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JIRA spotlight - System Texture Skirts Vanishing

April 20, 2008 11:30 am

Amongst the JIRA issues that make me *grin* is this practical excuse for not being decently dressed in public: when worn, a system skirt layer, will for numerous avatars just vanish when it’s texture is fully loaded, leaving them in their underwear. It is the virtual edition of the ‘hey, shit, I left for school/work but forgot to put clothes on‘ nightmare.

System skirts are important for an estimated 50% of Second Life outfits - even for males if they wish to wear long coats. No wonder this is a very annoying bug for both fashionistas and fashion creators as well as normal residents and upcoming brides. This shows from the high number of votes to fix this ASAP - 204 already - and the broad range of duplicates, such as there are: ‘Clothing bug - Skirts not showing’, ‘Clothing worn but not visible’ (did someone finally manage to make those glasses after all? ;)), ‘Skirt clothing layer transparent/not showing’, … .

JIRA: Missing Texture System Skirts

I can *grin* about this one, as I’m personally not infected with the ’system skirt layer does not render’ bug. As far as I know that is: I have been running around in pants, armour or as a cute mechanical kitty the last few weeks. Luckily, this issue is already assinged - WorkingOnIt Linden - and Lindens were able to reproduce this bug. Now let’s hope they can solve this too.

If you want to see this issue fixed - I assume some prefer underwear as dress code - you can vote for this issue at ‘System skirt textures turn invisible on wearing‘ originally created by DBDigital Episilon.

12 Responses to “JIRA spotlight - System Texture Skirts Vanishing”

Peter Stindberg wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

“System skirts” or “texture skirts” are one of the most awful things in SL anyways. In fact I think that both the avatar meshes as well as the clothing meshes would need some serious redoing - but that would mean that *ALL* in-world clothing (and that includes skin) would stop working.

Vint Falken wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

Hmmm. Not sure. They could look at the ‘age’ of the texture UUID, if it is before a certain date, they autoconvert it to the new mesh?

It would be lovely to be able to wear two different socks! :d (And have an extra layer for face tattoos.)

Peter Stindberg wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

You ARE smart! The extra tattoo layer is on JIRA already - you might want to vote on http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1449

Vint Falken wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

Peter, did someone tell you the opposite? (*looks for her guns in that messy inventory*)

And if you look at the votes on that JIRA issue, you’ll find that I already voted a while ago. ;)

Peter Stindberg wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

/me sighs “Bear with me, Missus, I’m coming out of a rough ride as you know…”

Shockwave Plasma wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

Oh! I thought this was for wanting to make your skirts dissapear!

I’ll vote on it anyway.

But Vint, anytime you want to make my skirt…oh…nevermind…

Kailie Quinn (Katarina Malthus) wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

I agree with first post, this is merely survival of the fittest.

Kailie Quinn (Katarina Malthus) wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

To note, I’d rather have multiple attaches per point than extra skin layers.

Vint Falken wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

Kailie, you mean that those skirts disappearing now under WindLight, is a forecast of their extinction? Or how should we interpret ’survival of the fittest’ here?

Kailie Quinn (Katarina Malthus) wrote a comment on April 20, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

Meaning, ‘if it doesn’t fit, it isn’t fit to survive’ ; )

Kasumi Rieko wrote a comment on April 23, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

I had this happening from the time I had the Viewer Required Update pushed onto me. I had just made a skirt and then tried it on and the only thing that would appear was a ring around my waist. Thought at first it was something I was doing wrong.

Recently I have been getting my skirt texture to appear, but then it turns transparent, (I would say about 50%, can still see the design, but also my panties). Also on the bottom of my skirt texture (it is about knees length), my chat window appears as a texture for the rest of the skirt down to my feet.

mewmew wrote a comment on May 17, 2008
MyAvatars 0.2

I’ve been having this problem, quite literally for months and months now, and NO ONE, I mean no one has even begun to solve it, I think this is a sad sad day indeed for secondlife v.vl

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