Anna Nova

Cyanide?

and there was me thinking all the troubles of the grid could be cured by hanging newbie trolls......

I have a diploma from Google hanging on my Diploma Wall, it says I have successfully completed their course in how to search. I still can't always find what I want.

I spent a happy couple of hours in blender and beta yesterday looking at the mesh parts of a octagon dome that I made last year. In the rush to get it finished (not for sale, BTW) I set all the LOD sliders to zero, so as you move away it suddenly changes from a dome to 8 triangles . Now I have the tools to help me know where the various break-points are, I quickly got to understand the impact of the LOD versions. The key fact I discovered is that you can get VERY simple very fast - Medium (LOD2) should be quite a lot less complex than High, and frequently Low and Lowest can be just a few quads. In other words, the effort to make the LODs was a lot less than I expected. So soon you will be able to see my house across the sim, and not just from inside the back garden - and on a viewer LOD setting of 1.5. Of course this comes at a price, the 2LI of the zeroed-LOD version will be 7LI in the end, but we have the prims.....

Quite often the designer includes a shoebase for use with the system versions. If you use those with a mesh body version, then you may (but it's not certain) get the effect the OP described. I've had shoes like the ones you describe where the shoebase seems to be part of the rigging system. Some of a well known designer's early mesh-body attempts come to mind. I also have some hyper-platforms that are much easier to wear with the shoebase supplied. The point I'm making is that you can't assume that just because a shoebase is supplied that you need it for your fitting.

It would have my vote, I could derender all the hideous green flashing things in my view.

One little point that is often missed, if you photograph a real tattoo on a real person that photograph is your copyright. But if you photocopy a drawing then it is a reproduction, and has the copyright of the original. In some jurisdictions even tracing (you remember tracing paper?) a picture is a copyright violation - in the UK doing this to a Crown Copyright map from the Ordnance Survey will get you in trouble unless it is for Private Study under the Fair Use clauses. I enquired of the Ordnance Survey if I could make my own illustration for a guide book I was writing for publication. Answer: you can look at our map and then draw your own, but if you trace it you are into a royalty fee.

In general, in Common Law jurisdictions anyway, 'personal use' is only a privilege in Copyright, not in Intellectual Property in general. Even the personal use is restricted, and for sure 'recreation' doesn't appear to me to be in the list. https://ogc.harvard.edu/pages/copyright-and-fair-use is a good read for those that want to understand 'fair use'. But in any case the SL TOS precludes it.

Last time I looked the Upload a Mesh questionnaire had been replaced by a tick-box against I have Read the TOS (or something like that). The problem with this is with people who don't really understand Legal English. The Questionnaire was a great idea. Ah well, progress..... edit: didn't see that Chic had already said this. Apologies.

Go to your inventory, choose the Worn tab, select Expand. Now look for anything with a shoe icon and remove it. My guess is that you have an SL shoe delivered with a mesh shoe, and you don't need it. Use Hover instead. (at least until you understand why you might like to use it and how)

Well, that is a distinct possibility. Maybe not-very-bright-storm or a derivative.

I got the Glytch Bus, I thought it was quite feeble. Why do you guys like it so much? I like premium because it makes me feel superior to the hoi-polloi. Mainly because of our huge (1/8th sim) mainland estate.

Commiserations. I'm afraid SL is like that, no zoning laws here. Unless you are on a private sim with a covenant that the neighbor has broken, your best bet is to move. There is a natural inclination to put up something equally nasty to extract revenge. Experience shows this doesn't work. Another idea would be to rebuild your estate at the same level, reestablishing the previous junction, but I suspect that will just ripple down the parcels....

Beware the 1 post newbie troll. Feed with extreme caution, count fingers after. I come to the forums to bait trolls. Do your worst.

Yes, every good thing has a down-side. I don't like being told what to do either. I have a term for those who try and make me: <expletive deleted> do-gooders! It's not hate mail directed at you, but at the idea that the 'developers know best'. They don't, but they do usually know more. I suggest you take the revert-on-reload code out. and before you ask: 3.

We noticed that.

Gotta be the best suggestion so far.

I just replied to post from 2011. DOH! I'd like old posts, where the original question is over 1 year old, to be a different color. 'Cos I'm a bit dim in the mornings.... And if you are fixing the website Mrs Linden, please can we have a Cancel button on the editing window. (for when I realize I'm replying to a 2011 posting.....) Embarrassed.

There is general advice about learning to program in any language. And then there is LSL. If you haven't programmed before, I think LSL is OK to learn how, but not ideal, I'd start with Python - mainly because of the teaching resources. LSL has some nasty little gotchas, like no proper arrays, that make you think. (A strided list can sometimes be used, but it's hard) The best advice is to have a project, and start. Just reading stuff, or copying other (much more skillful than you) scripts, usually generates more questions than knowledge. It's not the programming you need to learn, it's the debugging, and since LSL doesn't have wonderful debugging tools, you need to 'get yer eye in'. PS, I need an Ancient Thread Spotter built into this website please Mrs Linden! Anything older than a month in purple?

For some of this stuff http://w-hat.com/#name2key helps. Lets the list be of names and fetches the UUIDs. Not good economics if the list changes very slowly, of course.

You have to set your LOD to 4, then you can see it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but isn't it the MOST fantastic upgrade ever? The LOD and Physics additions that Beq made to the editor have been needed since mesh was introduced, and now we have them! Anyone who makes mesh and uploads it to SL or Opensim benefits hugely!

Thanks, both of you. I thought I was missing something, but I'm not. I understand about linksets in one file.

I have started making my meshes with 4 LOD versions, as encouraged by your good offices here. So far I have been unable to upload them all in one file, although I feel certain it is possible. I have had to assign 'mesh' to High, mesh_LOD2 to medium, mesh_LOD1 to low, and Mesh_LOD0 to lowest by hand in the uploader. The mesh_PHYS is assign in the physics window, as I have been doing for some time. ('mesh' being a simple name like 'door', nothing special character_y in it.) I tried carefully naming the meshes as above and exporting a DaE with them all in, but this doesn't seem to be noticed by the uploader. Is this possible, or is there a trick I'm missing. BTW the results are so good I am kicking myself for not having been doing it forever! Like a door going from 0.5 to 0.6LI, and being seen from a sim away at browser LOD 1.0. PS. The new Firestorm is awesome!

Where on earth did that Edit panel come from? My firestorm doesn't have those yummy mesh indicators. Is this a 'yet to be released' version?