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Reduce your graphics

(Credit: Brissy)

If you run your viewer on Ultra with shadows and huge draw distance, you will overheat your computer and crash. So, you want to reduce your settings to avoid crashing.

  • Turn off shadows.
  • Reduce draw distance to 64 (dd 64).
  • Minimal reflections.
  • Reduce number of non-Impostor avatars.

And so on. Ask others for a Gyazo snap of their settings for suggestions.

Extreme Derendering

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Because we perform indoors, you don’t need the sky, clouds, ground, trees, and grass.

  1. In the menu, click Advanced.
  2. Click Render Types.
  3. Derender Tree, Sky, Water, Grass, Ground, Surface Patch, and Clouds.

Also:

  1. In the menu, click Advanced.
  2. Click Rendering Features.
  3. Derender Foot Shadows, Fog, Test, FRInfo.

After the show, be sure to render them again.

Graphic Presets

(Credit: Brissy)

Graphic Presets allow you to quickly change between graphics settings. That way, you can change to a Low setting in a busy venue. Or you can quickly change back to Ultra after the show for your usual photography or other activities.

  1. Open Preferences (Control-P).
  2. Click the Graphics tab.
  3. Set your graphics settings to reduce load on the system. I’d recommend dragging the slider to Mid, reducing draw distance to 64 or less, and turning off Shadows. But you can reduce and remove any other features you don’t need.
  4. Click Save.
  5. Give the Preset a name and click Save.

Then create another Preset with the full settings for general personal use (Ultra, Shadows, all the things you like).

Now you can click the little monitor icon in the upper-right corner of your viewer window to select a preset.

Render Debauche

To ensure that we always render for you, perform the following steps:

  1. Click World.
  2. Click Avatar Render Settings.
  3. Click the plus button.
  4. Click Always Full Detail.
  5. Click the Near Me tab.
  6. Select each of the Debauche Stars from the list.
  7. Click OK.

Show Friends Only

If you have everyone in the troupe on your friends list, you can quickly reduce avatar-rendering lag with the Show Friends Only option.

In the menu bar, click World and then click Show Friends Only.

You can also customize your toolbar buttons to show the Show Friends Only button.

To make everyone appear again, turn off the button and then change your active group.

Derender Manually

This doesn’t help much when the entire audience is on your friends list, though. For that, you’ll need to derender them manually.

  1. Go backstage and wait for everyone in the group to go backstage.
  2. Open the People window (toolbar button). The Nearby tab should be active.
  3. Sort the list by distance.
  4. Use clicks, control-clicks, and shift-clicks to select non-Debauche names in the list.
  5. Right click.
  6. Select Derender.

To make everyone appear again from Show Friends Only or Manually derender:

  1. World – Asset Blacklist
  2. Click Clear Temporary
  3. Open your groups list
  4. Change your active group, then change it back to Debauche (You can also teleport in and out.)

Dyslexia

I know this is a sensitive topic… some of us have issues with Dyslexia. Dyslexia is where letters and words shift around due to processing issues in the brain.

Helvetica, Courier, Arial, and Verdana are somewhat Dyslexia-friendly fonts. But the Dyslexia font is scientifically-designed to reduce shifting further.

Firestorm ships with a Dyslexic-friendly font.

To use it:

  1. Open Preferences (Control-P).
  2. Click the User Interface tab.
  3. In the Font Scheme drop-down pick list, select Dyslexia.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Restart your viewer.

The font will change in your viewer and help with your reading issues.

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