WindLight versus attachments

I'm running the First Look viewer, and the sky is truly spectacular... BUT.

I notice that lighting of objects is affected considerably by the virtual time of day. This makes sense, and is realistic, but... it doesn't appear to affect one's avatar the same way it does everything else, notably attachments.

Now, my auburn hair looks dark brown at sunrise, and orange at sunset. Attachments that I've very carefully tweaked to match my skin color look like it's still midnight at sunrise, and have the color of a kumquat at sunset... all the while my avatar's skin color is relatively unchanged.

This has been a problem before with local lighting treating attachments differently from one's avatar, but now the differences are flat out outrageous. What can be done about it?

Oh that is bad news. A lot of clothes designers use slightly different colors in attachments to match the color of the prim clothes with the 'normal' clothes.

I suggest that you file a report at Jira, including screenshots.

- Login at jira.secondlife.com.
- Create a new issue.
- Set “Project” to “Second Life Viewer - VWR”.
- Set “Issue Type” to “Bug”.
- Set “Affects Version/s” to “WindLight” and fill in the appropriate details.
- Scroll to the bottom and click “Create” button.

(instructions copied from the blog)

Thanks... I'll do that. Another thread mentioned choosing the "use default color picker" option; I tried that, and it appears to help a great deal.

Um...I dunno. isn't everything, avatar and prim alike, effected by lighting all the same is good thing? It's been something I've always wish.