Madelaine McMasters

Hi Michael, When this happens to me, it's usually the result of a messed up settings file in the folder "Library->Saved Application State->com.(viewer name).savedstate" (The "viewer name" part sometimes contains extra stuff, but you'll recognize it). Hold down Option while selecting the "Go" menu in Finder and you'll see "Library", you can navigate from there and delete the folder. Is that doesn't do it, then you may need to do a clean install. Instructions for doing that can be found here. If you are not using Firestorm, replace any Firestorm references with those for the appropriate viewer. http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_clean_reinstall Good luck!

Hi Alina, GIMP produces textures, which may be used to "paint" mesh objects, but it does not produce the mesh geometry. So, I'm a bit confused about exactly what you are trying to do. If you are trying to upload a tank top texture for use on a clothing layer tee-shirt or shirt, then you do want to export your GIMP image as .PNG, then upload it via the Build->Upload->Image (cost is L$10, unless you select "Free", in which case the texture is not actually uploaded, but instead is saved local to your viewer). If this is what you're intending to do, then I expect the tutorials you mentioned are actually for creating textures for avatar clothing layers, and you have been using Chip Midnight's, or some other clothing template to guide your tank top design. If you really are intending to texture a mesh tank top, then I presume you got the texture template from some place that also provides the mesh geometry for upload, or you purchased a base mesh in-world and are trying to paint it. In that case, you'll still want (I think, I've not done mesh) to upload your textures as images, then apply them to the mesh as instructed. And if you are attempting to design a mesh tank top from scratch, I fear you're a long way from home, as you'll need a tool like Blender to create the actual mesh geometry for the top. Good luck!

Good morning, Hippie!

DahliDream wrote: Yay,think i found the right person to help me ,I just updated SOX Mavericks,downloaded a viewer,firestorm release 4.2.,as the last beta one I can't download it,but don't let me open it,and I remember time ago,when I started using Macintosh I needed some setting to do to work,on terminal,can you help me on this regard?¿thanks. Rather than double-clicking to launch the viewer the first time, right click it and select "Open". You'll then be presented with a dialog box requesting authorization to launch it. Enter an administrator username/password and off you go. You will not be asked for authorization again, until you download a newer version.

Thanks Bobbie! Peter? Plplplplplplplpl! ;-)

PeterCanessa Oh wrote: Yes - but the OP's main point is still valid if all their computers came from a landfill or are not PCs (ie; apple or something, I can't tell). It's only modern PCs that can't run SL, apparently. Could you shave yourself any closer with Occam's Razor, Peter?

Dillon Levenque wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Iceing, surely the 50,000 people who were in-world when Dillon visited cannot all be using computers that are more "mature" than yours. Somewhere in your wall of rant, I believe you contemplate leaving SL. I think that's a wonderful idea, but I don't believe you'll exit SL, even though you claim not to possess the knowledge required to enter it. Ironically, if your RL persona is like your SL persona, I think you'll find that real life is also flawed by design and for best results may actually require a personality that's more mature than the one you currently own. Actually I suggested that number would be inworld when I logged in tonight, Maddy, so it wasn't a demonstrated fact. I'm fairly confident I'll see close to that number, though. Friday and Saturday evenings have been in the high 40's or low 50's everytime I've bothered to look. I was in-world around the time of posting that. Pop 55K.

Iceing, surely the 50,000 people who were in-world when Dillon visited cannot all be using computers that are more "mature" than yours. Somewhere in your wall of rant, I believe you contemplate leaving SL. I think that's a wonderful idea, but I don't believe you'll exit SL, even though you claim not to possess the knowledge required to enter it. Ironically, if your RL persona is like your SL persona, I think you'll find that real life is also flawed by design and for best results may actually require a personality that's more mature than the one you currently own.

I had no time to party this Halloween, so I'll just repost last year's pic, which is a repost from the year before...

...hands you a napkin... French soil is more fertile than I imagined, Val. And you folks are more messy, too.

Hi MrsSeren, I'll presume you're asking how to post to your profile feed, as the dashboard hasn't got that capability. Go to... https://my.secondlife.com And log-in with your username/password. You'll now find yourself on your profile home page, where you'll see a text entry box showing "Share something..." You just post your message there. To control access to your profile and feed, click on the "Settings" tab in the left column. You can update your profile there, and under the "Privacy" tab, you can control the visibility/accessibility of various parts of your profile, including the feed. To post snapshots to your profile feed, when taking them in-world, select "Profile" as the destination for your pictures. You'll have the opportunity to append a comment to the snapshot when it is saved. Have fun!

Darrius Gothly wrote: Drake1 Nightfire wrote: Freya Mokusei wrote: Drake1 Nightfire wrote: If so... that would stop the copybotters, wouldn't it? Tried, failed. Predictable as anything. Look back to 2011 or so. All it did was make it harder to detect rogue viewers. LL can't win this arms race by trying to close the gates. I don't remember them ever locking SL to a few specific viewers... Ever. There is a bit of information sent to the SL Login Service at the very start of the login process that identifies the type of Viewer being used. This is how Linden Lab determines the popularity of specific Viewers. It was used in the past to warn people using Viewers that were dropped from the TPV. But the problem with using this bit of info to block Copybot Viewers is that those Viewers simply identify as some authorized and legitimate Viewer instead. This makes it totally useless to use the declared Viewer Type to log and block Copybot Viewers. If LL were to try and use some sort of "fingerprint" in the communication between Viewer and Server, it's important to realize that the entirety of the "conversation" between the Viewer and SL Servers is controlled by code provided by LL themselves. Yes, TPV Developers can have different types of conversations than the basic LL Viewer does, but the way they "talk" and the construction of what they say must follow the same rules for every Viewer in existence. This prevents the LL Servers from detecting a rogue or pirate Viewer. In order to do what Copybot Viewers do, that does not require anything special in the type of conversation had. Copybot Viewers can get every bit of information and detail they need to Copybot in-world objects simply by being within draw distance. Any details that might not necessarily be communicated are so irrelevant that they can be replaced by stock values or made-up info anyway. You don't need a copybot viewer to rip textures (and to a lesser extent, geometry). You can do that with a standard LL viewer using an OpenGL model ripper. The only way LL could prevent copybotting would be to render SL in the server and stream the video to our computers.

Dahli, there should be nothing you need to do in Terminal to open Firestorm. But you can't run Firestorm 4.2, as that does not support Server Side Appearance. Everybody will appear grey to you if you run 4.2. So, go here and get the latest version... http://www.firestormviewer.org/downloads/ Once you've downloaded the file, double click it, then drag the viewer to the Applications folder. The first time you try to run the viewer, your Mac will tell you it's not authorized to run, as it comes from an unverified source. You must authorize the viewer to run. Rather than double clicking the viewer to launch it, right click on it, then select "Open". You'll then be provided with a dialog box requesting an administrator username/password. Enter the credentials and the viewer will launch. You'll not be asked for authorization again after that. Good luck!

Hi Di, SL no longer supports the V2 viewer. I'm surprised you aren't having much bigger problems, like being unable to see avatars as anything other than gray ghosts. The switch to Server Side Appearance requires the latest V3 viewer. Switching to that may fix your pants cuff problem as well. Good luck!

Hi Metzly, Try resetting your router and/or PC. If that doesn't work and you are on a windows machine, try this... Open your command prompt (Start menu -> Accessoires -> Command Prompt) Type 'ipconfig /flushdns' (without the quotes) Press enter You might also change your DNS servers over to Google's, as those seem to be both fast and reliable. Here are instructions for doing that... https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using Good luck!

Canoro Philipp wrote: Happy Halloween to all! ...tackles Canoro and gives him a Halloween Hug. ;-)

Dillon Levenque wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: But don't let the mushroom people catch you staring past the mirror warmer to see the show. We didn't zoom our rag top rockets to the passion pit just to watch. While the Clydes, wet rags, cubes and hub caps are diggin the flick, we'll be letting our pinkies out of jail to play back seat bingo. And whether it's a make out or a fake out, later we can share a slurg and a tube steak at Wayne's before sneaking back to our pads so's not to wake the little monsters. Friend of mine used to call the less family-oriented of our town's two drive-in movies the Finger Bowl. ;-) Oooh, I like that!

Hi Anseim, While full bright fully illuminates a texture, making it immune to external illumination and shading, glow creates a low resolution (which requires an additional render pass) halo around (over and beyond) the texture. While "full bright" goes to 100%, glow goes beyond, blowing out highlights. So use it sparingly. http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glow_Rendering_FAQ ETA: So long as you are not using a Windlight setting that saturates a scene (akin to over exposing film), a full bright texture is displayed with 100% illumination. Every intensity level in the texture is visible in the scene. When you enable glow, an additional rendering pass is made, overlaying the scene with a low resolution diffuse glow that emanates from the texture. This glow is added to the intensity of the texture's pixels, producing "blow out" of any bright regions in the texture or anything being overlaid by the glow. Imagine a base texture that's a gradient from black RGB(0,0,0) to white (255,255,255), with glow enabled. Where the glow overlaps the texture, it will add to the intensity levels. Let's say that a glow pixel has the value (50,50,50). It will cause any underlying pixel with a brightness of (205,205,205) or greater to appear full white. The same will be true for any pixels belonging to nearby regious of the scene, over which the glow extends. A pale pink pixel (255,205,205) behind the glow will render as full white. You can see this effect in the wiki page, where detail in the merry-go-round is lost in the glow. The first detail to go will be the brightest bits, which saturate with the addition of glow. This is why it's called "blowing out the highlights". ETA2: Yep, as the glow extends beyond the prim to which it applies, it obscures part of the background scene as well. It's not really acting as a light. Think of it more as a haze around the prim that is illuminated by the prim itself. Unlike RL, this haze isn't everywhere in the scene, it's only around the things that "glow".

Dillon Levenque wrote: Janelle: "The one thing I wanted to do so bad on FV was twink a lowbie plate class with a BoE, among many other things (I still have mine in the bank for sentimental reasons)." Czari: "I still cherish the Jboots I procured for my alts. (As mentioned, I began EQ as a High Elf Paladin and got really tired of slogging through what felt like quicksand with all that heavy plate so I put her on the shelf for awhile and created my main, a Woodelf Druid and later got Jboots for the Pally" Talk about a language barrier! BTW you guys have derailed this thread into a whole new right-of-way. We should change the name to "Interested in the EverQuest Community?' :smileyhappy: Language barrier? Word from the bird is you got the jets to get with it, Mommy-O! So think fast, you wanna be radioactive, not a nosebleed, baby. Tune up that classy chassis and razz their berries. But don't let the mushroom people catch you staring past the mirror warmer to see the show. We didn't zoom our rag top rockets to the passion pit just to watch. While the Clydes, wet rags, cubes and hub caps are diggin the flick, we'll be letting our pinkies out of jail to play back seat bingo. And whether it's a make out or a fake out, later we can share a slurg and a tube steak at Wayne's before sneaking back to our pads so's not to wake the little monsters.

Hi JPG, SL is graphics intensive. You'll get a better return on your dollar from investment in GPU than CPU. Both of the quad-core processors you've listed are more than capable of handling SL. SL will use only one CPU core, so the other three won't be doing much for you, unless you simultaneously run other programs. If you don't run multiple programs simultaneously, you might save even more money by choosing only a dual-core CPU. If you can take the savings you get from choosing a less expensive CPU and apply that to a better graphics adapter, I think you'll have an overall better experience in SL.

Hi Corwin, We're all residents here, just like you. Lindens do not visit this forum. Your best best would, I think, be a phone call. Linden Lab doesn't seem to like being called concerning Second Life, so you won't find phone numbers on the SL pages. So, call right into the Linden Lab front desk, where it'll be a bit harder for them to ignore you. +1 (415) 243-9000

Give me an "H", give me an "A"... Happy Halloween, Kids!!!

Solar Legion wrote: Nice comparison of apples to oranges. Computer data is computer data - it is not a medical instrument. Sorry - Amazon is to blame for any leaks that occur through the use of their SES service. That people do not accept this simple fact simply goes to show that everyone is quite ready and willing to take the easy way out. Wrong, Solar. If a hospital's use of Amazon SES resulted in a HIPAA violation because of a breach within Amazon, the violation would be registered against the hospital, not Amazon. The hospital might well go after Amazon to recover any damages that resulted, but the record would show the hospital as the violator. You seem to be confusing blame with responsibility. I hope you never find yourself in a courtroom, you may find that reality is very unpleasant.

Solar's argument reminds me of a medical intstrumentation company that got cited by the FDA for failure to comply with good manufacturing practice requirements. The company argued that, as they'd subcontracted out the design of the instrument, the subcontractor was responsible. The FDA was so impressed by this explanation that they immediately forbid the sale of any of its products in the US. I had a friend who'd just gone to work for that company and who was shocked at the naiveté of the management team. It took 18 months for the company to rework all its internal processes to the satisfaction of the FDA, during which time they nearly went out of business. You'd think people would learn after an experience like this, but no. Fifteen years later, they got shut down in the US again, for more or less the same reasons. Solar's argument doesn't hold water, but there are plenty of people who won't believe that. It's okay though, people can't scream in protest over being held responsible when their lungs are filled with the water their argument didn't hold.

Dillon Levenque wrote: Nicolette Lefevre wrote: So whatever information I give LL, it is solely their responsibility to safeguard it. They cannot deny responsibility because they outsource certain things. If LL choses an untrustworthy company to outsource things, then I'll blame LL for that. Of course it is. That is how business works, or at least how it works in real life and your situation is strictly real life. If you are dealing with LL and only LL, then LL has full responsibility to you, regardless of where or how they subcontracted anything. Yep, just ask Kathleen Sebelius how "responsibility" works. ;-)