Particles Are Diminished 1.19.0 (79674)

I just noticed that in the latest version of First Look / WindLight that the
particles are greatly diminished. I was working on a particle script
and thought it didn't look right at all. So I fired off a few fireworks
I have in inventory to see how they looked...and discovered that
only the projectile and a couple of the larger particles would appear.

Anyone else notice this?

- i

Yes, I noticed it too. At first I thought it might be because there was another nearby particle source, as sometimes happens, but it happens even in areas with no other particle sources within 500m.

Someone much smarter than me narrowed it down to the particle burst being severely weakened and has provided an excellent example. This script in the RC client will produce a black cloud of smoke. But in the latest WindLight produces nothing.

Please vote on this bug:

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-4899

Example code for testing - stick in a prim and click:
//------------------------------------------------------------------------

startParticles()
{
llParticleSystem([
PSYS_PART_FLAGS, 0 |
PSYS_PART_INTERP_COLOR_MASK |
PSYS_PART_INTERP_SCALE_MASK |
PSYS_PART_WIND_MASK |
PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_VELOCITY_MASK,
PSYS_SRC_PATTERN,PSYS_SRC_PATTERN_EXPLODE,
PSYS_PART_MAX_AGE,15.0,
PSYS_PART_START_COLOR, <0.05,0.05,0.05>,
PSYS_PART_END_COLOR, <1.0,1.0,1.0>,
PSYS_PART_START_SCALE,<4.0,4.0,4.0>,
PSYS_PART_END_SCALE,<15.0,15.0,15.0>,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_RATE,10.5000,
PSYS_SRC_ACCEL, <0,0,0.175>,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_PART_COUNT,100,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_RADIUS,2.0,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MIN,0.5,
PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MAX,1.5,
PSYS_SRC_TARGET_KEY,(key)"",
PSYS_SRC_INNERANGLE,0.0,
PSYS_SRC_OUTERANGLE,0.0,
PSYS_SRC_OMEGA, <0,0,0>,
PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE, 0.0,
PSYS_SRC_TEXTURE,"",
PSYS_PART_START_ALPHA, 0.6,
PSYS_PART_END_ALPHA, 0.0
]);
}

stopParticles()
{
llParticleSystem([]);
}

default
{
touch_start(integer total_number)
{
startParticles();
llSleep(0.5);
stopParticles();
}
}
//------------------------------------------------------------------------

allready opened a thread about it 3 days ago

Did you vote on the JIRA reference posted above? Please do if you haven't. =)