WindLight 2

By disabling lights and running in a window 800x600 pixels I upped my framerate by ten, giving me... uh... 10.4 in one bad spot. That's do-able for the mean time, and things might be quite a bit better when WL hits the regular viewer (I persist in believing we are getting lower fps because we are running both types of clouds in First Look, even though I have nothing to base that on).

Shades of the Olden Days, when Gravity had signs (and the hosts repeated) "Gravity is best viewed with local lighting on." Almost everyone ran without local lights as it was a big framerate hit, but too, most people would try it out in Gravity (required a relog) at least once to see what the difference was. It was nice when some SL graphics changes became possible without a relog, and even nicer when hardware lighting came along. If we decline to the forgotten levels of the past and have to forgo HL that will be a damned shame. I have a new computer coming, but most people won't want to do that. Still, I'm jumping the gun here as it's a First Look - a preliminary view.

I made a first stab at personalised sky/lighting. Will make a quick movie and upload.

Click here to watch 'WindLight2'

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