Maia007

Madelaine McMasters wrote: JeanneAnne wrote: Cinnamon Mistwood wrote: I always seem to be just a bit blurry unless I constantly rebake. No one else sees me this way so I just ignore it unless I want to take a picture or something. Cinn This happens to me, too. My tattoos or the pattern on clothing is blurry, so i press Ctrl-Alt -r and everything instantly comes into sharp focus but then in a few seconds everything becomes blurry & I get this kinduv "planet of the apes" look, then everything comes back into focus except the stuff that was blurry to begin with. I was thinking it was because my tats & outfits are cheap freebies so have been just living with it. I use Firestorm & I'm not sure if others see me as blurry or not. I guess I can live with it but it is mildly annoying & I'd like to fix it if I could. Jeanne The fuzziness you see, which then comes into sharp focus, is caused by what's called "progressive downloading". To decrease the time it takes for your avatar to become at least somewhat visible, the SL servers send a subset of your skin/clothing pixels to your viewer right away, then keep filling in detail over time. So the initial painting of your avatar may be done with only 1/16th of the pixels in your avatar texture, with each pixel being displayed 16x larger. As the additional pixels are downloaded, the resolution of your avatar improves. The texture downloaded to the viewer is "baked" from all the skin, tattoo and clothing layers you are wearing, which are combined in the SL server to produce a single texture for application to your avatar. This is why you needn't worry about having your skin rezzed, but not your clothing, unless there's an error in SL's "wearing" mechanism. Your baked texture includes your clothing over your skin, so there's no naked body texture being sent down from the servers, with clothing to follow. It's all one texture. Now, I don't know why this mechanism sometimes breaks, but it seems that the viewer can think it has the full resolution texture in cache when it's actually got only one of the lower resolution parts of the full download. Rebaking textures should fix this, by sending the viewer a new avatar texture. When you see perpetually fuzzy textures on prims (which are not baked from layers like your avatar) that once looked fine, it's time to clear your cache. The viewer has gotten itself in a position where it thinks the texture in the cache for the fuzzy prim is full resolution when it's actually only one of the first steps of the progressive download. So long as that incompletely loaded texture is in cache, the viewer is not goinig to ask for a fresh copy. Clearing the cache eliminates all the downloaded textures, good and bad, and the viewer starts over, hopefully with fully downloaded copies of all the textures in your view. This doesn't solve your problem, but hopefully gives you some understanding of how the system works, or doesn't. Thank you for this detailed explanation of how things work (or not), I appreciate it so much. Yes, I guess rebaking and clearing the cache isn't the way to go about it but I do know that there is a way or two on how to fix this, somewhere, we'll just have to wait 'til someone who might have the answer would stumble upon this thread and share their knowledge as well. Like Jeanne said, it is a bit annoying really especially like what happens to me for days now, which hasn't happened ever in the past months, rebaking every so-so seconds, relogging and clearing cache... sigh, all these just won't work. Yeah, they aren't the solution so there better be someone willing to help enlighten us more as to why this is happening now :matte-motes-big-grin: Thank you for sharing your ideas :matte-motes-smitten:

I'm relieved to find out that am not alone in this. I thought it's just with something I use or whatever I did. Thanks for sharing Jeanne :matte-motes-grin: JeanneAnne wrote: Cinnamon Mistwood wrote: I always seem to be just a bit blurry unless I constantly rebake. No one else sees me this way so I just ignore it unless I want to take a picture or something. Cinn This happens to me, too. My tattoos or the pattern on clothing is blurry, so i press Ctrl-Alt -r and everything instantly comes into sharp focus but then in a few seconds everything becomes blurry & I get this kinduv "planet of the apes" look, then everything comes back into focus except the stuff that was blurry to begin with. I was thinking it was because my tats & outfits are cheap freebies so have been just living with it. I use Firestorm & I'm not sure if others see me as blurry or not. I guess I can live with it but it is mildly annoying & I'd like to fix it if I could. Jeanne

Cinnamon Mistwood wrote: Hi Maia, Welcome to the forums. I have been having this issue for more than a month. I always seem to be just a bit blurry unless I constantly rebake. No one else sees me this way so I just ignore it unless I want to take a picture or something. I use both the SL viewer and Firestorm and the same happens on both. I will be interested to see if anyone has a solution. Cinn Hello Cinn! Thanks for the warm welcome :matte-motes-big-grin-wink: Yeah, you got a point there about just ignoring it and try to rebake when I need to like, take photos too but in my case, people do see me all blurry and they constantly notice and tell me so that adds up to the pressure of wanting to know what I can do to fix this. Haha! I guess I'll just wait for that moment when we get to hear from someone who has the solution :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2: I only use SL Viewer (tried the third party ones but they just don't work for me) and I do update my version of the viewer I use so I really can't pinpoint where the problem is. Sigh. Anyway, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this :matte-motes-big-grin: Maia

Hiiiiiii! I'm from The Philippines and it seems like I find it hard to bump into someone from our country (inworld). I did some search using tags that could lead me to anything Pinay or Pinoy but there were very little. I don't mind meeting other people from different countries coz as a matter of fact, I do enjoy their company so much (especially Europeans -- coz there are too many of them in SL! :matte-motes-big-grin-squint: ) I guess I just want to at least find people in SL who I can actually hangout in RL without the need to ride a plane or hop in a time machine :matte-motes-tongue: . So anyway, just wondering where my fellow countrymen are hiding in SL. Haha! Come out come out wherever you are! :matte-motes-evil-invert: :matte-motes-evil: Reminder: I don't accept random friend requests inworld. Please understand that it is important to at least be a friend of someone first (like, you know, talk and know each other first) coz I still believe in quality versus quantity :matte-motes-evil: Thanks! :matte-motes-silly:

Yes, I don't understand it either coz this is the first time it happened. Well, first time was a few days back but I didn't have any problems seeing my avatar clearly months before this so am pretty alarmed. Thank you for the clearing cache advice, I'd keep that in mind :matte-motes-smitten: I think I got carried away thinking that it might be a solution to this problem. Venus Petrov wrote: I do not know what is causing you to re-rez frequently however you do not need to clear your cache so often. Once every couple of months or so should be sufficient or when you experience an inventory issue.

Hi everyone! I've been an SL Resident for a few months now and just some days back I had this problem with my avatar (well, still do). I thought it's just a temporary thing that my avatar keeps on rezzing and de-rezzing that I got to rebake every 5-10 seconds now (no kidding!). I almost always see to it that I clear my cache every 2 days or so depending on the amount of time I spend adding and deleting and adding and deleting stuff from my inventory. Also, I tried relogging to refresh everything. I do have the latest version of the SL Viewer -- Second Life 3.0.3 (240895) -- which, by the way, the only viewer that really works for me so now I don't know how to solve this problem because this never happened before. One of my friends suggested I try this "Clear Cache without Logging Out" ball thingy and I did but to no avail. Can anyone please assist me with this? I'd highly appreciate your time :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2: Thanks! :smileyhappy:

Cool topic :womanhappy: I named my avatar Maia007 (no, am not really an ultimate fan of James Bond), like I'd always tell people -- it was an "accident" that I placed double zeros beside my avi's name. I actually just wanted it to be Maia7 (7 is my favorite number) and, well, Maia is one of my favorite names :womanwink: