[what kind of programming skills needed for a scoring system?]

Let's hope that one day the web will grow up.  I think it's ridiculous that anything but the most basic functionality needs knowledge of HTML (obviously!), CSS (formatting), Javascript (client-side programming) and PHP/Perl/etc. (server-side programming) and SQL/etc. (databases), all with their own commands and syntax.  Then, for a lot of people, there's DTDs, XML, XSL, XSLT, etc.  It all seems a little confused to me.

Plus, of course, we need to know LSL, but that's probably because it would be too easy otherwise ^^

(/me is currently working on a project using LSL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP and SQL.  It's going well ... but slowly!)

[Follower as an attachment?]

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Void Singer wrote:

but should cutouts walk sideways? particles always face the viewer.

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What nationality? /me sings "Walk Like An Egyptian"

I'm not saying particles are perfect, just much more versatile than usually considered.

[Help finding a simple light script]

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Shiva Draconia wrote:  ... I have no trouble reading a script, but plenty when trying to write one, lol...

...the script I'd used last

night

had worked perfectly.. and then to

day

, gave a totally different effect

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Come back soon - we'll convince you to write your own.  We all have trouble with it, that's what programming means *grin*

You've got all the information and reasons above - your night/day comment suggests that the only real problem is that the sim has different lighting conditions during the night and day (obviously).  You also say this is better with fullbright, so all good there.

[Need help with ORACLE ADMIN, NETWORKING CONCEPTS and SQL]

Just a liiiitle bit more detail might be handy.

Or I can recommend: www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp  (well, not that course, but w3schools is generally pretty good)

[Experienced sculptor and texture artist for hire!]

I write wonderful scripts and build brilliantly low-prim objects.  I suck at texturing them, it always seems to be last on my list.  They could do with some 'perking up' with sculpted details too.

Send me a notecard with your rates, areas of interest, etc.

[Need Second Line Umbrellas for Mardi Gras]

Permissions:

YOU own the dispenser and someone else wants the umbrella = YES you need transfer permission

You have AN umbrella/dispenser and seceral guests = YES you need copy permission

[Optional: "... use their own dances" = YES, you need modify permission or they won't be able to use their own dances]

Animations:

'Dances' are animations, or even collections of them.

'Hold up [their] umbrella' is also an animation.

So there are likely to be conflicts between most dances and holding up an umbrella.

 

What's Mardi Gras, anyway?

[just ignore and let this one die]

If LOLCats are going to be frowned upon, here's some LOLCode instead

HAI   VISIBLE "Hai Werld"   I HAZ A TOY ITZ 1   IM IN YR LOOP UPPING YR TOY      VISIBLE THING      BOTH SAEM TOY AN 10         O RLY?         YA RLY            KTHX      OIC      IM OUTTA YR LOOP      VISIBLE "Me Counted"KTHXBYE

 

 

Where have all the off-topic threads gone?  I only get 1 page!  Looks like if we ignore this one it will die :-(

[Is there a membership list?]

I have a list of people who have posted in this thread

[Follower as an attachment?]

And another option, if it's really just a 'cutout' - use particles!

I know I mention this quite often but they really are versatile.  Have your attachment calculate the offset at which the guard should appear.  Emit one particle with (say) a 1s life.  Repeat.  Repeating with a slightly longer delay than particle life will make it 'flicker' into position - can be quite spooky and atmostpheric if you get it right.  Repeating with a slightly shorter delay leaves a sort of 'mouse trails' animation effect, which can also be very effective.  A long-ish particle-life with the follow-source flag set makes it, er,  'follow you, which sounds like exactly what you want.

Particles have very low impact on sim performance and are a lot easier/quicker to adjust than attachments.

[Have you ever lied to someone online? Now casting a new reality show!]

Any world-area or timezone limits on that?

Just checking, although I think it's safe to assume you're only looking for people who can easily commute to Johannesburg, right?

Funnily enough though, they didn't know you when I tried that number.

(Or is this a reality show that doesn't know how big the world is? - sorry, cheap shot, couldn't resist)

[better tier system, one last try]

Thank you for that.  You definitely have my attention.

From the other side - as a tenant who is often not able to get online for months at a time - I'd like the ability to rez a prim that will pay you from my spare cash, even if I'm not there to do it.  (In other words, make it easy for people to pay you).

Paypal integration is probably something I wouldn't want to do any time soon, but I'll look at what APIs they offer.

[How do I file a detailed report against a company in SL for fraud?]

1. Hire a lawyer
2. Pay them to file a court action against the company
3. Pay them to require their RL contact details from LL
4. Issue your demands to them RL
5. Potentially: have them arrested and detained pending the court action
6. Take them to court

RL law still works in SL.

Not worth it for the loss and damages you've incurred?  Then you have no real recourse, write it off to experience.

[Second Life Answers Feedback]

People who have demonstrated a propensity and expertise in answering questions should get high rank surely?  It's true though that many don't have a perspective of only helping for silly 'rewards', most don't suffer from rank-envy .

[just ignore and let this one die]

Is this the longest thread yet?

[give first owner more rights than second]

Authorised resellers:

Create a database of resellers.  Give them a copy/no-trans script.  If you're taking a cut of their sales sell them copies of a trans/no-copy script that says "I am a customer", otherwise just give it to them copy+trans

When rezzed the "I am a customer" script gets an update (with the real, working, script either copy or trans, as you prefer).

That way you keep an eye on the resellers and end-uses

[Looking for a Scripter]

Delivered

[better tier system, one last try]

Indeed, and I've just had a similar conversation with another customer.  I'm thinking about it so chuck any requirements/requests on a notecard if you wish :-)

[secret door script modify]

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Paladin Pinion wrote:

I'm mostly just delighted that Kelly posted at all. 

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QFT!  I'd even go for "I'm mostly just delighted that Kelly"

(exists, didn't get fired, posts, etc.) :smileyvery-happy:

 

[Can someone help me with these scripts i found?]

Oookay, understand I haven't read and understood all those scripts, but here's the first things I see:

1.  There certainly are a lot of ways for the thing to die, however most of them are prevented if your UUID is correct, so first check that (UUIDs are not 'secure' so don't worry about pasting that line in here if you want us to check).

2.  A couple of linked-messages from other scripts can kill the thing, specifically (line 529) num 903/904 and (line 576) num 9999.  Hopefully you've got some information about where those messages might come from and whether thay are the cause.

3.  Most likely, I think, is the on_rez() event-handler (line 589).  This will cause the script to go to state dead if it isn't rezzed with the 'secret number' as the start parameter.  The only way to give a script a start parameter is to rez it from another object, when you rez it yourself the parameter is always 0.  I'd set the secret number to 0, then it will always work ;-)

If you don't already have documentation I'd get in touch with whoever wrote this or maintains it.  Searching for XPets groups would probably be a good start.

[Scripting for a chasity Belt]

Just to be awkward, I prefer:

 

//for(i=0; i<llGetListLength(templist); ++i)i = llGetListLength(templist);while(i--){llSetLinkAlpha(llList2Integer(templist,i),h,ALL_SI​DES);}

 

[Password protected raffle system]

Delivering agreed solution when I've finished with the forums :-)

[Second Life Answers Feedback]

What they said - even if you just want "an answer" some things do not have a simple, definitive 'do this, then this, click this' solution.

I usually read Answers to make sure I keep up with the latest advice.  So I want to see All posts, why do I have to load 'open' and then change that preference again and again.

In any thread I want Oldest First.  Why, despite setting both preference settings to Oldest First do I still get Newest First, and have to click to change it on every single thread I read!

(Apart from those two things this software does look and feel a universe better than the jive-arse stuff we had) .

[Can someone help me with these scripts i found?]

What exactly is the problem?  "i can't get the scripts to run" doesn't get us far

[llSetLinkPrimitiveParams Rotation Issue]

Oh noooos, new forums have borked Void's typing!  What will we do

[Favorite External Script Editors]

I always used to use LSL Editor but I've changed to LSL Plus (see the editors page mentioned above) for Eclipse.

The advantages are that some of the more recent improvements to LSL are recognised and I now have a single IDE for all my programming (LSL, PHP, Python and Javascript).  As I'm scripting external comms (to PHP web pages) that's pretty useful at the moment.