Turn on the sun!

Good point Emerald!
I thought I was the last to know how to turn on shadows on the 2.0 viewers, but it looks like I'm not. So to save y'all from spending as much time reading other how-to's, I thought I would just write my own. Who knows if its the right, or even best way to do it - I just got it from other sites.

Firstly, find a location. Believe me, you need to do this first. Shadows causes as much lag as a 2006 Second Life Jazz Club. Next up, find your pose and position your camera.

If not already, activate your Develop menu by pressing Ctrl-alt-q. In the develop menu, choose Rendering, then tick Framebuffer Objects... ...then Deferred Rendering... ...then Global Illumination.Voila! From this to......this!

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Next up - its time to play :)

Open up the Environment Editor (World, Sun, Environment Editor)...

...which is where you can adjust the time of day. To play some more, open the Advance Sky editor.

Here is where you can fiddle with the default Windlight settings (and create/save your own). Play as much as you like; you can easily change it back to Default - which it does whenever you log back in. You cant mess this up!For even more fun, click on the lighting tab. Its here where you can change things like:

1. The color of the sun.

2. The position of the sun

3. The angle of the sun

4. The color of things around you

5. The brighteness of your surroundings

So you can have soft lighting with long shadows...

or a bright sun with clear blue lighting. Its all up to you!

But lastly (or actually, firstly), you will need prim eyes when you activate shadows. Or you end up looking like this!

(Note - you wont need prim eyes in 2.0+, only if you plan to activate shadows. Also note that by checking some of the above selections to obtain shadows, it may also effect other prims.)