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Skin with black face issue.
Tarina Sewell
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Join date: 20 Jul 2007
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10-29-2008 21:04
Ok, so.. My avatars face now is black. The skin loaded is by Gala Phoenix. I seee the image in the appearance correctly. Cleared cache relog and still this one skin has a black face, noteworthy: the whole head is not all black just face area... strange indeed.
I have picure.
Rhaorth Antonelli
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Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 7,425
10-29-2008 21:20
are you using an nvidea card and did you upgrade the drivers?

if so try searching the forums for info on the work around (I can not remember the exact way to get to it)
basically if you are familiar with the advanced menu, turn off palatalize textures, then rebake
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Tarina Sewell
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10-29-2008 22:03
wonderful, I did that.. Now it seems I have black arms. What changed what happend, why would I suddenly need to run drivers that ran fine hours earler???

I have current drivers installed now.
Rhaorth Antonelli
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10-29-2008 22:09
the current drivers ARE the problem

I have them too, I just do the turn off palatized (I can't spell) textures then do a rebake (sometimes takes a couple times) and all comes back to normal

for me my whole body goes back
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Toy LaFollette
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Posts: 2,359
10-30-2008 07:27
would be helpful if we knew what vid card we are talking about, also which drivers.
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Taylor Lubezki
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Join date: 12 Aug 2007
Posts: 498
10-30-2008 07:28
Try going to graphic settings and turning on/off avatar vertex... This was an old bug back some time ago and this would fix it.
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Kathy Morellet
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10-30-2008 07:36
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-7957

Basically, according to the JIRA posts, palletized textures are an older feature that are no longer fully supported by the video card makers. Looks like they intend to remove that option from the viewer in the near future to prevent this from happening anymore.

ETA: Quote from BigPapi Linden in that JIRA...

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Palettized textures haven't been properly supported by the GPU manufacturers for a while (since hardly anyone uses them anymore). The features has been removed from Advanced->Rendering->Features->Palettized Textures. Future versions of the viewer won't show it. If you're running into this problem, uncheck the "Palettized Textures" feature from the menu and rebake your avatar. Additionally, make sure that you're running the SL window in your primary monitor, as many drivers have graphical bugs if you're running SL on your second monitor.