No more shiny things
Published by Rob Flickenger February 10th, 2007 in Second Life
The Lindens giveth, the Lindens taketh away. It looks like dynamic reflections have been removed from the First Look branch, for the time being. From Steve Linden:
Also: if you had enabled dynamic reflections (which is still in the early testing phase so will *not* be making it into this release which is why the option has been removed), you will need to either remove the ‘RenderDynamicReflections’ option from your Documents And Settings/USER/Application Data/Second Life/settings_firstlook.xml file, or remove that file entirely (which will restore your settings to the default value). This will not be a problem with the official 1.13.4 release. Srry for the inconvenience.
So reflections will likely surface again after the official release of 1.13.4. If you want to play with the dynamic reflection code in the meantime, the source is available from the source archive (you’re looking for FL-1.13.3.57575)
Here’s a Flickr set with some more reflection experiments. Unfortunately I’m still on my laptop, so they’re not quite as nice as they would be with a decent video card. I can’t wait to see this code running on a machine that can do anti-aliasing, dynamic lighting, and ridiculously jacked up anisotropic…
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