Jump to content

Shockwave Yareach

Resident
  • Posts

    1,482
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Shockwave Yareach

  1. Unless you are paying tier for land and premium, you don't have to cancel anything. If you are a basic member, simply stop coming to SL. There is no need to cancel anything. The plus to doing it this way is that your inventory is saved if you should one day want to log in again for some one-day event or meet someone inworld for something.
  2. Lots of folks would like that. However, since SL is now open to 16+ players, we don't want little Timmy Thunderbottoms to read any naughty 4 letter words, now do we. Oh, he can watch a lesbian 3-way on M while standing in PG all he wants, but just so long as he doesn't read any bad words... In a word, no -- LL requires that its public face here appear to be free of dirt. So most discussions of Adult nature take place in other forums. And since the TOS prevents us from mentioning these other forums here on this forum, I'm afraid that you'll have to scour the SL UNIVERSE and search for leads to where such discussions take place.
  3. The idea behind V2 is that everything is in a drawer on the right side of your window. Want inventory? click the tab that looks like a suitcase. Friends list? The little peoples tab. Landmarks? The globe. etc, etc. And in inventory, clicking the little + button on the bottom lets up upload a texture or sound. Much improvement has gone into the back end and getting rid of some of the things which made up the UI of V1 is what made those reliability and speed improvements possible. While not ideal, and it is different than V1 I admit, it's not the abomination it was when it first came out. The very first one had major flaws and the buttons were black on a black background so you couldn't use them unless you already knew they were there. The current version is what I use because of things like HTML on a prim (which I use to make weather radars that work inworld) and the finally-reliable music and video capabilities. A version I would prefer to have would put the entire sidebar on a second daughter window. And then the user can have it on a totally seperate 2nd monitor (home use) or place it just below the world with only the friends list showing (laptop use). This is my idea of ideal. Even making it so you can tear off the sidebar into a daughterwindow would make me happy. But that's not going to happen for me, and the UI isn't going to go back to V1 for you, either. And eventually all the V1 viewers will be kicked out of the world so that improvements like Mesh and Dynamic Shadows or whatever else is next can be implemented. But there's no way to implement the new tools with the old toolbox, so eventually V1 is going to be history. So it is wise that we get used to V2 and it's more logical (if sometimes not where we expect it to be) layout. And hey, I hated V2 with a rage that came >< this close to seeing me leave SL and never returning. If I accept V2 as it is today, then the lab has truly accomplished something. You should have been here when it first came out and I was, shall we say, vivid in my terminology for how incompetent a programmer had to be to create black buttons on a black background. The worst problems are fixed and I can work just as easily in V2 now than I could in V1. So keep an open mind and try it for a week when you aren't going to be busy and give it an honest run instead of running back to old and familiar. Steam boats are old and familiar, but I wouldn't want to make business trips on them. Progress is change and change isn't simple for us sometimes. But please, give it a try. You may grow to like it if you give it an honest shot -- I did, and I got banned for my sometimes colorful language here over a year prior.
  4. It is called Open Sim, but it really isn't a copy of the Second Life system. Many things you take for granted in SL like money and physics (multifloor buildings) are absent in Opensim. My understanding is that they are very close to implementing physics though.
  5. 500US = 130,000L Are you certain you need so much? But yes, you are likely hitting the upper charge limit LL uses to prevent fraud. You will have to manually go into your account settings and increase your monthly spending limit.
  6. Display Names is a new feature on the V2 viewer chain. It was added in February, not long ago at all. Unless Emergence was built on the very latest open source code from LL, I doubt you will have it. If you want the newest SL features, you have to use the latest SL viewers.
  7. This sometimes happens when Money server is overloaded and can't respond in time. A simple way to make it reappear is to pay someone or something 1L -- that transaction forces Money to respond and your current balance appears.
  8. Make certain that you are in ADVANCED mode in your new version of the SL Viewer. If you are somehow in BASIC, your inventory is almost invisible to you. Another suggestion is to clear your cache when you logout; your stuff should return when you log in again. http://www.stedwards.edu/it/sites/default/files/second_life/media/clearmanage_disk_cache.pdf
  9. No. You will stay on their friends list, but they will simply never hear from you again.
  10. How do you know it is you? Have you asked the club owner to please take it down because it embarrases you? So quickly everyone goes right to guns nowdays -- most people are just as decent and honest as you yourself are. Treat them like it. Ask if that picture could be taken down because friends who know you will recognize you and you are embarrased. Toss in a quick couple hundred L to the club's tipjar afterwards, and everyone will be very happy indeed.
  11. I also suggest that you be totally sure that you have NO land holdings at all when you cancel the premium. I still had a 512m spot given to a group, and I was charged for the land after I downgraded because I was no longer premium thus couldn't contribute anything. Not a terrible cost, but if you are leaving and think your costs are Zero, they can build up over time because you don't know the charges are continuing.
  12. I would council that it's not necessary to delete/cancel the account. Just cancel any Premium subscriptions, and walk away. That way if you do come back later, your account, password and all your stuff (I assume you've bought stuff and don't want to lose it) will still be here waiting for you. If you do the whole cancellation thing, the account and all your inventory are utterly irreplacable and gone forever. While it certainly sends our lords and masters high in the Linden towers a strong message, it also burns the bridges behind you. If you can avoid kicking yourself for destroying everything you already have, go ahead and Cancel. If you think you may want to see a concert or some other event inworld someday, just drop from premium to Basic and never log in again -- you'll lose no inventory at all.
  13. You have to be a premium account to buy any land. But you don't have to be to rent land from another resident. You can buy the land directly from LL, or from a resident. That's a one time purchase. After that, you must pay LL a monthly fee based on how much land you own.
  14. My Manitee Land Office display is not an impulse item, either. But I worked it and worked it until it was simple enough and versatile enough that it could be sold without much support needed. And in the 1.5 years I've sold them, not one person couldn't buy it, follow the notecard and be up and running in under 10 minutes. I don't know the particulars of your product, but as a fellow builder let me say that making gear that the user never has to ask a question about is worth the effort for your time and your customer's satisfaction.
  15. Another method I prefer to use is to have a prim in the tipjar that is where I want the hovertext to be. Top or bottom, left or right, I just have that prim do the text and the rest of the jar is unchanged. A simple linkedmessage to the hovertext prim is the only change to the tipjar script, and an even simpler script in the hovertext prim to set the text itself. And you can even skip all of that if you make the hovertext prim the root of the device and the tip script goes in it, although I find that makes placement and rotation difficult.
  16. I am assuming a Dongle is a wireless internet connection that you pay by the Megabyte? If so, you'll very quickly go broke using it for SL -- every new place you go will have to download textures to your cache. Every person you meet, same thing. If you have music on, you eat one megabit in only 7.8 seconds of listening - a Megabyte a minute. Turn on voice and it's the same. Watch a video? Better have 5 figures open on your credit card! Cell networks are abyssmal for SL for a number of reasons. Cost is just one -- laggy and high ping is another.
  17. I find Jack Daniels makes removing clothes easier This is probably the starter skin with underwear on the skin itself. Buy a different skin and wear it, and the problem will vanish.
  18. Graphics cards: My strong recommendation is the Nvidia GTX460 or better. It's not high priced and doesn't even get warm when running SL. I strongly discourage ATI cards as they have problems with OpenGL that Nvidia doesn't have. Also, any ATI or Nvidia card built into the motherboard will work, but some motherboards then have no PCIe slots for future upgrades, trapping you forever in that card. They also share main memory, making them slower than PCIe cards. If you want the best performance and future upgradability, budget 150$ or so for a GPU and get a motherboard without a builtin graphics card. Today you'll be poorer, but tomorrow and every day thereafter you'll be happy with your decision.
  19. Yes it can run SL fine. But you will need to set your graphics quality to medium and maybe Low for most things. And don't even dream of turning on AntiAliasing. It will get you 45fps in an empty place, 14fps in a crowded dance floor.
  20. My experience with ATI cards in SL has been horrible, to say the least. Please consider getting the Nvidia cards instead; same price, much better performance in OpenGL software than ATI. You don't believe me, ask anyone here in Second Life. ATI's support of OpenGL has been terrible, and they have problems (black triangles) that NO Nvidia card has ever shown. My GTX460 has not had so much as one graphics glitch when running SL. I cannot even dream to say that about ATI.
  21. If you are using the Second Life viewer from the webpage, you are in Basic mode. This is to allow you to get used to SL before switching to Advanced at login (when you feel ready) and giving you ALL the controls. There is a lot to learn to be able to work and play in SL, so newcomers have fewer controls until they are comfortable they've mastered the basics and can switch to advanced. For what it is worth to you, many of us here in SL had to do all this the hard way, with no help and no basic mode. Today, as it was then, it's a little more complex than a hack/slash video game, yes. But it is definately worth the effort to master the interface -- trust me.
  22. They explain it right there on their webpage -- you have to send people to their webpage of your broadcast, and they open up a Flash player for people to hear you. They pay for the service by putting ads on the webpage. So they will never give you the URL for someone who isn't looking at their ads to hear the station. You need the following to DJ inworld: 1) lots of music 2) at least 160Kbps unused UPLOAD bandwidth to send music and more to a relay server somewhere. 3) a DJ Broadcasting program like SAM or the shoutcast plugin in Winamp 4) a server elsewhere that simply mirrors your broadcast to the dozens of listener over a 100Mbps connection. You setup your DJ broadcasting software so it sends the music to the remote computer on a certain port, and what username and password to connect with. Then you give the url and port of your remote computer to whoever wants to hear, or to the parcel's media settings. Many people think that they can just stream away from their home computers and not need the complication or expense of the server. But every person listening will be taking 128Kbps out of your upload and even with 1Mbps upload capacity you can have no more than 7 listeners. Newcomers are often shocked when they realize how few people they can stream music to over home connections -- thus the need for the relay servers. There are several outfits in SL that offer the relay servers at a reasonable monthly price.
  23. Well, one difference between yours and mine is I don't use the AA. SL looks just fine without it imho, and it takes an enormous bite out of the FPS. Otherwise, the only thing I could hazard a guess is that talking on skype while inworld is eating almost half of your upload bitrate (100k).
  24. Interesting. You may be laggy as far as responding to the commands, but not by much. Another possibility -- are you running any P2P programs? Even if you aren't downloading anything, you are still uploading data, making less bandwidth available to SL to respond to your commands. And with that 290Kbps upload, a single person downloading part of a movie from you will take all of your upload, leaving nothing for SL.
  25. Well, memory throughput on an i3 is not exactly great. But an i3 with 4G of ram and that Gpu should be turning in numbers in the high teens under all but the busiest places. I'm running an i7 (950) with 6G and a GTX460 and my settings are maxxed out. And I still get around 35fps in a fairly populated area -- 120fps in my almost empty dev area. Your computer combo seems more than powerful enough to handle SL. So the problem is elsewhere. You mentioned you have DSL. I tried that once, and was terribly unhappy with the performance. The bandwidth was the full amount promised ONLY when it was between 2 and 7am. It varied with how many people were on at that time. And at the times I was logging into SL, it was sinking down to dialup levels (no, I'm not exaggerating). Try pointing your browser to http://speedtest.net before launching SL and see what your available bandwidth ACTUALLY is.
×
×
  • Create New...