BriannaLovey

I have such a big itch to recommend [redacted viewer] to people in this situation, but I will not. I suppose it is better for people to learn to find out how to mitigate problems themselves.

Some of it is also that Windows and MacOS already use your graphics processing more than they should. On Linux, I can run PBR with certain viewers at 15-20FPS (compared to 30-40 with forward rendering,) since my desktop environment is a lot more lightweight than windows. So that is always another option if you can't afford to pay tithe to the leather jacket man.

If this is with ALM enabled, it will probably be around the same. If it is without ALM enabled, then your FPS will be decreased by around 3/4 to 1/4 of what it was before, assuming you follow the antivirus whitelisting steps correctly.

The people who are unable to RTFM are many of the same people who are psychologically vulnerable enough to spend all their disposable income on virtual stuff from SL. Keep that in mind.

Every piece of software relies on its userbase in the end. I have convinced at least 15/20 people complaining in the Firestorm group about the new viewer to switch to one of 3 viewers that doesn't have Firestorm's current problems.

That is the reality of making software that tens of thousands of people use, unfortunately. Once a project gets big enough, there has to be some way to enforce accountability. The way it is done on Windows is completely stupid, but sadly most people aren't going to switch their operating system no matter how much we tell them.

They should have seen this coming though. A lot of the performance issues people are experiencing (on top of those from the new PBR engine) are coming from antiviruses as a result of Firestorm not being signed (This is entirely a Windows issue by the way, it seems that Windows likes to make developers pay a ransom fee to have their code run normally.) It would have been easy to set up a crowdfund for signing the Firestorm executable(s) to cover the cost of it, and it would cut down on at least a third of the angry users that support has to deal with. But they chose not to, and now are facing the consequences of what happens when you force users to have a convoluted experience.

The [redacted] viewer already has a PBR on/off swich and ALM on/off switch. Other viewers could borrow the code from it that allows this to happen, and it would solve many of peoples problems. But they are not going to. Content creators and end users have different preferences, it seems. Every content creator I have talked to about this has been peeing and cooming in their pants with excitement over PBR. Regular users either love it or absolutely despise it, depending on their hardware.

Obviously if the clients/users know you are doing this outright, they will throw a fit. Thankfully for you, the dishonest person, you can use allegations of simulated pedophilia to turn all the clients/users into useful idiots who agree to absolutely anything as long as it gets rid of the accused. Funny how that works out. Makes me wonder, who did Robert Bartos/dantesedmond1844 work for?

I just explained this: Yes, even a tiny GT 730 will probably render PBR just fine at the lowest settings, but not everyone has an 8x or 16x PCIe slot in their computer.

Ahh. Hypothetically it would be very easy to create a feature that converts regular textures into PBR materials anyways (by creating a material with only the base color texture and nothing else,) so it wouldn't be that big of an issue.

PBR mostly impacts people without any dedicated GPU, since it pushes your GPU harder. There are a lot of people who use laptops, none of which have motherboards conforming to any of the ATX standards. This of course means they don't have the option of installing a GPU in their system. Of course some will support external GPUs via thunderbolt, oculink, etc. but most laptops don't support this.

looool archived here in case they delete it later: https://archive.is/wb6sn

Implement age verification and real life identity verification in order to access any adult content, and change criteria of child avatars to include those who dress young or act in childish ways. Of course that would cause a ton of collateral damage, but it would accomplish what you ask. Otherwise I have no idea really.

lol that AI-generated picture they use ever so slightly resembles the trollface

Making regular textures disappear would mean altering many terabytes of legacy content stored on LL's servers. It is cheaper to keep the option than to take it away.

I talked about this in one of the threads about the new TOS changes regarding modesty patches and adult regions. SL's userbase will eventually bifurcate into those with a strong disgust reflex (who will continue inhabiting SL,) and those with a weak one (who move to OpenSim.) That is, if LL continues operating on the same incentives that caused them to make these changes anyways.

They are legally covering their ass. If they ever do allow adult content on the mobile viewer, it will likely coincide with a grid-wide age verification policy for consumption of adult-rated content.

It will probably coincide with adoption in SL with a month or so of delay, given that a lot of stuff on OpenSim is just pirated from SL.

I have explained why this isn't true so many times. I feel like I have beaten my dead horse so hard that the bones are now a fine, dusty powder. I will do it again anyways, since (I think) it is my first time in this thread. OpenSim grids don't have the same "shared experience" policy that SL has. This means a viewer could synthesize textures based on info from PBR materials, then use them as regular textures. It obviously wouldn't look exactly the same, but it would be a lot better than wood/blank/gray textures.

It really depends on the grid. Some grids are dead, some are very lively, some are invite-only so we cannot know for sure.

There is OpenSim. It is already popular among certain demographics who have been banned from SL, similar to how many alt tech platforms are popular with people who have been banned from Youtube, etc. It got a big spike after the whole modesty layer thing happened. It is likely the most viable replacement for SL as of now.

Oh I am not complaining. If you saw my past posts, you would see how I recommended viewers without PBR to people in order to help them avoid having to spend money on new hardware. I was asked to stop though :c

Sometimes people create better things when their choices are limited, and worse things when they have more choices. We will see this play out very soon.

As you wish. I will take a break!