Tag: light

  • SF Textures

    Not one, but two new textures sets this time, as extensions to the existing SF textures sets. Dark SF Set 5 is a darker and slightly cleaner set that is partly a variant of the textures from Set 4. There are 45 textures in all, mostly at 512×512 in size. Light SF Set 1 is…

  • Second Life Prim Lights – 2

    After the previous introduction to prim lights, let’s look at some technical (but not too technical!) background, and a few things about the lighting system which are not immediately obvious: The graphics system which Second Life uses (OpenGL if you are interested) only allows 6 lights to be visible at any time. If a new…

  • Second Life Prim Lights – 1

    In Second Life constructions few things are more misused and misunderstood than lights, full-bright, and glow. In this post, I’ll start looking at lights (!), and I will cover full-bright and glow in subsequent posts. To begin with, let’s create a simple light. Start by rezzing a sphere, which will act as the light source.…

  • Not An Introduction to Second Life Prim Lights

    This is dedicated to those knowledgeable and helpful folk over on the SL Universe forums, without whom this post might never have been written. This is not the post I was going to write. I was going to give an introduction to using Second Life prim lights. Because I needed some illustrative snapshots, I created a simple…