Featurettes (Mirrors, PBR Terrain and 2k textures) are now available to all of Second Life.
Realistic Mirrors are finally in Second Life! PBR Materials reflections are great too, but they are not mirrors.
PBR Terrain is now available on private regions, which is a first step towards making the ground look much more lush and immersive.
2048 x 2048 (2k) textures - 4 times bigger than 1k are here to stay!
Additional notes for this release
Second Life will only render the single closest planar reflection probe.
With Mirrors enabled residents should expect a decrease in performance since everything is being rendered twice.
PBR Terrain is only available on private regions at this time.
Uploading 2k textures as part of bulk uploads will incur the higher 2k texture upload fee, which is implicitly agreed to during a bulk upload. See known issues below.
A 2048 x 512 texture upload will cost the same as a 1024 x 1024 because it is exactly the same number of pixels.
2k textures for Bakes on Mesh (BoM) is coming, meanwhile, please do not start creating 2k onion skin avatars.
HDRI sky previews are now available to experiment with, in the Develop menu and we’d love to get your feedback on what you can imagine doing with them.
Along with several GLTF PBR materials fixes to make all our residents and our third party developers lives a little bit easier.
Mirrors (planar reflection probes) created in Featurettes versions before 7.1.8.9103842320 will default to only reflecting the Environment, please update your Mirror’s settings to include Avatars if desired.
#1652 Spherical mirror probes are disabled for now. Box mirror probes are functional.