I'm curious as to what this blurry effect is like for other people, anyone want to post a screen grab of theirs?.
This is how my Build floater looks when unfocused and with a white prim behind :
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Simil Miles
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04-26-2007 07:29
I'm curious as to what this blurry effect is like for other people, anyone want to post a screen grab of theirs?. This is how my Build floater looks when unfocused and with a white prim behind : _____________________
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AJ DaSilva
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04-26-2007 07:59
This is how my Build floater looks when unfocused and with a white prim behind : |
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Usagi Musashi
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04-26-2007 08:27
UNREAL this is such a mess. Please fix this llabs!
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Samaira Vieria
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04-26-2007 09:12
Here's my menu, best I could do!
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AJ DaSilva
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04-26-2007 09:28
Here's my menu, best I could do! Just so peeps know, there's two issues here: one is the new blurred text shadows which cause problems with certain colours of text on certain coloured backgrounds (which everyone has and isn't technically a bug), the other is text being totally the wrong colour (which only some have and is a bug). For people with the latter problem, you might want to try uninstalling and downloading a fresh installer. |
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Roro Howe
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04-26-2007 13:30
same here!
looks like todays update mess something its really hard to read the messages on the chat! |
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Urah Pahute
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04-26-2007 13:36
Its awful looking. But at least its reminding me to blink more (to try clear the bluriness from my eyes - even though it doesnt work!)
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Usagi Musashi
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04-26-2007 18:31
Its awful looking. But at least its reminding me to blink more (to try clear the bluriness from my eyes - even though it doesnt work!) Ignore this remark Originally Posted by Sensual Casanova has anyone ever told you to STFU? the text looks awesome on my screen, much easier to read, dunno what you are all talking about.. some are blind to start with......... But as you can see many are having this issue. IF or when they take care of it who knows. |
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Susie Boffin
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04-26-2007 18:46
Please everyone submit this as a bug. I have never in my life seen such a user unfriendly "enhancement" expect maybe for the one where hitting the alt key caused you to teleport somewhere or to sell all of your land.
I know it isn't a real bug and is something some Linden Lab employee cooked up. I think the creator of it needs glasses.  The more we all gripe about it the better chance it will be removed and I can stop taking Tylenol before I log into SL. _____________________
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AJ DaSilva
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04-26-2007 18:48
No, I like it ATM. I'll complain when it has an adverse effect on me.
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Simil Miles
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04-26-2007 19:18
Please everyone submit this as a bug. Everybody can vote on JIRA for this to be fixed. User interface text in Beta is less legible. _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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04-26-2007 19:49
Is this a matter of having started anti-aliasing the text, or doing the outline and or shadowing differently, or what?
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AJ DaSilva
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04-26-2007 19:55
Is this a matter of having started anti-aliasing the text, or doing the outline and or shadowing differently, or what? |
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Susie Boffin
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04-26-2007 20:08
The shadow's being done differently. Before it was a simple 1px black drop shadow, now it's a variable opacity blurred shadow based on the text brightness. Richard Linden goes into the details of what's going on in the JIRA entry Simil linked. Whatever Richard intended it to be has failed. I suggest that Richard and any other LL employee who wants to implement these sorts of things give it a beta test and ask for user opinions before they implement it. I am not joking about the upset stomach and headache it gives me. _____________________
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Yiffy Yaffle
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04-26-2007 20:18
hmm this doesn't sound good. i only logged in once since the update so i didn't check how bad it was for me.
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04-27-2007 10:55
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Susie Boffin
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04-27-2007 16:45
Everybody can vote on JIRA for this to be fixed. User interface text in Beta is less legible. I voted as well as sending in a bug report. _____________________
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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05-14-2007 12:56
We were told there would be a release last week for the blurry text, but that week has come and gone, and now the release date has been put in the "when it's ready" category.
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Gillian Waldman
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05-14-2007 14:32
I never had the blurry text issue so sounds graphic card specific to me.
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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05-14-2007 14:53
It is not a graphics card issue,this has been examined in detail, it's in the Jira, a programmer changed the way the text is displayed, he added an outline and shadow.
The result is text that is very hard to read against certain color schemes, if you don't use the darkened background on the text display. The need to undo the change has already been acknowledged by Linden Lab. The question is not what is causing the blurry text, or whether it exists or not, the question is when do we get the optional viewer that was said to be deployed last week? _____________________
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Milo Linden
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05-14-2007 15:59
You mean this optional viewer, http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/05/14/optional-viewer-available-second-life-1151/
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05-14-2007 16:45
Probably so. We'll see.
Monday, May 14th, 2007 at 3:38 PM PDT by: Joshua Linden We’ve posted a new Optional Viewer available for download - Second Life 1.15.1. Torley Linden and Bridie Linden put together this summary of what’s in the update:This optional viewer release delivers incremental usability improvements that Residents have asked us for — some which address problems that have been around a long time, so we’re glad to see them resolved. We’re continuing to work hard on bigger projects to alleviate significant pain points, and have more major fixes coming soon (for bugs like group notices failing and Friends online not working). Floating text is legible again! (VWR-496) Now easier to get to Public JIRA and other bug reporting tools from the Viewer Go to Tools menu > Bug Reporting. New IM shortcuts Switch between IM tabs using Alt-Left arrow and Alt-Right arrow Use Ctrl-W to close IM tab, use Ctrl-T to close IM Window. Ctrl-Shift-W closes all windows. Choose whether or not system folders are auto-sorted to the top of your inventory or not! Busy mode again automatically declines inventory offers (VWR-516). L$ balance now displays “Loading…” (instead of being blank) while your balance is retrieved. We know how much “Where did my L$ go?” confusion this used to cause. The Mini-Map is again open by default on a new install. The number of textures that can be sent at a given time is now limited to 5 in 10 seconds (VWR-326) llSetSoundQueueing works again. (VWR-42) Inventory folders no longer unwantedly auto-open in some circumstances. (VWR-3  Building Reference ruler works again. First digit in the “Pay” dialog correctly erases. (VWR-165) Open textures can be stretched vertically again. (VWR-192) A new option has been added in Preferences > General > “Automatic preview of new notecards/textures/landmarks” Turning this option off will display the normal blue dialog when a notecards/textures/landmarks is offered. The blue dialog will tell you who is sending the item and also give you the opportunity to Mute that person. This is especially helpful if you are being spammed. Full release notes follow… Release Notes for Second Life 1.15.1(3) May 14, 2007 ===================================== Changes: * Soft shadow for text is now an option available via the text style flag * Expanded Tools->Report Bug to include additional information and links * Alt-Left and Alt-Right switch between tabs in IM * Ctrl-W closes one tab in IM window (Ctrl-T closes IM window) * Ctrl-Shift-W closes all windows * Inventory system folders may be sorted to top * Busy mode declines notecards and textures and silently sends all other transfers to Inventory * L$ balance displays “Loading…” (instead of a blank) when first checking your balance * Minimap is enabled when Second Life runs for the first time * Texture transfers are limited to 5 items per 10 seconds Bug fixes: * Fixed windows maximizing when opening other windows * Fixed floating text inworld (original hard shadow restored) * Fixed LSL Help window restoring when clicking on script editor * Fixed LSL Wiki Help window forgetting its size * Fixed Ctrl-W closing the floater instead of one IM panel * Fixed a client crash when deleting an object from inventory * Fixed avatar eyeball shader * Fixed closing an inventory folder while selection is inside moves selection to ‘My Inventory’ * Fixed nametag text leaving background box while moving * Fixed graphics cards with unlisted memory sizes defaulting to 16MB * Fixed right-clicking on self failing if you are wearing a HUD * Fixed llSetText appearance on HUD attachments * Fixed Alt-WASD behavior when sitting * Fixed first digit in Pay dialog cannot be erased * Fixed reference ruler measuring to region edge instead of reference object * Fixed permissions on group-owned object’s script when group member clicks New Script * Improved detection of Linux video memory * VWR-38: Magic Opening Folders * VWR-42: llSetSoundQueueing() is broken * VWR-71: Tabulating and moving by word (Ctrl-left, ctrl-right) off-by-one errors in scripting editor. * VWR-136: Seg fault in llpolymorph.cpp * VWR-148: llListStatistics tooltip wrong * VWR-154: typo in en-US/floater_mute.xml ‘Resident’ not ‘resident’ * VWR-155: typo in en-US/floater_mute.xml ‘Resident’ not ‘Person’ * VWR-165: First Digit in the ‘Pay’ dialog does not erase without entering more digits * VWR-166: moving of open folders in the inventory to an other indentation level leaves the contents on the previous level * VWR-192: textures in windows only stretches horizontally * VWR-326: Allow a ‘limit texture recieving’ in the client * VWR-346: Selecting Client>Character>Flush Animations immediately crashes 1.14.0.x * VWR-379: Fix shell scripts to use bash and not sh when appropriate. * VWR-414: 8-bit character in llagent.cpp comment confuses Japanese text editors * VWR-415: Definitions of WM_MOUSEWHEEL and WHEEL_DELTA need conditionals (on Windows) * VWR-429: add scons option making FMOD optional Thanks. 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AJ DaSilva
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05-15-2007 04:16
I never had the blurry text issue so sounds graphic card specific to me. I reckon it could be a resolution issue. I had to run 800x600 fullscreen (for filming) the other day and the text doesn't look any where near as good as it did running windowed on a 1400x1050 desktop (where I normally think it looks quite lovely TUVM). |
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SuezanneC Baskerville
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05-15-2007 06:29
It wasn't a graphics card issue, it was a change in the way the text was displayed - its' come and gone, now, the change has already been undone in version 1.15.1.3.
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