippo viewer has logins for different organisations' grids. And there's RealXtend, too. The LL official release is stable with the best FPS and I think of it as what things "really look like." The robot I made yesterday looks totally different in the LL Release viewer than in the RC.

I will fire them all up today and ditch the ones that aren't performing - I swear. That will probably leave me with 7. Or so. SL has one or two niche viewers made by customers for specific purposes, so I could conceivably have even more than I have now, I suppose. There's a bondage viewer called "Restrained Life," and I think the Emerald Viewer comes under that category - I haven't used either so don't know for sure. Long ago I wanted LL to make several different viewers to fit different roles - to be put on for different purposes, with all the same tools but accessibility differences (a Builder Viewer would have easy access and enhanced (maybe) building tools, a Social Viewer might have a built in AO and easy access to social tools, there could be a Newbie Viewer with low-spec defaults). That's not really happened with third party viewers in the way I conceived of it, yet it has happened in a different way. /me throws confetti.