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

[Karl Stiefvater]

ahhh... yes.  that's entirely hysteria.  the JIRA task cited by the  
release notes was mis-named - the issue has nothing to do with alpha  
channels.  (the bug is actually that some degenerate surfaces slipped  
through our filter.  and the fix is waiting to merge into release.)

and yes - if/when we do start using the sculpt's alpha channel -  
we'll accompany the feature with a user toggle - so as not to break  
existing content.


K.

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

> 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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Power to Change the Void
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Power to Change the Void