Rolig Loon

I have almost never had a reason to use mouselook in the past five and a half years. I have never heard of a way to get stuck in mouselook, though, whether you do it on purpose or by accident. It's a temporary state.

What site? What is the question? Are you doing a survey of some kind? If so, you probably ought to trying visiting some sites to make observations.

That has to be frustrating. I do sympathize. The first problem may be fairly easy to fix, if we're lucky. You didn't say exactly what the error message is, but the most common reason for that kind of failure is interference from a firewall or anti-virus routine. Many of those programs regard Second Life as a security threat, so you have to create exceptions so they'll leave you alone. See here for information about dealing with firewalls and here for configuring your anti-virus software. If that's not the problem, come back here and tell us what that error message is, so we can take another crack at it. Click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread. The other problem is harder to diagnose. It sounds as if you have some scrambled user settings files. That can happen if you have several viewers installed and haven't taken pains to be sure that toey use different storage locations. Sometimes it can happen even if you are careful. The cure is probably to do a clean reinstall of the viewers that you really want to use, and delete the others. Always install the one you will use as you main viewer last. A clean reinstall is not as simple as using the Window utility to remove the current version and install a new one. You have to remove all traces of the previous installation, including the AppData files, where the damage probably is. See here for instructions that apply to any of the viewers. Again, if that doesn't solve the problem, come back and tell us so we can try Plan B.

If you have permission from the landowner, you can terraform your parcel with the terraform toolset in your Build/Edit tool (CTRL + 3). It's activated with the little bulldozer icon in the upper row of icons. Land owners or members of groups with the Always Allow Edit Terrain ability assigned to their role can edit terrain. Members in a role with this ability can edit terrain on a group-owned parcel. Important: Assigning Always Allow Edit Terrain to a group role gives the members in that role full access to the Edit Terrain tool. This includes the Abandon Land option. For this reason, landowners are usually VERY cautious about assigning terraforming ability. Also note that even if you have the ability, there are limits on how much you can change the land. Most mainland can be raised/lowered by 4 meters (+/-). Some mainland cannot be terraformed, including: Bay City Regions, Blumfield, Boardman, Brown, De Haro, Nautilus City Regions, Nova Albion Regions, Shermerville Regions, and West Haven. A few, very old mainland Regions like Da Boom have a terraform range of 40 meters (+/-). Estate (private island) terraformability is settable to a maximum of 100 meters (+/-) by the estate owner or managers. To learn more about terraforming, start here >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Editing-terrain/ta-p/700061 . Please take the advice in that page seriously: "Before trying this tool on your own land, teleport here, where Torley Linden has set up a Terraform Box. Test the Edit Terrain tool and become comfortable with it, then head to your own land to terraform with confidence."

That's one unusual house. How did you "open" it? If you double clicked on it, that was a command to attach it to yourself. If you want to rez your house, first find a place where you are allowed to rez objects and is large enough to put your house. (A sandbox or land that you own or are renting are good choices.) Then, LEFT-click on the house in your inventory and drag it to the ground.

The debit card is probably the problem. Some debit cards work occasionally, but in general Linden Lab does not like debit cards. The approved payment methods are PayPal (backed by a credit card) or a credit card. They note in the Knowledge Base that "A common cause of payment method failure is the use of unsupported card types. At this time, the majority of prepaid cards are not compatible with our system, even if they bear the VISA/AMEX/Mastercard logo. This includes cards purchased at retail stores, rechargeable credit cards, and bank-issued check cards." A debit card is essentially a pre-paid card in which you have loaded a fixed amount of cash. If you run its balance down to zero, LL has no way to get its cash. If you had a credit card, the card company would just add the charges to your next bill and LL would get their money.

That switch turns it ON and OFF like any other toggle switch. Each time you click, it reverses direction like the light switches in your RL house. Oh, wait... I see what you mean. The switch turns the timer on and off, but not the light intensity. So do this instead .... touch_start(integer num) { gON = !gON; if (!gON) { llSetTimerEvent(1.0); } else { llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_POINT_LIGHT,FALSE, <red,green,blue>, 1.0, 20.0, 0.0 ]); llSetTimerEvent(0.0); } }

Take a look here for suggestions about what may be wrong and what to do about it.

How about the sims that you don't normally frequent? Are they as bad? The reason I ask is that there has been some cencern recently about a bug (or maybe a griefer script) that is causing crowded sims to have terrible lag. It seems to affect mostly sims that have live events. Take a look >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2012/09/29/new-lag-problem/ . If that's not your problem, then chances are still good that it's something in your own Internet connection. Our two first guesses are (1) wireless, which is usually a bad idea in SL anyway, and (2) your router. If you haven't rebooted your router, do that. I suggest then doing a tracert scan to see where there may be a bottleneck between your computer and SL's servers. Also, open the Statistics Bar in your viewer (CTRL + Shift + 1) and take a good look at the ping time, packet loss, and bandwidth figures at the top. If you read through http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ , you'll get an idea of how to use those data to diagnose potential problems in your connection.

I can't imagine why you would want to run a timer at 0.2 seconds for a script like this, so I changed it to 1.0 seconds (which is still fast). It now has a touch-click ON/OFF switch in it. float red=1.0;float green=0.0;float blue=0.0;vector startColor = <red, green, blue>;vector endColor = <red, green, blue>;integer gON;default{ touch_start(integer num) { llSetTimerEvent(1.0* (gON = !gON)); } timer() { if(red >= 1.0) { if (blue > 0.1) {blue = blue - 0.1;} else {green = green + 0.1;} } if(green >= 1.0) { if (red > 0.1) {red = red - 0.1;} else {blue = blue + 0.1;} } if(blue >= 1.0) { if (green > 0.1) {green = green - 0.1;} else {red = red + 0.1;} } startColor = <red, green, blue>; endColor = <red, green, blue>; llSetPrimitiveParams([PRIM_POINT_LIGHT,TRUE, <red,green,blue>, // light color vector range: 0.0-1.0 *3 1.0, // intensity (0.0-1.0) 20.0, // radius (.1-10.0) 0.0 ]); // falloff (.01-1.0) llSetLinkColor(LINK_SET, <red,green,blue>, ALL_SIDES); }}

That depends entirely on what sort of place you're interested in and what you consider picturesque. Try visiting places in your Destination Guide for a start.

I suppose it's possible for an AFK avatar to be stuck in the wall of a newly rezzed house, but not very likely. After all, he wasn't in a wall before, and the rezzer ought to put a new house in the same position each time. Besides, even if the next person rzzed a different house and did get the AFK avatar stuck in a wall, he'd only be stuck there for at most another 10 minutes or until the next customer left. :smileyvery-happy:

There is no place named IBM Virtual Healthcare Island. However, there once was a private sim called IBM Healthcare Island. As you can see by clicking that link, the sim ceased to exist on April 21, 2010. Here's a list of all the currently active sims with the word "Health" in their names: REGION Deakin University Health Global Health Health Commons Health Skills Healthinfo Island HealthLands HealthLink New York Healthy Living Healthy Living Island InsidersHealth VRC LSUHealthNO MUVE National Health Service Niagara Health System Public Health Public Health 5 Public Health Prep Second Health London Second Health Training Spartan Health Center Spartan Health Island SSM Health Care T2health Island TAMHSC Health Telehealth Island UCSF mHealth USF Health USF Health 2 USF Health Annex

Don't bother trying to move the person. That's too hard anyway. Just check to see if the person has been standing there for a long time. Call something like this from your sensor event ......... vector gOldPos; // global vectorkey gAv; //Global keyCheckpos(vector DetPos, key DetAv){ if (DetAv == gAv) { if( llVecDist(gOldPos, DetPos) <= 0.1) //gAv has moved less than 0.1m { // Kill demo, reactivate rezzer } gOldPos = DetPos; }} So, you save gAv and gOldPos when the rezzer fires and then, if you have a timer that fires the sensor every 10 minutes, just ask Checkpos(llDetectedPos(0),llDetectedKey(0));

That definitely stinks. It's pretty close to what happens in RL, though. If the Feds find out that someone has passed you counterfit bills, they confiscate them and you don't get anything in return. My guess is that the justification in this case is in section 5 of the TOS, which emphasizes that L$ are not money. They are "tokens" that we get to use in world as long as we play fair. The guy who passed you illegal L$ lost his right to use them, so they ceased to exist. "When you acquire a Linden dollar, Linden Lab hereby grants you a limited license ("Linden Dollar License") to use the Linden dollar as a virtual token to be held, bartered, traded and/or transferred in Second Life with other users (and/or Linden Lab), in exchange for permission to access and use Content, applications, services, and various user-created features, in accordance with these Terms of Service. The Linden Dollar License is transferable by the holder to any other user, provided that both users comply with these Terms of Service [my emphasis], [ ..... ] You agree that Linden Lab has the right to manage, regulate, control, and/or modify the license rights underlying such Linden dollars as it sees fit and that Linden Lab will have no liability to you based on its exercise of this right." It still stinks, though.

This may not be anything to worry about. Firestorm (and I think Phoenix as well) has a feature that rezzes new scenes over a period of a few seconds instead of trying to do it all at once. It helps reduce the load on your graphics card. I have found that occasionally a few objects fail to rez at all, or take a really long time. If you know where they are, though, you can make them appear instantly by right-clicking on them. It's apparently a temporary derendering issue. With luck, their developers will cure it in the next update.

behfar wrote: [ ... ] i am really sorry but i don't know anything about router.can you explain it? so what do you think?what can i do with my graphics card.i didn't have any problem with it.i must mention this that i can't buy a new one at this time. thank you for helping me. You should normally reboot your router once a week or so. Just unplug it from the power for a few minutes and then plug it back in again. That clears its RAM and lets it get a new grip on your IP address. If you are very far from Linden Lab, you may also have a problem with ping time. You may not be able to do anything about that. The problem is that if it takes too long for data to travel between LL's servers and your computer, the program may time out and crash. You might check with your ISP to see if anything can be done. There's nothing you can do to improve an ancient graphics card except buy a new one. Sorry.

Angel Zero wrote: [....] my tower has a chipset not a card and sl is the only thing giving me trouble so far it's using Intel® Q965/Q963 Express Chipset Family That's not too surprising. SL is probably the most demanding program you have on your computer. In normal operation, it puts a heavy enough load on a graphics card to generate a lot of heat. I monitor my own GPU's temperature all the time. When I'm in world, the temperature goes up by two or three degrees C, even though my fans speed up.

It's very easy to make a graded texture in Photoshop, GIMP, or your favorite graphics program. Takes about 10 seconds. That way you won't have to accept the random color choices you'll find among the freebies too.

Thank you for adding information. So, did you follow the advice in that message? Did you check to be sure that you do not have a firewall blocking access to Second Life? Did you do a full check of your Internet connection to be sure that you do not have problems there? Have you rebooted your router? You said that you are using DSL, but are you using a direct cable connection, NOT wireless? Your graphics card is extremely old, BTW. The GeForce 6500 was marketed in 2005. Since then there have been major advances in graphics cards. Your card may be inadequate for handling the heavy graphics demands of Second Life.

Thanks, Irene. I never would have seen that update if you hadn't said something.

Thank you for adding the extra information. It should be quite easy, but it's almost impossible to answer without seeing the script itself. That's exactly what the LSL Scripting forum is here for. It is designed as a place for scripters to share ideas and problems. So, start a new thread over there and paste your script into it. We'll be glad to help.

Bad news. It looks like your graphics card is dying. It's not easy to say whether it has been overheating -- a likely cause, especially if you haven't been cleaning dust out of your computer on a regular basis -- or whether it's just getting old. When you start getting random images and colors like that, though, it is having serious trouble. Before you give up on it completely, try downloading current drivers to see if that helps at all. Mac drivers are included with OS upgrades. However, to determine what card you have, select “About this Mac” from the Apple menu, then click “More Info”. Under Hardware select Graphics/Displays If you are not sure what type of video card you have, use GPU-Z found (win only) here. For linux, in a console use: lspci | grep VGA Nvidia Video Driver Latest driver Last checked Sep 25th- Windows: 306.23 (Sep 13) beta: 306.02 (Aug 27) - Linux: 304.51 (Sep 24)ATI Video Driver Latest driver Last checked Sep 25th- Windows and Linux: 12.8 (Aug 15)Intel Video Driver Intel driver download page Intel does not have a universal driver set. Please go to Intel's site and select the appropriate download.

Many people are volunteer helpers in world and here in the forums. Usually it helps to have been in SL for a fairly long time so you have more than basic knowledge. Check out groups that are in your interest area and see what's available.

I don;t believe the standard V3 viewer has that option.