[Feature Proposal] Experience Keys, Windlight, and beyond!

[NeoBokrug Elytis]

This is an idea from my old wishlist of things I'd like to see in SL that would greatly enhance the immersion of a place. I know this is a bit of a stretch, and probably out of the current scope of the project but...

Windlight is a seldom used, but powerful feature of Second Life.  Combined with experience keys it could have amazing potential to add a whole new level of immersion in Second Life.  I imagine controlling weather with fine-grain detail, vision impairments and enhancements, and gnarley and fast changing status effects.  The sky is (literally) the limit.  So I propose the following two functions that would at minimum require Experience Permissions to work.  The idea is that they change the viewers windlight setting for whatever avatar that has permissions, that this function is called for.

llChangeWindlightSettings(key avatar, string json_or_xml, integer override);

llChangeWindlightDayCycle(key avatar, string json_or_xml, integer override);

Since changing windlight settings is a very powerful option to be done by a script, it should require permissions of some sort, and this is why experience keys would be needed,

string json_or_xml could, and probably should instead be replaced with a nice sanitized list of windlight options.

integer override should attempt to prevent the user from altering the current windlight setting, at least until a relog.  Though not required, it would be nice.

Please discuss! :D

JIRA BUG-7116

[Lucia Nightfire]

You can file a feature request with the Summary starting with [Experience Tools] which several have done already.

[NeoBokrug Elytis]

Thank you.  It is done!

[Loki Eliot]

want this too

[Lucia Nightfire]

Strangely Loki, you originally filed the feature request with https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-2284

That jira is not set to public viewing atm though, but you can change that if you wish.

[Oz Linden]

This is one that the Moles had asked for when building the Cornfield, and one of my personal favorites...

 

[Tantrica Banana]

Hello everyone,

is there any news on the windlight? 

[NeoBokrug Elytis]

I just assume that it goes to the black hole known as "WorkingOnIt Linden"

[Tantrica Banana]

maybe we just need to trigger here often enough that we want it? 

[Troy Linden]

Lol Neo

I can assure you that it's captured in our backlog of "wish list" items and has been prioritized. As Oz mentioned, we've inquired about this a few times now. I'm glad to hear you guys feel it's important too.

[Tantrica Banana]

poke: is this still on the agenda?

[Troy Linden]

Indeed it is! We just met about a lot of SL improvements and I can tell you it's still part of the agenda.

[Tantrica Banana]

aaaaaaany news?

[Tantrica Banana]

hello? is this still something being worked on? 

[LadyPetunias Audion]

Will there be a way to Opt Out of this Experience Keys?

 I am not too excited about the Experience Keys.... I do not so many permission pop ups to annoy me and I do not mind them... I mean really what I feel like one day I may not feel like the next day when I visit that particular sim. In truth, it will cause me to visit and travel around even less in SL. Managing the Keys in my SL experience would be more of a pain in the ass that a help.

[Tantrica Banana]

WIndlight in Experiences - is this still considered? and maybe even worked on?

[Tantrica Banana]

just a ping to see.. anybody out there anad stil consideriung windlight in EXP?