Lighting, Shadows and Projectors, Oh My! So, now that my preferences are set and I have fine-tuned my windlight settings, I can finally take a picture!
Whew! But wait, my necklace is missing pieces and my feet show through my shoes. I even have some bald patches! And after all that work! Never fear! Open Debug Settings from the Advanced Menu and type in rendervolumeLODFactor. So I have decided to turn on shadows. Most of the time, I shoot in-world. As you can see, with Full Bright turned on all the Shadows disappear. Glow is fun to use without shadows.
The adjustment for glow is on the Texture tab of the Edit interface. You can enhance your photos with lighting. You can use a transparent texture or increase the level of Transparency on the Texture tab. When you have Lights and Shadows enabled, you get a new column in the lower right of your light’s edit window Features tab. The projector color can be played with as well for all sorts of fun and games. Now is a good time to turn off those Foot Shadows. Second Life Camera Position Tips. Some time ago I found a camera control Debug Setting I now change in all my viewers.
I’ve mentioned it in several of my viewer reviews. Recently I read an article by Penny Patton and learned some more about changing the camera position and view. That inspired me to take another look at camera settings in the Series 2 viewers. Here is what I’ve learned and what may make your SL experience better. Shopping with a New Perspective Above is an image that shows my default view when shopping. This shopping area is in a region named Diesel and an area named The Island of Milk & Cream. Scale & View If you are not into building houses, caves, vehicles, and other things that avatars need to fit within then the idea of scale and proportion is probably not one of your SL concerns.
SLV2.8.2 View Panel and Button In 3D virtual worlds scale is about making avatars and all the things around the avatar work together. How We View the World For many the default views are just accepted. Rear View Debug Setting. BootCamp Archive – Luna Jubilee. Feb28 One thing I mentioned in my last post but didn’t cover is how SL residents can self promote their content.
It’s a bit of a large topic, and wasn’t directly related to feeds so I decide to split it into is own little post. read more Jun4 Its been a few months since my last windlight. Boy was that a huge hit! This brand new one is more for the darker background photos but keeping the warmth, I named it CandleLite. I did edit the above photo so I’ve tossed the before and after version of the photo on flickr – see it here (don’t forget to friend me when you’re there!). Download Luna Jubilee’s CandleLite here Check out all of Luna Jubilee’s Windlight Settings here. Of course, here’s the awesome tutorial on how to install Windlight Settings into your viewer by Torley Linden. Don’t miss out on my other tutorials: Luna Jubilee’s Blog Boot Camp May5 The past few days I’ve been tweaking my shape to get it to fit a particular tank top from Jane.
Read more. Graphic Dix Tutorial – Local lights. Tutorial: Perfect and Easy Compositing! « -{ Royally }- My friend Laleeta requested help with how to cut out partially transparent items from their background, quickly and easily, in order to composite the image onto a different background in Photoshop.
There are a number of ways to go about this. I recently had to deal with this very issue when I was making the vendor ads with a partially transparent skirt, and I found one way (limited to SL) that works very well, very quickly! There are a few steps to this tutorial, and I went into extreme detail so that any skill level of Photoshopper can use this trick, but overall it’s very simple and basic. This should also work for gimp but I’m not sure of the exact commands on gimp. Any gimp users that can provide gimp translations, give a holler in the comments and I will add them to the post. Here’s a finished example, one of my vendor ads, the original inspiration behind figuring out this work flow. The detailed steps with pictures after the cut –> First, we start in Second Life… Tutorials