[sldev] Re: SL Target Audience

[Dante Tucker]

I agree with this completly. And it was quite frustrating for a lot of
people during the windlight transition. To suddenly have to strip away
graphical features you previously could use in order to get the same fps.
Luckily my computer is up to standards for max windlight settings. Though
many others felt this during the change.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Argent Stonecutter <
secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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