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    Inspecting items in Firestorm

    in General Discussion Forum

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    24 minutes ago, Cinnamon Mistwood said:

    With the inspect box already open, try again to click what you want and it might appear.  If you right click the creator in the box, you can still open the profile even when the rest of the info disappears.

    Yes, that works - thank you!!  😍

    Inspecting items in Firestorm

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    Hi everyone,

    I use Firestorm, and I know I should be able to 'inspect' items inworld to find out the creator etc., but when I right click an object then click more/more/inspect - the 'Inspect Objects' box comes up empty, with no information at all.  I guess I probably need to adjust something in my Preferences, but I can't figure out what.  Can anyone help, please?

    What don't you know about in Second Life?

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    What don't I know about in Second Life?  Lots of things - but one thing in particular is bugging me at the moment.  I've watched loads of SL videos on Youtube where people using Firestorm right click an object, then more/more/inspect to bring up information about the object, such as the creator etc.  I use Firestorm, but when I try to inspect an object no information comes up, and I wish I knew why!  Presumably I need to change something in my Firestorm preferences, but I don't know what.  If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it!

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    Genus strong face head - can I stop my mouth moving when I type?

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    45 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:

    Have you tried the Genus group?  You may get a lot faster help with more minds on it..Plus they've probably ran across it and have much better answers than any place really..

    Plus it's easier to work on troubleshooting in real time with others..

    I used to be able to just pin point things out when I was wearing Genus, but I'm much more out of touch than I used to be, where they can probably at least give you a much quicker and better response..

    Okay, I'll give the group a try.  Thanks for trying to help, anyway! :)

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    Genus strong face head - can I stop my mouth moving when I type?

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    2 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:

    So even without wearing the hud and resetting your animations, your lips still move when you are typing?

    I'm just trying to guess what it would be by trying to eliminating the hud to see if it's the hud or something else..

    It's been awhile since I've messed with the genus heads..

    Yes, I made sure there was a slash going through the keyboard on the hud, detached the hud, reset skel/animations (I also tried resetting animations before detaching the hud) - and my mouth still moves.  I also tried turning off my main AO in case it was something to do with that, and relogging - but nothing seems to work!

    Genus strong face head - can I stop my mouth moving when I type?

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    4 minutes ago, Ceka Cianci said:

    If you look on the animation hud, you'll see an Icon of a mic and a keyboard.

    Make sure there is a slash / going through the keyboard, If not, click the keyboard icon and it should put a slash there.

     You may have to reset all animations for it to start working right..

    Right click on yourself and  in the menu that pops up choose, Appearance, then reset, Then Skel & Anim..

    That should work..

     

    Thanks for the reply, Ceka!  Unfortunately, I tried that, and it didn't work!😕

    Show us your Buildings

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    I love building inworld too, and I also mostly build houses.  I love building with prims, although occasionally I do tend to cheat a bit and add a mesh roof or a staircase that I've purchased from MP, just to save on land impact.  I also have a set of sculpty window frames which I got free from MP, which I use a lot.  Here are a few of my recent builds:

     

    b175 Octagon Tower LI 104_001.jpg

    b179 Ski Cabin LI 44_001.jpg

    b165 ivy covered stone house with turret LI 125_001.jpg

    b163 half timbered house with sagging roof & fireplace LI 53_001_001.jpg

    b162 half timbered house LI 33_001.jpg

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    Places to ride boats and horses

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    13 hours ago, kevinshero77 said:

    I finally saw in the corner something said you are not the owner of this horse at Ville de Coeur so I think maybe it is not possible to ride a horse unless you pay them to keep it there?

    Click on the horse that's tied to the post, and a menu will pop up on your screen asking you to select a horse.  Pick one, and the horse will appear in front of you, and you will automatically sit on the horse.  It's totally free.

     

    horse rezzer ville de coeur_001.jpg

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    Places to ride boats and horses

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    There are several free boats on Second Life Marketplace - take a look at this store:

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/22448?search%5Bcategory_id%5D=96&search%5Bmaturity%5D=General&search%5Bpage%5D=1&search%5Bper_page%5D=96&search%5Bsort%5D=price_asc&search%5Bstore_id%5D=22448

    You will need to find a rez zone to use the boats.  Around the coast of Bellisseria is a good place to sail, as it’s protected water so you won’t keep running into ban lines or other obstacles.  There are lots of rez zones around Bellisseria’s coast - here are a few of them:

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pegleg%20Channel/192/80/21

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Red%20Hook/68/75/22

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Port%20Cullis/118/130/22

     

    As for horse riding, Ville de Coeur is a nice place to ride.  There are 8 sims to explore, and they have a free horse rezzer for you to use:

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Coeur%20de%20Bourgogne/135/118/29

     

    (Don't forget to detach or turn of your animation overrider before riding a horse or any sort of vehicle 😉)

    Happy travels! 😊

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    Prim confusion!

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    Thanks everyone for your replies - and oh dear, I do seem to have opened a can of worms!  😟

    Let me try to explain - when I first decorated the house, I checked the land impact of each item as I went along by right clicking and going into edit on each item. Where I linked items together, I right clicked/edit on the linkset afterwards, to check the land impact of the linkset. As for the bathtub, I am aware that making stuff bigger often increases the land impact. The original land impact of the bath was 8, but that became 10 after I stretched it. I put the figures for the land impact and the prim count for the bath the wrong way round in my original post (duh!)🙄, probably because I had spent so many hours adding, subtracting, counting and recounting both land impact and prims, until my brain was scrambled! 😵  After I'd finished decorating, I did an area search for all objects owned by me. That bought up all my objects, and showed the land impact and prim count of each object. I added up the total land impact from there, and double checked it to make sure it agreed with the amount of land impact I thought I had used - and it did.  Although I was under my land impact allowance by 5, I kept getting repeated messages from the owner's prim counter telling me I was 40 prims over my limit. I checked and rechecked my items again - and then realized the owner must have actually meant prims when they said I could have a prim allowance of 100, and not land impact - as my prim count was indeed 140!  So I deleted several items, and did an area search again and added up my prim count, double checked again, and I was down to 97 prims and 83 land impact. I thought I had it sorted - then I logged into my emails this morning and found about 20 emails telling me I'm still way over my prim allowance!  So I deleted several more objects, did an area search for my objects, double checked it, and I was down to 69 prims and 67 land impact.  Then I get a message saying I'm still 12 prims over, so I delete some more objects, checked and double checked again, and I’m left with 53 prims and 53 land impact.  I haven’t had any more messages (yet!) from the prim counter to tell me I need to delete any more prims – but I’m now down to almost half the prim allowance I was supposed to have!  I have contacted the owner a couple of times about the problems I was having with the prim counter, and she was very nice and said she had sorted the problem – but clearly she hadn’t, as I was still getting messages, so there is definitely something weird going on with her prim counter (it can’t count?!)  I don’t think any of this is a deliberate ploy on the owner’s part – she does seem to have been trying to be helpful.  Although she has been in SL for many years, I think she’s quite new to the rental business.  I gave up asking her to try and sort it out in the end, as it seemed to be a problem she didn’t know how to solve.  At this stage I’ve just decided to put this one down to experience – it’s actually become quite funny, deleting objects and then waiting for the next message to say I’m still over my limit! 🤣  It was only a cheap rental, and luckily I only paid for 1 week, so at the end of the week I’ll just move on and forget about it.  It’s given me a valuable lesson, anyway – next time, double check with the landlord/lady about the prim/land impact allowance before you pay!

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    Prim confusion!

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    18 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

    But that's the opposite of what you said in your original post. 😉

    The text is only the description the creator wrote anyway and not actual stats.

    Duh!  Ignore me, I think I just had a bit of a brain-fart!  😊  Like I said - prims are confusing me today!  🙃

    Prim confusion!

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    50 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

    I think you need to recheck because that's not possible. The land impact for a lnkset can never ever be less than half the old style prim count.

    My best guess is that not all parts of the bath are linked and you only checked the LI of some of it.

    It's the Crane bathtub from Fancy Decor.  The normal land impact of the bath is 8, but I made it a bit bigger so the land impact is 10.  When I hover my mouse over the bath (either at it's original size or at the increased size), it says "Prims: 2, Land impact: 8 (10)".  The bathtub & plumbing etc is all linked into one item - when I move it about, it all moves in one, not in separate parts.  I get what you are saying about that being impossible - I build a bit myself, so I know it doesn't make sense! 

    Prim confusion!

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    Posted · Edited by LunaThyme
    Spelling mistake.

    Hi everyone,


    I recently rented a property in SL for the first time, and I was told I could have 100 prims to decorate with.  I know a lot of people use the word 'prims' when what they actually mean is 'land impact', so I presumed she meant I could have a land impact allowance of 100 - as surely, it's the land impact of objects that counts, not the number of prims, right?  So I decorated the house, carefully counting up the land impact of my objects as I went along, and linking items together to save on land impact, to make sure I didn't go over my limit. I was quite pleased with the result, and also pretty chuffed that I'd managed to decorate the place so nicely for only 95 land impact. So imagine my consternation when I received several messages from the owner's prim counter telling me I was way over my prim allowance, and I must remove several items immediately - or else!!  It turns out that when the owner said 'prims', she actually meant prims, and not land impact!  So my lovely bath which is only 2 land impact, but has 10 prims, and my nice cupboard which is 4 land impact but actually has 8 prims, and several other items besides - all had to be hit with the delete button.  Now the place looks very bare! I've looked through loads of ads for rental properties here on the forums and on Marketplace, and they all mention a prim allowance, and not a land impact allowance.  So I was wondering if all you experienced SL renters out there could tell me - do rental property owners usually mean 'prims' when they say prims, or do they actually mean 'land impact'?  😕

     

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