Every time I come back to SL from a long break, it feels like I have to relearn everything again Good thing I never learned how to take pics properly, or I'd have to relearn that too! Somehow graphics seem improved though...
oh boy, we are right now in the middle of a huge upheaval! if you're on official viewer, you've got the new environment stuff, if you're on firestorm or other, you're probably using the old way as of, like, a week ago.
(environment has changed, hand in hand with a different workflow on texturing objects. we have PBR now in SL, so mirrors [can when set up correctly] even work now! but it only just went "live")
FS doesn't have it out of alpha yet, it just went live in official. lighting is changing, we're getting HDRI environments generated on the fly (not always the way you want...), and another texture pipeline that uses metallic and roughness instead of environment and glossy