DR Dahlgren

Glad to see you got it up and running. I re-read your OP and saw that you had been running SL on this machine, so yeah, it had to be a driver update issue. I would like to HIGHLY recommend, if you can afford it of course, that you upgrade the amount of Ram your machine has. If you are dedicating 128Meg to the video, which is likely, then you only have 384Meg for the rest of the applications etc to use. Memory for that machine should be really cheap. Going to one gig would help, but XP will handle up to 3.

This machine uses the Intel 845 Chipset and 82845G Graphics Controller according to eMachines. It uses shared memory. This means that part of the 512Meg of Ram is allocated to the graphics processor. I believe that your computer, with this graphics chipset is simply not capable of displaying SL in its present configuration. The solution would be to add a graphics card, disable the onboard video and upgrade the ram to at least 1 gig. A video card that will run SL, such as the NVidia 8500 should be avaible to match your hardware at well under $100 on eBay. Be sure you have a slot available and what type before you purchase one. If you used to be able to run SL on this machine but currently can not, what did you change? Unfortunately, SL is quite demanding of the graphics subsystem and many computers, though very capable, won't run it. The main CPU does not seem to be as important as memory and graphics. I was messing with an old P3 and with a good graphics card and a gig of ram, it ran SL quite well.

Ah yeah, right... Well, my alt had protected sex but still got an SLSTD and his parts fell off. I think he would have rather been pregnant, count your blessings....

Good point, I sometimes use that option when rounding up stray prims and forget to reset it.

Right click the item, select Edit. In the open edit panel, under the General tab, on the right hand side, you will see the prim count of the object. This works whether or not the item belongs to you. If you go into edit on any object nearby and then select a prim object someone is wearing, it will work on that as well. But you can not right click > edit on an object someone is wearing. You can also find the creator of the object this way if you like something and want to find who made it.

In open chat one day while on a walkabout... Female Name: What's the matter, just sit on the blue ball Male Name: I know how, I just can't find my penis

Hit it Boo Boo, it's the Ranger....

Not sure about other controllers, but you can use Space Navigator, which I love, a joystick, or now, there is a good hack to turn a wireless bluetooth wii controller in one that can be used with SL. http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2007/03/wii_second_life.html

There are really two types of laptop pads, those that are designed to agument the cooling of the laptop and allow it run at a lower temp and prevent overheating, and those that are designed to help keep the surface it rests on, such as your lap, cooler. The former is almost always powered from the laptop usb port, while the latter can be a passive device. Thermaltake makes both and you can get some ideas about what is available here: http://thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?C=1135 Please be aware that a soft passive device can block the fan intake or exhaust port often located on the underside of the laptop, and cause it to overheat. At the least, this can cause it to shut down, at the worst, it can destroy the machine by causing the cpu chip to overheat and fail. Hope this helps.

Oh, The drama of it all.....

I am looking forward to seeing responces to this, my experience says it is a component of the size of the prim used to create a sculpt. I see the disappearing behavior with any smaller prim. At a certain distance, seems to be about 25m, .5 m cubes will disappear, a little farther out, 1 m cubes, but after that none ever do. My distance is set to 256 m so they are not getting out of view range. I know that changing my rendervolumeLODFactor to 6 improved the behavior of most smaller sculpts but not on some. I have also found that closing the ends of a sculpt with a proper pole seems to help too. However, this all said, I still find scuplts to be a real trial and error process and would love to find a good, definative wiki or something on them.

ROFL - since you like rotations, why not start on quaternions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotation :-)

Actually that is incorrect. A euler rotation is a vector , <x,y,z> expressed in radians. Quaternions are a 4 number vector , x,y,z and s. Here is the wiki info on Euler - Euler vector Another way to represent a 3D angle is using three numbers, <X, Y, Z>, which represent the amount which the object is rotated around each axis. This is used in the Edit window, for example, and is generally easy for people to visualize. It is easy to adjust the Rotation <x, y, z> numbers in the Edit window and see how the object behaves. Note that in the Edit window, the numbers are in degrees, that is, a right angle is 90. In LSL, these three angles are expressed in radians instead of degrees, that is, a right angle is PI/2. (A radian is sort of a very fat degree.) Note that these three numbers are a vector type and not a rotation type, though it can represent the same information. This is called the Euler representation of a 3D angle. In LSL the rotation around z is done first, then around y, and finally around x. Basically you are describing the final position by saying, if I rotate this object on its Z axis a certain amount, then on its Y axis a certain amount and then finally on its X axis a certain amount, it will end up at the desired position. This is not the same result you would get by simply rotating each axis in a random order by the same amount. Try it in world and maybe it will make more sense. There are some good conversion functions for changing rotation (quarternion) to euler and euler to degress that can make scripiting rotations easier. The full wiki info on rotation can be found here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Rotation