Its come to my notice especially since the new iteration that most people do not know how to get the best of their SL experience and in fact, until recently, I had avoided using the later versions because I absolutely hated certain aspects, things like the tools button not being visible and certain other problems which I won't go into now.What I can do is share a couple of tips to improve your own viewing experience and hopefully solve a couple of the common problems and niggles which are spoiling SL for a lot of people. The solutions are fairly simple and I hope with the screenshots you too can benefit.
One of the main issues I hear time and again is that with windlight your skin looks awful, the white is too bright, the colours just don't look right (I even spoke to one person who didn't realise she had been using windlight).
Go ahead and click the screenshot below it will open in a separate window so you can refer to it.
6 clicks to improve windlight settings to allow you to see colours better and without that awful glare on everything:Click 'World' go to the very bottom and click on Environment settings another window will pop out click on environmental editor, this will pop up the environmental editor; Click on the center blue button which will open advanced sky settings; there are a lot of scary sliders and things here and these can be fun to play around with once you feel more confident, but for now look near the top you will see a pull down menu it will say 'DEFAULT' when you click it a long list will drop down.
NOW this is fun to play with - lots of presets for your environment from sunny day on the beach to funky green clouds - but for now we will concentrate on getting your avatar to look the way it should - look down and click 'MIDDAY 1' then close all the windows.
Thats it; 6 steps to getting the right colours and lighting, you may think "hey hang on I don't want it to be midday all the time" but with 'midday 1' set you can change it to sunset or midnight or sunrise you will keep the correct lighting levels and will immediately see a huge improvement.
The disadvantage at the moment is that you will need to do this everytime you log into SL.
Step 2 to a better experience, this one is also new to me and solved one of the biggest problems I have had with the newer clients and its just 4 little steps that do not have to be done again once you have set it. I am talking about the camera movement - you know that awful dizzying effect that seems to be new, you move your camera but it doesn't stop when you do - focusing on an object is very difficult and for those of us that build it is a nightmare quite apart from the nauseating feeling it gives you.
Again its a fairly simple problem to fix which, since I have found it, has made a huge difference and again apart from the tools button being gone has actually made me like the new client.
Click the screenshot below, its easier to see what I am talking about if you are not familiar with the functions:
Click the edit button on the top of your screen and go to preferences at the bottom to open the preferences main window. On this menu locate the 'input and camera' tab on the left - second one down and click it. Here look for 'CAMERA SMOOTHING' you don't need to worry about the other sliders they do not affect us for now but this little slider is the one responsible for the camera continuing to move even when you don't - simply slide it to 0.0 and that annoying, dizzying effect will stop once you click 'APPLY' and 'OK'
I know a lot of people will know about these fixes but I also know there are many that don't so I hope this will help.
Feel free to leave comments if you know a better way to do these fixes without actually avoiding the newer versions of Secondlife!
Dana
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