Render Correctness Test

From the graphics tab in preferences:

• disable all check boxes above the nighttime brightness slider.
• set avatar rendering to normal
• set terrain detail to None

From the Adv. Graphics tab:

• disable Avatar Vertex program
• set bumpiness draw distance to 5

Restart if necessary.

Testing terrain rendering:

• Verify no detail textures are rendering and the terrain appears as though the mini-map image is stretched across the region
• Set terrain detail to some in the graphics tab in preferences.
• Verify that a single detail texture is visible
• Set terrain detail to full in the graphics tab in perferences.
• Verify terrain detail textures change according to elevation.

Testing water rendering:

• Verify that water is transparent.
• Put camera under water, verify that fog changes.
• Verify that sun/moon reflections appear on surface of water.
• Verify that sun/moon reflections DO NOT appear on terrain near the horizon.
• Turn on ripple water.
• Verify that water appears to have animated waves.
• Verify that sun/moon shine off the water.
• Put camera under water and verify that objects above water appear distorted.
• Use mouse moves sun (Ctrl-Alt-M) to change time of day and verify that water looks appropriate (not 2000 flushes blue).

Testing avatar rendering:

• Verify that the avatar is lit by the sun/moon
• Right click on avatar and click on appearance
• Verify that avatar renders properly in preview panels.
• Set avatar eye color to darkest and iris texture to blank.
• Verify that specular highlights (white shiny things) appear in eyes.
• Repeat with avatar vertex program enabled/disabled for all avatar rendering options in preferences.

Testing UI Rendering:

• Turn on property lines/stats bar/land owners/alt-shows physical/et al from view menu.
• Verify all appear correctly.
• Especially verify that text appears correctly in statistics bar.
• From the client menu, turn on Show Updates.
• Find a scripted object and verify that update hints are being rendered (should look like red or blue polygons).
• Hold mouse over avatar and verify tooltip renders properly.
• Select an object.
• Verify silhouette outline renders correctly.
• Turn on tools->show hidden selections.
• Edit an object.
• Verify that occluded silhouette outlines appear as thin lines.
• Zoom in on the object.
• Verify that occluded silhouette outlines fade out appropriately.
• Turn off tools->show hidden selections.
• Verify that occluded silhouette outlines are not drawn.

Testing Object Rendering:

• Make a cube.
• Change its color.
• Move the cube. Verify color remains the same.
• Make cube transparent.
• Move the cube. Verify color remains the same.
• Turn on shiny objects in preferences.
• Make a sphere
• Change the sphere's color.
• Make it varying levels of shiny (low, medium, high) and verify correct appearance.
• Move the sphere. Verify color remains the same.
• Give the sphere a bump map.
• Verify that bump map is visible when sphere is within 5 meters of the camera
• Attach the sphere to your HUD.
• Verify that sphere is not lit and is still shiny and bump mapped.
• Give previous cube a texture with an alpha mask.
• Verify you can click through the mask with alt-zoom.
• Verify you can right-click your avatar through the mask.
• Attach the cube to your hud.
• Verify hud attachment is not lit.
• Verify hud attachment does not block alt-zoom unless in edit mode.
• Verify you can right-click on the hud attachment to select it.
• Attach a default script to the cube hud attachment.
• Verify hud attachment responds to left click.
• Verify you can right click your avatar through the cube attachment's mask.

Testing Highlight rendering:

• Attach a semi-transparent cube to your HUD if you don't already have one.
• Turn on View menu > Highlight Transparent. Verify your HUD object is highlighted with a red tint
• Turn off View menu > Highlight Transparent.

Testing render order:

• Attach a semi-transparent cube to your HUD if you don't already have one.
• Turn on View menu >Property Lines. Verify the property liines do not draw in front of hills or solid objects.
• Open the world map and click on a location nearby, and close the world map
• Verify the red colum is only visible above ground, and not as it passes below ground.
• Turn off View menu >Property Lines.

Testing llSetText rendering:

• Attach a semi-transparent cube to your HUD if you don't already have one.
• Add the following script to the cube attachment.

default
{
state_entry()
{
while(1)
llSetText("Hello, Avatar!",<llFrand(1),llFrand(1),llFrand(1)>,llFrand(1));
}
}

• Verify you can see the SetText message on the HUD object.

Testing appearance mode rendering:

• Enter appearance mode.
• Verify you can see the thumbnail images for your avatar.
• Change your skin color, Save All, and exit appearance mode.
• Verify your avatar textures rebake after a few seconds and that your skin color is correct.