Hi, Thanks Nyx for the detail write up. This is great.
Getting the "black rectangle" fix would at least mitigate the privacy/embarrassment problem residents have been reporting so +1 on that. Cheers, - Merov On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Nyx Linden <[email protected]> wrote: > The bug happens when your client is trying to rebake your avatar's > textures and you're doing something with the window (minimizing, > switching windows, etc). Since we use the screenbuffer for our dynamic > textures, its unavoidable that this would result in a bad bake. > Unfortunately there isn't an easy way to detect this case either. > > The long-term solution is to change our dynamic texture system to use > off-screen buffers for texture readbacks. While not requiring a complete > re-write of the avatar baking system, this is non-trivial to do. I've > already written a shorter-term solution, which is to draw a black > rectangle over the relevant area of the window to prevent the UI from > appearing on the bake. I can port this over to snowglobe later this week > if there is interest in testing this out. > > "Rebake textures" should still trigger an upload of your avatar's baked > textures. Is there sufficient reason to believe that we're using cached > versions (whether server or client-side) of the bakes even when you > manually specify "rebake textures"? > > -Nyx > > Argent Stonecutter wrote: > > Even if you can't figure out how to fix this one... how about making > > "Rebake Textures" work without having to go into appearance and select > > a modifiable wearable first? > > _______________________________________________ > > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges > > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting > privileges >
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