fs_eep_issues

Linden Lab released the Environment Enhancement Project (EEP): Please read EEP is Out! Introducing the Environmental Enhancement Project for a full description!

This project revamps our 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.

The sections further down list known problems that have been encountered since the server EEP changes. These problems are still a work-in-progress and will hopefully be fixed once Firestorm releases with the EEP feature.

If you want to try EEP, you can do so using the Linden Lab viewer available from Second Life Viewer Downloads.

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 pages 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!

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.

Firestorm Viewer does not yet have EEP support.

Viewing the new EEP skies on a viewer that doesn't yet have EEP support (like Firestorm 6.3.9 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.

It appears that the server rollouts on this date have resulted in it being impossible to change windlight settings at region/estate level. If you attempt to set a new WL sky or water, the changes will not apply. Refer to this bug report.