I am the creator of KR Design. I have also noticed how PBR alpha textures are a lot more transparent than they were before resulting in possibly multiple thousands of content being destroyed. I primarily make nylon related clothing and a few times now I have gotten into trouble at certain venues because they now think i'm wearing sheer nylons but on the old viewer i'm wearing more opaque. Please fix this and let's not destroy so much hard work from the creator community. It's critical.

May i also add that i'm so annoyed right now at how they have somehow decided that black diffuse textures cause alpha texture to me more transparent? and how white diffuse textures makes them more opaque? What on earth is the point of even having an alpha channel anymore if this is the case? it's bloody ludicrous and to say they wanna work "around" it to make it appear more like before is also ludicrous. Please just make things backwards compatible instead before you ship it - then perhaps issues like this can be avoided.

So tired of the same old consensus of them just wanting everyone to adjust so much hard work to fit around their bad changes all the time.

Hi Everyone, while I'm not a creator, I am a user/consumer of many products created and sold. Ever since SL started using PBR I have to say that I've been very disappointed with my user experience. The issue that initially brought me here is that darker appliers now appear lighter than they used to (I came here via a link in this thread here: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/514534-tights-appliers-are-suddenly-lighter-please-help/) This was an issue I noticed right away and its been an ongoing frustration for me. I bought the darker shades specifically, so they should appear darker as they were intended/purchased.

Looking through this thread, I spotted Nana's comment (Creator of BONBON) about PBR affecting how hair displays and I've noticed this with several hair products I have purchased and use. Now that PBR is affecting them in a negative way, I no longer use those products so its now wasted my money. Why would I use a product that looks broken? It's deeply frustrating for me as a consumer and SL user to have a change made to the platform that ruins so many products that I have purchased and used (plus its been causing my machine to work a lot harder and I've felt a decrease in performance).

Overall, I'm not happy with this change to PBR and wish we could just turn it off completely and make it go away. PBR has decreased my enjoyment of SL, not enhanced it.

"We believe there is a path forward that preserves linear alpha blending but allows for Gamma correction, even on no-mod objects. "

While I am glad LL seems committed to "get things right", by inferring what the solution could be from your wording, I am worried that this "solution" would involve editing existing non-PBR contents to get it to render properly again: if this is indeed what you guys got in mind, this would not be acceptable, I'm afraid, because it would mean that every alpha-blend object in SL would have to be edited by their owner to "repair" the mess, and this is simply impossible to achieve (what about the hundreds of thousands of legacy builds in SL main land, for example ?).

The solution must involve a change in the PBR renderer, so that alpha-blended faces are rendered using their own shader (yes, it means a new render pool or two for alpha blended faces, and will likely involve a small performance hit, CPU-side, but won't impact the GPU-side, since a given face will only appear in one pool and be rendered once in it). The decision about what pool to use for rendering is quite simple to do, in the draw info building code: just flag alpha-blended faces without a PBR material as needing the new shader to render (i.e. no need for a specific flag set on an object to make the decision, and no need for editing any existing contents in SL).

Not sure if it has been brought up here yet or if its even relevant for this discussion, but on BP textures with alpha blend the result seems to be a sorta mix between the old alpha blend and alpha mask. But turning on the full bright seems to make it revert to the old alpha blend: https://gyazo.com/5062f61db3f11853749ab8ae4b18937e

In support of this submission, I am including my supporting observations with respect to tattoo textures applied onto onion mesh body layers. I have tested this on Belleza Jake and Maitreya Lara Classic and X. The PBR viewer is definitely lowering the opacity of existing alpha enabled textures. Anything less than 100% opacity seems to have 25% lower opacity, so 75% opaque looks 50% opaque, etc.

As much as I am enjoying all the new see through shirts, I think that something should be done to correct the blinn phong colorspace in the viewer, rather than retrospectively messing up everyones stuff. I understand PBR Alpha uses a different color space, but that's no reason to break blinn phong

My waterfalls have been impacted too. Images attached. As others have stated, these items take a very long time and hard work to create to get it to look as close to perfect as we can get it. Then we list it on MP for sale, and the reviews are positive so the hard work has paid off. Now this! What do we do now? Do we go back and try to fix all affected items and spend more time and effort. What about the real possibility of negative reviews because images are not matching item received. What about all the customers who bought these items? These issues cannot be ignored. How can we confidently keep creating and selling if we can't trust the system, and our items can break again tomorrow.

I think we all understand and accept that linear is the future. But legacy content is likely to be around for, oh, another 21 years, so it would seem worthwhile to find a solution that doesn’t break current products?

I also found yet another issue with this. Meshes with transperancy that are hit with shadow lose the shine/glossiness where the Shadow hits. I can not imagine that is also a "feature".