Why does this keep breaking?

[Clem Marques]

I recently bought a tea house on the MP to add to my park, and it looks fine when I rez it. But after a few days, it randomly breaks and looks horrible. This has happened 4 times in a row. I have never seen this type of issue with any other items I've had in SL. Has anyone else experienced this? Why does it happen?

When I rez a new copy of it:

After a few days:

P.S. it's not an issue with my viewer. I've tested several different viewers and the issue is still present. I've also invited friends over to take a look at it, and they also saw the broken tea house in their viewers.

Edited August 27 by Clem Marques

[Love Zhaoying]

Are you at a high altitude?

[AmeliaJ08]

Is this the old bug where somehow some faces have their texture mode changed from blending to masking?

I can't remember if that was ever resolved, people definitely noticed and complained about it for a while though... I'm thinking last year, I thought it was a server bug that was resolved.

[Frionil Fang]

1 hour ago, Clem Marques said:

P.S. it's not an issue with my viewer. I've tested several different viewers and the issue is still present. I've also invited friends over to take a look at it, and they also saw the broken tea house in their viewers.

Those appear to be sculpts which are rendered as spheroids when the sculpt texture can't be loaded. Latest viewers sometimes struggle with loading sculpts properly. Just guessing here but it's like the calculations for which textures are important don't account for the sculpt map or the cached copy goes stale, and by rezzing a new copy you're forcing it to acknownledge those textures and possibly re-fetch them from the server.

[Love Zhaoying]

35 minutes ago, Frionil Fang said:

Those appear to be sculpts which are rendered as spheroids when the sculpt texture can't be loaded.

This was my guess also, my question was in case high altitudes make the issue worse.

It's sad if sculpts are all of a sudden now "less reliably" shown!

[Frionil Fang]

2 hours ago, Love Zhaoying said:

It's sad if sculpts are all of a sudden now "less reliably" shown!

For what it's worth it doesn't seem to hit everyone as much, I have some old plants and parts of my head (yes I'm one of THOSE furries stuck in 2010) which use sculpted pieces and they've never failed to load, much like I also don't have almost any texture loading issues. No one's mentioned my head missing parts or being made of spheres either, or maybe they're just very polite.

Edit: making a new sculpted object is flaky for me too, though, they stay invisible instead of spheroids for a considerable while until the sculpt texture resolves.

Edited August 27 by Frionil Fang