Maia007

hi there! I'm not familiar with some of the terms you mentioned and I doubt that I would have extra time figuring these out 😅 I do appreciate the input but since I thought this could be fixed with a simple attachment issue or just need to tweak the sliders and won't have to do anything else outside of SL (the need to use another program, manually edit, etc.) I guess I will just have to choose an angle where the halo thingy is not as visible. your time and response is much appreciated! thanks again 🙂

hi! thanks for the idea (tried playing with the sliders) but, unfortunately, it didn't fix the halo thingy.

Hi Rowan! the only things I changed were the eyes and skin base because those were the only system ones I had on. the rest parts of my avatar are all "new" parts/attachments like a Lelutka brow shaper and shape. thanks for the info regarding the 4 basic parts which I will be focusing from now on when creating a new outfit 🙂

hi Rowan! thank you for replying. I went on to check my avatar and I do have some system stuff still attached to it. the "girl next door" system shape and eyes still attached since there's no way to totally detach them (or is there any way at all?). so I just replaced these with some new base eyes and shape. unfortunately, the haloish thingy is still visible when taking pictures while using DoF 🙁 thank you for your time, I appreciate it!

hi to anyone who would take time reading this 🙂 first off, a blessed 2023 to you! 🥳 my question is, what causes this "halo-ish" thing around my avatar to appear whenever I use Depth of Field? it's pretty annoying because it doesn't look nice at all. I have seen a ton of other people's pictures using DoF but their works are flawless. the edges of their field focus is clear and crisp. also, this happens when I have like a "winter breath" attached to my avatar. the second one that's circled on my sample (pic attached) whenever I breathe out the mist, it ruins the DoF effect like what happens around my avatar. what causes this and how to fix it? your help is much appreciated. thank you! ☺️ Maia

this is noted. thank you so much again!

hi! i will try this too after observing if clearing my cache fixed the problem already. i'll try to log in tomorrow again during the hours when i find it toughest to get in. if it happens again (can't log in), then creating this "sort folder" is the next step i'd try but if for whatever reason it won't work, i'd have to let LL check my inventory for me. thank you for your time and input, much appreciated. keep safe!

thank you for this thorough explanation and suggestions. i will try clearing my cache and see if that would fix it, otherwise, i'll contact LL, file a ticket, request for my inventory to be "de-flattened" if they see that it's what it actually needs for the issue to be resolved. stay safe!

hello there! i haven't heard of "flat inventory problems" before and thank you for bringing it up. i would try sending a ticket regarding this. i appreciate your time reading and replying. thank you and stay safe!

hi! i'm in Asia so i'm not quite sure if my troubles have any connection with the others in Europe and yes i do find it strange that it's just my main account, which is the only active account i do use for years now, that's having this problem. i did try sending a message from my alt to my main days ago to somehow try to shake it a bit IF and only IF the cause of it not logging in is maybe it's kinda "stuck" being online even if i have logged out. but, unfortunately, that doesn't fix it thank you so much for the message, i appreciate it. i hope you're well!

because i was still trying to figure out as to what might be causing it since i can log in at other times. it's not like i never logged in the entire month of july and august. i have logged in some days but i still keep getting this issue until now and it is worse today, that is why i decided to reach out here and ask what might be the problem. i have been trying to log in since morning, it's almost evening now, haven't had a single success. i'm not the type who just contact support the second i encounter a problem without trying to fix the issue myself first because if that would be the case, if someone replies to my message and asks me if i tried doing this and that to see if it will fix this issue, troubleshoot, most likely i would answer no to every single question. i do try to check first if the issue is temporary and if i can fix it myself before asking for help. also, i am not online on SL every single day. so i don't really experience the issue everyday. then i realize now that even if i only log when i have the time, which is not all the time, the issue is still there. the entire month of august was extra tough for personal reasons i would rather not discuss here. it's a major thing that kept me from doing other things. so, yup, i don't always have the time to be tinkering with this issue until now. thank you for replying

hi! my main account won't log in. this issue started last July. out of desperation, i tried using an alt's account, which i haven't used in a long time, just to check if it will do the same. guess what? this account (alt) logged in without any problems. i'm using the same computer for both accounts, so i don't think internet connection has got something to do with it. i haven't used my main account as much during these past months as much as i have before the pandemic, having to do other things at home, aside from work. i can't be "banned" wherever or for doing whatever in SL, i don't really do much aside from decorating my SL home and stay in my home most times or just explore/hangout with my partner in beautiful sims. so when i started going active again with my main account the past weeks, this problem about login fails started getting out of hand and so frustrating. it would take hours before it would actually log in, after countless tries. some days, i just give up trying because it won't budge. then there's the alt i don't really like using anymore that can log in so easily, which is annoying because i no longer update this avatar and i only used it for pictures years ago. i already did a clean re install of my viewer (Firestorm. only one i use and been using for years now) just to see if maybe there are some corrupted files in my main account that may be causing this or simply needs to be cleaned or whatever, but i still experience the login fails after re installing the viewer. also, whenever this login fails happen, there are no ongoing maintenance stuff on the grid, the login fails just keep happening at any time of day and would go failing for hours. anyone knows what's causing my main account to not log in and yet another account of mine would log in without issues? i attached the login failed message. this is what i keep getting for every failed attempt. thanks for your time reading and i appreciate any help you can give. keep safe!

hmmm never heard of making profiles invisible. status, yes, but profiles? are there viewers that allow that? I noticed the ones with those words (this name is unavailable) on profiles often made empty just like someone I knew. the person used to have a profile filled with stuff but after a while I saw it has that same thing on the web tab of their profile, the profile has no other stuff in it already, so I kinda concluded it might be because the account has been deactivated/deleted. but I posted the question here to be sure. thank you for the reply Alwin

hi there! just wondering...been seeing this "this name is unavailable" in some of the profiles of people and I kinda feel those are the ones which are no longer used? ones that have been deactivated/removed? is this correct? EDIT: Had an experiment. Those profiles are no longer active.

thank you for the help I appreciate it a lot just one more question tho, are these the only icons we can use?

first off, thanks for the reply but... I tried this and it only shows a grey box/square and no picture

I have seen people attaching icons/images in their profiles and am not referring to profile pictures or photos we put in our picks. I already found out how to put hyperlinks in but I'd like to know how I can place those icons in the profile window as well. anyone kind enough to share the 'secret'? :D I'm using Firestorm viewer, btw. thank you! --- I replied to you Ohjiro Watanabe but I'm not sure if I did that correctly as there's no 'reply' or forward button to click on here? XD I think I recall someone telling me to hit "permalink" to send back a message to someone so that's what I did. anyway, I said in my response that I tried what you suggested but it's only showing this grey box/square after I hot OK (to save changes). and thanks for the reply :) --- @ Ohjiro Watanabe yes I use the default skin for FS and I used the 'Female' icon file to test. --- Oh, it appeared now! ^_^ thanks so much! another question tho, are these the only icons we can use? can't we use our own icons if we have saved somewhere else?

hi ^^ well, these friends am referring to I added just a few days ago.. none of my old friends I have issue with. I do see their names on the left panel of our SL web account but not on the other window (where we see the 'feed', 'about', etc)... I see their names in-world but NOT invisible so I don't think they're trying to hide from me teehee thank you for the message!

thanks so much I do hope this gets fixed soon.

Hi! I noticed days ago that a friend of mine who I added a week or so is not in my web browser. I keep seeing the ADD FRIEND button too when I check on his profile (in the web). We are friends in-world and we even tried deleting each other and adding back to see if it will fix the issue, to no avail. so now we can't see each others stuff on our web profiles because it is saying he and I are not friends :P so we try adding again, accepting the friend requests but it's still saying ADD FRIEND. I thought this is just an issue with one friend but then I found out there's another friend now XD so two of them with the same problem. I don't see them in my friends list in my web browser but we are on each others lists in-world. I already asked Firestorm group support about this but I was told that the viewer has no connection with LL's web browser when it comes to this glitch/issue(?). kinda makes sense since I do see both friends in my list through my viewer but if the web browser is saying they are not my friends then it's a problem regarding seeing each other's stuff that we put on the web profile. may I know what is causing this if anyone knows at all? :) and is there a way to fix it or is it like an on-going issue with other people which we just need to wait to get fixed BY LL? I've already tried relogging a bunch of times too (to 'refresh' things) but it's not just doing anything >.< thank you for reading! :)

thank you Theresa and Rolig

Hi ^^ thank you so much for taking time in helping out. It's much appreciated. Will update you when I get the time to do these. I haven't played SL in other computers when I started experiencing this so yes I do need to try it on a different machine, provided that any other people would let me download stuff on their PC^^ hihi. yes, I know the orange cloud is when an avatar hasn't fully loaded yet, I did mention that and correction, I do not log in with a different avatar, I still use just the same account and just change the avatar into a completely different one. someone told me to try that coz he said there might be something that got attached to my 'everyday avatar" that isn't visible (maybe a script or something like that) so I tried changing into a new full av using the same account but it still happened. so anyway, I'll try if I can do these sooner than later just busy in RL when am not here ^^ thanks so much again!

Valerie, my problem is not to test anyone's patience (people who willingly reply to my threads). I believe I am the one so frustrated here because LL is not helping in fixing the problem and if I am a different person I could have been bad-mouthing them already but that's not the case. I'm simply hoping they would hear this out because it's been months and it still is happening and yes it is a full-blown test for patience. am not saying Dilbert don't 'deserve the kudos for being patient" I just don't see why you look at his replying to me as something in need of patience when am not even being rude or like some people who post here, childish in their asking for help and solution.

haha I almost forgot this ^^ thanks! or they could've simply called it REPLY >.< I already tried JIRA but they said my prob is not for JIRA. sheeeeesh. first I tried SUPPORT (after lots of inworld reports) and SUPPORT says they can't help me UNTIL I UPGRADE TO PREMIUM ACCOUNT. wow. so I went to JIRA and I got hit like a ping pong ball bouncing back and forth without stopping unfortunately. darn.

I am still experiencing this problem. I am sooooooooooooo tired repeating the story. OMG. What can we do to fix this? Please anyone? It's so frustrating getting this ORANGE CLOUD named ( ??? ) ( ??? ) which makes me CRASH in an instant. It's double the frustration when I buy a home and I experience this in that place reason why I can't have a peaceful stay coz it will make me crash over and over. Sheesh LL please hear me out and fix this. PLEASE. TO DILBERT. thank you for your reply but those are not the answers, unfortunately. I've already been told about those last year by the PH/FS support team and those aren't the reasons why I keep getting the ORANGE cloud. they said so coz we did some tests to see if it will get fixed if I perform those relogging, clearing cache, setting to LOW (graphics), setting the particles to a minimum too, etc. to no avail. and no, it's not white, it is ORANGE. the same kind of cloud we see when someone hasn't rezzed fully. and yes I've been told too that maybe it is just a duplicate of myself which can be possible too and the reason for that I DO NOT KNOW. what I want to know is what triggers this and how to REALLY FIX IT. I do check the avatar ID when I see that cloud and most of the time YES it has the same avatar ID as mine so yes too, it might be that it is me too but why on earth is it happening? no it's not the router as I have done those things on it, but really it hasn't been fixed by just tweaking those. and one more thing, when this occurs, it has specific places where it is likely to happen. I have been to places where it never happens. and when I go back to places where I experienced it, I am to expect that it will happen again. so am pretty sure there's just something that triggers it. this started happening when I went to halloween sims last year, one of which people were freely to rez things on the land. is it possible that someone might've dropped an item which when picked up by others, will somewhat cause the avatar to attract certain bugs/glitches? coz I am positive that this only started after I went to two of these sims. and the other sim is where I got these "stars" while walking pass them and at first I was clueless as to what they are, my landlord then told me "those are harmless" as they 'use them too'... these stars are from a company called BLETAVERSE. is it familiar to you? if so, are they really harmless? coz two things I did while visiting those sims where hunt for halloween prizes then the stars thing from BLETAVERSE. so both can attach stuff on my avatar right? people even told me maybe someone gave me something that's causing this but why hasn't it went away even if I am using a totally different avatar, like no trace of the one I used in those sims? So am like getting confused too coz if it is indeed ON MY avatar or in it... could the BLETAVERSE thing do this since "I got those stars" but they are not really in my inventory OR can they be invisible/ undetected scripts? I am just so tired telling the story over and over and not getting this problem fixed. *sigh* TO DILBERT: LOL no it is simply orange because it is orange :P and not coz it was Halloween that time. Maybe coz of the viewer I am using that it is an orange cloud and not white. I am on Firestorm, if that helps :) Yeah it's a possibility too that I may have picked up something, but as I've said, even as I use a totally NEW full avatar, it still happens. it still happens even if am using an avatar that has no trace of my "default" everyday avatar/look. if indeed I picked up something, it may be in the inventory and going through 20k+ items in it and search for something I don't even know what to search for has been so tiring. too tiring to look for something when i don't even know what exactly it is that am looking for :P Previous posts and detailed info about these encounters (links) below. Thanks :) http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Abuse-and-Griefing/this-hasn-t-stopped-been-bugging-me-for-over-a-month-now/qaq-p/1733055 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Everything-Else/Can-anyone-actually-help-me-solve-my-problem-please/qaq-p/1708451 EDITED for everyone who just posted messages :) As I mentioned a few times already, this only occurs in the familiar sims I have already been to then at some that I just discovered, which may or may not give me the same annoying prob. and when I go to the same place where I already know that it happens, there's more chance of it happening again and there are places where it NEVER happens. So simply put, this has got nothing to do with my connection or the ping or my server because IF it is my computer that has the problem then I should have been experiencing this since I joined SL but this only started November last year I think. and again, in the same places where I already experienced it. I did the clean reinstalls over and over after removing other viewers and cleared cache and all the other stuff other helpers have advised me to do but I do experience this still. it's more frustrating when I find a parcel that I love and wanted to purchase then I'd encounter the orange cloud in that place, so it's already a sign that I shouldn't go back to that sim :( thank you for taking time in helping out, I appreciate it ^^ have a nice Sunday!