secondlife / secondlife/viewer

Enforce Reflection probe restrictions on attachments

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Description

As per https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/PBR_Materials#Unsupported_use-cases reflection probes are not supposed to work as attachments or on physics objects.

Wear a reflection probe. This intentionally does not work.

Except, it does work - you just have to make the probe be a linked part, rather than a root object.

This should be fixed so it doesn't become a feature due to people exploiting it.

https://secondlife.canny.io/admin/board/bug-reports/p/enforce-reflection-probe-restrictions-on-attachments

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Research direction

Use the linked PBR Materials unsupported-use-cases description as the behavior reference, then trace reflection-probe handling for attachments, linked parts, and physics objects in the viewer. Done means reflection probes are rejected consistently in those cases, including when the probe is a linked part.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
computer-graphics, game-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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