Comments on: Windlight First Look viewer looks…. amazing

By: Darius Sartre

Darius Sartre — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:31:18 +0000

Hmm… I do see something messed up though. The brightness and color is way off on this viewer. It usually is a lot darker on the normal viewer, but this one has been set with brightness off the scale. Looks nice with the environment, but blacks and greys look totally washed. Could be the Mac version, but still annoying.

By: Darius Sartre

Darius Sartre — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:27:06 +0000

No… Actually, I’m not sure how the flag was made. I believe there is actually wind effect now, but those flags were made before this WindLight feature existed.

By: TD Goodliffe

TD Goodliffe — Tue, 29 May 2007 23:05:41 +0000

I’ll be downloading this shortly, but is that flag fluttering realistically in the wind?

By: Crissa

Crissa — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:37:14 +0000

The first look viewer intentionally doesn’t pick up your preferences from prior versions. The idea is that the new settings test better from a known start position. This also solves the problem with incompatible configurations between the Beta, First Look, and Release clients.

You can just save and copy over an older configuration file to the new first look viewer file and it will attempt to read it, though. This works 90% of the time, and is what I do.

By: z3rr0 Zeluco

z3rr0 Zeluco — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:43:34 +0000

This viewer is a tad buggy… but the difference in experience is incredible. This and voice… OK, and maybe some more realistic avatar rendering, and I’d be in heaven.