Update Linden Homes and their regions for PBR
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Kristy Aurelia
With PBR being rolled out, Linden Homes should be updated:
* To use PBR textures
* Have pre-placed reflection probes for each house
* Region and parcel default environment presets updated with PBR compatible settings.
* Reflection probes setup for public spaces (if needed)
Having Linden Homes updated with PBR features would show off the capabilities of PBR, as well as give people an example of how Reflection Probes should be setup in variety of house configurations.
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Ai Austin
The placement of one or more suitable box shaped reflection probes is important to make things look "right".
Ai Austin
Link back to a GitHub issue on the flattening of the reflections of some mesh parts in Linden Homes. E.g. internal steps versus flattened refection. https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/1522
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Abnor Mole
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Abnor Mole
Thank you Kristy.
We obviously do have a desire to convert as much as possible to PBR as the new standard, and that does include Linden Homes. The difficulty is in the scale of such a task and the resources required in the conversion... which are daunting. 125 house models, quality assurance checks, deployed across 2000+ regions... it all adds up incredibly quickly.
Some content (such as the metal campers naturally) would benefit more from the conversion to PBR than others. Even so, the homes and the content around them still look remarkably good in an PBR environment despite not being PBR themselves.
We are not saying we never want to convert our Linden Homes to PBR, only that given the benefit vs the high cost of resources required to facilitate that change it isn't a priority at this time.
Kristy Aurelia
Abnor Mole Yeah, it would take some effort, but should be worth it in the end. Oh and add PBR terrain to the list too ;)
Nexii Malthus
Abnor Mole it would be best to split it up into two distinct goals:
- Updating houses with reflection probes
- Updating houses with PBR textures
Having reflection probes is a critical task for things to look correct to users and would have the most value. Updating them to PBR textures would be nice but not give as much benefit as you say. Probes are a different story however.
Coffee Pancake
This is essential.
Don't forget to make the metal campers actually shiny now.