secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Add support for realtime reflections
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Since Jan 22, 2025.
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Description
In V7 we removed realtime reflections.
This enhancement would do the following:
- Restore realtime reflections on water as an option
- Bring back the "Reflections" setting in advanced graphics
- Improve the mirror system to have a simpler "planar" reflection mode for probe volumes that are under a certain thinness
- This is to improve performance by only rendering what we need depending on the thinness of the probe (we currently have 180 degrees of information which is not necessary for water)
- Add two new options for water reflections: environment and everything.
Test Plan
- Set the reflections option (final setting TBD) to "realtime"
- If water suddenly has a realtime reflection of the environment when set to "environment", pass
- If water suddenly has a realtime reflection of the environment, avatars, and particles when set to "everything", pass
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