[Very Sad News for Blueberry lovers]

I guess like a lot of people, I outgrew Blueberry, but actually learned a lot about my own RL business from her.  She moved a lot of product, I read 20 million units in an interview with her.  Blueberry will be missed.

[How do I make a simple prim semi-transparent?]

31 minutes ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

Are you on Mac with shadows on enabled?

There's a known issue in the latest SL Viewer release:
BUG-234724 [PBR] [Mac] Turning shadows on makes items with alpha blend textures disappear

 

Ah yes, I have a reasonably fast eGPU, a Radeon Vega, so I was just using graphics set at "ultra" so shadows were on.  When I turned them off, everything went back to normal.

Of course there is Apple bug.  LOL    Thanks, it was making me nuts trying to fix it.  I have been looking at those little Beelink Mini PC's I am so tired of Apple bugs in SL.  The Beelink comes with the same graphics as my Mac so should be fine.

[How do I make a simple prim semi-transparent?]

I am a simple builder mostly using purchased landscaping items and buildings, but I add textures and simple objects.

After trying out the new PBR release of the second life viewer I found many of my signs on walls had disappeared.   Any texture set at say 50% was gone.   I then tried to create a simple cube and found  I could only make it fully opaque at zero, or totally transparent.  Any semi-transparent texture was gone.  I managed to repair most of the signs by reapplying textures, so of which when Alpha Mode was set to nothing would go semi.    

But still I cannot create a simple prim.    What am I missing here?

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said:

No, it's where you jump up and down.

I think it is when you do this in RL, and the woman tells all her friends, and you have to never show your face in public again.

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

14 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Do any of the .."units".. support the "Helicopter" maneuver?

 

Is that where you lie on your back, spin, and fly around the room?  

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

11 hours ago, Cougar Sangria said:

He tried it recently, and we had such a good laugh.  Sorry, while many like the P, some don't.  It still looks like the freeness to me.  He'll stick to the Aeros.  

it is a huge laugh for sure, the dances are so funny it's almost worth the lindens.  My reaction was "are some men really this bizarre in real life?"   This animation had to come from somewhere. LOL

The Aeros is by far more realistic -- but the P is in fact now much better than a Hugsie looks-wise.  Most of the efforts on SL look like a wrinkle.

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

2 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:

 

So your sentence "Ray has enough..." should have been "Ray had enough...". Have you looked at the MP lately?

As far as I know Ray is still alive.   But many have posted to the contrary.  Interestingly it was a CSR on the "P" group who set the record straight, and sent me the link.

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

56 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

I'm just telling you he is not the only owner/creator which might explain the odd MP listings...This is my friend's original box he has had for years.  Edit mode shows Faeros Kroll as creator of the boxed item AND the add on layer thingy...

 

Yes on my oldest version when I attach the  box and "edit"  I find "Faeros."   But when not open it is Ray.    Thinking back on the 20 years I have been in SL there have been an awful lot of "me."  I do remember aeros in general posting notes warning about copies.  But right now I was just glad to get the free redeliveries, one 17 year old, which I did not back up.  I bought most of my copies in-world and do vaguely remember the seller being Ray.   The listing is indeed very odd.

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

19 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

Perhaps Ray doesn't own the full rights to them?  The box my friend's came in (I asked him to check creator) and the add-on stuff were all created by Faeros Kroll.  His profile seems to indicate he's left SL.  We're only speculating as to what's going on but it does seem odd the way the products are now offered on the MP with no picture, no support, no refunds and such.

 

The copy I  purchased for my Alt shows Ray Silent as the creator.   I also checked the creator on my three redeliveries and they are also Ray Silent.  I also looked at the ad-dons , also ray

The current animated box was created by Faeros Kroll.  I checked the deliveries from 2017 in my archives, they show no creator on the animated box ( the box turns your avatar upside down)

I have no other way to look at what this product actually is, other than to say Ray is warning buyers not to buy if they are the least bit unsure.    My 4 all worked.  I know nothing more.

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

Just a note from Ray Silent:

The remote database has been disabled ... Please make copies of the item and corresponding HUD in your inventory to mimic presets functionality. Thank you for understanding! 

This does not in any way affect the functionality of the 6.1 or the Apollo beta, there is just no remote database.

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

4 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:

Directed... not sure there is any direction remaining. Aeros appears to have lost interest in SL.

Perhaps SL has not lost interest in Aeros?  There is no way to measure interest or sales. Only Ray Silent knows --- Ray has enough interest to put the product on MP, all I know.

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

On 9/3/2023 at 9:07 AM, Persephone Emerald said:

If there are demos for the Aeros products, they might be worth trying - with the understanding that this product is currently not supported in SL.

Currently it would seem the Aeros offerings are directed at those who have aeros experience and want a redelivery or an aeros for a new Avi.   The Aeros is as simple as a Hugsie, so not much support is really needed, but there is no group and no demos.  I am not really sure what the "save" function that is missing was, since I always saved Huds locally.  Does anyone know?  Currently you can only get a redelivery if you bought on MP.   All the items are listed, but unless you know the line,  X{S} will not mean  Xerxes{smooth}. 

[Little embarrassed asking this...]

I much prefer the simplicity of the Aeros.   

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3 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Removed

no longer interested

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5 hours ago, Drake1 Nightfire said:

Removed

no longer interested

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no longer interested

[Mac Big Sur -- Firestorm 6.4.13 (63251) -- crashing on close?]

5 hours ago, TDD123 said:

Reading the log you contributed I'd say there' s nothing severe going on here : the viewer seems to get stuck in retreiving a texture at shuttingdown and from about line no 17 your system decides the viewer's thread on the CPU has to be closed and does so. It might be worth reporting a bug to the Firestom-devs, but I don' t think it' s critical since you experienced so yourself. 

Agreed -- but there appears to be more need for testing, I was chastised for not being a beta tester.   But never really figured out what was entailed with becoming one.   This is so regular I can't imagine how it was missed.  Implication at the time I reported it was -- there were no beta testers. 

LOL  At the time I first posted -- I did not feel very comfortable about so many Apple "do you want to report this" messages.  I just downgraded and now only think about it when someone like you reads the thread.

[Mac Big Sur -- Firestorm 6.4.13 (63251) -- crashing on close?]

1 hour ago, xxVi3perxx said:

Its gotta be a Mac issue I have that even with logging out its annoying for sure I guess MAC isn't worth to use for SL anymore I lag a lot in high traffic sims the only I don't seem to lag at is my homestead rental. Apple makes crappy products in general thank god I am upgrading to something decent. 

Really not about lag, I am running an Apple mini 3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 -- with an AMD Radeon RX 5500XT - and the speed is just fine. 

This post is about crashing on close.  High traffic sims will lag no matter what you run, if your graphics settings are on high. 

[Remote Group invites fail for me.]

32 minutes ago, iBrat said:

I have same and it is an issue since I sent the invite to myself, to have rights on a land owned by an alt. Any solutions yet?

Not that I know of -- when inviting my alts into a group -- I just suffer with the lag of running two avatars, but it works well enough.

[Remote Group invites fail for me.]

I opened a ticket and received this response.  

"We are aware of an issue that causes group invitations to sometimes fail unless both residents are online when the invitation is accepted. Our engineers are working on a solution, but we do not currently have an estimated timeframe for when this solution will be implemented. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.

In the meantime, you should be able to work around this issue by having both parties (the resident sending the invitation, and the resident who is receiving it) online at the same time when the invitation is accepted." 

 

Good to know and the work-around is not overly painful.

[Group invites regularly and reliably failing (for weeks now) in Firestorm viewer]

I have tested it on all viewers and it does not work.    Regarding why?  Only an  invite works if the group is not open to all.

Invites only work right now if both parties are online.  I opened a similar discussion, never really got any responses that solved the issue.

I have 4 groups and have sent invite for year -- this a new glitch, started a ticket on it.

[Remote Group invites fail for me.]

2 hours ago, Anthony Blackwood said:

 

Incidentally, friend requests work the same. If I am not online, I get the request, but clicking it does nothing.I asked someone who uses Firestorm and they said that they don't get either of these problems, so it seems to be something with the LL Viewer.

 

This just started for me. But I can live with it.  I do use firestorm.   Might be a setting I screwed up, why I posted.

[Remote Group invites fail for me.]

Currently I can only invite another member to join my groups -- If I am on the same sim at the same time -- using either click directly on the other avatar, or start a regular invite.

If I send out an invite, and log off, the member gets a dialog box, but clicking on "join" just clears the box and nothing happens.   I even starting asking for 1L so there would be another confirmation/ box.  

I have tested it all over the place with different groups, and avatars (my alts, and friends) and remote invites never actually work.

Any of the same experience?  Thoughts?

 

[Mac Big Sur -- Firestorm 6.4.13 (63251) -- crashing on close?]

2 hours ago, Aishagain said:

All these crash reports refer to FS...is the same thing occurring with the latest LL viewers as well, because if it is , it's most likely that it is the EEP render changes that are the problem and as such it is LL's job to fix that code.  Since I run Windoze I cannot contribute to the bug hunt.

Only FS   --   I could not reproduce it on the LL viewer.

[Mac Big Sur -- Firestorm 6.4.13 (63251) -- crashing on close?]

12 hours ago, Tonya Souther said:

 

I suspect it's scene-related, or something like that. For those of you who are having it regularly, are you always in the same sim when you log out? Better yet, at the same location, facing the same way?

Certainly possible, but have only recently begun quitting where I am, rather than returning home (just a natural real world habit lol).    I have decided to skip this version.