Installing restrained life viewer

I happened to be lurking in group chat in-world when the topic turned to alternative viewers for Second Life. What surprised me however was the amount of people present who were blissfully unaware that others existed at all.

So how useful are they to the average Resident? Well, as it turns out, very. The following guide will help you choose and then try an alternative viewer. All the viewers below are officially recognized and approved by Linden Labs, but they do not provide support with any non-official viewer issues, nor can be held responsible for any other mishap or problems you may encounter with them.

Black Dragon. Restrained Love Viewer. Mobile Grid Client. If there is information listed on this page that incorrect, or you have a suggestion of information to add, please let us know. The best way to contact us is our Discord server, but you may also use our Contact Us page. Thank you for helping keep this website up to date! Download the viewer now:. This software is not provided or supported by Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life.

Marine Kelley does not provide individual support either, but does her best to keep this software in good shape. This Viewer does not add unnecessary load on the servers of Second Life, and does not contain any code that is intended to harm the Second Life Grid or any of its Residents.

This Viewer is aimed at providing Second Life scripts the ability to restrict some abilities such as chatting, teleporting, detaching objects and so on, therefore its behaviour may seem a bit surprising for the new user at first.

This is normal and its primary purpose, and is in no way intended to spoil the fun of the user, on the contrary. Navigate to the Second Life program folder on your computer.

Usually the easiest way to do this is to open your local hard drive, go to the program files folder, and then find and open the Second Life folder. Now, open the Restrained Life Viewer folder that you downloaded. Drag the RestrainedLife icon to your Second Life folder. Install the settings. Now drag the settings. Do not change any other files. Create shortcuts. Find the RestrainedLife icon in your Second Life folder on the hard drive.

Right click on it and select "create shortcut. Then find the SecondLife icon and create a shortcut with it as well and drag that to the desktop. You will now have a SecondLife shortcut and a RestrainedLife shortcut on your desktop. Exceptions allow owners and trusted to communicate with you and teleport you when these are otherwise restricted.

When the boxes are checked the Exceptions are enforced. You will be asked to provide a name for this custom exception, and then a UUID for the individual.

Custom exceptions can be removed entirely with the -REM button. Opens the menu to allow setting restrictions. The preset restrictions provide simple to understand groups of restrictions organized by function.

Using chat commands to set and unset preset restrictions: note that you must use the capital letter in the prefix, i. This submenu allows individual restrictions to be put in place. Restrictions are grouped in submenus for convenience but are applied individually. Chat commands use the button name for restrictions, not the internal RLV restriction name, and follow capitalization :. The individual restrictions are grouped in submenus for convenience but are applied individually.

These can be applied and removed by toggling the button. The Camera button allows you to set the minimum and maximum camera distance values and the amount of blurring to be applied when those particular restrictions or the Blur preset are applied. The Muffle button allows you to toggle speech muffling on or off - this comes into effect when the TALK preset is applied.