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

[Dzonatas]

Most of it came from Sculpty Dev.

I was trying to figure it out. I suspect it was do to some confusion in 
relayed messages caused a little hype about the blog message, thinking 
that *any* sculpty with alpha would make the *entire* prim appear 
invisible in-world. =/

I'm thinking some kind of toggle (for what to do with the alpha channel) 
is still needed even after the confusion is cleared-up, but just not as 
urgently as it was being reported.


Karl Stiefvater wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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>> Power to Change the Void
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