How can I activate SHADOWS in Second Life 3.6.1.278007?

[lo0nelygurL]

 

 

Thank you for the answer, but the thing is, that it just doesn't allow me to select Advanced Lighting Model.. :matte-motes-bored:

[Nyll Bergbahn]

Select Preferences from Me Menu

Select Graphics Tab

Click Advanced button to bring up the advanced graphics options

If Advanced Lighting Model is not ticked by default, tick it

Select Sun/Moon or Sun/Moon + Projectors from the Shadows drop down option

 

[Lindal Kidd]

If you can't select the Advanced Lighting model, it's probably because your graphics card is not up to the task.  My NVIDIA GTX 670 card goes from 30% power use to 100+% when I use this mode.  It takes some serious graphics horsepower.

[Rolig Loon]

You cannot select Advance Lighting mode unless your computer is capable of supporting graphics quality beyond High Quality.  Set your graphics slider in Preferences >> Graphics.  You should be aware that even if your machine will support Ultra quality graphics, you will see a drop in performance when you make that change and your machine may report an increase in the operating temperature of your graphics card.  You may be able to compensate by decreasing your draw distance. 

[Nyll Bergbahn]

What graphics card do you have in your computer?

Perhaps your card does not support Shadows but with some cards, you need to be in Ultra (not just High) before Shadows will become available or perhaps you are using a very old driver. Select Help > About Second Life on the login page and copy/paste the details into a reply here using Options/Edit. If the specs only give the card series, please add in the actual model if known.

If it's the case that you need to be in Ultra before the LL viewer activates Shadows (as it does with my card) and you'd prefer to just use High for performance reasons, you may wish to try Nirans Viewer which uses a totally different and more flexible method of graphics level selection.

Correction: Actually, with the LL viewer and my card, it's not a tick box issue, it's a visual issue in that shadows do not show until in Ultra (got up too early this morning) but let's see what card you have and if there is anything more that can be done.