Glow effects not working...
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Cedric Easterwood
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10-05-2008 23:58
As a builder, I find it an impediment to not be able to see every effect i add to my products. For some reason, I can't make the glow effect in textures work. I can raise the number, but I see no changes...
I tried fixing it in prferences under graphics, but it is faded and does not let me click it. Is there something wrong with SL? or is it me? Please help!
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Clarissa Lowell
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10-06-2008 00:21
Over in the texturing forum they could probably help you more with this. I think they have topics like this.
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Liandra Hellershanks
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10-06-2008 01:45
From: Cedric Easterwood As a builder, I find it an impediment to not be able to see every effect i add to my products. For some reason, I can't make the glow effect in textures work. I can raise the number, but I see no changes...
I tried fixing it in prferences under graphics, but it is faded and does not let me click it. Is there something wrong with SL? or is it me? Please help! If I understand what you're asking correctly, nothing's wrong with SL or you, your video card simply doesn't support the glow effect. |
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Marcush Nemeth
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10-06-2008 02:13
I haven't tested this yet, but it might be incompatible with some other texture features, similar to how setting transparency cancels out certain features like "shiny".
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Chaos Borkotron
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10-06-2008 02:19
you can force set it to "on" in debug options somewhere, it will either work or crash
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Qie Niangao
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10-06-2008 02:30
From: Liandra Hellershanks If I understand what you're asking correctly, nothing's wrong with SL or you, your video card simply doesn't support the glow effect. Possibly, although it may be dependent on selecting some other Graphics preference that's currently unselected. With both the RC4 and 1.20.16 viewers, I don't see a "Glow" option anywhere on the Graphics tab, so I'm wondering if a viewer upgrade may be worth a try. Just by trial and error, it looks like "Basic Shaders" needs to be selected in order for Glow to work. If selecting Basic Shaders is impossible, then yeah: either the graphics card or its drivers just can't make the grade for Glow. |
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Cedric Easterwood
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10-06-2008 03:27
well, from these answers, my graphics card is the problem... (Thank you Vista, you wonderous POS) thanks everyone. Now, I'm off to learn Blender! lol
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TigroSpottystripes Katsu
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10-06-2008 08:21
if the issue is drivers, good luck finding drivers that work, and if the issue is the hardware isn't powerfull enough to do glow, good luck getting the money to buy some that is  |