Shiny Feature?

This is probbably my first or second post in the forums so bear with me.


While waiting for my new laptop to arrive I have beent rying to figure out one thing that has plauged me for ages.

I cannot enable the shiny feature, and have no clue as to why. It is always greyed out, and despite my best efforts with toying with settings, It refuses to appear.


My first thought on this was, "its probbably my graphics card", yet others with similiar, the same, and in occasion worse ones have reported being able to see shiny.


I have a Nvidia Geforce FX 4500 OC in this little compy of mine... Its drivers are up to date, and honestly it boggles me still.

Anyone know any causes for this lack of shiny feature?

You're not missing anything.

Shiny is overrated.

I've never seen shiny either, except in pictures people have sent me.

If I remember correctly, shiny (and bump) was suddenly enable-able for me the instant I upgraded my system memory (system memory, not video memory!) from 256MB to 384MB. Goodness knows why.

Argent, with all due respect, my friend, JOO CRAZY MON! Shiny is the single biggest improvement you can make to your visual experience in SL. It's such a shame that it's usually off by default for most people. It makes such an amazing difference.

Yes, shiny is dependant on system memory and is turned off if you are at 256 or lower I believe as are a couple other functions. There is a list of compatability functions in the SL folder if you care to hunt for it.

Shiny, like other things has its good points and bad but i'd say it can add a lot to the experience if it is done well. It can also add to overall jaggyness of an object even with high end cards.

If people used Shiny with taste and discretion, I would agree with you, but *damn*. I turn Shiny on, and half the prims in some areas turn into chrome... whatever colors and textures they had originally vanish... and at certain times of day I'm surrounded by nothing by red hilights.

Some people can carry off Shiny with real elegance, applying it with restraint, with no higher a level of shininess that they need, and with High Shiny reserved for glass and polished metal alone. But they're outnumbered by the folks who have the taste of jackdaws.

I think you should get so many "Shiny points" per parcel, with High Shiny costing 5 points, and even Medium costing one, and the only way to have more than a certain minimum number of objects with High Shiny in that parcel would be to buy more "shiny points" with Lindens.

If they ever make it so you can apply Ripple Water to a prim, they'll need to have some mechanism like that or they'll turn the biggest improvement you can make to your visual experience in SL into another Bling Trap like Shiny.

Is your video card PCI? if so thats probably why.

i have a feeling that the majority of ppl donot have shiny on, then when they are playing with their biulds they say hmm wonder what this does, aww nothing oh well and there it is left on

maby they should make it where if you have it disabled, theres no option for it under the texture window