As the JIRA turns...
Ok, as promised, this time you get to hear a personal Char soap box spiel, followed by a JIRA.
Before I start, though, I would like to say that this is completely private opinion. I don't expect residents to immediately change anything about what they do personally in relation to anything expressed here. I don't expect SL residents as a whole to change their ways. In fact, that's what the JIRA is all about, to give everyone else a way to continue on as desired while giving me the freedom to not only grin and ignore it but to just not see it. Freedom for everyone!
First scenario: Poofers, the nice little particle spewers that happen when you teleport in somewhere and poof out happy little butterflies or other cutesy things, have been around since I was a newb. I have to admit to even trying really hard at one time to find one I could stand more than the first two times I saw it because, well, everyone else had them so they must be cool, right? I got over it fast. Now I fall strongly in the category of 'isn't there a way to just not see them without losing cool particle effects in the waterfall over that way?'
Second scenario: 'Face Lights'. The worn attachments to properly light your face so that there aren't any odd shadows marring your face and ruining the look of your makeup and skin. These cropped up around the time Windlight first appeared as an optional viewer and have just kept on multiplying. I've sort of gotten used to the discrete ones, though I had a hard time not photographing everyone during the one really bad viewer update when the invisiprims were viewable from many angles as not invisilble and dropping the photograph on their profile. I did resist.
However, that's when I learned, to my horror, that there's at least one version out there with more than one lighted prim to them. The reason this is sort of horrifying is that SL only renders the six closest light sources. When you're walking around a region that has nice light effects and you're wearing some facelight that whether you know it or not uses FOUR of them, that's pretty rude to the creators of the lovely region around you and just plain greedy. Of course, I'd venture a guess that most don't know that only six light sources render at a time, much less that they are wearing four and not one. I refuse to theorize on what percentage of the group even care. Then there are the face lights that just aren't discrete. At least one version out there has to be set to max radius of 20m with no fall-off. Its blinding and leaves even the ground beneath the avatar's feet over saturated and certainly not how anything should be viewed. It makes the details on the avatar impossible to make out, especially on lighter clothing. Honestly, I haven't looked past the sheer brightness of it all to see what it does to the face in question... most likely not the desired reaction.
Done ranting.
In my travels, I happened to overhear someone mention a third party viewer that has the option to disable attached avatar lights and also attached particles. Needless to say given the above, I lit up like an overdressed Christmas Tree and promptly went to the JIRA to see if anyone had a request out for this to be included in the main viewer! Which brings us back on topic.
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6540
Not only is it out there, there is a fix pending. There is also a patch but apparently its the type of thing where you need to be some level of uber-geekette that I haven't achieved yet, possibly including something called 'recompiling' of the client. Ok, I'm not so desperate for the fix as to risk fatally breaking my SL install so I'll have to bounce around and wait for it to hit the release candidate or full release client.
Vote your conscience, as always. If you think this is a great way to give all of us what we want (the ability to wear our facelights and our poofers and enjoy sl our way, and others to just turn off seeing them as desired) then vote for it! Otherwise, ignore it and go on your merry way. I promise, I don't take notes about who votes for any of this.
Hugs!
Char
Before I start, though, I would like to say that this is completely private opinion. I don't expect residents to immediately change anything about what they do personally in relation to anything expressed here. I don't expect SL residents as a whole to change their ways. In fact, that's what the JIRA is all about, to give everyone else a way to continue on as desired while giving me the freedom to not only grin and ignore it but to just not see it. Freedom for everyone!
First scenario: Poofers, the nice little particle spewers that happen when you teleport in somewhere and poof out happy little butterflies or other cutesy things, have been around since I was a newb. I have to admit to even trying really hard at one time to find one I could stand more than the first two times I saw it because, well, everyone else had them so they must be cool, right? I got over it fast. Now I fall strongly in the category of 'isn't there a way to just not see them without losing cool particle effects in the waterfall over that way?'
Second scenario: 'Face Lights'. The worn attachments to properly light your face so that there aren't any odd shadows marring your face and ruining the look of your makeup and skin. These cropped up around the time Windlight first appeared as an optional viewer and have just kept on multiplying. I've sort of gotten used to the discrete ones, though I had a hard time not photographing everyone during the one really bad viewer update when the invisiprims were viewable from many angles as not invisilble and dropping the photograph on their profile. I did resist.
However, that's when I learned, to my horror, that there's at least one version out there with more than one lighted prim to them. The reason this is sort of horrifying is that SL only renders the six closest light sources. When you're walking around a region that has nice light effects and you're wearing some facelight that whether you know it or not uses FOUR of them, that's pretty rude to the creators of the lovely region around you and just plain greedy. Of course, I'd venture a guess that most don't know that only six light sources render at a time, much less that they are wearing four and not one. I refuse to theorize on what percentage of the group even care. Then there are the face lights that just aren't discrete. At least one version out there has to be set to max radius of 20m with no fall-off. Its blinding and leaves even the ground beneath the avatar's feet over saturated and certainly not how anything should be viewed. It makes the details on the avatar impossible to make out, especially on lighter clothing. Honestly, I haven't looked past the sheer brightness of it all to see what it does to the face in question... most likely not the desired reaction.
Done ranting.
In my travels, I happened to overhear someone mention a third party viewer that has the option to disable attached avatar lights and also attached particles. Needless to say given the above, I lit up like an overdressed Christmas Tree and promptly went to the JIRA to see if anyone had a request out for this to be included in the main viewer! Which brings us back on topic.
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6540
Not only is it out there, there is a fix pending. There is also a patch but apparently its the type of thing where you need to be some level of uber-geekette that I haven't achieved yet, possibly including something called 'recompiling' of the client. Ok, I'm not so desperate for the fix as to risk fatally breaking my SL install so I'll have to bounce around and wait for it to hit the release candidate or full release client.
Vote your conscience, as always. If you think this is a great way to give all of us what we want (the ability to wear our facelights and our poofers and enjoy sl our way, and others to just turn off seeing them as desired) then vote for it! Otherwise, ignore it and go on your merry way. I promise, I don't take notes about who votes for any of this.
Hugs!
Char
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