[Official 2023 Second Life Halloween Video Contest!]

Keeba and the Tiny Maniacs - Recorded Live at Raglan Shire 

 

[Environmental Enhancement Project (aka EEP!) Feedback Thread]

There are a lot of reasons floating around so I would like clarification. -  Did we get EEP because

1) Windlight would no longer work with some SL upgrade?

2) People wanted to sell skies?

3) People were complaining that other people were "stealing" their skies?

If it was number 1 - I can accept that - but not what it's been replaced with. If it was 2 or 3 .............

[Environmental Enhancement Project (aka EEP!) Feedback Thread]

23 hours ago, Nathan Zetkin said:

Can we revert and fix it back the way it was?

I sure hope so - because this is just plain ugly.  I love new toys  - but I wasn't prepared to lose EVERYTHING just to put a picture on the moon or buy skies on marketplace.

Didn't anyone check to see what the new lighting was going to do to existing content?  Most people run around on midday - and the new default lighting is extremely unflattering.  The colors are all off, the effect of "scattered light" is totally gone, the clouds have no depth,  and it seems that I'll need to bring my own water texture everywhere I go because the default water is now equally transparent at every depth.  

I can import my old windlights but,as the Lab well knows, they're not even similar in the new viewer - AND - it's a big pain in the butt to have to fix the lighting and water every time I move to another parcel.

The UI is impossible to work with. It's so huge that I can't see what I'm lighting.

So, there's my two cents.

 

[Environmental Enhancement Project (aka EEP!) Feedback Thread]

I just happened to have a video clip of how windlight worked originally.  I was making an odd sky at the time - so you don't get the full spectrum - but note the controls - No color picker boxes- just sliders - and you could watch your surroundings while the lighting changed. Just one step to start editing - and no save or load or ok when you were done. Just close the editing window and get on with it. 

The biggest pain with the EEP interface is that you have to start from scratch instead of adjusting  what you already see. That's a HUGE drawback if you do a lot of seat of the pants filming.  The biggest heartbreaker is that the lighting seems to have lost it's dynamic range. 

 

 

[Environmental Enhancement Project (aka EEP!) Feedback Thread]

Okies. I can see the fun of Kitty Moons and Pizza skies, but there seems to be no way to move the sun or moon around without first loading your own preset.  What am I missing?

Also - the Environment Editor is WAY too large.  Since the overall result is a mixture of the three variables - I need all three open. Anyway of getting them onto sliders - or doing something with that massive environment window? I can't see what I'm lighting - 

 

[The “What Second Life Means to Me” Video Share Project]

Second Life - My own private Idaho!

[the current state of the art in Video Capture tools]

You have built in capture with QuickTime. Under the FILE Menu choose >New Movie Recording. Your file will be OSX compatible and will give you some indication of how well your Powerbook will handle machinima. If you're doing OK - it's the same companies providing the same screen capture software as you find referenced on the wiki that Thinkerer referred you to- nothing really new to report. Most have demos you can try before purchase.

[Linden Lab is building a NEW virtual world]

If I'm comprehending correctly - Two years ago, The Lab realized that the only way to get out of a hole was to stop digging.

YAY!!

 

Adding two minutes of Steve Jobs from 1980 - describing what should be - or once was - the vision for Second Life. - http://youtu.be/LxX6rg7Lw1g

[Test Out New Search, Delivering More Relevant, Faster Results]

Logged on - no chat bubbles? No names over av's heads? And still, no HUDS (they're worn - and don't show even in show transparent).   Didn't even get to search once I realized I couldn't communicate.  Relogged with Snowglobe (the only viewer on this iMac, OS10.6.7). Now I can't interact with anything and I'm a cloud. Yes - I did all the normal routines and got every trace of V2 off the computer.

I'll do a clean install of Snowglobe and that should solve it. 

 

[List your Youtube or other Machinima broadcast channel :)]

NITWACKET

 

Another wootberry!

[Which iMac / MacBook Pro to get all photo effects?]

I haven't run into anyone yet who can get shadows, depth of field or even Antialiasing to work on a Mac - any Mac - even a mac Pro. Kristen's viewer supposedly got around the problem - but it  crashes my iMac when I try to enable shadows.  At this point, I'd be happy to see sculpts rendered properly - or textures to stay put.

 

So - if anyone out there is actually using a Mac with shadows enabled - speak up now!