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So Im making this lightbulb that, when clicked on, turns on a light and glows, simple enough with this script I got from the SL Wiki: // Touch the object to light it up. // Lighting is configurable. integer light_s = TRUE; vector lightcolor = <1.0, 0.75, 0.5>; float intensity = 1.0; // 0.0 <= intensity <= 1.0 float radius = 10.0; // 0.1 <= radius <= 20.0 float falloff = 0.01; // 0.01 <= falloff <= 2.0 float glow = 0.05; toggle() { float thisglow = 0.0; light_s = !light_s; if (light_s) thisglow = glow; llSetPrimitiveParams([ PRIM_POINT_LIGHT, light_s, lightcolor, intensity, radius, falloff, PRIM_FULLBRIGHT, ALL_SIDES, light_s, PRIM_GLOW, ALL_SIDES, thisglow ]); llSetColor(lightcolor, ALL_SIDES); } default { state_entry() { llSetText("Touch for light", <1.0, 1.0, 1.0>, 1.0); toggle(); } touch_start(integer total_number) { toggle(); } }Now I don't know anything about coding, heck, I only got a C++ in Visual Basic class! (ba-dum-tsst) My problem is I want the user to be able to change the base object's color in the default tint picker and then have the object glow and produce light of that color. From what I understand, this script calls on "vector lightcolor" which sets the color based on the values of "<1.0, 1.0, 1.0>". If I were to sell an object with this script inside of it, the buyer would have to change these values manually in order to change the color and I don't want to have to make them do that. What can I change about this script so that it produces light and glows just like it has been, but instead of the color being chosen by "<1.0, 1.0, 1.0>" values, it chooses based on the color the base object's been tinted at? Many thanks!

Create an object, any object. Edit the object and og into the "features" tab. You should see a few check boxes, one of them says "phantom". This removes the object's collision allowing anything to pass through it. That is what's happening with this object here, it was created by the land owner to moitor traffic and/or prim counts.

no problem

So, in order to rig a model for SL in maya 2010, you "smooth bind" a model to the skeleton. But if you just do that without changing anything, your armpits concave into your model's torso and your elbows bend in a way that make them look like wacky inflatable arm flailing tubemen. This is what I'm trying to figure out how to fix here. I asked a friend about this a long while ago, and he suggested I move the shoulder and upper arm joints together. That helped, but the results varied radically in quality. So I decided to randomly browse the mesh section here and 2 words came up a lot, "skin weights". I know what those were, but I've never dealt with them before. So I thought, this was a vital component I was missing, I never set any particular skin weights so that's probably why my rigs always look so poor. So now I come to you, mesh section of the SL forums, to ask these questions: 1) Does anyone know the best weight for each joint, and if so, what are they? Is there a download or a diagram I could follow? 2) How do you edit skin weights in maya exactly? (I'm more of a 3DS Max guy :matte-motes-delicious:) If anybody could help me answer these questions, I'd be more than happy to pay you back somehow in-world. Oh and please, please please oh please, I just want a little assistance, no 9 paragraph pretentious answers please, I get that a lot on here and it's not necessary. And if in fact I'm wrong and skin weights have no ability to fix the problems I had just described, please just tell me and disregard this post.

Ive heard some people have been having problems with firestorm lately, I use it but havent experienced anything strange thank goodness.

What an odd glitch... ive uploaded many rigs without checking off include joint positions. What program did you use to rig it? I know it's fixed but im just curious.

circle as-in donut shape? Then yes, mesh items turn into a donut-like shape when the viewer can't process mesh, it might be a glitch with your viewer. I reccommend re-installing your viewer or apply an update if there is one, or you could just wait it out. Also, it would be helpful to know what viewer youre using.

That seems like more of a viewer specific issue, you shoudl try the pheonix viewer support.

yeah put your store in your picks too, they really do help

Sell things people want to buy! No but seriously, I asked a very sucessful friend this same question, all she did was rent a store in this besically deserted mall (which still has managment believe it or not) with 0 traffic. Then, in each one of her products on the market, she's says something like "Check out the item at my store if you want to see it before you buy!! Look below for a link!" And then she puts the slurl at the bottom of the marketplace page. It was a zero raffic area before... i should check just how popular it is now.

I dont know what youre talking about. I'm just whistleing. Perhaps it is YOU who is the cynical one for thinking I am cynical hmm? :matte-motes-sunglasses-3:

Thanks a lot, I just got your thing and it works great! But the gun scripts i have now wont allow for a delay in shooting so now i wish i had actual scripts Oh well, the search continues.

But that's how auctions work.

19 years old huh? Interesting how it says 1997 in your username. *whistles innocently as he walks away*

On the marketplace you can buy a whole myriad of scripts for various weapons... but i can't find a single one for a sniper rifle. I'm actually quite surprised by this, of all the things to not have... nevermind. So I'm looking for some full-perm scripts to use in a sniper rifle I want to make, a key feature being, that when the user goes into first person mode, a crosshair will appear. On second thought, maybe it's not sniper scripts i'm after, but rather, some script that makes a corsshair appear on my screen whenever I go into first person mode. Does anyone here know of such a script? If anyones does I could pay you what it's worth (or half if it's like over 1000L) or I could pay to have a custom script made if anybody is up for it.

Seems to me that shooting them up in the air is on a higher pedistal of moral righteousness than following someone and spam crashing them every time they have a moment of peace. But whatever , it was just a suggestion.

Wow, that's quite the list. Why haven't I experienced any of these things?

Just open up your magic box and delete everything (except the xstreet files of course) and sync it. All the items will be red because they dont have an item associated with the listing so all you have to do it click "delete"

Ive never been officially "stalked" so I don't know what youre experiencing exactly but it obviously must stop. It's not a pretty solution but, have you thought about buying one of those attack huds? I know there's a really good free one somewhere.

What exactly is the problem? I use the marketplace and havent gotten any issues, are you talking about how it goes down sometimes?

Hey there folks, so, very recently a lot of my friends want me to rig things for them but i keep turning them down because theyre all requests for clothes. Ya'see, I can rig... but only in maya. And anyone who uses maya can tell you that the results are not always... grand. The way maya binds the bones to a model is much different than blender's, in maya you can only smooth bind it which, can cause a lot of problems like noodle arms and TERRIBLE face shearing if your doing a model with a head. PLUS, for some reason, i cant rig clothes because whenever i try to import a rig that isn't touching every bone on the skeleton, it just won't recognize it in SL. Blah. I started blender before maya actually, and anything of higher quality than a nintendo 64 model would give me an error, plus, getting the hang of blender's interface coming from 3dsMax is torture. In short: I can rig in maya but it really isnt all that great and ive tried to rig in blender countless times following every tutorial I could but nothing worked because i would always get a DAE parsing error. Is there another program that can offer blender-quality rigging that isn't blender? Thanks :manvery-happy:

This. Also, what did you do do to make her so PO'd?

1) What skeleton did you use I used the skeleton.mb file that I got on the forums 2) Does it have the correct number of bones/names/configuration? 26, yes, yes 3) Is it a smooth bind? Yes 4) Did you remeber to uncheck "unused instances" That wasn't in the tutorial so i tried it out but it didnt make a difference So yes still very confused as to why it didnt work Now that i know it's not with the file I think i'll try again, with a different model. kudos anyway, at least you tried

I have hit a snag in uploading a rigged mesh avatar using MAYA. I've rigged it perfectly, everything is just how it should be. Only one problem, when i try to export it via the in-house DAE_FBX .dae, it wont recognize it in SL. (the rig i mean, the model shows up but no rig). So I figure I must be using the wrong plugin, am I? Should I use OPENCollada? My friend uses 2010 also, and he said to go to the plug-in manager and check off "COLLADA MAYA" but it isn't there. Any help would be great, kudos to anybody that can give me a push in the right direction.

Just by creating a new script you can create simple NPCs with one line of dialouge, but I want my NPC to say different stuff. I was wondering what the code would be for a script that makes the object talk on a click, but instead of saying just one thing, it would choose a phrase randomly out of a few lines. We have this NPC that's addicted to fish, and we want her to say a random fish-related thing each time she's clicked, so how do I do that? Could someone post or link me a script for such a thing? I can't seem to find one on the marketplace. Thanks in advance!