

Right-click on your avatar and select “Appearance…” Close the window without making changes. If your avatar has gray or “missing image” clothing, or if your outfit looks like an odd combination of your current outfit and an old outfit, try the following: Some are fixes for bugs introduced with 1.12.1 but many are for bugs that were present before but made worse or more evident by with 1.12.1. Some of these are server fixes, some are client side. The rest of the fixes have been completed and will be going into the next release. A couple of fixes went through the QA process in time to be included with this week’s 1.12.2 release. There was no single big bug instead we found several small bugs that combined to make a big problem. Milo, Josh, Dan, Vektor (QA) and Steve, Kelly and I (developers) have been working continuously on these problems for the last couple weeks, and we believe we’ve fixed them. And sometimes your avatar appears with a “missing image” texture wrapped around your body. Sometimes you look OK to yourself, but other people see you as gray. Sometimes this means you look gray on your own screen. If something goes wrong during this process an avatar will end up without a valid baked texture. This all happens transparently in the background. If it’s a baked texture for your avatar, your client uploads that image so other clients can draw your character more efficiently.

This “baked texture” is much more efficient to draw. Rather than drawing all the various layers on top of each other all the time, the client computes a single composite image that has just the visible parts (all of jacket and the little piece of shirt you can see). Some of these images overlap each other – the jacket covers up part of the shirt. When you change your outfit, the Second Life client downloads images (“textures”) for your tattoos, underwear, shirts, jackets, etc. Kelly posted a blog entry about this: Getting Technical: Baked Avatar Textures We had to do this to reduce load on our central servers – instead of storing the information centrally we distributed it across all the computers that run the various regions of the world.

Second Life 1.12.1 changed how we store the final appearance of avatars. We have a final round of fixes being tested now and it will ship in our next major release.
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Second Life 1.12.2 contains code that fixes some of the problems but not all. After we released Second Life 1.12.1 many people saw avatars with either gray or white “missing image” outfits.
