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9 years ago Gryphon Ronas commented at 2015-01-03T10:10:01Z
The ability to alpha mask mesh avatars would stimulate the economy, as the biggest challenge to wearing a mesh avatar would be eliminated. Those items you love but they just don't work would turn in to sales. Not having to break the mesh up into many small pieces would lower rendering weight of these avatars, and any time you can make something render easier and faster, you help everyone.
I do wish more people would read the actual suggestion/request, and refrain from commenting and clogging the comments section with irrelevant drivel about a particular product and the features and HUD associated with it. This is NOT about a particular body, nor is it about a HUD. PLEASE, read the request, and if you don't know what it means, ask someone before commenting.
How would you like the feature to work?
An additional material map option (aside from diffuse, specular, and normal) for meshes labeled ‘Alpha Map’ that allows a user to apply either a black and white map, or an alpha bit texture to mask out areas of a mesh and render them fully transparent (with a 1-bit edging). This needs LSL support as well.
Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?
Currently, mesh creation is vibrant but stifled, especially in the field of mesh avatars. For mesh avatars to truly take off, one needs the ability to wear mesh clothing with them, however even with the fitted mesh implementation, mesh clothing will never truly fit ideally under the current system. Mesh bleeding, poking, and interference is common without elaborate and lag-riddled inefficient hacks or workarounds on the part of the mesh developer. To address this issue, as content creators do with legacy avatars, the ability to hide specific areas of a mesh avatar based on the silhouette of mesh clothing is a necessity, but, this is not supported by any viewer, leaving the average user in limbo, and mesh developers in a conundrum. Developers can not reach the fullest potential of mesh avatars without this feature, nor optimize mesh avatars for grid-wide use without unnecessary viewer load potentiated by hacks or workarounds.
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| Field | Value | | ------------- | ------------- | | Issue | BUG-8578 | | Summary | CLONE - Alpha Map Support for Mesh | | Type | New Feature Request | | Priority | Unset | | Status | Closed | | Resolution | Unactionable | | Reporter | AnissaKate7 (anissakate7) | | Created at | 2015-02-22T19:31:54Z | | Updated at | 2015-03-04T20:08:45Z | ``` { 'Business Unit': ['Platform'], 'Date of First Response': '2014-12-23T03:53:42.935-0600', 'How would you like the feature to work?': 'An additional material map option (aside from diffuse, specular, and normal) for meshes labeled ‘Alpha Map’ that allows a user to apply either a black and white map, or an alpha bit texture to mask out areas of a mesh and render them fully transparent (with a 1-bit edging). This needs LSL support as well.', 'Severity': 'Unset', 'Target Viewer Version': 'viewer-development', 'Why is this feature important to you? How would it benefit the community?': 'Currently, mesh creation is vibrant but stifled, especially in the field of mesh avatars. For mesh avatars to truly take off, one needs the ability to wear mesh clothing with them, however even with the fitted mesh implementation, mesh clothing will never truly fit ideally under the current system. Mesh bleeding, poking, and interference is common without elaborate and lag-riddled inefficient hacks or workarounds on the part of the mesh developer. To address this issue, as content creators do with legacy avatars, the ability to hide specific areas of a mesh avatar based on the silhouette of mesh clothing is a necessity, but, this is not supported by any viewer, leaving the average user in limbo, and mesh developers in a conundrum. Developers can not reach the fullest potential of mesh avatars without this feature, nor optimize mesh avatars for grid-wide use without unnecessary viewer load potentiated by hacks or workarounds. ', } ```