A new First Look viewer was released this-afternoon. This viewer contains the preview code for the Windlight sky-rendering technology. If, like me, you don't have the option to enable vertex shaders, you'll see all fog and clouds vanish, and an accompanying improvement in frame-rates. The sun will also be slightly different, but it can take a long time to process and render the new sun and sky which may leave the vertex-shader-less looking at a big blue box for ... well, for me, it was about 15 minutes.Those of you who have the vertex shader option enabled in your preferences (EDIT > PREFERENCES > GRAPHICS DETAIL) should see something far, far different.
The First Look browser is a beta-test browser that runs against the main (agni) grid. If it eats your inventory, your files and your dog, that's at your own risk. You can download the First Look viewer from the usual place.
1. this experimental section will be overhauled and streamlined in the weeks to come, so please don’t invest too much time in making presets. Our intention here is to give you a quick way to recall personal favorites.
Hopefully, sky presets will be treated as any other content, will have copy/mod/trans flags and will have their own market. There is a issue for this on official Issue Tracker: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-247
Posted at 11:59PM on May 29th 2007 by dandellion Kimban