Tweaking and playing with the ‘Pirate’ WindLight setting, I found a combo I more or less like: Pirate (Detroit). Detroit because that was the sim I was in when I conceived the settings. ;) If you haven’t already, be sure to check it out, it has everything you need for experimenting with WindLight: cars, streets, some green/nature, beach, skyscrapers, …

Now the settings are sunset settings that don’t look like a sunset. Good enough, I didn’t like ‘noon’ in OldLook anyway. The sky is slightly colored pink, but you don’t get that - to me - irritating color haze over everything. Actually, it looks a bit like OldLook + clouds and pinkish sky.

I still must find a solution for the horizon / ‘horizon meets water’ looking crappy (Why does render > ground > off does not work anymore? *cries*) but I’ll do some more sliding later.

My settings - ‘WindLight settings sharing, (non)mod, (non)copy, (non)transfer’ should be implemented! If someone has good/interesting settings, I’d even pay for those, I think - as I mostly use them now:

And some more experimenting with WindLight…

… with refraction for instance. I don’t know if this is a new feature or was always there, but I never saw it before. Anyway, I love it! Me standing on the terrace with the Sister’s Clubhouse in the back as seen through Scheherazade Sim coastal water. Must ask Helena to turn of the lights during day time, though. This isn’t going to help us to meet Kyoto standards. ;) (Now that I think of it: the unedited version of this photograph - which is taken using OldLook - might have been done this way too?) (Pirate ‘Detroit’ settings used.)

… with the sun reflecting(!!!) in windows. I was going in ‘overkill of joy’ mode when I first noticed this. Instantly uploaded a snapshotted, send that to tons of avies and tp’ed Kris in. Because of the enthousiasm I forget to tell him to start flying immediately, so he hit the ground.

Maybe that was why he was so mean as to tell me I should fly off and check the other side of the building for the sun. The window’s glas was just transparant. Major bummer. One depressed Vint. (Pirate ‘Detroit’ settings used.) Nvm Kris. Kean says it’s indeed true: shiny surfaces now reflect the sun! W00t! More proof with this utterly cute picture. Now excuse me, I’ve got some Purrrr-ing to do.

… and wondering if we actually have real constellations in our sky. Funny thing was that when raising this question to Kris - who’s last name is ‘Constellation’ - I could not think of the correct English word and used ‘cancer, gemini, …’. I’m not a hero at recognising those things, so the only one I could find was the ‘Neko’ one.

Are the RL constellations there? Or should we invent some ourselves? And can Gorean ships now navigate on the stars again? ;) (Vint’s adjusted night settings used.)

… and how my skybox at Scheherazade looks with my Pirate (Detroit) settings… Hmmm. Like it used to in OldLook, except a bit of gamma overkill. *sobs*

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