Comments on: Secret Shadow Settings in New SL Viewer?

By: squishypaint aabye

squishypaint aabye — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:16:22 +0000

umm i did it and it works great… shadows look fantastic…. however…. i lost my eyes!! no seriously… i can see right into my head! nothing i can do brings them back….. everything else so far seems to be okay though

By: Occasus

Occasus — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:59:15 +0000

When I try to do this, all the renderuseFBO does is make the floor completely disappear when I zoom in. I’m not sure why it does that.

By: Draven Hellmann

Draven Hellmann — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:35:30 +0000

My specs are as follows:

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
RAM: 2Gb
CPU: Core2Duo 3.0Ghz
Video Card: ATI HD4670 1Gb DDR3

Shadows run nice and smoothly, using Emerald Viewer with no lag what so ever for me. O.o

By: wedding gift

wedding gift — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:59:16 +0000

shadows are not really for anyone .Just Like Blue Mars.

By: KellyM Watkins

KellyM Watkins — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:15:02 +0000

I tried to use the shadows in the 1.23 viewer and lagged like crazy. Then I download the Kirsten S18 viewer and its super smooth. Was able to walk, fly, even race a car without any troubes. I am using a Pent 4 PC with Nvidia 8600GT 256mb Graphics card with 1279 MB of ram. So it is do-able on the Kirstens viewer.

By: Prof. Archie Lukas

Prof. Archie Lukas — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:48:20 +0000

Kirstens s16 and the new s17 viewer have shadoes,
mostly for the best part of a year – with an Nvidia chip 7800 or better.
I get shadows on my modest kit and the S16 viewer runs faster than Lindens jobbie.

By: Ari Blackthorne

Ari Blackthorne — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:10:54 +0000

/me snickers.

The whole “Direct X 10 Compatible video card” business should be a MASSIVE clue. First of all, Macs don’t use Direct X (Thank GOD).

Second, Direct X 10 is only available on Windows Puke…er.. Vista.

“Shadows” in the middle of the Sahara Desert aren’t worth *that*.
Hell, even Microsoft pretty much admits what a bomb Vista is.

By: Reality

Reality — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:20:56 +0000

Jenny, this code has been in the clients since about 1.21 or so. It is not a “hidden feature” at all as it is INCOMPLETE.

It WAS mentioned within the 1.23 RC cycle release notes at one point and was STILL being treated as Alpha code – others at least got it to a somewhat stable Beta, probably the code you see now.

Please, do not bolster false information (“hidden Feature”) as fact until you’ve done your homework.

By: Froukje Hoorenbeek

Froukje Hoorenbeek — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:03:50 +0000

I have tried all the shadowviewers before, they all made me crash. Except for the new snowglobe viewer, my Nvidia 8800 GTX handles it perfectly. Yeah! A picture can be found here: http://dutchiesotherlife.blogspot.com/2009/06/shadows.html

By: Ann Otoole

Ann Otoole — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:11:36 +0000

Sorry. No shadows for Macs. And shadows are not really for anyone with less than a nvidia 9800 or better anyway. Just Like Blue Mars.