Ardy Lay
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1 hour ago, Leora Greenwood said:
Hmmmmmmm, a door propped open all night and a husky who won't bark.......... What could possibly go wrong???
PUPPIES! I mean, that's what happened when my dog stayed out all night unattended. I was a bit peeved at first but got over it.
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3 hours ago, Henri Beauchamp said:
No, it's an entirely different issue, and I'd wish we could get back to my original post, which is all about shadows (or lack thereof)...
If we had the proper shadows that you are lamenting the possibly temporary loss of then I would have the darkness I so desperately want as they are very much the same thing. I simply offer a use case for proper shadowing.
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3 hours ago, AmeliaJ08 said:
I just do not understand. I wonder how much trouble this generates for LL support when a fix would be so simple to implement, it's not as if throwing VRAM at SL is a great solution since we can see TPV's thrashing textures awkwardly as well when trying to cope with so much unoptimized content but it does at least take a lot longer for it to happen. 512MB VRAM limit makes zero sense.
Have LL ever explained their reasoning?
You may be able to retire this snark soon.
"Improved VRAM Utilization
In order to better facilitate the increased number of textures associated with GLTF PBR materials, improvements have been made to the viewer texture streaming and VRAM utilization. Textures should load more quickly and should downres less often, and Second Life should make full use of available VRAM."https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/7.0.0.581886.html
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Replacing breadth with depth seems to be a current user interface redesign trend in most commercial environments I am exposed to except those where users are expected to be proficient and actually get work done in short times.
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2 minutes ago, arton Rotaru said:
Darkness inside a room is now achieved by setting the Ambiance option of a manual reflection probe >= 1.0. This will 100% override the ambient color of the Windlight.
From 0 to 1 it's a mix of the ambient color and the refelction probe.So, darkness is a opt-in feature now.
I'll have to wait for it and hope it works when it is available on my land. In the meantime I will stop trying to test and provide feedback.
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5 hours ago, animats said:
Right. SL world isn't ready for grid-wide strict enforcement of realistic lighting by default.
What happens if you set Ambient to black in your environment?
That gets me darkness if I also kill haze and clouds, but it looks wrong because each object illuminated is illuminated as if there are no other objects in the universe. No reflected light effects lighting of other objects. Without that we are stuck in "looks stupid" land.
Maybe I just need to learn how to use this. Surely I don't have to manually set up fake ambient fill lighting for every camera angle in every scene.
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Ensure shadows are enabled. Make a box. Get inside. Close the box. WHERE IS THE DARKNESS?
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There is no darkness in Second Life. No, I am not talking about your heart or soul.
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The residual ambient light is back too. There is now a light on inside the refrigerator all the time, even when it is unplugged.
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If you manually install a RELEASE CANDIDATE, which the PBR viewer now is, but your current viewer preferences are to not try release candidates, then the updater will likely download and install the current RELEASE.
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Just now, Aishagain said:
Well yes, that is a given! Weird, innit.
I have seen weird. Weird is ... pretty damn common now. I was trying to login to a web site yesterday and kept getting dragged away to an error page. I decided to just clear all of the browser history and junk and stuff and all that, then, as if nothing was ever wrong, that web site would let me login. I don't use the browser as a password manager and I use either bookmarks or an external password manager to keep track of all the important URLs, so, nothing of value was lost, except time, confidence and trust.
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2 minutes ago, Aishagain said:
This is strange because for me I do not see the Live Chat "bubble" on the relevant page. I have tried both of my accounts, Premium Ayesha Askham) and Premium Plus (there IS a good reason) via Firefox and MS Edge browsers to no avail.
I have no suggestions. I used Edge on Windows 10 and the blue bubble thing just worked. I did, however, have to login first.
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1 hour ago, Aishagain said:
https://status.secondlifegrid.net/
Anyone clear on what the current message on the Grid Status Page means? No point in asking live chat since it is down and it hardly seems worth a ticket.
Well, Live Chat and Boxy 5000 are not "down", but I lack the skill to extract anything useful from the bot and didn't page a person. I see there is a maintenance event scheduled for Phone and Live Chat Support tomorrow. Maybe the big old hippopotamus named Maintenance, once depicted among the equipment in a cartoon posted to the Second Life Forum many years ago is back and sat on something. We may never know for sure.
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Died when sister sent a teleport offer while I was already teleporting into her region.
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4 hours ago, Iyoba Tarantal said:
My big worry with lighting in Second Life is getting stuck in the dark.
I suggest keeping a functional flashlight in your inventory. I have seen some interesting art installations and games where one must use a flashlight.
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"Should LL re-brand SL now that "metaverse" is a thing again?"
No.
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10 minutes ago, CossetteAlarie said:
Is this a ticket kind
Yes, open a support ticket with Linden Lab.
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5 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:
Yeah, I guess they could just letterbox the images so I guess my supposition was wrong about why they constrained the aspect ratio.
(This prompted me to open the Windows 11 File Explorer for comparison. I never noticed the View / Preview pane option before. Seems pretty cool. Wonder how long that's been there.)
I don't know if this sort of preview was always in Windows 11, but the function has been around in Windows for quite a while. I happen to have Windows 2000 on a VM here. Preview is under the file details on the left, currently previewing an HTML document. Several types of files can be previewed. Later releases can preview more types of files. I remember getting all excited when preview started working on the video format I use in the studio, then I had to turn preview off because the editing workstation computer was severely bogged down.
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[3 weeks later...]
If the logical OR applied to two bit values is close to storage and thus far from the client, then perhaps much of the pipe between storage and client would have to be changed in order to inform the client which of the stored bit values resulted in the delivered result.
[Edited to mock the forum's psudo-necro narco.]
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I was just in the local grocery store and noticed the Halloween candy on shelves at the entrance. That's not too weird. What is to weird is that Christmas candy was stacked up behind the Halloween candy in September! I want to know what happened to Thanksgiving candy! I miss the stupid looking turkeys made of leftover Halloween candy, caramel, fudge and pretzels!
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Vampires do not exist. Anyone that says otherwise is some sort of mythological creature.
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On 9/26/2023 at 4:51 PM, TechLawProf said:
I'm currently researching for an article related to digital identities. I'd like to better understand how people interact with Second Life and what community norms are around avatars.
If anyone regularly participates in Second Life and has a good handle on the platform and community norms, I'd love to talk to you.
In addition, I'll post some questions to this forum for anyone to answer:
- How long have you participated in Second Life?
- How many hours per week (on average) do you participate in SL?
- How much time have you invested in your avatar?
- Do you make your real identity known, or do you remain pseudonymous?
- What is the worst thing a person can do in SL?
Thank you,
TLP
1. As long as I have.
2. As many as I want to.
3. Less than I should have.
4. Wouldn't you like to know?
5. Querying Second Life Residents as an academic research project.
I think that conducting academic research in Second Life should in no way be detectable by Second Life Residents, so, in my opinion, you have failed already by contaminating the data.
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6 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:
Maybe they lost track of all of them or are simply using them for some other purpose. The point being, regardless of their use, it's disconcerting to have them where new people rez in. Trying to say hello to people who aren't there and seeing nothing but a a tag or cloud.
LL needs to be a bit more proactive in moving them elsewhere. Maybe a designated bot park.
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Does this help? Linden Lab Official:Snapshot and machinima policy - Second Life Wiki