Jackson Redstar

Thanks Henri. I gotta say I never understood the whole LOD thing that much other that more is better - to a point, I just figured what I was seeing was "old mesh" Question though - if I run into this situation again other than settings object LOD on a really low value - is there any other tweeks like in debug settings to keep the items rendered (I have the latest version FS and the RenderMaxNodeSize is already as you mentioned above)

this is based on the FS viewer 6.6.8 (68380) but this more about object LOD in general. I had a strange situation last nite shooting a wedding where some items 'un rendered' often when I zoomed closer into them. I tried all the usual tricks - zooming way out and snapping back in, turning off dynamic adjust LOD.. usualy when something isn't rendering right you would turn up the LOD a little, but as I was sliding the slider up and down I noticed that at .876 everything was there in the scene - benches, candle sticks, etc. any higher those objects would un render again. of course some objects worn, like glasses, needed LOD to be at least at default - 2 - so I had to go from .876 to 2 depending on what I was shooting. I really hadn't seen it where lowering the LOD would make some object render normaly - but I had seen this issue in the past on occassion but could never figure out what was going on. Can any one explain why this is - that some oblects need this really low LOD to appear "normal"? I would guess it has something to do with how they are made but still it doesn't make much sense. Is there some other setting besides LOD that would keep items like that rendered normaly?

i keep my FPS capped at 32 - more than enough for a smooth experience and in crowded areas its usualy in the teens with the fans quite. Uncorked the fps isnt any better but GPU usualy goes to 100% which means the fans are at close to 100%

what I am wondering is where you are getting 400+ FPS...... but my guess sounds like a heat issue Id monitor the temps while using

I think most use OBS now. it is free to use

I thinl some settings may be off - the water is one. I decided to have a look myself this using shared enviroment at Luane's World. Top is Linden viewer bottom is FS viwer

I poked around for a bit no real lag, even on more crowded areas. But it does hightlight one beig drawback of SL it has always had and no way to really inprove it. Being a nulti sim even, there are going to be stuff in the war far distance that isn't rezzed or partially rezzed, and even stuff close by have to wait a bit for all the gray to go and the textures to fully rezz, It is what it is, just how sl is for the most part. I do have to say though, the Fantasy Faire did fair better with distant viewing and rezzing stuff, so maybe I just went at a bad time. But even so, alot of people put alot of work into this , so it is better to appreciate that than always be the debbie downer

I know though from testing the official viewer handles high avatar loads WAY way better than FS, at least in terms of FPS, It is double if not more FPS than FS. It just well can't really use the official viewer very well for video recording, And the 8gig VRAM most good cards have now - that maxes out now with 30 or so avies in an event. I also know on Win 11 at least, you will want at least 32g of RAM, 16 is no longer enough

I see this too on occasion and also have noticed with VRAM is at its limits (in my case 8g) or just before its limits, it can do this, but not always. I always suspected it could have something to do with where the additional memory is coming from. I have 32g RAM (3200mhz) and of course all SSD drives . But since it doesn't seem to do it all the time, who knows!

from what I understand everything back then was run on a wing and a prayer!

everything as far as editing same as premiere, color grading is better, it has Fusion (think after effects but node based) and Fairlight a full professional sound editing built in. Tons and tons of youtube tutorials availble. The only 'downside' is if you like to work with "templates" alot less avaible than for premiere/after effects, and the titling system for like end credits is better in premiere. But you can download the free version and try that, for SL video that maybe is all you'll need anyways

Davinci Resolve. The free version will do everything and more than Premiere, or get the studio version, one time fee of 300. I was a adobe crack addict for years and years. Renting software for life doesn't make alot of sense, and if you can edit on premiere you can edit in resolve. and color grading video- premiere is a joke. Resolve color grading has been the industry standard for decades

a 7 inch screen? Size matters LOL

thats great. I tried a xbox controller and got the settings about right but I just got to used to using the 3d mouse. I'm sure gamers will love the controller for a flycam I talked to another video maker and he uses a flight controller so you also use your feet for some of the flycam movement

for the 3d mouse there are a couple different settings i use most often. The most common is 1 on the axis settings and feathering set at .05 or .005 Another setting is keep feathering at 1, but the axis i might use like .05 or in that range depended how slow and smooth I want it. Keep in mind that this works best in firestorm where you can enter all the numbers in the cam settings located in the phototools panel, You just have to experiment between the feathering setting and axis settings to fit with your style of cam movement, remeber the 3D mouse was never intended to be used as a flycam to make video but with a little tweaking you can slow things down

alot of things we never thought could happen happened in 2019 and 2020. I think "conspiracy theroists" are 10, government 0 🤣

I also remember when the government told us getting a certian vaccine would make a certian virus go away - sometimes things the government says and things that happn are 2 different things. But I didn't mean for this to turn into the Alex Jones show here, just wanted to know where Linden/Trillia were on this system

a few years back, a guy started working on a fly cam that used the numpad in your keyboard. he eventually gave up though. I used it for a couple of years and it was really nice, though the set up to get it to even work was a major deal. I could never get it to install correctly on another computer. I still have the program he gave me and it needs the 'v-joy' file - sure would be nice if someone who knew about this stuff could make it work! other than that, either a space mouse or a mouse + alt and use cam smoothing - both of which will take practice to get good at. Oh and BTW there are keyboard shortcuts for turning off the entire UI and for turning off HUDs - i can't remember them now I use a hot key, but easily googled

FedNow will be the money transfer system in the future all transaction will go through it eventually, It is part of the move to an all digital, cashless currency First the transfers will go trough FedNow into systems like PayPal, but eventually the PayPals will go away and consumers will have a digital money account with the Fed. But then again, the USA refused to adopt the metric system, so this may well be another failed attempt LOL

This may not be the right place for this but is there any official Linden word , or Trilla, on payment throug the new Fed Now? Will they contunue using PayPal account? Will funds be transfer to/from using Fed Now? This would of course be for USA accounts

OK ty I use the studio driver actually it is still on 531.61 so Ill wait til it updates and see if that solves the issue

thats a multi-part answer, you have recorder software, most i think use OBS) then record format, then encoder which will depend on your hardware, then a resolution size which again depends on your hardware, then decide on a video editor (which alot of good ones are free) then tons of practice (which is free of course) And get a youtube account, but now adays people also shoot for tiktok format

I been noticing lately sometimes at crowded events I get alot of 'stuttering' from time to time - where the animations start/stop rapidly, even with a fixed view position. This can also be observed in the GPU task manager window - rapid cycling of gpu usage, Sometimes it clears up on its own after a bit sometines requires a restart, Wondering if this is a SL issue, or, I think more likely a Windows issue, and if anybody has seen it and what the cure (if any) might be Firestorm 6.6.8 (68380) Jan 3 2023 19:59:43 (64bit / SSE2) (Firestorm-Releasex64) with Havok support Release Notes CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz (3792 MHz) Memory: 30911 MB Concurrency: 8 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit (Build 22621.1555) Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070/PCIe/SSE2 Graphics Card Memory: 8192 MB Windows Graphics Driver Version: 31.0.15.3161 OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 531.61 Texture memory: Dynamic (4096 MB min / 21% Cache / 10% VRAM) Disk cache: Max size 9984.0 MB (100.0% used) Built with MSVC version 1934 Packets Lost: 0/3,718 (0.0%) May 09 2023 05:06:20 SLT

IMO, a 'walking around' viewer already a few choices. From my perspective, what I really want is a machinima viewer - one that works with gamer PCs. I really like Lindens viewer now as far as performace but if falls far, far short of working for machinima work. And by that I don't mean on an empty sim with one or 2 avatars, but a regular sim with 50+ avis on it. Firestorm always has been the overall best viewer for that, but it is still slow and sluggish alot of the times. I just don't think there are many use cases develepors work off of that machinima based use cases

actually the official viewer almost always gets close to double the FPS comepare to FS. On a lower spec system like a laptop, the official viewer might be a better choice