Second Life 1.20.17 - Light & Texture Problems - resolution
Here is the resolution to my prior problems with the default settings of the ‘Second Life 1.20.17‘ client that has got this new feature: Windlight.
My Problems was:
- I could not get lightning to work on my building objects - new or old.
- The sun and moonlight settings looked really, really strange.
- The default environment textures looked really bad (smured and ugly).
I’m wearing a gentle facelight in this pic that doesn’t show at all.
I got a nice tip in the comments of my earlier post but… That suggested tempering with kind of ‘advanced windlight settings’…
Since I know that most residents don’t do that much altering and I in fact sell stuff, skins for example - I wanted to solve my problems without to much fiddling - so that I pretty much see the world like most of its residents. And actually those tips didn’t actually make any difference to my particular stupid issues… But Thanks anyways… 
I realized that I had to make some minor changes to the default ‘Preference’ settings in the Second Life Client to turn my view back to “normal”.
This is how I fixed it!
To fix this you have to change some settings in ‘Preference’.
You can reach preferences BEFORE you connect to Second Life:
You can reach preferences AFTER you connected to Second Life - in world:
As you can see in the pics I started to try the new look! The Silver Skin…
But that’s information - not important!
This is what the ‘Preference-Window’ with the ‘Graphics-tab’ selected look like:
Now check: ‘Custom’
This is what the same tab looks like with ‘Custom’ checked:
The arrows point out the default settings that caused my problems!
When I changed the “Lighting Detail” to: ‘Nearby local lights’ my facelights worked again and the Sun and Moonlight looked normal.
When I changed the “Terrain Detail” to: ‘High’ all the environment textures looked as usual.
About the slider ‘Quality and Performance’ you have to choose a value regarding Speed/Nice visual performance. But this makes a lot of difference! Not regarding the problems I had but I suggest you try different levels that work with your computer and internet speed!
Don’t forget to click: OK!
Back to normal!
Here is a link to a video-tutorial about new things in ‘Second Life 1.20‘:
10 Things You Want to Know in Your new 1.20 Viewer
Tjingeling!
This was very helpful! Thanks!
The quality slider has no impact whatsoever if you’ve checked the Custom Settings checkbox.
By default, and the reason why yours wasn’t loaded was due to the defaults issued by SL depending upon
which video card you have.
Might be good to note: If you do the above, get horrible performance, uncheck
the custom settings tab, then simply go to World, Environment Settings, and pick noon. It’s kind of ugly,
but gets everything bright and doesn’t use any advanced lighting to slow things down.
I’ve found the default settings by card are typically too conservative, so it never hurts to play around with all the
custom settings. At worst, SL will crash, upon which you can restart it, then go back into preferences and undo
changes prior to going back online.
@spoofarooni:
Thanks for the input!
“The quality slider has no impact whatsoever if you’ve checked the Custom Settings checkbox”
Hmm… For me it has…
For information: This is just what I did to get things back to ‘normal’ after the ‘upgrade’…
Using the enviroment settings would show everything in noon-light and one might miss really great lighting in some enviroments…