[Priority 6 hold animation, keeps getting overridden.]

1 minute ago, Agent242 said:

Okay, so I solved it somewhat, by starting a 5 second timer event that resets the script every 5 secs, it keeps the pose without easing in if already playing and otherwise it starts the pose again. 

Is this an awful practice that will cause sim lag, or is it acceptable for a script?

Instead of resetting the script, you can simply call llStopAnimation and llStartAnimation in the timer event. Resetting the script is technically a bit overkill, but nothing major.

[The real secret of Second Life]

1 hour ago, HeathcliffMontague said:

I built my first PC in 1992 and have been a Doom-aholic ever since. I don't consider myself a gamer as such, but have plenty of experience with fx first person shooters. Been pretty immersed in some of those throughout my life. Those are games, even if you engage in a team and converse with people from the other side of the planet..

That sounds pretty limited to me.

Engaging in a team or conversing with people doesn't really factor into what a game is, but if you mostly play shooters or competitive games then I can totally understand the disconnect.

There are lots of games just like SL out there like I mentioned, and they've been there since the 90s in different forms (especially MUDs like Furcadia).

[Priority 6 hold animation, keeps getting overridden.]

If another animation with the same (or higher) priority is played, the new animation will override the others.

Starting/restarting is something to try, but animations greater than priority 6 also exist.

[The real secret of Second Life]

7 hours ago, Bree Giffen said:

I guess we have nothing to worry about fellow residents. Second Life is not a video game.

This opinion is held only by people with very limited gaming experience. If SL isn't a game, then neither is Roblox, Minecraft, Gmod, EverQuest Next, or a whole bunch of other sandbox games without goals.

[PSA for people looking for LockGuard scripts/info...]

2 hours ago, Bubblesort Triskaidekaphobia said:

If somebody has to post to a forum that the wiki is outdated, then that wiki is not being administered properly.  LL really needs to open the LSL wiki to public editing.  Maybe open edits, with human review would be best.  It's just too big, and too important a job, for the people who are maintaining it now.

Getting edit access to the wiki is not difficult, you can write a one-sentence support ticket for it.

[Legacy Reborn body - worth it?]

Reborn is great for being modifiable. It has pretty terrible rigging though, especially at the knees (which become sharp as knives if you fold your legs).

Legacy is not worth it if you just want to move from a slim body to another slim body. You'd need better reasons or a huge discount.

[Low Throughput]

It should go without saying that an internet connection has nothing to do with FPS.

Not that I would expect a gaming computer getting paired with a satellite connection in the mountains. 😋

[I made a TV for YouTube and I'm trying to make the media shared]

7 hours ago, Dazzer01 said:

Thanks Tessa for the info. I'll look into it now.

Edit: I looked at the TVs suggested and others on the MP, but it seems none of them do what I wanted, at least not properly. What a shame.  I remember back in the day as it were, about 10-15 years ago when this was easy to do. I clearly recall watching YT on TV, when me and my partner at the time were both controlling it and the media was completely shared, albeit with a slight delay between us maybe. I've no idea why this feature has been removed in SL and what the problem is in having it available.

 

The only thing that's changed since is that visiting other pages of the same domain no longer syncs the URL between viewers.

Eg. If you go to Wikipedia frontpage, all viewers go to that URL (independently, using separate connections). If you then go to a specific Wikipedia page, other viewers will stay on the frontpage.

In other words - SL media has never been fully synced - people have always seen different ads and been able to pause/skip videos without affecting other viewers. This hasn't changed.

[Should we limit Second Life to one IP address per household and prohibit the use of VPNs and alternate accounts?]

"Who are you quoting?"

[save UNs and PWs]

On 4/14/2024 at 3:29 AM, Rolig Loon said:

I've used Last Pass to store info like that for years.  

LastPass is pretty scary to use after recent events (like 4 leaks in 2023), my workplace switched to 1Password and personally I use BitWarden.

7 hours ago, SiaNova Portal said:

once you put in a username and password it auto save when switching alts. that info must be store on my pc somewhere right? or is it sever side?

Your info is saved on your PC but there is no way to import/export it. The info can't even be used on the same PC when certain changes happen to your system.

[Lindens]

You used the Limit Buy option, it's not guaranteed to be filled. You get lindens if another user sells their lindens with a matching price (and after other people in the queue get theirs).

You can cancel your order if you don't want to wait.

[AI-generated interior design]

1 hour ago, Laylah Yaseotoko said:

I am just getting tired of people using AI to make these boring pieces of 'artwork' passing them off as originals and selling them. Then others uhhing and ahhing about their 'talent' If we get AI mesh too I might just be looking elsewhere to spend my leisure funds. In all honesty AI 'art' is not to my liking. Especially since none of it is original just cobbled together from pieces stolen from the internet or fed to them by someone... after being stolen from a real artist somewhere.

Your problem is not with AI, but dishonest people.

[Stalker is flagging my items?]

53 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Search depends primarily on the Description now.

Searches on MP will completely ignore the description!

[How to detect if an object is the copy that been bought?]

Does the script need to "do its thing" in the bought copy, or the original?

If the original, you might be able to use the money() event.

If the copy, you can store the current owner in state_entry and check for a new value on CHANGED_OWNER.

Though the changed event should work for both cases.

[PBR Texture Resolution issue?]

21 hours ago, Zalificent Corvinus said:

Regardless of the original file format, ALL textures in SL are stored as JPEG2000, with a LOSSY compression system, again one of the WORST file formats ever devised.

Except when you upload a GLTF file, in which case the normal map is uploaded losslessly. j2k supports lossless compression.

[2K textures upload pricing poll]

I want free internet points too!

[Images lost for slowly changing objects]

I wonder how deep LL checks for assets...

If a creator keeps a texture item in their avatar inventory (very likely), is that enough to count?

What about texture item in object contents while that object is in avatar inventory?

Might be interesting to run some long-term tests.

[Mesh rain]

55 minutes ago, arisaie said:

Do I just create planes in blender and unwrap them? Then use llSetTextureAnim to animate the rain?

Pretty much, yeah, but be warned! When you have lots of planes like that, it makes navigating and interacting with things in the rain very difficult, because they catch clicks and alt-camming.

[How to move camera the best way]

1 hour ago, NiranV Dean said:

Writing in SteamVR is hard when half your keypresses are skipped.

Also restarting is not an option when you want to keep 6 months of "undo" history in Visual Studio.

Thanks, now I'm never closing Visual Studio either. 😔

[Uploaded Texture is lower quality than local preview!]

15 minutes ago, Sid Nagy said:

If I understand the blog posts about them correctly, the 2048 format will only be possible for ground textures.
The rest will be automatically resized to 1024

I can see how the wording makes it seem that way, but the resolution increase is for everything.

[Favorite editor?]

1 hour ago, AmeliaJ08 said:

I just installed Sublime Text and the LSL package but... it doesn't seem to be doing anything as far as color highlighting?

Remember to set LSL as your active syntax. Your current color scheme will be applied based on that.

The "LSL" package by Makopo is what I've used for many years. It works well for colors.

[How to move camera the best way]

38 minutes ago, NiranV Dean said:

Except NVidia Share/Shadowplay.

I did say good. 😋 /s

[Favorite editor?]

There's been a few threads about this question in recent memory.

People tend to use:

• Sublime Text (strongly recommend)
• Atom (open source alternative to Sublime Text)
• Notepad++
• Visual Studio Code
• JetBrains IDEs
• BBEdit

["Coming soon: 15% reduction to mesh download impact" question]

1 hour ago, Mari Moonbeam said:

I hope there will be a "don't render" option for the new stuff  if it is too much for lower end cards or when you just want to move and get the general outline.

Of course you'll be able to disable those things. Viewer devs are very conscious of performance.

 

1 hour ago, Mari Moonbeam said:

I don't understand the example they gave in the announcement - what does the 35.5 number mean? The first screen shows 35 so isn't that a 0.5 INCREASE?

The screenshot simply shows how to check an object's Land Impact. The "30.5" number isn't important -- what's important is that only objects whose Download weight is the highest have been affected by the 15% reduction.

You can learn more about how land impact works here: https://community.secondlife.com/knowledgebase/english/calculating-land-impact-r273/

 

1 hour ago, Mari Moonbeam said:

They didn't say the lights/mirror upgrades will not push the LIs back up and over.

The more lights and mirrors you add, the more LI you need, same as anything else.

[How to move camera the best way]

19 hours ago, Bagnu said:

It certainly does take practice. And it's hard to remember if I haven't recorded video in a bit. What drives me nuts is whatever I use the alt left MB on get's centered on the screen.  Focus follow cursor won't work with video recording, since the cursor gets recorded too!!!

 This why it would be nice if our SL cameras could record video. If it can show a "clean" screen with our cameras, it should be able to with video recording too (if it was implemented).

Any good recording software has an option to not record the mouse cursor.