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  1. Hmmm I need to find/make myself a broken moon texture.
  2. Debatable. I prefer the other way around as I don't necessarily know in advance what my low poly will look like since the high poly is also part of my design phase.
  3. How is it going to take more time exactly?
  4. I cannot wait for this to be abused to hell...
  5. Sounds like every argument I ever have with Henri on SL things. I'm sure he has good intentions. As a creator I want to use the new features available to me to make better things, and not in ten years. I want to challenge my workflow and to be able to make cooler, faster, and better things. The diffuse slot being the same for basic shading and material already created an impossible situation for creators (a good example of a "transition period" that never effectively ended). The Official client got rid of basic shading entirely as an option, as far as I am concerned that's the "law" now. This is a good move towards unifying the visual experience for everyone and massively simplifying the rendering pipeline. Shaders are finally the only option. Sometimes, less is more. A realistic expectation would be that a legacy rendering mode is not going to provide the full experience going forward and should be considered unsupported.
  6. I've been using one of Penny's camera settings for years, to the point where going back to the default feels like a weird, alienating experience. A much flatter line of sight, closer to my avatar is way nicer to experience SL.
  7. I do want to point, keep in mind that strictly baking high to low is not necessarily the be-all end-all approach. There are a few things you should still consider even if you bake high to low: Detail elements: (studs, buckles, zipper tabs, chain links) do these really need their own UVs on the texture or can you bake just one and have them all share the same UVs. Mirrored areas: Sometimes the front and back of an object are very close, if not identical, can I get away with having them share UVs. Repeating sections: (zips, trims), these typically look bad when baked due to texture res limits, having them use a very small repeating texture is more often than not better looking. Some things are just better if baked separately: Especially when you have a lot of overlaps, areas that have natural seams between them can be separated and baked on their own. Don't forget UV seam padding: I usually recommend 4 to 8 pixels of padding between UV islands, to ensure they do not bleed into each-others, even when the texture is stuck at half resolution. UV Packing: If you have a lot of free space in your UVmap, it might be worth considering whether you could make better use of the texture space. Splitting your UVs differently, using a non-square texture size, or even slightly deforming your UV islands to make a better use of the space. Normal maps prefer horizontal and vertical seams: If you need to split an area and are worried about the seam it will create in the texture, you usually get better results if the seam is perfectly straight and either vertical or horizontal. More mirroring: You can't always use a mirrored normal map, but just because you can't mirror this map doesn't mean you can't mirror the others and effectively save 50% of your texture memory usage on these. Accents and UV optimization: If you intend on having accents that use a separate face for customization, it might be worth putting these on a separate smaller texture with its own UVs, this way you don't end up doubling the texture memory usage when the base & details are not sharing the same texture.
  8. Singling out a random creator isn't exactly a good way to stay in LL's good graces as a TPV dev. There is always that I suppose, but it isn't really promoting PBR adoption. It will look revoltingly ugly regardless, they will just assume I can't make textures rather than realizing this content isn't made for them. There was, you saw a generic primitive, I used face 0 to hold the "this is a mesh!" texture. That's all you saw on a non-mesh viewer.
  9. I might populate the diffuse slot with a small "OUTDATED VIEWER" texture. Same as I did back when mesh was rolled out.
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