KennyChidorie Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 (edited) Someone made any video how to install it? https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-2055 Because i really don't understand anything (i don't good speak English, so I'm a one from that people who need video tutorial/instruction). and how to compile with Zi’s patch with viewer? Edited February 25, 2018 by KennyChidorie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 Lindal Kidd Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 That JIRA is almost four years old. The suggested patch is a cool experiment, but it is just that...an experiment, a hack that was never implemented in the official code. You can certainly play around with it, but there is no guarantee that the patch will work with the current viewer code. Linden Lab's official position is "no mirrors". "We don't believe mirrors are a good idea. We're not going to do mirrors. There are too many corner-cases it cannot be made to support well enough, and frankly, we think it would cause us more trouble in people complaining [that] they don't work well, than we get now saying there are no mirrors. Think curved surfaces, think mirrors that reflect each other; there's just lots of reasons that's just not that great an idea." - Oz Linden If what you want to do is just a single mirror, there are ways to fake it. You can take a picture of the view from the mirror's position, add some streaky light reflections in Photoshop, and apply the texture to your "mirror" prim. It won't reflect YOU, but it will appear to be reflecting the things in the room behind it. You can make a "reflective" floor by building a mirror image of the building beneath it and making it shiny and partly transparent. You can make still water serve as a mirror, if you position your avatar over it, take a picture, then rotate the image 90 degrees. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 Coffee Pancake Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 You can fake mirrors. Sort of .. this works in all clients. Rez something. Add a specular texture, set it to "blank" and then put the values to the max. This is your mirror. Facing away from the Mirror prim - Take a picture of what the mirror will see. Create a light source, set to projector, apply the picture and point it at your shiny object Scale the projector so it matches the aspect ratio and apparent size of the "reflection" I did a fairly detail write up on this over on the Second Life subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/secondlife/comments/8btvrb/lighting_your_home_creating_fake_window/ Adeon Writer followed up with a decent video guide on how his portals were created There is a fair amount of play with shiny settings and the actual image to get the effect you want. You can reflect a room or windows on a object, make shiny floors that reflect windows etc. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Callum Meriman Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 (edited) I guess you saw this article and the new video? http://echtvirtuell.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/neues-sl-video-mit-echtem-spiegeleffekt.html Compiling the viewer is quite advanced, and applying the patches requires you to know the C++ programming language. Sadly the mirror effect is experimental, and without knowledge of the C++ language you won't get it working. I suggest you vote for the patch on the jira. Edited February 25, 2018 by Callum Meriman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Nalates Urriah Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I correct Callum on voting on JIRA issues. The Lindens pay NO attention to votes and only 'some' attention to 'Watch' numbers. If you are interested in the JIRA item, a watch will get you an email when it updates or changes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Chic Aeon Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 (edited) Just a historical note. Long, long very long ago like 12 years there WAS a builder making a very impressive scripted mirror that would "take your photo" front view and then put it on the surface of the "glass" right while you were looking at it. It was fairly instantaneous. Of course by NOW that same mirror would likely seem pretty crude but back then the store seemed to do very well. Odd the things you remember. Edited February 26, 2018 by Chic Aeon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Lucia Nightfire Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Waiting on Whirly Fizzle to chime in, heh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 KennyChidorie Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 (edited) - You can take a picture. No. This is not a great idea... I want mirror. I want get that render at the mirror.. Edited March 3, 2018 by KennyChidorie 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 KennyChidorie Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 2 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said: Is impossibru! бессмысленный пост. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Fionalein Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 (edited) As far as I know Black Dragon viewer contains Screen Space Reflections(SSR) technology by default, all you have to do is turn it on... don't come back crying at us if it messes up your latex outfit or car though (I have been told there are some problems with materials and SSR, there must be a reason Firestorm dropped it) Edited April 20, 2018 by Fionalein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Callum Meriman Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 7 hours ago, CoffeeDujour said: Adeon Writer followed up with a decent video guide on how his portals were created I sat with Adeon's portal rezzed in a sandbox for a good 2 hours, until I worked out how that trick was done. So clever. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Love Zhaoying Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 9 hours ago, CoffeeDujour said: You can fake mirrors. Sort of .. this works in all clients. Rez something. Add a specular texture, set it to "blank" and then put the values to the max. This is your mirror. Facing away from the Mirror prim - Take a picture of what the mirror will see. Create a light source, set to projector, apply the picture and point it at your shiny object Scale the projector so it matches the aspect ratio and apparent size of the "reflection" I did a fairly detail write up on this over on the Second Life subreddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/secondlife/comments/8btvrb/lighting_your_home_creating_fake_window/ Adeon Writer followed up with a decent video guide on how his portals were created There is a fair amount of play with shiny settings and the actual image to get the effect you want. You can reflect a room or windows on a object, make shiny floors that reflect windows etc. This gives me excellent ideas, thank you! What do users see if they have Advanced Lighting set to “off”? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Coffee Pancake Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 9 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said: This gives me excellent ideas, thank you! What do users see if they have Advanced Lighting set to “off”? The lights revert to a point light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-1 Love Zhaoying Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 10 hours ago, Chic Aeon said: Just a historical note. Long, long very long ago like 12 years there WAS a builder making a very impressive scripted mirror that would "take your photo" front view and then put it on the surface of the "glass" right while you were looking at it. It was fairly instantaneous. Of course by NOW that same mirror would likely seem pretty crude but back then the store seemed to do very well. Odd the things you remember. I remember more recently, a mirror trick where actually you sit then 1) The sit position places you BEHIND the “mirror” and 2) the script places your cam position looking AT the mirror. So, you end up behind/in the mirror in a static pose, and your camera looks at you - facing out from the mirror. Mirror trick/illusion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-1 Love Zhaoying Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Is impossibru! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-2 Alwin Alcott Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 25 minutes ago, KennyChidorie said: бессмысленный пост. as is your response and earlier remark on other people's explanation to your question 2 hours ago, KennyChidorie said: No. This is not a great idea... I want mirror. I want get that render at the mirror.. бессмысленный пост. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-2 Love Zhaoying Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Someone made any video how to install it? https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-2055
Because i really don't understand anything (i don't good speak English, so I'm a one from that people who need video tutorial/instruction).
and how to compile with Zi’s patch with viewer?
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