What we see
To help myself understand things I switched to the default sl viewer. This helped me understand things better for new residents. The old saying “Walk a mile in someone’s shoes.”
The next pic is what I see. I use the firestorm viewer.
Being an older resident of Second Life, the firestorm viewer offers conveniences and flexibility I’ve gotten used to so, yeah not changing back to the main viewer in the near future.
Now for a bit of a history lesson:
When I was new, back when sl had what they call viewer 1 (the current version is considered viewer 3) I was peer pressured into trying a viewer called Emerald, all the cool kids were using it. I don’t remember that great of a difference between the Viewer 1 and the Emerald except for a few handy features and the legendary “booby bounce” you could set in the viewer. In the summer of 2010 a scandal over the viewer broke out and it along with some of the team that created it were banned while part of the team went off and founded the Phoenix viewer, later, in adapting to newer sl features became known as the Phoenix Firestorm or just the Firestorm viewer. (you can find an article on this here: http://blog.nalates.net/viewers/emerald-viewer/ ) Hence, having been an Emerald user I later became a Phoenix and then Firestorm user to enjoy my second life.
An interesting side note about the booby bounce in Emerald is that it was only a year or two later that Linden Labs introduced avatar physics which allowed for your avatars boobs (or butt, or belly) to actually move as you moved. I’ll discuss physics in more detail later.
