✨ Feature Requests

the probes can get in the way when building turning off there selection is great but sometimes you need to turn on highlight transparent and then the whole area is covered in red spheres and boxes making it difficult, would be nice if they toggled off from highlight when there selection is disabled

Title says all the rendering is glitchy as flip I cant load Faerun for the life of it it wont even show a single object nor my maitraya avatar

I just tried the HDRI Preview feature. I did love the effect it had on the environment light, but using the HDRI I tried with (the one initially recommended by you at LL for PBR work) did cause a field to be drawn on the sky dome, which looks really funny and out of place... screenshot attached with a view from an unenclosed skybox. In my case, a simple sky-and-maybe-clouds texture there would probably be better. I'd love to see this feature evolve to where one is able to upload an EXR or HDR file and apply it to the environment. I'd also love to see the feature evolve such that... The light from the HDRI is kept but the rendering of the image on the dome can be disabled. This effect is possible to set in both Blender and Substance Painter for example, also an option to blur it. In conjunction with the above feature, combining the use of an HDRI and the animated cloud texture we already have today, and the clouds should of course cast shadows! This would be great especially when you have very small or no clouds in the HDRI texture when you choose to keep it rendered. I'd love to be able to have one HDRI above, and another one under sea surface. Combining this with the previous mentioned features could allow for really cool effects under water! The ability to set one HDRI for environment light, and a separate HDRI for "texturing" the dome. Setting this texture to a built-in Transparent texture (or a new one like that for HDRI) could be the mechanism to cause the first-mentioned feature of hiding the image of the HDRI on the dome, only keeping its light. Without the above few features, I wonder if this feature would end up only really being good when you're taking photos. Hope this makes some sort of sense... Thank you! =)

Many lower-capability devices contain very high DPI screens, such as thin and light laptops with 3k displays and integrated GPUs. The ability to reduce the render resolution of Second Life to a "1080" equivalent would significantly help performance on this class of devices. Two improvements would allow a significant FPS increase: Allow the "RenderResolutionDivisor" debug setting to have fractional values. Third-party viewers have a separate "RenderResolutionMultiplier" setting for this, but the official viewer lacks similar functionality. Expose the RenderResolutionDivisor/RenderResolutionMultiplier as an advanced graphics setting in the UI. This would allow people with very high DPI displays to easily boost their performance.

Terrain height maps use lossy compression, which causes land spikes around sharp slopes of terrain. The amount of data for the land height must be minuscule compared to all the other data in the scene these days. Make terrain lossless, and allow true WYSIWYG editing of the terrain height. Notes: This would require a server component for physics as well. This would require a step where the current lossy height map is baked down to a lossless height map.

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

Right now clouds are a 2d map that gets manipulated by sky settings. It has been this way for 20 years? The current state of the art is Volumetric - Using this for clouds would enhance skies, and could be used to overhaul the billboard 2d particle system as well.

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

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

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.