Firestorm Preferences set 4 class material based on the 4.4.2 release.
This material covers some of our Preferences. In particular we will cover the Colors, Dialog Alerts, User Interface, Skins, Sound & Media and Crash Reports tabs.
CTRL-P or Avatar Menu > Preferences will open the preferences.
****Colors Tab
**Chat Color sub tab
Click on the color boxes to choose custom colors.
Most of the choices are obvious while some may not be.
"System" applies to messages from SL, "Others" refers to other avatars' text, "Objects" is text from objects such as the notecard reader I'm using, and "Chat Headers" are the names you see in chat.
"Direct" applies to Object-generated text that is only visible to you, and Owner applies to Object-generated text from objects you own that is only visible to you.
**Name Tags sub tab
Here you can customize the colors for your tag, friends tags, Lindens tags as well as for any avatars you have muted.
Then there are the Match and Mismatch choices, if the avatars display name matches the username it's match, if not, it's mismatch.
Color usernames distinctly: Allows you to see usernames in a different color; assumes you have display and usernames enabled.
When enabled you will see the box to choose the custom color.
Color friends name tags distinctly > Applies the color setting above to friends.
Name Tag/Bubble Chat
Color (box): Here you can select the background color to be used for name tags, bubble chat and console chat.
Name Tag Opacity > sets the opacity of the background for name tags. This also sets the maximum opacity for the console chat background
Name Tag Z-offset correction > Allows you to adjust the position of name tags.
Show distance in name tag > will add the distance an avatar is from you to their name tag.
Color nametags based on distance > allows you to show colored tags for avatars in whisper range, chat range, shout range and beyond shout range, as well as choose those colors.
When enabled you will see the boxes to choose custom colors.
**Minimap sub tab
Minimap dots > lets you assign colors for yourself, others, friends, Lindens as well as avatars you have muted.
Display a ring on the Minimap indicating local chat range > When enabled you can choose the colors to use on the minimap rings that indicate local chat and shout range.
**Miscellaneous sub tab
Selection Effects (particle beam) Lets you choose the color of your selection beam.
Script Dialog F/B: lets you choose the colors for foreground.and background of script dialogs
Floating Window Opacity > The farther left the sliders, the more transparent the floaters will be.
You can adjust for both active and inactive windows.
Console opacity > lets you adjust the opacity of the background for the console (on screen chat, not in a window)
Always show script dialogs on an opaque background > Enabled, this displays script dialogs as opaque windows; with this disabled, their transparency is determined by the Active/Inactive Floating Window Opacity.
Always show group notices on an opaque background > Should display group notices on opaque background; may be subject to skin variation.
Override pie menu background color and opacity: Allows you to customize the color, Opacity and Fade out of the pie menu. The options will only show if this is enabled.
****Notifications Tab
**Notifications sub-tab
Tell me: Here you can enable or disable:
When I spend or get L$: Enable this to show transaction info.
Show L$ transactions in nearby chat instead of toasts: Does exactly that.
When a Landmark has been created: When enabled, you will be notified when you make a new landmark.
When someone changes their display name: will show when someone changes their display name
When I have script errors in:
Nearby Chat
Separate window
When my friends log in or out:
As toasts: Displays a toast when people on your friends list log in or out.
In nearby chat and console: To have it show in local chat console and nearby chat instead.
In nearby chat only: This has the notifications show only in nearby chat. (Only available when the previous option is enabled.)
Play a sound when my friends:
Log in
Log out
When the region's total script count changes: Displays a message if the totla numebr of scripts in a region suddenly jumps (up or down).
Threshold: You can indicate the size of the jump needed for it to be reported. If the script count change is less than the value here, you will not be notified.
Show collision notifications in nearby chat does just that.
Report collision notifications to scripts on channel will send the notifications on a channel of your choice.
Report total script count changes > will show in local chat, visible only to you when the script count on the region you are on changes by more than the value in the box to the right.
Enable Growl Notifications:Allows the use of Growl
Enable Growl even if Firestorm is active: lets Growl remain active even with Firestorm in focus.
Both these option will be greyed out if you do not have growl installed.
**Alerts sub tab
Always Show and Never Show popup options
(unlike in V1 where you had to disable all of the popups to enable only what you want, here in FS you can disable only the ones you want to disable and enable only the ones you want to enable one at a time)
****User Interface
**General Tab sub-tab
UI Scaling (may have side effects): Adjust the slider to choose the UI size.
NOTE that too high may mean you cannot see all of your UI. This may also “break” some UI elements.
Hover Tips: This allows you to set what hover tips, if any, you see. Your options are:
Basic Hover Tips (set this first): you need this enabled to show any hovertips.
on All Objects
on Land
Hovertip Trigger Delays: Allows you to choose how long your mouse has to hover over something before you get a hovertip. You can set individual times for Tooltips, Avatars and objects.
Show extended information in hovertips (classic Phoenix style) adds more info to the hovertips
Show avatar group titles in hovertips does just that.
Use Pie Menu: Allows you to have pie menus (on by default)
Show lag meter: Enable this if you want to display a small performance meter in the upper right corner of the menu bar. The left bar shows packet loss , the right bandwidth being used, both real time numbers.
Show Media Controls in the top menu: allows you to show or hide the media controls on the menubar.
Use stand-alone windows for
Group profiles: If enabled, group profile windows will open in separate windows; if disabled, they will open in the same window, with the second opened replacing the first.
Teleport history: if enabled, teleport history will open in a window separate from the landmarks window.
Landmarks, place details and teleport history details: Similar to the above, but keeps each type of “location” window separate, rather than grouping onto a single window.
Block/mute list: Keeps the list of blocked residents separate from the people panel.
Extend teleport history by
Position
Date
Enable these options to record additional information in your teleport history.
Script dialogs per object: Controls how script dialogs from the same object are handled
One dialog per object,
One per object & channel
Unconstrained
Script Dialogs in Top Right does exactly that.
Group Notices and chiclets in Top Right again does just as it says.
Hide group and IM chat chiclets: allows you to hide the IM and group chat chiclets.
Flashing IM tabs Override: Allows you to fine-tune how long and fast the IM tabs flash
Number of times buttons flash
Rate button flashes at (Hz)
**Toasts sub tab
Notification Display Settings (popups, console, toasts): This is where you can fine-tune the way your “Toasts” look and act
Space between lowest Toast and bottom
Notification Toast life(seconds)
Tip Toast life
Nearby chat Toast life
Nearby chat Toast z-offset
Nearby chat Toast fade time
Startup toast life
Normal Toast fade time
Gap between Toasts
Height of Overflow Toast
Width of Nearby Chat Toast
Show toasts in front of other windows: will do just that.
**Font sub-tab
Font Scheme: Allows you to choose one of the following fonts from the drop down menu
Deja Vu
Droid
Dyslexia
Liberation
Mobi
Roboto
Ubuntu
You can see samples of each font here: http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=preferences_ui_extras_tab
Font Size Adjustment: Lets you change the size of the font. NOTE default 0.0. Larger values may not work well; requires restart.
Chat Line spacing: Spacing between lines of text.
Folder Item Height: Height of items in inventory.
****Skins Tab
This is where you can choose the skin and color scheme you want to use.
Please note that there are differences in layout and icons with different skins. Screenshots of the skins, as well as a list of the differences, are available on our wiki at http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=preferences_skins_tab
The Ansastorm skin has three color schemes.
The Firestorm skin has four color schemes
MetaharperModern has three color schemes.
The Starlight skin has six color schemes,
The starlight CUI skin has two color schemes. That said these are the two most customisable schemes available as you get to choose the colors you see.
The Vintage skin only has the classic color scheme.is designed to look and feel as close as possible to the original Phoenix skin.
Reset the toolbars to the skins preferred layout when changing skins : will reset your toolbar choices to the defaults for whatever skin you select,
I would not recommend it unless you do not customise your toolbar layout as you would have to do it all over again.
For more information on the skin options please either see the wiki or come out to a skins class.
****Sound & Media Tab
**General sub-tab
There are several volume sliders available here so you can customize the levels for each. Note that the master volume slider affects ALL volume.
Mute when minimized: Checking this will mute all sounds when you minimize the viewer.
You can enable/disable Streaming music, Media (video) and Voice Chat from the the check boxes to the right of their respective volume sliders.
Play sounds from collisions to the right of the Ambient slider will let you hear sounds when you collide with someone or thing.
Play sounds from gestures (to the right of the Sound Effects slider): Enable this to hear sounds from gestures.
Allow Media to Auto-Play: With this enabled media will play automatically (not recommended).
Allow resident scripts to play media: Will allows scripts to automatically start media (not recommended).
Play media attached to other avatars: Enables media attached to other avatars (media on a prim).
Enable media filter (increased security): This will let you control what media stream you connect to, allowing you to whitelist or blacklist any media stream.
Manage Media Sites (button): Allows you to edit your Whitelist Domains and Blacklist Domains by Adding and Removing from either category.
Show stream title notifications: For audio streams that supply this information, the song title will be shown not at all, in toasts or in nearby chat.
Send stream title to chat channel: Lets you choose what channel the viewer uses for the above option.
Enable Parcel Audio Fading allows you to use the two sliders to determine the fade out and fade in of audio streams when you move from one parcel to another
Sound source rolloff distance:
Min: This controls when a sound source will start to fade out
Max: This controls when a sound source will be no longer audible.
L$ change theshold: This sets the value above which you will get an audible alert when you receive or spend L$. Amounts below this will not trigger a sound.
**Voice Settings sub-tab
Enabled Voice: Check here to enable voice.
Listen From: Choose to hear voice from either Camera or Avatar position.
Move avatar lips when speaking (aka lip sync): Will cause you to see avatars' lips moving when they speak in voice.
Show voice visualizers over avatars: when enabled this shows the dot over avatars on voice, as well as the green lines.
Show voice visualizers in calls: Shows voice indicator and (if above is enabled) moves avatar lips while in a private call. Only those in that call will see this.
Toggle speak on/off when I press: Clicking the Set Key button allows you to assign a button on your keyboard to toggle voice.
Audio Device Settings (button): Opens a section where you can choose your input and output as well as adjust the mic volume. You will be disconnected from in-world voice while this is open. To close simply click the button again.
These sub tabs allow you to choose sounds for various things that happen in the viewer and Second Life.
There are 2 buttons, the P will play the sound, and the D will reset to the default sound.
To choose a new sound find a full perm sound in your inventory, right click on it , copy asset UUID and paste it in the proper text box.
Crash Report Tab
This tab alows you to set default behavior for the sending of creash reports to the Phoenix/Firestorm team, for analysis.
Send crash reports to phoenixviewer.com: Enable this to have crash reports sent to us.
Minidump type: Not currently supported.
Possible values are:
Minimal
Default
Extended
Always ask before sending: If enabled, you will get a request after each crash, asking whether to send logs.
Include settings.xml: If enabled, thsi will send your preference settings as well, which can be helpful in diagnosing the problem. Note that this file contains your SL name.
Include Second Life name: If enabled, you SL name will be included with the crash info, which can allow us to contact you for mroe info, if needed.
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