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Maybe totally unrelated, but I am having login troubles, yet userID/password gets me logged in to the website. Dare I do a password change?

Rule of thumb: a 512-size texture is half your screen height. How often does something you're looking at fill half your screen?

You know, you could have put that single line in the original post. I saw a cancelled announcement of a restart earlier than the final announce-ment/starting/finished triple. I wondered if it was just the usual "works better after a restart", clearing the decks for the weekend, but it was late in the week. About three hours to restart everything, that went pretty well, you can be pleased about that, but you're still treating your customers like mushrooms.

It's worth having two different viewers on your system as a sanity check.

I choose to use an external browser, and that can certainly carry on with an operation while the viewer has lost the connection. Maybe uses more RAM, but I have plenty. I am not sure that the internal browser is any advantage. I think it's in the Chrome/Chromium family, and so may do some things I am wary of.

It's been like this for a long time. And I find that the default Outfits folder, that very flat structure, is horrible. So I set up my own folder and sub-folders and sub-sub-folders. It's not too difficult. I find the trick that pays off is to copy the links from the "Current Outfit" folder to whatever folder I choose. I'm using Firestorm, so I choose not to copy the link to the Firestorm bridge. The Firestorm Right-Click options on an item or folder may give more options than the SL viewer does. You could have the basic body/hair/skin package in one folder, clothes in another, but that almost feels too complicated. Firestorm's "Favorite Wearables" can be useful too. Put a HUD on that rather than in the Outfit. Other viewers may have these tools. Sorry, I don't know about BOM ordering for tattoos. I suppose it matters for classic bodies too but they're not a feature I use. I think I have used multiple textures a few times with the tattoo layer to combine things that don't overlap. Yes, sometimes I get a new item in the folder instead of a link. Not often, and It can be useful. It's not a big deal.

The example I experienced, several days ago, was witnessed by several experienced residents, all failing to get into the region and all seeing something that looked like an offline region, except on the map. That could be a side effect of the long-running map problems. Multiple users seeing the same problem, from places as far apart as North America, Australia, and Europe, does make the usual "it's your connection" excuse somewhat unlikely. I am not sure about some of reading ability I see displayed. I try to be clear about what I experience. What do I try next? Iambic pentameters?

Looks like a re-run of an earlier problem. Same error message. Much like the region being down, the region is not visible from adjacent regions, and does not show on the mini-map. The map-interface does not show the usual region-down indicator. The in-Viewer map window will return a parcel name for a location. While it is difficult to be 100% sure of parcel boundaries when doing this, it does look as though the detail is coming from a different region. There are two or three regular long-distance drives, flights, or sails on Saturdays. I decided not to take a chance this weekend, but I saw a couple of reports in group chat which at least partially fitted this pattern. The first time this happened I know, from my own observations, that it affected Kuula region. I would urge anyone reporting an instance of this error message to name the region concerned. If you don't do that, you're just indulging in futile blathering, and are of use to neither man nor beast.

This is the sort of concurrency graphing I am getting The general shape is typical (times are UTC) but the fall-off this morning was a little faster, and the current rise is a little slower, The step after the peak is usually a bit more obvious, too. The peak fits European evenings and US afternoons and the step matches US evenings. I'm used to time zones, but 08:00 on this graph is midnight in California. than the usual

We do have a thread on the Vanishing Region problem, which seems to have ended. But Patch Linden locked the thread, there has been nothing on Status, so how can people know if it has been fixed, or which regions have recovered? The asset servers have been erratic for a couple of hours. I have seen concurrency graphs, it's rare for there to be less than 30,000 accounts to be logged in. That minimum is more than half the maximum, and comes when good little Lindens should be tucked up snug in their beds. Linden Lab does seem to be struggling with a customer base that has such a substantial non-US component, different clocks and different holidays. I don't expect any quick fixes, the COVID-19 pandemic is getting worse, and one effect in the UK is more than doubling of total internet traffic. Stay safe, everyone. But some things, nothing to do with the pandemic, are going to have to change.

I've recognised some of the names in this thread from the Scripting forum. I check there regularly.

I have been struggling with LSL for months. I have managed to solve a few problems I have had, replacing old chunks of code with some of the new methods. I have had help from some talented people. But this is a problem I am bouncing off, hard. Maybe I am a fool for even thinking it can be fixed in the rather antiquated open source scripts for the SLRR. Or is it that I am the only one taking the trouble to pass on what I have learned. This is a thread about a problem with boats, there are fixes which have been devised for boats, and it was pure chance that I learned about them elsewhere. Well, now you know what I do. But how many of you are there? Are these forums worth bothering with, or is it just futile shouting into the wind?

An update: the VRC/Hobo train script does use a CHANGED_REGION to update some information. I am struggling to script a better check for this problem, but adding an llSleep(0.2); makes a huge difference to the error rate. Not zero, and the incidents are correlating with regions that have a very high script load. I also suspect avatar concurrency is a factor. I did make a very long train run, Bhaga to Yucca to Tuliptree, and the errors were few enough to be tolerable. (I am grumpy about that script, I am still trying to figure out how to remove the "Bell" and "Horn" buttons from the menu) changed(integer iChanged) { if (iChanged & CHANGED_REGION) { llSleep(0.2); gsRegionCurrentName = llGetRegionName(); gvRegionCurrentCorner = llGetRegionCorner(); LocomotiveDisplayUpdate(); } There is a version of Avsit which has a bugfix, but I can't figure out how it works. AVsitter bug-fix for vehicles This needs a Linden-level fix.

Thanks. In the discussion I linked to, I was told that the region crossing bug didn't raise a CHANGED_LINK signal in a changed event, so I am not sure how that script can work, and the vehicle I have been working on doesn't use Avsit. The best I have been able to do is add a slight delay at every region crossing, and that Avsit script uses a much bigger delay.

There's a known bug affecting all vehicles at region crossing. This thread covers it. Region Crossing Bug I've been struggling to code a fix, but I don't script well enough, and the interaction between region-crossing and scripts looks pretty horrible. The Lindens are aware of the problem, but it definitely hasn't been fixed yet. And I have not heard of anyone with a successful script fix. I've done a couple of long SLRR runs this week, and this bug can hit on the first region crossing, or after several dozen. There are one or two boats and canoes which are worn, rather than using vehicle scripting, and they might be worth a try.

I have seen a lot of times when it has seemed that the status page has been picking from a very limited set of standard messages, sometimes popping up at the last minute while still a "scheduled maintenance" message. Not having a holiday message, and the need is quite predictable, does not look competent. I don't mind such messages not being explicitly linked to a particular religion, but I am getting sensitive to the apparent bias of our local politicians. I expect I shall be consulting with William Tare Fox every time the Lindens announce something. He's already quite busy enough with our politicians.

I know we've seen a couple of US reinterpretations of European styles used as the inspiration, and I wonder a little if something a bit closer to the original would be a good idea. There was the Japanese style in the original Linden homes, though it may not have been done right. I think the target might be a Linden Suburban version of a real world style, and the original shouldn't have to be in the USA. So one stage of interpretation rather than two. That doesn't exclude an architectural style, but some need a lot of modification to work as Linden Homes. They're going to have to change in some ways, so why try to copy from an American copyist? And could a Linden Home be designed with a more open configuration, with resident-adjustable interior walls?

I was watching one of those web pages which graphs concurrency. It doesn't tell you much, because of what concurrency is, but the slope of the graph shows how different the event was The timestamps are European rather than American, CET I think (and anyone putting out this sort of live data really should tell people the time-zone). The usual curve has a sustained peak matching the evening on the US East Coast before dropping to that plateau. The shape got a bit different, but the maximum is pretty usual for a Monday. There are still a lot of bots around. I wonder how long it would have taken before the decline would have slowed, and given us a way of getting a rough figure for the number. The usual daily minimum is after Midnight, California, and there will be a lot of users logging in on the far side of the Pacific.

Check the notes on the new version of Cool VL Viewer, and what Henri said about the Thanksgiving Bakefail in the Forums. It doesn't look trivial but the tools to fix things without the Lindens look to be available. (Yesterday, I ended up having to log in to my router with ssh to sort out a problem. Henri's fix looks to be at a similar level of geekiness, so not for many of the people I see posting in the Forums.)

The Lindens have just announced rollouts/restarts for everything on Tuesday so maybe it will get sorted for you. Make notes of version numbers. I'm assuming that they will be reluctant to change anything in the week before Christmas, but I suppose they might restart everything next week, to avert prolonged uptime. I did get hit by an out-of-planning restart over the weekend, got the in-world warning messages. No doubt they have a cunning plan...

Since the older viewer used .xml files to store Windlight settings, and that "Import" button imports an .xml file, I'm assuming that people can convert an old Windlight they have made. One thing I saw was a suggestion that photographers have lost some lighting settings. Having a Day Cycle running does make a noticeable different to frame rate. After seeing a mention of other things being calculated/redrawn every frame, I wonder a bit what is lurking.

Those of us outside the Americas, in very different time zones, are used to those times, but they may not feel so optimal. Some of the recent roll-outs have been very prolonged. Second Life provides services to the whole world, and Poughkeepsie.

While there has been a public beta of Firestorm with EEP for a long time, it has been the original EEP, which changed a lot in the SL viewer. Original EEP got things such as specular reflection wildly different from what you saw with the Windlight system. When this was fixed, I stopped using the Firestorm Beta, knowing any texturing I did in that would be broken in other viewers. The new version of Firestorm, with the current EEP standard, has been released. It's looking good, though EEP is a big change. You may see different lighting settings, because of what is set for a parcel, but existing content isn't ruined. Firestorm has its usual range of sky settings available in Quick Preferences, maybe not identical to what you are used to, but picking one you like is all you need to do. There are other features. I am getting similar performance to previous versions. But Firestorm without EEP, as the most popular viewer on the Grid, was holding us all back. Two weeks to Christmas. Stay safe.

The windmill look Dutch, and I found a video of a Dutch grist mill which resemble the interior. There's a lot of the mechanism missing. https://www.istockphoto.com/video/interior-of-dutch-windmill-gm1055383992-281962693

That wasn't how they looked to me. Looks like a particular sort of Mock Tudor, the sort of fakery built in the 1930s with stucco and wooden slats hiding the conventional house-building of the time. So a fake of the sorts of cottage-level houses used around 500 years ago. And I have seen the inside of working windmills. That's an unusual style of mill, came out of China, and where's the feed system?