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1.9.1 : Lights, Occlusion, Jigglyprims, Transparent Shiny
Burke Prefect
Cafe Owner, Superhero
Join date: 29 Oct 2004
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05-09-2006 05:25
FRick. Forgot the obligatory poll.
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Mad Wombat
Six Stringz Owner
Join date: 21 Jan 2006
Posts: 373
05-09-2006 05:35
I have a built-in fire extinguisher in my pc (watercooling).

But to be frankly, I don't think there will be a huge performance impact. You can always turn off the new features.
FlipperPA Peregrine
Magically Delicious!
Join date: 14 Nov 2003
Posts: 3,703
05-09-2006 05:36
A friend sent me an advance release of the soon-to-be-released nVidia Forceware Drivers:

http://www.fetedinnercore.com/nVidia_Drivers_84.22.zip

Feel free to grab 'em, I'll leave 'em up for a few days. They'll work on most modern nVidia cards EXCEPT for the 7800 GTX; however, use at your own risk!

Regards,

-Flip
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 4,107
05-09-2006 09:33
Oooo! I got on the preview grid & it was nice! Abbotts was there, so I TP'd over & got to see occlusion culling work. Was nifty! Starts off laggy at first for about a second or two then WHAM- my fps increases! :cool:

Got to play around with the flexi-prims. Also neat, but I wish they were able to be solid just for one reason... Funhouse. It would've been neat to make a jiggly, bouncy floor like in the old walk-through Funhouses. :D
Damanios Thetan
looking in
Join date: 6 Mar 2004
Posts: 992
05-09-2006 09:38
From: Tod69 Talamasca

Got to play around with the flexi-prims. Also neat, but I wish they were able to be solid just for one reason... Funhouse. It would've been neat to make a jiggly, bouncy floor like in the old walk-through Funhouses. :D


I think you can come close to this effect by doing some small pushes timed with some flex movements using llSetPos or llSetPrimitiveParams, on collision of a solid invisible nonflex bottom...ehm..,

you can script this effect. ;)
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Michi Lumin
Sharp and Pointy
Join date: 14 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,793
05-09-2006 09:58
From: Mad Wombat
I have a built-in fire extinguisher in my pc (watercooling).

But to be frankly, I don't think there will be a huge performance impact. You can always turn off the new features.



They already turned them off for you :)
Michi Lumin
Sharp and Pointy
Join date: 14 Oct 2003
Posts: 1,793
05-09-2006 10:11
ok. Here is the nitty and the gritty from Zero Linden, (engineering):


From: someone

Zero Linden: the changes in UI don't mean that we've scrapped all shaders - just some of the options are being delayed -- and in the end we may be able to deliver all those shaders without all that UI -- depends on how they test out on various PCs

Zero Linden: but, short answer: no, shaders aren't being permanently scrapped

Zero Linden: we are not permemnently removing shaders - only some of them got taken out o this release

Zero Linden: indeed - we just need to get them looking good in all cases!