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Key: VWR-1186
Type: New Feature New Feature
Status: Reopened Reopened
Priority: Nice to have Nice to have
Assignee: Unassigned
Reporter: Aimee Congrejo
Votes: 13
Watchers: 6
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Add presets for Preferences depending on what yer doing in-world

Created: 13/Jun/07 12:18 PM   Updated: 24/Jun/08 05:12 AM
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Component/s: User Interface
Affects Version/s: 1.16.0.x
Fix Version/s: None

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Linden Lab Issue ID: SL-45347


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I'm always fiddling around in Preferences to change quality sliders depending on what I'm doing in-world. Like just walking around exploring, building, or C:SI combat.

A quick example is when I'm walking around exploring I have all graphics goodies like local lights and high terrain detail turned on but the four quality sliders at 50%. Draw distance at 128 and bandwidth at 800. So that's sorta a compromise between quality and performance.

When I'm building I have all graphics goodies turned on and the four quality sliders maxed out at 100%. Draw distance at 64 and bandwidth at 1500. So my local stuff loads quick but I don't care about what's far away.

Just sitting around chatting, enjoying the scenery, or shopping, same as building above but draw distance at 512.

But when I'm doing C:SI combat I have local lights turned off, terrain detail set to low, and the four quality sliders zeroed out at 0% with bandwidth at 400 to get the highest FPS possible and limit simlag.

I'd like the ability to save and load preferences presets so I can easily jump between settings. This could be done with a save and load dialog box in preferences or a dropdown list of saved presets maybe?

Like if I'm hanging around chatting in the beautiful Samurai Edo I like to be maxed out on quality to get the full experience. But someone could attack me at any time so it'd be awesome to be able to Ctrl-P, bang on a preset, and hit OK real quick instead of trying to fiddle around one slider at a time while I'm getting slashed up by some noob. _



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Aimee Congrejo added a comment - 13/Jun/07 12:20 PM
Linked to SVC-267 although this sounds like it could be a major feature instead of a minor tweek.

Aimee Congrejo added a comment - 13/Jun/07 12:21 PM
Linked to VWR-864 cuz even tho this isn't a direct performance increase it adds the illusion of better performance by tweeking the preferences for what yer doing in-world at the moment.

Aimee Congrejo added a comment - 13/Jun/07 12:44 PM
Linked to Add a "reset to factory settings" button in preferences VWR-382 cuz both features (preset/reset) could be implemented together.

Torley Linden added a comment - 14/Jun/07 12:01 PM
Hey, I'd find this great! I first mused about some related things in 2004 – specifically, that there are times I want to crank everything to to the MAX to take epic snapshots (e.g., Draw Distance = 1024 m which you can do via editing settings.xml), but easily ratchet it back down for quick exploration. Also useful for test environments.

I'm wondering if this could be done by an open source contributor too, some way to read from different settings.xml files while logged in... anyone with expertise wanna chime in on that?

Being able to select this with a single click would also be useful for newcomers who feel puzzled by all the options.


Torley Linden added a comment - 09/Aug/07 01:39 PM
This looks like it'd involve more work and resources than we'd have time to allocate to anytime soon – resolving as "Won't Finish" but I more accurately mean "Someday Maybe" (which is a resolution status we should get added to this public Issue Tracker in the future!).

Haravikk Mistral added a comment - 16/Aug/07 07:18 AM
Surely it's just a case of having multiple preference files and a hot-key or menu to pick one (which will then be applied as normal, asking to restart if any of the changed settings need it). All the functionality should be there with the current preferences system.

Aimee Congrejo added a comment - 20/Apr/08 12:22 AM
Reopening since you can't vote on closed issues. grins Since Torley already said it's a "maybe in the future" not a "won't fix". xD

nya Linden added a comment - 06/Jun/08 01:33 PM
Moving this to a Nice to Have and leaving open for voting.