Rolig Loon

Are you using the Phoenix or Firestorm viewer? If so, you may have derendered that person by mistake. To rerender it you need to remove it from the blacklist. Access the Asset Blacklist from the Phoenix menu at the top of your screen. Click on the item you want to rerender, note avatars show as objects. Click the Remove button. Change your group tag, or teleport out and back. The object, or avatar will render in a few seconds.

This is a bug in the server code. See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7169? . Though this issue itself has just been fixed (As of Sept 14), Stone Linden has asked here for comments from anybody who has folders or objects permanantly stuck outside of inventory to report their cases on VWR-25276. LL normally only offers the inventory repair service to premium members, so if you have this issue, now is a good time to leave Stone a comment & maybe get a free fix

Go to your Advanced menu (CTRL + Alt + D) >> Debug Settings and type in "RememberPassword" . Change the default setting to FALSE. That will delete the current password from memnory as the user logs out, forcing the next user to type their on password in. As far as I know, there is no comparable debug setting for removing your login name, but without a password the name is useless anyway. Do check to be sure, however, that the debug setting "AutoLogin" is set to its default as FALSE, so that the viewer does NOT automatically log the next person in with the previous person's name and password.

If you typed CTRL + Shift + G while you were on the login page, your should have seen a new dropdown menu open on your lower taskbar. Open that menu and select Second Life Beta, which is the same thing as Aditi. Then log in. You will be on the Aditi grid. To log in to the Main grid next time you log in, you'll have to do the same trick, but select Second Life , which is the same thing as Agni (the Main grid). ETA: Oh, I know what you mean.... You specified "Last location", but that location where you were the last time you logged in was on the Main grid. It doesn't exist on Aditi, so the servers landed you at "a nearby location." Look at the L$ balance at the top of your screen. If it says L$25,000, you are on the Aditi grid. That's play money. You can use it there, but not move it to your real account on the main grid.

You'll have some problems with scaling, because a sim in SL is 256m x 256m and I'm sure that your RL campus is much larger than that. If you scale the buildings to fit within a sim, they will be too small for anyone to enter. Also, making buildings look like their RL counterparts will take a lot of modelling skill (and probably a lot of prims). You do have some choices to make, therefore. For example, you could do a scale layout of your campus and put a kiosk or some totemic object at each spot where a RL building ought to be, explaining what's there and displaying a few photos. If you have loads of cash at your disposal, however, and want to see how one university has done a full-scale model of its campus, visit Rutgers University in world at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/RUCE%203/217/77/38 and then talk with their SL architect, Ceera Murakami.

They will cost you L$10 per animation (about 4 cents USD) to upload, no matter where you got them from or how you made them. ETA: If you are testing animations and want to save your L$, you can always upload to the Aditi grid, where it won't cost you anything at all. You will eventually need to pay the upload fee for your finished anim when you upload it to the Main grid, but Aditi can save you money during testing.. See >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Aditi

(1) Go into appearance and adjust your noob hair to be as short as you can get it (2) Wear a better bald cap. They aren't all created equal. :smileytongue:

Well, your small problem is relatively easy to handle. If you really want to use the camera control viewpad, take a look at this JIRA report >>> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-1647 . You are not alone. There is a bug that apparently causes a delay when you just click on the control. You can beat it, sort of, by clicking and dragging, just holding the mouse button -- which is a nuisance -- or you can use the keyboard/mouse shortcuts until they fix it. Frankly, I never waste valuable screen space with the amera control viewpad anyway. Keyboard shortcuts are here >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Camera-point-of-view-controls/ta-p/700047. Your other problems are all avatar baking issues, probably related to communication between your computer and SL's servers. The problem is that any changes you make to your appearance are baked on your machine and must then be uploaded to SL. If you have been using wireless, if it has been a while since you rebooted your router, or if there are other issues affecting data transmission, the changes on your machine won't sync properly with SL. Try the solutions at http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=fs_bake_fail , starting with the simplest ones at the top of their list and working down till you find one that works. I also suggest at least rebooting your router.

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Clearing cache isn't likely to make any difference. Especially because you say that you are freezing, not simply looking like a "cloud" or an "egg," I think your fundamental problem is an unreliable Internet connection. Start with the simplest solutions first: (1) If you are using wireless, don't. Wireless gives lots of people in SL a hard time. You are vulnerable to interference from cell phones, garage door openers, the mobile phone from the guy next door, your "smart" refrigerator, and every other wireless device in the area. (2) Reboot your router. Its RAM gradually gets clogged with garbage over time, and it can lose its grip on your IP address. Unplug it from the power and walk away. Come back in a few minutes and plug it in again. It will be refreshed and ready to go. (3) Change your DNS settings. Instead of using whatever your ISP assigns you as a default, switch to Google's free public DNS servers. To see how, go here >>> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html. (4) Open your Statistics Bar (CTRL + Shift + 1). Look at the numbers for Ping Sim and Packet Loss. Ping im is a measure of how long it takes for a signal to get to SL's servers from your machine. If it's much more than 100 or so, it's taking too long. Packet Loss is a measure of how much data is being lost along the way. If it's much more than a fraction of a percent, that's too much. You can do more sophisticated diagnoses ( See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Checking_for_packet_loss_%28network_lag%29), but resolving a problem may mean having a conversation with your ISP.

This is a recognized issue (https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-27066), and it's frustrating. The only apparent cure is to completely remove all traces of your viewer from your computer and re-install with a fresh download. See >>> http://blog.nalates.net/2011/02/22/second-life-clean-install/ for the best instructions about how to do a clean reinstall. If you continue trying to install a new copy on top of the borked one that is there, you may inherit damaged files and continue to get the error. Of course, another very good option is to install one of the excellent Third Party Viewers. If you like the look of LL's V3 viewer, I recommend Firestorm, which is available at http://www.phoenixviewer.com/downloads.php

I've never had any use for that camera control viewpad myself. It uses up valuable real estate on my screen, blocking things that I would rather see. I find it much faster (and smoother) to use either my mouse or my arrow keys in conjunction with Alt, CTRL, and Shift. Those shortcuts are all described here >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Camera-point-of-view-controls/ta-p/700047. If you really want to use the camera control viewpad, though, take a look at this JIRA report >>> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/STORM-1647 . You are not alone. There is a bug that apparently causes a delay when you just click on the control. You can beat it, sort of, by clicking and dragging -- which is a nuisance -- or you can use the keyboard/mouse shortcuts until they fix it.

Aranuia wrote: Thank you! That was the solution - except the opposite! The preferences bar was up high - when I moved it down then I could see the walls! WooHoo! I am so pleased for you. Yes, having the quality slider set way too high can do that too. Again, it's a matter of telling your graphics card to do a lot more work than it is capable of, so it gets wonky trying to comply. I'm glad my guess was wrong. This is a lot easier to live with. :smileytongue:

Items are commonly boxed for sale, so they may show up in your Objects folder rather than in Clothing, where you might expect them. See >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Opening-boxes/ta-p/700185 , where you will find information about locating boxes in your inventory and then opening them to unpack your clothes. If you find that the items were actually not delivered, however ..... 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. 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. (I rarely buy more than 2 things at a time.) (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.

You don't need to, but life will be a lot easier if you do, at least if you are making sculpties. Sculpties have very strict geometry requirements, so if you mess up when you are modelling in Blender, you'll get a useless UV map when you try to apply it in SL. For sculpties, then, the best route is to get Jass-2, which is a bundled package containing Blender, Python, and Domino Marama's Primstar plugin for easy export to SL. See >>> http://blog.machinimatrix.org/jass/ . There are also incredible tutorials at that site. Jass-2 itself is available in world at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Jass/145/193/25. If you are creating mesh objects in Blender, you don't have to worry about the restrictive geometry of sculpties, so all you need to do is export your model as a Collada (dae) file. SL lets you import that directly. No need for a plugin to Blender. Do visit the web site that I referenced above, though, because it also has wonderful tutorials (and other information) about mesh modelling for SL.

Read http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Private-Regions/ta-p/700133 to learn about living in places other than the Mainland. Those of us who live on private regions or estates pay rent to a private landowner who has bought the land and pays LL tier for it. That tier costs more than on the Mainland, but the landowner has complete control over the land. That includes much broader ability to terraform and texture the land, to establish a local covenant (essentially a zoning code) to define how the land may be used, to restart the sim's servers, and even to determine whether the sun rises in the morning or not. As a result, rents can be higher on private regions, but so can the benefits. I doubt that the profit margin is much different in the end, so private landowners aren't making more than their Mainland cousins. Still, it's a different way to live. Incidentally, I don't know of any valid statistics about home ownership, but I suspect your statement that "most of us have a house or some sort of home" is far from true. I spent my first three years in SL without owning or renting a home, and I can easily point to many people who have no need for one.

Ooops. Don't panic. It happens. 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 explaining what happened and 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.

Probably nothing, but that's not particularly encouraging. When your viewer is installed, it sets your graphics quality slider automatically at the highest level that it thinks your computer can handle. In your case, it may have determined that your graphics card will have a hard time rendering textures and won't be able to keep up with the amount of information it's getting, so it has taken preventive measures. Open Preferences (CTRL + P) >>> Graphics and take a look. (You may need to click the Advanced button on that page to see the whole thing.) If the quality slider at the top of the page is set to LOW, the viewer has determined that your computer can just barely handle Second Life. As a result, it has also set the draw distance slider to a very low value -- 64m or less. With a low draw distance, your computer's graphics card won't even try to show you anything unless it's very close to you. That keeps your lag minimal and keeps your graphics card from overheating and self-destructing. Try experimentally moving that draw distance slider to a higher value and see whether you start to see walls and other things. If so, you will probably also find that you will move very slowly when you try to walk.... like walking in a high wind. That's lag, and it's the tradeoff for making your graphics card work harder. I hope that I have guessed completely wrong. If so, we can both be very happy. With what you have said, though, it sounds like your computer is doing the best it can. :smileysad:

Because you didn't change the default setting for Everyone when you created the group. Open the Group's page and click on the Members&Roles tab. Then click the Roles tab there and highlight the Everyone role. Look at the bottom of the page, where it lists Allowed Abilities, and scroll the list down until you see Accounting. (You might have to stretch the window to see it, if your window is too small.) You should have UNchecked the box that says "Pay group liabilites and receive group dividends." In fact, if you wanted to be the only person who pays liabilities, you should have unchecked that box for all other roles. Read more about Group Liabilities and other very important information regarding group management at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Managing-your-group-memberships/ta-p/700117

There's nothing indicated in the Grid Status Reports, so if there's a problem, it isn't widespread. I suggest calling the LL billing office and talking to someone who can look at your account closely. Their billing team is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Toll-Free (US/Canada) 800.294.1067 Long-Distance 703.286.6277 Local Toll-Free numbers * 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

You are wearing a modesty skin. LL provides them as the default skins for newbies, because they don't want teens to be shocked by seeing "naughty" parts of their bodies. Open your Inventory's Library folder >> Clothing subfolder and look for outfits that have different skins. Double click on one after another until you find one that is (a) non-modesty and (b) attractive enough that you don't mind wearing it. (You'll probably want to do this in a nice, private place so that YOU don't shock the teens.) Then, sometime when you are feeling ready for an exciting shopping trip, start visiting skin stores and collecting demos that you can try on at home. When you find one that you REALLY like, buy it and start to feel like yourself. :smileyhappy: BTW, you can buy good skins for relatively little money ( $100 -L$500 or so, or even free), but the great ones will cost L$1,000 and up. They are worth the price. Try them and see. :smileywink:

I sent you an UNdeformer in world. See if it works for you.

You really ought to file a JIRA report on this one (http://jira.secondlife.com). There have been several somewhat similar reports this year, as you'll see if you search the JIRA for "mesh crashes", but most are poorly documented or seem to have cured themselves. I suspect that some graphics cards may overload if they need to render complex mesh objects, but the developers would need to know your system specs and something about the specific mesh that makes you crash if they have any hope of figuring out why.

If you are in a Linden home, you have a total prim allowance of 117 prims. Your house doesn't count against that total (That's a special feature, only true for Linden homes. Everyplace else, your house counts against the prim allowance for the parcel.) You can do quite a lot of decorating within 117 prims, but only if you pay close attention to how many prims each object you rez takes. You can find a good sculpty sofa that uses only 3 or 4 prims, for example, but you can find others that easily have 20 prims or more. I have a vase of prim roses that use 75 prims. (I never rez it.) Anyway, shop wisely and stay within a prim budget. The only way to increase your prim allowance is to own more land, and that costs L$.

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. 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.