On 12/03/2010 05:36 AM, Chuck Baggett wrote: > Are the nametags fixed at 100 per cent opaque or are they of variable > opacity? > > By nametags I mean avatar names and group titles.
The opacity is variable, but the control for the setting isn't obvious, as it's labeled "bubble chat opacity", although it also applies to nametags while not chatting and even when the bubble chat option is off. In Viewer 1.23: 1. Open Preferences (*Ctrl-P*) 2. Go to tab *Text Chat* 3. Section *Bubble Chat* has an *Opacity* slider In Viewer 2.3 (current release): 1. Open Preferences (*Ctrl-P*) 2. Go to tab *Advaced* 3. In the section with the *walking person* icon (sic!), below the *Bubble chat* checkbox, there is an *Opacity* slider In current viewer-development code: Since the recent preferences overhaul (see STORM-31 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-31> and in particular STORM-573 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-573>) 1. Open Preferences (*Ctrl-P*) 2. Go to tab *Colors* 3. Section *Bubble Chat* has an *Opacity* slider The section should probably relabeled to reflect that the setting applies to both, nametags and bubble chat. There were several issues with the nametags and their transparency and color, recently: * STORM-584 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-584> The settings didn't have any effect. The text color was just white. * Fixing this made tags unreadable for everyone who didn't set a custom color, because the default of the color setting was still black. (So you had black text on black background.) * STORM-667 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-667> Even after the above was fixed, contrast was poor due to the text in the tag being semitrasparent. o The slider did only influence the background opacity. That's probably what it was supposed to do, but the (non-customizable) text opacity should have been fully opaque. o As far as I can tell by eye, this is fixed in latest viewer-development code. * On Mac, there were <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-667?focusedCommentId=224022&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-224022> (and maybe still are) issues that nametags would appear unreadable or not at all on ATi cards. o Is there a separate issue for this, yet? * VWR-24017 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-24017> text on name tags is visible, even if the background of the nametag gets occluded by objects. I guess the underlying reason is the same as for why floating text is not occluded anymore (SH-489 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SH-489>) STORM-584 <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-584> will probably lead to further changes <https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-584?focusedCommentId=225540&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-225540>, which aren't in viewer-development, yet. (Text in the tag being determined by the same settings as for the chat window, the "bubble chat" color setting affecting the tag's background instead (hopefully with yet again changed default, so we keep the contrast).) Cheers, Boroondas
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