What Second Life Now Looks Like With All The Features Turned Up Full (Video)

Let's start off the week with some geek-centric eye candy, shall we? Shot with a SpaceNavigator mouse by Adeon Writer (who also made the brilliant camera sharing hack) this is a flyby through a fantastic looking place in Second Life called Blue Galaxy, created by Ash Soyinka. [Direct SLurl at this link] Adeon shot this with all the current features of Viewer 2.0, such as dynamic lighting, tweaked to full. In my opinion, the final results hold up to just about anything on the market, in terms of 3D graphics and artistic craftsmanship:

Hardware-wise, Mr. Writer used a AMD Phenom 9950 Quadcore with 8 gigs of RAM and an Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 graphic card. Which is a pretty studly system to run things with. Second Life in the cloud, anyone?

Comments

[John Branch]

First reaction: The sequence reminded me of long unbroken shots in movies, except I'm not convinced it compares favorably. Does it really need to be unbroken? Edits would give it some rhythm. (Sorry that's off-topic.)

Second reaction: I envy Adeon Writer's hardware. Everything got rendered quickly and nicely except, I think, one spot near the end where I saw 2-D tree sections. (Sorry that's off-topic too.)

Third reaction: Viewer 2.0 looks pretty darned good. (Finally on-topic!) I'm not sure how different it is from the 1-series viewers b/c I haven't read that much about it, and my hardware isn't capable of rendering the 1-series imagery fully anyway. But I like what I see.

[L Knoller]

Very nice. Has LL added full UI suppression in V2 already, or was it fixed (cropped out) in post? ... oh wait there it... never mind

[Lissa Pinion]

When I first upgraded to a better laptop and could actually slide my graphics to high and ultra w/out crashing, I was amazed at just how much more beautiful sl is.