Simple Question about the use of the Advanced Lighting Model

[Jules Catlyn]

How many of you use the Advanced Lighting Model in your viewer? https://gyazo.com/e4b335dc7a3737f32d50480479804c63

[Rowan Amore]

11 minutes ago, Jules Catlyn said:

How many of you use the Advanced Lighting Model in your viewer? https://gyazo.com/e4b335dc7a3737f32d50480479804c63

If I'm out exploring, I always have it on.  Pictures, too.  I have a preset for that.  Busy clubs or at home on ground level, it's off usually.

[LittleMe Jewell]

What Rowan said -- only for pictures and exploring.

[Arielle Popstar]

Always on for me.

[SarahKB7 Koskinen]

As above/ditto. 😜

Edited May 4, 2022 by SarahKB7 Koskinen

[Lyssa Greymoon]

All the time.

[BelindaN]

Always on

[Lindal Kidd]

Always on, unless I'm trying to solve a severe lag issue or other problem.

[Rolig Loon]

Always on.  SL would look empty to me without it now.

[Sid Nagy]

Mostly off.
I like to work in full daylight so midday.

[Claireschen Hesten]

Only on for taking pics or checking how things look with it on, otherwise always off

[diamond Marchant]

Always on

[Katherine Heartsong]

Always on, though I often default to midday settings as some of the lighting is too dim for me.

[Ayashe Ninetails]

Always on.

[missyrideout]

Always on. Shiny!

[Cube Republic]

always and forever

[Ina Fairport]

It depends where I am and what I am doing. At home always on in ultra settings with shadows.
When sailing and flying most of the time off.

For pictures always ultra settings except for portraits. Most avatar's faces show ugly shades with advanced light.

[Conifer Dada]

I have advanced lighting on most of the time - shadows, reflections etc. but with depth of field turned off.

I switch to a basic lighting setting sometimes if I arrive at a busy club, just until everyone rezzes, then it's normally OK to return to advanced lighting.

[Bree Giffen]

I turn down graphics presets when I go to a busy area and turn it back up when I go elsewhere. This causes advanced lighting model to turn off and on. Sometimes when I forget to turn it on the lighting on my avatar looks very strange and that usually reminds me.

[Orwar]

   Basically always on. I do have a preset for shopping events where it's off, but I'll usually hit the show friends only button before resorting to switching my preset.

[Paulsian]

4 hours ago, Jules Catlyn said:

How many of you use the Advanced Lighting Model in your viewer? https://gyazo.com/e4b335dc7a3737f32d50480479804c63

never first thing to turn off anytime I reinstall viewer, routine is turn off advanced lighting, turn particles off, turn off transparent water, turn off local lights. I bump up object slider to max so mesh of most even poor LOD looks decent and does not break up as horrible. 

[Marianne Little]

I have it on almost all the time, but shadows turned off for daily use. Shadows (Sun , moon, projectors) when I take pictures.

Also a low version for crowded, full regions. But I almost never need it with the shadows off and low draw distance. On my stationary, it goes well.

On my laptop, it screams in protest when forced to Advanced lightning. But I still use advanced lightning on it a lot of the time. Never shadows though.

[Blush Bravin]

ALM and shadows always on. If I'm working I will turn on midday but that doesn't negate the need for having ALM enabled for me. The world just looks flat without ALM and shadows for me. If I'm in a really laggy place then I will typically adjust level of complexity for other avatars or only render friends. LOL .. would rather see shadows than overly dressed avatars.  

[Mollymews]

another for always on

[CarlaWetter]

Always with ALM. Even with my elderly GPU there are enough other features to toggle for performance gains before ALM becomes a factor. 

- Draw Distance

- Shadows

- and "Show Friends only" for events