[SOLVED]Interesting alpha 'glitch' in both LL and Firestorm EEP viewers.

[Gage Wirefly]

Thank you @Penny Patton the issue was a conflicting hair/brow base. Changed it out and all is well now.

 

To start, I have changed nothing in either viewers or my pc, no driver updates, etc. Everything was working fine last night but now there is a glitch with any alpha'd hair being worn and enabling ALM . 

LL EEP viewer:

https://i.gyazo.com/16f5a977337eb424824268c7b9d7d0a5.mp4

and the FIrestorm EEP viewer:

https://gyazo.com/f035e02881ff2fe7f4e89f20712932a8

 

So is this something going on server side or no?

Added: It's happening to all alpha'd hair, not just the one being worn in the clips. 

Edited December 15, 2020 by Gage Wirefly

[Penny Patton]

I seriously doubt this is a server side issue. Blended alpha textures are notoriously finnicky, especially when stacked on top of other blended alpha textures. Is that a BOM head? If so you might want to try editing your system hair and shrinking it inside your head if it isn't already. For some reason when BOM makes a part of your avatar invisible it reacts differently with blended alpha than wearing an alpha mask would.

An alternate solution would be to set the hair texture to "masked" instead of "blended". Unfortunately, since content creators don't create hair textures with masked alpha in mind your mileage may vary on how good it looks masked.

[Gage Wirefly]

Glitch does not happen in non-EEP viewers for what it's worth. This is a strange thing.

[Gage Wirefly]

3 minutes ago, Penny Patton said:

I seriously doubt this is a server side issue. Blended alpha textures are notoriously finnicky, especially when stacked on top of other blended alpha textures. Is that a BOM head? If so you might want to try editing your system hair and shrinking it inside your head if it isn't already. For some reason when BOM makes a part of your avatar invisible it reacts differently with blended alpha than wearing an alpha mask would.

An alternate solution would be to set the hair texture to "masked" instead of "blended". Unfortunately, since content creators don't create hair textures with masked alpha in mind your mileage may vary on how good it looks masked.

It was the eyebrow shaper/hairbase. How odd!  I changed it to another and problem gone. All this fuss for nothing lol. Thanks!