How would you like the feature to work?

A dropdown above the Moon object, with two options:

Moon
Second Sun When the Moon is selected, the section below stays as is. When the Second Sun is selected, the section is replaced with the same section as in the Sun tab, with lighting options included.

Expected Issues: It's a whole second light, which would affect the OpenGL light amounts allowed of 8, of which the sun takes up 1. Perchance it needs to be delayed until the move to Vulkan is complete. An interim solution could be to allow the Moon to be fullbright of sorts so it is unaffected by the Sun.

Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?

As it stands in EEP the Sun object colors the Moon object in whatever lighting color is set up. This does not always make sense for skyboxes, science-fiction, and space builds. This could be resolved by allowing us to turn our Moon into another Sun. This would not only fullbright the Moon, but also add a second skylight, which would light scenes in new and exciting ways.

Original Jira Fields

| Field | Value | | ------------- | ------------- | | Issue | BUG-233629 | | Summary | EEP: Make the Moon more useful | | Type | New Feature Request | | Priority | Unset | | Status | Accepted | | Resolution | Accepted | | Labels | whirly-eep | | Created at | 2023-03-21T18:09:27Z | | Updated at | 2023-03-23T16:35:40Z | ``` { 'Build Id': 'unset', 'Business Unit': ['Platform'], 'Date of First Response': '2023-03-22T13:02:19.153-0500', 'How would you like the feature to work?': "A dropdown above the Moon object, with two options:\r\n- Moon\r\n- Second Sun\r\nWhen the Moon is selected, the section below stays as is.\r\nWhen the Second Sun is selected, the section is replaced with the same section as in the Sun tab, with lighting options included.\r\n\r\nExpected Issues:\r\nIt's a whole second light, which would affect the OpenGL light amounts allowed of 8, of which the sun takes up 1. Perchance it needs to be delayed until the move to Vulkan is complete. An interim solution could be to allow the Moon to be fullbright of sorts so it is unaffected by the Sun.\r\n", 'ReOpened Count': 0.0, 'Severity': 'Unset', 'Target Viewer Version': 'viewer-development', 'Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?': 'As it stands in EEP the Sun object colors the Moon object in whatever lighting color is set up. This does not always make sense for skyboxes, science-fiction, and space builds. This could be resolved by allowing us to turn our Moon into another Sun. This would not only fullbright the Moon, but also add a second skylight, which would light scenes in new and exciting ways.', } ```

secondlife / jira-archive

[BUG-233629] EEP: Make the Moon more useful #10699

How would you like the feature to work?

Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?