{"id":4597,"date":"2018-08-20T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2018-08-20T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:03:50","slug":"black-dragon-viewer-updates-photographers-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/black-dragon-viewer-updates-photographers-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Dragon Viewer Updates: Photographer’s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Black Dragon Viewer Update Makes SL Look Like A AAA Game<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

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There’s a new update<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0Black Dragon<\/a>, the third party Second Life viewer with a cult following due to its\u00a0amazing graphics<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0fast frame rate<\/a>. Creator NiranV Dean lays out\u00a0the top highlights here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Besides fixing the broken group chat behavior options, a crash when trying to toggle borderless window mode off while in login screen, enter key not working properly in keybinding dialogs among some other minor things this update comes with a revamped Media-on-a-Prim floater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So mostly minor technical fixes. The major reason for trying out Black Dragon, as always, is if you got a PC powerful enough to handle it, the viewer makes Second Life look like what you’re seeing above (also shot by NiranV) — a AAA videogame on the order of Fallout 4 or perhaps more appropriate a comparison in this case,\u00a0the Dead Space series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, Second Life has a comparable experience to those horror sci-fi games:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s called, of course, Dead Space, which has existed in some form for around a decade, and according to recent reports,\u00a0now exists in Gibson, SL’s oldest cyberpunk sim<\/a>. (Yes, named after William.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What SL Screenshots Look Like When Taken In The Black Dragon Viewer<\/h3>\n
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Via\u00a0ellapinellapin’s Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

There’s been\u00a0lots of interest in my post<\/a>\u00a0about how\u00a0Black Dragon<\/a>, the third party Second Life viewer, can make SL look like a AAA videogame in terms of graphics detail and framerate. Reader Ella points out it’s also great for screenshots, and comes with a Poser tool that helps with selfie pics. By way of evidence,\u00a0here’s her Flickr page<\/a>\u00a0with pics all taken with Black Dragon, without any post-processing, as she explains\u00a0on her About page<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The photos I take within Second Life are taken at up to 6K resolution within the\u00a0Black Dragon<\/a>\u00a0viewer. Photos are resized to 50% to reduce resolution and size of file for upload to Flickr. Downscaling these photos from such a large resolution adds a sense of clarity (but not excessively) to the picture. I consider this an exception and it helps the appearance of SL in general. Third-party tools\/addons such as ReShade are not used and photos are not manipulated unless noted in the description.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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New Black Dragon Viewer Update Makes SL Look Like A AAA Game Credit: NWN There’s a new update\u00a0to\u00a0Black Dragon, the third party Second Life viewer with a cult following due to its\u00a0amazing graphics\u00a0and\u00a0fast frame rate. Creator NiranV Dean lays out\u00a0the top highlights here: Besides fixing the broken group chat behavior options, a crash when trying … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}