SL Weather rumour

Has anyone else heard that SL is going to acquire a weather system ?

I heard that long ago, in beta stages, SL actually had weather but it was too complicated and they took it out.

I for one would LOVE to see changing weather patterns!

(specially if they could stop the rain from going through prims!)

As long as sim owners could override it.

Handy.

There are quite a lot of buildings that would benefit from being in the path of a tornado

The addition of weather woudl be nice, but can they keep it from raining/snowing INSIDE buildings?

I'd like to see the clouds cast shadows. Shouldn't be too hard.

At the moment the shadows in the 1.23 RC viewer only appear up to about (guessing) 30 metres away. But cloud shadows would be good.

Eventually, we could even have wet surfaces becoming reflective - but I'm not offering to work out how!!!!!

Clouds on the horizon
Raining on our parade
Tomorrow the sun will shine.

Presumably if that were achieved it might be the first step towards avvy's and other obects moving within a vehicle without have to use poseballs or being linked in.....


which would be a vast step forward.

This is a regular 3D engine doing the rain thing:

http://vimeo.com/2814500?pg=embed&sec=

/me applauds.

I guess we'll need to get umbrellas and wet see thru dresses. At least all those people with shiny skin will be able to walk around without looking funny.

The sun will come out tommorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tommorrow, there'll be sun!

I actually suggested this as a JIRA a long time ago. I still think it would be cool.

http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-2808

The weather is the only really constant factor in SL.

You cannot count on anything else (low lag, asset servers, region servers, etc.) and now you wanna take away the nice weather as well?

Bring back First Look 57575's reflections?



Ironically, this was turned off because of resource costs... but the requirements for reflections in 2007 were less than is required for full Windlight now... let alone shadows.

Argent, I've heard tales of mirrors like that still possible via some obscure debug settings. Maybe someone can recall...

Up until some time in the late 'teens or early 1.20s you'd been able to enable a somewhat less complete version of the reflections in FL 57575 using the debug settings, but trying to turn the resolution up to anywhere near full was a great way to crash your computer.

It was only stable and high quality in that single First Look release, and even then it only worked right on Mac. After that they said something like "sorry, this is not going to be supported, takes too much horsepower".

But I just upgraded to a GTX 285!

They already have weather in Caledon.







Desmond reigns!

Yes, Desmond, I do understand the meaning of "irony".

Funnily enough I was wondering about this today. I'm working on a set of rainy window textures and I was just cursing the boringly persistent dry weather in SL.

Still, I don't think I'd appreciate drizzle inside the house.

Amen, my brother!

only if we can get destructible prims and declare large swathes of the mainland "tornado alley"


not really obscure... or useful... turn on water reflections, flatten it to stillness and mount the whole world (or just your scene) sideways... Torley referenced a video of it in action

The mirror effect made any shiny prim work like a mirror. You enabled RenderDynamicReflections in debug.

Have it rain just outside the window...a moving texture on a mostly-transparent prim, or a particle effect.

This would be like the "diorama" windows featured in some houses, like my skybox. A RL scene is textured on prims located a couple of meters from the window, so you can see a parallax effect...the window frame moves with respect to the exterior scene as your point of view changes.