Going from Phoenix to Singularity
SSB?
For information about customising FIRESTORM see the Resources Tab above, 3rd story down
So you have made the leap from Phoenix to Firestorm? Well done you!
If you haven't.... or you cannot get to grips with Firestorm despite my wonderful article in "Resources", then Singularity with SSB may well be the cure for what ails you!
Firestorm is very much like Phoenix when set to the
Phoenix mode. You can customise it even more closely with my settings,
but it does still lack some functionality that was enjoyed in Phoenix.
Little
things, but annoying things.. Keyword alerts not working in background, UUID not
supported in Estate and Local access listing, bad highlighting in edit, strange
editor for scripting, Radar needing to be clicked 3 times to make it
alphabetical, inability to view/moderate group chat by who has spoken most
recently, non proportional tab widths in chat etc etc.
Singularity is the
closest viewer you will get to the old Phoenix viewer. It is virtually
identical and the only differences I have spotted are on the radar button,
otherwise it seems the same, which is hardly surprising considering both viewers
were forked from Snowglobe.
However, they both share the same bug, which
is the inability to point their settings away from:
C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife
and try as I might I cannot get phoenix to point to "phoenix" and singularity to
point to "singularity" in the directory above, it seems that "secondlife" is
hardcoded into the settings.
It doesn't matter too much,
unless you use both viewers! If you use both viewers, expect
some strange results as one will corrupt the "per user" settings on the other,
or you will find Singularity does all the logon stuff and the very instant you
think you have arrived in-world, it quits to desktop. Phoenix on the other
hand will dump many of the tweaks you have added, like keyword alerts,
auto-responses etc.
My advice is to use either Phoenix or Singularity and
NEVER both on your system at a time.
If you are moving from Phoenix to
Singularity (or want to give Singularity a thorough road test) here's
how:
Remove the desktop shortcut.. You don't want to undo all your hard
work by accidently launching Phoenix!
Since Phoenix is now defunct as it
will not support SSB and Singularity supports Server Side Baking, my work around
was to rename the directory to
C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife-phoenix
to mothball my old settings and chats (which I can copy across later). Now on
starting Singularity, I can be assured that only Singularity is using the
directory C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\
secondlife thus preserving my
settings from corrupting.
If for any reason I find that Singularity is
unworkable for me and I want to return to Phoenix from where I left off, I can
safely delete C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\
secondlife and rename
C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\
secondlife-phoenix back to
C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\
secondlife
By following
the steps in the Firestorm guide (See the Resources Tab at the top of this page), you can also copy across the old Phoenix
fonts and make the viewer absolutely identical!
I am told that you can
copy the language files from Phoenix too if English is not your native
language.
Happy fiddling!
PS: If rezzing is slow and grey forever, go to the Network tab and uncheck "Use HTTP for Textures"