I'd better learn to build a viewer so I'm not left behind in the dust.

@Simondo: Thanks for sharing, Maximilian Milosz does such nice builds; I like the glass textures he chooses. Haha, nice to see the Metal Slug reference too.

@Daedalus: OTTOMH, I remember asking for "Hierarchy in primsets" and "Texture offset in pixels" too. It's been deja vu lately, I see a lot of Issue Tracker requests I once wished for once upon a time. Here's to hoping more come true.

@Grizzy: When I tried MorphVOX, I didn't know there was a Voice Doctor (or that it even existed). Thanks for your experiences, that's great to hear that it gives you more flexibility with voice in SL; I'll remain cautious-yet-openminded until the next time I try it again.

@Ananda: I don't mind! I don't know if it's ever been tried. Andrew & Co. are neck-deep in Havok 4 work right now, but when they resurface, that'd be a curious thing to ask. In the meantime, if you have more technical questions, I'd recommend seeing if you can make it to our devs' Office Hours.

Ana also makes a good point about "mannerisms", which comes into play when doing voice acting — I was watching a lot of impersonations on YouTube the other day, and beyond changing pitch and formant, there are a lot of things which can't be electronically emulated, so you have to provide a good basis for "translation". However, I do know that higher-end audio processing units like the TC Helicon ones can approach things like raspiness (e.g., smoked too many ciggys).

@Gwyggory: Thanks for coming here and giving your opinion firsthand! Really cool to hear you're already in Second Life and are also "planning on creating custom voice packs"; from what I've heard, there's clearly an interest in doing this. I'd be curious to learn what our Luskwood furs wanted too. Hmm… I wonder if there's a way to automatically change MorphVOX settings when changing avs too.

That and, any plans for a Mac version of MorphVOX?

@Allatu: Good to know, and about the latency, too!

@Vint: Awwwwe, yeah, I was concerned that the WindLight screen for Voice: First Look would be confusing. I didn't put any Torley-specific stuff up at SL4B, but Iridium got my WindLight materials to setup. (I haven't had a chance to really explore the site yet.)

@Mariel: Yeah, that's a known glitch, where ripple water doesn't change color with the sky setting. I think that's already been fixed internally. WindLight will definitely look different than "the old way" and "better" is agreeably subjective, but I hope it looks generally better for most Residents. We're continuing to tweak the presets, thanks for dropping by!

@Gwyneth: Wow, you went through all that trouble. Good learning experience at the very least, I think! And like I mentioned before, I want to learn how to compile a viewer too.

WindLight First Look Viewer for 1.17.0.12 (Mac OS X Intel only)

However, it's painfully slow, ie. about a fifth of the performance of the regular viewer. Avatars also don't get their eyes rendered, who knows why, lol — and the "fullbright" setting makes things "overglow". Still, it works, and is as stable as the regular SL viewer hehe (noooo I didn't fix any bugs, but very likely added a few ones by mistake when trying SL to compile ).

It's good enough to take a quick picture of a scene in all WindLight glory but not much else. Also, you'll have to be quick, since very likely, with the two upgrades promised for the week starting on the 25th, this version will very likely not work any more, and I'll have to see if I can compile everything again… hopefully with more luck this time and hitting the right setting to have it run faster

One truly appreciates the developers at LL that can so-very-quickly launch a new version if something goes wrong, sometimes even in the middle of a grid shutdown (this has been quite rare recently, but it used to happen) — I took almost 20 hours to figure out how to compile it

*waves to Gwygory* Good luck on fine-tuning MorphVOX for use in SL, I'm really glad that Screaming Bee allows you to "be around" in SL and give so many helpful tips to the overall community and also take feedback on what they'd like to have as new voice packs. Oh, well, I guess you're also "addicted" by now — LOL And let me know when you've got a Mac version available that turns my hoarse, smoker's voice with a Kyrgystan accent (or so they tell me!) into something recognisable as English haha

OK, getting back on topic – I didn't download the Voice FLV (not sure if I want people to laugh at my accent o.o) and I'm using WL FLV, like, right now. o.O

Actually, I just moved the Sky Settings. O.o I'm lost now, I think.

I tried it in Foobar Salad (TG), Katharine Berry's sim, and I saw a funny glitch when I used one of the 12AM. Wanted to send a copy of this to Snapzilla to finally begin using my account, but it crashed before I could take the second one. Anyway, it is on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/faeriedevilish/585162882/

I'm not sure if that glitch is specific of WL or if it was anything else. After I crashed, I logged back in and the water was icy blue again. ^^

Personally, I *love* WL not only foor the lovely skies, but also for the mad effects. Walking around in mad colours is amazing, I think. Also, even if no one else did ._., I loved being able to use overexposition for snapshots in-world.

I think that WL will be fine for most people if there is a sort of 'tutorial' on the settings. Many complained about the effects that lightning has on skins and builds, and I personally found it very challenging to find balance outside the defaults, so perhaps a few lessons for those of us with less developed visual skills would help.

I'm off to take more snaps and try Snapzilla. Keep up the amazing work, Torley ^^