Jackson Redstar

shift+alt+ctrl+4 - turn off all avatars - including yourself

i know it is way off topic from the top post, but since we also talking about recording video i did a simple OBS tut a bit back

OK I should clarify. I am looking at this from the perspective of creating video in world. Lowering draw distance is not always an option, Turning off Dynamic Draw helps keeps things rezzed but it can really degrade performance. And MSAA - Im not even sure that is.

all these devs in the comments here melting my brain with technical explanations. Are there any good debug setting we can set to increase visual performance? I remember back in the old days there was settings like MeshTriangles or something and Triangle-something, damn i can't remember them now, but is there anything someone with a 'powerful enough' computer can do to, when it comes to tweaking debug settings, to improve visual performance?

or. it could be the case with the official viewer - why bother? if you really really want to defender something - just use Firestorm

and of course, in the 'old days' - pre 2021, LS could be a little side hustle, money for gas, some groceries , but now - anything more than 600 bucks, in the USA, you get in a for instance, PayPal account, is reported to the IRS - so now, those measly scraps of Lindens you did get, you now get the pleasure of reporting it and potentially owing taxes on it!

Scotty - I need more RAM!!!! 32 gig RAM is really minimum nowadays. And not just any RAM - buy the fastest you can afford

you can use the alt + mouse to move the camera and you some cam smoothing (assuming you are on Firestorm) You can also use (with some cam smoothing) alt + arrow keys, that will give you rotate left/right/up/down and while holding alt key press the ctrl key the up/down arrow keys will now give you a tilt up/down. Note this also works holding down these keys and moving your mouse. Finally you have pan left/right/up/down if you hold down the shift+ctrl+alt and use the arrow keys - but - the cam smoothing does not work when panning (sure wish it did!) but for basic movements while filming you can get great results just using alt, alt + ctrl, arrow keys and cam smoothing or the same alt, alt+ ctrl plus cam smoothing and the mouse. Takes a little practice to get all that coordinated

... objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear......

obviously doing anything web related or SL related SRGB is what you want. However, I have a nice older Dell monitor and switched to a BenQ 100% sRGB monitor, I also do alot of video color grading of SL footage. For me , absolutely zero difference. And of course, keep in mind almost all users are looking at web material - or SL, using a regular monitor, laptop or maybe tablet - trying to squeeze that extra 1% of color space accuracy won't mean anything. Just get a good monitor with good specs

if there was really AI 'companion' avatars - They would probably be attracted to each other! wouldn't that be a hoot? 2 AI bots dating each other

but i do wonder how long before we can buy our own AI girlfriend/boyfriend on MP....

the fact is, to get any enjoyment out of Sl in current times, it really is a must a new user needs: 1) Money: Sl is all about shopping and making your avi looking good, and that takes money 2) To get any amount of enjoyment out of it, a desktop computer or really, really good laptop. See #1 3) Prepare to invest a minimum 30 days of your time in 'Noob Boot camp'. One does not simply download the SL viewer and have a good time. No you have to know how the engine works, how the braking system works, this is not a press the gas and go type of entertainment

awesome thanks Niran I wasn't even looking in there

Apparently the latest version of BD is PBR enable - but local lighting is now on nuke level +10 . In what is a non PBR created scene, I tried all the sliders but the lighting is way to hot. Anybody have any experience with BD's latest version that knows anything about this?

FS just has all the features you need and a good UI and it is stable. For self pictures especially, BD because of the poser, But then again it really depends on what you do in SL. If you just shop and listen to music the Official viewer is perfectly fine for that

yes that seems to be the case which is why is would be great of there was like a slider to dial in the range. I suppose it is pretty low priority, but in some situations, particularly doing video, that would be super useful

yeah i kinda figured, but it seems like the on/off state has a set distance where everything from distance x and beyond is affected. I suppose this might be a nice feature to add

Does anybody know if there is a de bug setting or anyway to adjust the distance the dynamic LOD kicks in for the 'Dynamically adjust level of detail' checkbox? For instance I often need objects to stay fully rezzed say, 25 meters from the camera, but not so much the entire distance set in draw distance. Right now it is set at what seems like maybe 3-5 meters at the most. This is particularly useful when doing video - unchecking that can really reduce the FPS, but often dont need everything out to for example 180 to be rendered at full detail, just maybe like 25 meters. An example of how i encounter this all the time is when videoing a wedding and the camera is near the front of aisle by the alter and the wedding party starts walking in, often times a bouquet they are holding will "pop" in at a few meters from the camera, but not where they started their walk. So I have to uncheck this setting, but I really don't need everything 180m from the camera position to be fully rezzed, as it relates to LOD

TBH if looking to update just to make SL run better, you really don't need much anything. I remember I updated my 1080 with a 3070 - no real difference other than the 3070 runs cooler sometimes. Id just put in a FPS limit in preferences to keep the 1080 from maxing out and running hot, Now if you are doing photoshop or video editing then yes it would pay to upgrade some things

TBH if it wasn't for the fact you can't pan left/right up/down with cam smoothing you can do about all the smooth fly cam work with the mouse and keyboard shortcuts using some mouse smoothing and or with the arrow keys as the keyboard shortcuts you could get away without having to use a space mouse, o-box controller or other such device. A number of years ago a guy was working on a virtual fly cam using the keyboard numbers and once i got it working was great, but when i switched computers could never get it to install again

this is how I keep DOF the only adjustment (firestorm viewer) i will make based on the situation and/or the amount of DOF is Foc Length. I also almost always have DOF follows pointer checked and use shift+alt+x to lock it

What Henri said, use the frame limiter in preferences, And also keep the air ducts clean and make sure there is plenty of airflow

There is a product called Fotoscope DuoPose(https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/THE-FOTOSCOPE-DUOPOSE-a-pose-stand-for-COUPLES-Add-your-own-poses-and-animations/383037) that is you did alot of photos with couples and in a place where rezzing is possible it was awesome. a bit of a pain to get set up for sure, but was super easy to get couples of different sizes to get lined up properly. Of course you likely still need something like a pose adjuster to move a arm or a hand individually to get it dialed in exactly. When I used to photos alot for people I used it all the time. You can of course accomplish the same thing by moving each couples pose ball but this was all menu driven. great system

you are looking for screen recorder software and there are a few out there but the most widely used is OBS and it is free