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SL Weather rumour
Maklin Deckard
Disillusioned
Join date: 9 Apr 2005
Posts: 459
05-11-2009 13:15
From: Conifer Dada
There are quite a lot of buildings that would benefit from being in the path of a tornado:D



98% of the mainland.
Jackie Silverfall
One Happy Man
Join date: 28 Mar 2009
Posts: 687
05-11-2009 13:47
No desire for weather. At all. Jackie
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Salazar Jack
Nova Albion native
Join date: 12 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,105
05-11-2009 14:00
Total and complete Grade AAA Prime Premium Utmost desire for all shapes and sizes of weather. Totally. I mean it. Salazar

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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
05-11-2009 14:03
I want Runitai's water back.
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Lindal Kidd
Dances With Noobs
Join date: 26 Jun 2007
Posts: 8,371
05-11-2009 14:16
From: Jackie Silverfall
No desire for weather. At all. Jackie


You want vacuum?

/me checks to see if her space suit is still in her inventory.
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Ephraim Kappler
Reprobate
Join date: 9 Jul 2007
Posts: 1,946
05-11-2009 14:31
From: Lindal Kidd
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.

Trouble is my landlord is doing such a sh!thot job of working the virtual, virtual horizon around my joint, it would be a shame to obscure it totally. In the meantime I've gone down the road of painstakingly trickling an alpha channel into a rainy windowpane texture. (I sometimes wish a charitable griefer would come along and beat me unconscious with a blunt prim.)

Seriously, I'm sure weather will come one day but I tend to think we are at a corollary of the silver screen movie era: one day all of the wonderful ambience of RL will be at our disposal to bend and shape in the SL environment - and we will take it for granted just like we do at the movies.
Salazar Jack
Nova Albion native
Join date: 12 Feb 2004
Posts: 1,105
05-11-2009 14:36
From: Ephraim Kappler
...I tend to think we are at a corollary of the silver screen movie era: one day all of the wonderful ambience of RL will be at our disposal to bend and shape in the SL environment - and we will take it for granted just like we do at the movies.


/me nods thoughtfully in the affirmative, taps cane on shoe and wanders off into the distance. (fade to black)
Whimsycallie Pegler
Registered User
Join date: 28 Apr 2006
Posts: 1,003
05-11-2009 14:37
I loved the weather.. I only remember noticing it on help island. Maybe by the time I came that is the only place they had it. It was fun to be caught in a rain shower there and to have windy times come up.
Ephraim Kappler
Reprobate
Join date: 9 Jul 2007
Posts: 1,946
05-11-2009 14:51
From: Salazar Jack
/me nods thoughtfully in the affirmative, taps cane on shoe and wanders off into the distance. (fade to black)

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Pocket Pfeffer
Vide Cor Meum
Join date: 19 May 2007
Posts: 586
05-11-2009 16:29
From: Ron Khondji
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?


Here here..... I live in Ireland and em...no sun here of any description really... I think I only log onto SL to try to feel what nice weather might eh..feel like... This might be taking realism a bit too seriously... :D
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Ian Nider
Seeds
Join date: 20 Mar 2009
Posts: 1,011
05-11-2009 16:31
From: Pocket Pfeffer
Here here..... I live in Ireland and em...no sun here of any description really... I think I only log onto SL to try to feel what nice weather might eh..feel like... This might be taking realism a bit too seriously... :D


I kinda can feel the SL weather... I'd love to see more of it. We don't get much snow in Australia, so it was awesome when everyone had their snow out for the Nth winter.
Tegg Bode
FrootLoop Roo Overlord
Join date: 12 Jan 2007
Posts: 5,707
05-11-2009 23:55
From: Argent Stonecutter
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.

Shouldn't be a problem to add it back in then, people can always turn it off :)
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