Let there be light

Hi
Well, my monitor sucks. There, I said it.
As a result, now that I have that newest tester version viewer running, I'm walking about in the dark most of the time unless I use the "midday" setting which does horrible things to people's faces. Sunset is bright orange and sunrise and night are pretty much black.
My graphics card can be adjusted to crank the display (my monitor settings are already at their max) but that tends to wash things out and then has to be reset when I log off. It doesn't really help with the twilight and night settings anyway.

What other ways can I get more light onto my screen until I can get a new monitor? I noticed that local lighting helps. At The Place That Must Not Be Mentioned, even the nighttime setting works perfectly well so some locations seem to have additional light that is missing elsewhere.

Someone mentioned facelights. Where do I find low-radius ones? Are there other ways of carrying around light without blinding people or adding to lag?
Are there some graphics preference settings that I should try (local light is on)?

Any pointers much appreciated.

...Someone mentioned facelights. Where do I find low-radius ones? ....

MystiTool.

But don't run out and spend a few hundred L$ until you've tried making your own.

1. Rez a sphere. Reduce it to oh, say about 0.1-0.2m.
2. Apply a transparent texture to it, or use Qie's transparency script. (You might want to wait on this until the last step, to keep from losing it.)
3. Position it about a meter in front of your face. at about eye level.
3. In Features, enable light. Change the color to be very slightly on the reddish side. Enable falloff, and set it to around a meter or two. Set intensity at around .6 - .7.
4. Set world to midnight, and play with the settings until you're happy.
5. Take the finished light back into inventory. Now, wear it on your chin or nose. Use edit to reposition it if needed.

Or if all that's too hard, IM me in world and I will send you a copy of my homemade light.

[EDIT] Oh yes...and in WindLight, you can adjust your gamma and ambient light intensity and nighttime lighting levels to help compensate for your weak monitor.

When I tried The Windlights, those fearures were grayed out for me. I'm guessing my Creaky Video Card didn't allow those changes?

Leave work early

I'm getting sort of paranoid now that anything I create might look totally different, depending on who's looking at it.

Hi
Well, my monitor sucks. There, I said it.
As a result, now that I have that newest tester version viewer running, I'm walking about in the dark most of the time unless I use the "midday" setting which does horrible things to people's faces. Sunset is bright orange and sunrise and night are pretty much black.
My graphics card can be adjusted to crank the display (my monitor settings are already at their max) but that tends to wash things out and then has to be reset when I log off. It doesn't really help with the twilight and night settings anyway.

What other ways can I get more light onto my screen until I can get a new monitor? I noticed that local lighting helps. At The Place That Must Not Be Mentioned, even the nighttime setting works perfectly well so some locations seem to have additional light that is missing elsewhere.

Someone mentioned facelights. Where do I find low-radius ones? Are there other ways of carrying around light without blinding people or adding to lag?
Are there some graphics preference settings that I should try (local light is on)?

Any pointers much appreciated.

The shaders I see in Windlight really do change everything since they at least try to imitate light coming from a certain direction. Full light saturation is now possible. Glow allows light to really look like lights. I like it. The rare times I go back to the old client I'm seriously annoyed by the cartoony flatness of it all.

Feel free to be papanoid because that's already true. I have a screenshot somewhere when I had the standard client and Windlight running at the exact same time on the exact same monitor and the differences were HUGE in some places. (O_O)

I honestly LIKE the new shaders and find the shadows to be way more natural than the 'natural' flat colors from the old client. I'm too noobie to SL to be addicted to the cartoonish look of facelit avatars in the old client. Too many airbrushed supermodels for me. (>_<

Glow is wonderful. I'm like a kid in a candy store, on my way to "Glowtard."

I agree. I used the regular client the other day, and I'd forgotten how flat and, well, "murky" everything looked.

Mari

Today I got tired of the difference in water color between the 'ocean' and the estate where I live so I used Windlight to change the water color

There are some WL settings that we can tweak. Leave work early

You just want me groping around in the dark.

B.

I don't think it is her WL settings you are wanting to tweak.


And she's on to your plan:

This is weird, because I have the opposite problem. When I switched to the Windlight browser, everything was all of a sudden way too bright. Anything light-colored near a light source suddenly glowed too bright to see it. I'm getting sort of paranoid now that anything I create might look totally different, depending on who's looking at it.