Rolig Loon

You can easily lose items if you somehow exceed the parcel's prim allowance. Normally, if you try to rez an object that has a L.I. higher that your available allowance, the server will just refuse to rez it. However, you could increase the parcel's total L.I. accidentally in several ways that don't involve rezzing a new object. You could convert an object to Convex Hull, forgetting that it contains torus elements or prims that have been tortured. Those can have a surprisingly high L.I. when converted. So can some sculpty objects. If you suddenly have more L.I. than allowed, the server's response is to delete rezzed items without warning. If you own less than the entire region, a neighbor might do something like that and exceed the region's allowance. Again, you could lose rezzed items as the servers try to bring the total down. And some no-copy items aren't just returned; they vanish. I've had that sort of thing happen more than once. The most dramatic time was the day -- years ago -- that I converted my entire prim house to Convex Hull by mistake. I had meant to convert a piece of furniture and missed. Not only did the house vanish, but so did half of the forest around it.

It sounds like the sort of mean trick someone might play on a newbie. You have triggered an animation that may stop on its own once you leave the region. Try either teleporting to another region or logging out and then logging in to your home location. If that doesn't solve the problem, you may have unwittingly accepted some scripted attachment that contains the animation. Teleport to a quiet, private spot somewhere (your home location or maybe the bottom of a lake). Open your inventory's WORN tab and start methodically taking off everything that you are wearing, one item at a time. When the animation stops, you'll know what it was in. Delete it, get dressed again, and rejoin life as a happy person.

Yeah, that one has been with us for ages too. It's annoying but fortunately not frequent enough to be more than a nuisance.

There's a reasonably good list in the LSL wiki at https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LSL_Alternate_Editors , and if you search through the archives of this forum you'll see that someone asks about editors about once every six months or so. There's no shortage of favorites. I happen to like Sublime Text, although I am just as likely to do my scripting live inworld with the editor in the viewer. The ones that most scripters use are kept up to date pretty regularly as LL adds new functions, so which one you choose is really a matter of personal preference.

Yeah, that has annoyed me for sixteen years now. I have become accustomed to tabbing manually when I am using the editor in the viewer. When I use Sublime Text, of course, it's not an issue. I know there are people who don't get worried about such things since the compiler doesn't care, but indentation helps me keep track of scopes in a script. Besides, a script should be attractive too.

That's a common challenge. You might want to take a look in the Best Scripter Tips sticky thread at the top of this forum. Near the top, you'll find a short post I made there about several things that scripters can do if they need more than one timer in a script. It's not an exhaustive list, but it hits some of the common tricks in LSL.

See the examples in the LSL wiki at https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/No_sensor#Examples. And then, in general, familiarize yourself with the wiki resource. There are some good starter tutorials there as well.

You and I have been here (SL and mostly in the forums) for longer than most, Lindal, and we've spent most of those years helping people. Along the way, you've helped me more than you know. It's more than just the responses we have learned to give; you've taught me about precision and clarity and about patience. For all of that and for your friendship over the years, I thank you. Outside of SL, we've both had the good luck to be mentored by the same person early in our careers, so his influence has shaped the way we both look at problems/opportunities. That helps too. He modelled ways to say what you mean, hold to a clear sense of direction, and -- as he once told me -- not to say things that you would be embarrassed to see quoted on a billboard in the Interstate. You've done well by those standards. I understand all your concerns about aging and feeling like you're getting out of touch. They cross my mind every day. Maddy and I have talked about setting personal priorities, balancing the experiences we value and using the time we have left wisely. I see that she dropped her own comments here earlier. It's tricky. The goalposts keep shifting. My advice is to treat this as a phased retirement, backing out of major commitments and the daily routine of trying to keep up with SL. As you have told so many others, keep the Basic account. Visit when the mood strikes you and you don't have more compelling ways to spend your waking hours. In the meantime, we'll muddle along without you somehow. I plan on being here for quite a while yet, so I'll save you a seat.

As you plan your script, you'll probably want to use llSensorRepeat to look along the vehicle's +X axis and watch for anyone within a "dangerous" distance. When that sensor identifies anyone in the zone, the sensor event will be triggered, so that's where you put your warning message or blow the horn or whatever. See the wiki entry for llSensorRepeat. This is a very simple script to write, even for a beginner. If you don't feel up to trying, though, post in the InWorld Employment forum to attract a scripter to write it for you for a fee.

Linden Lab will not violate a resident's privacy by revealing that sort of information. And we residents certainly have no way of answering either.

As they say in -- I've forgotten which Woody Allen movie it was ---- "Don't ask questions. Just take the money and run."

I didn't actually have one. Not yet anyways. Was I meant to have? Not a personally assigned one, no. But if you go to Welcome Hub region (look for it in your viewer's MAP view) , there should be a mentor there to greet you at the landing area. You don't necessarily need to take advantage of the mentor's services, though. The Welcome Hub has a pretty large collection of self-paced tutorial videos and other resources to get you started.

I don't think there's a direct way to find out, especially considering how long it has been. If the other person is still in SL, of course, you could simply send an IM to ask. If not, I think all you can do is look at the person's MP store and guess, based on the prices and types of items for sale. If you are lucky and it's a small store, you should be able to narrow the possibilities at least.

Hi, Bazzilla! Welcome aboard. Get in world and start wandering around. There's a lot to see (and a lot to learn). Go back to the Welcome Hub to go through the tutorials or ask questions as often as you like. Or come back here. People here can be pretty helpful too. Just remember that these forums are not much like being in SL itself. 😉

The problem might be your bank card. As Linden Lab points out: 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 may include prepaid cards purchased at retail stores, rechargeable credit cards, and bank-issued check cards. As a note, some Residents might find that a prepaid debit card will work once for a one-time purchase, such as Linden dollars, but fails to work after that. This is generally related to limitations in how many prepaid cards are authorized for transactions, so a prepaid card might stop working even if there are funds available. Some Residents without a credit card find PayPal to be an acceptable alternative, as there are ways to verify and fund a PayPal wallet that don't require a regular credit card, such as linking directly to a bank account. In general, when using PayPal as your method of payment without a credit card, adding funds to the PayPal account before using it in Second Life works best.

Yes, the forums have changed over time. In my opinion, it's been largely for the better. You can debate about how much credit to give the new posting rules -- there has certainly been a lot of discussion about them over the past couple of years -- but I think the greatest change has been at the extremes. When I started coming here in 2007, the forums were -- to put it mildly -- toxic. The content wasn't the problem, nor was the fact that people had long, drawn out arguments about things. It was that the forums back then were bullied by a handful of people who relished starting fights. We occasionally see that sort of behavior now, but it's rare and the forum community has learned not to be bullied. Maddy used to chide me for "hiding" in the Answers area and the Creation forums, but those were the only places I felt comfortable in those days. Today, by contrast, the forums not only have fewer bullies but they seem to have more helpful, supportive voices than they used to. Many of the "regulars" from the old days are still here but it seems to me that there are more people like them offering creative suggestions and generally keeping the old atmosphere of meanness at bay. We certainly have strong opinions and we definitely do not all stand on the same philosophical ground, but discussions don't usually degenerate into sarcastic put-downs, name calling, and pointless bickering. I see less baiting and sniping. Personally, I don't think the rules have been the major driver in change. Maybe it's that the toxic voices have mostly moved on. I suspect it's that we have gotten older or that we have become more tolerant of our differences. And perhaps that we are less tolerant of bullies. Maybe we've grown up.

Then you have absolutely nothing to worry about. In fact, the other person might not have even filed an AR. He may have just been trying to rattle you ... which he seems to have done successfully.

LL doesn't decide what to do based on what people suggest in Abuse Reports. They investigate and look at the evidence. Then they decide. So, if someone files a false report, it has no more effect than filing a good one (except that it makes more work for Governance and gets them annoyed).

You put the script in the lid and make the lid the child prim. Then you make sure that whatever method you are using to rotate the lid is addressing only that link. You can check the sticky thread on Doors at the top of this forum to see what some of the most appropriate scripting options are.

Fortunately, that part is easy. You don't have to use whatever the venue has. Shop around for anims and buy ones that you like. You can either drop them into your AO or simply trigger them from your inventory or a chim. BTW, check out the wedding area in the Fantasy section of Bellisseria. It's really lovely.

Remember that luck comes in two flavors. When I took my own driving test a long time ago, I did a fine job until we got back to within a block of the parking lot at the test center .... and I ran through a stop sign. Fortunately, the examiner had his head down at the time because he was signing my form. He never noticed and I kinda forgot to say anything like "Oops!" that would have made him look up. I think the good luck fairy was with me.

Nope. That's the way the system works. When you place a bid for L$ on the LindeX, they charge your payment method for the expected cost of the transaction. The money is held in an escrow account until the purchase goes through. If you cancel the offer, the money is transferred automatically to the USD balance in your Tilia account. You can do a Credit Transfer and send it back to PayPal again (minus transaction fees) or you can just leave it there. Next time you want to buy L$, they will use that USD balance first.

That would be nice, I agree. Failing that, you can sometimes luck out by searching for strings that are at least generically unique. That almost works with "dog" because there are relatively few words that contain the substring "dog" and are not really about dogs. It would be lots harder to use "cat" because you'd catch every catamaran, catafalque, catalog, fortification and cathedral too. Even with a good regex algorithm, though, the biggest challenges for inventory mining -- at least in my inventory -- are typos and flat-out useless labels. I'm likely to type "cta" when I mean "cat" or choose a name like "Angora" that makes sense but won't show up in a search for "cat". Much as I fear the creeping approach of AI, I suspect that it's going to be more help in diving through inventory than anything else we have. To answer your question, though, I don't know that LL has put much effort into adding NOT, XOR, or any other helpful Boolean operators to the inventory search tools. They have recently added the ability to attach images to inventory entries, which can be a great help for objects like clothing and textures, but I wouldn't count on many text tools. You could always submit a JIRA to request the new feature, of course.

You have to be careful about which "dog"s to select or you might accidentally remove all your dogmas and pseudograms too.

And if you are just in one spot, sit down. They can't move you if you're sitting.