To everyone asking me when WindLight will be back…

2007-07-31

A world of detail

within this month, I hope! That's an estimated schedule which is neither too slack nor stringent, allowing for some room to breathe should there be unexpected problems.

Our Project: WindLight team has been working onwards and upwards, squashing bugs and getting things in line for a First Look re-release, likely to follow the debut of Voice in the main viewer.

I've been using internal builds extensively myself. In a future phase, when sky settings become share-able assets, duly remind me to create a freebie pack of 'em. I will commit to it as gladly as I have my textures.

More soonish, yours truely will post to the Official Linden Blog with a jubilant announcement when WindLight has come back for your pleasure. Until then, enjoy s'more pictures I've taken. These are all raw and un-post-processed, taken "naked" from the viewer. :)

Dayum, this looks good to be a Dune palace or somethin'!


{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

Tao Takashi 2007-08-01 at 4:22 AM UTC

Hey, that's good news because we all miss it :-)

What I'd like to have though is a way to set a default preset for a sim because I personally probably know most how I think the sim should look. Surely it should be overridable as it is now but having a default would be great. After all not everybody is into adusting sky prefs.

Hope this will be added soon, too :-)

Beside that keep up the great work on it :-)

Smiley Barry 2007-08-01 at 5:01 AM UTC

Whee! Still can't wait, but fix the "re-teleport-after-teleport-done" bug first :( .

@Tao: Yeah, so, for example, a space sim could be always space, and not "earth" suddenly because a user selected the "earth" WindLight preset.

Storm Thunders 2007-08-01 at 5:32 AM UTC

Is there a list of planned features, a soft timeline or intended order for the various windlight features? I know none of them are promises ;) but I'm so itching to play with these…

Spikez Stine 2007-08-01 at 9:36 AM UTC

Oooh, voice on the main viewer would be nice. LOL.

Tao Takashi 2007-08-01 at 4:12 PM UTC

Well, voice is probably coming quite soon as they said that the actual first look will be the last one. I also wonder if windlight FL will come when voice first look will not be necessary anymore.. but who knows, maybe it's 2 FLs then.

@smiley: I think the user should still be able to select what he wants but it should work like Sunsite/sunrise etc. now, just use the default unless the user really wishs to change something.

Juliet Ceres 2007-08-02 at 3:10 AM UTC

How utterly broken will it be this time?

Torley 2007-08-05 at 7:55 AM UTC

@Tao: The intent is to first replace all the current day cycle control features, including setting a sunphase from the default day cycle for a region. Then, custom skies (meaning ones you modify yourself) should be settable region-wide, along with treating sky settings as inventory (which I'm so fond of mentioning nowadays).

@Smiley: I abhor that "double teleport screen" bug and we do have a solid repro for a related one, https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-438 which you may want to vote for. Our devs are working on many other bugs but I will keep bringing this particular issue up.

@Spikez: Out now of course! http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/08/02/the-second-life-voice-viewer-is-live/

@Storm: Internally, yes. I think I can share more in my First Look: WindLight re-release announcement when that comes out. :)

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