[#VWR-3134] Windlight viewer : new water not working

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Windlight viewer : new water not working

Created: 15/Nov/07 12:53 AM Updated: 10/Mar/08 10:43 AM

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First Look: WindLight

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This issue duplicates:

~~VWR-3184~~ WindLight: Water and other shaders don't work on some ATI cards

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This issue Relates to:

~~VWR-925~~ WindLight: Enabling Atmospheric Shaders disables shader water on various NVIDIA GPUs

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The new windlight viewers shader effects for water aren't working on the ATi HD2900XT card. all shader settings are applied but the water appears as a flat bitmap.
Tried lowering the setting to the bottom and re-enabling from the bottom upwards, everything turns back on but the water remains flat.

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marcio avalanche added a comment - 15/Nov/07 03:15 PM

the same thing is happening to me.. and I also notices shiny object became transparent (ATI X1300 here...)

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Gillian Waldman added a comment - 16/Nov/07 07:23 AM

Hi there - you may be describing ~~VWR-925~~. Take a look and add your specs, votes there if it's a fit.

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Torley Linden added a comment - 16/Nov/07 12:17 PM

Please resolve this as a dupe if it's found to be the same as ~~VWR-926~~, thanks!

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Atsuko Otsuka added a comment - 17/Nov/07 03:25 AM

it's not related to either of the VWR's posted.
~~VWR-926~~ relates to the sky being flat, ~~VWR-925~~ relates to Nvidia cards only being able to do one shader or the other. i have the ATi HD2900XT card, i've tried turning off everything then enabling them again, tired it without the atmospheric shaders, the problem still remains. The new water effects do not work on this card. i have the latest drivers etc.
the screenshot i posted shows the water looking like a flat bitmap.

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Sdocat Lemieux added a comment - 18/Nov/07 04:36 PM

I am having the same issue as described and also with the effects that Marcio has described. ATI X1950 Pro. No matter what setting I change, Water rendering will not turn on. I am also recieving a error on my Debug console that is related. (Thanks to the G15 functionality that I noticed it!)

WARNING: LLGLSLShader: iniform4v: Uniform index out of bounds.

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Sdocat Lemieux added a comment - 18/Nov/07 04:39 PM

thats.. WARNING: LLGLSLShader: uniform4v: Uniform index out of bounds. typo.

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MokaTana Boa added a comment - 25/Nov/07 05:38 AM

I am having the same problem: i can't see changes in the water and shiny objects become transparent! I am using a Radeon X1600 card.

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Torley Linden added a comment - 26/Nov/07 02:24 PM

Sorry, I meant ~~VWR-925~~ earlier. Thanks for the additional details.

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Atsuko Otsuka added a comment - 26/Nov/07 05:56 PM

Its similar to that issue except this is an ATI card, and trying to run only water shaders without the atmosspherice ones still doesn't enable them. Tried every possible combonation of settings but they simply do not show.

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Torley Linden added a comment - 27/Nov/07 01:34 PM

I've resolved this because it's linked to ~~VWR-3184~~ as a dupe. Please reopen and unlink it if this infact is a separate issue, and please provide details to clarify why. Otherwise, please post new info in ~~VWR-3184~~, thank-you!

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Atsuko Otsuka added a comment - 04/Dec/07 09:23 PM

CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (3005 MHz)
Memory: 2047 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista (Build 6000)
Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
OpenGL Version: 2.1.7056 Release
LLMozLib Version: 1.1.0 (Mozilla GRE:1.8.0.12_0000000000)
Packets Lost: 0/16937 (0.0%)
Water shaders still not working on this setup, Latest WL viewer, latest ATi drivers.
Gone through steps to enable shaders, tried turning atmospheric/basic shaders off and only enabling water reflections etc. Water still appears as a flat blue bitmap.

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Atsuko Otsuka added a comment - 04/Dec/07 09:25 PM

All shaders enabled, tried turning different shader/ quality settings but with no luck. latest WL viwer, latest ATi drivers as of 5/dec/07

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Torley Linden added a comment - 10/Dec/07 01:29 PM

@Atsuko: I notice you reopened this; as I requested earlier, can you please clarify how your experiences are different from ~~VWR-3184~~? Otherwise, please re-resolve this as a dupe.

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Rocky Sassoon added a comment - 23/Dec/07 04:34 PM

Hi there,after ~~VWR-925~~ fixed,New water is worked on my GeForce7600

But I got new PC now and new water is not works again

Second Life 1.18.6 (75762) Dec 13 2007 16:08:39 (Second Life WindLight)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Series Processor (3003 MHz)
Memory: 2048 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: GeForce 8800 GTS 512/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Version: 2.1.2
LLMozLib Version: 1.1.0 (Mozilla GRE:1.8.0.12_0000000000)
Packets Lost: 2755/180558 (1.5%)

My graphic setting is Ultra and checked water reflections.
Something is wrong with my settings?

Happy holidays

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Kettu Keiko added a comment - 25/Dec/07 10:48 AM - edited

I think ATI broke something..

Under 7.12 Water shaders/reflection is broken in both Windlight 76116 and 75762
Under 7.11 Water shaders/reflection is fully functional in both Windlight 76116 and 75762

First i reinstalled 75762 while still running 7.12 alongside 76116 (in a different directory) to see if it was WL that broke.
it wasn't.. under 7.12, both current and previous WL had broken water.

Next, i rolled back the device driver to 7.11
When i ran 76116, water was a-ok. (didn't bother with 75762 since this combination was already known to work)

One of two possibilities:

WL was always ok and ATI fixed something from 7.10 to 7.11, and rebroke it on 7.12
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WL was always bugged and ATI broke something from 7.10 to 7.11, then refixed it on 7.12

what would the chances be that ATI broke something very specific that actually worked in WL and fix it re-revealing a programming flaw in WL considering ATI NEVER EVEN MENTIONS Second Life in their Catalyst release notes of Bug Fixes and Known Issues? (Never! not even when ATI released the Vista driver to allow SL to run! And THAT was a big deal on Vista's launch!) pretty darn slim i would imagine...

So, now I'm happily running Windlight 76116 on an ATI Radeon X1950 under Catalyst 7.11 with no graphical problems.

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Rocky Sassoon added a comment - 29/Dec/07 11:08 PM

Hi,Finally I got beautiful water and sky with todays update.Thanks

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Torley Linden added a comment - 10/Mar/08 10:43 AM

This issue was resolved as "Needs More Info" during our batch cleanup because it was set as affecting First Look: WindLight. On the Issue Tracker, we've noticed many duplicate issues and issues that lacked actionable info or were already fixed.

WindLight recently "graduated" from a "First Look" technology preview to Release Candidate status – nearing inclusion in the main viewer with your help! So, "First Look: WindLight" does not exist anymore.

More info and how to download the RC viewer: http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/03/06/new-release-candidate-viewer-1191-rc0-available/

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