FIRESTORM MENUS-PART 2

This is the second part of the menus. Tomorrow I will do the blog on the Preferences

Firestorm Menus 2 Class material based on our 4.4.2 release.


Please note that all menus and sub-menus, will detach and stay open if you click on the double lines at the top of the menus.

This makes it much simpler to remember and uncheck anything you happen to click on either by mistake or to see what it does.

We strongly suggest detaching any of these menus you are "playing" in.

The majority of things in these menus that the average user uses have been moved to other places in the UI to make them easily accessible. .

Please be very careful in both the Advanced and Develop menus as there are things in them that will cause you problems that may lead to having to clear all your settings or even make you crash.


****Advanced Menu

Please use with caution!

Rebake Textures (Ctrl-Alt-R) > Force appearance update (also in Avatar Menu→ Avatar Health)

Set UI Size to Default > (Prefs → User Interface → UI scaling)

Set Window Size > Allows you to set the window size

Limit Select Distance > Limits your Select Distance to about 50 m

Disable Camera Constraints > Allows you to zoom out more

High-res Snapshot > Enables high-res snapshots

Quiet Snapshots > Disables the snapshot animation

Performance Tools > Opens the Performance Tools sub menu where you can enable:

Lag Meter (also in Avatar Menu→ Avatar Health)
Statistics Bar (Ctrl-Shift-1) (available as a Toolbar Button) is a great tool for troubleshooting if you know what to look for.
Show Render Weight For Avatars (also in Avatar Menu→ Avatar Health)

Highlighting and Visibility > Opens the Highlighting and Visibility sub menu where you can choose:

Cheesy Beacon
Hide Particles (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-=)
Hide Selected
Highlight Transparent (Ctrl-Alt-T)
Show Mouselook Crosshairs
Hovertips (available in Prefs, User Interface, General)


Rendering Types > Opens the Rendering Types sub menu, where you can enable or disable rendering for:

Simple (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-1)
Alpha (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-2)
Tree (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-3)
Avatars (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-4)
Surface Patch (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-5)
Sky (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-6)
Water (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-7)
Ground (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-8)
Volume (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-9)
Grass (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-0)
Clouds (Ctrl-Alt-Shift- -)
Particles (Ctrl-Alt-Shift- = )
Bump (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-\)

All of these should be checked by default. Unchecking some will lower the amount of local lag you experience, just be sure you recheck them or you will not be able to see some things.

Rendering Features > Opens the Rendering Features sub menu:

UI (Ctrl-Alt-F1)
Selected (Ctrl-Alt-F2)
Highlighted (Ctrl-Alt-F3)
Dynamic Textures (Ctrl-Alt-F4)
Foot Shadows (Ctrl-Alt-F5)
Fog (Ctrl-Alt-F6)
Test FRInfo (Ctrl-Alt-F8)
Flexible Objects (Ctrl-Alt-F9)

All of these should also be checked by default. A warning here, if you disable the UI the only way to get it back is the ctrl alt f1 combo, or relogging. So if your system has that keyboard shortcut assigned and you disable the UI the only way to get it back is to relog.


Media Stream Backup > Allows you to export and import your media filter list.

Use Plugin Read Thread > Uses a separate thread to read incoming messages from plugins

In theory, this should give you a slight performance increase if you have a multicore processor and are using the internal web browser or playing Quicktime videos and so on.

Clear Group Cache > Clears group cache which actually gets cleared when you log out.

Mouse Smoothing > Should help smooth mouse movement

Release Keys > detaches or unseats you from scripted objects which affect your avatar's movement controls.

Shortcuts > Opens the Shortcuts sub menu:

Upload Image (L$10) (Ctrl-U)
Search (Ctrl-F)
Show Advanced Menu - legacy shortcut (Ctrl-Alt-D)
DoubleClick Teleport (Crtl Shift D)
Always Run (Ctrl-R)
Fly (Home)
Close Window (Ctrl-W)
Close All Windows (Ctrl-Shift-W)
Snapshot to Disk (Ctrl-`)
Mouselook (M)
Joystick Flycam (Alt-Shift-F)
Reset View (Esc)
Reset Camera Angles (Shift + Esc)
Look at Last Chatter (Ctrl-\)
Zoom In (Ctrl-0)
Zoom Default (Ctrl-9)
Zoom Out (Ctrl-8)
The last three on this sub-menu should be remembered as they are the best way to work on small prims and resetting your camera.

Fly Override (Ctrl-Alt-V) > Allows flight in No-Fly areas (NOT recommended and is not persistant across logins)

RestrainedLove API >Enables/disables RLV (Prefs → Firestorm → General → Allow scripted viewer controls)

Show Debug Settings > Opens the Debug menu window (use with caution) If you make changes in the debug settings be sure to write them down so that you can remember what you changed

Show Develop Menu (Ctrl-Alt-Q) > Shows or hides the Develop menu on the menu bar


****Develop Menu - We will only focus on a few items in here, as the rest will never be needed by the average user.
Some of the keyboard shortcuts require the develop menu enabled to work

Consoles > Opens the Consoles sub menu
Most of these are really of no use to the average user.
Texture Console
Debug Console
Notifications Console
Fast Timers
Scene Statistics
Region Debug Console
These all open a console (window) on your screen showing you more information.

Region Info to Debug Console
Group Info to Debug Console
Capabilities to Debug Console
These send info to the Debug Console

Camera
Wind
FOV
These show text on the bottom right with info on each.

Badge (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H) Try it and watch nearby chat (on by default)

Show Info > Opens the Show Info sub menu.
Most of these will add text to the bottom right side of your UI showing the appropriate information.
Show Time shows how long the viewer has been running
Show Upload cost (on by default)
Show Texture info
Show Render Info
Show Matrices
Show color under cursor (also available in the Quick Prefs window)
Show Memory
Show Private Mem Info
Show Updates to Objects (Ctrl Alt Shift U) will show dots rising from objects that are updating


Force an Error > Opens the Force an Error sub menu Do you really want to force errors?
Render Tests > Opens the Render Tests sub menu
These two are really only good for developers.


Render Metadata > Opens the Render Metadata sub menu
Bounding boxes ,, can be useful in finding objects as everything in SL has a bounding box
Normals
Octree
Shadow Frusta
Physics Shapes
Occlusion
Render Batches
Update Type
Texture Anim
Texture Priority
Texture Area
Face Area
LOD Info
Build Queue
Lights
Collision Skeleton
Raycast
Wind Vectors
Render Complexity
Attachment Bytes
Sculpt
Texture Size
Texture Density this one should be left at "None"


Rendering > Opens the Rendering sub menu where you will find,
Axes
Tangent Basis
Selected Texture Info Basis (Ctrl Alt Shift T)
Wireframe (Ctrl Shift R)
Object-Object Occlusion (Ctrl Shift O)
Advanced Lighting Model (also available in Prefs, Graphics General)
Shadows from Sun/Moon/Projectors (also available in Prefs, Graphics General)
SSAO and Shadow Smoothing (AKA Ambient Occlusion, also available in Prefs, Graphics General)
Debug GL
Debug Pipeline
Automatic Alpha Masks (defered) (also available in Prefs, Graphics, Rendering)
Automatic Alpha Masks (non-defered) (also available in Prefs, Graphics, Rendering)
Animation Textures
Disable Textures
Full Res Textures (dangerous) If you like degraded performance and crashing feel free to enable this
Texture Atlas (experimental)
Render Attached Lights Hate facelights? then disable this
Render Attached Particles Hate Bling? then disable this
Hover Glow Objects


Network > Opens the Network sub menu
Dump Scripted Camera
Recorder > Opens the Recorder sub menu You can use this records movement, not audio or video
World > Opens the World sub menu Dump Region Object Cache is in here and can help with some graphical glitches by forcing the viewer to reload the object cache.


UI > Opens the UI sub menu
XUI > Opens the XUI sub menu


Avatar Opens the Avatar sub menu
HTTP Textures Enables HTTP Get Textures
HTTP Inventory Uses HTTP to fetch inventory (recommended)
Compress Images
Enable Visual Leak Detector
Output Debug Minidump
Console Window on next Run Will open the Console Window on next login
Set Logging Level This allows you to select the level of logging the viewer will use. Please do NOT change anything in here unless asked to by a developer or support team member as it can have a huge effect on performance.

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Leave Admin Status (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-G)
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