The Black death :(

Hi , seems that my very long steak of being hassle free in SL has come to an end .....i have the black death

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v129/maddad68/theblackdeath_001.jpg?t=1184843508

As you can see from the snapshot , i have black patches all over my body , it seems to cover cloths too .. if i remove the clothes its still on the skin below .
I just wondered if anyone else is having this ?

I have tryed a pile of things to fix it .. cleared cache ...fresh instale , changed skins ..shape .. clothing ... rebaked ..pretty much everything i can think of that might help .. but as yet nothing .

If anyone else ( or you know somone who ) has this problem please let me know so i can work out if its exclusive to my and my set up.

Allso if anyone knows a workaround i would appriciate that too .

Thanks guys and girls

In Preferences / Graphics Detail / if Avatar Vertex Program is checked, try unchecking it. Same with Enable OpenGL VBO under Adv Graphics and try a rebake after.

When you're logged in-world, Help / About Second Life and if you can copy/paste what kind of graphics card you have and the OpenGL version that could be helpful too .

If there's anything unusual about your puter, that would be good to mention as well (two or more monitors, etc).

(If it's possible to log on to a different puter, preferably with a different video card than the one you have, that could be a big help too. There are some cases where avatar corruption is account specfic although it's usually blue bands across your body. Or if you have an alt, does it happen there as well?)

CPU : AMD athlon 64 X2 4400 + Dual core
Mobo : Asus , A7N8X- DeLux
Ram : 2 Gig - G-skill PC6400 4-4-4-12 (Dual Channel)
GPU : 2X BFG NVIDIA® GeForce 7600 GT OC 256MB PCI Express, Running in SLi
OpenGL Version: 2.0.1

Thanks Kit ... I tryed the vertex overide and the VBO ... same .

Nothing unusual about my PC other than it allways runs SL smooth as a babys butt , I never have problems.

This only started the other day ...Im not saying it was after the update ... coz it was fine up untill about 3 days ago .

im gonna hook up my lappy to test the outcome from that .


EDIT: .... i just thought ... this cant be a problem at my end as others seem the blackness allso , If it was client side only i would see it no ?

My card's being defective would not allow others to see the black death on me .

Righto. My guess would be corrupted texture for some clothing item (though how it got corrupted would be anyone's guess). Well, it's an excuse to get naked, for the sake of science!

Update .... Tryed form my lappy and allso a PC in the office ... same thing , so this is server side

heheh ... naked ..same thing .... Tryed an alt seems ok ..so this is avatar specific ... now i need to figure out how to fix it

hmm... maybe try newbie skin? (it seemed to be on the clothing layer, hence my previous guess)

Perhaps you should consider changing your name.... ?

imogen

It sounds like your Avi caught some sort of disease. Were you hanging out in unmentinable places?


Do you have a back-up avi? a different skin?

Perhaps your skin texture has gone bad...not sure why, but I guess it could happen.

In the debug 'Client' menu, find 'Character' then find the 'test character' submenu. I can't remember the exact wording, but you can run a test male or female character on yourself. This will force your avi to look like the stock avatar you created when you first entered SL, with the stock skin, clothes, etc. (Is his name 'Brad'?).

That test should make your skin texture look OK. Then when you switch back, the problem should be cleared up, too.

At least, that's how I solved it for myself.

rebaking textures under client and then character always works for me...

Update : Hi all

I have tryed all of the above still exactley the same , some skins just move the black patches to s diffrent location on my body but never totaly remove it .

I have tryed 3 diffrent PC's now , one i evne did a fresh download as SL has never been on that machine ...still the same .

This has to be serverside after trying all of the other machines ...So i guess the question is ...What now ?

I would like to get it fixed ahahah its kind of making the feel of being here a bit ..well ... wrong

I have never used the help portal yet ... anyone recomend the best way to go about it ?

Thanks for all your replys so far , even if it never cured the problem , It may give others some tips on clearing other problems up .

Have you tp'd elsewhere? I'm just curious, because I thought the sims were on different servers?

Yes ... Tp to other locations ..still the same ... wene i say server side ...i dont mean sim location ... more asset server or UUID servers

A buddy of mine is having similar problems, only instead of black, he's totally clear/see-through. His clear parts aren't blocky or patchy like yours, though; his are jagged, like rips or tears. He's running Fedora 7 on his laptop, and this is the only machine displaying this behaviour. He logs into SL from a Windows machine and all is fine. He's probably going to start a JIRA for this.

Your own puter is responsible for baking the different avie layers and then uploading it back to the sim where others download it. If something goes wrong with baking on your puter, everyone will see the problem. That's the general case anyway.

There have been cases where people end up with blue bands all over their avie which render on top of everything else. What's special about it is that it's account specific (an alt on the same puter is fine) and persists across different puters with very different hardware. Sounds like what you're having instead it's black spots and not blue bands.

I'd suggest opening a support ticket, although it might be hard to convince them it's not just the normal "rebake and relog" problem. I'll try and hunt for the other people I know who ran into the similar problem and ask if they ever got it fixed (some had it for weeks without a fix )

I had this problem recently, but only when I dropped graphics detail to let me run two clients side-by-side. When I went back up to higher graphics settings, everything was okay. It didn't matter whether I was running 1 or 2 clients either - the lower settings always gave me that problem. Rebakes would cure it, but only for a few frames. I'm not sure which setting made the difference, but avatar mesh sounds the obvious culprit.

I've just tried the lower settings, but I can't reproduce the problem with this alt.