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There is a known problem with HTTP textures loading in the Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.26 and v1.25.0.27, caused by the backport of a 'fix' from viewer v2 which actually broke HTTP textures loading in some cases (these cases made themselves obvious in the last 3 days or so, probably because of a configuration change on the Amazon S3's HTTP servers used by SL).

When the problem arises, some textures fail to load fully and are yet reported as having been loaded at zero discard level (i.e. at full resolution), causing them to appear both blurry and "bumpy" (like if the "Bumpiness" setting was set on "Brightness" for them, while it was not). This also causes the corresponding texture entries to get corrupted in the cache (and therefore the textures reload as blurry/bumpy from the cache every time).

I got a fix ready and it will be part of v1.25.0.28. In the mean time, you may disable the "HTTP Get Textures" setting in the Advanced -> Rendering menu (if the Advanced menu item does not appear in the menu bar, simply press CTRL ALT D to toggle it on). You will also have to clear your cache (or at least to delete the texturecache/ sub-directory from the cache directory, which can be done manually after logging off from the viewer) so to get rid of the corrupted cached textures.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Bug fixed in today's release (v1.25.0.28).