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Selected objects are outlined on the GPU from an id target, in place of the CPU silhouettes and the mesh wireframe. Selections can also be drawn as a wireframe, and Hover Glow Objects is back. The lighting passes stop shading the sky, and the HUD is depth-tested against itself rather than the world.

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llrender: clear colour and scissor

  • gGL.setClearColor and gGL.setScissor cache what is in force and drop redundant sets. LLGLSScissor scopes the test and the box, and gGL.clear flushes what is batched before it clears.
  • Every raw glClearColor and glScissor writer moves onto them, so the cache is the state. LLScreenClipRect now flushes only when the box changes, not on every push and pop.

The lighting passes leave the sky alone

  • The soften pass's triangle lies on the far plane:

    • the lit program draws in front of it (GREATER);
    • a SOFTEN_SKY program draws on it (EQUAL) and copies the sky's colour.

    No sky pixel pays for the G-buffer decode and atmospherics any more.

  • The same applies to the full-screen lights, the sun shadow and SSAO pass, and both blurs. deferredLight shares the scene's depth for it.

Selection outlines on the GPU

  • Id pass. Each selected object's faces go into a window-sized id target with its own depth. Faces are culled as the scene culls them, and alpha-cut by their texture's alpha only, so a prim made invisible by its colour is still outlined.
  • Edge pass. It draws a contour around what is drawn, depth-ordered: an object's full contour is drawn where it stands in front of another selected surface. Where two objects touch, a fainter edge is drawn between them. Colours come from a palette by role and priority (subtract, media focus, inspect, root, child, context).
  • Jump pass. It marks where one mesh's parts lie over each other, so foliage is outlined frond by frond without tracing creases.
  • Tile pass. It records which ids each 8×8 tile holds, so pixels with nothing to draw leave at once. The output is identical to the full search.
  • Width. AlchemySelectionOutlineWidth sets it: 2 px by default, scaled with the UI.
  • Removed. The CPU silhouette generation, its 50-a-frame cap, the 5-px GL_LINE mesh wireframe and the SILHOUETTE change flag. HUD selections use the same path.

The HUD is depth-tested against itself

The HUD shared the window's depth, which the final blit fills with the scene's, so world geometry near the camera clipped into HUD attachments. Depth is now cleared under each HUD attachment point's rect before the HUD draws, and the scene's depth is put back after it for the 3D UI that follows.

Selection wireframe

AlchemySelectionWireframe (Build > Options > Show Selection Wireframe) draws selected faces' triangles as lines:

  • constant-width anti-aliased lines from window-space edge distances in a geometry shader, with near-plane clipping;
  • pulled in front of their own surface;
  • hidden lines dimmed when hidden selections are shown.

It works with or without the outline.

Hover glow, and invisible prims

  • Hover Glow Objects (RenderHoverGlowEnable, Develop > Rendering) is back.
    • What the pointer is over glows when a click does something to it: a soft halo outside its visible silhouette, under every selection's lines.
    • It settles for 0.15 s, so a sweep across objects lights none of them, and fades in and out.
  • Faces textured with the library's transparent texture (IMG_TRANSPARENT) are drawn whole in the id pass, so invisible roots and touch prims are outlined.
  • ALSelectionOutline and ALHoverGlow are LLSingletons, and the new uniforms are LLShaderMgr reserved uniforms.

Review fixes and the glow's cost

  • Translucent faces. Blended faces are cut at texture alpha 0.1, not 0.5, so a pane of glass keeps its outline, wireframe and glow.

  • Glow cost. Two passes now do the glow's work once:

    • a tile pass records the glowing ids within reach;
    • a row pass records the distance to the nearest glowing texel along each row.

    Pixels off every object find the glow with about 2R reads instead of a disk of πR². The output is identical to the full search, which stays behind GLOW_DISK as the tests' reference. Estimated reads drop 3.6× to 6.9×.

  • Memory. The jump marks get a one-byte target of their own: 9 bytes a pixel while anything is selected or hovered, down from 12.

  • API use.

    • The passes' textures have reserved sampler names of their own.
    • A selection program a driver rejects no longer fails the interface shaders.
    • get_hud_matrices is declared in llviewerdisplay.h.

Testing

  • 417/417 ctest on Windows (RelWithDebInfo).
  • New GL tests:
    • alrenderstate_gl
    • alhuddepth_gl
    • alselectionoutline_gl (42 cases, forward and reverse-Z, with the viewer's own shader files)
  • alinfiniteprojection_gl and alfarplane gained cases for the sky passes.
  • Fail-first tests and shader mutants back the outline cases.
  • The selection shaders link in glslang (-l) under both depth conventions.
  • In the viewer, the outline look, the wireframe, the hover glow and the HUD depth fix were checked as they were built. The last commit (the glass cutoff, the jump target and the glow passes) is not yet checked in the viewer.

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RyeMutt and others added 10 commits October 9, 2026 21:42
…the colour mask

gGL.setClearColor and gGL.setScissor drop redundant sets, and their getters
say what is in force. init issues the clear colour rather than assuming
GL's default, since a window may have cleared to one of its own first; the
scissor box stays unknown until something sets it, as GL starts it at the
size of a window nothing here knows. refreshState re-issues both.
LLGLSScissor scopes the test and the box and hands both back, nested scopes
included. gGL.clear flushes what is batched before it clears.

A cache is only the state if every writer goes through it, so the 27 raw
glClearColor calls (newview, llwindowwin32, the appearance utility, the GL
test fixture) and the scissor's writers (LLRenderTarget::clear,
LLScreenClipRect) move onto it. LLScreenClipRect flushed the batch on every
clip push and pop; it now flushes only when the box changes.

alrenderstate_gl: a target clears with the colour gGL was given, GL holds
what gGL says, refreshState restores both after GL is changed behind gGL's
back, and LLGLSScissor cuts a clear to its box and restores the box and the
test it found.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
softenLightF read the whole G-buffer and the light map and ran WindLight's
atmospherics for every pixel, the sky's included, and only then branched to
the sky's colour copy. Its triangle now lies on the far plane, as the haze's
does: the lit program draws in front of it (GREATER), so the depth test
rejects the sky before it is shaded, and a SOFTEN_SKY program
(gDeferredSoftenSkyProgram) draws on it (EQUAL), copying the sky's colour
and lighting nothing. The two share skyColor and writeColor, and a
SKIP_ATMOS or HDRI pixel in front of the far plane (a debug highlight) still
takes the copy in the lit program's flag branch.

The full-screen lights, the sun shadow and SSAO pass and both of its blurs
draw on the far plane with the same test; deferredLight shares the scene's
depth for it. The light map keeps the clear's white over the sky, which
nothing reads there: the lit soften program reads it only at geometry, and
the projectors discard sky pixels before their read.

Every one of these passes costs per pixel, and on 5k x 2k and HiDPI screens
the sky is millions of them.

alinfiniteprojection_gl test 7: between the lit draw and the sky's, every
pixel is shaded once, with geometry as far out as reconstruction reaches.
alfarplane test 5 pins the far-plane lines of all four vertex shaders and
the sky program's copy.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… mesh wireframes are gone

Prim silhouettes were edges the CPU found face by face
(LLVolume::generateSilhouetteVertices), found again for every selected
object whenever the camera moved, at most 50 objects a frame, so a large
linkset's outline trailed the camera for several frames. Meshes got a
five-pixel GL_LINE wireframe of every triangle instead, which a
forward-compatible core profile draws one pixel wide, and HUD selections a
third path of their own.

ALSelectionOutline draws them all from an id target, in the UI stage where
the silhouettes were drawn:
- the id pass draws each selected, rect-highlighted or focused object's
  faces, rigged ones through the program's rigged variant, into a
  window-sized RGBA8 target with a depth buffer of its own: the object's id
  in .rg, and in .b whether the scene's depth shows the surface;
- the edge pass, scissored to the objects' projected boxes, colours what lies
  within the outline's radius of a different id from a palette of each
  object's role, the hidden parts dimmed or left out;
- HUD selections go through the same passes with the HUD's own matrices; the
  HUD's depth cannot be read, so none of it counts as hidden.
The targets exist only while something is outlined.

Deleted with the paths they served: LLFace::renderOneWireframe and its
renderFace helper, LLSelectNode::renderOneSilhouette and its silhouette
state, LLSelectMgr::generateSilhouette and the regeneration around it,
LLVOVolume::generateSilhouette, LLVolume::generateSilhouetteVertices and
LLVolumeFace::generateSilhouetteEdge, the silhouette texture and its
preload, the silhouette U/V scroll statics, and LLXform::SILHOUETTE, whose
seventeen setters only ORed in a bit nothing read any more. The settings
those statics read stay in settings.xml.

alselectionoutline_gl reads the real shader files: edges between and around
ids, hidden parts, a surface not hidden by itself at lower render
resolutions, the scissor, a rigged face following its pose, and the HUD's
depth order and radius, under forward and reverse-Z.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…back after it

The HUD is drawn over the window's framebuffer, whose depth the final blit
filled with the scene's for the 3D UI around it, and nothing cleared it.
get_hud_matrices squeezes the HUD into a band of that depth in front of the
scene, 0.005 of the range per metre of the HUD's own depth, so a world
surface at the near plane still reached into it, and a HUD with a prim
parked far along its axis put its rear within reach of anything about two
near-plane distances away: world geometry drew through HUD prims.

For each HUD attachment point with something on it, the HUD's box through
the matrices it is drawn with becomes a viewport rect, overlapping rects
merged, so a corner HUD and a centre one do not take in the screen between
them. The depth is cleared in those rects before the HUD draws, and the
scene's is written back over them after it, wherever it is nearer, with the
same full-screen triangle and samples the final blit used
(gCopyDepthProgram: copyF.glsl with COPY_DEPTH and DEPTH_ONLY). Name tags,
hover text, look-at, script icons and the tracker, all drawn after the HUD
and depth-tested, are hidden by the world as before, and by the HUD where it
is in front. The GL side is ALHUDDepth (alhuddepth.h).

LLVOAvatar::getHUDBBox gains a per-attachment-point form sharing its loop.
The point that fixes the box's frame is now the object's centre on the HUD
rather than its offset from its attachment point, which belongs to another
frame and stretched a corner HUD's box towards the middle of the screen;
the x extent that get_hud_matrices reads is unchanged, since every HUD point
sits at x = 0.

alhuddepth_gl, under forward and reverse-Z, with the real copy shader:
without the clear, a world surface at the near plane hides the HUD; with
it, the HUD shows; after the restore an overlay behind the world is hidden
off the HUD and behind the HUD on it; outside the rects nothing changes;
and the rect and merge arithmetic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… that is a setting

The id pass draws a face as the scene draws it. Where its alpha mode cuts
it out, it is cut by its texture's alpha alone: a legacy mask at its
cutoff, a blend at half, a GLTF face by its mode and cutoff, through the
base colour's transform (selectionIdV.glsl) and the face's texture
animation. The face's colour is not read, so a prim made invisible by it
is still outlined. Back faces are culled unless a GLTF material is double
sided. Before, every face was its whole card, from both sides: a
single-sided frond seen from behind took the pixel from the one behind it.

Ids are given in priority order (subtract, focus, inspect, root, child,
context) and the target carries the priority, so a root's contour is laid
over its children's rather than lost under them.

The contour is ordered by depth, from the id target's own. A pixel draws
another object's contour where that object is nearer than the pixel's own
surface, its plane carried over to the other's texel, by 0.2% of the
distance: a frond over another is outlined over it, while coplanar prims
meeting at a grazing angle are not. Objects that touch get a thinner,
fainter edge, on the side of the higher priority. The target records
whether each texel is drawn at all (visible, hidden and dimmed, hidden and
left out), so a hidden selected surface, such as a root under the terrain,
neither draws nor takes the contour of what stands in front of it.

The contour is AlchemySelectionOutlineWidth pixels wide at a UI scale of
1, 4 by default, held to 1 to 16 and read live, solid to its width from a
full disk of taps and anti-aliased across one pixel more. The edges
between objects are a pixel at a UI scale of 1, at 60%.

A tile pass (selectionTileF.glsl) flags each 8x8 square of the id target
holding an id change, and the edge pass leaves a pixel at once when no
flagged square lies within its reach. Whatever a pixel draws comes from a
texel of another id within that reach, so the output is the same.
LLSelectMgr::sHighlightThickness, read by nothing since the CPU
silhouettes went, is gone.

alselectionoutline_gl, 21 cases under forward and reverse-Z with the real
shaders: the alpha cut and its transform, priorities, widths and the
setting's clamp, culling and double-sided faces, contours over hidden and
in-front objects, coplanar seams, and the tiled output against the untiled
one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…y which ids they hold

A selection's contour was drawn where another object stood in front of a
pixel, but never one object over itself, so a fern built as one mesh was
outlined only round its whole while the same fern linked from one prim a
frond was outlined frond over frond.

A jump pass (selectionJumpF.glsl) copies the id target and marks, in its
.a, each texel that is the near side of a step in depth to a neighbour of
the same id. A pair of neighbours is a step when the depth between them
lies outside the slope on both sides, each read from the texel beyond, and
carrying either side on at its own slope misses the other by more than 1%
of the distance. Over an inside crease or a curve the step lies between the
two slopes, so neither is marked at any resolution; three texels of the
object are needed on a side, so its edge and a sliver of it say nothing.
The eight depths come from four gathers, and ids are read only for the
pairs whose depths pass. In the edge pass a texel of the pixel's own id is
a candidate when it is marked and stands in front of the pixel's own plane,
as another object's does.

The tiles (RGBA16) record the lowest and highest id they hold and whether
they hold a mark. A pixel off every object is left when no tile in its
reach holds an id; one on an object when none holds another id or a mark.
Every candidate is a texel of another id or a marked texel of its own, and
its own tile records it, so the output is the same as the full search.
Pixels on an object with nothing to draw near them, which searched the
whole disk since contours were ordered by depth, are now left at once.

The helpers the five programs share (the id's decoding, the drawn and
visible states, the mark, eyeDistance) are one file, selectionUtilF.glsl,
linked into each.

alselectionoutline_gl, now 23 cases: overlapping parts of one object at a
large and a small gap draw the near part's contour over the far; inside
corners at 30, 45 and 60 degrees, a cylinder inside and out to its rims and
slanted planes mark and draw nothing; the tiles' records, and the tiled
output against the untiled one with marks on tile borders.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
AlchemySelectionOutlineWidth defaults to 2 rather than 4: with contours
drawn wherever selected parts overlap, 2 reads well.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…utline

Builders read a mesh's triangles and its level of detail from a wireframe.
The old one went with the CPU silhouettes; it drew GL_LINE polygons at a
line width core profiles do not have, so it was a pixel wide on some
drivers and five on others, and its hidden pass filled whole surfaces.

AlchemySelectionWireframe (off by default; Build > Options > Show
Selection Wireframe) draws every selected face's triangles as lines a pixel
wide at a UI scale of 1, anti-aliased, the same width near and far: a
geometry stage (selectionWireframeG.glsl) gives each corner its distance in
the window to the opposite edge, interpolated without perspective, and the
fragment stage (selectionWireframeF.glsl) draws a line centred on each
edge, half from each triangle beside it. A triangle reaching behind the eye
is clipped at the near plane where GL clips it, its distances taken to its
original edges' lines, so a floor or a wall a builder stands at keeps its
lines and the cut draws none.

The lines are drawn from the same faces as the outline, through one walk
(drawFaces) shared with the id pass: the same model matrices, rigged faces
through the rigged variant, culling as the scene culls, and the same alpha
cut, now one file (selectionAlphaF.glsl) linked into both programs. They
take each object's outline colour from its palette. In the world they are
tested against the window's depth, which the final blit filled from the
scene's, pulled in front of their own surface by a polygon offset that
covers the blit's point sampling; hidden lines are drawn dimmed, under
GREATER, only for objects whose hidden parts are shown. On the HUD the
window's depth holds whichever of the HUD's and the scene's is nearer, so
the lines are tested against the id target's: a line behind another
selected HUD surface is hidden.

The outline (RenderHighlightSelections) and the wireframe are drawn each
with or without the other, and passesFor picks only the passes a view
needs: the outline the id, jump, tile and edge passes, the world's
wireframe none of them, the HUD's the id pass alone. The targets a frame's
passes do not read are given up. The wireframe draws first and the outline
over it.

alselectionoutline_gl, now 32 cases: line width held near and far and with
the UI scale, the feather, hidden lines with hidden selections on and off,
no gaps over a depth resampled from half resolution under either depth
convention, alpha cuts, rigged poses and culling, the HUD's lines against
the id target, near-plane clipping, and the passes each combination runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Hover Glow Objects (RenderHoverGlowEnable, off by default; Develop >
Rendering), which LL removed in 2022 with the 256-pixel target and stencil
it was drawn with, is back on the outline's id target. LLToolPie's hover
names what the pointer is over where it would before: media, a click
action, a physical object, a touch handler, and not where RLVa blocks the
touch, nor an avatar or a HUD attachment. ALHoverGlow fades the named
prim in over RenderHighlightFadeTime and the one before it out, once the
name, or its lapse, has held for 0.15 s, so a sweep across objects lights
none of them and a frame off one at its edge or a seam does not put it
out. It holds ids, so a glow keeps nothing alive.

The glow is drawn at a priority of its own below every selection's: a
halo outside the prim's visible silhouette, never over the prim, in
RenderHighlightColor, as opaque at the silhouette as RenderHighlightBrightness
makes it and falling smoothly to nothing RenderHighlightThickness x 15
pixels out at a UI scale of 1. Selection contours and edges lie over it.
The tiles record where something glows, so only pixels within its reach
search that far, and the output is the same as the full search. Entries
now say which parts they want, contour or wireframe, so the glow is drawn
with the outline and the wireframe on or off and never takes a wireframe.
The world's outline call runs every frame for it, and the targets are kept
2 s after a frame last drew with them rather than given up at once, now
that the world's and the HUD's calls can both run in a frame.

A face textured with the library's transparent texture (IMG_TRANSPARENT)
is invisible on purpose and still selectable: roots, collision and touch
prims. The texture-alpha cut discarded all of it, so it had no outline. It
is now drawn whole in the id pass, and so outlined, wireframed and glowing.

ALSelectionOutline and ALHoverGlow are LLSingletons. The outline's targets
are given up with the pipeline's GL, before singletons are deleted. The
uniforms the outline, glow and wireframe programs set are LLShaderMgr
reserved uniforms (SELECTION_ID to WIREFRAME_WIDTH), set by index.

alselectionoutline_gl, now 40 cases: the glow's profile and its reach in
the tiles, the fades and the settle, the glow under a selection's contour
and off its own prim, the parts each entry draws and the passes they need,
the targets' lifetime, and IMG_TRANSPARENT on both sides.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n of what it did

A blended face is cut out of the id pass where its texture alpha is under
0.1, not 0.5. A pane of glass textured at 0.2 to 0.45 lost its outline, its
wireframe and its glow outright; the clear texels around a leaf on its card
are still cut.

The hover glow searched a disk out to its reach, about 1100 texels a pixel
at 5K and a UI scale of 2, around every glowing object, and every pixel in
the scissor scanned up to 36 tiles first to learn whether a glow was near.
Two passes now do that work once:
- The glow reach pass (selectionGlowReachF) records for each tile the
  lowest and highest id of the glowing tiles within the glow's reach, so a
  pixel learns from one texel whether a glow other than its own object's can
  be near.
- The glow row pass (selectionGlowRowF) records how far along its row each
  texel lies from the nearest glowing texel. Off every object, where every
  glowing surface stands in front, the edge pass walks its column over those,
  about 2R reads; on an object, which glows stand in front depends on its
  plane, and the disk is still searched.
The jump pass leaves out what glows, whose own surface draws nothing, so a
hovered floor costs no jump work. Both give exactly what the full search
gives, which stays in selectionOutlineF behind GLOW_DISK as the reference
the tests compare against. Estimated fetches: 3.6 to 6.9 times fewer; a
hovered floor under the camera at 5K, whose box takes the whole window, goes
from about 750 M to 165 M.

The jump pass writes its mark into a one-byte target of its own instead of
a full RGBA8 copy of the id target, and the tile and edge passes read the
ids from the id target: 9 bytes a pixel instead of 12 while anything is
selected or hovered, about 44 MB less at 5K. The edge pass reads the marks
only where a tile within the lines' reach holds a jump.

The passes' textures are reserved samplers of their own (selectionIdMap,
selectionJumpMap, selectionTileMap, selectionPalette,
selectionGlowReachMap, selectionGlowRowMap) rather than diffuseMap,
specularMap and altDiffuseMap. The selection programs load without failing
the interface shaders: one a driver rejects is warned of and unloaded, and
ALSelectionOutline draws without it. get_hud_matrices is declared in
llviewerdisplay.h. RenderHighlightColor's comment calls it a colour.

alselectionoutline_gl, now 42 cases: a blend cut at a tenth (13), a pane of
glass outlined and wireframed whole and cut under a cutoff of a half (41),
and the glow from the rows the full search's pixel for pixel at five reaches
over thin, slanted, edge-clipped, hidden and tied shapes beside selections
(42). 13 and 41 fail at the old cutoff; five shader mutants of the glow
passes fail 34, 35, 36, 38 or 42.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • New Features

    • Added clearer, GPU-rendered outlines for selected objects, with optional wireframes and hover glow. New controls let you adjust outline width, enable wireframes, and toggle hover glow.
    • Improved HUD rendering so 3D content and HUD attachments depth correctly.
    • Local mesh previews can now be selected, edited, duplicated, and transformed without sending those actions to the simulator.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved deferred lighting and sky rendering at far distances.
    • Improved rendering-state consistency when clearing buffers and applying screen clipping.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for selection outlines, HUD depth, clipping, and far-plane rendering.
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The change adds cached GL clear-color and scissor state, GPU selection outlines and hover glow, HUD depth clearing and restoration, and depth-tested deferred-lighting passes. It removes the previous silhouette-generation and direct wireframe-selection paths.

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Viewer rendering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cached render state
indra/llrender/llrender.*, indra/llrender/llglstates.h, indra/llrender/llrendertarget.cpp, indra/llui/lllocalcliprect.cpp, indra/llwindow/llwindowwin32.cpp, indra/newview/*
LLRender caches clear color and scissor state, restores cached values through refreshState(), and flushes queued geometry before clears or changed scissor boxes. Scissor scopes use LLGLSScissor. Render paths and GL tests use the cached state.
Deferred far-plane lighting
indra/newview/pipeline.cpp, indra/newview/llviewershadermgr.*, indra/llrender/tests/alinfiniteprojection_gl_test.cpp, indra/newview/tests/alfarplane_test.cpp
Deferred lighting passes use depth comparisons to separate geometry from sky. The shader manager loads a sky-specific soften program, and tests cover the depth-pass behavior.
Selection shader contracts
indra/llrender/llshadermgr.*, indra/newview/llviewershadermgr.*, indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt
Reserved uniforms and shader handles are added for selection ID, wireframe, outline, glow, and depth-copy passes. The viewer build configuration includes the selection-outline source and GL test target.
GPU selection-outline passes
indra/newview/alselectionoutline.*, indra/newview/app_settings/settings_alchemy.xml
ALSelectionOutline collects prioritized objects and renders ID, wireframe, contour, and glow passes. It uses render targets, palette data, projected bounds, and scissor regions. Settings add outline width and wireframe controls.
Selection and silhouette replacement
indra/newview/llselectmgr.*, indra/newview/llviewerwindow.cpp, indra/llmath/llvolume.*, indra/llmath/xform.h, indra/newview/llface.*, indra/newview/llvovolume.*, indra/newview/llviewerobject.*, indra/newview/llviewerobject.h, indra/newview/llviewerobjectlist.cpp, indra/newview/pipeline.cpp
LLSelectMgr submits selected and highlighted objects to ALSelectionOutline. The change removes generated silhouette data, direct wireframe drawing, silhouette update flags, and related cleanup.
Hover glow behavior
indra/newview/alhoverglow.*, indra/newview/lltoolpie.cpp, indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml, indra/newview/skins/default/xui/en/menu_viewer.xml
ALHoverGlow tracks a settled pointer target and fades its glow entries. LLToolPie submits actionable hovered objects. A menu item controls hover glow.
HUD depth clear and restore
indra/newview/alhuddepth.h, indra/newview/llviewerdisplay.*, indra/newview/llvoavatar.*, indra/newview/tests/alhuddepth_gl_test.cpp, indra/newview/CMakeLists.txt
HUD attachment bounds are projected and merged into screen rectangles. Rendering clears depth in those areas before HUD drawing and restores scene depth afterward. GL tests cover forward depth, reverse-Z where available, and rectangle calculations.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LLToolPie
  participant ALHoverGlow
  participant LLSelectMgr
  participant ALSelectionOutline
  LLToolPie->>ALHoverGlow: submit hovered object and frame
  LLSelectMgr->>ALSelectionOutline: add selected objects and hover glows
  LLSelectMgr->>ALSelectionOutline: render world or HUD view
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The GPU selection outlines, hover glow, and HUD depth changes look mergeable with small follow-ups. Some screen clears could run before pending draws are emitted. If the depth-copy shader fails to load, 3D UI drawn under HUD areas could lose depth occlusion. Hovering media-only objects may show the wrong cursor.

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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main changes: GPU selection outlines, selection wireframes, restored hover glow, and lighting that skips the sky.
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Then traced the scissor, neat and slow
The HUD depth cleared beneath the air
The sky and geometry took turns there
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Review comments at @indra/llrender/llrender.cpp:
- Around line 1706-1713: Replace the raw glClear calls in the changed callers
with gGL.clear, preserving each call’s existing buffer flags so pending LLRender
geometry is flushed before the framebuffer is cleared.

Review comments at @indra/newview/alhuddepth.h:
- Around line 124-126: Update restore() so it checks program.isComplete() before
clearing scene depth; when the program is unavailable, preserve scene depth as
the fallback so HUD rectangles retain occlusion.

Review comments at @indra/newview/lltoolpie.cpp:
- Line 861: Update the hover cursor-selection branch following handleMediaHover
in the tool-pie flow so it skips selecting an object cursor when show_highlight
is false, preserving the media cursor. Continue submitting the object to
hover_glow() regardless of show_highlight.

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Comment thread indra/llrender/llrender.cpp
Comment thread indra/newview/alhuddepth.h
Comment thread indra/newview/lltoolpie.cpp
…eeps its cursor

ALHUDDepth::clear takes the copy program restore draws with, and clears
nothing without it: the scene's depth under the HUD stays, the HUD tests
against it as it did, and the 3D UI drawn after the HUD keeps the world's
occlusion. Before, a missing program left the rects empty for the rest of
the frame. render_hud_attachments gives no rects without the pipeline's
targets either, so restore_scene_depth needs no guard of its own.

Hovering media kept falling through to the click-action cursors, which put
an arrow over the cursor handleMediaHover set; the media branch, folded into
the camera steering condition in 2023, is its own branch again, after
steering so a drag across media still steers.

The material preview's and the window's first clears go through gGL.clear,
which flushes what is batched before it clears.

alhuddepth_gl 7: with the copy program unloaded, nothing under the HUD is
cleared, the near world still hides the HUD, and what the world hides from
the 3D UI stays hidden. It fails with the clear unguarded.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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RyeMutt merged commit fb5ce83 into develop Oct 10, 2026
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RyeMutt deleted the rye/sky-lighting-outlines branch October 10, 2026 09:21
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