Render Roadmap

See Also

Viewer Roadmap

Projects

Stability

• Render Stability#GL Cleanup
  • Clean up remaining GL State setup
• Render Stability#GL Abstraction
  • Remove dependencies on vendor specific extensions
• Hardware Preferences
  • Combine all hardware related preferences
  • Separate detail preferences from advanced controls
  • Include button to restore recommended defaults
• Hardware Benchmarking
  • Suite of tests to determine recommended settings based on actual hardware performance
  • Generate shaders based on benchmarking results

Performance

• Avatar Optimizations
  • Optimize and LOD joint transformations
  • Provide a low LOD version of avatar mesh with minimal performance cost

Visual Quality

• Sculpted Prim - Phase 1: Complete
  • Improve variety in Second Life using textures to deform primitives (spheres)
• Media on a parcel
  • Support HTML, textures, and other URL formats for parcel media
• SpeedTree
  • Improve trees
• Infinite Terrain
  • View the terrain out to the horizon
• SL Lighting
  • Design and implement a long term scalable lighting solution
• WindLight - Phase 1: Complete
  • Improve the look of skies and environmental lighting in Second Life
• SL Materials
  • Support multi-texturing, normal mapping, etc
  • Per-prim textures, movies, etc
• Puppeteering - On hold
  • Puppet-like avatar controls