Please fix BUG-8902 (from 2012) or explain why it was closed in 2024
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Qie Niangao
Please see https://github.com/secondlife/jira-archive/issues/16470 for historical details, and forums post https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/524159-how-the-heck-did-this-get-fixed-in-2024%E2%80%94but-only-in-the-linden-viewer/#findComment-2926692 with background research by Henri Beauchamp (thanks, Henri!).
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Maestro Linden
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Hi Qie, the 'closed' state of the original issue in jira-archive is due to the repo being in an archived state. A copy of this issue is open in the SL server team's internal repository.
Qie Niangao
Maestro Linden Thanks. Bug Tracker Bingo is less fun than it sounds… for everybody, I realize.
Qie Niangao
[These parts don't seem to show up in the issue, so repeated with apologies to those for whom they're redundant]
Details *
Briefly, because there's much more detail available in the links above: upon server restart, the Linden plants that conform to terrain contours—grasses and a leafy ground cover—all revert to the default "grass - tall 1" which is species_id=0 in app_settings/grass.xml
If a decision has been made to not support these grasses properly, the assets should really be removed completely, including in-world, so they aren't subject to this bug. They were widely used by Moles and early Lindens in Mainland creation, and they have that unique terrain-fitting property. But checking their names, many were originally rezzed with other than the default species, so arguably those are "wrong" and have been ever since the first restart after they were rezzed.
Steps to Reproduce *
- Rez a Linden grass or ground cover other than "grass - tall 1"
1.5 Admire how the individual "tufts" conform to steep and rough terrain
- Restart the region
- Note that the grass now looks like "grass - tall 1" instead of whichever was rezzed