The usual approach would be to include these assets with OpenSimulator itself, rather than require people to fetch a
separate IAR. So donating a patch for this would be welcome, though of course the assets would have to be appropriately
licensed. I would say that they should be identical or very close to the effect expected elsewhere (though, of course,
any proprietary assets are not appropriate).
If I remember, in the past some of these assets
On 02/04/14 16:51, Chris wrote:
From what I understand, some time ago LL had removed some local assets from
the viewer code, including the default
water shader texture, and the transparent highlighter (that red smokey texture
you see when you enable transparency via
CTRL ALT T) since they can directly be served from the SL grid servers. This
results in the client not being able to
find the textures either locally or get it from the server (since to my
knowledge they don't exist in the OpenSim's set
of assets that it is distributed with). Thus on more recent viewers, you see a
shiny, smooth, almost mirror-like surface
on the water, instead of ripples; and if you ever tried editing transparent /
semi transparent prims on these viewers
you may notice that when you enable show transparencies they all show up a
solid red color instead of the smokey semi
transparent highlight texture; Which by the way, solid opaque red is really
hard to work with when editing a number of
objects in close proximity and they all have some kind of transparency :)
The bad thing about the said asset removal is that you can't simply copy those
assets from an older viewer and put them
in your problematic viewer's install directory... It appears those viewers are
now hard-coded to retrieve those assets
from the server and will ignore the presence of the ones you copied over.
It's a bit of an "ungraceful" and a bit brute force approach I suppose but; I
have a small IAR that I made up that
inserts the water shader and the transparent highlighter textures into your
inventory. Once it has been loaded the
database will have the correct textures and UUID references for them and the
viewers should start displaying them
properly again. You don't even have to keep them in your inventory once it's
loaded. Problem is, they are the same
textures as found in the viewer's install directory and I am not sure if they
can be distributed with OS. If none of the
developers here have an issue though with me linking to the IAR that fixes the
issue then I will gladly upload it
somewhere and post up a link? Let me know please :)
-- Chris
On 4/2/2014 9:58 AM, riebling wrote:
My intuition is that it's a viewer problem; does the Kokua viewer display
water the same way when connecting to SL? If it does, then it's not an
OpenSim problem. I am 99% sure water is 100% handled client side, and
OpenSim server code has nothing to do with it.
Maybe try some more experiments to narrow down possibilities.
I just downloaded and ran viewer Kokua_64_3_7_4_32111_x86_64 on Ubuntu, and
got normal looking water.
One thing I DID notice about Kokua was that it does not allow me to choose
advanced graphics settings. Kokua locks me out of certain things, where
other viewers (Singularity) do not. (My graphics hardware is low quality
motherboard-based, and generates a warning at startup) In spite of this,
With Singularity, I can actually turn on shaders, advanced lighting model,
water reflections, etc.
Perhaps the Kokua developers would be interested in your findings.
http://wiki.kokuaviewer.org/wiki/Communication_Channels
Good luck getting water to look better!
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