“Or third life orwhatever this concept is called at that point 50 years from
now if there isstill an internet (doubtful) and civilians are allowed to be in
possessionof computers beyond what they are "chipped" with.”
We have to all stand together for our rights of free speech, creativity and
don’t let them implant you chips then we all should be fine in 50 years from
now.
Just think about it there a general awakening that is happening, people start
to realize that the gov has too much power, we just need to take it back.
From: Jonathan Goodman
Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 10:49 PM
To: opensource-dev@lists.secondlife.com
Subject: Re: [opensource-dev] Project-MESH viewer
Case in point... http://www.flickr.com/photos/50275...@n04/5079086973/ The
floors have Shiny set to medium.
leliel wrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Ann Otoole mailto:missannoto...@yahoo.com
wrote:
There is no shine at all when lighting/shadows is enabled. Sorry. None
whatsoever. Full shine black is just flat black. Full shine white is just
flat white. Full shine textures are just the textures. It is completely
broken. And this, in turn, "breaks content" that was sold with the
expectation it was shiny.
Shiny enables specular highlights, not reflections. Physically the two
are the same thing, but in raster based graphics they are separate.
That weird metallic colored blob we had before was just a quick and
dirt hack, with lighting & shadows enabled the viewer will do true
specular highlights which depend on the angle of the light and the
camera in order to be visible.
I don't expect to live long enough to see real time true reflectivity in
Second Life. Like latex that actually reflects. Would be nice but there are
miles and miles to go to get that gpu capability for real time translated to
opengl and then farther to go to show up in Second life. Or third life or
whatever this concept is called at that point 50 years from now if there is
still an internet (doubtful) and civilians are allowed to be in possession
of computers beyond what they are "chipped" with.
OpenGL has been able to do reflections for a long time now, it's just
a very demanding process since you have to render the scene from the
point of view of each reflective object in addition to the camera's
view point. Older games would cheat and just render one cube map for
the whole scene and use it for all reflections, but that may not be
acceptable in sl.
Once again, the dynamic, user made content in sl is what holds us
back. There is no way to limit the number of reflective objects in
view and using more then a hand full would bring all but the current
top of the line cards to their knees. What we need is fine grain
control over how objects are rendered instead of just everything in
the view plain been drawn in full (LOD'd) detail. The shadow maps & GI
code does this with a distance based cut off. Having a distance / size
cut off for reflections would help a lot with any over use of them.
Adding in full impostors for all objects would be even better.
Over all I'd say the viewer needs to start doing some serious resource
management if we ever want to have a draw distance measured in
kilometers.
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