Problem with skin

I'm back with a successful update. I followed these instructions
Originally Posted by Kitty Barnett

1) Take off all clothing (probably want to be somewhere private )
2) Left-click on the "corrupted" skin and Ctrl-C to copy it
3) Create a new folder (the point here is that you can tell the copy from the original so this is just one easy way to do that) and Ctrl-V to paste a copy of the skin into there
4) Wear a newbie skin (there's some in the library)
5) Edit / Preferences - Network - Clear Cache and close SL & relog
6) Rebake
7) Wear the *copy* of the skin, do another clear cache and relog
Rebake

Not all of the steps are always necessary, but going through the whole elaborate thing gives you the best chance of making it work . If it works, delete the original skin and just wear the copy from then on.

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This did not appear to work initially but by allowing some time for the veiwer to catch up with what it was being sent in step 6 then proceeding with the remaining steps I have cured the problem.
I do not need to do anything when I log in. It just works.

Thanks Gregory. So the skin causes it, not the clothes?

Sometimes changing skins has helped with 'blackfoot' but sometimes changing clothes did. Some cases of 'silhouette av' seemed triggered by putting on an item of clothing, a shoe prim etc., and reversed when it was removed.

What causes this strange disorder?

The skin in question is one that a newbie can get and wear. I can only assume that somehow that becamer corrupted and when recreated had a different set of parameters.
But who knows - not me.

Hey, I have the NVIDIA skin bug!
I have tried everything I can think of or have been told to do!! Skin, bald, wig, eyes, palletized texture, rebake, appearence, updating drivers, you name it. No can do! Any other suggestions??

Have you tried the sequence I isted in the posting above?
If yes sorry I cant help you.
If no then try it, it might just work for you. Remember the wait for rebake.

There does appear to be some weird skin bug going around that isn't related to the NVidia issue. I've had a couple of customers contact me because the skin of their cat avatar goes solid grey/white rather than the colour it should be. This is visible to other people as well, and new copies of the skin that work fine for other folk don't continue having that problem for the person who has this issue. I've not found a fix for it, and have suggested that the folk with the problem submit a support ticket. Does this sound like the same issue that rebaking is fixing for some? (I confess that I didn't think to suggest it the last time this problem came up, since I thought that was for client-side issues. )

There is certainly something in what you said. If it is affecting your sales or after-sales and costs then it is something you definitely need to raise. In my case it didn't really worry me I usually appear in a black tux with all white hair having white hands and face added to the B/W effect rather. But it was difficult to change it so I raised this item and have solved my problem (for the time being at least).

Gregory, I'm glad Kitty's suggested process worked for you. It's the only thing that helped me, so that's why I hung on to her instructions, figuring they'd come in handy for someone else!