helpful free PBR sky settings / EEP / windlights to get started

[Salt Peppermint]

Many residents struggle with the update of PBR for various reasons. Once you log in for the first time on a PBR viewer with your previous settings, everything will look incredibly bright and PBR textures can not be displayed properly at all. So one of the first things you need to adjust is your windlight. 

None of the previous are suitable for PBR as they are, so you can either start with the default midday (works for PBR) or maybe you want to check out some free good ones to play around with.

Some of them have been scattered across various posts and so I thought maybe it's helpful to have a list of them here. Please add if you know of more PBR suitable settings ♥

Salt & Pepper: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SP-PBR-environment-EEP-windlight-settings/26370458

Just Because: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Just-BECAUSE-PBR-Environments-EEP-Windlights/26415590 

Studio Saberhagen: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/PBR-EEP-Collection-Windlights-DayNight-Cycle-Midday-Night/25626640

 

also this thread is not meant to discuss if PBR is good or bad, there are plenty of those. The intention is to help those who are interested in PBR and need help to adjust ♥

[Rowan Amore]

These are the ones I've been using...Wish they'd finish the alphabet.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Firestorm-Windlights-changed-to-PBR-Misc-A-D/26210979

[CaerolleClaudel]

I love the idea of having this thread! Here are some things I found, hopefully someone finds these useful or that they lead to something people can use.

I struggled to find stuff until someone clued me in on how to search, and until I figured something out:

• Search using 'PBR+EEP'; I was searching for things  like 'EEP PBR' and also by spelling out the words (btw just tbc, do not include the quote marks!)
• I found a different set of EEPs for PBR by searching for Windlight rather than EEP (I prefer Windlight as a term, wish they had kept that)

I was mostly looking for some bluish/nighttime stuff, but just for FWIW, here are some that I got. Some of these creators also offer a lot of other ones, too. Some of them are fairly pricey, at L450. Most of the ones by the same creator cost the same.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Daisys-Favorite-PBR-Windlights/26327064 (free)

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Very-Early-Morning-PBR-Windlight/26185459  (L150)

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Blue-Starry-Night-Sky-windlight-sky/6190877 (L30)

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/BATTLESCARS-WINDLIGHTS-STARS-ARRECIFE-40-PREMIUM-EEP-PBR/25015173  (L299)

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Moon-and-Stars-EEPPBR-Windlights-Sky-Water-UPDATED/22744429 (L420)

Daisy (first listing above) also suggested someone else's EEP. The EEP is not available on the MP, you have to go to the store and get it there (free). The EEP can be obtained at the front desk:

 

[CaerolleClaudel]

8 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

These are the ones I've been using...Wish they'd finish the alphabet.

https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Firestorm-Windlights-changed-to-PBR-Misc-A-D/26210979

OMG, I love what they did here! The classics updated to PBR! Hopefully they will do the others at some point!