Rolig Loon

You can download libsecondlife from http://swik.net/libsecondlife or libmetaverse from http://www.ohloh.net/p/openmetaverse . Until your note, however, I had never heard of Max/msp. Even after Googling it I don't have a clue about how you might connect it to Second Life. Perhaps people who are active in OpenSim would know where to start.

The easy ( and often correct ) answer is that you are a member of one or more groups that expect their members to share equal proportions of their liabilities (costs of advertizing in Search, for example) and assets (proceeds from land sales, maybe). For most groups, that amounts to a few L$ every couple of weeks. If you do not like having to pay your share, you can either leave the group or send the group owner a note and question the group's policy. (BTW, that's the default for groups, so a group owner has to make a specific decision not to share costs and income.) To be really sure where your L$ are going, of course, you just need to open your dashboard at secondlife.com and navigate to Account >> Transaction History and see who you have been sending money to recently.

It's hard for me to understand exactly what problem you are describing. Take a look at this JIRA, however, and see if it looks like your problem >>> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-4660 . If so, some people have been able to fix the problem by changing the language for their viewer to ENGLISH instead of their own language. If your native language is German, for example, try changing it in Preferences >> General to English. There are other ideas in that JIRA report too. You should maybe add your information to the report -- including information about your own computer --- to help Linden Lab find a solution. If that is not the problem you are having, you can add more information to explain by clicking on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and selecting EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread.

Darn. The simple bake fail issues (+90% of the ones we hear about) are transient things that are little more than annoyances. In this case, it looks like the bake fail is a symptom of something deeper. My bet is still on a connection issue.

Not that you need the information now, but for future reference ....... You have a third option on Blender. If you type S and then hold down the Shift key while you type the letter of an axis (so, for example, Shift +Z), Blender will resize on the other two axes but not the one you named. So, typing S and then Shift+Z lets you resize on the X-Y plane only.

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 or has other wierd appearance issues. 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. Sometimes a simple rebake (CTRL + Alt + R ) works, but often it takes more than that. 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. If so, 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.

We are all SL residents here. There are never any Lindens, so we can't do anything but give you advice. So here's the advice, in two parts..... Part One: Here's what to do: Go to the Second LIfe Help page and log in if you can. If you can't access your account, use the Forgot your login information? link on the right to recover your username and reset your password. Then log in. On the Second LIfe Help page page, click the Contact Support link on the right. On the next page, click Submit a a Support Case form. Under What type of problem are you having?, select Account Issue. A second dropdown appears. Under Account Issue, select I believe my account has been compromised. Fill in the rest of the fields as directed. Click Submit. Check your email for your case number. Call our fraud number: 800-860-6990. Once you do this, Linden Lab will place your account on hold and investigate the relevant transactions. This may take a few days. Once we have concluded the investigation, we'll send you an email explaining our conclusion and the action we will take. Note that all transactions involving Linden dollars are subject to Linden Lab's Terms of Service. Part Two: NEVER give anyone your account information. It is almost impossible for anyone to get your password and account information unless you give it to them. Yes, there are phishing sites that occasionally trap unsuspecting people, but almost all account "hacking" happens simply because people are not careful about keeping personal information private. One final bit of advice .... Unless you really like receiving spam e-mail, remove your e-mail address from this public forum.

When your viewer crashes on VFS the problem is that you have a corrupted inventory cache on your own computer. This can happen for any number of reasons, but often because you had a flaky Internet connection at some point when you were adding things to or removing things from inventory. Your locally cached copy got out of sync with SL's servers, and now they are having trouble talking with each other. Deleting your local cached inventory should solve the problem. The following instructions are written for Firestorm users, but they apply to any viewer. Just change the filenames in obvious ways ..... Locate your cache folder. You will probably need to do this manually, if you are unable to log in. Use a file manager (like Windows Explorer for Windows system, Dolphin, or some such) to locate the cache folder. In its default location, the cache folder is hidden on most OSs. To find it, you will need to show hidden folders. Default cache locations are: Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[uSERNAME]\Local Settings\Application Data\Firestorm Windows Vista: C:\Users\[uSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm Windows 7: C:\Users\[uSERNAME]\AppData\Local\Firestorm Mac: ~/Library/Caches/Firestorm linux: ~/.firestorm/cache In this folder, locate the files named data.db2.x.* and index.db2.x.* (where * is a digit: 0, 1, 2, etc; you may have more than one of each type of file) Delete all files that match these two names. Log back into SL, to a quiet region (try Hippo Hollow, Aich or Hatton). Allow your inventory to repopulate fully. If the above fails, then try doing a full wipe of all settings.

It isn't particularly obvious how to do it until you play with the math for a little bit. Here's a wind vane that works and should be easy enough to adapt for your use. At least it's something to play with ... :smileywink: default{ state_entry() { llSetTimerEvent(1.0); } timer() { vector wind = llWind(ZERO_VECTOR); llSetRot(llEuler2Rot(<0.0, 0.0, llAtan2(wind.y, wind.x)>)); }}

Peter's right. This sort of problem may be tackled more easily with keyframed motion. Take a look at this lengthy thread in which the OP was trying to create a vehicle (a follower, in her case) that would track properly and move smoothly around corners >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/LSL-Scripting/Trying-to-make-an-object-follower/td-p/1354695

Each of those problems sounds like a communication lapse between your computer and SL's servers. Changes to your appearance are all made on your own computer, where they are baked into a single composite image and uploaded to the servers. The inventory that you access in your viewer is a locally cached copy of the original that is in the servers, and is updated on your computer whenever you add or delete items. Teleporting involves transferring information about your avatar from one set of servers to another, again with a lot of communication between the servers and your own computer. The weakest link is often your router, which may simply need to be rebooted. Just unplug it from the power for a few minutes to clear its RAM and get a fresh grasp on an IP address. If you have been using wireless, get off it. Wireless is susceptible to all manner of interference and bandwidth loss, and is a common source of problems for SL residents. To rebuild local cache that may have been corrupted by flaky communication, go to Preferences >> Network and click the Clear Cache button. Then log in to a quiet sim like Smith or Aqua and type a single letter in the Search field of your Inventory to jump start the rebuilding process. Don't do ANYTHING until it is finished. Finally, in the year or more since you last logged in, there have been several major upgrades to each of the popular viewers and to SL's servers. Unless you have also upgraded your own computer, it may be less compatible with SL than it used to be, so you may have difficulty with some actions that used to be easy. You may need to revisit your Preferences settings, lowering draw distance or your quality slider and making other adjustments.

Don't bother with trying to earn money for now. There are more important things to do, like learning how to get around. Besides, there are so many free things in SL that you don't really need much money anyway. As others have said, most of us bring money in world from RL. Save your lunch money today, and bring it in world next time. You'll be amazed at what you can buy for the price of a burger and fries.

Well, we might be able to offer some help or advice if you had told us what the "problem with the land" is. Sadly, however, you didn't. If you'd like to add that information now, click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread. BTW, Lindens never come here. This is a Resident-to-Resident forum.

Before you begin, familiarize yourself with Linden Lab's policy on Scripted Agents (bots), so that you don't run afoul of some rules about how you may use them. >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Bot_policy Basically, a bot is a an avatar under control of a computer program instead of a human being. You can created a bot by opening a new account -- an alt -- and registering it as a Scripted Agent. You do that by navigating to your dashboard at secondlife.com and then to Account >>> Scripted Agent Status. You'll see a notice that says "The avatar associated with this account is identified as being controlled by a human. Please select "change" to self-identify your avatar as a scripted agent (sometimes referred to as a "bot")." Follow directions and you are "legally" a bot with a separate account from your own avatar's -- just like any other alt that you may have. Then you need to actually install and set up the software to do the controlling. Take a look here for some of your options >>> http://www.smartbots2life.com/ and at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Second_Life_bot_software_comparison for a discussion of the advantage/disadvantages of hosting your bot on your own PC or on a hosting service. Among the considerations is the one that you mention -- whether your bot stays in world all of the time or logs out when you power down your PC for the day.

WooHoo!!!! Congratulations. Debugging can be frustrating and tiring, but there's an amazing feeling of relief and satisfaction that comes over you in the instant when you realize that you have finally solved the problem. You have earned it.

This doesn't happen often, but it's extremely annoying when it does. These suggestions, from the fine support team at Firestorm, usually help you recover........ If you find yourself suddenly starting to wear your entire inventory, here are some suggestions for how to fix the problem. Please do them one at a time; the initial methods are similar than later ones, and will often work. If a method fails, then move on to the next one. Please also follow the instructions as exactly as possible. Method 1 Right click the Current Outfit folder and select Remove from Current Outfit or Take Off. Method 2 Open the Current Outfit folder (no, don't click on the Worn tab; find the Current Outfit folder), and delete everything inside it, then relog. Method 3 If the above doesn't solve the problem, the fix below usually works - though it may need to be repeated a couple of times: Go to Hippo Hollow , Smith, or some other nice quiet, low-lag sim. Make a temporary folder in your inventory; in that, put a *copy* of your skin, shape, hair base and eyes - and if you like, a base layer garment like jeans or a dress. NO PRIMS Right click the folder you just made, and select Replace Outfit. No Add, not wear, but REPLACE Once that has done, relog to last location - ie, back to Hippo Hollow. Make sure you are still wearing only the things from the temporary folder you made At this point, you can put your normal avatar back on.

Go to your dashboard at secondlife.com and click on Account >> Cancel Account . Think twice before you do it, though. First of all, you won't get any sort of a refund. If you have paid tier for a parcel or more and you aren't at the end of your billing period, you won;t get anything back fort the unused portion, so you might as well stick around and get what you paid for. Second, if you change your mind a month from now and want to come back -- quite a few people do that -- it will cost you $9.95 to re-activate your account, and even then you might not get all of your inventory back. So.... if you're a Premium member, just abandon or sell land if you are close to the end of the billing period anyway, and drop back to being a Basic member, which doesn't cost a thing. Then walk away for a long vacation. You might be back. **Only uploaded images may be used in postings**://secondlife.i.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt=":smileywink:" title="Smiley Wink" />

Hmmmm.... That's not possible, at least if this is the only script in the linkset. The only prims that can be affected by this script are ones named "gun". Something else is changing the "holster" prims. It sounds like it's time to put llOwnerSay diagnostic statements in a few strategic spots so see exactly which prims the script is identifying as "gun" prims. BTW, while you're at it --- this won't affect the outcome of your tests, but will repair an error --- your changed event should look like this... changed (integer c){ if (c & CHANGED_OWNER) { llResetScript(); }}

The prims named "holster" shouldn't be affected one way or another by this script. All it's doing is changing the "gun" prims from visible to transparent and back again. Check to be sure that all of your prims are named the way you think they are. Incidentally, the variable named "i" doesn't need to be global.

Your refresh function sets all prims named "gun" to transparent and then immediately sets them all to visible. It might be easier to just define a global variable called gSeen and then write your listen event to say listen (integer channel, string name, key id, string message){ string ownerkey = llGetOwner(); if (msg == ownerkey + "draw") { gSeen = TRUE; } else if (msg == ownerkey + "sling") { gSeen = FALSE; } integer i = llGetNumberOfPrims(); while( i) { if (llGetLinkName(i) == "gun") { llSetLinkAlpha(i, gSeen,ALL_SIDES); } --i; }}

Try call ing the Linden Lab business office... If you have a non-technical issue related to billing concerns, 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 **Note: Support is offered only in English

Check around. Maybe you're not the only one getting double posts. It's possible that some group member is reposting group messages that s/he receives for some obscure reason.

Sculpties are not obsolete, although mesh is more versatile and, as others have pointed out, more efficient. If you really want to make sculpties, though, you don't need to pay anything for the Blender plug-in. Use JASS-2, which includes Blender, Primstar, Python, and is all set for easy upload to SL. The basic version is free and quite serviceable. The Pro version is less than $10 US, as I recall. See http://blog.machinimatrix.org/jass/ for more information.

The LSL Scripting forum is a place for scripters to share insights or help resolve puzzles in their scripts. If you are writing your own LSL script and need some help getting over a confusing spot, therefore, you have come to the right spot. If you are looking for a freebie script or want to hire a scripter to write something for you, however, you should be posting in the Wanted forum or the Inworld Employment forum. I'm not scolding.... just sayin'...... :smileywink:

We've seen a few complaints about this one. Basically, the problem is this ... 1. You tried to upload an item to Marketplace, using your Merchant Outbox 2. The upload failed. 3. You cannot close your Merchant Outbox. 4. The items are still in the Merchant Outbox and you cannot remove them. 5. You cannot use the Merchant Outbox to upload anything else now either. Am I right? The issue has been reported in this JIRA >>> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-4660 , but there's no permanent solution yet. Some people have been able to fix the problem by changing the language for their viewer to ENGLISH instead of their own language. If your native language is German, for example, try changing it in Preferences >> General to English. There are other ideas in that JIRA report too. You should maybe add your information to the report -- including information about your own computer --- to help Linden Lab find a solution.