Phin Bong vs PBR issues
needs info
Nazaire Dragonash
Regardless of the viewer, be it Firestorm or SecondLife viewer, I have noticed that if PBR is on one wall, and Phin Bong is on another wall, the Phin Bong has to be manually checked in edit to get it to show up. Can you please fix this?
Log In
Journey Bunny
In Firestorm Viewer, go into Preferences and turn OFF the "new" texturing experience in the Firestorm settings tab. They tried to make the new PBR stuff look like the old Blinn-Phong interface and it isn't really the right way to do it. Turn off that UI, and you can use the material editor properly.
Hecklezz Resident
If an object has BOTH PBR and Blinn-Phong, PBR will ALWAYS be shown no matter what. What you describe regarding selecting the Blinn-Phong tab in the edit menu is a Firestorm specific feature and all it does it preview the Blinn-Phong look so you know how it will look for people without a PBR enabled viewer. This preview is only temporary and only visible on your screen, everyone else will still see PBR on PBR enabled viewers.
If you want the wall to only appear as it does with Blinn-Phong, you need to remove the PBR material from it entirely.
Dana Enyo
Hecklezz Resident Thanks for explaining this so well.
HELPFUL HINT: I make PBR clothing, and I always want to know how it's going to look to those older viewers. I keep Firestorm 6 on my PC, and will bring in my alt on that viewer to watch me work in real time. I see my PBR; she sees the underlying Blinn-Phong fallback texture. I often include an inset showing that image on my ad graphic so it's clear what everyone is going to see no matter what their viewer.
Dan Linden
updated the status to
needs info
Dan Linden
Hi Nazaire,
The Firestorm viewer is not supported by Linden Lab. For support with third party viewers, please contact that viewer's developers. The official list of TPVs can be found here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_Party_Viewer_Directory
If you can reproduce this problem on the official Second Life Viewer ( https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/ ), please update this issue with information on the supported viewer version accordingly.
If this does reproduce on the Second Life viewer, please attach a screenshot of what you are manually checking because I don't understand what you're seeing.