Theresa Tennyson

Are you trying to use a third-party viewer's "Restore to Last Location" function? Those functions no longer work unless you personally have build rights at the 0,0,0 corner of the sim since recent server changes and that's the error message they're producing.

When you open up your snapshot menu one of the options will be to post a picture to your profile feed. Right now there's no easy way of posting a snapshot that's already in your inventory there, but it's free to post snapshots to your feed.

It sounds like you were using a scripted vendor that malfunctioned. That can happen if the sim is laggy. You probably won't have an order number or anything but you should have a record of the payment in your transaction history on your "Dashboard." I don't think you would have gotten an E-mail. If there's no other way to contact the seller listed send them a notecard in simple English explaining what happened. Most sellers can understand some English or put it through a translation program.

Aethelwolf wrote: Well about a month ago, i bought a gun, hoping to use it in some roleplay combat places, and the item was never recieved. Did not appear in objects as a box, not in regular inventory as an already accepted folder, not in inventory search either for the name of said object.I didnt even receieve a popupbox asking if i wanted to accept it. I wouldn't mention this but it cost 650L so it was slightly more than just nothing. Any ideas on what i should do about that? First time using the forums so i thought general discussion might be a good starting place. Also, is it against Second Life terms of service, law, rules, whatever, to animate another characters avatar without their consent to make them perform inappropriate, unstopable animations, just instantly having them perform the animation, even without a popup asking if i wanted to animate myself? Re the gun: Did you get the gun on the Marketplace? Delivery failures like that are fairly common and most merchants understand them. Look up your transaction history and find the transaction number and name of the seller. Look up the seller's profile - often they'll have instructions on how to contact them. Contact them in the method they request (usually by IM or notecard) and explain what happened. Most merchants will send you a new item, especially if it's copy/no transfer. The month delay might surprise them; explain that you're new and didn't know the proper procedure. Re: being animated. Yes, it's definitely against TOS to be treated like that but there really aren't too many places you need to worry about that happening - generally the public sandboxes and "welcome areas" which attract people who enjoy abusing others. What may have happened is that you unwittingly gave them permission to do something at a previous time - that's a trick that's sometimes used. It can only be done to you on the sim you gave that permission on. There may be other ways for that to happen but I'm not familiar with them.

Search for "In Good Taste" in a sim called Vignette. There are several small buildings there. One of them has good quality free shoes, including unisex combat boots. Another place to look at is SANTO. I think they have free combat boots if you join their group.

You will get more land that you can put a bigger house on but you won't be given a new house in the same way you were assigned a Linden Home. Actually the first "level" up from the free house/land you are entitled to with a premium membership isn't a major increase because with a LInden Home you don't need to account for the house in the number of prims you can rezz on the land because of how they are set up. With larger plots of land you have to include the structure of your house with your prim total.

You need to have Quicktime installed on your computer and also possibly a version of Flash that's NOT for Internet Explorer. Check with the instructions that came with the TV to see if there are any other plugins you need.

Erik Vrandic wrote: What ways are there to 'track' an alt? I thought the only way outside of cracking SL's servers is to track IP addresses. If it looks like an alt, walks like an alt and quacks like an alt, then it's probably an alt, especially in an ongoing conflict. When someone's running two accounts in the same situation it's often easy to guess correctly.

This JIRA might be related: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MAINT-628

If you want to create a look that you can live with for a long time I'd start with the skin. It's a big ticket item that has a huge effect on how you look and few people starting out have the resources and ability to make or edit one on their own. If it comes with an modifyable shape you like so much the better, but shapes can be created and edited by anyone so I wouldn't invest a lot in one. If it's a budgeting thing then look for an AO because it's hard to find good cheap male AO's. Next would be hair. Personally I try to look consistent - if you do too, find a hair maker that you like and gradually acquire different styles in the same color. Clothes are clothes - you can accumulate them gradually and put together multiple outfits, and it's entirely possible to rely on a free or very inexpensive wardrobe for a while..

Even an inexpensive graphics card would help alot. I use a Nvidia 430 that I got last summer for around $100 and I'm pretty happy with it. Nvidia works better for SL than ATI/AMD right now. Meanwhile, try reducing your graphics settings. I'm not sure what shaders Intel graphics supports but you should DEFINATELY turn "Atmospheric Shaders" off if it's on.

It looks like Curio doesn't sell on the marketplace. They are a very big name in skins though and have a large in-world store.

It sounds like you've translated your question into English from another language using a translating program. Unfortunately it doesn't make sense in English. Try asking it again in your native language - there are people from all over and someone should be able to read it.

Skin looks to be Curio - they run 900-1000 apiece if I remember correctly. The tattoo is almost certainly a separate add-on, makeup might or might not be. Shape looks to be pretty generic "modelface" - you'll be hard pressed to NOT find a shape that looks like it.

Relax - it'just takes getting used to - fortunately you're fearless ; ) It sounds like you're still trying to wear the boxes. When you "opened" the boxes you created folders in your inventory. Your new avatar parts are in these folders. If you go to the "Inventory" panel (click the button that looks like a suitcase to open it) you can see the folders. Some of them may be tucked away in inside pre-made folders like "Clothing" or "Body Parts" but they're probably sitting between those folders and the one labeled "Library." It sounds like you may now have multiple copies of these folders - that's okay; you can delete the duplicates later. Look for a folder that sounds like the name of the avatar you bought. Look in it - there should be several items. The two that are most important are the one that has icons that look like a short and tall person standing next to each other - that's the "shape", or the body shape of the avatar - and the one with an icon that looks like a person's head and shoulders that's half pale and half tan - that's the "skin", or outer appearance of the avatar. Right click on both of these and select "Wear" or "Replace". This will change how your avatar looks. Depending on what kind of avatar you got you may have other parts like hair or clothes. The thing that looks like a head in profile with brown hair is called "hair" but it's an old-fashioned way of making hair that's now only used to set the shape of your eyebrows. You can wear that one or keep the one that came with your student body. Other things look like pieces of clothing - they're simple types of clothing that will sort of be "painted" on your body. Then there are orange box-looking things - those are "objects." They're used for a lot of things - high-quality hair and shoes, and 3D parts of outfits like skirts and pants cuffs. Pick each item and select "Wear" or "Replace" (If you're already wearing things "Replace" will usually behave more reliably.) I hope that helps and if you need more help try looking for me on-line later - I like helping new people. Good luck and welcome to Second Life!

By "Graphics card: On processor" I assume you're using integrated Intel graphics. That won't work well for any serious 3D application like SL, especially with graphics on "High." I also noticed your motherboard has features to try to tweak graphics performance. That may be counterproductive with SL because it uses OpenGL as a graphics language and I imagine any hardware tweaks would be trying to improve DIrectX performance because it's more common.

Many hair makers offer free hairbase tattoos in all colors. I know Truth, Amacci and Analog Dog/Point B have them. Most are intended for women so the hair looks a bit longer. Jaryth's Barber Shop (not sure on the name) has a number of hairstyles that include a tattoo layer if you're looking for very short hair.

My left hand doesn't know what it's doing its ownself sometimes. Sometimes I'll look around to see where I put my keys or other small objects when I'm holding them in my left hand.

Noticed something else about objects taken back into inventory - previously, they "remembered" the location they were in when they were in-world and they don't seem to do this on the RC regions anymore. The Dolphin viewer has an option to return an object in inventory to its previous in-world position. This works on non-RC regions even for objects from inventory that were last in-world long ago, but when I try it on Magnum with both objects that were placed long ago and very recently (i.e. both before and after this RC version came out) the function always tries to return them to 0,0,0. Dolphin got this function from Firestorm so I assume Firestorm will be affected the same way.

Every non-mesh shape in SL starts out as the shape that pops up when you select "New Shape" in your inventory. The sliders that edit it in your viewer are the only tools shape "creators" use. If you choose to pay for a shape you are only paying for the experience and aesthetic ability of the person who you bought it from. Try creating a new shape for yourself and editing it to your liking.

All traditional shapes (i.e. non-mesh) are based on the shapes that pop up when you select "New Shape" in your viewer and the sliders there are all that anyone uses to edit them. You can find free skin PSD/GIMP files on the Internet to practice on (but I'm not too familiar with male skins like this.) Try a Google search for "Eloh Eliot", who has a number of free open-source skin templates you can practice on. Eyes are basically a texture that's a colorful circle t in the right place, with maybe a little detail in the "whites" added. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding a template that shows where to put the eye graphics.

There have been issues with search lately. Last night I couldn't find people I knew were on SL and who I'd found in search before but I can find them today. Try searching for her again today.

The L$1000 is paid after you've been Premium for 45 days. The weekly L$300 is paid on Tuesdays - you should get it by the end of the day tomorrow.

When mesh viewers have "lighting and shadows/deferred rendering" on they currently don't support the old "invisiprims" that were used to hide things before alpha layers came out. If you are wearing shoes/feet that use invisiprims and you don't have an alpha layer on they can see the deformed foot part of your shape/skin. You can get around this by wearing an alpha layer. If the shoes didn't come with one you can probably find a similar one somewhere. Boots and flats are easy, pumps aren't bad. Open-heeled sandals are usually a problem finding exactly the right "alpha" though.

Are you using Phoenix, Firestorm or another viewer that creates a "bridge"? At least in the past you needed to be on land that allowed you to build for the bridge to be created, and if it doesn't get created with a new avatar that avatar doesn't rezz until you either DO go to a place that allows building or log in with a viewer that doesn't use a bridge.