Luxace 1.5 out

What's new

- NEW: all scripts recompiled in Mono for best performances. Thanks to this, it is now possible to include many more programs and lights settings!

As usual the update will be issued automatically to all of my customers and everytime you will wear an old version.

Luxace 1.4 out!

Just before Easter, new version of Luxace out, featuring the looong awaited minimize option!


What's new

- NEW: due to popular demand, Luxace finally features a "minimize" function! Just wear the included gesture (mapped to F3 by default) and you will be able to tap a key to minimize your Luxace HUD. In addition, just type /6 minmax to do it manually
- NEW: changed the behaviour of the emitter selector, as with LuxaceStudio now you can just click an emitter directly rather than cycling through them
- BUGFIX: corrected an issue with the programs selection menu, showing an empty page when browsing for next one

As usual the update will be issued automatically to all of my customers and everytime you will wear an old version. It will also be available through the update center located at my Linji shop.
Happy snapshooting and happy Easter!

New StandyVendor and LuxaceStudio bundle!

New version of StandyVendor (1.1) out!


..: What's new :..

v1.1
- NEW: new split option allows you to set different avatar keys to which you want to send a split percentage of the sale
- NEW: completely changed the way the whole system works internally, to reduce wait times (especially after a sale is made, due to the awfully long email sending delay) and to support multiple customers using each vendor

In addition, I released a special bundle box of LuxaceStudio and Photodice, just like I previously did for Luxace.


The bundle box is for sale at all my shop locations, and OnRez and SLExchange at the crazy special price of 549L$.

Luxace 1.3 out

New version out just before Christmas! If you're an old customer, you should've received your update already, if not, just wear the old HUD and you should get it automagically.
If you have problems still, visit one of our update centers and grab the latest version there.


What's new

v1.3
- NEW: "Lock" and "Unlock" buttons has been added to the HUD to access the new LockCamera functionality. Read the manual for more info
- NEW: the 3 emitters now have a "sculpty" look. Useless? Of course, but I couldn't resist...
- OPTIMIZATION: a lot of tuning has been dedicated to the communication layer between the HUD and the emitters, and in version 1.3 it becomes much more solid and reliable than ever. In addition, the whole system is much lighter and should save a good 20-25% of memory from previous version
- BUGFIX: as a result of the previous point, a vicious bug has been corrected that made the HUD print on screen a weird line of messages while pressing buttons under certain circumstances

About Windlight FirstLook viewer

At the moment, Windlight has got a bunch of problems with local hardware lights rendering.
Some face lights marked as "Windlight compatible" are spreading throughout the grid.
Although I haven't had much time to personally test Luxace with the Windlight viewer, especially because of some issue with the Leopard operating system, since you can place the 3 emitters virtually anywhere near your face, with any color and any intensity/radius setting, it shouldn't be a problem to make it work with Windlight's peculiar way of rendering lights.
To sum it up, I can't assure a full compatibility with the Windlight viewer until it becomes official, but there's a fair chance it will work fine anyway.

Luxace v1.2 out!

After weeks and weeks of tuning (and a whole summer of slacking hoho) I finally got the final inspiration to get this thing done.
Let's cut straight down to business:

..: What's new :..

- NEW: I guess the first and most important change is the addition of a third emitter, to allow for more customization
- NEW: total restyling of the HUD attachment, now it has only one set of buttons to operate the selected emitter, which can be changed operating a comfortable lever on the bottom part of the HUD itself. Also added new buttons to operate the new functions described later, and a new color button for the third emitter (duh)
- NEW: single emitter can now be turned on and off
- NEW: pose support! Now you can drop your poses inside the HUD and operate them through Luxace
- NEW: removed the *Configuration notecard from both the emitters object and the HUD. Now Luxace uses a static channel and password to communicate commands to the emitters and infos back to the HUD. Since it accepts commands just by the owner, no need to make things more complicated ;)

Lots of changes and tweaks uh?
To get your new updated version, just wear the old HUD and the 1.2 version will be delivered to you automagically!
Have fun ;)

Luxace v1.1

With a couple days of delay, here comes the new version of Luxace!
First of all: to update, just wear your v1.0 HUD and you'll get the v1.1 box automagically.
I received a lot of positive feedbacks about version 1.0 during the last days, and a good number of very nice inputs on how to improve its features, so I started to work hard on it to make a release in reasonable times :p
Big thanks this time as well to Caliah Lyon for the idea about chat commands, but also to CronoCloud Creeggan for further developing it and adding her own opinion on implementing a rotate function for the whole attached prim.
I was also kinda surprised to receive a very nice feedback from Torley Linden himself, what can I say, I'll try to keep up the work :D

So, about new features, first of all the long awaited implementation of chat commands. From this version on, you will be able to operate most (if not all) the functions of Luxace using commands on channel number 5 (default, but it can be changed in the configuration notecard), like for example /5 show (to show emitters), /5 l1 right 0.3 (to move emitter 1 on the right by 0.3 meters) etc. Everything is well documented in the new manual revision.

Second thing, I implemented a new rotation function, to rotate the whole attachment prim on each of the 3 axis for special added effects. For example, /5 rotx 45 will rotate the attachment by 45 dregrees around the x axis.

As a consequence from the previous point, I had to create a way to import the old notecard format into the new scripts, since the adding of a rotation function messed things around a bit ;) so here comes the programs converter object, you just drop the old v1.0 *Programs notecard inside it and you'll have printed on screen the program lines according to the new syntax (well, to be honest it's the same syntax with added the line for the rotation parameter :p).

I already discussed with Caliah the next big step in the Luxace roadmap but I'll keep it private for now, I just hope you'll all have fun with version 1.1, and remember I'm around for any help :)

Luxace v1.0

Luxace is a powerful and extremely versatile face lighting system, designed to help people take astonishing photo shoots, from normal amateurs to professional modeling ones.
In the box you will find 2 items. The first one is the face light itself, made up of 3 prims, 2 emitters and the root object containing the main control scripts and the *Configuration notecard.
The second item is the HUD used to control the emitters. The HUD attaches to the center HUD attachment point, placing itself on the central bottom part of your screen. Remember that you'll need to keep the HUD on just when you want to change the emitters parameters and configure new programs, in all other situations you can leave it detached.

The HUD features a full control over the 2 emitters, you can change position in the 3 axis, intensity, radius, falloff, color, and you can of course save/load/delete the settings into programs that you'll be also able to dump in chat to copy&paste them into the *Programs notecard to save them forever (useful when you upgrade your Luxace too).

Luxace is availablea t 349 L$ from my Lights shop, and on the usual SLExchange and SLBoutique.