Rolig Loon
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There is no "going rate". I doubt that many scripters in SL are paid adequately for their time, compared to what they could charge in RL. Like everything else in SL, your script is worth whatever the client is willing to pay you for it. You have to negotiate that. We have different ranges of experience and different resources to draw on, and some of us simply script faster than others.
When a client asks me to write a script, I get as clear a picture of what the client wants as I can, decide whether it's something I can do and find interesting enough to play with, and then quote a price range. I won't take a job unless I think it's interesting and am confident that I won't be wasting the client's time and money. I'm scripting because I enjoy it, after all. Once the client is satisfied with the finished work, especially if s/he's someone I have worked with before, I'll restate my price range and often let the client decide what it's worth.
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Your texture starts as a square with X = Y = 0.5 and it ends as a square with X = Y = 1.0.
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I don't know how your rod is scripted, but I can imagine several things that might have gone wrong.
1. If the rod is meant to make contact with a server, the server may be off line or unable to recognize the handshake signal from your rod. Try using it on another sim maybe.
2. You may be in a laggy sim, or at least one in which script time is very tight. (See your statistics bar at CTRL + Shift + 1)
3. The script in your rod may have been set to Not Running (Select it and use Build >> Scripts >> Set Scripts to Running) or may have run into a math error that make it freeze up ( use Build >> Scripts >> Reset Scripts).
4. Some other script may be interfering with your rod's communication (unlikely if it's using HTTP, but it still might be overlapping with some local comm channel).
5. You may have damaged the rod in some odd way. Contact the creator or buy a new one.
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1. Get rid of wireless.
2. If you are only able to run SL on low graphics settings, consider getting rid of the laptop.
That sounds a lot harsher than I mean it to be, but SL is a very demanding bit of software. It is a bandwidth hog and it requires a solid, continuous Internet connection. It also puts very heavy demands on a graphics card. Many laptops don't even have a graphics card. They use an integrated graphics chip that's built into the motherboard and is nowhere near as effective for SL. Without knowing exactly which machine you have, it's hard to say much more. You can add important information by clicking on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and selecting EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread.
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Your IT people may block heavy broadband use to keep people from playing games at their desks, or they may simply have a corporate firewall.
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"Land" in SL is really space on a server in Linden Lab. Someone has to pay their utility bills and pay to maintain the server. If a SL resident buys a sim, he pays land fees monthly to keep the server going, the same way he would pay property taxes in RL. Whether you pay rent to a private landowner or pay the monthly land fee to Linden Lab yourself, it is all the same thing. Just as in RL, you cannot live in land without paying someone (unless you have a rich friend who is going to pay for you :smileytongue: ).
"Terra" em SL é realmente o espaço em um servidor na Linden Lab. Alguém tem que pagar suas contas e pagar para manter o servidor. Se um residente do SL compra um sim, ele paga taxas mensais de terra para manter o servidor vai, da mesma forma que ele iria pagar impostos sobre a propriedade de RL. Se você pagar o aluguel para um proprietário privado ou pagar a taxa mensal de terra Linden Lab si mesmo, é tudo a mesma coisa. Assim como na vida real, você não pode viver na terra sem pagar alguém (a menos que você tem um amigo rico que vai pagar para você.
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You don't have to live in a Linden Home. If you are a Premium member, you can abandon the Linden Home by standing in it and clicking World >> About Land >> Abandon Land. You may then use your land allowance to pay the monthly land fees on any other 512 sq m parcel of land that you buy on the Mainland. Build your own house there, or buy a pre-built house and put it there.
If you don;t want to be a Premium member any more, you should abandon your Linden Home first. Then go to your dashboard at secondlife.com and select Account >>> Membership to change from Premium to Basic membership. You will not get a refund of the amount you may have paid for a Premium membership. Linden Lab does not give refunds. Therefore, if you still have a long time left on your Premium membership, it makes sense not to change until the time is ending.
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Here's an interesting note, attributed to Kelly Linden, that I wasn't aware of until I went digging just now .... "when iTunes locks up the SL Viewer can’t open… Computers are full of complications. The viewer will never get past Initializing VFS, if iTunes freezes." Since you've tried the standard solutions and they haven't worked, check out that non-standard one.
The other thing I might suggest, if you haven't already done it, is to update your graphics card drivers. For reasons that I do not understand, that seems to help in some cases where SL freezes in VFS on startup.
Mac drivers are included with OS upgrades. However, to determan 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 VGANvidia Video Driver
- Latest driver Last checked Feb 6th- Windows: 285.62 (Oct 24) beta: 295.51 (Jan 31) - Linux: 290.1 (Nov 22)
ATI Video Driver
- Latest driver Last checked Feb 6th- Windows and Linux: 12.1 (Jan 25)
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.
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Of course. You can AR anyone. It's Linden Lab's job to figure out whether a TOS violation has occurred and what to do about it. In this particular case, the Community Standards, referenced in the TOS, are quite clear.... "Sharing personal information about your fellow Residents without their consent -- including gender, religion, age, marital status, race, sexual preference, alternate account names, and real-world location beyond what is provided by them in their Resident profile -- is not allowed."
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No, but the question comes up a few times a year,like this >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Building-and-Texturing-Forum/High-gloss-floor-with-reflections/m-p/1209547/highlight/true#M4158
Sometimes people have really inspired ideas >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Art-Music-and-Photography/Your-avatar-in-a-mirror-a-random-Suella-guide/m-p/791921/highlight/true#M674
As Amethyst says, though, real reflections are just too computationally intense for SL to handle.
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I almost always use llResetTime() and llGetTime() myself. It saves doing the arithmetic and it's a whole lot simpler if I'm scripting a delayed action switch, for example.
touch_start (integer num){ llResetTime();}touch_end(integer num){ if (llGetTime() > 2.0) { //Delayed response } else { // Normal response }}
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The "Resident" last name has been missing semi-randomly from at least some new style names for a while, but I can't find any mention of a formal change. I can't remember when I first noticed that my alt didn't have the last name Resident. It does still show up if you detect a person's name with an LSL script, though, and it's still required for login with Phoenix (and I suppose other V1 viewers). There may be a stealth change afoot, therefore, but it's piecemeal.
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Have you tried using a different viewer? If not, when you reinstalled the viewer that you are using, did you do a clean reinstall, so that all traces of the old one (including your user_settings) were deleted?
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We've had a small handful of posts about this problem. That's not a SL error message. It's a Windows message, described in this thread >>> http://www.updatexp.com/0xC0000005.html , for example. The implication from this and similar sites that you can find with Google is that this is a RAM error --- a failing memory chip? One poster here claimed that he traced the error on his machine to a faulty memory stick.
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I'm not sure what some of that means, like "comes with a regular folder," but it sounds as if your downloaded file was damaged or installed improperly. Do a clean reinstall, as described here , so that you can be sure that all vestiges of the first installation have been completely removed from your computer. Removing the viewer and related files from your Programs folder will not be sufficient. Then, download a new copy of the viewer from here >>> https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/?lang=en-US . It should install automatically after you click on one or two basic questions.
If you have problems again, come back here and let us know what happened. Also, tell us what kind of computer you are using and what sort of Internet connection. To add that information, click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread.
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As announced yesterday .... "We will be performing rolling restarts for regions on the Magnum, BlueSteel, and LeTigre RC server channels Wednesday, June 20th starting at 07:00am PDT. Please save all builds and refrain from rezzing no copy objects or making inworld L$ transactions at that time." Objects that are rezzed during sim restarts risk being lost permanently, so this is good advice.
Before you panic totally, however, scan the area thoroughly to be sure that it wasn't rezzed inside another object or shunted to another unexpected location. Two unexpected spots are the extreme SW corner of the sim at location <0.0,0.0,0.0>, and at high altitude. If you are using the Firestorm viewer, you can do this search very quickly with your World >> Area Search tool.
Check your Lost & Found folder too, to be sure that it wasn't returned by the servers.
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Here's the official recommendation from Linden Lab, with one small addition.....
If you know your username but have forgotten your password, go to the password recovery page. Enter your username and click Send Instructions to have instructions on how to create a new password sent to the email address connected to the account . You'll need to answer the security question you chose when creating your Second Life account. Be sure to check your junk mail/spam folder.
If you can't recall the answer to your security question, or if you can't remember what e-mail address you used, just contact Customer Support, preferably by opening a support case. You'll be asked to verify your identity and, working together, we can reset your security question.
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It sounds like you have a sick mouse. There's nothing in SL that will make it behave like that. Check to be sure that it has a fresh battery and that its lens (or ball) is clean. The button switch itself may be failing too. Fortunately, mice are cheap to replace.
BTW, not that it has anything to do with your mouse, but your caps key seems to be stuck too. Toggle it a few times to clear it so that people won't mistake your capitlized text for rude shouting.
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Bienvenu chez vous! Votre ordinateur doit marcher bien avec Second Life, mais le message que vous avez recu veut dire qu'il y a une probleme de connection entre l'ordinateur et les serveurs de Linden Lab. On peut essayez deux solutions:
(1) Essayez de fermer votre ordinateur, débrancher le routeur et le modem pour un couple de minutes, puis les rebrancher et de redémarrer. Cette étape simple peut tout éclaircir
(2) Ajouter les serveurs DNS publiques de Google à tout ce que votre FAI vous attribue comme valeur par défaut. Voyez ici, SVP >>> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/ (en Anglais, malheuresement.)Si aucune de ces idées fonctionne, cliquez sur le lien Options dans le coin supérieur droit de votre question et sélectionnez EDIT pour nous le faire savoir. SVP ne pas commencer un nouveau thread.
EDIT: Je dois ajouter une petite note, qui n'a rien à voir avec le système DNS. Votre carte graphique est un bon, mais il ne dispose que de 256 MB de mémoire. En conséquence, il sera contraint de télécharger des textures souvent, de sorte que vous ferez l'expérience plus de lag que vous souhaitez. Si vous pouvez vous permettre le coût, il serait bon de le remplacer par une nouvelle carte avec plus de mémoire (au moins 512 MB).
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If you are canceling a Premium account, be sure to sell or abandon all land you may own first. Go to your dashboard at secondlife.com and then to the Land Manager sidebar link. Check Group Land, My Mainland and My Regions to see what land Linden Lab still says you own.
Once you are sure that you no longer own any, then go to the Land Use Fees link in that same menu and set yours to L$0.
If you are a member of any groups that expect you to pay a share of group liabilities periodically, leave those groups.
Then change your account from Premium to Basic.
Those steps will guarantee that you will not be billed for any continuing costs. You then have two choices:
1. Close your account completely by clicking on the Account >> Cancel Account link in your dashboard's sidebar menu or
2. Just walk away. As Karen says, this is probably the smarter choice. It costs you nothing to keep a Basic account alive, but it costs you $9.95 to re-open one once it has been closed. You'd be surprised by how many people come back to SL after a few months (or more). If you haven't closed your account when you change your mind, your avatar and all your inventory will still be waiting fo you. (And any L$ that you forgot to take with you too.) :smileywink:
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Karen is quite right. If you ever have specific questions about your own account, though, you can call the Linden Lab billing team at the following toll-free numbers:
US/Canada: 800-294-1067
France: 0805-101-490
Germany: 0800-664-5510
Japan: 0066-33-132-830
Portugal: 800-814-450
Spain: 800-300-560
UK: 0800-048-4646
Brazil: 0800-762-1132
Long distance ( not free, but you can use Skype to save some cost ) : 703-286-6277
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That's a communication problem between your computer and SL's servers. Information about your appearance has to be "baked" onto your avatar on your own computer, saved there, and then uploaded to SL before it's fully visible there. If the necessary information is messed up in transmission, you may end up with a borked file on your computer, or SL's servers may end up with a borked image. Either way, your av's appearance defaults to a fluffy cloud. You can sometimes appear to yourself (or others) wearing yesterday's clothes, or a bit of your home's wallpaper too. What works to repair the damage for one person won't necessarily work for the next person, and it may not be the same thing that works for you tomorrow. See the full list of possibilities here >>> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=fs_bake_fail . Start with the simple things at the top of the list and work down until you find what works for you today.
You may find that the bake fail problem comes back repeatedly, even after you fix it with one of the suggestions on that wiki page. It sounds like that's exactly what's happening in your case, in fact, so by doing the bake fail corrections you are addressing the symptoms, but not the problem behind them. You have a chronically weak Internet connection. There are many steps to take for repairing it. Perhaps the simplest ones -- ones that work best for most people -- are: (1) Don't Use WIRELESS. Wireless connections are inherently less stable than direct cable connections and are more vulnerable to interference. Then, (2) Reboot your router. Unplug it from the power for a few minutes to let it clear its RAM. Then plug it back in and let it get a fresh hold on an IP address. Come back here and ask more if those steps don't work. Click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread.-
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That's a never-ending quest and a frequent topic here. I don't know of a place where everything is summarized in one spot, so you have to pick up bits of knowledge one at a time. For example, in dealing with lists you will find this note in the LSL wiki:
myList = llListReplaceList(myList, ["myString"], 2, 2);
In the above code, we call llListReplaceList(), an innocent enough operation, however, due to the way passing of lists, and functions such as llListReplaceList(), llDeleteSubList(), llList2List() and llListSort() (and others), work, you can end up using two, three, or even four times the amount of memory required to store your list, just by calling that function! To avoid this problem, we can use a small piece of optimisation; if you know that the list you're passing into such a function will never be read again (for example if the result of the function will overwrite the list) then we can do this:
myList = llListReplaceList((myList = []) + myList, ["myString"], 2, 2);
The effect of this is to greatly reduce the memory usage, in both LSO-LSL and Mono VMs, and also reduce the fragmentation of memory.
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I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do so let me give several answers...
1. If the object is no-transfer, that means that you cannot give it or sell it to anyone else, including a group. So, the "Share" option that you see on the General page when you select and edit the object will not be available.
2. You may be able to open your Friends list, select your friend, and click the little icon next to her name (second icon column) that gives your friend permission to edit your objects. (That gives her permission to edit EVERYTHING you own, though.) She'd be able to move the object around, but not wear it or put it in her inventory.
3. If the item is not no-transfer, then don't worry about it. Just leave permissions exactly the way ther are and transfer the object to your friend. Drag/drop it on her avatar, or drag/drop it into an IM to her, or whatever other method you like.
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Particle Script Issue
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Yup, 1.0 is in fact exactly twice 0.5. The point is that you wrote your start scale as <0.5,0.5,0.0> (That is X = 0.5, Y= 0.5), and your end scale as <1.0,1.0,0.0> (That is, X = 1.0, Y = 1.0). It starts as a square and it ends as a larger square.