Wishlist

From Imprudence

A list of feature and bug fix suggestions for project contributors to consider implementing. See the Development Process page for more information.

Contents 1 Suggestions / Wishlist 1.1 Animation 1.2 Avatar 1.3 Building 1.4 Communicate Window 1.5 Contacts / Friends List 1.6 Inventory 1.7 Saving / Loading 1.8 Script Editor 1.9 Toolbar 1.10 UI Widgets / Tools 1.11 Web Browser 1.12 Skinning 1.13 Misc / Unsorted

Suggestions / Wishlist

Animation

• Enable "(semi-)lossless" upload. Don't cull subtle movements.
• Extended animation priority range (higher numbers).
• Per-joint priority levels.
• Preview animations on actual avatar before upload
• Fix the first frame upload bug (VWR-3783)
• Fix the Play in World / Stop button getting stuck. (VWR-3804)
• Ease and Loop values specified in animation frames, not percentage.

Avatar

• Head clothing layer
• Local wardrobe
• Other avatar texture baking hacks
• Improved avatar mesh (more polygons around nose)
• Better skinning (weighting of mesh to skeleton)
• Hi-poly meshes for photo sessions.
• Animation Override (AO) built into the client. (VWR-386)
• Breast physics? ^^; (Emerald has it.)

Building

• Better texturing / texture alignment tools
• Align, snap, and distribute tools
• Mirror tool
• Increased precision of numeric input -maybe debug setting to setup/down arrow amount?
• Investigate square and triangle prim paths - can they be stored server-side and used by regular clients?
• Fix scaling of linked parts
• Remove culling of small movements (0.0005m limit)
• Preview texture in-world before paying for upload (cache injection / temp assets?)
• Remove as many building limits as possible
• Show sculpt shape preview instead of sculpt map texture in build tools (VWR-4774)
• Smaller Build floater that doesn't get in the way as much
• Building hotkeys to select next/previous prim in a link set (VWR-9287)
• User-settable default permissions on creation of objects, clothing, scripts, notecards, etc. (VWR-8049)
• "View permissions as foreign": could be an object flag that when enabled, allows the builder to see perms on that object as they would be from a foreign user POV

Communicate Window

• Split out contacts and group lists from chat / IM
• Text search in chat history / IM
• Search chat and IM logs from within the UI.
• Prefix notices in the chat window with a distinguishing string like ">>". (Notifications means online/offline notices, inventory offers, and other things that aren't actually chat.)
• Add a convenient keyboard shortcut or inline string replacement for the newline character in local and IM windows. This newline character usually appears as a backwards 'P' symbol and can only be copy-pasted or by doing alt + 0182 on the numpad. Try somethign like ctrl-enter or for inline '&\n' or another easy replacement macro.
• Add multiline display for the typing field for chat windows so you can see more of your message for long posts, just like most instant messaging clients.
• Add ability to 'close and mute' or just close group chats to avoid keeping them always open

Contacts / Friends List

• Contacts list tags
• Custom lists (tabs) for contacts
• Add "favorite" profiles, as a pseudo-friends list
• Ability to decide which friends cause online/offline notifications to appear.
• Ability to sort Friends list into different categories. (VWR-890)

Inventory

• Easier inventory filters
• Inventory tags
• Custom tabs in inventory
• Filter by creator
• End date for inventory filter by date
• Split-view inventory window (side by side or one above the other)
• "Cut" (as in Cut & Paste) menu item
• Copy SLURL menu item for landmarks
• Right click > Copy to Inventory option for items in notecards.
• Duplicate inventory item checker. [1]
• Count all files in a sub-directory
• Count inventory search results

Saving / Loading

• Export / import avatar shape to XML
• Save / load / reload script or notecard from disk. (VWR-5206)
• Image sequence export (AKA bmp/png video) (WIki Link)

Script Editor

• Tabbed script editor
• Tooltips for user-defined functions
• #include statement (insert code from another script before upload)
• Fold / collapse code blocks
• Autoinsertion of default parameters for events e.g. listen
• Intellisense style auto-complete for llFunctions(). Fills in the function it thinks you're typing as highlighted text.
• Auto-generate listen event on typing an llListen() code. Auto generate a sensor() and no_sensor block on llSensor or llSensorRepeat() code. Auto generate control() on llTakeControls(). Auto generate run_time_permissions() event on llRequestPermisisons(). Auto generate changed() event code for finding the avatar's key on llSitTarget (BIG MAYBE). Auto generate at_rot_target or at_target for llTargetRot and llTargetPos. Auto generate collision event for llVolumeDetect(TRUE) call.

CHECK for prexisting events before auto-generating events. Make auto-generation of events togglable per event type. An hero.

• Drag & Drop texture/sound files from inventory to script window, automatically applying the UUID.

Toolbar

• Autohide (optional)
• Collapsible toolbar
• Customizable toolbar (add/remove buttons)
• Flyout buttons for Search and Build for specific actions.
• Automatically rename "Build" label to reflect whatever tool is in use (and remember setting?)

UI Widgets / Tools

• Scrollable panels
• Generic hierarchy view class
• Dynamically-resizable UI elements (to fit bigger text)
• Unify notecard and script editor code. (Inherit from general text editor class)
• Context menus for selected text - copy, paste, cut
• Dockable widgets
• Tear-Off Pallets

Web Browser

• Bookmarks
• Tabbed browsing
• History. (Already kept, but no easy access)

Skinning

• A new, original skin to distinguish Imprudence
• High contrast and low-contrast skins for accessibility
• Automatic detection of installed skins (auto-generated list of skins in preferences panel)
• Skin installation package format (e.g. skins in a zip file, just download into the skins directory)
• Support for specifying custom fonts and sounds (button clicks, etc.) in skins

Misc / Unsorted

• Toggle hiding small objects (Wiki Link)
• Pen/Touchscreen compatility (Wiki Link)
• HTTP Textures (VWR-8833)
• UI in Preferences for changing font
• "Recently emailed" list for Snapshot postcards
• Profiles for multiple preference settings, e.g. "photography", "building".
• Custom busy mode functionality [2]
• Low bandwidth mode. Ability to disable texture downloads, object updates, and/or avatar attachments.
• Ability to start conference IM with arbitrary list of people, possibly even non-friends. (VWR-10386)
• Disable trying to detect system language at first run, instead just let the user choose. Perhaps add a drop-down list of languages to the login panel.
• Option to turn off requests for calling card statuses, to reduce needless bandwidth wastage and network load.
• Save custom windlight presets to a persistent directory, so they stay available even after new viewer upgrades.
• Revamp Preferences > Popups. Or at least add a button to disable a single popup.
• Fix inability to upload any files or bulk upload after a bulk upload image failure.
• "Secure IMs", an obfuscation/encryption scheme for IMs. (Already in the Emerald Viewer -- ensure cross-compatibility.)