Moving shadows

Posted on: June 10, 2008

Experimental excitement. I missed being able to roll into the shade for a long time. Now, this slice of joy returns — you might say: "Let there be WindLight, and now there is darkness."

More videos are appearing, lindseywarwick, davidgross, and somatika have shared the shadow-world through their eyes.

This'll be grand for sundial fans.

21 Responses to “Moving shadows”

  1. Colin Kiernan Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 11:39 PM PDT

    That is awesome. Is that going to be in a first look viewer soon?

  2. Coyote Cortes Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 2:03 AM PDT

    Great :) thats I think the last missing element in the Windlight viewer.
    At least it would save us alot prims with shadowtextures on it.
    Can't wait for this to have it released ^.^

  3. Otenth Paderborn Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 4:08 AM PDT

    @Coyote #2 Don't jump the gun. Watch it again–no shadows for the prim objects in the sim.

  4. Raul Crimson Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:11 AM PDT

    Even, as Otenth remarks, there is not prim shadows (except attached ones) i think is a great start. I'm really excited about shadowing.

  5. Opensource Obscure Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:35 AM PDT

    @Colin
    I don't expect to see it soon.
    https://lists.secondlife.com/pipermail/sldev/2008-June/010479.html

    Right now you have to download a specific subset of the source code and build it by yourself (or use a 3rd party viewer built by someone else).

    Also, you must have a Nvidia 8xxx/9xxx graphic card to use this.

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  6. Dynamic Shadows in Second Life « The ARCH Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:39 AM PDT

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  7. Coyote Cortes Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 5:47 AM PDT

    @Othenth I really thought I saw all objects shadow up in lindsey's vid. Anywayz, it's great to see things like that. It does, like Arch says, make things quite nice… Just hope for most people SL doesn't end up with sys req. like Crysis and progs like that :)

  8. Torley Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 7:28 AM PDT

    This isn't planned for a First Look viewer *yet* but there is a DIY patch out there in the wild some Residents have applied.

    There *are* prim shadows! Look, look carefully and watch the linked vids made by fellow Resis. :)

    I'll post another video shortly making this more clear. Or shadowy.

  9. Tenebrous Pau Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 8:01 AM PDT

    All prims cast shadows on all other prims & land. It really does add a lot of atmosphere.

    At the moment only the sun & moon cast shadows though; local lights don't.

    Now what I'm really waiting for is depth of field *nod*, *nudge* :)

  10. Marianne McCann Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 8:06 AM PDT

    A shame dat shadowdraft dun work on Macs at all. I'd love t'play with it!

  11. Mimzy Runningbear Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 8:48 AM PDT

    Me and My Shadow, strolling down the avenue… how cool is this!!!

  12. Otenth Paderborn Says:
    June 12th, 2008 at 4:10 AM PDT

    I've seen the other videos now (including yours!) that show the prim shadows. Very impressive!

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    June 13th, 2008 at 5:32 AM PDT

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  14. Torley Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 7:35 AM PDT

    @Tenebrous: "Depth of field" reminds me of one of my longtime requests for a "long exposure" camera in Second Life. ;D

    Thanks for checking it out!

  15. chruschef Culdesac Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 3:38 PM PDT

    Where can we find this patch?

  16. Connie Sec Says:
    July 6th, 2008 at 11:35 PM PDT

    Ill be looking for the patch too.

  17. chruschef Culdesac Says:
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:40 AM PDT

    yeah.. I'm running some real extreme hardware here,
    GTX280, 790i nVidia board, QX9775 for all my gaming needs.. It'd be real nice to get some shadows in SL:)
    …(if needs to be compiled, I don't mind :D)

  18. Try out the Shadows exploration « Daniel Voyager’s Blog Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 9:18 AM PDT

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  19. Mystik Menker Says:
    September 6th, 2008 at 4:26 PM PDT

    i surely hope Prim Shadows will be re-used in SL again, i love to build and also love the extra features, i saw on SLwiki that they removed it after the beta version and it won't be coming back anymore… stupid, it's such a waste of a nice extra feature!!!

    Greets from the furiendly jackal

  20. Mystik Menker Says:
    September 6th, 2008 at 5:39 PM PDT

    Oh hi again, i've found some nice videos on youtube of Dynamic Shadows in Second Life… they look really awesome, i really hope this is gonna be in the future releases of the SL client, don't know how the shadows looked in the older beta releases but i'm sure this is gonna be sweet, even better i think!!!

    Another greet and a paw from the jackal

    BTW Torley, i love your tutorials!!!

  21. Torley Says:
    September 14th, 2008 at 12:07 PM PDT

    @Mystik: Thank-you for watching my tuts!

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