[sldev] Re: Sculpties and Alpha channel (people think they broke in 1.18.3 and are screaming!)

[Karl Stiefvater]

Dzonatas -

nothing has changed w/r/t alphas and sculpties.  where is the  
screaming occurring?


K.

On Oct 1, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Dzonatas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I see there is a lot of people screaming about the changes in the  
> alpha channel on the sculpties. They were never aware or missed the  
> point that the alpha channel was never designated to be used as  
> alpha mode on regular PNG of JPG type images.
>
> I suggest a quick fix to allow planned use of the alpha channel  
> with the mode they expect is to use recently added extra bits on  
> prims.  It would mean a new UI button to toggle between different  
> alpha modes.
>
> They main gotcha is that people will complain that they uploaded  
> lots of textures and that they'll have to spend more money to fix  
> and replace them. This extra toggle could prevent that mess with  
> another viewer update.
>
>
>
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