Rolig Loon

Do you log out of the site when you leave it, or do you just close your browser window? There is a Log Out link in the far upper right corner of the page, next to your name.

NO. That stupid rumor has been running around for at least as long as I have been in SL. It just won't die. Let me quote Rhett Linden (with his permission), who told the SL Educators list on September 21, "I wanted to set the record straight. We are not planning to do anything with your accounts or alt accounts. It's in our interest to ensure you have access to your account."

Angel is right. You will be very lucky to get any SL viewer to run on your machine. It has an inadequate graphics card and very low memory in CPU. If you can enter with the old 1.23 viewer, be prepared to use Low graphics settings so that you don't have excessive lag

Sorry, there really isn't. Live Chat is a service for Premium members as part of the benefit package they get for paid membership. If you choose not to have a paid membership --- as I don't either --- then you aren't entitled to the benefit. You have two choices now: (1) Pay for Premium membership, which is a rather minimal cost for the year or (2) enter SL with an alt account. There are open JIRA reports on the illegal character issue (See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-6608, for example), so you may want to add your own observations there, if you think they will help LL's developers find a solution.

No, this is not Live Chat. If you ever need Live Chat, just go to https://support.secondlife.com/contact-support/. If you are a Premium member, the link should be on the right side of the page. The answer to your SSL question is easy, however. Close your web browser and log in again with the Internet Explorer browser. You should be able to navigate to the profile page with it. When you have done that once, your computer will have the proper certificate for the site, so you may go back to using your preferred browser. For the future ... If you have a question for us in Answers, please start a new thread. When you add your question to someone else's unrelated thread, it will very likely go unnoticed and unanswered. You got lucky this time.

Alazarin Mondrian wrote: Does your ISP throttle your connection if you have too much traffic and/or exceed a monthly bandwidth limit? That's a very good possibility. I am told that ISPs in the UK, for example, often ration bandwidth at peak usage times. If you are entering the Internet from a corporate site, your company's IT managers may also restrict heavy bandwidth use during office hours. In the U.S., many college campuses do that in residence halls as well.

See the answers to your identical post in SL Answers >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Avatar/How-to-be-a-Designer-of-Custom-Skins-and-start-a-Business/qaq-p/1166611

There are many reasons for that very common problem. What works 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. If the problem really does occur every time you log in, then you have a chronic connection problem that needs to be addressed. Pay close attention to your router, which is often the weakest link in your connections to the Internet. See if rebooting it helps (unplug it from the power source and walk away for a few minutes, then plug it back in and then reboot your computer).

From http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clean_Install: If you are receiving an error when starting the Second Life viewer that says your graphics card is unsupported or your graphics drivers are out of date and you know that your card meets the system requirements, than this procedure will most often correct the problem. Usually this message appears when you have upgraded from a previous version of Windows, or when a Windows Update conflicts with an installed graphics driver. It can also mean that Windows Update has installed a graphics driver for you that does not have full support for SecondLife or that your graphics driver is not Windows certified. Download the latest graphics driver from the chipset manufacturer (ATI, Nvidia, or Intel) not the maker of your graphics card or computer. Save the file where you can easily find it, but do not install it yet. Run Windows Update and make sure your system is fully patched. (Optional) You may download Driver Sweeper or a similar utility to remove all traces of your old driver. Reboot your computer and enter Safe Mode by pressing F8 at the Windows logo screen. Uninstall your old video driver. You can either use Driver Sweeper or Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager (steps will vary: this applies to Windows XP) and then opening "Display Adapters" and right-click and choose "Uninstall." Reboot your computer. If Windows displays a message that it found new hardware, do not let it automatically install drivers. Instead, run the installation program that you downloaded in step 1. Reboot your computer You should now have a clean version of your video driver. You should also be aware that there is a long history of ATI cards not working well with SL. See, for example, https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SH-2412 , which describes a design flaw in ATI cards that results in inefficient memory use in the GPU and significant lag for SL users.

Thinkerer Melville wrote: I am using MySL a lot now that more capabilities have been added: MySL = my.secondlife.com  TKR I haven't found a good reason to use my.secondlife.com, except to log in and set all of my privacy parameters to their maximum settings. I see all of my SL friends in world regularly, so I have no need for that site.

I wake up in the morning. If I'm still here, I'm inspired.

Opening a business is extremely easy. If you want to sell through Marketplace, all you need to do is follow the instructions here >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Selling-in-the-Marketplace/ta-p/700193 . It doesn't cost you a thing to place items there for sale. LL takes a 5% commission on anything your sell, and you can pay through the nose for special ad placement outside of your store. Other than that, though, there are no direct costs. Selling through an in-world shop is almost as easy. You will need to rent a shop somewhere, so that's a recurring cost (Still, not more than a few dollars USD a month, though). You may find the information here interesting and helpful >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-market-your-products/ta-p/700181. You can always count on indirect costs. Materials (textures, software, animations....) are one-time costs that you amortize over the life of your products. Advertizing costs something, whether it's the ad placements in Marketplace or a classified ad, or a billboard in world. And of course there's your time. Creators in SL almost always undervalue their time, because nobody is going to buy your SL products if you charge reasonable RL rates for your time. A really good skin can sell for a few thousand Lindens, but that's still only $10-$15 USD. Considering the time it takes to create one, that's not much.

@Marigold --- Way to make me feel really old, Mari. I remember 48 ..... about 20 years ago. :smileysad: I agree with both Val and Marigold. I can't understand the hype about FB and Twitter. Nothing beats sitting down face to face in a coffee shop. Social networks seem terribly pointless and inane to me.

Check to be sure that you are using the person's username, not a Display name. Display names are handy and friendly, but they are like nicknames in RL. The system doesn't recognize them for anything really important like logging in, making a payment, or banning.

VLF? Maybe you mean VFS? In any case, you aren't the only one. It sounds like you have a corrupted file or two in your viewer installation, so the best solution is to do a clean reinstall. That involves wiping the current viewer files off your computer first, before you download and install a fresh copy. That way, you won't be loading the new one on top of the old, borked one and inheriting its bad files. Follow the instructions at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clear_Cache to clear your cache manually from outside SL. The same information is also at http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=clean_reinstall .

There are many reasons for that very common problem. What works 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.

I think that is really cool. If he does a diligent search, he might find an animation like he is describing, but he'll probably do much better with a custom anim. He could learn to do it himself. It's loads of fun, and many people have done it before him. If he wants a really GREAT job, of course, he'll ask a MoCap expert to create one for him, for a price. The script will almost certainly need to be customized to his specific application, but he could learn to do that too --- or hire a pro.

It may not be her ISP, but it certainly sounds like a hardware problem at her location. My bet would be the router. As Peggy says, the easy way to tell is to plug her computer directly into the modem, bypassing the router completely. If it works fine, you know the router is bad and needs servicing or replacing. If it still gives her problems, then the ISP really does need to test its cables near her location.

It is a little confusing, I admit. Perhaps the best way to answer is to point you to some things to read. You can think of animations as something like 3D movies. They are a complex set of instructions that act directly on your avatar to make its arms, legs, torso, and everything else move. You can learn about how animations are made by reading http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/How_to_create_animations and watching Torley's video at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorial/Creating_%26_uploading_animations . Now, something needs to turn the animation on at the right time. So, if the animation is the 3D movie -- I know it's a weird analogy, but hang with me here -- the script is like the projector that you need for showing the movie. You use a script to get the avatar's permission to animate it in the first place, to position it in the right place, to rez any objects (like a book) that might need to be part of the effect, to trigger other actions (playing a sound or flashing a light, maybe), and to send or receive any messages. This part of the process is just as tricky as making the animation itself. You can read more about it here >>> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:LSL_Animation and in the links it offers. ETA: The "LSL Viewer" you mentioned is really the LSL Editor, the in-world system that scripters use for writing and compiling their scripts. If you want to start down that road, I'd recommend following some of the tutorials at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:LSL_Tutorials

I do like your solution, Ceera. Elegant simplicity. And Drongle's :smileywink: There's always more than one solution to a structural challenge.

Nice work so far. :smileyhappy: OK.... llDetectedTouch functions give you a vector as output. The X and Y components tell you relative positions on their respective axes, on a scale from 0.0 to 1.0 with the <0,0> position inthe lower left (southwest) corner of the touched face (or texture, depending on which function you used). The Z coordinate is meaningless. So, you can use that information to find exactly what spot a user clicked, or what area s/he clicked in. touch_start(integer num){ vector My_Pos = llDetectedTouchST(0); integer Face = llDetectedTouchFace(0); if (( My_Pos.x <= 0.5) && (My_Pos.y <=0.5)) { llSay(0,"You just touched somewhere in the SW corner of face #" + (string)Face); }} As for your other question.... You'll need to use a timer event. Fire the first animation in the touch_start event and set a timer for however long it takes to complete that animation. Then fire the second animation in the timer event. Don't forget to turn off the timer after it fires. The only major thing that's missing from your script is a run_time_permissions event. It's being triggered by the llRequestPermissions function in your attach event, but you need the run_time_permissions event to actually process the permission request. The wise thing would be to use that event to pass control to a second state, in which you place the touch_start event and the timer. That way, those events can't be triggered until permission is given.

You can't do that. There's no way to sit on an attachment. You can both sit on the same object and you can control the object to make it move, however. Some of those systems are very convincing.

Pretty much any instant translator uses Google's system. I know that's true of the popular free translators (Universal and Simbolic) and of the built-in translators that most viewers use. There is no substitute waiting in the wings. I'm afraid we will have no alternative but cutting and pasting through Google Translate (http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=mT) or Babelfish (http://babelfish.yahoo.com/). That's slow and clumsy, unfortunately, but we're stuck.

If I'm buying furniture, I do it in world. That's really the only way to see how big it is, how many prims it has, and what it looks like from all sides. You can't get that information as easily by looking at a picture in someone's Marketplace store. I'd hate to lay out L$ for a sofa and then find out that it is way too low, has lousy sit animations built into it, and looks goofy in my living room. Go to a showroom, kick the tires, compare with other furniture, and then buy. BTW, you can see how many prims there are on a sofa in that store by selecting it with your edit tool and looking at the prim count on the General page.

If you have rebooted your router and modem as Peggy suggested in answer to your previous post (http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/SL-logging-me-out/qaq-p/1164163) and are no longer using wireless, and you are still having trouble, the next thing to try is reassigning the DNS settings you have been using. I suggest using the Google public DNS servers instead of the ones that your ISP has assigned you by default. You can learn how to do this by reading here >>> http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html . If that doesn't solve your problem, you'll need to look at your Statistics Bar (CTRL + Shift + 1) to see whether you have excessive packet loss (greater thn 0.1%) or a high Ping Sim rate (greater than about 100). Given the results of things we have already suggested, a high reading on either of hose may indicate either that your router is failing or that your ISP is having trouble. Incidentally, if you need to come back and add further information or ask for more help, do NOT open yet another question. Just add information to this one by clicking the Options link in its upper right corner and selecting EDIT.