Feature Requests

It would be Logical, with the new PBR and Enhanced Lighting, to have increased texture size 2048 x 2048, 4096 x 4096, Would be ideal! Would be so much more detail beauty depth to the realism! ty in advance!

Dear Second Life Development Team and members of our community, I would like to suggest a feature that allows users to load only the parcel they are currently on. Implementing this feature could offer several benefits: + Reduced Lag: By loading only the current parcel, the viewer would not need to process adjacent parcels, leading to a smoother experience and significantly reducing lag. + Improved Performance: With fewer items and scripts to render, users with lower-end hardware would experience better performance, making Second Life more accessible to a wider audience. + Efficient Resource Use: This feature would decrease the strain on both the user's computer and Second Life's servers, leading to more efficient use of resources. + Focused Experience: Users can concentrate on the area they are actively engaging with, enhancing their immersive experience without distractions from nearby parcels they are not interacting with. + Optional Toggle: This feature could be optional, allowing users to choose between loading only the current parcel or the surrounding areas based on their preference and device capabilities. I believe these improvements would greatly enhance the user experience and performance in Second Life. Thank you for considering this suggestion. Best regards, Jesiris Resident

The ability to assign an object as a volume to either be a mass of water, or remove water, this could work in the same manner as reflection volumes, but would allow builds to be able to be in a body of water without rendering water inside, or using the underwater shader, an inverse would also allow expanded creation of areas with sim matching water in builds that are above the sim water level

Have a built-in LOD fader (shader?) to improve pop-in on object LODs - I believe I've seen this method in various game engines but here's a 1-min video that roughly explains what I'm thinking of: https://youtu.be/HIagn2cpq-o There are a few different techniques to achieving this and I'll leave that preference open, but even a very basic crossfade between LODs would be a massive improvement over the current snapping LODs seen here: https://i.gyazo.com/b7307115165336a3fda6daafde7666d0.mp4 This might also alleviate some of the ugliness that abused LODs have (the ones that appear to be like 5 triangles in a random format from tanking the generated LOD values).

This function is available in Firestorm and is one of the biggest helpers in SL, both for shopping on full sims and for photography on busy sims. Please implement in the main viewer! Thank you!

It would be very beneficial to have a toggle to change the texture filtering on a material face to "nearest neighbour" instead of linear. (Especially for pixel art) This would allow for much better looking and efficient pixel art and is already a thing under the hood in opengl. This has been requested before but couldn't be done at the time because of database constraints for each object. But that would have already been changed with the support for PBR materials I believe.

We need this feature to bring more realism to the way point lights behave and avoid light leaks such as this one: https://gyazo.com/7118f6d694c39a9d83acbfe0ea62153a

Since you don't plan to issue us more prime to use, 15% reduction in Mesh rendering is not enough and should be increased to 25% to make an actual difference.

So when using ambiance and HDR settings, we lose the possibility to increase gamma on the Windlight settings, which always worked as a mean to increase exposure and get a proper and bright sunny day. Since we got PBR, using those settings makes shadows very dull, ambient lighting it's excesive even setting them just at 1.0 and the sun barely changes increasing it's color value above just 40. We definitely need some way to make the light of the sun stronger while keeping the darkness of the shadows because right now we have to choose between one of the two. So everything it's either too bright and lacking shadows or too dark and lacking lighting from the sun. This request goes tied to a better management of the auto exposure settings as well.

I can not build in a way that allows for daylight and shadows on mainland without someone else's skybox interfering with my experience.