I am currently exploring use of the new Zen viewer and awaiting the updates for Phoenix and Firestorm (any day now), and working on bringing all the others on my list up to date.
While I wait I keep meeting new viewers and become more and more comfortable with the V3 FUI as a tool for building and social activity. So very many folks are working on making viewers that will meet our needs and enable us to have fun and they deserve a great deal of appreciation.
The Zen viewer is comfortably handling all the building i am currently doing plus it has a particle tool built in for activating the particles in a prim and for generating a script (for easy replication of the designed particle effect). Particle tool will become a must have for me. Better and better tools and infrastructure will surely lead to new and different presentations just as mesh promises new and different builds.
So far every viewer I have updated (Feb 1 2011) is looking faster and more stable, including the SL Beta.
MOAP has become a necessity for me as I expect Mesh will become. Use of the chatline as a CMDLine interface seems necessary to me too. Builtin AO only for social situations and even then I can still get along without it although I must admit having loaded my firestorm AO with a Dance card.
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