SECOND LIFE MIRROR - How to make one

How to make a mirror in SL short 'n dirty version - Alchemy PBR Viewer I'm using which is my favorite. Its quite far ahead in terms of graphics and reliability from the other viewers.

 

Very rough quick cut to show the steps

1) Turn on sun / moon - reflections to manual - and crank your settings to HIGH (just turn it all up and change settings back down after so you know what they do)

2) IMPORTANT - Make sure when you make the reflection probe box, the TOP faces you- The top of the box always has to face you so spin it.

3) Make sure mirror is enabled in Preferences > Graphics > Advanced

4) Makes sure mirror is enabled in the probe under EDIT > Features

5) Line it up the mirror directly in the center of the probe. Its finicky when you are learning.

 

I had graphics down, but it can get smoother and clearer if you take the time and turn up the settings to 2048. Just make sure you have a good GPU as that doubles the workload on the GPU. You will want to turn off mirrors while wandering around the grid, You can also go into Nvidia Control Center settings and change MANAGE 3d Settings > Program settings > Alchemy/FS - set to GPU and enable Prefer Max Performance.

 

Alchemy Discord for latest viewer download - discord.gg/eng6bzbp

 

Here is more complete video of how to make a mirrorfrom beginning to end -

i.gyazo.com/a8112a4692b83d2a64cf29efce3cee3d.mp4

 

Alchemy

Gyazo

 

Done