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In my defense, Rider did type out "z-strings" 😅

Like Quistess said: it's the prim type "Prism". By default the X and Y taper is set to 1.0 which results in a tetrahedron, but if you set the tapers to 0.0, you get the desired prism.

I was present at the user group meeting when that topic came up and recall that Rider Linden seemed to respond positively to it. At first glance, he didn't think it would break anything (though he may have been speaking from a server code perspective rather than user content perspective). He mentioned that they use "z-strings" (array of chars terminated by a 0 byte) as opposed to "l-strings" (which has length encoded at start of the string). As far as user created content goes, I guess it's always a possibility. But I think in this case it might be rare - or at least easier to correct. I imagine most existing content that depends on fetching more than 255 bytes at a time would be structured to do multiple lines of up to 255 bytes. Even if that content isn't programmed defensively to account for potentially larger lines, the target notecard could be edited (or replaced) to adhere to the old limit/format. And if it can't be replaced due to being referenced by uuid or the object being no-edit, then it's likely already following the old format anyway.

That is not how the function works. Please see the wiki page on how to properly use the function. The first parameter is an integer and as such, can only target a single prim or specific sets as allowed by the special LINK_* constants. If you want to target a subset of prims within the linkset with the same function call, you wold use PRIM_LINK_TARGET within the parameters list. But that's not what you appear to want to do. As said earlier, you indicated you want to move each element one at a time. Therefore it makes more sense to use a single call to llSetLinkPrimitiveParams, targeting just one prim. You would place the function call inside something like a for-loop and use the loop control variable as the input for which link number to target. Also, you don't want to complete a full 360 in the same timer event. The way I understand it is that you begin with all elements at 0 rotation. This effectively makes the sign showing one complete image. You start the timer for however long you want that image to remain (15 seconds from you last example). Then when the timer event happens, you update the rotation variable to 120 and being your for-loop to apply that new rotation variable to all elements - again one at a time, via the loop. So the loop will start at 2 and go for 20 iterations (just as an example, assuming your sign consists of the root plus the 20 elements and nothing else). Each iteration will just target link number X. After the loop completes, the timer event is over and the script idles until 15 seconds elapses and the timer starts again. As before, it updates the global rotation variable to 360, and then performs that loop again, this time updating each element to the new rotation. And so on, and so on. You should also check in the timer to see if the global rotation variable is greater than or equal to 360 and if so, set it back to 0. Does this make sense?

Since each element moves in sequence rather than simultaneously, I imagine you'll want a loop to iterate over each prism, setting the local rotation via llSetLinkPrimitiveParams. You could have a single global variable to keep track of what general orientation the parts should be at (120, 240, 360) and apply it to each element - then update it after finishing the loop. Place all that in a timer with an interval of however long you want the sign to display a single completed side. If you want the elements to move more slowly, then you'll have to make multiple calls to llSetLinkPrimitiveParams to rotate each element in smaller steps one each loop iteration. Using the regular llSetLinkPrimitiveParams instead of the fast variant my be preferable due to the built in delay. Lastly, if you carefully build the model such that each element is linked in ascending sequence, then it simplifies the loop logic, as you can use the same loop-control variable as the link number reference.

Here's the UDL file I made for LSL in Notepad++. I try to keep it somewhat up to date, but there may be missing constants - as the wiki doesn't have a complete central list. To Install it, save the thing as an xml file. Then open Notepad++ and from the menu bar select Language > User Defined Language > Define your language... In the resulting window, import the LSL.xml UDL file. <NotepadPlus> <UserLang name="LSL" ext="lsl" udlVersion="2.1"> <Settings> <Global caseIgnored="no" allowFoldOfComments="no" foldCompact="no" forcePureLC="0" decimalSeparator="0" /> <Prefix Keywords1="no" Keywords2="no" Keywords3="no" Keywords4="no" Keywords5="no" Keywords6="no" Keywords7="no" Keywords8="no" /> </Settings> <KeywordLists> <Keywords name="Comments">00// 01 02 03/* 04*/</Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix1"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, prefix2">0x</Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, extras1"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, extras2">A B C D E F a b c d e f</Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix1"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, suffix2"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Numbers, range"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Operators1">! ~ ++ -- + - * / % &lt;&lt; &gt;&gt; &lt;= &gt;= &lt; &gt; ^ | || &amp; &amp;&amp; = == += -= *= /= %= != , ;</Keywords> <Keywords name="Operators2"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code1, open">{ ( [ &lt;</Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code1, middle"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code1, close">} ) ] &gt;</Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code2, open"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code2, middle"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in code2, close"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in comment, open"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in comment, middle"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Folders in comment, close"></Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords1">float integer key list quaternion rotation string vector</Keywords> <Keywords name="Keywords2">attach at_rot_target at_target changed collision collision_end collision_start control dataserver email event_order experience_permissions experience_permissions_denied http_request http_response land_collision land_collision_end land_collision_start link_message listen money moving_end moving_start not_at_rot_target not_at_target no_sensor object_rez on_rez path_update remote_data 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llDetectedTouchNormal llDetectedTouchPos llDetectedTouchST llDetectedTouchUV llDetectedType llDetectedVel llDialog llDie llDumpList2String llEdgeOfWorld llEjectFromLand llEmail llEscapeURL llEuler2Rot llEvade llExecCharacterCmd llFabs llFleeFrom llFloor llForceMouselook llFrand llGenerateKey llGetAccel llGetAgentInfo llGetAgentLanguage llGetAgentList llGetAgentSize llGetAlpha llGetAndResetTime llGetAnimation llGetAnimationList llGetAnimationOverride llGetAttached llGetAttachedList llGetBoundingBox llGetCameraPos llGetCameraRot llGetCenterOfMass llGetClosestNavPoint llGetColor llGetCreator llGetDate llGetDayLength llGetDayOffset llGetDisplayName llGetEnergy llGetEnv llGetEnvironment llGetExperienceDetails llGetExperienceErrorMessage llGetForce llGetFreeMemory llGetFreeURLs llGetGeometricCenter llGetGMTclock llGetHTTPHeader llGetInventoryAcquireTime llGetInventoryCreator llGetInventoryKey llGetInventoryName llGetInventoryNumber llGetInventoryPermMask llGetInventoryType llGetKey llGetLandOwnerAt llGetLinkKey llGetLinkMedia llGetLinkName llGetLinkNumber llGetLinkNumberOfSides llGetLinkPrimitiveParams llGetListEntryType llGetListLength llGetLocalPos llGetLocalRot llGetMass llGetMassMKS llGetMaxScaleFactor llGetMemoryLimit llGetMinScaleFactor llGetMoonDirection llGetMoonRotation llGetNextEmail llGetNotecardLine llGetNumberOfNotecardLines llGetNumberOfPrims llGetNumberOfSides llGetObjectAnimationNames llGetObjectDesc llGetObjectDetails llGetObjectMass llGetObjectName llGetObjectPermMask llGetObjectPrimCount llGetOmega llGetOwner llGetOwnerKey llGetParcelDetails llGetParcelFlags llGetParcelMaxPrims llGetParcelMusicURL llGetParcelPrimCount llGetParcelPrimOwners llGetPermissions llGetPermissionsKey llGetPhysicsMaterial llGetPos llGetPrimitiveParams llGetPrimMediaParams llGetRegionAgentCount llGetRegionCorner llGetRegionDayLength llGetRegionDayOffset llGetRegionFlags llGetRegionFPS llGetRegionMoonDirection llGetRegionMoonRotation llGetRegionName llGetRegionSunDirection llGetRegionSunRotation llGetRegionTimeDilation llGetRootPosition llGetRootRotation llGetRot llGetScale llGetScriptName llGetScriptState llGetSimStats llGetSimulatorHostname llGetSPMaxMemory llGetStartParameter llGetStaticPath llGetStatus llGetSubString llGetSunDirection llGetSunRotation llGetTexture llGetTextureOffset llGetTextureRot llGetTextureScale llGetTime llGetTimeOfDay llGetTimestamp llGetTorque llGetUnixTime llGetUsedMemory llGetUsername llGetVel llGetWallclock llGiveInventory llGiveInventoryList llGiveMoney llGround llGroundContour llGroundNormal llGroundRepel llGroundSlope llHash llHTTPRequest llHTTPResponse llInsertString llInstantMessage llIntegerToBase64 llJson2List llJsonGetValue llJsonSetValue llJsonValueType llKey2Name llKeyCountKeyValue llKeysKeyValue llLinear2sRGB llLinkParticleSystem llLinkSitTarget llList2CSV llList2Float llList2Integer llList2Json llList2Key llList2List llList2ListStrided llList2Rot llList2String llList2Vector llListen 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llRequestSecureURL llRequestSimulatorData llRequestURL llRequestUserKey llRequestUsername llResetAnimationOverride llResetLandBanList llResetLandPassList llResetOtherScript llResetScript llResetTime llReturnObjectsByID llReturnObjectsByOwner llRezAtRoot llRezObject llRot2Angle llRot2Axis llRot2Euler llRot2Fwd llRot2Left llRot2Up llRotateTexture llRotBetween llRotLookAt llRotTarget llRotTargetRemove llRound llSameGroup llSay llScaleByFactor llScaleTexture llScriptDanger llScriptProfiler llSendRemoteData llSensor llSensorRemove llSensorRepeat llSetAgentEnvironment llSetAlpha llSetAngularVelocity llSetAnimationOverride llSetBuoyancy llSetCameraAtOffset llSetCameraEyeOffset llSetCameraParams llSetClickAction llSetColor llSetContentType llSetDamage llSetForce llSetForceAndTorque llSetHoverHeight llSetKeyframedMotion llSetLinkAlpha llSetLinkCamera llSetLinkColor llSetLinkMedia llSetLinkPrimitiveParams llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast llSetLinkTexture llSetLinkTextureAnim llSetLocalRot 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When not inworld, I like using Notepad++ with custom user defined language to mimic the syntax highlighting and colors of LSL. The nice thing about Notepad++ is that in addition to auto indenting for you, it also will highlight the corresponding bracket/parenthesis in red when you place the cursor next to one of them. I find this very helpful for keeping track of nested scopes.

Yes, because both the start and end coordinates required by llCastRay are independent of each other. Whenever you want to move a position in any direction relative to the current rotation, you need to multiply the position (plus the offset) by that current rotation. This is necessary for the end position because it's some meters away. And once you try to move the start position forward of the current camera position, then that too needs to be multiplied by the current camera rotation in order to keep it along the same direction.

You would do the same thing you already did for the ray's endpoint coordinate. llGetCameraPos()+<5,0,0>*llGetCameraRot() Literally use the multiply operator "*" and the results from llGetCameraRot()

You forgot to multiply that start position by the camera rotation. It's good practice to add instrumentation/diagnostic code to help visualize things when you're trying to track down a problem. In this case, it would be helpful to rez an object at the ray's start and termination coordinates (and also the point of any ray hits). As an example, the code below will check if it hit anything (the last value of the results list is always the number of hits). If we did hit something, the results list will always contain at minimum the uuid of the object hit, and the global position of the hit. You can use that to rez markers. (don't forget to add a prim called "marker" to the object's inventory. Also consider making it temporary to auto clean up) llRezObject("marker", start, ZERO_VECTOR,ZERO_ROTATION, 0); //rez marker at ray origin point if (llList2Integer(results, -1) > 0) //check if we hit something { llOwnerSay("Hit " + llKey2Name(llList2Key(results,0))); //say name of what we hit llRezObject("marker", llList2Vector(results,1), ZERO_VECTOR,ZERO_ROTATION, 0); //rez marker at impact position } else //we didn't hit anything { llOwnerSay("No hits"); llRezObject("marker", start+<range,0.0,0.0>*llGetCameraRot(), ZERO_VECTOR,ZERO_ROTATION, 0); //rez marker at ray termination point } Edit: I had made a comment about RC_MAX_HITS 15 being potentially high for what I assumed is a hit-scan weapon. But I don't know your use case nor how you're processing the results list. Suffice to say, having as few max_hits as possible is preferable if possible, as it saves yourself some work. That of course depends entirely on what you're doing with the ray's hits, so take from that what you will.

Do these messages occur at regular intervals? If so, try to be online around the time it gets delivered. You should then have no problem selecting it in local chat to get more info on the object and block it. Although I'm somewhat puzzled to hear you say you're unable to identify the owner from the offline summary emails. Those typically contain the message, name of the sending object, name of the object's owner, and object SLURL. You're clearly getting the SLURL, as you say you tried to TP to the area. Are you sure the rest of the info isn't in the email? If all else fails, you could try opening up an Abuse Report and explain the problem to LL that way. Include as much information as possible. File it under "Disturbing the peace > Repetitive spam".

Convex hull means that the physics shape is shrink-wrapped around the outer edges of the model and as such, does not allow for an accessible interior. If your uploaded model does not allow to set the physics shape to "prim" and is instead locked to convex hull, that implies the model does not have a valid physics shape and defaults to the convex hull generated by SL during the upload. So the question now is how are you creating the physics model for your mesh house? Are you making a separate model for the physics? Or are you attempting to use the visual model along with perhaps the various analyze/simplify steps on the uploader's physics tab?

Before anyone can help, you need to fully describe the problem.

If any part of the linkset qualifies for using Land Impact accounting, then the entire linkset uses it as well. So your house is most likely already using the Land Impact accounting system. When you try to link your path cut sphere to it, that sphere will switch over to use LI and as a result, have a greatly increased LI rating. As I said before, usually it's the physics shape aspect of the pim that causes such a high LI calculation. You can avoid that by setting the "Physics Shape Type" of your sphere to "Convex Hull" in the features tab. That should let you link the sphere to the house.

I wouldn't say it's accurate to say the prim was made to do something unintended... Rather, this happens because your object is using the newer Land Impact (LI) resource accounting method. It was introduced for mesh items, but even legacy prims can switch over to it if they are linked to a mesh object, or use any of the newer features like normal and specular mapping. As you observed, when a prim (usually spheres and tori) is sufficiently modified (tortured), their resource calculation will skyrocket under the new Land Impact calculation. Often times it is the physics shape causing the issue. So you can usually get around that by taking the tortured prim and setting its physics shape type to "None" or "Convex Hull" on the features tab. See this knowledge base article on the subject:

Just to answer this particular part: yes this is possible with a particle stream. To summarize, configure the particle emitter parameters such that it is targeting another prim (PSYS_PART_TARGET_POS_MASK and PSYS_SRC_TARGET_KEY). Then apply a negative acceleration along the z axis (PSYS_SRC_ACCEL, <0.0,0.0,-5.0>). This will cause the stream to move from the emitter to the target and also dip downward globally at the middle of the stream before arcing back up to the target. I would also recommend using PSYS_PART_RIBBON_MASK which would turn the particle stream into a continuous and uninterrupted "ribbon" as opposed to a collection of separate particles. Edit: be aware that the orientation of the emitter will affect how the ribbon is shown as well. Each segment in the ribbon has length and width, but no depth. See the wiki page for info an the particle parameters.

That's a very interesting idea. A few drawbacks come to mind, but I think most of them can be overcome. I suppose the most immediate concern would be filtering out clicks from players who are camming around and not in mouselook. But the worn target prim could very quickly check the agent status of whoever clicked them and react accordingly. After that, the issue of ammo and fire rate would need to be limited. You can prevent an avatar in mouselook from clicking on inworld objects by placing a HUD over their crosshairs. It can even be 100% transparent or have a full alpha texture and it still intercepts the user clicks, from what I've seen. This could be moved into place wherever the user needs to reload. Imposing a rate of fire may be an issue... Moving the hud click blocker in an out of place for this I think would be impractical, or at least quite laggy. After a little tinkering, I came up with a what I think is a better solution. I took a cylinder and made a path cut to take a chunk out of it. I then attached it to HUD center, rotated it 90 degrees such that the top was facing the screen and applied a spin via llTargetOmega about its x axis. Lastly, I moved the hud down slightly so its center of rotation was just below the avatar's corsshairs. As the hud spins, it blocks the user from clicking, but when the path cut gap comes into view, the user has a clear line of sight to click for a brief window. Its' effectively the same principal as the gun synchronization/interrupting gear which allowed early aircraft to fire guns through their propeller arcs. Different physical configurations of this gear and different spin rates could be employed to give different guns a rudimentary rate of fire. I only tested with prims, but I imagine a mesh with accurate physics shape could do the job just as well. Lastly, missing the target and ricochets might possibly be handled by the terrain itself being scripted to similarly react to incoming clicks like the worn targets. Some additional checks would be needed, like getting the position of the firing avatar so it may calculate incoming angle and a potential bounce angle. This could be used for rezzing a stray shot if the type of ammo is one that can bounce or leave temporary impact hole graphics. This just covers line of sight hitscan weapons. Anything that moves slower, along an arc, or can potentially penetrate surfaces would need something like what are traditionally done now (ray casts, physical projectiles, etc).

At its most basic, you could build this by surrounding your house with a large box/dome/sphere and applying the panorama texture to the inside surface. This particular method usually requires a lot of space, because the illusion works better if the panorama surface is some distance away from you. The upside is that you can have the panorama be visible even if you're outside the house on your lawn (again, assuming you have enough space for it). Alternatively, if the plot isn't very big, or is an odd shape, or you want to dedicate all the space to your house, then you could instead create a series of smaller surfaces with the panorama texture and place them just outside the windows of your home. This would be much more compact space-wise, at the cost of being only able to see the panorama when inside the home looking out the windows. Regarding ground level vs sky level... the full surround approach tends to be obtrusive to outside observers. So if you're on mainland and want to be a good neighbor, you may want to consider the platform-in-the-sky. If you're only covering the windows, then I imagine it wouldn't' matter.

That is correct: you cannot use multiple concurrent instances of llSetTextureAnim or llSetLinkTextureAnim on the same single prim/mesh. Doesn't matter of you try to target different faces, the most recent invocation of the function will override whatever is currently playing across the entire single prim/mesh. If you want to give the appearance of an animation playing at different rates on an object, you need to get creative. One possible approach is to split the mesh up into separate objects: one mesh (with one material slot) for each section that will play the texture animation at the desired rate. That way, you can still link them together into a linkset and use llSetLinkTextureAnim for each link.

You can potentially reduce the number of uploads by consolidating several smaller textures into a larger one. A script could then be employed to automatically (or on command) change the repeats/offsets of the prim's face to show the desired image like ChinRey suggests.

After logging into the official SL viewer, I notice that the Avatar profile floater GUI will require me to login again if I want to get full access to it. After providing the login credentials a 2nd time, it works as expected and seems to persist across logging out and back into the SL viewer for a day or so. But eventually the profile will again be "logged out". I've tried re-installing the viewer, clearing cache, even clicking the "remember me on this computer" checkbox (all inside the viewer gui), but the issue seems to remain. Is this normal? I feel like I shouldn't need to login again when I'm already actively in the viewer. And to be clear, I am only referring to the profiles accessed from inside the viewer itself. This has been going on for many months, but I finally got annoyed enough to ask about it. Is this something on my end I can fix?

Happy retirement, Oz! Thank you for all the hard work, fixes and features over the years!

That's what I'm thinking, yes. The object in question is probably an invisible attachment with a script which is in a loop, constantly checking to see if the avatar is playing the ground sit animation. When the script does detect the animation, it can change the transparency of the attachment to make it visible and play an appropriate animation to make it look like you're sitting on the attachment. Alternatively, you could set that animation to be your default ground-sit animation with llSetAnimationOverride. You can test this out for yourself with this little demo: //place the script in an attachment and click it when you're ground sitting default { touch_start(integer total_number) { if(llGetAnimation(llGetOwner()) == "Sitting on Ground") { llOwnerSay("ground sit detected"); } } } llGetAnimation is preferable to something like llGetAagentStatus, because the latter can't differentiate between sitting on prims and ground sitting.

Generally speaking, getting a script to react to a gesture is easy enough. One approach is to use a listen event where the script is listening for a specific keyword on a specific channel from a specific source. For example, put the following scrip into a prim default { state_entry() { llListen(-5,"",llGetOwner(),"ping"); } listen(integer channel, string name, key uuid, string msg) { llOwnerSay("heard keyword '" + msg + "' from "+ llKey2Name(uuid) + " on channel "+(string)channel); } } Then create a custom gesture that has this for the chat to say: /-5ping When you trigger that gesture, it will speak the work "ping" on channel -5. This won't show up in local chat (because we used a negative channel number), but the scripted object from above will hear that as long as it's within normal chat range to you (since the gesture technically speaks through you). When the script hears this, it will speak its own diagnostic chat directly to you via llOwnerSay(). Building upon that, you can use either llAttachToAvatar() or llAttachToAvatarTemp() in place of the llOwnerSay() from the above example to attach the object to your avatar. See their respective wiki pages for info on how to use them. And be aware that you will nee to ensure that the object has permission to attach in the first place. So you will need to request the permissions prior to attempting to attach. This is also explained in the linked wiki pages.