Yeey! Although opinions over RC 1.21 are not overall positive - ‘Hey, that piece of **** makes me crash on connect.’ & ‘More crashes, less freezes. But at least it’s a quick crash!’ Ganymedes Costagravas did discover some new ‘nifty’ functionality in the snapshot department of this release client:

JPG, PNG & BMP, snapshot to disk

You can now save your ’snapshot to disk’ (hard drive, that is) in .jpg, .png & .bmp format. Advised is the use of .png, as that file format uses lossless data compression, which means it will be smaller than the .bmp (no compression) and still contain more data than the .jpeg (compresses with loss of data). To give you an idea, for an 1920×1030px snapshot I get the following values:

• PNG - 2.356 kB
• JPEG - 217 kB (lots of compression thus!)
• BMP - 5.794 kB

So, safe in .PNG and your HD is bound to last double time! ;)

Save snapshot as…

Right next to the ‘SAVE’ button, you have a little arrow in RC 1.21 snapshot tab. Click that arrow, and you have the option to save your snapshot as… . So now you can choose a default name and direction. All snapshots you just use ‘SAVE’ for after setting this, will be saved with this name and in your chosen location. Need to save with another name or directory? Just click the arrow again.

Why is this better? With the previous clients, you were just able to set this once. If you wanted to change it, the only possible way to do so was to reboot the SL client. (Leaving me with a whole bunch of ‘various’ folders that never got sorted.)

Snapshotting is way slower.

… and thus gives you more time to think about what you’re doing & your composition. Errr.. this is probably not an intended functionality. Disregard! :D

Tags: client menu, RC 1.21, second life, snapshot

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