That makes sense yes. I wasn't asking for Emerald to be copied, which is why my initial response to the issue was vague. But the basic idea is nice, I think: a nice, fast and easy way to set parameters without having to use clumsy sliders and navigate pages of dialog boxes, all via the command line.
On 08/22/2010 05:09 AM, leliel wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Miro Collas<miro.col...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That's what I referring to, the command line commands. VERY handy! And >> dd is one I use a great deal. > > The problem I have with that is that the draw distance is only one of > several debug settings that affect performance. I've been running with > deferred rendering enabled for the past few months and I've had to > enable/disable shadow maps& SSAO all the time, but I hardly ever > touch the draw distance. What's more, using a general method of > changing debug settings through chat would let us create gestures that > changed a whole group of settings all at the same time. So when > entering a laggy sim you could trigger one gesture that did all of > this. > > /set RenderFarClip 128 > /set RenderVolumeLODFactor 2.0 > /set WindLightUseAtmosShaders 0 > > With a system like this you could change any setting on the fly > without ever having to open the UI which would be great for filming > machinima. Cam into a building and turn on global illumination and > crank up the SSAO settings for deep highlights, cam back out and put > SSAO back to the defaults and turn off GI for a better frame rate. > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
