why is the surface of my sl water white no mater what i do.

[feriaweslite75]

as of a few months back, my sl waters surface has started to go white instead of going transparent.anyone know why this is? if anyone can give me advice on how to fix it or whats going on with it please let me know.

[Rolig Loon]

Take a look at https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-4043

See if the suggested solution at the end of that report solves your problem. If not, and if your observations are relevant to that JIRA, please add your own comments there to help the developers figure out what's going on.

[Lindal Kidd]

I can't find BUG-4043 in the list!

[Rolig Loon]

Oh, rats. Even with the changes in the JIRA system, we can't all see the same things. OK, here's the comment at the very end of that BUG report: "Cranking the haze settings too high is washing out all water detail, and causing it to appear opaque. Using the Create New Sky Preset tool (found in World->Environment Editor->Sky Presets->New Preset) you can edit the haze settings to make the water draw a little more sanely by Lowering Haze Horizon, Haze Density, and the Density Multiplier. Although an exact match to pre-Materials behavior doesn't seem possible." In essence, changes in the way some standard windlight settings are rendered is washing out color for some users. They'll have to tweak their windlight settings to compensate.

[sven Homewood]

Old bugs will kept private as long the repoter doesn't change its state. That is done to protect the privacy if any private data is given by the reporter.

[Rolig Loon]

I know, but many are open. I could view this one, so I assumed that it was.