Having Problems Seeing Mesh?

[~pancake~]

I know many of you probably already know this tip, but I keep running into people who only see my head and feet and I have been passing along these tips so I thought I'd share them here too.

Are you using a Mesh supported viewer and still having issues? Your mesh house vanished? Seeing people sporting this lovely look?


Missing Mesh by Renoobed (aka pancake), on Flickr

If this happens to you don’t panic. There are a few solutions that can help.

1) Make sure basic shaders are enabled. I know for some with older computers this will kill their FPS and SL will become difficult, but on some of the viewers you will not see mesh if your shaders are not on.

2) Go to Advanced – Debug Settings and find MeshMaxConcurrentRequests and increase this. Your default is probably 32 and you want to double this to at least 64. I’ve heard of one person who set it to 300, but I keep mine at 150 and haven’t had a problem since. I’m no technical expert, but my understanding is your viewer’s ability to see mesh can get “full”, like a cache of sorts I guess. As more and more mesh hits the grid, the default MeshMaxConcurrentRequests is proving to be way too small to handle what we see and sooner or later our viewer just stops showing us mesh. Increasing this helped me a lot.

3) Relog.

That seems to fix it in *most* cases. One thing to note, Exodus seems to be having a notoriously hard time with this and these tips probably won't work for you.

[Tantus]

I needed to raise MeshMaxConcurrentRequests to 500+ before some hair and jackets could load.

Clearing cache and relogging helped to render it correctly too.

The 'Mayfair' sim is good to test your settings on, it's all built with mesh and everyone there is wearing some too.

[Frevet]

I'd -not- recommend the Mayfair sim at all. A lot of people have considerable lag and other issues there and sometimes, everything meshy around me will randomly poof, even though a second ago it was just fine. It is the -only- sim I seem to have problems in.

Instead, I'd go to Skerry of Einar and check it there. Plenty of peeps there wear mesh and the build is largely mesh as well.

[Syndel]

Usually I just tell people this:
On Edit>Preferences>Graphics:Custom,
see if you have checkmarked
Basic Shaders
Hardware Skinning
Avatar Cloth

Because without those you don't see mesh at all.
With those marked you see mesh even with Low graphics.

[Glaucon]

Hmmm, they say that a bit of clothing can make a woman look more alluring than she would be without clothes on. I guess no one ever considered how hot partial invisibility might look on some women.

[Echo]

Question: Could this happen/fix an issue of non-mesh items vanishing? I have several doors and other items that disappear for me. I thought it was my computer, but it happens now even with a machine only 2 months old.

[Syndel]

That is most likely a problem of the viewer not being updated. Has been happening a lot with Singularity and I've noticed it on Phoenix this past week.