LissomePrey

I happily ran second life via Express VPN for about 11 months till the beginning of July with tolerable frame rates and little lag. In the past month the performance has nosedived drastically to the extent where many elements of sims are never rendered, notices are never shown and I get logged out on a regular basis. This happens no matter which vpn location I log into and I have upgraded to the latest vpn version. Any ideas whether this is something that has happened within sl to make it less vpn friendly or some problem that Express VPN have suffered, e.g. a bad update, significantly increased traffic?

Thanks Rolig. I tend towards a single script but just wondered if I was affecting performance, lag or anything else.

Thanks both. By 'filter' do you mean use the type parameter, in my case it would be SCRIPTED? I was worried that might produce too many results.

Has anyone written a blog or similar on the criteria to decide when you should use a single script and when you should split into multiple scripts? If there is a good one would it be worth pinning it in this forum?

I want to detect the presence of either of two different objects but llSensor appears to restrict you to one. Can I have two sensors outstanding at the same time or is it better to have one and switch the search between the two objects on a timed basis? If the latter can I still use llSensorRepeat if the name parameter is a variable that I change in the event handling?

As a relative amateur I await a response form someone more experienced but Log-out I understand can't be detected, I use heartbeat scripts to show continuing presence Change of region surely doesn't happen till you arrive as if the teleport fails for any reason you'll still be in the old region.

Many thanks for all the useful input, I always a learn a lot reading here. As I do want a unique id for a number of reasons, including but not exclusively the channels, I'll stick with what I have as it seems to be working.

The channels aren't low numbers because the base is a six digit number but they are grouped together. I need it because there will be simultaneous 1-to-1 communications between pairs of people. Also it is useful for reporting to have people given unique and contiguous numbers. I'm just making the descriptiom look like a UUID which contains the object number encoded in it. Since I want a modifiable script included, I can't make the whole object No Mod so I just have a description that I doubt people will try to change and it is likely to be easily detected if they do. The other route I may try is to just add a separate small script that does an llMessageLinked with the number when the object is rezzed. That would probably never need an update so gets round the problem I was talking of earlier about needing to updatre many slightly different scripts for bug solving/enhancements.

Thanks that is a thought but I'd like to constrain them to be a relatively small number, ideally sequential from 1. I want another amendable notecard in the object too so the no mod won't work. My current idea is a simple routine that fakes a UUID given a root number and then put that as the object description. Doubt anyone would try to change it even though they could and the object can decode back to the number when rezzed. Thanks as always for useful input.

To identify which copy it is and, most importantly, to allocate channels that will be unique. So each object will use "base channel" plus its unique number. I think your idea of getObjectDesc might work, I just change the description for each copy. That would be immutable if the object was no mod?

What happens if I get, maybe, 50 people out there, each with a unique script then find a bug or want an enhancement? Even having an updater, which I'm thinking of, doesn't really help in that respect. If the notecard worked it would be immutable, they would always keep their number so only the one script would need to be updated.. But it doesn't sadly.

Yes the full perm looks like the answer, I should read more carefully. My code does have a variable there, I was trying to simplify. In response to Qie's points, each copy of the object needs to have a unique unchangeable number, I thought a notecard was the easiest. Editing the script each time is a pain particularly as it will undoubtedly get updated. Does anyone have a favourite way of getting a unique integer into a script?

I am trying to read a notecard (code below) within the inventory of the object. When I wear the object, it can read the notecard perfectly well. When I give a copy of the object to someone else it fails to find the notecard, which is No Modify. Reading up it seems that maybe the object doesn't actually have the card but simply its key and so when the object but not the card itself is transferred to the other person, the key doesn't correspond to any known object. Is this the problem and if so is there a workaround using notecards or do I need a totally different route? if (avatarNumber == 0) { if (llGetInventoryKey("Identity") == NULL_KEY) { llOwnerSay( "Notecard '" + "Identity" + "' missing or unwritten"); } notecardQueryId = llGetNotecardLine("Identity", notecardLine); }

Maybe even different versions of Catznip behave differently Anyway Wulfie's scheme works perfectly and is exactly what I was looking for. Job done.

It doesn't seem possible to offer a teleport through the profile, at least on Catznip - one can't rely on all viewers behaving the same. The getting an IM tab but not saying anything on it works with both Firestorm and Catznip but is far from ideal. Thanks Wulfie for the link, yes it works and is much better than my solution!

Just for completion I found a simple answer, not actually scripting. Once the teleportee has accepted rlv restrictions about IMs, they will not even be aware of someone attempting to IM them. So the teleporter can try to start an IM and that will give them the 'handle' that allows them to offer a teleport. Sigh of relief. As ever, thanks for help.

I know it isn't my thread after I have started it but it really would be appreciated if you didn't use what started as a genuine question to argue about the merits of your scripts against others. Thanks Folks

Please guys, you are going to put newbies off asking for help if it descends to arguing and name calling.

Yes, that ruins most of the ideas I had. Social ways of making sure the 'handle' (nobody has a better name for it?) is available seems the preferred option, with a shared group a second choice for the future.

If the subject looked at Group Info themself, they would know it was one of the people currently logged on so yes it is far from ideal, certainly if the group is small.

Thanks Qie, don't want it all to get too complex. Another route is common group membership for both parties, affects anonymity a little bit but may be a work around. If you can see the individual in Group Info you can offer a Teleport.

Thanks all, will experiment a bit more but there may not be a solution beyond asking subjects to make their 'handle' available. As a total aside is there an agreed term for an avatar name where you can right click on it and get "Profile", "Add Friend" etc. options?

They do and the attachment is effectively unique and each uses different channels for communication. Does that help? If so, are there examples I can look at? As I say it all works beautifully if you can right click on theri name and get the Offer teleport optin (Catznip UI at least)

rlv gives you something very close to godmode teleporting (consensual effectively as you have to have agreed to the rlv). That side of it is fine, or at least works for me. The issue is finding ways in which you can offer an avatar a teleport. If you have their 'handle' (not sure that is the right word but highlighted name in local because they have spoken/emoted in local) it all works perfectly. If you don't, are there other ways of being able to offer a teleport? I've tried accessing the profile but that doesn't offer a teleport option. It is hard to get the message to cause llTeleportAgent from another sim. Can a script force an avatar to 'publish their handle' in local?

I'm not sure if this is really a scripting issue, an rlv problem or a general second life issue but here goes. Not even sure I can express it clearly. I am working on a consensual system for people to be 'captured' and teleported by someone anonymously, i.e they will not be aware of the person who has performed the action on them. This rules out any IM communications between the parties. Using suitable rlv commands, moving to another sim and then summoning the subject anonymously works if you have a way of offering a teleport (rlv enforces the teleport with no information). In testing this is easy because the subject has spoken in local chat so their name (handle?) is available to instigate the teleport offer. If this is not the case, is there a programmatic way to offer the teleport when already on another sim, i.e. they won't show up on a listing of nearby avatars? Failing that is there a way to enforce the name to appear in local chat? I believe Trackers such as SIN use a separate server to maintain records of who is logged in and where, something that would be difficult in this case.