secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Unwanted edge transparency in BOM Universal Aux channel layers
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Description
There's a visual glitch when using more than one BOM texture layer on a Universal Aux channel if there's partial transparency in the texture using Blinn-Phong textures. I've made BOM textures with partial transparency for rigged fairy wings, so that customers could layer a stripey texture on top of the main wing texture. However, it's as if there's an outline of 100% transparency around the edges of the upper stripey texture that punches a hole straight through the underlying wing texture as well.
It shows up the most when in front of a bright background.
I tried making the stripe texture completely black with a 100% transparent background by converting it to a vector and then converting it back into a raster image in Photoshop, and this minimizes the issue so that it's only visible if you're very zoomed in, but this means there can't be layered BOM textures with blended edges at all on the Aux channels.
I had envisioned being able to make add-ons like colorful peacock 'eye' spots, faded edges, etc so people could really customize their wings' look, but this doesn't seem to be possible right now.It happens whether the files are PNG or TGA, with or without an alpha channel.Since the main wing textures have partial transparency, changing the blend mode to alpha mask would not solve the issue.
Hopefully you can see the problem in the screenshots. You might at first think it's the white outline 'halo' issue but no, it's actually that the edges have an outline that are completely clear so the background shows through.
Repro steps:
Test content is at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Danger!%20Danger!/71/81/38
- Wear the Ruth outfit from the library just so we're starting with the same.
- Wear '*Fancy Fairy - Teasel Fairy Wings 3.0 Aquamarine Aux3',
- Wear "Fancy Fairy - Teasel Fairy Wings 3.0 - default, Female - Bento2"
- Add "FF Teasel Fairy Wings 3.0 BlackStripeyAccent Add*"
- Stand in front of something bright, view the avatar from the front and look at the wings.
Observed: The background color shows through. See attached picture. (I'm using a different Aux3 in the screenshot but the effect is the same)
Expected: The edges should not be transparent. Or an explanation of why they are transparent.
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
Reproduce the issue at the supplied Danger! Danger! location using the listed Ruth outfit and fairy-wing layers, with a bright background. Trace the BOM Universal Aux channel compositing path for Blinn-Phong textures and compare the upper layer's partially transparent edges with the underlying layer. Done means layered edges no longer reveal the background while existing partial transparency remains supported.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- computer-graphics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100