secondlife / secondlife/viewer

Resolve the view of neighbouring regions that hold a different water height

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Since Jul 30, 2025.

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Description

Environment

Second Life Release 7.1.13.13792485257 (2025.03) + 7.1.12.13509103967 (ForeverFPS)

Description

A feature request to find a solution for the gap in water heights observed on neighbouring regions.
This is what a higher water height in the next region can appear as:

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Here's a more extreme circumstance:

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A clip of camming around the above: https://gyazo.com/d9402a5c7c2f9dfe92a9fdc047d70346

Potential solutions:

  • Waterfalls
  • Copy the same water texture as a vertical wall of water
  • Always only show the water height of your current region

Could this also resolve seeing the void upon viewing one corner region to another?
https://gyazo.com/c273dab2dac68f8aef31f9b181462c5a

Reproduction steps

Observe a neighbouring region that has a higher water height

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