[PBR is coming...]

ah so if you want to mimic iridescence, the legacy system will always be there. gotcha.

[PBR is coming...]

sorry for my late reply but does lack of support for colored speculars mean existing colored speculars will break once the new lighting engine is put in?

[PBR is coming...]

i see

if specular reflections are inherent in all objects, how do we control its color? with the current pre-PBR system you can use a colorful specular map to reflect specific colors, but i don't see a means to do that in this system if specular reflections are inherent and not texture defined.

[PBR is coming...]

so if i'm understanding correctly, specular reflections are inherent in all objects, it's just the roughness map that determines how strong/weak they are?

[PBR is coming...]

yes i meant SSAO, sorry for the confusion.

as an aside, i'm curious why there's no specular channel in the new PBR menu, how are non-metallic reflections handled?

[PBR is coming...]

would someone mind explaining what an AO map does as opposed to AO the post-process effect? the best i can make out of it is that it simply darkens the diffuse texture.

[PBR is coming...]

21 minutes ago, Fluffy Sharkfin said:

Yeah... I was kidding!

Reflection probes will be automatically placed in the region by default so essentially your avatar should always be in range of a reflection probe which is why, as Jenna pointed out above, wearable reflection probes aren't needed.

oh i see! automatic placement helps a ton. I wonder what the parameters for placement are, can't imagine them being placed every 10 cubic meters lol

[PBR is coming...]

On 1/14/2023 at 7:16 AM, Fluffy Sharkfin said:

Outrageous!  LL should double the attachment points so that we can wear a probe for each attachment!  What if I were standing with one foot in one room and the other foot in another room while holding my hands out of a window and sticking my head in the refrigerator, if I can't have a probe for every shiny thing I'm wearing it's going to ruin "muh immershunz"! 😭

oh this is definitely not something i would like. i was hoping a max of 1 only attachable to avatar center.

Edit:

and it would only update when standing still

Edit 2:

oh and if it detects it's within 10m of another probe, it'll refuse to update (unless forced to (which would be a clientside thingy))

[PBR is coming...]

this is super exciting. will we be able to wear environment probes for metallic clothing?