secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Legacy hair becomes black when rendered as a imposter
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team:viewer
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- C++
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Description
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Use any legacy hair
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Observe that it looks normal
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Zoom out so that it becomes a imposter
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Observe that it becomes black
First image is normal rendering, second image is a imposter rendering.
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Research direction
Reproduce the issue with legacy hair and observe the transition from normal rendering to an impostor when zooming out. Trace the rendering path responsible for the impostor appearance and compare it with normal hair rendering. Done means legacy hair retains its expected appearance instead of becoming black as an impostor.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- computer-graphics, game-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100