[sldev] "background sky" render pass, render pass sequence

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-04-01, at 17:56, Dave Parks wrote:
> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> This was changed in February some time? Because that's when parcel  
>> borders started glowing through solid objects.
>

> That change was made so you could see property lines under water.

That's what I suspected.

I thought you were able to see property lines under water before  
Windlight. What changed?

There's other things that you can't see under Windlight water, too,  
and they can't all be moved into the UI layer.

>   Hooking up the "see through" parcel borders to "show hidden  
> selections" might be worthwhile.

That wouldn't make any real difference, I don't think. If they're not  
on all the time, then you can't tell when you're about to walk over a  
region boundary. It's been mighty disturbing for me since I had to  
turn parcel borders off, when I'm near a region boundary.

>> That doesn't seem right, because glow on HUD attachments works.

> It did for a time, but not any more.

Bother. That means my "spectacles" HUD is broken. When did that happen?

> The concensus was that the ability to have glowing HUD attachments  
> didn't make up for artifacts caused by glow in the 3D scene coming  
> through solid HUD objects, and there was no acceptable way to fix  
> the latter and keep the former due to architectural constraints.

Having glow coming through solid objects outside the HUD is a problem  
too.