Custom Probes
Christina Riederer
As a creator of buildings of all shapes it would be great if we had the option of making custom shaped Probes and even a Triangle as an addtion to the sphere and box shaped ones.
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Crexon Resident
The problem, as Vincent has already mentioned is the processing needed for more complex shapes becomes exponentially more expensive. If you to say you used these more complex shapes then everyone one would suffer from the lower performance or else we would then have to have MORE graphic options for probes beyond what we have now such as "only show simple probes" "show simple and complex probes" then now you have people asking why probes are not showing up in your build.
Theres a reason why even engines like Unity and UE only stick to spheres and/or squares.
Vincent Nacon
This has been brought up many times before while it was in active development during beta stages. Custom is a very complex problem to solve.
And the guy who worked on it has already left LL. :/
Lexii Lane
Or some kind of tool to help conform the inside of a building better. currently I have a building I am working on which isn't a perfect square, and has some 45 degree cuts. I don't want the outside of the building to be affected by any reflection probe, just the environment probe, but my probes keep sticking out the front door.
Crexon Resident
Lexii Lane a probe like that is sticking out should be fine. You can offset it by placing a sphere probe at the entrance. If your EEP has probe ambience set to 1, then that probe should match. If not you can also set the ambience of the sphere probe manually to blend between outside and inside.