World map does not update with PBR terrain textures
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Peter Stindberg
We switched our region (on the RC-channel) to winter recently, and used fancy 2k PBR terrain textures. Yet the world map (web and inworld) still shows the region in summery green.
We switched it back to non-PBR textures, and dusted the highest level in snow, and then switched it back to PBR. The expectation was that maybe the world map uses the BlinnPhong textures. That was two days ago, and so far, the map has neither updated with a BP-snow-dusted hill range, nor with the full-on wintery PBR terrain.
My guess is that the world map is confused either by 2k and/or PBR textures.
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Allegory Malaprop
This is yet another problem I have with the lack of the option to provide fallback terrain.
The map only accessing the other texture pipeline makes a certain amount of sense with the way PBR works- but terrain is either/or and does not allow for providing the Blinn-Phong alternative texture channel for anything that cannot use the PBR texture options (your region will also be untextured in non PBR viewers, like the mobile viewer).
Peter Stindberg
Allegory Malaprop I was not aware of that but - sadly - am not surprised. I have loudly voiced my thoughts about the PBR introduction in the past, and won't open that can of worms again, but it's par for the course.
AlettaMondragon Resident
Peter Stindberg As you noticed eventually, the world map just takes some time, sometimes several days to update, but indeed it can't show PBR textures. It seems to be a big weird mess that even LL devs don't really understand, when the map updates stopped working altogether a few years ago it took them about a year to fix it, for which they allegedly had to rewrite the entire code. I assume they would have to do that again in order to show PBR base color textures on it, which is really not worth all the effort in itself as the entire world map system is so outdated and unreliable now, something new would be needed.
Peter Stindberg
Update: The map DOES update and reflects recent terraforming changes, but still only shows the old Blinn-Phong terrain textures, and not the new 2K-PBR textures.