EEP Issues
Linden Lab will soon release the Environment Enhancement Project (EEP): Please read Environmental Enhancement Project for a full description!
This project revamps the old Windlight system and among other things, includes
- support for 24-hr day cycles
- server-side support for parcel Windlight
- the ability to set custom sun, moon and cloud textures on your region or parcel that everyone using an EEP viewer can see.
As of Tuesday, March 19, server-side support for EEP was rolled to all regions on the main grid. This means that all region Windlights in use were automatically converted over to the EEP system.
Current viewers (including the current Linden Lab viewer) do not yet have EEP support.
Viewing the new EEP skies on a viewer that doesn't yet have EEP support (like Firestorm 6.0.2 and older) may cause the skies to look slightly different in some cases.
- If you are have a specific Windlight sky set in your viewer (i.e. one you have chosen from Quick Prefs, Phototools, or World menu → Sun Position), then the sky will look the same.
- If you are on a parcel with a Firestorm parcel Windlight set, the sky will look the same because the viewer just reads the Windlight settings in the parcel description and applies those settings locally.
- If you find the WL doesn't seem to work, first make sure that Use Region WL is not enabled in QuickPrefs
- Add the “region override” tag to your parcel windlight description; see Windlight for details.
- If that doesn't fix it, try adding altitude values; see this page for how to do that.
- However, if you are viewing a region Windlight (World → Sun Position → Estate Time) the sky will look different from how it used to.
- If the sky has visible stars, the stars will look much larger and blotchy. If ALM is enabled, the stars will also look black instead of white.
- The sun may be bigger or smaller than it should be.
- There may be subtle lighting differences.
All these problems will be fixed once Firestorm releases with the EEP feature. That will probably be in our next release, but as usual we cannot give you a date for that.
If you want to test out EEP, you can currently do so using the Linden Lab EEP Release Candidate viewer available from Official Linden Lab Alternative Viewers.
For discussion you can follow the EEP forum.
For those interested, you can see a filtered list of current issues with EEP in the official SL viewer here. Remember to log into the site using your SL user name and password.
Please don't swamp Firestorm support with questions about EEP. Read the SL page linked above, test out the project viewer if you wish, and follow the forums to stay up to date on development. Once Firestorm includes EEP, we will be able to help you with its features. Thanks!