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2 hours ago, Amanda Dench said:
Is anyone having problems logging in. I know its the rolling restarts today but my alt can log in ok and I can't (same destination). Thanks
Thank you for posting this. Always good to know its not only me. I also always receive the same login error as you posted.
I managed to create ticket (before it appeared on the SL status page). But similar to you, the support portal page does not fully work for me.
12 minutes ago, Nalates Urriah said:OMG! People it is Tuesday.... the restart day. Try again in 20 minutes.
Or... log into a different region. If they are restarting your home or last visited region then your login WILL FAIL. Bounce to the web version of the Destination Guide and pick a place.
Almost every Tuesday the Lindens update the region servers with new software. That requires a restart. About 80% of the grid is involved in the rolling restart. When things go well it takes a region about 10 minutes to restart. When things go wrong... well... no telling. But I have seen it take 2 to 4 hours for a region to come back online. The Lindens have something like 4,000 computers to update and restart. The operations team is watching the process and is usually on a problem before we users know there is a problem. But, file trouble tickets for those times they miss something.
On Wednesday morning the Lindens are restarting the Release Candidate (RC) regions, about 20% of the grid.
I think this really wasnt neccesary, esp. not by the huge red font, like the users here are silly kids, not knowing what they were are doing.
I have exactly the same issue as Amanda described in the original post: my alt can log in on the first attempt, is standing there online in region which restarted earlier today hours ago, but my other avatar cannot log in there, to this very region. Or any other region, for like 5+ hours now.
Black Dragon viewer shows the issue happens every time same at 5% of the loging process "awaiting login response". Inability to connect to region does not look like that. If I am correct this means the viewer does not even proceed that far to try to connect to the region.
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6 hours ago, Frederika Rayna said:
I use BD for most my photos, but something that really causes alot of work is the ugly jaggy shadows on the hair. I try everything, moving the sun around, auto shadows vs manual shadow control, but sometimes the shadows get stuck in the hair alphas and its is just dirty and ugly and just can't get it right, I often resort to taking 2 photos one without shadows and merge later in post, but is a pain to do sometimes too. Any tips for working on the Black Dragon viewer and the shadows in the hair? I really dont see this in FS or in the Linden viewer, The shadows in BD are otherwise fine, it just oftens gets "nasty" in the hair, and more specifically, blonde hair where you can really see it. Maybe there are other settings I am missing that can clean this up?
As Niran said on the end of his post, there is option to make it less precise and "broken to your advantage" as long as you don't mind to sacrifice shadows on entire scene for nice hair.
Examples will probably show better then words what I mean, please have a look (I hope it will work - if you click the picture, it should take you to the album).
- this album is entirely dedicated to Stealthic hair, it means alpha hair. All included pictures are unedited, all taken with Black Dragon viewer. Most important tools for this are two: sliders for shadow settings and / or widlight I adjust for each scene and situation. Granted, it needs knowing the viewer well, it comes with learning curve, but with some practising its not "out of the reach".
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18 hours ago, Nika Talaj said:
Evolution's been out for a while, I'm interested in hearing your experiences with it. The tl;dr version: I think Evolution is lovely mesh that tends to only look good with skins/tattoos created for it. Being full BOM, not much in the way of 'looks' are provided in the HUD; I think I'd spend a lot of time & money finding tattoo layers. Lelutka supplies zero written documentation for it, and only very rudimentary videos. Feel free to skip my experiences with it below and just post your own
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I spent a few hours playing with Lake and Erin, watched Novata's videos, as well as the Lelutka ones. Given the very good written documentation Lelutka provided for their earlier heads, the paucity of information for Evolution puzzles me. What is the best review you've seen/read? Though I love the work @Strawberry Linden is doing, at this moment I really miss Strawberry Singh!
- I hoped that Evolution would be lower lag than other Lelutka heads, but looking at its complexity/triangles, I don't see that. Am I wrong?
- The mesh itself seems great to me, great noses and better head shapes.
- Full BOM. I had hoped this would mean that I could wear old system makeups, but the lipsticks look rather bad. Some eye makeups might look ok. Full system skins - didn't find one that worked, and I don't think playing with the sliders would help. The older Lelutka heads can also use BOM, and interestingly, old system lipsticks seemed to work fine on my Bianca head. The one system skin I tried on Bianca worked well enough that I am tempted to try some of my old novelty skins.
- True or false: Evolution heads using BOM only look great with BOM makeups/skins made for it. What do you think?
- I believe you can use old Lelutka appliers for eyeshadows & lipsticks with Evolution? Haven't tried it yet, do they work well?
- New HUD. It is similar to the old HUD, but different enough that I really want written documentation for it! Because Evolution is meant to be used mostly in BOM mode, it has no skins in the HUD, you just wear the 'face' you want. Personally, I don't like the HD lipsticks that are built in, or most of the HUD eyeshadows. So it seems to me that you get a whole lot of flexibility with Evolution to create exactly the look you want, but the downside is that you have to find and wear a bunch of new Evolution BOM tattoos & skins to do it.
I expected to love this head, but I can't seem to find any compelling reason to get it.
I happened to have all of them, so I will try my best to answer your post based on my experiences:
- complexity - not sure about the older generations, but Korina (pre-Evolution head) already had low complexity too
- meshes - and how they fit shapes or how flexible they are, thats matter of personal taste, its hard to make some general conclusion about that
- BOM makeups: Not being creator myself I have limited understanding how the UV maps work, but as I understood each head/ each brand is fully compatible and looking good with make ups fitting the head's UV map, not with everything in general. Lelut EVO isn't exception here.
I succesfully wear some eyeliners made for Genus, it looks a little different (small, bigger etc), but you would not guess it wasn't made for Lelut. Yet other eyeliners from other creators won't fit at all, even if they were made for Genus as well.
Lips area is way more complicated and thats nothing new - before BOM lipsticks - omega appliers weren't usable with all omega complatible heads for very same reason, BOM works exactly same (not only for Lelutka, in general).
Also one of my favorite hairbases are very old ones made for system heads I found in my hair folder stored with old hair (Analog Dog for the instance).
Conclusion: something will fit, old and new, made for other brads, something won't.
- Appliers: I must admit I'm not willing to go back to situations when my makeups are eaten by alpha from my hair, so I prefer BOM and didn't try the old appliers (I'm happy I got red it off that!), but I beleive the only appliers which will work are the new HD ones made for Evo. Except eyes, they are omega compactible + they have solution for different sizes of appliers, you can adjust the position and the size of the eye texture after you apply it on the eyes.
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2 hours ago, loverdag said:
- but is that how many polygons the mesh bodies really have?
Yes, thats what I meant by that.
Wasnt sure what complexity in viewer is and how it is (or is not) related to number of polygons of the mesh.
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21 minutes ago, Matty Luminos said:
This is completely wrong. I have the Maitreya body and I am usually under 50k total, including mesh head, hair, clothes and shoes. The body alone is something like 7k, plus a couple of k for the separate hands and feet, though I can't check it exactly as I am on mobile right now.
You need to make clear first which viewer you talk of.
OP said she was quoting Niran and his Black Dragon viewer has different counting complexity compare other viewers. So thats not "completely wrong" - thats just not same number as complexity shown in Firestorm.
Not being creator myself Im also not sure if the numer you get in Firestorm as your complexity is the real number of polygons the mesh has. So I would be really careful to say thats "completely wrong". Its wrong if you talk about complexity in Firestorm, then yes, sure - but is that how many polygons the mesh bodies really have?
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12 minutes ago, Leora Jacobus said:
Do not HURRY! I heard that from 3. to 24. of June all present Premium accounts can renew their period for the OLD prices!!
Its not helpful. I will renew annual for my home, but I can't afford to pay 2x72USD in same time. And with no future I see as pointless to keep it for a little longer, so I already returned it into system and someone who is waiting for the new LL home will have chance to get it.
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On 4/18/2019 at 11:46 PM, loverdag said:
Books & Coffee
- open for public
I don't have "home", but ...I'm not sure how to call that .... antiquarian bookshop & cafe?
Feel free to visit:
Books&Coffee are closing, more info here:
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On 4/19/2019 at 9:44 AM, loverdag said:
I hope personal LMs are allowed here - my home is open for public, decorated as café & antiquarian bookshop:
I want to say thanks to everyone who visited my little café, enjoyed the donuts (and met my snake ...).
Sadly I'm here to ask you to remove Book&Coffee from your landmarks - due to the new Premium price I can't afford anymore to pay more Premiums to cover tier for my home/photo studio and the café.
My country has "weak" currency, to buy USD is expensive for me. And as SL photographer I can't be homeless, so the choice is to keep my home/studio and let the Books&Coffe go.
If you didn't read about the new prices yet, you can do it here:
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On 5/5/2019 at 7:13 AM, Pamsterdam said:
I LOVE it!! And I opened the door- and THEN the sign rezzed LOL.
Sorry?
I'm glad you survived then!
And thank you
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On 5/18/2019 at 9:02 AM, Marsellus Walcott said:
This again?
Sigh...
Sooo... let me guess? Let's all get our sickles and go in a witch hunt of sorts right?
Look, that guy doesn't have enough trafic in his parcel! Away with him.
And there! That other completely unknown person doesn't have any prims in his parcels! Begone with him!
That one does have 6 LI in his parcel, so that's a completely different case. He is worthy to stay!
See where this is going?
You will have people judging others without knowing the truth behind why their parcel aren't used enough as per your personal opinion.
Worst: we already have people "checking" other people's parcels, in order to see how many prims are there, how much trafic, existence of a skybox, etc...
And somehow, this kind of behavior is supposed to "bring us together as a community"?
Really?
Amen to that.
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I dont log in often, but I read forum every week and the last events here are really disturbing. More and more topics about "Lets to tell people how they should live their SL and how they should use their Premium benefits they paid for". I could not believe my eyes to see Teager to make almost apology for opening the houseboat bar FOR PUBLIC, it went really so far?
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It slowly gives impression that tolerance and respect to others became "forgotten arts". How sad. Especially when you talk about COMMUNITY.
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If you people so need to be in the control and create rules for others, builds yourself residential sim and community around it. Put your own money and effort into it, find your own customers who would want to buy what you sell - do not try to "conquer" what Linden Lab sells as THEIRS (not yours) Premium perk.
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29 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:
I haven't tried it myself, but the Black Dragon viewer looks to have much more precise posing options built right in.
Yes, sliders with no limits for each bone, including bento facial bones, fingers, ears, wings tails. They are much smoother than Anypose. Sadly LL didnt allow them to be used for other avatars, because the edit is visible only in the viewer of photographer, not for other models, so it would be taken as "abuse".
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20 minutes ago, Gabriele Graves said:
One possible reason is that you can have many more names on a notecard than you can hold in the memory of a script. The script can check access using the notecard line by line if necessary without loading all those names into memory at once and so you are only limited by whatever the notecard can hold and not by script memory. Of course why anyone would want that many names is another story but maybe they are catering to the extremes people sometimes go.
Another more likely possible reason is that when the script is reset, the names will not be lost if the names are on a notecard, otherwise you would have to re-enter them.
Yes , thats why I mentioned I'm not creator, because there can be technical reasons I didn't know and didn't take into account.
But still - about the other reason - I would prefer 1LI orb with scripted option to give permition to others to be "managers" and has rights to add names on white list, even if it would mean I would have to create the whitelist again if somehting would go wrong and reset would be needed. A lot of people uses alts for Premiums, if the alt could add main avatar as manager, everything wuld be much easier.
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It look so heavily photoshopped that is hard to say which hair it was ...and IF there was some SL hair used - the top of the head looks a little like RL photo morph. And with no doubts entire hair has texture drawned in photoshop (or other editor). SL hairs inworld doesn't look like that.
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38 minutes ago, Dyna Mole said:
There are four points in the instructions:
6. Drop the notecard into the Security System by:
a. Clicking anywhere except one of the control buttons or bars, You will see a message that says "You may now Drag and Drop a new configuration card into the security system if you wish."
b. Selecting the notecard in your own inventory.
c. Holding down the CTRL key on your computer's keyboard.
d. Using your mouse to drag and then drop the notecard onto the Security System. IMPORTANT: Do not release the CTRL key until after you have dropped the notecard.That process is necessary because we had to distribute the system no mod but still let you change the notecard. The very first step is the one that people may ignore, because it's unusual. Clicking anywhere on the object (except one of its buttons) activates a temporary switch that allows you to do the other three steps.
So, why didn't we just leave that switch active all the time? Because once it's activated, anyone might come along and drop a new card into your system.This way, we can be sure that you activated it and that the card is being changed while you are standing right there. We didn't want anyone else messing with your Security System.
May I ask why the orb isn't giving menu which would allow the owner to manage whitelist?
It would be much user friendly - esp towards Slers who do not talk english well and can have hard times to understnad the instructions.
And much more comfortable for everyone, because there would be no manipulation with the notecard and the orb itselfs in edit mode.
Im not creator, so maybe Im missing something, but if everything would be via menu, the orb could be simplier object too (1LI), with no need to make with more clickable zones and more LI
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2 hours ago, Chav Paderborn said:
I also have this problem, I have emailled Flickr help because I tried Firestorm and the official viewer (latest update) and neither of them can make a connection to Flickr.
We already talked about need to get it fixed on LL side in the other thread:
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5 hours ago, Jaauuwn said:
Another thing I would like Linden Labs to provide on both a new continent and every continent is REZ zones with parking spaces so if you decide to go exploring the SL road network you can stop and explore more locations without having to make critical choice between continuing to explore or losing your vehicle and having to Re-REZ it all over again (which kind of kills the enjoyment of it all and discourages casual exploration).
I am thinking of parking spaces with an auto-return time of at least 30 minutes or more depending on their location. Just like in real life you could have short term and long term parking spaces. I think this would also help more people interact in world. The same could apply for boats and airplanes amongst the larger collections of public access water sims.
That would be nice if the residential regions weren't residential and didn't need the LI sources for houses. Full explanation about that you can read here:
Limits of some current rez zones you can find here:
As Natales mentioned, the rez zones have less free prims than her vehicle. As long as the regions are residential and a lot of LI sources are consumed/reserved for the houses, I don't see how it would work - one person would rez prim-heavy vehicles on parking places and nobody else wouldn't be able to use the rez zones for next 30 minutes ...then they would come back and repeat ... Would be really easy to spoil the experience for everyone else if someone would have intent to do so.
I see that as doable on some non-residential regions attached to the residentail zones, if LL plans to make some (?), but not inside the residential area.
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On 4/22/2019 at 12:55 AM, Fritigern Gothly said:
Submit a ticket at https://help.flickr.com/contact/contact-us-rkBc7roJQ because the more people that report the issue, the more Flickr will understand that it's a real problem which does NOT just affect one or two people.
I have submitted my ticket yesterday.22 hours ago, Whirly Fizzle said:It's been reported to LL.
Thanks.
I'm actually not bothered by that issue myself, I just though thats maybe not the best idea to send a lot of reports to Flickr support if it needs to be fixed on Linden Lab side.
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30 minutes ago, duLuna Bosatsu said:
Taketomi.
See here in description on her Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jasminestardust/43072733271/in/dateposted/
(Tip: if you are stading nearby the vendor should be easy to get the creator's SL profile from there (you actualy do not need more than her name to find her inworld) - she has link to her Flickr in the profile and credits for stuff she is wearing on her Flickr - so the only thing you need to do, is scroll down thru her photostream and find the picture)
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Just now, Caleb Kit said:
This is basically the form letter answer from Flickr Support. I have just filed my 2nd request for support to Flickr. They doubled my Pro service cost and then took away my ability to easily load photos and location data from SL.
Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention.
I appreciate you reaching out to us to let us know that you are experiencing an issue with not being send snapshots directly to flickr. At this time, our engineers have been alerted and are working to resolve any issues that may have popped up recently.
At this time we are in the process of migrating Flickr away from Yahoo servers and onto our own system built on top of Amazon Web Services that, once complete, will be able to provide more stability, fewer downtime Panda pages, and will allow us to focus on building a better Flickr experience for our users. While this migration is taking place, you may notice a few more hiccups than usual as we transfer over 100 million accounts and several billion photos over to a new home, and we apologize for any frustration or inconvenience this may cause.
While we do not have an exact time frame for a resolution, our engineers are now aware and investigating this issue and hope to have a fix rolled out shortly. We sincerely appreciate your patience in this as we dig into what could be causing this issue.
Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns, as we’d be happy to help.
Sincerely,(name removed)
Flickr SupportIt makes me to aks if they really read the reported problem or just copy pasted the answer they send to everyone about every problem reported these days.
I got to (about my other problem, not the snapshots) re-send my report and describe it again with capital letters to make them to really read it - then I got the "right" answer, not the copy pasted text.
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On 4/22/2019 at 12:55 AM, Fritigern Gothly said:
Submit a ticket at https://help.flickr.com/contact/contact-us-rkBc7roJQ because the more people that report the issue, the more Flickr will understand that it's a real problem which does NOT just affect one or two people.
I have submitted my ticket yesterday.Are you sure it should be reported to Flickr, not LL?
I don't know it it works, but usualy when Flickr makes changes, than developers of connected services and applications need to do update for the changes on their side. In otherr words, LL needs to make update for LL viewer to follow the new Flickr setting (if possible). Or to remove it from viewer, if they can't make it work - same as they removed the connection to Facebook, see there:
Flickr can't touch SL viewers, they have nothing with them, so I don't see how they can help.
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19 hours ago, Daniel Voyager said:
I used bunny control 😂😂😂
I though so! Hehe.
Now seriously, which lighthouse it was please?
Ligthouses on Calm Waves and Norse Auk have both broken / blocked entrances, no way to get in and use the starcases. I didn't have time to read forum, so I'm not sure if someone already reported that, if not, maybe we can call @Abnor Mole
I actualy don't know how many lighthouses are there, but I would like to visit the one with unblocked entrance as you did. Thanks.
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4 hours ago, Daniel Voyager said:
A visit to the lighthouse in the Calm Waves region
Is that fixed? When I did visit the lighthouse, the entrace was blocked, wasn't possile to walk in and to use the stairs.
Or did you use some trick to go in?
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I am only messenger here, this is from Orion:
"After speaking to a friend, it seems I'm having 2 different bugs.
1. My web profile isn't updating, even though it should.
2. My inworld searches are only offering "more info" which opens a person's web profile.
I will update my viewer again, and hopefully that fixes it. And I will go back to ignoring the web profiles.
I'm having Loverdag post on my behalf, because apparently I'm not allowed to make further posts in my own discussion. I swear LL hates me
Thanks for your help"