Personal Lighting Floater
See the SL page Environment Editor: Personal Lighting for full details.
The Personal Lighting Floater is used to make temporary adjustments to the environment where you are. This is useful for photography or simply for changing something to suit your own preference. It is NOT for creating your own settings assets, and changes cannot be saved.
When you open this floater it will “grab” the current shared environment wherever you are standing. That lighting will be retained as your personal lighting until you reset it or log out. You are also presented with a number of controls that allow you to make quick modifications to the environment, including sun and moon position, ambient lighting, and more. The lighting, and any changes you made, will persist (across TPs), until you log out or reset it, so you can close the floater to get it out of your way.
There are two ways to reset. Both do the same thing—return you to the Shared Environment:
- Select “Use Shared Environment” from the World → Environment menu
- Click the “X” button in the lower right of Quick Prefs.
Alternatively, you can choose a different EEP setting from Quick Prefs or Inventory, and that will supersede the Personal Lighting.