This product helps you create your own reflective environments either for the Maison De La Marquise Env Box (see Related Items) or for your own environment boxes, or even to sell them.
Choose the place, rez a Probe, use it to create a cube map, upload the six textures, apply them to the included Env Box, and voila !
Instead of writing a long boring description here, let me point you to the blog post with many pictures and details :
https://realrestraint.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-product-env-probe.html
Please note : Advanced Lighting Model must be activated on your viewer !
Also please note : Since the introduction of PBR in SL, you no longer need to use this product to make your own static reflection probes, since PBR lets you do exactly that (you must own the land you do this in, though). But the env probe can still be used to make your own portable reflections, which PBR won't help you with.
- Realistic environment lighting for latex, metal...
- Make and sell your own environments
Fantastic tool kit
The tools are really easy to use and the results are as good as the pre-packaged ENV boxes sold by the vendor.
Notes
- Make sure you have some bright contrasts in your capture scene if you use this in a dark area, you won't see much of a reflection unless you crank up the ENV reflection values of your clothing by a lot.
- If you're handy with an image editing tool, you can push the effect even further by tweaking the brightness levels of the ENV images with greater levels of contrast to get a nice HDRI like effect on materials with greater levels of ENV reflection. Works really well for dark latex to get those crisp highlights~
I REALLY wish SL had proper support for cube maps, it makes such a big difference.
