A future world of shadows
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OMG!!! /me drolls… Shadows in Second Life!!!!
Well, for what we can see in that video by Torley it seems shadows are the next big thing (hopefully after they fix assets servers and central database).
I know is not good that shadows are not working with prims, but well, for the moment is a good start, anyway… it seems finally we all will need a new video card with 1 Gb of memory. 
UPDATE (Jun 11th): Posted a second video by Torley where you can see clearly shadows are produced by prims too, it just left to know how alpha textures work with shadows. As you can see in the comments this will work (for the moment) only for Nvidia 8XXX cards, for the moment not for ATI Radeon or Mac computers.
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Actually, I didn’t notice the shadows only working with ground & avie… *everything* I saw had shadows cast upon it?
For example, in this pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tenebrosity/2538942312/
My avie is casting a shadow on the *prim* floor, as are the window frames etc…
Oh, Tene, i meant i didn’t saw shadows produced by the trees in Torley’s video, light over them changes, but they don’t project a shadow for what i saw. They are Linden trees, or alpha texture…
Anyway, sadly this feature will be almost only for Nvidea 8 series video cards, all the ones with ATI Radeon or Mac possibly won’t have it for what i saw in this post in Massively.
OOOHH You are right, everything produces shadow as you can see at this video: http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/2570684328/
I’ll update the post itself, thanks, Tene!
Hi Raul .. i made a comment on Torleys Blog regarding the Shadow in SL ..
http://torley.com/shadows-are-not-a-camera-trick#comment-42251
ty soo much for pointing this out .. this will make Headlines i think ..
best regards
Word
Yeah, you’re right, Word… I was taking a look at that second video by Torley and is much more clear.
hmm seems that Torley did not published my comment ; dont know why
.. it was not rude or something .. i posted a Link to that original
patch Zip file ( i uploaded it to Rapidshare as it was very hard to find
and all sites where i found a link are down) .. i also provided a screenshot
on imageshack so people can see the grain .. and some infos on my hardware ..
hmm .. mayby he keeps those infos for his tutorial video he talked about ..
if you are interested in those links and informations i can post the
infos for you if i am at home ..
Word
Oh, don’t worry, having a link possibly was considered Spam, sure Torley will fix it.