SECOND LIFE | Quick & Easy Lighting Tutorial | Firestorm Environment Editor | 2021 Update
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- In this Second Life Tutorial, I'll be showing you the updated 2021 Environment Editor settings for the Firestorm Viewer. This is Quick and Easy, and suitable for anybody who wants to set Personal Lighting and Fixed Environments. These can either be applied to yourself, or your parcel/land.
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One item that is frequently overlooked, but bears mentioning when talking about EEP and photography. On the World > Environment menu is the "Pause Clouds" option. This will freeze the clouds and water in place until it is deselected. So, if you have a scene where the cloud formations perfectly frame the sun, you don't have to worry about losing the shot. It is also useful if you are shooting a panorama and want the sky and ocean to stitch together correctly.
Also, the "Beacon" check boxes for the sun and the moon are useful for locating both bodies in the sky if you are having trouble finding them.
Awesome tips - thanks for sharing! Pause Clouds is definitely a good one to use once you have a preferred formation. I have found that the beacon lines are sometimes difficult to decipher but perhaps I'm a little blind 😵
Thank you! This was simple, short, and informative! ❤
Thanks! Glad it was helpful! 😊
hey Boston, you make one of the best videos on Secondlife ever, very friendly and also very professional.
Hey Kenneth, thanks for the really cool comment! I appreciate it a lot! Thanks for watching my videos :))
i only just started looking at taking photos in sl.... didnt know any of this was here. will def up my photo game now. thanks for that
That’s awesome Marc. I’ll do some other videos with tips for photography. There’s lots of good features in Firestorm 👌
Brilliant and precise - thank you so much! Your videos next level.
Thanks for the awesome feedback Joe - happy you're enjoying the videos! :)
Right to the point, and I love your graphics.
Thanks so much Ana! 😍
Thank you. You explained it so very well. Makes it easy to follow. Much appreciated.
You’re welcome! Thanks 😊
Thank you so much. I found this very clear and informative... big help as I’ve been playing around with EEP for only a couple of weeks and pulling my hair out. 👍🏻😊. You have a new sub !
Ah that's awesome! Glad it was helpful, and I've saved you some hair 😉
@@BostonB Lol I know right!
Well ty for this, me & my momma been going nutz lol. This will help bit more. She wanted a specific like hazy look to her land but wanted day & nite to continue so when midnite it dark. It kept locking in only on the hazy part couldn't get the day to nite to work. So now maybe we can get it lol.
Haha I know the feeling of losing patience with the sky editor sometimes 😏 I may even do a separate video just on fixed day cycles, but hopefully this helps!
Brilliant Video, thank you, please yes do a day cycle vid, you are clear and easy to follow, thank you xx
Thanks for the great feedback! 😄 Sure, I’ll do follow-up video on day-cycles soon :)
Thank u! That explanation really helped a lot 😄👍🏻
Glad it was useful! 😊
Thanks for the tips, we will put them into practice, great this video so practical :)
No problem Buddy! 😉
Very awesome, I have never fiddled with the Environment settings, I may give it a try after this, ty for sharing! - CarinaNavis
Excellent Carina! Thank you for the feedback 💙
@@BostonB - YVW!
Thank you so much!! You are the best!
Thanks for subscribing Sophie - you're the best too! 😉
Hi there, thanks for the great tutorial. I was just wondering, I own a region and want to change the EPP so when people visit they can see the settings. Do I change them on the Region - environment, or the Parcel - environment? And is there a way to set it up so people see it automatically when they visit? Thanks again for your great video.
Hey no problem! Yes that’s correct. That should set your regions EEP automatically for visitors and override theirs. Thanks!
@@BostonB thank you so much for writing me back. I had set Parcel to same as region but it wasn't working so I thought I was doing something wrong, but as soon as I had more than 1 parcel it worked. Very strange! I am having issues now with my sand being over exposed, everything else in the scene is great but I can't seem to figure out what is making the sand so bright. I have the sun off to the side, my exposure isn't too high. I have tried hundreds of different colors but nothing changes it. Such a learning curve but I am creating some cool cycles. Thanks for your tutorial!
Really Awesome Video, Thank you so much for this/
Thank you for the marvellous feedback - it means a lot! 😊
Thank you so much !!
You’re welcome! I have newer updates to this video :)
Sweeeeet! Thank you for sharing!!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😃
Thank you for the tips!
Hey Sophie - no problemo! :))
Hi mate. Was curious as to where you got this shirt from? I've been trying to find one like it with the undershirt but can't seem to. I'd really appreciate any advice! Cheers
Hey Ryan, it was a while ago that I produced that video but I think the shirt was from Chuck Size. Check out their mainstore - they have lots of shirts like that!
@@BostonB Thank you so much! I'll look right now
Damn I have trying to figure out how to do this😍 tysmmm your freaking awesome 👌
Haha you’re welcome! Thanks for the feedback, glad it was helpful :)
- inserts..... I have been trying😂😂 not I have trying😅🤦♀️ And your vids are really helpful, you explain things sooooo damn good my 10 yr old even knows how to work "BOM and windlight" keep up the good work 🙃
Hehe that’s so cool to hear, thank you 💙
Ive noticed in the newer Firestorm updates, the selection of windlight configurations have been reduced.. even manually copying the missing windlight files from a previous version of Firestorm doesn't re add the ones missing..
I bulk uploaded a free EEP Firestorm set from Marketplace. Seem to have two separate lists now. I’ll look into it when I have time
Hi !Did you ever do a separate video on day functions and partial settings? I was looking through your videos and cannot find it. Thank you!
Hey! I had to take that one down because there was a bug in the viewer which I was waiting for FS to fix. The day settings weren’t working correctly for me. I’ll look into it again. You can also join the inworld firestorm group - they seem pretty helpful whenever I’ve asked a question
Could you please make a tutorial on how to achieve a triple zoom into the picture when you upload it? Like how to get it to zoom into the smallest details when uploaded on flikr
Hey I'm not sure what you mean...You can use Ctrl+0 to zoom in on your viewer and Ctrl+8 to zoom out. For Flickr, if you export the picture at 4k or 5k resolution, it will zoom into the small details - I think maybe that's what you mean?
Thank you for this video! Can you definitely do the own parcel video next?
Hey - thanks for the comment! I actually started filming a Day Cycle video but there’s a bug on my Firestorm UI which means the cycles aren’t running smooth. So I’ve contacted them and I’m waiting for them to release a fix before I publish the video.
@@BostonB Oh no! Okay, I hope that get fix quick. Definitely do an update if you can. I'm enjoying the tutorial bloggings. Keep it going!
@@JaiHarlemPhresh Thanks Dude! The day-cycle issue only seems to be affecting me. My friends haven't reported any problems. Anyway later today I'm publishing a video on Men's Shapes and Skin's so check it out ;)
@@BostonB I most definitely will!!!!
Question... you got the latest head etc but when you talk ya mouth isn’t moving... thought about enabling?? ... xx
Yeah I sometimes have it enabled but I thought it looked a little weird haha 😉
ty nice video :)
Hey, thanks for the comment :) Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
I have always had mine set to Nam's prim and skin but a couple weeks back, it disappeared and now I don't have any options other than "shared environment". Did something untick? I have checked all over the place and can't figure it out. Any help would be much appreciated!
Hey, sorry but I have no idea what’s wrong with your viewer. Did you update it?
the preset enviroments aren't showing up for me? they did a couple of days ago tho,,,
Hmm where are you looking? I’ve actually had a weird issue where my avatar hasn’t been loading for the last couple of days. May be completely unrelated to your issue. When I’m next online I’m going to clear my cache and retry
Hey! Please do the parcel one! I am struggling with the different levels and how to apply different EEP's to different heights and I am not finding a tutorial to help!
Hey! I encountered some of the same issues with applying different eep’s to different altitudes. They weren’t setting. But my friends don’t seem to have any problems with it. So I’m going to figure that out before I produce a part 2! My next video is a Black Dragon walkthrough tutorial :)
@@BostonB Thank you!! I subbed so I will be on the look out for it. I mean I can apply to the whole parcel, but where is the fun in that. Thanks for the tutorial though. It did help.
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Haha nice, thank you!
I don't have that Environment tool bar in my tool bar button. Please help. Thanks
Did you follow the instructions from the vid? Right click your toolbar and then drag the “environment editor” button from the options. Without seeing your screen, that’s the only advice I can give
If I go to a sim, and I like the sky windlight there, how can I save it?
I don't think you can save other regions windlights anymore. I think they wanted to protect people's creations, so you're encouraged to create and edit your own windlights. But if you have permission to the parcel, you can easily save it through 'About Land'.
how do you make a glowing prim that puts off it's own light?
I cover it in a more recent video here:
ua-cam.com/video/nXcghPjJQ84/v-deo.html You can also keep the transparency on normal and increase the glow if you want the prim to be visible
I don't see the 200 eep assets presets, what happened to them? The last updat did something, all I have are the settings.
I’m not psychic, I don’t know what happened to Yours lol. Are they in your library? Did you back up? If something weird happened during the update, you could try bulk importing them all again. Search ‘Firestorm EEP’ on marketplace. Somebody has put them all on there for free. And you just add as on object. Yesterday I had to reimport some to Black Dragon because they were weirdly missing. I guess with thousands of downloads there’s bound to be some software glitches
@@BostonB thanks so much hun.
You’re welcome!
Could they have made this any more difficult?
Lol true. I recorded this a while ago though. Firestorm have made updates since then and I have an updated video
I just wanted to know how to turn off the sun or moon
I don't think you can turn it off completely but you can bring down the ambience which will make everything darker. I show that in the video
@@BostonB Yeah it's weird, the default windlights that SL gives you have the sun or moon completely off in the midday/sunrise/sunset windlights and the midnight windlight but new custom ones don't let you turn one or the other off it seems.
The workaround I did was copying the default midnight windlight to edit it without the sun, perhaps it wasn't necessary but I just updated viewers so I was pretty confused and the sun being active was conflicting with my night-time windlight lol
Why i don't have these presets? 🤣
maybe try watching this video: ua-cam.com/video/dSXAgFIcopE/v-deo.html
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Thank you GIGI! 😊
I just want to see my face as I used to before the last update
What happened to your face?
@@BostonB No, I mean.....good light on my face, no weird shadows, etc. Now I found how to modify that with firestorm but now that viewer has hide half of my inventory, I have so many folders without content...that I downloaded the second life official viewer and I am having the same issue with the lighting but not the same menu. IDK how to just....get everything well illuminated around me including my face, clothing and rooms of my apartment ugh