Environment in Visual Polish viewer is much brighter than in 7.2.3 Release

[Dan-Linden]

Environment

Second Life Project Visual Polish 26.1.0.22463915568 (64bit)

Full Environment

Second Life Project Visual Polish 26.1.0.22463915568 (64bit)
Release Notes

You are at 128.0, 128.0, 26.8 in Bug Island located at simhost-0afd3b4358f8196b2.agni
SLURL: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bug%20Island/128/128/27
(global coordinates 240,768.0, 254,848.0, 26.8)
Second Life Preflight 2026-01-28.21455867889
Release Notes

CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700F (2112 MHz)
Memory: 16221 MB
OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit (Build 26200.7922)
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Windows Graphics Driver Version: 32.0.15.9186
OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 591.86

Window size: 1265x932
Font Size Adjustment: 96pt
UI Scaling: 1
Draw distance: 128m
Bandwidth: 10000kbit/s
LOD factor: 1.5
Render quality: 4
Texture memory: 12282MB
Disk cache: Max size 11468.8 MB (7.7% used)

J2C Decoder Version: KDU v8.4.1
Audio Driver Version: OpenAL, version 1.1 ALSOFT 1.24.2 / OpenAL Community / OpenAL Soft: OpenAL Soft
Dullahan: 1.24.0.202510081738
CEF: 139.0.40+g465474a+chromium-139.0.7258.139
Chromium: 139.0.7258.139
LibVLC Version: 3.0.21
Voice Server Version: Secondlife WebRTC Gateway

Packets Lost: 8/8,856 (0.1%)
February 27 2026 13:57:51

Description

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Reproduction steps

1. Log into "Bug Island" with the 7.2.3 Release viewer and 26.1.0.22463915568 SecondLifeProjectVisualPolish viewer
2. Compare how it looks.

Observed: It looks like this in the 26.1.0.22463915568 SecondLifeProjectVisualPolish viewer:

Expected: It should look like this as it does in the 7.2.3.19375695301 Release viewer:

Notes: This issue was found while testing https://github.com/secondlife/iqa/issues/616

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