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Your XBox??? Do you mean your Magic Box? go to Marketplace.secondlife.com and log in. Then click on My Marketplace (upper right of the window) and then Merchant home. There you can find the status of your magic box and verify it's working. If all is good, go to Manage Inventory and see that your stuff is a) available and b) displayed. One of the most common errors of newcomers to selling with the boxes is to leave their stuff in it set NoCopy. Then when the box sells that item, poof, it's gone from the magic box because it's no copy. Be sure to check your properties for the merchandise - if you want stuff sold nocopy, set the Next Owner properties to be Nocopy.

Animations are in the form of BVH files. A number of programs like AVImotion (free) and such permit keyframing joint angles and entering them with lines on a screen, just as computer animation is done. If you have a Kinect and some money to spend, ipisoft has a clever hack using the kinect as a 3D imager and exports BVH files. http://www.ipisoft.com/products.php

Pocket Metaverse allows you to Chat, IM and Pay people L. It does not render the scene around you, and you don't see anything or anybody. But if you need to quickly message somebody or quickly reach someone inworld, it's a fine solution. As a regular viewer? Nope, you'll still need a real computer with a real GPU.

Age verification and Payment Info on File are two totally different things. Age Verification is to allow you access to Adult materials in the marketplace and Adult areas in Second Life.

Simple answer: NO there is no viewer for Blackberry. There are programs like Pocket Metaverse and Sparkle which will run on iPhone and Android. They are very limited and mostly used just for messages and payments -- no 3d graphics of the world around you. I do not believe these exist for Blackberry however.

You have to be in Advanced mode for this. Change to Advanced and you can do lots more than in Basic. In your sidebar, you'll see a tab that's shaped like a suitcase. This is your Inventory. When someone (or something) gives you something, it goes there. Since you are new there won't be much in there. Look for the name of the item you got - - it should be in a box. On land that you can put things on (sandbox or your home) rez the avatar (skin I assume) on the ground. A cube will appear. Your new skin is inside it. Right click the cube and select "Move to inventory". You now have that skin in your inventory, probably in a directory with the skin's name on it. Look in inventory and find the skin you now own. To wear it, just drag it out from inventory and onto yourself with the left mouse button. Tada, you are wearing the skin.

SL is slowly dying for a number of reasons. People are abandoning islands and throwing them away because nobody wants to spend 4 figures for a videogame anymore -- particularly when they don't get to own it. People are walking because previous administration ran SL like a penal colony instead of a recreational entertainment system. The current bad reliability pales compared to what we used to experience daily, but new users may not know about that. But as landowners leave, there are fewer people willing to buy the land from them - so SL shrinks. SL is an optional entertainment system. People can quit it at any time. The only reason they don't is because they have fun in SL (in spite of LL's best efforts) and they have communities of friends here. As the fun dissipates and the communities whither away, there is less and less reason for people to remain. Over a year ago, concurrency was over 58000 all the time. Today it is 50000 and threatening to sink into the 40s.

Another idea I'd like to venture -- perhaps your sim is the victim of a griefer attack? There are griefer things like Prism which troublemakers like to rez in places like sandboxes. They normally place them up around 75m, and they are transparent so nobody sees them. They rotate like mad though, and anyone with a LL viewer that's in range of it will be spending time computing all the angles and fetching graphics (which change 20 times a second or something like that. ) If this junk is in drawing range, your viewer lags like you won't believe. Dial the draw distance down to where you no longer render it, the lag vanishes. Use your estate tools and see if you have junk littering the sim by people you don't know. The only reason I know about this trick is that it was used on my home sim about 2 years ago. I would lag like heck because my draw distance was 196; everyone else around me had no problems.

You seem to be asking a) when Mesh will be supported and b) how this will affect skin creators and c) how to make them. There are several programs that make Collada format meshes. Maya, Google Sketchup, and Blender come to mind. Sketchup and Blender are free programs. Mesh will be inworld probably within 3 months. If you make skins, it shouldn't pertain to you. If you make avatars that aren't human shaped then learning Mesh will enable you to create ornate faces and detailed designs.

Your graphics card is a bit slow by today's standards, but it will work at modest framerates and qualities. Your biggest limitation is the Pentium D, but there's not a lot you can do to update that except replace the motherboard and CPU or find one of the remain Presler cpus (Pentium D 960). But the benefit would be small for the amount of work the upgrade would entail. Yes, it'll work. No, it won't be a stellar experience. Start saving your money for an i7 and an Nvidia GPU a year from now and you'll have that stellar experience to look forward to. But for now, turn off the water reflections and set your quality settings to 1/3 or less. That should give you a reasonable framerate to play with.

The point is to have a good time. To make friends if you want, or hide on your private parcel and decorate the house if you don't. To build stuff if you feel like it. Even sell stuff you make if you can get good enough at it. You could just as easily ask what the point of the internet itself is. Me, I build in SL - my own crazy stuff that I share with friends. I also socialize with folks in SL as it allows me to go all over the metaverse while still sitting at my desk. It takes limitations of time and space and tosses them in the trash - they don't matter in SL. You can make friends by joining a group that's active in what you are into. A builders group perhaps. Or rent some parcels and hang out with the rest of the rental group at dances or what not. There are parties, dances, live music, tail sales, new release parties, and charity functions all over the place. It's not hard to meet people. Finding that magic connection though, that's a very individual thing.

Don't forget to move the prim up 100m before you drop the sitter

Simple method is to simply highlight everything you have made, rt click it and TAKE it into inventory. It won't be linked together but will be stored as an unlinked Grouped Object (icon in inventory is a stack of boxes). Be warned though that small stuff which is below the viewer's LOD aren't selected when you do this. So if you have little things among big things, be sure to cam around and add them to the selection by using the SHIFT key when you left click on the item. I have taken a large build only to find I left 1/2 of it behind because the stuff was too small to render when I backed the camera up to see the whole build.

It's not free, no. But Corel's Videostudio Pro X4 is what I use, is fantastic with High Def, and is on sale atm for only 79$. I love mine.

In addition to whta the others have said, a little advice for your next upgrade -- ATI does a terrible job of supporting all OpenGL software. When I ditched ATI and moved to Nvidia, almost all of the problems I had been suffering with vanished. So when you start planning the next graphics card to replace the current one, consider an Nvidia 460 or better. I was stunned at how much better SL ran when I made the switch.

Apparently some portion of LL's infrastructure is on the Amazon Cloud. The Cloud is suffering from a serious problem the past few days and many areas of the internet are down because of it. My guess is it will not be fixed until Monday -- the engineers will need to work all weekend without the managers underfoot to actually find the problem and fix it.

If the problem is only just starting today, keep in mind that the entire Amazon Cloud (which is the hosting group for lots and lots of stuff) has just had a major snafu. It's quite probable that some parts of the SL infrastructure are being hosted on Amazon gear, providing a robust, scalable and expandable computing system. Normally, that is... Whatever has gone wrong, it's very big and affects an enormous amount of the internet. So you aren't the only one.

If I don't own it as the ads said for half a decade, I'll not spend the large bucks to buy it. Or anything else for that matter.

Let me just point out how amused I am that LL decided to move allll that data in profile to the web, and then the whole amazon cloud crashed. Come on guys -- crashing the entire cloud?

As a new citizen, you can go anywhere in Mainland (assuming you aren't a teenager). PG or Mature land, and that's all of mainland. The only place you can't go is land defined as Adult -- you must age verify before you can go to that continent (called Zindra) or to Adult sims that are privately owned. You are not limited to Help island. If you are using Viewer2, on the sidebar there is a tab with a little globe on it. This is your Landmarks storage area and you can just doubleclick on any landmark in there to teleport directly there. You can also do a Search for things that interest you and teleport directly to them that way as well. As you are new, the search option will be your better approach.

Age verification is to permit you access to Adult areas. If an individual has a room that they don't want someone in, age ver or not, then it's their room to do as they want with. Do you have the same issue going to other Mature mainland areas or Adult areas in Zindra?

The regular Linden viewer works fine for me on a Win7x64bit machine. I do know that people hopping from viewer to viewer can screw up the cache and lead to other serious glitchs. You may need to simply delete the entire directory with the cache and the program in it and install from scratch.

Yes. The bandwidth permission of SL at default is well below your 8Mbps or even 3Mbps. Unless you've changed your bandwidth in your preferences, it's much lower than even the 3Mbps. So you'll notice no change.

http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=llGetPos When used in the root of an object attached to an avatar it will always return the position of the avatar's center in region coordinates. When used in a child object in attachments, it will return the position of the child, in region coodinates, if the root was at avatar center and the root had zero rotation relative to this avatar center. So if you have one prim attached to a bracelet, it'll report it's position as identical as the avatar's root position. You could try using llGetLocalPos() and adding the offset it reports to the base position of the avatar. Then you have the exact position of the prim in regional coordinates.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlGetPos When called from the root of an attachment, returns the wearer's position. But linking two boxes is not the same thing as attachment, which is the wearing of the prims on your avatar. and if you are only moving the child prim via Edit Linked and not moving the base prim, you'll get this kind of answer.