Rolig Loon

Nope. We are all SL residents, just like you. Keep trying, and be imaginative. :smileyhappy:

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. 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. 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.

Please see http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_voice

Issues with prepaid and gift cards 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. From http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Billing/ta-p/700037#Section_.10.8

Yes, llLoopSound plays a sound indefinitely, but each person has to be introduced to it once before he hears it, the same as any other sound. If you hear a sound, log out, and come back again, you have to go through that preloading stage all over again. For a looped sound, that means you miss hearing it the first time it plays, every time you relog, and hear it the second time around. For a single llPlaySound, you miss it entirely. I didn't understand from your original post, though, that you aren't hearing the looped sound at all unless you reset it. That's not the way it's supposed to work, so there's something else going on. However, I still suggest that one way to beat the problem is to have a slow llSensorRepeat watch to see when people are around, preloading sounds or even restarting the looped sound when a new av arrives on the scene. I wouldn't get too paranoid about lagging the sim with a sensor that only fires a couple of times a minute. After all, the alternative is to have your sounds running all the time, even if there's nobody there to hear them. I'd say the stress on the servers from both options is similar and negligible.

For what it's worth, my GeForce 9800 continues to handle SL just fine. I use Firestorm every day. As Baloo says, the posted specs may be out of date, but they are minimum specs. Get something heftier and it will almost certainly work.

Hi again, redfox. Every time you ask this same question, you get the same answers. They really aren't going to change much each time. I suggest that it's time for you to do some experiments in the field. Instead of asking us how much you can earn, go get a job and find out for yourself. Think about how much you might have earned by now if you had looked for a dancing job back in February, when you first posted here. Meanwhile, take a look back at some of your previous threads: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Linden-Dollars-L/If-i-become-a-dancer-on-secondlife-how-much-lindens-can-i-make/qaq-p/1374075 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Linden-Dollars-L/Can-i-make-over-20-bucks-a-month-if-i-become-a-dancer-on-Second/qaq-p/1375617 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Linden-Dollars-L/How-many-real-life-money-can-i-make-in-a-month-if-i-become-a-sl/qaq-p/1380249 http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Linden-Dollars-L/Can-males-become-dancers-on-sl/qaq-p/1380253

Well, I didn't have any luck tracking down the old thread that I mentioned yesterday, so it remains as a nagging mystery. If I have a flash of insight and find it again, I'll post here. Sorry. Meanwhile, a small distant voice reminds me that the texturing community has dealt with this challenge for a long time as they try to tile textures across various surfaces. There are a couple of useful grids and a brief discussion of relevant anaytical geometry at http://voidsinger.blogspot.com/2010/04/help-withtexture-mapping.html .

A sound always has to be preloaded before you can hear it play, so you shouldn't hear it the first time it is executed. You either have to call llPlaySound("sound_file",0.0); to play it at zero volume or call llPreloadSound("sound_file"); and THEN call llPlaySound("sound_file",1.0); or llLoopSound("sound_file",1.0); This limitation applies to each avatar who hears the sound, so if you have preloaded or played a sound and a new avatar arrives, he will not hear the sound until it has been preloaded or played once for him to hear. If you don't do that, each person will hear gaps or miss a sound altogether. One way around the problem is to run a script nearby that scans the area every 20 or 30 seconds for avatars. If it senses anyone, it triggers a timer event that plays each of your sound files in sequence at zero volume, thus preloading for the new arrival.

Thank you for posting the additional information. Firestorm has had some trouble with Leopard (Mac OS x10.5) in the past, but I think those problems are not there for Snow Leopard and later versions. In any case, however, those problems have to do with rendering textures, not with viewer stability. You should normally have no trouble with 10.6.8, as far as I know. Wireless may be part of your problem, as it is for many SL residents. Wireless is susceptible to interference from many sources, and is not a good choice for applications like SL that require continuous streaming of data. Try moving to a direct cable connection to see if that helps. If you have access to diagnostic software, test your connection for packet loss and for the ping time to San Francisco from your location, If the ping time is more than 200ms, your signal may be lagging enough to cause a timeout., and if you have more than a few tenths of a percent of packet loss, you may be losing critical data. If you are able to log in to SL at all, you can see both of those statistics on your Statistics Bar (CRTL + Shift + 1).

Almost two years ago there was a very good discussion in this forum about a similar problem. By the end of that thread, the OP had figured out how to solve it and had created a marketable product. I am trying very hard to remember his name now, and will look through snippets that I may have saved on my home computer this evening. It's a nice challenge.

Firestorm doesn't answer what? It is almost impossible to answer your question without knowing what sort of computer you have and something about its specs, its operating system, its Internet connection, and what error messages you have been getting (if any). The best that anyone here can do is make wild guesses and point you to a generic help page like this one >>> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_install_crash . To add helpful information to your question, click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread.

1. We are all SL residents like you. There are no Lindens here. We have no power to ban anyone. 2. The proper way to file a complaint is to submit an Abuse Report. See http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Filing-an-abuse-report/ta-p/700065 (You may also be interested in watching Torley's video on this topic >>> )3. Please remove the person's name from your post here. That is a violation of Community Standards that could result in an abuse complaint against you.

We're all SL residents like you. No Lindens ever come here. If you have a technical issue to report, the best way to do it is with a JIRA report.

Hmmm... Clearing cache will delete all downloaded textures from your own computer, forcing it to download textures all over again. The immediate result will be that EVERYTHING will look gray or untextured until the downloads are complete.

In general, if textures are not loading properly for you it's because your graphics card can't keep up with the number of textures that it is being asked to render. That might happen for several reasons ... You are on a very busy sim, so LL's servers are working very hard to keep track of where avatars and object are, and they don't have enough free time to send you all the textures around you. Your draw distance is too large, so your graphics card is trying to render many things that are far away instead of paying attention to nearby things. You don't have adequate bandwidth in your Internet connection to handle the amount of information being sent to your viewer. You have adequate bandwidth, but your Maximum Bandwidth setting in Preferences is too low. It should be about 75% of your connection's measured Download speed (see http://www.speedtest.net/ ) Your connection's ping time is too high (> 150ms), so it's taking a long time for data to reach you from LL's servers. There are other possible reasons too. You can control some of them, and others you just have to live with unless you can get a new graphics card, a new computer, or better service from your ISP. See here for a longer discussion >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-improve-Viewer-performance/ta-p/1316923

Easy. Just don't put your HUDs in the outfit folder. Open any folder that has one of your HUDs in it, and delete the link. The HUD itself will still be in your inventory and you will be able to wear it (that is, it will show up in your Current Outfit folder), but it won't be affected if you wear a different outfit. The extreme version of this is not to create any outfits at all. Then you can wear anything you like, mix & match, and change HUDs and articles of clothing without having to worry about what else might change. That's what I do.

What, what, what? I must have dozed off and missed the spam. (Darn the luck.) Anyway .... You're right, Peter. The mods are doing a great job staying ahead of spam and helping to redirect messages that get posted in the wrong forums. They have my vote. :smileyhappy:

The JIRA suggests a different method, but isn't the end result you want the same as using Firestorm's temporary upload feature? I use that all the time for trial uploads, to see what a texture looks like on a dress or on a building in progress, or to see whether I have the right shape on a sculpty. All you have to do is convince the LL developers to add that feature to V3 or, at least until then, use Firestorm.

An expiration date? What's going to expire? As far as I know, never having partnered myself, partnership proposals are not like dairy products that get blue and fuzzy if you keep them around too long. Click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT to explain what you mean. Please do NOT start a new thread.

That's very odd, but not unheard of. Your items may have rezzed but then sent immediately to the sim's garbage collection area -- at location <0,0,0> in the extreme SW corner of the sim. That's where the servers put things when they can't figure out what else to do with them. I visit that spot every couple of months on sims that I manage, and there's usually an item or two there. (Often my own items, actually, sent there because I put bogus coordinates in a rezzer. :smileytongue: ) Anyway, take a look. You might get lucky.

Aha! Utilizer-vous le spectateur Phoenix, ou un spectateur V1 ancienne? Si c'est le cas, vous devez fournir un deuxième nom ainsi que votre prénom. Votre nom est didi89 RESIDENT. Si vous avez oublié votre nom d'utilisateur ou mot de passe, suivez les instructions dans les informations d'identification du compte pour le récupérer >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Account-credentials/ta-p/700017#Section_.1 (En Anglais, tant pis.)

Character Test is one of the last things to try when you are ruthed, not the first thing. In almost all cases, it's way overkill for solving the problem. As others have suggested, see a 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. Frankly, if you have tried a character test and it hasn't worked, you are probably at that stage already. 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. If even that does not work, spend some time reading Nalates's blog for other suggestions about improving your connection >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/

Je viens de repondre a votre message en Anglais. Voyez ici ma traduction en Francais: Je ne comprends pas très bien votre question, je vais donc vous donner deux réponses: 1. Si vous avez été banni de Second Life, vous devriez avoir reçu un e-mail auprès de Linden Lab en expliquant pourquoi, et vous dire comment déposer un appel. Essentiellement, si vous croyez que c'est une erreur, présenter un ticket de support via le portail de support. Pour aider à déterminer ce soutien à la clientèle bloc a été placé et pourquoi, d'inclure dans le billet le nom de votre compte Second Life et tous les comptes de Second Life qui se connectent à partir de votre emplacement. Il n'y a pas d'autre adresse e-mail à utiliser pour cette fin. 2. Si vous avez été banni de sims spécifiques ou des colis dans Second Life, Linden Lab ne peut rien faire à ce sujet. C'est une affaire entre vous et celui qui est propriétaire du terrain. Les propriétaires fonciers ont le pouvoir de bannir toute personne de leur choix, pour une raison quelconque à tous --- ou pour aucune raison. Tout comme dans la RL, où vous pouvez parler à personne de quitter votre propre maison et ne jamais revenir, comme le peut un propriétaire terrien dans SL. Si vous pensez que le propriétaire a fait une erreur ou un mauvais jugement utilisé, vous allez essayer de discuter avec lui, mais il n'a pas besoin d'écouter. Trouver un autre endroit pour profiter de Second Life.

I do not understand your questiuon very well, so I will give you two answers: 1. If you have been banned from Second Life, you should have received an e-mail from Linden Lab explaining why, and telling you how to file an appeal. Essentially, if you believe that this is an error, submit a support ticket via the support portal. To help customer support determine what block has been placed and why, include in the ticket your Second Life account name and any Second Life accounts that log in from your location. There is no other e-mail address to use for this purpose. 2. If you have been banned from specific sims or parcels IN Second Life, Linden Lab cannot do anything about it. That is a matter between you and whoever owns the land. Landowners have authority to ban anyone that they choose, for any reason at all --- or for no reason. Just as in RL, where you may tell anyone to leave your own home and never return, so may a landowner in SL. If you think that the landowner has made a mistake or used poor judgment, you will try to discuss it with him, but he does not have to listen. Find somewhere else to enjoy in Second Life.