I sell a ship that features a cloaking device, lots of items have this feature so I know this isn't a new idea or anything, and prior to a few days ago I had assumed this was still working.
Lately I've had an issue with the cloaking script. It's not really a script issue, however, as it works fine on my end.
Basically the cloak takes the current texture of part of the ship and changes it to the NODRAW texture ID to hide the AV that's inside it, and when it uncloaks it switches it back.
Apparrently, this will not work unless someone has full copy/mod/trans permissions on the ship itself. I didn't change any perms on the scripts or other items, only the actual prim build, and used a buddy to test, and no other combination of perms would work other than full perms on the ship build.
I would imagine that this would break a lot of content as I know it wasn't like this before and I was curious if anyone could tell me why this is happening, or if it's a known bug that is being looked into.
Kinda saddens me that I only found out about this because I saw someone flying around my cloaked ship and the saucer was a dull gray instead of invisiprim, and not because any customer mentioned this. Makes me wonder how often people buy broken items and just shrug it off...because I do *not* release broken items...if an issue is found then I quickly fix and replace.