How to prevent the bright face problem

[Eugenie Aldrin]

Hey guys,

Does someone have an advice how to prevent that effect when your avatar is in front of the light source your face is a mess, but when you're with your back, everyhing is perfect. Is there some of custom light that can prevent that effect? 

[Cerise Sorbet]

There are a couple things you can do but none are perfect.

If the lights are attached to avatars (like face lights), you can disable them with Develop>Rendering>Render Attached Lights. That doesn't work if the lighted prims are rezzed out on the world, but you can completely disable local lights in the main graphics preferences, if you enable the Advanced button.

There is a second approach but it can affect avatars around you, and it won't really work if "lighting and shadows" (called "deferred rendering" in some viewers) is enabled.  If you make 6 prims, color them all black, enable local light on them and wear it (or rez it close to you), it will block out the rest of the local lights in your view.

If it's the sun getting in your way, you can try some of the alternative arramgements under World>Environment Editor>Environment Settings. If the available presets aren't to your liking, check out  http://strawberrysingh.com/tutorials/windlight-settings/ and http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/WindLight_settings

[Bree Giffen]

You can make a custom windlight sky preset. Just set the sun/moon to black and the ambient to white.

[Eugenie Aldrin]

Thanks a lot for the replies guys, 

I was looking for a solution that will work for the people who see me too. I'll try the options, thanks a lot!

[Chris Frentis]

It sounds to me like your wearing a prim with the emit light feature enabled. maybe check what prims you are wearing and detach everything and see if there is something doing it. there might be a transparent one in front of your avatar named something not face light. They sometimes put them in skin packs as a bit of a gimmicky thing.