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== Environment Settings == | == Region Environment Settings == | ||
Environment settings control how the water and the sky (including the air around you) are rendered in Second Life. In earlier viewer versions, each user could choose to either: | Environment settings control how the water and the sky (including the air around you) are rendered in Second Life. In earlier viewer versions, each user could choose to either: | ||
* Use the Second Life default environment settings (the default choice) | * Use the Second Life default environment settings (the default choice) | ||
or | or | ||
* Use personal settings | * Use customized personal settings, but which other users could not see | ||
Without publishing complex instructions on how to duplicate personal settings, and having others apply those settings, there was no way to share distinctive environments. | :Without publishing complex instructions on how to duplicate personal settings, and having others apply those settings, there was no way to share distinctive environments. | ||
With this viewer, the default choice is still to use the settings provided by Second Life, but | '''With this viewer, the default choice is still to use the settings provided by Second Life, but a region manager can customize the region so that any user in the region (using a viewer that supports this feature) will experience the same customized environment.''' | ||
A number of pre-defined settings are provided as examples of what is possible, but each user can create their own settings and either use them as personal settings or apply them to any region for which they have Estate Manager privileges. | A number of pre-defined settings are provided as examples of what is possible, but each user can create their own settings and either use them as personal settings or apply them to any region for which they have Estate Manager privileges. | ||
Revision as of 19:35, 31 May 2011
This viewer is being shared as a test of the new Region Environment controls.
Region Environment Settings
Environment settings control how the water and the sky (including the air around you) are rendered in Second Life. In earlier viewer versions, each user could choose to either:
- Use the Second Life default environment settings (the default choice)
or
- Use customized personal settings, but which other users could not see
- Without publishing complex instructions on how to duplicate personal settings, and having others apply those settings, there was no way to share distinctive environments.
With this viewer, the default choice is still to use the settings provided by Second Life, but a region manager can customize the region so that any user in the region (using a viewer that supports this feature) will experience the same customized environment.
A number of pre-defined settings are provided as examples of what is possible, but each user can create their own settings and either use them as personal settings or apply them to any region for which they have Estate Manager privileges.
Creating Custom Settings
There are three kinds of settings that may be defined:
- Water Settings
- control the color of the water, how transparent it is, and how turbulent it is.
- Sky Settings
- control the color of the sky, the color of the light, the color and behavior of clouds, and how hazy the atmosphere is.
- Day Cycles
- a sequence of (up to 20) sky settings that allow you to control how things look at different times in the Second Life "day".
Each of these types of settings can be edited, and saved as a named 'preset'.
Note: in the current version of this Project Viewer, the editing functions for Water and Sky presets are not yet complete. You can display any existing preset, but can not modify them or create new ones. This limitation will be removed as soon as possible, and a new version published.
To create, modify, or delete a preset, select the appropriate menu under the World→Environment Settings→Sky presets... (or Water or Day Cycle instead of Sky).