Lindal Kidd

On your Dashboard page, go to Account on the left side. Here you have options to change your billing information, your password, or your email. You can NOT change your registered birth date or your user name. For other personal information, such as whatever you have written in your Profile, log in to Second Life. Right click yourself and select Profile.

If they did NOT return it, go to a parcel nearby, in the same region, where you are not banned. Move your camera into your old room, right click and Take your stuff.

Your land settings allow you to charge a fee for access. It must be paid each time someone wants access.

Why a script? Make a texture with some white points on it, and the rest transparent. Plonk it on a transparent sphere.

No, he can't. The fact that he wants to do this (if he was the one who suggested it) indicates that there may be something shady about the way he got the $L. Unless you know this person very well in Real Life, I would be very careful about your dealings with him.

As Valerie says, there are limits to how many $L you can TRADE (buy or sell) at any one time, and those limits depend in part on how long you have been making $L transactions. They start out low, $10 USD, but are raised within a few days. This is a security measure to reduce the chance that $L are being bought with a stolen credit card. There is no limit on how many $L an individual avatar may have. In fact, LL would probably prefer that you keep a lot of your money in $L. If you sold it all at once, it would take all that money out of the system!

If you can't select the Advanced Lighting model, it's probably because your graphics card is not up to the task. My NVIDIA GTX 670 card goes from 30% power use to 100+% when I use this mode. It takes some serious graphics horsepower.

Although we don't generally name names on this forum, in this case it would be helpful to know the name of the product you are using. Perhaps another Resident who uses the same device can then chime in with some advice.

In Phoenix mode, look in the lower right corner of the viewer.

File a Support Ticket. It takes longer than Live Chat, but you should get help eventually. You will have to provide proof that you are you, however. You might also try calling Billing during normal weekday office hours. US/Canada: 800-294-1067 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 Brazil: 0800-762-1132 Long distance ( not free, but you can use Skype to save some cost ) : 703-286-6277 **Note: Support is offered only in English Next time, WRITE DOWN the email, password and "secret question" for your accounts, and keep it in a safe place.

4.18 Mb/sec down, and ***0.48*** up? Did I read that right? That is horrible performance, way less than SL requires. Public WiFi is a terrible way to try to access SL. Not only is the data rate miserable, and variable, but it's insecure. Your password and your identity are at risk. I recommend you stop using SL until you can get a better way of connecting to the internet. And, as has been said, a better computer is strongly recommended.

For lots more details to add to Peter's great answer, see the earliest posts in my blog. Start here: http://acrossthegridwithlindal.blogspot.com/2011/05/dissecting-avatar.html Also, see the official information about Appearance here: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Controlling-your-avatar-s-appearance/ta-p/700709

I think Miss Silverfall is complaining because the landlord kicked her out with five days left on the meter, KarenMichelle. But I agree. Miss Silverfall, as a landlord myself, you sound to me like a "problem tenant". Your landlord will be happier to be rid of you. For yourself, you may find you are happier if you go Premium and buy some mainland to put your store and home on. The monthly cost will likely be lower, and you will not have to worry about naggy landlords. As for your five days' rent, I'm afraid you can kiss it goodbye. Land owners can kick anyone off their land at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, and LL will not get involved in a resident to resident dispute. I'm sorry, but the landlord was within her rights not to give you a refund, and filing an Abuse Report will not help you.

I suppose you could add Wings to the 3D modeling lineup. And for (somewhat specialized) uses, there is Sculptris, Sculpty Paint, and Rokuro. Then there are some in world (non free) add on tools, such as the devices that create sculpties from a collection of ordinary prims, or Avastar that works with Blender to create meshes specifically for SL.

To add minutiae to Valerie's excellent answer, if you think in English rather than metric, a region is about 14 acres.

SL doesn't even support multiple graphics cards or use graphics memory over 512 MB. They have a long way to go before they think about supporting 3D.

It's great that you want to run fair contests...not many club owners do. The main concern of a club owner is that the contests they hold bring in more money in tips and donations than they pay out in prizes, which is perfectly understandable. Since, tehcnically, the contest gamers are not breaking any rules, I don't think your Abuse Reports are going to have an effect. About all you can do is: 1. Keep banning the cheaters, and their alts, as you identify them, and 2. Think of some other way besides contests to bring people to your club. I never respond to contest events any more, because either some of the contestants, or the club owner and her friends, will be gaming the system.

You can Abandon your Linden Home. Take all your stuff back into your inventory, stand in the home, go to World/About Land (Parcel Details, in some viewers). Click Abandon. Then you have several choices. You can go back to the SL web site and sign up for a new Linden Home. There are four different design styles, and you can choose any of them (as long as there are any available in that style.) Or you can look around on the Mainland and buy a parcel. When you don't have a Linden Home, you get free tier on the first 512 sq. meters of mainland you purchase. If you buy a larger parcel, you will pay an additional monthly tier fee. See the table here for a schedule of the fees: https://secondlife.com/my/account/landfees.php?lang=en-US You can also buy a parcel on a private estate. In this case, a Premium membership is not required (though you may wish to keep it for its other benefits). You will pay your monthly land fee to the estate owner, not Linden Lab. Read the Covenant tab of About Land to find out about the policies of the estate where you are considering buying.

Do you have RLV enabled? (If you don't know what that is, you don't.) If it is enabled, disable it at the log in screen and then close it and re-log If that isn't the problem, it might be something else you are wearing, or something near you. Check all your attachments, and try logging in at a different region.

You can use a bank account to verify your PayPal account. Just be sure you keep enough money in the PP account to pay your LL bills.

To add to Dilbert's answer... Even if LL allows you to buy the land, you will not be able to buy just part of the region...you'll have to buy the whole region, and pay $295 USD per month in tier to LL, plus region transfer fees (at least). It will be much easier to simply find another place to live, when LL deletes the region for non-payment of tier. There are lots of nice places and plenty of vacancies.

Your starter "modesty" skin can be replaced with another skin. Most SL skins are fully nude, and you may even find some with the "starter" avatars in your Library. In addition, decent freebie skins may be found on the Marketplace and at in-world freebie stores, and offered by some merchants free to new avatars. (Do try demos, but don't try wearing one of the demos at your club...they are "watermarked" with the word DEMO all over the skin.) There is no longer an age verification process in SL. You are whatever RL age you entered during the signup process. If that makes you under 18, you're out of luck...and you woulnd't be able to go to Moderate or Adult regions where the strip clubs are located in any case. If you ARE 18 or older, then just check the maturity preferences in CTRL+P, General tab, and in the Search window. If you are 18 or older, and can't change these maturity preferences, file a support ticket with Linden Lab. PLEASE NOTE: If you are underage, please do NOT lie about it. You WILL be found out, and you'll get yourself banned from Second Life. Besides, SL is not for kids. There's stuff in here, and people in here, I would not want MY kids messing about with, I can tell you.

Ack! You might have included a caution that that first link is NSFW (Not Suitable For Work) I'm sure many tattoo artists in SL could do this. You could do it yourself. See the link below for some clothing tutorials. (A tattoo is just a type of clothing. Think of it as being a very, very skimpy shirt. Or possibly underpants, in your case. http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/11/build.html

Shaman91 wrote: ...I don't understand the difference between "buying" and renting land. But, I will spend some time reading the links and, hopefully, attending a Friday evening course. .... ...If I do keep it in inventory for a while, is there a place I can temporarily rez it up and play with it, like for a few hours? In a sense, all land ownership in SL is a type of renting. We are all renting server space from LL. However, it's common to think of three "levels" of doing this. Buying mainland. Here, you pay a purchase price for some land, then pay tier directly to LL. The most direct form of "owning" virtual land. Leasing a parcel on a private estate. "Leasing" is my own term, to denote the differences between mainland and estate parcel ownership. The estate owner will most likely call it a "purchase". Here you may pay an initial purchase price, but then you will pay your monthly (or weekly in some cases) tier fee to the estate owner, who in turn pays LL a monthly fee on the whole region. Renting. This is a lot like leasing, except that you can rent from another resident on either mainland or an estate. You pay no initial purchase fee, and generally pay a rental box. Rentals are often by the week, but may be monthly. Renters may or may not enjoy all the abilities to manage the land that are typically conveyed with an estate parcel lease. Why would anyone lease on an estate when they can buy mainland and pay LL directly? The answer is service and support. Good estate owners provide prompt support if you are harrassed by griefers or if technical problems arise and the region needs a restart. They resolve disputes between residents. They police the area and keep it neat, tidy, and uncluttered with ugly builds. Also, estates are often "themed". You may find one with a forest or mountain theme that provides an ideal setting for your castle. If, on the other hand, you don't like management interfering with your freedoms, the more freewheeling Mainland may appeal to you. Yes, you can rez things, including your castle, temporarily in a sandbox. Most have auto-return set to a few hours.

To add to KarenMichelle's answer... You can move things more than 50m at a go if you Disable Camera Constraintsin the Advanced menu and selection limits in the build menu. When you do this, be darn sure you have selected everything. Selecting by dragging a box will not select transparent objects unless they are highlighted with CTRL+ALT+T, and will miss objects that are too small to be seen from your camera position. Cam all around and inside the build, SHIFT+Dragging to select all the bits you missed. When you are 99% sure you've grabbed everything, then try moving it a little. If something stays behind, hit CTRL+Z to snap everything back, add the missed bits, and try again.