Friday, 29 April 2011

Sculpt wierdness in Imprudence / Inworldz (And Secondlife Too)

Mostly I've only been noticing this in Inworldz as I'm doing more 'new' building there, but I've seen it in rezzing items in Secondlife too - though I may have an idea as to why now, but it's purely speculation untill I've done more testing...

The problem is this:






As you can see the sculpt map is corrupting (This was working, fine for months, untill I logged in today and noticed it had done this.) I've had it happen many times with other sculpts, and have read that it seems to be an encryption error to do with pre viewer 2 type viewers when handling abnormally shaped Sculpt maps, for precision sculpting this is a pain.
I'm wondering if it's to do with where the sculpt maps are stored, and I'm going to experiment a little with it. As I noticed the belt end sculpt map was in my trash for some reason, I've restored it and hope this fixes it, though of course with the way things are cashed in secondlife this shouldn't actually matter, especially as that wouldn't help those who had bought items and had the same problem.
I assume it's a fetching issue, where it's not loading, either way I wish it wouldn't keep doing it! :3

Edit: I remember a 'quick fix' for this, that Suki reminded me of. Rezise maps to square. It seems to solve the problem, I'll keep an eye on it :)