The Icons of My Second Life Have Been Undone By Shadow

Now that I got a deck that can run dynamic shadows, I need to do some remodeling of my favorite things in Second Life. Namely my official Snowcrash monolith, made four years ago with an artificial shadow dramatically baked right in. But now when the sun hits from contrary directions, the shadow of Snowcrash just seems silly. At least my second favorite object, a giant tamagotchi pot plant, cheerfully emits a natural shade. (Among other things.)

Comments

[Jovin]

Let the lesson be - never buy un-modifiable objects with shadow-prims bolted on (and don't sell them either).

[Robbie D]

... that plant needs watering Hamlet! :-)

[Commizar]

I like that you call it a deck. Very shadowrun.

[Arcadia Codesmith]

I don't believe dynamic shadows are in general use enough to warrant widespread replacement of baked goods just yet. It may be a consideration for your personal space, but I wouldn't rip apart our retail outlet only to find that the final version looks bland and flat to people without shadows enabled.

[Adeon Writer]

There's been talk on Jira of flagging prims as a baked shadow so they can go invisible when real shadows are turned on.

[Lili]

I recently removed all my shadow prims and have begun replacing my textures that have baked on shadows. I've already started receiving complaints though. Apparently there are a lot of photographer/screenshooters who don't have the horsepower to see linden shadows. Perhaps it is a little early to make the change, but after seeing real shadows I can't stand to see baked ones.

@Adeon Writer
That would be really awesome. Is there a jira opened for this already, so we can vote?

[Hamlet Au]

Thanks Commizar! Usually I'd feel pretentious for calling it that, but this Alienware really deserves it!

Don't worry, Robbie, I watered Kona Gold before taking this pic! I wouldn't neglect him (much). Then again, have you had brown leaf before?

[Nexii Malthus]

The best shadows are perhaps those that are subtle shading and therefore compatible with shadows rendering.

And yeah, a significant ton of people can't run shadows yet on their hardware, so a switchover any soon will be fraught with complaints about people making their builds look more crappy than usual.