Water surface interactivity issues with RC LeTigre 2026-06-25.28189172152
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Furious Soup
Unable to rez on water surface or initiate an alt-cam action through the water surface in Second Life RC LeTigre 2026-06-25.28189172152 (e.g. Kiva, Plafil Waters).
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Jellyfish
Tracked at https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/5980, I see a slightly different issue. I can alt cam stuff that's far away but not up close on the water. Not sure if that's the same issue, but it feels broken and might be a step in the right direction of fixing this.
Maestro Linden
Hi Furious Soup, I can reproduce this with Second Life Release 26.2.0.25386466510 (64bit), but it definitely appears to be a viewer issue
When the cursor is over certain areas of water, both right-clicking for a context menu and alt-camming for camera focus fails.
A good location for reproducing this issue is the pond here: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ahern/109/149/21
I've recorded a video demonstrating the bug at this location, which is posted to https://youtu.be/7dEu3j7UeTo
For the first ~36 seconds of the video, I'm moving the mouse cursor to a new location each time, then pressing RMB to (attempt to) bring up a context menu. This works over some locations of the water, but not others. The areas where it fails appears to be the area with the main sun reflection.
For the remainder of the video, I switched to using option+LMB on my Mac viewer (corresponds to Alt+LMB on windows), and saw similar behavior, with the camera failing to focus on certain points of the water. The points of failure in that case appears to be the same as the right click focus behavior.
Both camera focus and right click context menu actions should be available across any water, terrain, object, or avatar surface, and should only really fail when the cursor is over the sky or some UI element.
I visited the same location on a test grid with the same viewer version but a much older server version ( https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/simulator/2026-05-12.25766421211.html ) I see the same buggy behavior.
Furious Soup
Maestro Linden I notice you didn't try to rez on the water surface - this is also failing. I find it strange that the issue does not happen at one region (BelliHub) and does happen at several other regions (Kiva, Plafil Waters, Pegleg Channel) all on the same viewer and machine. The only difference I could identify is the server version.
Maestro Linden
Furious Soup: All those regions (and pretty much 99.9% of the grid) are running 2026-06-25.28189172152. The "🚫" mouse cursor icon you see when attempting to rez at deep-water rez zone locations like https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Blake%20Sea%20-%20Aegean/236/230/21 is viewer behavior.
I left some additional info in the linked GitHub issue, https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/5980 - if you disable 'Render Types -> water' in advanced viewer preferences and don't see the land underneath, the deeper-water areas where the "🚫" mouse cursor appears (and rezzing is impossible) are the same areas where the terrain is not rendered by the viewer. It would appear that the viewer culls the deep-water terrain from rendering, it breaks rezzing, as though you tried to rez an object somewhere high above the horizon.
Furious Soup
Maestro Linden checks out. When I derender water at Kiva, the entire round lake floor is missing. Weirdly, while trying to get screenshots with water derendered, the lake floor suddenly reappeared so I hope that means a fix is in the fixin'.
Furious Soup
Same issues also observed on Second Life RC Ferrari 2026-06-25.28189172152 (e.g. Pegleg Channel region)