Exodus Viewer - Check it out!!

I have been hearing some buzz about the Exodus Viewer for a while.  Then this week the fabulously informative and funny crew over at the MetaReality Podcast talked with the Exodus team, and it seemed like the right time for me to check it out.  I am still making my way through the bazillion options for photography in the viewer. There is SO much Exodus can do and honestly much of it seems a bit over my head right now but you don't need to make full use of all the features available.   Just like many other viewers you can use what you like and ignore the rest.

I took Exodus out for a little photographic spin and while maxing out the settings for depth of field and shadows and gamma slowed my fps to a grind, I was without much effort able to get some nice photos.

Exodus has the customizability of Firestorm but runs a bit faster on my rig, at FPS rates close to the Second Life viewer -- when I am not cranking graphics up for photos.  For general tooling around Exodus was running quite fast and smooth for me.  I slowed down only when I enabled all the bells and whistles but I do think that is to be expected on any viewer.  I am not gonna lie, I did start to dream about a new computer with more more more and bigger bigger bigger when I was playing with Exodus for photos.  I am greedy like that I guess.  My laptop is about two years old so its not time to replace it yet but I can dream, can't I?

Based on advice from Crap Mariner I was able to quickly copy Firestorm's windlight presets over to Exodus, which is really nice as I am quite fond of clicking through presets.  For now, I am running Exodus and working to understand its capabilities better.  So far after one day of use? I like it. A lot.