Rolig Loon

Whenever you need to refer to a link repeatedly by number, it makes sense to build yourself a variable that holds the link number, in state_entry: state_entry() { integer i; while ( i < llGetNumberOfPrims() ) { ++i; if ( llGetLinkName(i) == "Door Handle") // or whatever ... { iDoorLink = i; } } } assuming that iDoorLink is a global integer variable. If you don't want to use the link's name, you could put an identifying label in its Description field, as you suggested, and then check string strLinkName = llList2String( llGetLinkPrimitiveParams( i,[PRIM_DESC] ),0); Thereafter, you can use iDoorLink as your link number when you use SLPPF.

Volcanoes erupt rather violently, Edna. ASHES

Study llSetKeyframedMotion. There are several examples in the LSL wiki.

It may not be the list you were looking for, but you can get a list of 27 Bellisseria groups by typing "Bellisseria" in Search and filtering for Groups.

River Run + Bellisseria = Sir, I bar ill revenuers! ( That's one way to keep your still germ free.) Hartnell + Bellisseria = Libeler tarnishes all. (Ain't that the truth?) Picard's Wharf + Bellisseria = Prewar classifiers hid lab. (Gotta think about national security.) Raccoon Run + Bellisseria = Councillors erase brain. (The price of holding public office, I guess.) No Penguins + Bellisseria = Responsible nun is agile. (She'll never outrun the abbess.) Palmer Lake + Bellisseria = I lease remarkable pills. (Why buy when you can lease for pennies a day?) Gallaudet + Bellisseria = Legislatures ball aide. (Can't they just leave the interns alone?) Lake Tatakaka + Bellisseria = Elks strike, eat a balalaika. (They have a strong union, but they do get desperate.) And one that seems unlikely to work as a pick up line, even if you are in Hawaii: Light Of Aurelia + Bellisseria = Filibuster: "Aloha, gals! I lie!"

The Preferences setting for "Email me IMs when I'm offline" refers to actual messages received as IMs, so should not automatically forward Group Notices. If you want to receive Group Notices, you have to opt in to receiving them individually, checking that box on each group's profile. When you do that, you should receive the notices in world and should also get copies as IMs forwarded to your E-mail.

Or simply look at the example in the LSL wiki.

This thread opens a new dimension to the classic debate that we have about immersion in SL. Usually, we're discussing how much we feel that we have slid into SL and have become our avatars, living in a virtual world instead of just viewing cartoons from a distance. What you're asking here, Seicher, is the flip side: "How much have our avatars crossed into RL and started to. influence who are?" Or, more to the point, can changing our avatars influence the way we think about ourselves? That's a fascinating question. There are certainly many SL residents who deal with illness, infirmity, and other limitations in RL. I've read countless notes here in the forums that report how the in world experience liberates them vicariously and lets them have a more social life. Less often, I hear comments about how avatars evolve and live vicariously in RL, making their owners more self-confident, outgoing, etc. As I think on it now, I cannot say that Rolig's evolution has made me any more adventurous or helped me feel more attractive/smart/worldly-wise, but I do have a growing sense that she is as much in me as I am in her. Her experiences in SL are in some way telling me things about who I am and what I am capable of. As I watch her test life as a blonde mermaid, there's a part of me that wonders what I may have been missing in RL, and what I can learn from this woman in my head. I'm sure that a psychologist would have a field day explaining it all.

Whackamole + Bellisseria = I blame a sick wholesaler. 🙄 A real estate scam?

Ah, yes. I remember having to script a solution to that one a long time ago, now that you mention it. As I recall, I did a version of the trick you suggested yourself, pushing a transparent prim out to cover the screen as soon as it's touched and only retracting it after the video has stopped. It feels clumsy, but doesn't have to be.

Well, my blonde self has started posting travelogue adventures in Bellisseria, which is a more outgoing, exploratory experience than usual. But that's only since summer, and I've done some of those as a redhead too. The blonde me started showing up over a year ago. I think she's my invisible friend -- on vacation since grade school. That is a fine tail. It even moves gracefully. We have good taste.

Except for a brief fling in 2008, I spent my first decade in SL as a brown-eyed redhead. I would change hair styles and clothing -- and occasionally my skin -- to reflect my different moods or adapt to new surroundings, but stayed basically the same redhead. Something inexplicable happened within the last year or so. I've started feeling like a blonde and have occasionally grown a mermaid tail, neither of which was something I ever considered before. Neither of those is a full-time persona -- I'm still a redhead at heart -- but it surprises me that these new directions feel comfortable. I would blame it all on @Madelaine McMasters, but I don't think she has seen me in world in either form. Besides, I wouldn't do what she tells me to anyway.

You can try using PRIM_MEDIA_PERMS_CONTROL and setting the prim to PRIM_MEDIA_PERM_NONE. That will get rid of the control bar at the top.

In normal practice, you would communicate with an attachment by directing llRegionSayTo to whoever is wearing an attachment, so llRegionSayTo( llGetOwner(), -1234567, "HELLO" ); In this case, both of your objects are attachments, so you have scripted things so that you are talking and listening to yourself. That's not an unusual situation, but it does open the possibility of echoing, if you have debug statements in both objects repeating what they hear. As Wulfie says, we can't guess much beyond that without seeing the scripts themselves, but you ought to be able to narrow down which attachment is saying what, and then cut down the chatter.

Quite true, Alyona. I would certainly never ridicule such a conversation opener, but it would not encourage me to continue the conversation either. Especially if I were a young woman in her 20s, I would feel put off by the thought that my hat made me look like someone's great aunt. At this point in my life, my own great aunts have been in the grave for at least a half century, so it's probably not as odd a comparison as it might have been in 1975. Still, I like to think of myself as looking younger and more appealing than a great aunt. That's why I buy the hats that I do.

Don't panic yet. When you have the sort of connection problems you describe, including the cloudy bake fail, the cause is almost always in your own Internet connection. The first step -- and the easiest -- is to unplug your modem and router for a minute or two and then plug them back into the power and restart everything. That will clear out any electronic cobwebs and force your router to grab a fresh IP address. Most of the time that simple act is enough. If you have been using a wifi connection, I suggest replacing it with a direct cable from your computer to the router. Many people have no trouble at all with wifi, but Linden Lab neither supports nor recommends it. There are too many ways for a wireless signal to be interrupted by nearby power sources, appliances, and even fluorescent lights. If you still have problems, come back here and post details about your computer that may give us a better hint of what's wrong. Even without logging in, you can click HELP in the upper left corner of your login screen and use the link to About Second Life to copy your system details into your clipboard. Then you can paste them into your post here.

When you get this type of error, it's often because the region's servers need to be restarted. Something has messed up links to the LL asset servers, so you can't add or remove things reliably. If it's a private estate, the owner can restart things easily. If you are on the Mainland estate, submit a support case to Linden Lab, using the obvious menu choice. In my experience, that sort of support case is often dealt within less than an hour. If you would rather not wait at all, try simply going to a different region to do your work until things at home have cleared up.

The northern hills of Bellisseria have been calling to me since I made the hike to the high point in Whackamole a couple of weeks ago. Not only do I love mountains and the back country, I also have a fondness for secluded swimming holes. Therefore, when someone mentioned that Orion Falls, to the east of Copper Kettle and Whackamole, has a string of alpine lakes, I decided not to wait a minute. I hiked to the end of a dirt road that leads to the easternmost of the lakes. This is steep country, more rugged even than Red Bluff, in southern Bellisseria. The lake I had heard most about is the largest in the hills, and it is beautiful. There's a wooded island in the middle, too. I can see why it is popular. It is too close to the nearby camping trailers for my taste, but otherwise very inviting. The falls for which Orion Falls is named lie to the northwest, an easy hike away. The falls are stupendous. They empty into Orion Lake, which is shallow but quite large. There is a well-maintained dock on the eastern shore that is, again, a popular spot for swimmers and sunbathers. When I stopped to take a look, someone had just left a cooler and picnic basket and a couple of beach towels. The hike from Orion Lake becomes strenuous quickly. The most picturesque route to the summit is up the falls, a triple cascade. At the top of the falls are two small lakes, neither of which is appealing to me for swimming. As you can see, one of them is quite rocky -- not even any grass, much less any bushes or trees. The other one is even smaller and unfortunately a dumping ground for some of the locals. I didn't dare investigate to find out what was in these two barrels, and I am more than a little concerned about what they will mean for the quality of water in Orion Lake below unless they clean it up soon. As I climbed the ridge on the western end of the larger lake, though, I could see a much prettier small lake below. Reaching it from this side, however, is a bit of a challenge. Rather than take a direct route down the slope, I decided instead to climb all the way to the peak and find a path down the western side. I am absolutely overwhelmed by the view from the top. It's actually just across the border into Copper Kettle. Unless I am mistaken, this is the highest point in Bellisseria (107m). The peak in the distance, to the southeast, is in Fox Chase. At 95m, I believe it is the second highest point in the continent. In the photo above, you can just see the edge of the small lake I was headed for. The hike up to it from that side is indeed easier, so if I had known before I started out, I would have come that way. See how steep the walls are? This lake is like a little pocket, hidden away behind sharp ridges and the main peak so that you have to make a deliberate effort to get here. There's no stream outlet to hint that it's up here either. It has no trees and bushes, but there's soft grass, right down to the bottom of the lake. This is just the sort of spot I was hoping to find. It was already late afternoon by the time I got there, but I was in no hurry to hike back down. I know I take a chance by sharing my trip notes here, but this lake is far enough off the beaten path that I suspect it will still attract only a few of the hardiest adventurers. Just please don't tell too many of your friends.

Square root

I remember seeing that note and thinking that it's strange to warn scripters to avoid a rather rare (and unlikely) string "!!llTextBox!!" as a button label. I can't imagine that it's a situation that many scripters will blunder into, so my guess is that some clever person discovered it as a hack in the days before llTextBox was introduced. The revision history for that wiki page doesn't hold any clues that I can see about who put the caveat there, or why. I'll test it myself when I get a chance and update it if necessary.

Breathe deeply .... count to ten .... and whap your Raggedy Ann doll's head several times on the desk.

There are times, though, when less information is better. Some women will not be flattered by hearing that a hat reminds you of your mother. I will certainly take a mental step backwards if someone says, "My great aunt Gertrude wore a hat like yours to the county fair in 1987. Where did you buy it?" It's almost safer to say "Hi." 🙄

Hard Times

You can't ever request a specific parcel. All you can do is put in your request and get in line. If a parcel is available in the theme that you asked for, you'll be offered one at random. Regions that are named but not yet released are unavailable. All you can do is watch and wait. They are releasing more than one region every week day.

Yes! And, of course, that observation misses the major point that SL's economy is based on residents bringing real money in through the LindeX. Money that people earn in world is all recycled. If most people didn't bring new money into SL, the economy would collapse in a heartbeat. This is not a MMO with play money that players earn for finding a few buried tokens. It's a world with a real economy and -- like any RL place that you visit on vacation -- a currency exchange that allows you to carry real money across its border and into (or out of) your bank account. So, it's true that "Lindens are incredibly hard to obtain without real money." That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way life works.