- Strawberry Singh, "Tutorial - Taking high-res blog snapshots for intermediate users"
- Dylan Rickenbacker, "Some Hints on Taking Pictures in Second Life"
- Luna Jubilee, "Boot Camp: Photography Preparation"
The strange reverse silhouette is expected, an effect of the Windlight setting. The bug is the darkening of the top portion of the image. If the boundary were curved, it would be like a bad commercial for sunglasses, or a commercial for bad sunglasses.
It's not just horizontal:
And it's not just along one axis, or even just once along each axis:
Needless to say, this is highly frustrating, and is not doing at all well by SL photographers. I hope you'll consider voting for VWR-7672.
P.S. Especially now that it's been pointed out, you'll see it in photos I've put up in the relatively recent past.
UPDATE: Experimentation seems to show that the culprit is the "global illumination" setting, or more accurately, turning it on provokes the bug.
UPDATE: Even more accurately--the global illumination code seems to be written to work with the size of the SL client window. If you specify a photo larger than that, you see the effect on the photo. To check progress on this issue, take a look at VWR-24178.
6 comments:
Maybe its just certain types of video cards, snapshots taken with my eVGA GeForce GTX460 doesn't do that, and I'm using the latest drivers.
It also could be because of Linux
Oh, and I was about to ask you why your images looked like they were spliced together.
I've never spliced images together--though it would be fun to take pictures in SL and try one of those programs that does splice them together to get a huge panorama.
Also, I don't think it's Linux; if you look at the JIRA entry, some of the people reporting the problem are running XP and Vista.
I tried doing the "Hi Res Snapshots" like some of the others suggest, both in Phoenix 1.5.2.725 and the LL Beta 2.4 client, and I don't seem to have that problem. Also, Setting it to "hi res snapshot" gets the same file size as not setting it.
I use "custom" and set the resolution explicitly.
I adore the photo. I calculate the weight of each breast using the formula
0.5236 x diameter cubed
Where diameter is in centimeters. I assumed 16 inches or 40 centimeters.
I got 33 liters or 30 kg or 66 pounds.
That's one helluva huge boob! Thanks!
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