Doors

[KnightsPet]

I have a linden home and my doors will not open.  I have the house set to the group and they still will not open at all. 

[Rolig Loon]

It's a little hard to figure out what's wrong without knowing more.  Have the doors ever opened before? Were they working before you set the house to your group?  How long have you owned the parcel, and have you ever rezzed a new house there?  What sorts of things have you tried already, other than clicking on the doors?  Is it really your house?

In the absence of any information at all, I think the first thing I would try is to rez a new house.  If the door script in your current one has stalled for some reason, the easiest solution is to simply replace the whole house and try again.  If you choose the same model of home when you click your mailbox, the new copy will appear in exactly the same spot as the old one.  You won't need to rehang the drapes or artwork on the walls.  All your stuff will be untouched.  The only thing you might need to do is re-enter any custom color vectors that you have applied to the walls. With luck, the doors in new house will work fine.  If not, I can't think of another quick solution until we know more.  If you decide to submit a support case -- which is the logical thing to do when you can't fix something yourself -- you'll need to include many more details so that Linden Lab will have clues about where to start poking.

[animats]

I wonder if there's something in LInden homes that can break. I have two windowshades that will no longer respond to clicks. The main control panel can still open and close all of them at once, but they don't respond individually.

[Dyna Mole]

Our approach to managing doors, windows, and blinds has evolved since we released the Traditional Linden Homes.  Initially, each window and blind had its own script, so that they could operate independently. It didn't take us long to realize, though, that all those individual scripts -- even though they are small -- add up to a lot of potential load on the region servers. We replaced that design with a more complex one that uses a single script to manage all doors, windows, and blinds in the house. Until very recently, though, we have still been managing the blinds in large groups, one per room. Moving to allow residents to once again control each window's blinds separately has been a challenge. Because mesh models of the homes themselves have evolved over time, it's easiest to apply script upgrades to the most recently-released homes -- the stilt homes -- first. We are doing that cautiously.  Meanwhile, if you find that windows, doors, or blinds do not work properly, check first to be sure that people who are trying to use them have been given access and are wearing group tags if necessary. Then, consider rezzing a new copy of the home.  If even that does not fix things, submit a support case.