Shadows now in an official build!
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Shirley Marquez
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04-30-2009 09:46
From the 1.23.0 RC release notes: From: someone * Added: Add per-pixel lighting and real-time shadows to the viewer (Experimental)
This feature is a prototype of a new renderer in the viewer graphics engine. It is turned off by default. The new renderer supports only high-end graphics cards and requires a GeForce 8 or Radeon HD2600 or later, but will not work on Mac OSs. This version is a debugging prototype only and is not yet supported by Linden Lab. This is the same shadow code that has appeared in Kirsten's Shadowdraft and Boy Lane's experimental Cool Viewer, but now you can find it in an official LL viewer. Expect visual anomalies and a drop in frame rate if you enable shadows; still, they're definitely fun if you've got the hardware to make them work. |
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Briana Dawson
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04-30-2009 10:00
OooooOooo
Peter Pan....
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Jahar Aabye
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04-30-2009 10:01
Will they not work on nVidia GeForce 7 series cards at all, or just work slowly?
/me sighs
I was really planning on waiting a good bit longer to update my graphics cards.
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Zim Gunsberg
Just some guy...
Join date: 16 May 2008
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04-30-2009 10:01
This sounds cool, but what interests me more than the shadows is the per-pixel lighting.
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Five Denver
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04-30-2009 10:03
From: Zim Gunsberg This sounds cool, but what interests me more than the shadows is the per-pixel lighting. and the real bump mapping too! |
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World Undercroft
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04-30-2009 10:22
/me kicks his mac
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Five Denver
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04-30-2009 10:27
From: World Undercroft /me kicks his mac Careful, it'll get dirty. |
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Eva Ryan
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04-30-2009 10:42
Okay...so, how do you turn on shadows?
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Milla Janick
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04-30-2009 10:43
From: Jahar Aabye Will they not work on nVidia GeForce 7 series cards at all, or just work slowly?
/me sighs
I was really planning on waiting a good bit longer to update my graphics cards. Maybe on the 7800 and 7900. Don't worry, it'll be a good bit longer before shadows are ready for prime time. |
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Marianne McCann
Feted Inner Child
Join date: 23 Feb 2006
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04-30-2009 10:46
From: someone The new renderer supports only high-end graphics cards and requires a GeForce 8 or Radeon HD2600 or later, Yay! I run an HD2600! From: someone but will not work on Mac OSs. Boo! I run a Mac!
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Marianne McCann
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04-30-2009 10:47
From: Eva Ryan Okay...so, how do you turn on shadows? Apparently they deliberately did not tell any one how, "to show just how experimental it is." 
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Five Denver
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Join date: 21 Apr 2009
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04-30-2009 10:52
From: Eva Ryan Okay...so, how do you turn on shadows? It's a secret, so don't tell anybody. This is just between you and me (Everybody else turn away): In the debug settings you set RenderUseFBO to TRUE and then set RenderDeferred to TRUE |
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Milla Janick
Empress Of The Universe
Join date: 2 Jan 2008
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04-30-2009 10:52
From: Eva Ryan Okay...so, how do you turn on shadows? Debug settings, change the following to "true": RenderUseFBO Renderdeferred Enjoy numerous graphics glitches, non-functional snapshots and spectacular crashes. |
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Milla Janick
Empress Of The Universe
Join date: 2 Jan 2008
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04-30-2009 10:54
From: Marianne McCann Boo! I run a Mac! You aren't missing anything except glitchy graphics, non-functional snapshots and spectacular crashes. |
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Eva Ryan
That's Eva Ryan™
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04-30-2009 10:55
From: Five Denver It's a secret, so don't tell anybody. This is just between you and me (Everybody else turn away):
In the debug settings you set RenderUseFBO to TRUE
and then set RenderDeferred to TRUE Oooh...SECRETS. Okies, I'll keep it under my hat and not let ANYONE know. I'll be back to let you, and you alone, know if it works on a 8800 GT. |
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Dnali Anabuki
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04-30-2009 10:56
Very very crashy. This is not it.
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Eva Ryan
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04-30-2009 11:00
From: Eva Ryan Oooh...SECRETS. Okies, I'll keep it under my hat and not let ANYONE know.
I'll be back to let you, and you alone, know if it works on a 8800 GT. ACK...Yah, it works; but, my framerates dropped to an abysmal low. Guess it's time to upgrade. "Money's tight, Times are hard Here's you maxxed out credit card" |
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Ee Maculate
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04-30-2009 11:12
Doesn't work on my 7900....
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Alexandra Sadovnycha
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04-30-2009 11:44
Oh, another issue is... Well, just don't look at your eyelashes. They're horrible.
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Kira Zobel
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04-30-2009 12:20
Looks pretty good to me, except for alpha textures disappearing at times. Crashed only once so far
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DancesWithRobots Soyer
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04-30-2009 12:56
Hmm. . .the shadows move with the movement of the sun.
*Ponders
YAY!
*Begins building sundial with special "sunset marker"
No more missed sunsets!
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Boy Lane
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Thumbs down
04-30-2009 13:00
This so called Release Candidate is the worst ever that was put out by LL. Nothing, absolutely nothing is even working in parts. Not the http-textures, not shadows and certainly not the adult features. Oh, and the nice alpha issues.... <add more>
This is early alpha, not beta and not at all an RC. It crashes. I ask LL to withdraw that piece of garbage and work on the code before putting this out as a public release candidate!
I know you guys work on a tough timeline to push out 1.23 by 30th of June. But it simply is not ready for this. I call that irresponsible!
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Angel Leviathan
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04-30-2009 13:13
It looks nice on the radeon HD3650 but the fps is awful. Also as others mentioned the alpha textures vanish and clip.
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Oryx Tempel
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04-30-2009 13:15
From: Jahar Aabye Will they not work on nVidia GeForce 7 series cards at all, or just work slowly?
/me sighs
I was really planning on waiting a good bit longer to update my graphics cards. Me too.  |
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Vittorio Beerbaum
Sexy.Builder Hot.Scripter
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04-30-2009 13:17
don't be excited, 1.23 has so many bugs that's the first time i had to revert my client. grrrr
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