Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Nyx Linden considers the new Materials System a topic for discussion in this user group. Geenz Spad was there so we had someone to answer Materials System questions.
Check the thread: Normal & Specular Maps. A good question came up. How will Full Bright affect the Specular Map light effect?
We got a bit more information on the Materials system this morning in the Open Source meeting.
Oz Linden created a JIRA for the development process and bug reporting. See: STORM-1905 – Add support for Normal & Specular Maps.
The STORM Project is closed to creation of new items except by Lindens. Residents can add to existing items. If you are wanting to create a new item, like a feature request, create it in the VWR or VIEWER project.
Oz says feature requests will probably do better in the Building & Texturing section of the Creation section of the forum. It is unlikely that any features will be considered for Phase I or the first pass at the Materials System. The Third Party Developers (TPD) and Lab have their hands full getting Materials implemented and working out coordination between TPD’s and the Lab.
If you have followed me for a time, you know that I have been mentioning a MATERIALS SYTEM RUMOR. Today the Lab announced that indeed there is a Materials Project. So, what will our world look like with materials? Check out the 2min video.
If the video is still showing as unavailable use this link: Youtube
OK… every one else can display the video and my site won’t… I suppose I need a plugin change.
I think this is pretty awesome. We’ll be using this on buildings and CLOTHES… oh damn, SHOES too. /Me dances looking at my feet and thinking about new shoes.