secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Name tags are not always displayed, some avatars are missing name tags.
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team:viewer
- Dominant language
- C++
- Stars
- 299
- Forks
- 146
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Description
For some weeks now, at various regions and times of day. There will be some avatars without any name tag (occasionally my own avatar as well). Toggling name tag display in preferences to Off, then On again immediately shows the previously missing tags.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the missing name tags in the Second Life viewer and review the linked Canny bug report; done means avatar name tags remain visible without toggling the preference off and on.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- game-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100