Lights! Shadows! Depth of Field! Unlock the beauty...

[Pussycat Catnap]

Or it would look like being honest and having integrity in who should be credited with the creations seen on screen.

 If someone has put a lot of skill, creativity, time and energy into making something beautiful or artistic and then I go an use it in my digital artwork - I would be dishonest to claim full credit on my work with acknowledging who made most of it.

- That's a perspective in both the 3D digital art communities and in photography.

[Cali Souther]

Very nice!

 

to all... :-)

[Pussycat Catnap]

Outside by my campfire (the seems to never run out of fire despite burning for -MONTHS- ).

New mesh outfits from coldLogic. Campfire came from someplace called 'Old World' in the pre-mesh days. (to keep credits short).

Got full on light effects going here, with my favorite light preset of incongruent truths. Have to tweak it because a neighbors house casts a shadow right over my face at the "time of SL day" I took this, so I "moved the sun".

- If only we could do that in RL.

 

[valerie Inshan]

YAY!!! Shadows and DOF finally working on Mac! Thanks LL for the latest upgrade!

@ Charo, well done hun and hugs!

[Charolotte Caxton]

I love your photos, Pussycat. This was taken inworld, no editing. It is a surreal setting from the windlights page. I'm not wearing anything so nothing to credit

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

[Charolotte Caxton]

[Pussycat Catnap]

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Charolotte Caxton wrote:

This was taken inworld, no editing. It is a surreal setting from the windlights page. I'm not wearing anything so nothing to credit

 

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That's amazing. Looks like a 60s magazine color effect.

 

[Kylie Jaxxon]

Ooooo...can't make up my mind which one I prefer.  Great job!

[Bunny Gearz]

Got a lot of new light presets off of the SL wiki.

Bunny av from Kinzart - I've tried to find others I would like, and have been unable. Dreads from Jonah Dread. Shorts and tanktop from JANE.

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

So cool! You look like you are in a CG movie! I noticed several of the links at the wiki are no longer valid, like they point to pages that are gone. I would like to clean that up. Also, when all those links were working, I collected them all, the Windlight settings, and I have those saved and organized neatly in a folder. I wonder how I could share those on that wiki?

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/WindLight_Settings

[Pussycat Catnap]

Sunrise on the dock.

In a dress from J.H. Couture. I think that's a free Bwind boat behind me, but not certain. Check out sailing if you haven't yet. Especially the wind driven boats.

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

[valerie Inshan]

LOL!!! that is one rabbit Charo!

[Charolotte Caxton]

lol, I had to be vewy vewy qwiet...

[Charolotte Caxton]

[Charolotte Caxton]

Ok, so I figured out how to zip, store in cloud, and share link so others can download. I tested it and it seems to work, let me know if you have any issues.

This is 530 Windlight settings, about half of them (267) Torley's, that I collected from the Windlight Wiki page and a few other places. 

I categorized them by creator and tried to make it easy to read in the viewer. If I didn't know the creator, I couldn't put a name, otherwise, I did.

Charolotte Caxton's Windlight Collection

 

UPDATE:

Ok, I consolodated a few duplicates, added Penny's and Juicybomb's, added the waters I've found, and a small how to install note card.

https://www.box.com/s/6d6a6133d972ea38497f

 

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

[Bunny Gearz]

Put two shots in the vanity thread over in avatars. This is, IMO, the better of the two:

Did something with the lighting, but not sure what...

After YEARS of looking somebody finally put out another Bunny avatar. This one a mesh, from DSD, and very much to my tastes.

Without the light effects, a mess of random prims in the background looks kind of bad from this angle (its actually somebody's neat shop that is a joke about such things). But the lighting made it look really cool.

 

[Bunny Gearz]

Having a LOT of fun with the new avatar. This alt has been neglected for a LONG time, so I had to a lot of shopping once it finally had an avatar I liked...

And here's another image.

 

Morning in muy house boat:

No postwork other than a resizing / cropping the far left end. Love what you can do with windlight settings and shadows. It traced my window blinds onto the floor in a very nice way.

 I really like the Bear you have above. It and the bunny one - but the bear in particular has a certain glossy look to it that really evokes seeming to come not out of a "video game" but a 3D rendering application.

(Well they both do, but the bear is just my favorite.)

 

[Pussycat Catnap]

Morning.

Angled to ignore the bondage gear a neighbor left outside on her front patio last night...

Almost the same scene in default lighting:

It was the same but I clicked my AO and that changed focus to where my AO was, so I alt-left clicked myself and that -moved- my camera, so I had to position again... /sigh.

 

[Bunny Gearz]

Something not as pretty.

In a crowd of 68 avatars on the London City sim, topping 20 fps on Viewer 3.

30 fps when I turn off the effects used for this image.

Poor person behind me using Phoenix was complaining they couldn't wear their clothes or even move...

Gotta love the official viewer, and feel sorry for folks on old stuff.

Incongruent Truths lighting effect, shadows and ambient occlusion, and running around on a FULL sim. This place seems to have a higher limit than the usual 40.

 

[Charolotte Caxton]

That was my first thought, I thought 40 was the limit.

[Bunny Gearz]

40 on mainland. Up to 100 on estate.

[Charolotte Caxton]

Really? Wow, thanks.