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Windlight Water
Shelly Oanomochi
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Join date: 9 Sep 2008
Posts: 5
09-10-2009 10:45
Okay, maybe it's just me...

I can run all other scenes for windlight (such as the sky settings) just fine, but when I go to change the water nothing happens except the bottom of the water changes (water fog) but nothing happens to the surface. I've had this issue forever I just never really though too much about it till now and I'd like to get it running so that I can take better pictures.

I followed Torleys tutorial (located here: http://secondlife.com/my/whatnext/video-tutorials/?lang=en-US) named "WINDLIGHT: Change how water looks". I did notice that when I go to the EDIT->PREFERENCES->GRAPHICS-> Raise my Performance to Mid or High, and Check the "Custom" box, then I cannot check any box below where it says "Bump Mapping and Shiny". Everything below that box is faded out and I cannot select anything.

I am running the following:
Second Life 1.23.4 (123908) Jun 11 2009 15:16:56 (Second Life Release)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (1496 MHz)
Memory: 2038 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (Build 6002)
Graphics Card Vendor: Intel
Graphics Card: Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator
Windows Graphics Driver Version: 7.14.0010.1437
OpenGL Version: 1.5.0 - Build 7.14.10.1437

Is it my computer or do you think that I am doing something wrong?

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,
Shelly
Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
09-10-2009 10:48
Graphics Card Vendor: Intel
Graphics Card: Intel 965/963 Graphics Media Accelerator

This is your problem. Is it a laptop? If it's a desktop, you probably want to invest in a video card that doesn't suck dirty swamp water.
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Shelly Oanomochi
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Join date: 9 Sep 2008
Posts: 5
09-10-2009 11:12
Yes, it's a laptop.
Argent Stonecutter
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09-10-2009 11:19
Then I guess the answer is, you're stuck. There's some alternate viewers that might work better, based on the 1.18 code base. The Nicholaz "Bleeding Edge" viewer is often spoken well of.

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Shelly Oanomochi
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Join date: 9 Sep 2008
Posts: 5
09-10-2009 11:20
Okay, thanks for your help! :-)
Veritable Quandry
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Join date: 23 May 2008
Posts: 519
09-10-2009 12:03
You don't have hardware support for pixel shading, which creates those effects. I have the same problem with my old laptop.