[sldev] Re: SL Target Audience

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-05-29, at 10:05, Eric M. Tulla (BigPapi Linden) wrote:
> If you keep the renderer at a level that is greater than the old  
> one, of course it will be slower.  However, the entire point of  
> this discussion is how the windlight renderer (without the fancy  
> stuff) affects *low end machines*.

Yeh, I got that. I'm not actually talking about performance, I'm  
talking about basic quality issues.

Like, low end machines didn't make water a flat untextured plane,  
before Windlight.

Which means that you really can't compare them at "comparable"  
settings. Windlight at the lowest settings is faster, but it's not as  
good an experience.

I'm not arguing for or against Windlight here, just pointing out that  
you're never going to get an apples-to-apples comparison that will  
make everyone happy. You just have to get some kind of crude  
aproximation.