Second Life Windlight

New World Notes: Coming Soon: Region Control of WindLight Settings ...

Coming soon to Second Life: Windlight Region Settings , which enable region/estate owners to pre-set their land to a particular WindLight setting. Then, instead of having to give visitors a WindLight preset and complicated instructions on how to install it, as you do now, landowners can just set it ahead of time. You can try it out now by downloading the Project Viewer here .

Let content creator Ann O'Toole , who told me about this Linden Lab project, explain why this is so cool (if you haven't guessed already):

"[I]t is as easy as selecting one of your stored windlight settings in the modified estate management panel," she tells me. "Create your customized atmosphere/day cycle and set your region to it and everyone that enters gets it automatically."

Take a look at this machinima Ms. O'Toole made:

"Why is this big? Because we can now set up WindLight environments for our sim visitors. Take Bryn Oh's awesome Anna's Many Murders display , for example. It takes a lot of effort and many minutes for a visitor to use the settings notecard and properly manually create the WindLight settings for that display. With this feature, Bryn will just set the region WindLight environment up exactly how Bryn wants it seen, and everyone entering automatically gets the right and exact settings for the build/environment the moment they enter.

"We have wanted this since... the moment Windlight was released."

I hope the SL developers take a page from Phoenix and make the adaption of a new windlight optional, instead of automatic. I have greatly enjoyed the windlight popup through Phoenix the last several months, though, and I'm glad the Second Life viewer is picking it up! Even quite a few of my roleplaying sims have picked it up, in addition to Bryn's work having it already in place.

As the former main project lead at Linden for WindLight, and the person responsible for its very inception at the company Linden acquired for this, can I say how absolutely thrilled I am for this feature to finally be hitting SL?!?! This is really, truly great for land owners and all their visitors. This will finally enable everyone to experience the dramatic effects afforded by WindLight as they were truly intended. Kudos, LL, and congrats to all the resis! This will raise the immersion factor for all tremendously!

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