Nlight FREE 2.0 - The Adjustable Beauty Light for the Atmospheric Era
Are you still using a pre-Atmospheric Rendering face light? STOP!! You're ruining other people's SL experience!
FEATURES
Nlight FREE 2.0:
* Includes three meticulously crafted, naturally subtle light presets to beautify your face
* Looks natural day or night, with or without Atmospheric Shaders enabled
* Does not illuminate your surroundings or create flicker
* Supports the Mouth, Chin and Nose attachment points with automatic positioning
* Is low lag (LSL2) and easy to use
* Is free of charge and freely distributable
FACE LIGHTS AND ATMOSPHERIC RENDERING
In current Second Life Viewers with Atmospheric Rendering (previously known as WindLight), most old face lights tend to light up entire scenes or the floor around you like floodlights. They can also wash out avies unfortunate enough to be standing near you, and make your face look like someone's holding a powerful flashlight to it. Not very pretty. The affected lights include some STILL handed out with skins and skin demos by some of the biggest skin makers in SL! The visible effects depend on your graphics settings - even if you don't see the floodlight on your screen, most others will.
See the 2nd listing picture for an example of an old face light in midnight lighting with Atmospheric Shaders enabled - it's not pretty! The main picture features Nlight on Medium in SL sunset lighting, no edits.
Optimally, face lights wouldn't be needed. A scene in SL can only have 6 local lights at a time, and using a face light will make it one less. If everybody wears one, things can get ugly in crowded spots with plenty of flicker for everyone. If you use one with several light sources, you're doing some serious damage! For SL photography, use the Advanced Sky Editor instead. Face lights are bad, mmkay?
With that out of the way, some of us want a little beauty light on our avies' faces, and this should do it. The purpose of Nlight FREE 2.0 is NOT to make your face appear fully lit at all costs, but to soften the shadows a little bit and to make your face easier to see at night. Like make-up, a light like this is at its best when other people can't really tell if it's there or not. The light is a single light source, small radius and a cool tint to help it look natural at nighttime. Nlight FREE 2.0 supports multiple attachment points. It works equally well when attached to the Mouth, Chin or Nose attachment points, and will automatically adjust its positioning.
REQUIREMENTS
The visual effect of face lights in current SL Viewers depends on your graphics settings in SL Preferences. In order to see the effect of Nlight FREE 2.0, or ANY other face light, you must have SL's graphics settings at Medium Detail or higher, or manually enable 'Nearby local lights' in Custom graphics settings. What really makes the old lights look terrible (and Nlight shine!) is turning on 'Atmospheric Shaders', which is enabled by default in High and Ultra Detail.
NLIGHT PRESETS
Nlight FREE 2.0 has three presets for light intensity, accessed by typing in chat commands:
LOW - A subtle light, barely noticeable, but one that will smooth out the worst shadows and make you a bit more visible at night - recommended if you can get away with it.
MEDIUM - The default setting, subtle but effective.
HIGH - Smoothes out shadows even at noon lighting, note that this setting might look unnatural at night. However, even this setting will not light up the floor around you.
USING NLIGHT FREE 2.0
When you wear Nlight FREE 2.0 for the first time, or attach it to a new attachment point on your avatar, it will readjust itself for optimal results. The supported attachment points are Mouth, Chin and Nose. If desired, the attachment positioning can be fine tuned with the SL Edit tool. The original positioning for the current attachment point is always available through the RESET command. Obviously, you have to be in a scripts-enabled area to access any of the commands, or for the automatic positioning relative to attachment point to work.
For adjustments and other scripted commands, type /7 <command> in chat (case insensitive). Available commands:
LOW - Low intensity preset
MEDIUM - Medium intensity preset (default)
HIGH - High intensity preset
OFF - Turn light off
ON - Turn light on (default)
RESET - Reload default values including default positioning
README - Give Nlight README notecard (You're reading it!)
CHANNEL <n> - Change command channel to <n> (1-99, default 7)
ITEM CONTENTS
The Xstreet SL delivery you will receive is the boxed/vendor version of Nlight FREE 2.0. To receive the beauty light object and the accompanying notecard, please rez the box in-world and touch it to receive the contents (in a no-scripts area, open the box and copy contents to inventory). If you wish to place the vendor on your land, please feel free to do so!
- Three meticulously crafted, naturally subtle light presets to beautify your face
- Looks natural day or night, with or without Atmospheric Shaders enabled
- Does not illuminate your surroundings or create flicker
- Supports the Mouth, Chin and Nose attachment points with automatic positioning
- Is free of charge and freely distributable
Excellent!
The effect itself is extremely subtle, yet the outcome is beautiful! You'll never go back to using another facelight after this. No more human flashlights!
I love this light.It makes me look good with out turning into a one women flash light.o_0 A great item that I can happily recommend to any one!