Theresa Tennyson

I didn't say that lighting isn't important, I said that the differences between lighting setups within the PBR system aren't going to be make-or-break things. The lamp from Target is going to act a lot like the lamp from Macy's because of how lamps work. Apparently, though, why should we buy electric lamps at all when we can just use candles? This is all sounding a lot like the old thread I referenced with the people saying, "Why use mesh at all?" from 2013. So, looking back - did they have a point?

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.

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.

And for remarrrrrrrkably similar reasons.

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."

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.

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.

Was the angry lady in the red jumpsuit there? She hated Mainlanders.

Mmm hmm...

That we know of...

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"I'm not in genus 'Homo', I'm in species 'Sapiens.' "

FIFY Meanwhile, I'm seriously thinking about starting a new project...

Why not "Charybdis"?

Starts with "Why..." I'm tellin' ya...

Shoulder Devil: "Say it say it say it say it say it!" Shoulder Angel: "No, let's just smile and behave ourselves."

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.

Okay, coming right up... They didn't because it isn't.

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."

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. https://www.txst.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/begging-the-question.html#:~:text=The fallacy of begging the,called arguing in a circle.

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.

And they don't understand the idea of amounts between "all" and "nothing."

Any of your posts are less than two months old. Theresa Tennyson smiles and offers applesauce and nice blankets.

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.

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."