The foot shadows have improved a lot in the latest updates so it may not be so important now but it may come in handy in certain situations. It won't remove them as they are effectivly prim attachments but you can make them invisible. ts not hard to do but you will need to change a parameter in a configuration file in SL. Worse case sinario is you will have to reload SL if something goes wrong.
Go to:
C:\Program Files\SecondLife\app_settings\viewerart.ini
Look for "foot_shadow.tga 14e8a47d-1055-0a68-5d55-eafd9ad3da5b" should be at the bottom.
See that long number string? That is the shadow texture UUID. If you change that UUID into a clear texture UUID, it will make the shadows invisible,
Changing the value to:
" foot_shadow.tga 44b45f4f-a5a9-6e2d-4956-60c37ad8b0e3"
(no quotes) will make them disappear. If you save the old value on a note you can plug it back in when you want the shadows back. Why the heck LL can't add this option is beyond me but this will work for now.
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Kathmandu Gilman
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11-10-2005 06:50
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Camille Serpentine
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11-10-2005 07:00
wow!
Thanks Kathmandu! I always hated those foot shadows. They look horrible in adcopy for items. _____________________
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Kris Ritter
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11-10-2005 07:04
 j00 r00l! (btw, dunno if its my video card/settings/whatever cuz I didnt much bother checking in between crashes but the first thing I noticed about the new foot shadow implementation is that it makes all invisiprim shoes look shite. For me, it I see the heel shape nicely cut out of the shadow.) |
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Annah Zamboni
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11-10-2005 07:38
Can I change the foot shadow to be red carpet? That way everywhere I go they'll have rolled out the red carpet for me!
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Kris Ritter
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11-10-2005 07:39
Can I change the foot shadow to be red carpet? That way everywhere I go they'll have rolled out the red carpet for me! In theory, I guess so! If you upload any texture and use the key where Katt details, I imagine it'll show that instead? |
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Kathmandu Gilman
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11-10-2005 07:43
I can't take the credit although I did verify that it works. Cid Jacobs mentioned the location of the file in another thread, I just made it easier to find.
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Annah Zamboni
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11-10-2005 07:44
Hmm, only problem is it will show that for everyones feet?
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Logan Bauer
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11-10-2005 07:45
Cool idea! Just outta curiousity, this would be entirely client-side, right? Meaning, I would see no foot shadows on myself, or anyone else, but everyone else would see my foot shadows and their foot shadows still, right?
I tried to do something similar to this to change the textures of Linden trees, can change them, but only locally, in my client... _____________________
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Kathmandu Gilman
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11-10-2005 07:45
Try it and let us know. I think they are rectangular prims on the bottom of the foot.
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11-10-2005 22:49
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Noel Marlowe
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11-16-2005 22:45
Ahhh shoot! When I saw all the other informataion in there for the different pose *.bvh files I was all excited. Finally, a way to customize animations without needing animation overriders! So I created a quick script to fetch the inventory key for an animation of mine and then i plugged into the file. *sigh* A pity it didn't work.
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PetGirl Bergman
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11-16-2005 23:25
Can someone help me I am in a Mac or better use a Mac.-))) Where can i find this in my system.. change it??
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Intent Unknown
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11-16-2005 23:41
Can someone help me I am in a Mac or better use a Mac.-))) Where can i find this in my system.. change it?? Pls someone??? Find the Second Life application icon (it's probably in your Applications folder). Control-click it and choose Show Package Contents. From there it's in Contents->Resources->app_settings->viewerart.ini |
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PetGirl Bergman
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11-17-2005 00:46
Ohhh never seen that before.. and now when I have found it and see it - what shall I do with it??...
OK OK I know I am a user not a scripter  )When I click on it.. its tells me. no software to open it by... Pls... cont the education.... |
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PetGirl Bergman
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11-17-2005 01:10
Ahh I DID IT!!..
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Kurshie Muromachi
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11-17-2005 01:35
Cool! Thanks for the tip!
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PetGirl Bergman
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11-17-2005 02:39
After doing this change - My SL software crashed completly.. sad but true..
Only chance was to download a completly new version.. I did probably something wrong.. Maybe some of you clever nice guys - can tell me exactly how I open the file in a Mac system.. and change it. in the simple text software or a word doc or... |
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Noel Marlowe
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11-17-2005 04:04
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Noel Marlowe
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11-17-2005 04:06
After doing this change - My SL software crashed completly.. sad but true.. Only chance was to download a completly new version.. I did probably something wrong.. Maybe some of you clever nice guys - can tell me exactly how I open the file in a Mac system.. and change it. in the simple text software or a word doc or... You should just be using a simple text editor. You might have entered some extra formatting characters that caused SL to crash when it tried to read the contents of the file. |
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PetGirl Bergman
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11-17-2005 05:27
They help you in the office to play SL? Waaah? Where do you work? I want to work there. )) The men (boys) at the company are so cute to me.. I always get help... wonder why...Marketing/Advertising.... But I must spank them now.. something got wrong.. . DDD**** I TELL them THAT!!.. and retry (later)....tks again.. |
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Eep Quirk
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03-11-2006 02:22
In theory, I guess so! If you upload any texture and use the key where Katt details, I imagine it'll show that instead? |
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Strife Onizuka
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03-19-2006 18:02
I tried doing this for the crosshairs but it doesn't work; SL still uses the original texture key. :/ Settings.ini UIImgCrosshairsUUID mad_rabbit_key (get it... cross hare  )_____________________
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Eep Quirk
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03-19-2006 18:08
Awesome! Try this
:UIImgCrosshairsUUID 1edfa815-30ba-e4c0-3d09-225efaec9e8e |