Environmental Enhancement Project
Introduction
The Environmental Enhancement Project (EEP) is an environment system that completely replaces Windlight. It is a complete rewrite of the previous Windlight code, so many things are done differently, and new features and capabilities have been added.
Unlike Windlight, EEP Presets (settings) are inventory assets. In other words, they “live” in your inventory, rather than as XML files on your hard drive. This makes it much easier to share them with friends, and yes, they can also be sold. The standard permission rules apply (i.e., copy, modify, transfer).
Many Windlight settings have been converted to EPP presets. You will find them in the Library folder of your inventory, under Environments. You can easily use any of these, as described in the next section. If you wish to modify any of them, you will first need to copy them to you main inventory; the default folder name for EEP presets is Settings, so it is recommended that you place them there. You should also create new EEP presets in that folder.
This page gives an overview of commonly used functions, and then gives links to further information.
Setting Your Own Sky
![Quick Preferences button]( "Quick Preferences button")
Many like to have their own sky set where ever they go in SL, and for that sky to persist. With EEP, this is quite straightforward. Click the QuickPrefs button (usually located on the bottom button bar, far right) shown to the left, and click on the WL Sky drop-down. Select any of the listed skies. This will apply automatically, and stick through teleports: it is set as your “Personal Lighting”.
If you want to change your sky, simply make a different selection the same way. If you want to modify your personal lighting, go to the top menu bar, World → Environment → Personal Lighting. Edit as desired.
In order to again see sky and water as set at specific locations, you will need to clear your personal lighting; do this by clicking the Reset button on this window.
Adding an EEP Preset to Your Parcel or Region
You can use an EEP day cycle on your own land, something that was not possible with Windlight (though you could set a fixed sky and water). Also, the day cycle is no longer constrained to 4 hours.
Adding a Preset to a Parcel
Go to top menu, World → Parcel Details → Environment. The quickest way is to use an existing day cycle, so click Use Inventory and select one.
NOTE: This panel wants a day cycle, not a sky or a water preset. However it is possible to have a day cycle that is nothing more than a fixed sky, if that's what you want.
You can also create a day cycle on the fly by clickingCustomize.
To revert to the region EEP, click Use Region Settings.
If a group member other than the owner needs to apply an environment to a parcel, assign the ability in the Group profile, Roles & Members→ Roles, under Parcel Settings - Modify environment settings and day cycle.
For details on this tab, refer here.
Adding a Preset to a Region
Go to top menu, World → Region details → Environment.
This panel works exactly the same way as the parcel one described above, except that changes apply to an entire region. Naturally, you need to be an estate owner or manager to change these settings.
For details, refer to this page.
Editing or Making Your Own EEP Presets
Since EEP presets are assets, you generally edit them from inventory, as you would edit, say, a notecard: find the preset, double click it. This opens the preset editor, and also applies the preset so you can see what you're doing.
Remember that presets in the Library cannot be edited, and need to first be copied to regular inventory.
To create a new EEP preset, right click any folder (but preferably use the Settings folder) → New Settings, then select Sky, Water or Day.
Another way to edit or make a preset is via top menu, World → My Environments. See here for information on that window.
Details of how to edit each type of preset is given on the following pages:
Importing Old Settings
Note: As stated previously, approximately 200 Windlight settings have already been imported and can be found in Library → Environments folder. They are also visible in Quick Preferences and can be selected there.
To import your other old Windlight settings into EEP:
Create a new Settings item in inventory (right click Settings folder or a subfolder → New Settings → New Sky, Water, or Day Cycle).
Open that new settings item.
Select the Import button; this will open a file picker dialog.
Navigate to where you have stored your Windlight XML files and select the file you would like to import:
Windows:
Mac
~/Applications/Firestorm_64; right click > show package contents > Contents/Resources/windlight (old built-in Windlights)
~/Library/Application Support/Firestorm/User Settings/Windlight (personalized custom files)
You should import Windlights of the same type as the editor you have open (Day Cycle, Sky, or Water). For example, to import a Sky, create and open a Sky setting from inventory. On your hard drive, you should find the files laid out as follows: ./windlight/days ./windlight/skies ./windlight/water.
EEP Links
This section gives links for further reading.
SL Pages
For discussion you can follow SL’s
EEP forum.
For those interested, you can see a filtered list of current issues with EEP in the official
SL viewer on
SL’s bug-reporting site. Remember to log into the site using your
SL user name and password.
Inara Pey's EEP Info
EEP Tips
Creating Space Effects
Starfields: Step by step gimp tutorial
here.
Starfields can be used as cloud textures, but in that case, they need to be grey-scale.
Clouds
