Feature Requests

Can we possibly get the ability to use Linden water, or its unique visuals, on surfaces such as a prim in the future? Existing attempts at prim water are decent, but all lack the distortion element provided by the Linden water which adds immersion and realism.

Back when premium plus was first announced, there was mention of free mesh uploads as part of the package "coming soon". This is a huge deal to creators wanting to test, try and iterate on models and essential for collaborative building in world. Getting onto the beta grid is a chore, getting a few people together on the beta grid to give feedback is difficult. Getting a test model, surrounding contextual elements and other residents for feedback is impossible.

I am suggesting a few more features to build mode to help with ease of manipulation of Prims, just a few QOL additions that I thing would be very well received. Option to evenly space selected Objects, say I have 5 objects 10m distance between each side with 3 in between, my suggestion would be to allow me to select all 5 and hit a button to evenly space the ojects within the 10m edges Align options for multiple objects: Be able to select multiple objects and align to a certain edge ie N,E,S,W

if a prim has materials applied or alpha mode changed the land impact of a simple cube goes up depending on the type of prim it can go up to 87 land impact, this makes no sense, it seems like soem sort of an over looked mistake that has persisted for years, even if the linkset contains a prim that has any form of hallow it can make the land impact go up hundreds and even thousnands of land impact

gravity based physics on clothing with shape collision for skirts and dresses or any clothes that hang and would flow naturally. this would be much easier to create clothing and give it a more natural look as opposed to being bone weighted and rigged which gives cloth an over-starched look.

The Second Life inventory library only contains 'legacy' environment settings. As a parcel owner, I have no way to change my parcel's day cycle to the "new default" that was added as part of the PBR release - only region owners can do that. Could the new environments, such as the "PBR Mid day" and the new PBR default day cycle be added as full permission resources in the SL library? That would allow us to more easily take the "new default" and make minor adjustments instead of starting from scratch.

LL recently released a teaser trailer for PBR + triplanar mapping on terrain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmbws6tNwMw However, the same old issues will presumably remain the same: You can only specify the low and high points for texture blending in each corner of the region. The viewer will then determine how the textures blend together. The blending is random, and done on the client side, so everyone sees a different terrain! For those reasons, region owners have extremely limited control over their land, and that's why most people don't even bother using it, resorting to mesh instead. I have personally tried to make beaches in the past and found it absolutely impossible without setting the min blend heights very high, or setting all 4 textures to be the same. Region owners need the ability to actually paint (like vertex painting) the terrain, in a similar way to the terraforming tools. 4 textures/materials is probably enough for most people, but more might be nice. This would allow the creation of designated themed spaces, beaches, paths, and more.

Texture resolution has been increased to support up to 2048, now it would be wonderful if prim size could be doubled to support creation of up to 128x128x128m. Also ability to import mesh as large as 128m would be awesome too.

Creates particles that rotate on the z-axis to face the camera position, but do not rotate on the x or y axis to angle up or down to the camera. Implementation of this feature would greatly benefit the use of particles when applied to create billboards, fog, fire, or any effect where angling up and down towards the camera breaks immersion.