Theresa Tennyson
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44 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:
So, unless each individual person/scene has the proper lighting and EEP settings, anything PBR wll look bad?
Probably not. It possibly won't look as good as it could; then again there might be so little difference nobody notices it. And odds are if a lighting setup makes something look bad, it'll be making a lot of other things made over the last twenty years look bad too.
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4 minutes ago, Theresa Tennyson said:
Theresa Tennyson attempts to re-write a half-finished "Fingers and toes from default skins won't work automatically with BOM but they're easy to fix" macro to read "You don't need reflection probes at all - most of the work is done automatically."
And for remarrrrrrrkably similar reasons.
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Theresa Tennyson attempts to re-write a half-finished "Fingers and toes from default skins won't work automatically with BOM but they're easy to fix" macro to read "You don't need reflection probes at all - most of the work is done automatically."
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On 2/18/2024 at 5:05 PM, Ezbeharra said:
- Get some demo garments that are scripted to activate the alpha cuts, and try putting them on and then taking them off a few times. Notice how slooooow the alphas get painted back in. A real shocker if you've switched from literally any other mesh body. Try it on a laggy sim for real agony. I just avoid things that activate alphas, which my personal style allows, but if you like lots of cover and you also change your clothes a lot this may really be a problem for you.
The Legacy body came out before BOM when "onion layers" were a lot more important than they are now. All bodies, especially bodies with "onion layers" have to be chopped up into multiple meshes to work with an alpha HUD. The way Legacy did it was to make sure that every section of their body had all the associated onion layers included in each individual mesh, which means that each individual mesh of the body is smaller in area and "thicker" than most other bodies. That's probably the reason alphas would be "painted" more slowly, and also why they showed cracks at high altitudes.
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28 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:
We need to set lighting for each and every item we wear? So... good luck mix/matching and wearing things together? Ew.
I think it's more of a case that people will have to unset current mutant lighting that was set up for the main purpose of making things not look like the crap that they were. There are a lot of places where the general lighting scheme seems to be "inside of a ping-pong ball." I usually used default ALM lighting and in a pre-PBR viewer there were many, many things, especially clothing, whose choices of "materials" were... well... interesting. PBR seems to treat lighting a lot closer to how it works in the real world.
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16 hours ago, Zalificent Corvinus said:
Back to the topic, the news that the virtue-Signalling Hub now has an exhibit of anti-mainlander propaganda from the BBB, is quite disappointing, and another reason to never go there.
Was the angry lady in the red jumpsuit there? She hated Mainlanders.
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15 minutes ago, Zalificent Corvinus said:
Lot's of things come up again and again, usually as a result of people talking out of their butts.
Mmm hmm...
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4 minutes ago, JUSTUS Palianta said:
It wasn't about you for once Midnoot. 🥰
That we know of...
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And to make a texture for the plate of your dreams, go here:
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55 minutes ago, SarahKB7 Koskinen said:I'm not British. I'm English.
"I'm not in genus 'Homo', I'm in species 'Sapiens.' "
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9 minutes ago, Extrude Ragu said:
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language modelforum poster will rarely admit it doesn't know something, instead it will hallucinate new information that 'sounds' correct.FIFY
Meanwhile, I'm seriously thinking about starting a new project...
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10 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I created my alt Laskya in 2013 because I wanted to return after a 2 year hiatus, but with a bit of a fresh start.
Why not "Charybdis"?
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Starts with "Why..." I'm tellin' ya...
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2 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:
Some residents in SL would just be much better off in IMVU
Shoulder Devil: "Say it say it say it say it say it!"
Shoulder Angel: "No, let's just smile and behave ourselves."
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15 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I honestly did not understand it was an issue until I rezzed one of my common structures. I had read about it but dismissed it with a *shrug* until then..
But seriously, what's the answer to my earlier post? Just add local lights? (These old pre-made scene builds did not have them, or need them until now.)
What kind of a build is it? Luna was talking about "Skyboxes are dark; chah..." before as if that was some sort of given. If there's some type of dome or enclosure around it you'd want it to transmit outside light or you're going to get the windowless room thing. The alternative would be to use an environment with a higher background light level, which is how things were set up before.
One of my alt relatives has a store that sells houses and she was using Catznip to take pictures of a newer model so it would look similar to the pre-PBR lighting of older models. It was striking how milky and flat everything looked after getting used to the PBR look.
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10 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
None of which represents an actual response to my point.
Okay, coming right up...
21 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:Which rather begs the question: why did they devote time and resources to developing something so badly borked that its best defense is that you don't need to use it?
They didn't because it isn't.
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4 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
Good point. I have been starting down a path of assuming probes are needed to fix the issue of "Hey! My interior is now completely dark with some EEP's!" whereas, I assume the "in the dark" issue can be resolved merely by adding an "appropriate" amount of Local Lights?
I admit that certain posts had me picture some walking into a windowless room and shutting the door:
"AAAHHH! I CAN"T SEE!
"click"
"Never mind."
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Just now, Scylla Rhiadra said:
Which rather begs the question: why did they devote time and resources to developing something so badly borked that its best defense is that you don't need to use it?
This is the reason I said that any forum thread that starts with "why" is probably going to be a dumpster fire.
And "begging the question" doesn't mean, "inspires a question to be asked," it means "asking a question with an answer that's baked into the original inquiry." Which is exactly what you just did.
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46 minutes ago, Porky Gorky said:
I was left with the question; How do I create and sell PBR houses when there is no standardized lighting model?
How do you create and sell non-PBR houses when there is no standardized lighting model?
One problem with these threads is people are talking about reflection probes as if they're required, or that things will somehow catch fire if they're not used. PBR items will work just about as well or badly as anything else in Second Life without any sort of reflection probe or other jiggery-pokery. Yes, they may not be completely optimized, but things have been reflecting some random scene that has nothing to do with the actual world for decades and as far as I can tell nobody's gotten rickets.
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6 minutes ago, Arielle Popstar said:
Stick around, as you get more experienced with the forum etiquette you will come to see the "council of judges" or the "panel of critics" as I view them. They are always defending SL, never come up with an idea of their own and only post to criticize any others who do have have the audacity to propose a change.
And they don't understand the idea of amounts between "all" and "nothing."
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2 hours ago, Midnoot said:
Im not sure what you're on about once again lol. It's like you're talking to someone else .
If you're referring to one of my posts which I can barely remember at this point ,
Any of your posts are less than two months old.
Theresa Tennyson smiles and offers applesauce and nice blankets.
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For those of you who think I'm a big mean meanie - note that I'm not saying a blessed thing about "losers" right now.
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16 minutes ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:
well if someone a rezz date less than about 13 years, you know it’s a purchased last name, and not a genuine, pre Resident one. 😂
I have a legacy last name because I happened to join something like a week before they were discontinued. I don't think it gives me "status", but it does sometimes give me a warm fuzzy nepobaby feeing of "I have something I really don't care about and I did nothing special to deserve but it bothers you that I have it and you don't" when I hear... some people... complaining about "last-namers."
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On 2/11/2024 at 11:56 PM, Love Zhaoying said:
I DO write/say "hyperbole" more than "hypocrite", don't I? But that could change, I wrote "hypocrite" at least 4 times today!
Oooh, "hypercrite." Let's do this...
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Why I Don't Like PBR
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Posted · Edited by Theresa Tennyson
When you buy a lamp in real life, do you go do elaborate tests with what you already own before you buy, or do you go, "If I'm wearing this sweater I need to store the lamp from Target and get out the one from Macy's"? Probably not.
In fact in real life you probably don't even notice light and color rendering. Daylight, fluorescent light, incandescent light and LED's all make light of different colors and they do have effects on color rendering if you're doing something mission critical. But when you're walking around someplace you probably don't think about it too much because your eyes have "automatic white balance." Most of the time? Light is light.
Of course, if someone lit a room by setting up a dimmed Fresnel with a Roscolux #93 Blue Green gel for the general lighting and then blasted the chair you were sitting in with a spotlight with a #43 Deep Pink you'd certainly notice it, and you'd see things look crazy. But if somebody's doing that, they're trying to make things look unnatural.