PBR Materials Are Here

[Cristiano]

This blog post from LL goes into great detail on the upcoming change to the rendering system in SL. It is a pretty major change, and I am excited at the possibilities.

PBR Materials Are Here

Greetings Residents! Over the next several weeks PBR Materials will be rolling out across the grid. For those who do not know what PBR Materials are already, this post will explain what they are, how to use them and the benefits they bring. This announcement is particularly of interest to residen...

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[Veritable Quandry]

Everything is Pabst Blue Ribbon now?

 

[Soen Eber]

Yeah, I'm going to have to recite "Physically Based Rendering" over and over again to get THAT image out of my brain pan. It's not even a good beer

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Casey Pelous]

Yeah, I'm going to have to recite "Physically Based Rendering" over and over again to get THAT image out of my brain pan. It's not even a good beer

Let me help you with that ...


(I am told that is the WA State Anthem.)

 

[Free]

Mirrors are here!

 

[Cristiano]

Mirrors are here!

They are rather wonky atm with avatars - they are not realtime and quite blurry looking:

It is not exactly what I was expecting, but it is progress at least.

 

[Sid]

Who needs a mirror in SL?
One can cam to every single freckle on once body and blow it up screen wide.

We have lightning features since forever and a day, and a lot of creators/merchants still can't handle that properly.
It will take at least a decade before PBR will be mastered.

Versailles mirror rooms will be the next new black.
For now the only achievement is that midday looks very pale and the water looks terrible at midnight settings everywhere.
I won't poke it with a stick in my products in the near future (not that I create much lately).

 

[Free]

Who needs a mirror in SL?

Who needs anything in SL?

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Monica Dream]

too long, didn't watch (seriously -I've gotten to hate tech videos. I feel like I'm being held hostage for them to get to the point over some shit I could probably skim if it was in a proper article )

...ANYWAY...

I materials, what else does PBR offer apart from reflections? I'm kinda feeling the same way Sid does over here.

I probably will include it in someshit or another tho -once I wrap my head around it (took me ten years to grok materials so 'not any time soon')

 

[Soen Eber]

I don't think I'll be any good at creating my own materials but I do see some materials are offered in the building & object components section of marketplace. Does anyone know where I can pick up materials for different glass effects, such as for a crystal ball or stained glass? Is there a separate marketplace for materials outside of sl market place where you can download materials for import to SL?

 

[Soen Eber]

I found the below for generating materials from images, I'll have to try it out.

 

[Cristiano]

PBR has officially launched:

Second Life PBR Materials Official Launch

Today is the official release of the literal new shiny in Second Life, PBR Materials! With our weekly grid update, all of Second Life will now be capable of using PBR Materials in the Second Life viewer. The goals behind the PBR Materials project are increased visual realism, keeping with industr...

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[Cristiano]

Inara Pey : A simple introduction to PBR materials, reflection probes & GLTF in Second Life

"Second Life is about to undergo something of a revolution in terms of the viewer’s rendering capabilities and – in the future – other capabilities as well as, after around than two year’s worth of development and testing, Linden Lab has deployed physically based rendering (PBR) into Second Life ...

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[Conifer Dada]

Potentially the new PBR viewer looks really good.
But . . .
It has messed with my daylight settings, which all need to be redone. I revised one setting and the result was good.
One problem though, is when I'd got the realistic daylight setting, all the artificial lights indoors became much brighter.
Another problem is that alpha clashes, when you're looking at two alpha objects, one in front of the other, seem worse.