✨ Feature Requests

At present, lights are clamped to an "imaginary" range of 0 to 1 that have no basis in physical reality. The GLTF spec defines a physically based light falloff and specifies real world radiometric units - which is aligned with most major game engines and 3D modeling applications. This change should apply to all sources of lights - point lights, projectors, and the sun/moon. Sun/moon would be easiest to support first.

As it stands, Second Life (secretly) supports global illumination via reflection probes. This is confusing to users - as we only really specify it as part of the reflection probe. In reality, there's often a need to have more light probes for GI than there is for reflection probes. This change means that: Probes can have three modes. Reflection, light, or both Existing probes would be both for reasons of content compatibility Potentially, changing how we store light probe data (using spherical gaussians or spherical harmonics or some such)

SL has for a very long time supported dynamic shadows for up to two projector lights. This requests asks for: A viewer-controlled count of shadow casting lights Shadows on point lights Note that this has technical implications in the viewer, namely how shadow filtering works. The shadow filtering in the viewer is handled as a post process that can filter up to four shadows in the viewer - ambient occlusion, sun/moon, and up to two projectors. This change requires changing how shadow filtering and sampling works, which in turn changes how shadows will look.

Adding the .gif files to the allowed list to upload, letting us create animated particles, textures without the classic LSL moving into the same framed image

Schedule notice send in advance

Allow users to create and rez objects larger than the current 64-meter limit to support large-scale builds like floating islands or full-size ship models (e.g., a 270-meter Titanic). Rationale The 64m limit creates unnecessary friction for creators in private or controlled environments. Splitting large meshes increases workload during modeling, uploading, and placement—especially when iterating. Supporting larger objects would streamline workflows and enable more ambitious content. Implementation Consideration To manage potential misuse, this capability could be selectively enabled in certain regions or estates at the owner's discretion.

Yearly Premium Plus is quite a big investment, but I know that I can't do much of anything within just one month, so I tend to shy away from having more than one Premium Plus avatar. A 3-month long Premium Plus membership would be long enough to, for example, try out a new 2048 LH theme to see if I like it. I just dumped my Mediterranean, tho I wanted to keep it, to try a Tiki. If a 3-month membership had been available, I would have kept the Med and just bought a quarterly PP to try tiki.

Allowed to own 2 x 1024 Linden Homes. We also need more perks, the price of Premium Plus is more than double Premium, lets make it worth it!!

Simplify the calculation of Land Impact (LI) by eliminating all relevance of object scale on LI. It is highly confusing that the size of an object impacts its LI, especially when an object switches from old to new accounting methods, suddenly becoming much more expensive LI-wise than it was previously. Context Second Life has two methods of calculating the LI of content: "Old" style Basic prims with blinn phong materials are counted using the original LI method: 1 prim = 1 LI. "New" style (Mesh and Material Calculations) Mesh content and objects with new-style PBR materials use a newer style of accounting that takes many things into account, including object scale, download size, etc. Download weight Physics weight Server weight Display weight Solution Let's err towards simplicity here: Eliminate impact of scale on LI The goal should be that users should not be surprised when working with LI. Eliminating the scale from the calculation would mean that LI would not wildly vary based on the size of an object. This should make the accounting system much less variable and confusing. Links https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/calculating-land-impact-r273/

I've thought for years that there should be some sort of bonus or perk for someone who has been active in SL for ten years (and more after 20! years). It could be a discount in the membership fee, additional land, a bump in the monthly stipend or just a one-time (or maybe annual) "Happy Rez Day!" deposit of L$. There should be some sort of "minimum activity" requirement in there so the perk doesn't go to dead accounts. Those of us around this long (16 years for me) are not just Residents; in RL we're Ambassadors. We're the folks out there actually trying to explain what this crazy place is and why they should try joining us. The Old Av Bonus would recognize that good work.