I heard hi-cafe is closing at the end of August, so I went to visit it one last time ☀️
https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sprawler/106/2/122
Everything other than the avatar catches the light beautifully, but at that level of light the avatar’s skin blows out to white…
#2:09068035545597250035593830055557739702886355542506555555KAA5000X66000A006201Then again, if I keep the avatar’s skin from blowing out, the shadows turn faint and it loses its sense of depth, and the vividness of the surroundings drops instead…
Following the camera settings from the National Geographic book leaves it too dark, and I get the feeling that, fundamentally, the reference values for the ambient light and the camera settings just don’t line up.
For now I’m shooting with the version of the Hitoshina Viewer from before it made use of the GPU, and it’s still heavy — and the GPU-accelerated Hitoshina Viewer still hasn’t reached the level of the current Hitoshina Viewer, so I’ve got a long way to go yet 😮💨