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Nicola Samiam
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02-12-2007 14:42
Objects that cast light (ie: by setting the light option in the features tab), aren't themselves lit in the FL viewer. The light is cast, but from an unlit object.
Anyone else noticed this, or is it just me?
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Nicola Samiam
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02-17-2007 12:38
Guess it is just me!
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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02-17-2007 18:24
I think this is affecting me too.
To be honest I'm not sure exactly what it should be like, but the faces of the lit object I made are identical to the the unlit object's faces.
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Nicola Samiam
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Join date: 22 Oct 2004
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02-18-2007 03:40
In the current main viewer, an object that has the light feature turned on displays as "bright", even if "Bright" is turned off under the texture tab.
In the First Look Viewer(s), an object with light switched on in the Features tab does not display as "bright", UNLESS the "Bright" option it turned on - which is not how it should be as far as I know.
So, it's either a bug in the FL Viewer (and it must be something to do with the FL viewer, since it works fine in my current main viewer), or an undocumented change in the way that local lighting works.
As I've said, I've bug reported it twice, and posted it on the blog, but of course there's been no official acknowledgement and there's nothing about it in Known Issues, so I guess we're going to have to wait until LL decide this is something they need to fix!!
If I were you, I'd submit a Bug Report and encourage anyone else who has this problem to do the same, which may hurry things along!
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Solar Ixtab
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Join date: 30 Dec 2004
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02-18-2007 05:38
I see it as a feature, rather than a bug. If you want an object to be "bright" then switch on fullbright for the texture. There's some cases such as when simulating spotlights, where I would prefer if the light object was not fullbright except for the lens face. Saves a prim that way.
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Nicola Samiam
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02-18-2007 09:40
Solar,
I take the point - Just wish there'd been some documentation on it, if there has been a change from the previous behaviour!
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