secondlife / secondlife/viewer
Mouse right-click and alt-click operations fail when the cursor is over deep water
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Description
Repro:
- Disable Transparent Water in Advanced Graphics settings (setting Preferences > Graphics > Quality and Speed to Mid should also do it)
- Right-click deep water.
Observed: Mouse right-click and alt-click operations fail.
This behavior started in the first PBR viewer, https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/7.0.1.6894459864.html
In the viewer prior to that, https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/6.6.16.6566955269.html , the viewer still rendered the terrain even when it was not visible under the opaque water..
Unable to rez on water surface or initiate an alt-cam action through the water surface in Second Life RC LeTigre 2026-06-25.28189172152 (e.g. Kiva, Plafil Waters).
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the failure with Transparent Water disabled, including right-click and alt-click over deep water. Compare the current behavior with the pre-PBR viewer behavior described in the linked release notes, then trace the viewer's water rendering and mouse-interaction paths. Done means these operations work through opaque deep water without regressing the water display.
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
- 48/100