✨ Feature Requests

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Mesh with physics, fluttering clothes, hair, and accessories
Now the mesh in sl has no physics at all, you wear stiff clothes, with stiff hair, as you walk, the fabric stretches against your body into strange shapes, when you sit down, your long hair will bend 90 degrees to fit your legs. everything is very stiff. When i see those long flowing hair and those fluttering gorgeous skirts, i miss the good old days. Even though they look messy sometimes, but that's intuitive. But the prims is behind the times, everything is in mesh now. Why not give mesh physics too! Mesh greatly improves the quality of props in sl, but it loses the most intuitive physics, they just look good, but once they move, they will reveal their flaws. This is just like how people used to paint gloss on textures, only viewable from the front, otherwise it will be a mess. Now we have the advanced lighting, PBR, make objects looks more and more real, there's one step left, that is mesh physics! Imagine a cute girl with long flowing golden hair, wearing a flowing dress, dancing gracefully, her hair and clothes fluttering with dance, how beautiful! You must watched MMD dances! fluttering, inertia, collision, make MMD dances lifelike! SL need mesh physics, we can dance in sl like MMD! Many similar games already have these physics effects, but sl has not yet, please! If we have mesh physics, how to deal with rigged object is a problem. Could we make old items physics-enabled with edit? Or only the authors can handle it to release a update? What tools could authors use? There's really many problems.
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[PBR] We need an automatic reflection probe option/feature for root objects.
Currently, if you try and set a PBR material on an old build, you get an awful blueish hue reflected on the reflective parts (e.g. metal), due to how the sky gets reflected on them, even from inside a building. For now, the only solutions are to: Enclose the building with a reflection probe primitive. Fine, when you can do it, and when the building is less than 64m large in any of its dimensions... Add a reflection probe primitive to the linkset of the object you use PBR materials upon to enclose it: fine, if you can modify it, and if it is not scripted in such a way that would break its scripts when adding a new primitive to it (sadly, a common occurrence). Add a stand-alone reflection probe prim and place it (without linking it) around the object(s) you want to shield from the sky. This will work almost always, but supposes that you move or resize the probe manually when you move the objects, and that the objects themselves are not moving on their own (scripted objects, vehicles)... All of the above is rather user/builder unfriendly . A simple alternative would be to add a property to the root objects for any existing linkset, that would flag the whole object as needing an enclosing reflection probe; the server would then transmit this property to the viewer among existing object properties, and the viewer would compute (it already does anyway) the bounding box of that object and automatically add a matching reflection probe (of the "box" type) for it. That property would then be made available as a check box in the build floater.
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