Second Life Viewer 2: Are you a cloud?

Second Life Viewer 2: Are you a cloud?
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So do we all have those days where we just don't quite know what to wear, well why not simply be a cloud?

A new Viewer, brings only one thing, problems. A lot of people have been contacting me saying that they logging inworld with Viewer 2.0 and that they're simply a cloud, nothing more. This means that inworld. inside of Second Life, none of your inventory is rendering. There is a few solutions to this problem so read below.

Second Life cloud solution 1:
Log into Second Life and select the main menu "me". select preferences and thego to the graphics section. Once here, you should try dropping all of your settings to the lowest possible options, so slide that bar right down there to "low".

Then down the bottom of this little window, click "Advanced", don't worry though, it's not all confusing, although yes this new window is badly designed and looks like information overload, for new users to Second Life. Set the "Mesh detail" options all down to low, and then also do the same for "Draw distance".

Hit save and you should be all done, now in all fairness, if your graphics card is good enough to handle Second Life at high quality, this stuff won't do crap, but it was worth trying. Solution 2 will though!


Second Life cloud solution 2:
This will reset your avatar to that horrid default avatar you had when you started Second Life, but hey it does resolve the issue, so lets give it a go.

Open the Advanced menu inside of the viewer by presssing "Ctrl+Alt+D" (On a Mac, press Option+Control+D). Then inside of the "advanced menu", if you click the option "Show Develop Menu", you will see another menu appear.

With the Show Develop Menu, if you click on "Develop", then "Avatar", and then "Character Tests". You will see two further options, "Test Male" and "Test Female", select the sex of your preference, and hey presto, your avatar should re-appear.

Second life for the win.