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  1. If the solutions at http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=fs_bake_fail aren't working, it's because you have a connection problem . If the necessary information about your appearance 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 file. You can cure it temporarily, perhaps, but if the transmission problem is still there, the bake fail issue will just keep coming back. Try the ideas at >> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ . BTW, my own simple first suggestion is to get off of wireless, if you have been using it. That simple move cures all sorts of problems.
  2. The simplest teleporter, if you are going less than 10m, is simply a prim that moves to the new location when you sit on it and then returns when you stand up. With no frills at all, that's .... vector gTarget = <128,128,23>; // Your own target coordinate go here. Must be within 10m of gHomevector gHome;default{ state_entry() { gHome = llGetPos(); llSitTarget(<0.0,0.0,0.1>,ZERO_ROTATION); } changed (integer change) { if(llAvatarOnSitTarget()) { llSetPos(gTarget); llUnSit(llAvatarOnSitTarget()); } else { llSetPos(gHome); } }} You'll want frills, but that's the basics.
  3. The best, fastest, most reliable way is to buy L$ through the Lindex >>> https://secondlife.com/my/lindex/buy.php . You can earn money in world, but it's hard to earn very much unless you have a good marketable skill (building, texturing, scripting....) and want to devote a lot of time to it. Frankly, you can earn a lot more money a lot faster with a job in SL, and you won't be spending your relaxation time in SL working. With the incredible number of good quality freebies, you don't need much money anyway. Skip your morning coffee and doughnut a couple of times and you'll have saved enough to buy most of what you need in SL for a month or more.
  4. That's because you are ttrying to enter SL from a web site. You can do that, but only after you have downloaded and installed a viewer >>> https://secondlife.com/support/downloads/?lang=en-US . Take a good look here for how to get started in SL >> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Second-Life-Quickstart/ta-p/1087919
  5. You may have several problems at once, but they all boil down to a weak Internet connection. Take the fluffy white cloud .... 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 file. 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 possibilitites 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. Now, since you are also having problems teleporting, I suspect that the best you can do by solving the bake fail problem alone is a temporary fix. The weak connection is just going to mess up your Appearance file again. Here's one of the best places to look for advice on fixing your connection >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ As you say, there may be a firewall problem as well. If so, see >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Configure_your_software_firewall
  6. You can abandon your Linden home. Just stand in it and click World >> About Land (or Parcel Details, depending on your viewer)and then select Abandon Land. Then you are free to apply for a new Linden Home the same way you applied for the first one.
  7. There are many reasons why you might get that message. Normally, it means that you may have been suspended or banned. If so, you should have received an e-mail explaining why. If you haven't received an e-mail like that, your account may also have been put on hold by mistake, or for an administrative reason -- maybe someone else has been using your account for phishing or other unauthorized purposes. In any case, the only people who can take your account off hold again are at Linden Lab. Read http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Why_is_my_account_on_hold%3F for more details and to find out what you can do next. However .... especially if you are new to SL, there may be a simple and much less frightening reason. You could just have a weak Internet connection. Try two things ......... (1) If you are using wireless, don't. Wireless connections are not stable for the sort of continuous data-swapping enviroment that SL runs in. It is also vulnerable to interference from garage door openers, cell phones, smart appliances, fluorescent lights, and the guy next door building a TARDIS. (2) Your router may need to be rebooted. Unplug it from the power for a few minutes. When you plug it back it, it will have had a chance to clear its RAM and get a fresh look at an IP address.
  8. Ummm.. Not true. Physical objects respond very nicely to gravity, and so do avatars. That's why we stay on the ground when we walk. You're probably thinking of non-physical objects, which stay where you put them.
  9. It's always hard to answer a question about a specific card. Many people have no trouble with any card you can name; others seem to have trouble no matter which card they use. Sinc you asked, however, we've had quite a few complaints from people using the ATI Radeon 6770M card, as you have noticed by doing a search of the Answers archives. One astute resident gave a good summary of the main problem: "Be aware that there is an issue if it is in a laptop with switchable graphics. The current version of the Catalyst Control Center for the switchable graphics does not allow a Second Life viewer to run. I have a prior version just a few weeks old that functions just fine though. The difference is that the earlier version, in my dv7t for example, allows the user to designate the default GPU for the unit overall and SL runs just fine. In the current version the graphics card is assigned on an application-by-application basis and because the Intel GPU is seen by the SL viewer before it initializes, it reports improper installation or improper drivers and then shuts down." Also, note that ATI cards in general have had recurring problems with some OpenGL features. You may need to disable OpenGL Virtual Buffer Objects (VBO) in Preferences or disable A.I. in Catalyst to keep from crashing. See >> http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=ati
  10. Be sure that you are sending invitations to Usernames, not Display Names. Also, send invitation to people who are in world. If they are not in world and their messages are capped, your invitations will be lost.
  11. That is very wierd. When you stretch a prim, it's not being done client side. So if you can see it, everyone else should be able to see it too.
  12. Create a renter's group and invite each new renter to join it, giving them a minimal role. Deed each of the small parcels to the group and keep your own private parcel separate. Make sure the group is by invitation only and that you don't give them the ability to invite or toss members. When a renter leaves, remove her/him from the group.
  13. What is your question? If you have only paid for a Premium membership through the end of this month, then you will need to pay for the next period by then. If you do not cancel your membership by that date, it will automatically be renewed and any fees will be charged to your account.
  14. They should be delivered to you automatically if you are in world. Then all you need to do at each prompt in IMs from Marketplace is click the Accept button. That will send them to your inventory. However .... It can sometimes take anywhere from a few minutes to a day or more for your items to be delivered, especially if the merchant's Magic Box is temporarily out of service or the sim it's on is offline. Not that it helps now, but to remember for the future: (1) Don't overuse the shopping cart. It is easily confused if you put more than a couple of things in it. Until LL changes the delivery system by replacing the current Magic Box system, there is a strong probability that you can overwhelm the ability of a Magic Box by asking it to deliver several things at once. It is much wiser to place multiple small orders than to place a single large one, and it is ever smarter to use Marketplace as a catalog system and then visit merchants' shops in world to make your actual purchases. (2) Don't buy things from Marketplace (especially LOTS of things) unless you are in world to receive them at the time. We each have an "in box" that holds IMs, notecards, group notices, group invitations, and anything that is delivered to us if we aren't in world at the time. That "in box" can only hold 25 things, total. If anything else comes in, it isn't saved. It is gone ... poof .... forever. If you have a mess of things delivered from Marketplace and half your friends send you notecards, that in box will be capped and you will never know what happened. Failure to follow these guidelines can lead to non-delivery or loss of items or, at the least, a lot of frustrating time spent communicating with merchants or with LL to locate them.
  15. That "issue" with Phoenix is simply a matter of Phoenix being a V1 codebase viewer, not designed for viewing mesh objects. To view mesh, you must be using a V2 codebase viewer (either LL's own or Firestorm, which is also V2). Non-compatible viewers will see only the unrendered shape, usually a sphere. There are two exceptions: (1) The Cool viewer, created by Henry Beauchamp, is a V1 viewer but has been modified to be mesh compatible, and (2) the newly-released upgrade to Phoenix (as of last week) uses Beauchamp's code to make it mesh-compatible too. Updates usually do not remove the previous version because many people prefer to keep older viewers around, to reinstall in the (highly) likely event that the new upgrade has serious bugs and will not run properly.
  16. 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 file. 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 possibilitites 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. BTW, one of the first things to suspect is the type of connections that you and your GF are each using. If you are using a wireless connection, that could be the cause of the problem. Wireless is not a reliable method for connecting to SL. It loses bandwidth easily and is likely to suffer from interference from cell phones, garage door openers, and even fluorescent light fixtures.
  17. You might try using llSetKeyframedMotion and randomizing the amount of rotation. Something like this.... default{ state_entry() { llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(LINK_THIS, [PRIM_PHYSICS_SHAPE_TYPE, PRIM_PHYSICS_SHAPE_CONVEX]); } touch_start(integer total_number) { float spin = llFrand(10.0); list MoveList; integer i; for (i=0;i<10;++i) { MoveList +=[llEuler2Rot(<0.0,spin*PI/10,0.0>),spin/10]; } llSetKeyframedMotion(MoveList,[KFM_DATA,KFM_ROTATION]); }}
  18. Marketplace items can show as "Delivered" even if they are not. That message means that Marketplace has asked the merchant's Magic Box (an in-world storage and delivery mechanism) to send you the item you ordered. It can sometimes take anywhere from a few minutes to a day or more for your items to be delivered, especially if the merchant's Magic Box is temporarily out of service or the sim it's on is offline.The Magic Box system is due to be replaced in the very near future, but we live with its shortcomings for now. Not that it helps now, but to remember for the future: (1) Don't overuse the shopping cart. It is easily confused if you put more than a couple of things in it. (2) Don't buy things from Marketplace (especially LOTS of things) unless you are in world to receive them at the time. We each have an "in box" that holds IMs, notecards, group notices, group invitations, and anything that is delivered to us if we aren't in world at the time. That "in box" can only hold 25 things, total. If anything else comes in, it isn't saved. It is gone ... poof .... forever. If you have a mess of things delivered from Marketplace and half your friends send you notecards, that in box will be capped and you will never know what happened. So, what do you do now? ....... To get a record of the individual items in your order, open Marketplace and click the My Marketplace menu at the top of the page. Select My Account >> Order History from the pulldown menu. If you do not receive items within about 24 hours, you should cut and paste the information about a missing item from that Order History and send it in a IM or notecard to the merchant, along with a polite message requesting redelivery. Most merchants are very kind and willing to redeliver. This happens all the time and they are aware of it. Do be patient, though. Not everyone logs in to SL every day or checks their e-mail. If you still haven't heard in another day or two, follow it up with a second polite note and finally, if you STILL haven't heard, file a support ticket at https://support.secondlife.com/create-case/ , selecting Marketplace from the pulldown menu.
  19. I agree. ~llListFindList(data, [variable]) has the advantages of using a system function and operating without the inherent slowness of a for loop. Try this simple solution .... list main_list = ["BOB", "JOE","SAM","JANE","SUE","PAM"];default{ state_entry() { llListen(-11223344,"","",""); } touch_start(integer total_number) { llTextBox(llDetectedKey(0),"What are you looking for?",-11223344); } listen (integer channel, string name, key id, string msg) { if( ~channel = llListFindList(main_list,[msg])) { llSay(0, msg + " is in the main_list at position " + (string)channel); } else { llSay(0, msg + "is not in the main_list."); } }}
  20. I haven't noticed this myself, but try an experiment..... Are you wearing objects that have a shiny texture? If you can (that is, if you have mod perms on the objects), try using your Edit tool >> Texture to set the Shininess to "None" . There's a JIRA ( https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SH-2511 ) that may be relevant to what you are seeing, and the problem has been traced to bump mapping being loaded incorrectly. If that's what's creating your flickering objects, LL already has a fix for the next upgrade of the viewer.
  21. The "Waiting for Region Handshake" message occurs when the Second Life Viewer does not receive an acknowledgement from the server. The usual cause of this error is a firewall blocking UDP packets. Reconfigure your firewall to resolve this problem. For information on how to configure firewalls, see: Configuring your firewall How do I configure my software firewall? Second Life IP addresses firewall configuration Configuring your corporate firewall to allow access to Second Life About content filters
  22. Rolig Loon

    HELP!!!

    Not MY pink ones.
  23. Rolig Loon

    HELP!!!

    blackstare wrote: can you help me with a problem with my controls case every time i try to click on the pink balls it won't let me do anything but sit!!!:matte-motes-evil: That's what a pose ball is supposed to do. You sit on it, and while you are seated you cannot move anywhere else. It is "posing" you in that particular animation at that particular spot. It does not need to ask your permission to do that. Permission is granted automatically when you choose to sit and is released again when you stand up.
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