On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:42:27AM -0800, Kelly Linden wrote: > I admit I only briefly skimmed the jira. I was mostly reacting to the panic I > saw here. I don't think it needs a permission request in the case of parcel > owners, but that is just my personal opinion. I do believe the environment > should be promoted to being part of the content and not part of the viewer, I > think we get more amazing in world experiences that way.
+1 WindLight settings should have made a shared experiece a long long long time ago. For years people have been complaining about delivering half-work, about not finishing it! It is no different than whether the region default is midday, sunrise, sunset or midnight (or anything in between). A *shared experience* is an important part of Second Life, it is even mentioned in the TPV policy as being of major importance, something I whole heartedly agree with! To me, it is crucial to know that my friends, when we are exploring, see the same thing as me, so that we can react to it and weave a story around our collective experience, without that I have to ask: what is your draw distance? what is your environment setting? :( Hence, all windlight settings should at LEAST be part of the region default and be set the moment you enter, without popups or permission request by default. I suppose that some people do NOT want a shared experience and to live in their own little isolated world. Well, can't deny them power over their own viewer, so there should be an opt-in to ignore windlight settings (and keep the current one). But may I remind you that there is ALSO no opt-in to ignore the music url of a parcel, and keep the one you have set? More important questions are these: * Who can change the windlight settings? * Should there we windlight settings per estate only, or per parcel as well? And things that I would like personally are things that promote sharing windlight settings: * Allow windlight settings to be 'traded' like objects. It should be possible for ANYONE to create their own windlight setting (that only they see at that moment) and then "hand that over" to friends, or to the estate owner, or to a parcel owner, or just keep a collection of them to play with. -- Carlo Wood <ca...@alinoe.com> _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
