Question about Windlight Settings

In another thread that degenerated into a wrangle about facelights, it was noted that custom Windlight settings are fixed...they don't follow the normal SL day/night cycle. I've started using custom settings, and I really miss that.

Here's my question: If you brave the Day Cycle editor's mysteries and develop a set of custom settings for a whole day, and then save it...will it cycle through the day following the estate clock, but using your settings?

Hi Lindal~!!!

Yes...... If you brave the day/night cycle editer (which I did after some tweeking and to my delight I discovered it becomes your default once you save it!)

Anyway....the short answer is yes.....the day/night cycle follows estate time.....you can 'test' your settings by running a full cycle in what ever time frame you choose.....but once you have a series you like, and you save and load it......that's it. Your custom day/night cycle will run as YOUR DEFAULT from then on.
It's a very handy little tool once you master it......and tho it only permits us to save one full cycle at a time.....you CAN change it and re-save/reload it as many times as you want.
One thing I did notice is it's pretty touchy......one thing I need to go back and do with mine is eliminate some of the settings I used that are too harshly contrasting because it can be a bit of a shock when the sky suddenly changes from a balmy blue mid day setting to sudden sunset! LOL I think, after living with it a while....it's probably best to take one really cool setting.....then adjust that one setting by saving it in a few different sun and lightness/darknesses......and then using that in the day/night cycle so the flow of settings will be smoother.
Anyway.....let me know if you'd like some help....windlight is my favorite thing to play with in SL. LOL

Thanks, Milla, I will...or is there a tutorial on this somewhere?

When I played with it, I had the darndest time figuring out how the keyframes worked. I still don't think I do.

Lindal I sent ya a note.....but I just froze in-world for, like, EVER LOL and had to log out.
I'll be on later tonight EST tho.....look for me.

Oh wow. I forgot about that windlight atmospheric editor stuff.

Can we exchange settings yet?

The most i have ever done is turn on the Ghost setting.

You can exchange settings by giving someone the respective .xml file in SL's folder... somewhere in one of the subfolders.

Oh bleh...it should manifest itself as a setting in our inventory that we can send to one another and then right-click to activate it or something - digging around in sub-folders is so bleh.

This is the intended implementation. However, this is also LL we are talking about. Sharing xml files is just a workaround till they finish windlight.

Yes thats right, windlight is not finished yet, I said it There is still a good handful of intended features that are half done.

Right now the only way to share the xml files in SL is by pasting the contents into a notecard to pass around, or in a forum post. A few people that have websites have made them downloadable, but you still have to then go manually put the file into your SL directories - pain in the ass, really.

I've got ... like a zillion pre-sets I've created that I'd be more then happy to put in a zip file and email to anyone interested..... I have no idea how to post them to a web site.....or I would put them in my flickr account to share *shrug*. It is a bummer that we can't do this yet via in-world exchange......but......I'm sure that will change in the future.