Arduenn Schwartzman

My estimate is between half to two thirds of all people in SL have ALM on all the time. On my older iMac (Nvidia GTX 760), ALM on is a drag, reduced the fps 10-fold, compared to ALM off. On my newer PC (Nvidia GTX 1080Ti), there's no noticeable difference between ALM off or on. This divide can be big problem for me, as a creator. Whenever I want to use projector lights in a build. With ALM, it looks fine. Without, it can look like an atomic explosion.

I'm sincerely thankful I'm not him.

You really want to know? Well then, most of my life, I cheered on Frans Brüggen, but lately I decided to broaden my horizons a bit and learned to appreciate contemporaries like Maurice Steger and Anna Fusek.

It appears that this strongman hype thing is repeating itself at an ever-accelerating pace now. Around AD 33, it was JC, circa AD 610, it was Muhammad, AD 2016, we had DJT, last Saturday, we witnessed the rise of Musk. According to my calculations, the next Messiah will present himself within twenty-five minutes.

I blocked the OP months ago for anti-vax bs and for peddling ivermectin, among other highly volatile things. This thread sure seems to turn into a political sh*t storm too.

Light's a tricky thing in SL. I always take a few extra steps when I create a lamp: two texture sets, one set for when the lights are off and one set for when the lights are on. Baked, lit textures on surfaces surrounding the actual light source provide an extra glow that the actual glow feature does not. It also cancels the shadows that can be present on unlit lamps. The glass settings change most profoundly. When it's off, it's glassy and shiny and non-full bright. When it's on, I turn the texture to almost completely opaque, full bright and glowy. (See picture below.) I have no fixed procedure for this, though - it varies with each type of lamp. For instance, kerosene lights give off a much more moderate light, and I keep the glass surrounding the flame somewhat transparent so the flame itself remains visible. Rule of thumb, when making lamps for me is always: it has to look decent from both close by and far off. The standard glow feature also has a weird, unnatural drop-off over a distance. (Prim spheres in picture below.) The biggest challenge is to cater for people who have either Advanced Lighting (ALM) off (about 1/3rd of all SL residents) or on (2/3rds). Lighting and lights differ dramatically between the two groups, especially when projection lights are used. Projector lights look really nice with ALM, but the same lights can potentially look like a supernova explosion for those with no ALM. Another challenge is environmental settings. People using different settings, may perceive the lamps as either pleasant or unpleasant. From from the last two perspectives, I totally get why people have to edit light to suit their own needs. Lately, for this exact reason, I've even been providing lights and candles like these with scripts that are full-perm. [Update] The example below demonstrates how dedicated textures for the on state make translucent glassy lamp shades more believable:

Hey you. Yeah you. c'mere. Wanna buy a nice, big, shiny bridge? https://www.businessinsider.com/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-censors-employees-critics-2022-3

Until you see the mess underneath my browser window.

I don't know about you, but I have two soles (and, admittedly, the mind of a 9 year-old too, sometimes).

My four and a half year-old rig, hanging on dearly to my i7-7740X+1080 Ti

Well, maybe the other sole reason was because he was bored.

Yes, so naturally, like the emotional 9 year-old he is, he doubled down by claiming that crediting artists on Twitter would destroy the medium. Suddenly makes it not so unlikely that his sole reason for buying Twitter was to shut down this guy, does it? If anyone believes that Elon Musk gives one bleep about freedom of speech, then I have a bridge to sell them.

Some people are confusing censorship with moderation. Ban all moderation and you'll get something like 8chan (don't worry, it's only the Wikipedia page, not the actual site). Oh, and as soon as Musk owns Twitter, watch him -- in the name of free speech -- close down this account. Instead of giving the account's owner a Tesla, he'd rather buy the entire company and burn his house down, with the lemons.

Either that or you buy a 2000- to 3000-$ gaming computer. Then, suddenly, 200 to 300 months of hassle-free gaming doesn't sound so bad.

Surely @Orwar = Sweetums ------ - I don't always mana mana. But when I do, doo doo, doodoo do.

Hadn't you heard? Today is International Muppet Day. Happy IMD, everybody!

TL;DR: There's people who do things less wel than me.

If LL decides to go with Premium Plussywussy, then... H***, I'll just do it for the name. As long as it shows up in my profile. No extra perks needed. Otherwise, I'll settle for Premiumwemium.

Maybe it was a (double) typo and they meant 'lightning'? https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Lightning-strike/10381593

Depending on what you actually mean with 'lighting', and assuming it wasn't any of the above, my next guess would be this: you'll find it in Preferences.

When I joined SL, I expected it to be not much more than a glorified chat program. But then I discovered people can make stuff in it. And make all this stuff, prims, sculpties, mesh, do all kinds of things with scripts, with a relatively low learning curve. SL provides a powerful set of tools to test all kinds of ideas, e.g. to explore the look and feel of board games, without the need for an actual workshop with expensive tools, machines or materials. I also discovered that SL is way more than a glorified chat program, in the sense that friendships and relations in SL can be as real as in real life.

I feel your pain. The shipping cost of this pretty little wrist watch is also quite steep (three-and-a-half Ben Franklins!).