Wildcat Furse Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I would like to use shadows for photographic purposes (but still think that my PC is not ready for it ...GT330 - i5 - 8GB) but what are the right settings to get shadows working, maybe I am just tweaking my viewer wrongly .....:smileysad: *meows* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 What viewer are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Furse Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 I am using most of the time 'emergence', otherwise 'Phoenix'... I know where I can enable shadows, but just wonder if I need to tweak other settings so I can see the shadows in-world *meows* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Set RenderUseFBO True then set RenderDeferred true. If you can't see shadows after that then your viewer is broken. ETA: these instructions are only valid for viewer 1. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Furse Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 ty Leliel, I will try that out later today :smileywink: *meows* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valerie Inshan Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 leliel Mirihi wrote: Set RenderUseFBO True then set RenderDeferred true. If you can't see shadows after that then your viewer is broken. ETA: these instructions are only valid for viewer 1. Anything similar in Snowglobe or SL viewer 1.23? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 valerie Inshan wrote: Anything similar in Snowglobe or SL viewer 1.23? The instructions are valid for all v1 based viewers from 1.20 and up. Keep in mind that the deferred rendering code in v1 is full of bugs, some times it works, some times it locks your machine up. If you want to see shadows you really should use v2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Furse Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 I am not in for V2, but going to give it a try for the shadow issue though :smileyvery-happy: ...*meows* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildcat Furse Posted April 7, 2011 Author Share Posted April 7, 2011 this works Leliel tyvm, but it eats performance hehe :smileywink:, nevertheless I am going to buy a new laptop cause I see some interesting things ahead now ..... *meows* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keli Kyrie Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I am curious about Shadows in Viewer 2. This photo was taken with Viewer 2 and as you can see "Objects" cast shadows but I do not. I was just noticing this the other day that all stationary objects cast shadows but avatars and moving objects do not. i wonder if this is a setting somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Those "shadows" you see under objects are just prims with a shadowy texture. To turn on shadows on viewer 2.4+ first go to Peferences -> Graphics and check "Hardware Skinning", then go to Preferences -> Advanced and check "Show Developer Menu", then in Develop -> Rendering check the following. FrameBuffer Objects Lighting & Shadows Shadows from Sun/Moon/Projectors SSAO and Shadow Smoothing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keli Kyrie Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Thank you. This is going to look so awesome. I am so excited! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhonda Huntress Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 leliel Mirihi wrote: Those "shadows" you see under objects are just prims with a shadowy texture. To turn on shadows on viewer 2.4+ first go to Peferences -> Graphics and check "Hardware Skinning", then go to Preferences -> Advanced and check "Show Developer Menu", then in Develop -> Rendering check the following. FrameBuffer Objects Lighting & Shadows Shadows from Sun/Moon/Projectors SSAO and Shadow Smoothing Just to also note, this is still a work in progress. You will get crashes while playing with shadows. Also, the alphs are a bit messed up still. Kerstin's viewer has an alpha texture fix you can use but it tends to blur the screen. This is standard V2 with shadows and without. Same light setting. Sun and lighting are from the stock LL 3PM setting. (Click pic for full size version) You can see more strands of hair on my forehead with shadows on that you see with normal settings. These are hidden by the ever present OpenGL alpha glitch. However the rendered hair strands are blocky and pixalated. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dora Gustafson Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 I can tell you this much, your photo is not taken with shadows enabled. The shadow under the couch looks like a prim shadow. This one has shadows from the midday sun and from a projector: the settings in viewer 2 are: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 Rhonda Huntress wrote: You can see more strands of hair on my forehead with shadows on that you see with normal settings. These are hidden by the ever present OpenGL alpha glitch. However the rendered hair strands are blocky and pixalated. That's from the Automatic Alpha masks which you can disable (or enable on non deferred) by unchecking Develop -> Rendering -> Automatic Alpha Masks (deferred). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conifer Dada Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 I'm using the latest 2.6 Beta Viewer and I got shadows to work the old way, by going into debug settings and then setting RenderuseFBO and RenderDeferred to true. The shadows seem to work better, with a bit less lag, than when I last tried them. A couple of small glitches though. 1)Although my avatar shadow is stable, if I wear a system skirt, the shadow always shows a full-length skirt even if I'm wearing a short one. 2)'Shiny' stopped working when I enabled shadows, even though I didn't change the graphics settings. In 2.6 Beta Viewer, snapshots work properly with shadows enabled. No need to 'print screen' and then paste, as before! This was taken in Damania, the perfect place to explore lighting effects: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted April 21, 2011 Share Posted April 21, 2011 Conifer Dada wrote: 1)Although my avatar shadow is stable, if I wear a system skirt, the shadow always shows a full-length skirt even if I'm wearing a short one. Sounds like a bug. You should file an issue in jira for it. 2)'Shiny' stopped working when I enabled shadows, even though I didn't change the graphics settings. Shiny still works, it just looks different, and much more realistic. Compare the spheres in this image with bump maps and shiny on, deferred on the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyralle1488303781 Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 I followed all the instructions but Lighting and Shadows will not turn on. Does this mean my system cannot handle shadows? Or is there some setting I may have overlooked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leliel Mirihi Posted May 16, 2011 Share Posted May 16, 2011 Spyralle wrote: I followed all the instructions but Lighting and Shadows will not turn on. Does this mean my system cannot handle shadows? Or is there some setting I may have overlooked? What viewer and video card? And what did you do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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