Showing posts with label PlayClaw. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PlayClaw. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 March 2011

How to use shadows in Phoenix Viewer in Second Life™

I managed to get shadows to work in Phoenix! It looks great, but it does slow down the FPS. I had no problems recording this video with PlayClaw tho.


Here's how to enable shadows:

  • Advanced menu (if you don't see it bring it up with Ctrl + Alt + D)
  • Debug
  • set RenderDeferred to FALSE  (default)
  • set RenderUseFBO to TRUE
  • set RenderDeferred to TRUE
  • set PhoenixShadowsToggle to TRUE

Graphics have to be set to Ultra to see the shadows. (Once I saw them I could lower to High, but that still gave me the same low FPS.)

When I disabled them I crashed first time, but the next time I started by setting RenderDeferred to FALSE before disabling the other two. That worked. I have no idea what those settings really do.

My own shadow didn't seem to be visible except where I had prim clothes. My boots cast a shadow. I'll have to experiment with that some other day.

I recorded the video on our porch in Fort Serenity where the Mayan Adventure begins. The Macaw parrots come from Animania.