Global Illumination and Shadows demo - Second Life Viewer 2 Beta, March 2010

[tom120ali]

L.A Noire uses Global Illumination technology, looks great.

[kitsune0video]

really nice effect. i want know why all these features arent already in the sl2 official viewer -.-

i think its time to change after this looong time to release a second version lol

i like your videos, i go to subscribe to they :3

[OpensourceObscure]

@kitsune0video these features ARE already in the SL2 official viewer :-)

If your hardware supports them, you can enable them, as explained in my tutorial.

[kitsune0video]

@OpensourceObscure yes, like in the normal viewer that also support shadows and GI. but i mean "oficially" and not in debug option. i think is time to set all these features available for alls.

anyways i cant use it, my GPU (nvidia 6600gt) dont support geometrical shaders D:

[kitsune0video]

@OpensourceObscure yes, like in the normal viewer that also support shadows and GI. but i mean "oficially" and not in debug option. i think is time to set all these features available for alls.

anyways i cant use it, my GPU nvidia 6600gt dont support geometrical shaders D:

[TheSleazySaint]

@OpensourceObscure Is this feature experimental. My computer gets unreasonably loud when turning this feature on.

[OpensourceObscure]

@TheSleazySaint Yes, still experimental as in "not officially supported". Linden Lab improved it since I made this video. It MAY be that they release it officially when they release Meshed, later this year.

About noise, I suppose it comes from CPU and/or graphic card fans. That'd be OK.

This feature is probably the most computing-expensive in the SL viewer. Your pc works MUCH harder when you enable Global Illumination, it produces more heat, and the fans need to run faster, making more noise.

[angeltiger1986]

how did you get Global Illumination to work? O.o I did managed to get shadows to work on regular second life and kirstens viewers.

[OpensourceObscure]

@angeltiger1986 Global Illumination is in Viewer 2, in Develop menu, under Deferred Rendering. See my video tutorial "SL Viewer 2 Beta - SHADOWS & PROJECTIONS" for more details. After you enable Deferred Rendering, you can try to enable Global Illumination. Sorry but Youtube won't let me put the direct link to the video right now ;0

[MatheusMK3]

@OpensourceObscure What is your GPU??? I'm on lastest Kirstens (S20-40) and I can't enable GI yet.

Radeon HD5550

[OpensourceObscure]

@MatheusMK3 I use a GeForce GTX 260 - I always suggest to choose Nvidia for Second Life when possible. ATI cards may be a better overall choice if you also use videogames, but if the only 3D software you use is Second Life, I'd say go with Nvidia.

[MatheusMK3]

@OpensourceObscure Got GI working now, only had to update my driver... =)

[rockerfaerie]

this makes me very happy :)

[csven]

Nice.