The Future of Skins, by Starley Thereian
To quote Starley Thereian:
Attention all skin customers/creators. If you are not aware, please read and vote for this jira:
jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12962
In the 1.23 viewer, LL has changed the order of alpha layers on the avatar. This means that the slider eyebrows and makeup will now draw ON TOP OF your skin instead of underneath it. Why is this a problem? If your skin is permissioned “no modify” as many, many skins are and the creator did not set all makeup sliders to zero before applying their custom head texture, your skin will now look like the guy in the above photo and you will not be able to fix it. All of your no mod skins will be broken and it will be upon the creator to repair/replace every skin they’ve ever sold.
If your skin *is* modifiable, it is likely created that way specifically in order to utilize the underlying layers to allow for tintable lips and eyebrows (as all CS skins are), these types of skins will all be broken and likely irreparable with the slider brows and makeup appearing on top of your custom brow/lip finish.
Once again, please vote on this issue. jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12962
Tell your friends, write a blog, anything you can think of to get the idea into LL’s head that arbitrarily breaking our content is not acceptable!
Thats terrible are Lindens going to reimburse all monies paid out for skins that will now be useless?
This is disgusting : (
Just so no one else freaks out Lindens have ceased implementation of this.
“Thanks for all your feedback! We realize that our current implementation breaks a lot of content and that this simply is not acceptable. We are working on a solution, and will not leave the problem in the current state. -Nyx Linden”
Or I read that wrong … who knows, I just woke up
Nyx Linden is a fool. I wish that linden would go away and take qarl with them