Nalates Urriah

Well, you have met the mesh snobs. So, you are aware we have jerks in SL. Maybe more than our share. I confess to being a semi-snob. But for some occasions, I still use a system-classic avatar. While beauty is in the eye of the beholder... there are details of the classic avatar that do not render well. When sitting the chest collapses inward at the bottom of the ribcage. Toes are smeared together. Fingers do not animate but can be posed. But fewer and fewer animations use the system-style hand poses. From certain camera angles, one can see polygon corners breaking up what should be smooth curves. In the groin area textures smear. In spite of all these nuances, one can make a classic avatar that minimizes all the problems and looks good. For years users have been asking for upgrades to the avatar. So when we were given MESH to work with users used it to upgrade the avatar body, head, hands, and feet. The Lindens then gave us ways to more fully and in fun ways to work with mesh avatars. Some GE.AG heads have the Bewitched (old TV series) nose wiggle. Hand animations and facial expressions are now animated or posed. The curves are smooth. I think the Cinnamon & Chai body by Slink was the completed transition to a body using all the tech we have to make the best body. BUT... it has some flaws that prevented one from making the 'shape' they desired. Sliders in the hips and butt did not work well together. Belliza's new GenX is technically close to what Slink achieved but without the technical efficiency or optimization. But a nice body. Whether Classic or Mesh much of how an avatar looks is the skill of its owner in making/choosing shapes, skins, and clothes. Only for those into 'fashion' is appearance all that important. In many cases that 'fashion' can be read as 'sex appeal'. There is no reason for anyone to conform to some imagined or proclaimed "standard" in SL. Be happy. Have fun. Avoid letting anyone harsh your mellow.

Either you don't understand what they are telling you OR... they don't understand what you are talking about.

You are blocked because "Quiro acceder a contenido:" is set to: general. The setting appears greyed out. This would be because your account is not approved as an Adult user's account. You can figure out how to change that here and here. From the look of your Preferences Panel it appears SL thinks you are not 18. To change that you will have to file a support ticket and jump through some hoops.

One of the nice things about SL is you seldom, seldom have to buy a replacement because something stopped working. Many of us keep the boxes. Since SL provides an infinite amount of inventory, why not? That makes it easy to grab a new copy. The majority of the designers in SL provide free replacement copies of their Copy-OK stuff. Another time saver is to save a copy of your nude body as an Outfit. I use several nude body outfits made from different brands and models as starting points for my new outfits. I also have a TEST BODY OUTFIT for trying demo skins, tats, whatevers, and bodies. Experiment with a copy of the body to figure out how things work. Once you understand you have fewer problems with new stuff.

You are new. So we understand you don't know much about SL. To explain a few things... The forum is mostly a user-to-user exchange. Moderators are like local police. They mostly are only around when called. From what I know from talking with the governance team they stay plenty busy working that way. The engineers, operating team, and accounting/office types have actual work to do and seldom spend time reading the forum. They too usually only show up here when called or have a reason to participate e.g., an engineer is looking for feedback on a new feature or recent change. At any given time there are 30,000 to 55,000 users logged in. The average time in-world for most users is from a couple of hours to several. That puts several hundred thousand different people in SL every 24-hour day. Some of us have been harassing the Lindens for over a decade and the Lindens know us by name. Unless you have been a royal pain in the posterior, no one on staff has likely even noticed you, yet. SL systems seldom glitch in the way you suggest has happened to you. It is reasonable for you to assume someone did something. Assuming it was a Linden is NOT reasonable and certainly not for the reasons you suggest. Most likely the problem is with you. This means with some help you can fix it. I suggest you talk to a counselor about your paranoid reaction and how to approach people you need to help you. If you want technical help asking here gets you user-to-user help. When you ask here you need to provide information about your computer, viewer, and the specifics of the problem, Like the actual error message. Use the viewer's HELP->About... to get the tech info on your computer, viewer, and its setup. Include all that with your request for help.

This video popped up in my phone... Should be fun chasing down all these places.

...better living through chemistry... ?

Now... when you say "nice build" do you mean... 🙄

@Isa Crystal When you want technical help there is a lot of information we need to narrow down the possible problem. While LittleMe says there are "various things" I'll tell you there is almost an infinite number of possible things that can go wrong. The viewer can crash on launch, after launch but before you have a chance to log in, during login, immediately after login... and so on. We need details to help. We also need the viewer and computer specs. It is easy to collect those if you can launch the viewer. Before proceeding to log in, click HELP->About... and copy that info and paste it into your post.

They could shave...

Video play quality in most cases is a setting. Video embeded in the forum pages start playing at 480p for me, which is noticeably fuzzy. But the videos are often way nice HD. However, there are no options on the SL home page. I suspect the home page's video sucks because it was more important to get a good page load speed. But why it is dark... may be someone's idea of artistic...

Boring...

Weird things do happen with the viewers. Often time heals the problem and we are left wondering WTH. When you need tech help include information about your computer and viewer. The easy way to do that is to click the viewer's HELP->About... and copy and paste. There is a glitch that happens where the viewer will attempt to have your avatar wear literally everything in inventory. Logging on and off and clearing the cache doesn't help. Clearing cache helps with very few things these days. However, this odd happenstance is usually solved by wearing the Ruth/Roth test avatar. Click Developer in top menu (or press Ctrl-Alt-Q if it is not showing)->Avatar->Character Tests->Test [Male/Female]. This will break the "wear this cue". If you run into your problem again try this as a quick way out.

For heads and bodies to fit together the mesh in the neck has to be standardized. To avoid mismatched neck seams one cannot design away from that standard. Both bodies and heads can use materials. SL materials include normal maps, which let us pretend a smooth surface has shape. A skin maker can bridge across the head and body seam. With a normal map for the body and head, one can create a 3D look for the neck that is well-defined and works with lighting.

@SnakePliskins With Firestorm you should not have to go into Debug Settings to change the camera. Here is a video that shows another way: I think even this is overly complicated. But it is easy to remember. You can use Shift-Mouse Wheel to move the focal point up and down. Or use Ctrl-Mouse Wheel to move the camera up and down. The setting you wheel to for these becomes your default camera position. The ESC key will return you to your default camera position. Shift-ESC will reset the camera to the Firestorm default camera settings. Ctrl-8 to zoom out, Ctrl-0 to zoom in, and Ctrl-9 to reset to default zoom. And you can use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

I tried a bunch of AO's. The old ZHAO II does not use the new functions available to replace default system animations and uses polling instead to override the system animations. This means it generates more traffic than the newer AOs. Comparing the script load of the newer AOs to the ZHAO II shows the newer ones are WAY script heavy. I decided to go with polling and a lighter script load. I think the Firestorm AO uses the newer functions to replace default animations and avoid polling. But the code is running in the viewer rather than in a script running on the region server. I use the FS built-in AO. For all other viewers, I use the ZHAO II.

We have the Open Source group that Oz used to head up: Open Development. I think they are still meeting. This group was primarily interested in viewers.

Ardy gave a simple way to look. You can also look up the specs for your laptop model online.

This error has many causes, enough so that trying to chase down the actual cause is less important than just getting past it. To get past it there are several steps to try. First, try logging into another region. Pooley or Furball are good ones. But any from the Destination Guide will work. Next, restart the router/gateway and then your computer. Test your Internet connection. If that goes well then try logging into SL. Check the SL Status Page. See if SL is up. The websites can be up when the grid/world is down. If SL has a problem it shows up pretty fast on the forum. Check the general internet status. Look for Internet Traffic Reports to see if there is an outage between you and SL. You need to know where the SL servers are that serve you to do this. This means that when you are connected you need to grab an address so you'll know when things go sideways. Open the viewer's HELP->About... and look for your region server's address. It will look like this: Add .secondlife.io to the simhost-... address and geolocate the combined address. While you are trying all these steps it is likely the problem will resolve itself... or someone will fix it. So a simpler fix is to do something else for an hour or so and then try again.

I fly and sail. I generally set the Draw Distance at 512m. Zoom out the mini-map (radar) to show 2 or 3 regions ahead. Your Draw Distance forces or restricts region rendering. In the right image, you can see I have two regions ahead interacting with me.

Some consider SL a game... From Rhonda Huntress in answer to whether or not SL is a game: I have found that underneath it is a game. It is an inventory management game where you sort and categorize items with increasing complexity while creators strive to develop new items that defy conventional categories. Soft caps are there to force you to weed out duplicate and superfluous items or risk crashing, being turned into a cloud or worse yet, loosing large portions of your inventory. Everyone has to play the game to some extent and the rest of the world is there to entice you to add more and more items to your inventory. The point is... start organizing your inventory now. Will save you headaches later.

Most users don't experience that problem. Which means this is a problem specific to you. If this were a common problem lots of people would be complaining. On a weekend I often go club hopping in SL. I'll go through my folders of LMs and often visit a dozen or more places. Often in quick succession. Other times I am exploring and may TP from links in the Destination Guide as well as LMs visiting a half-dozen places. I use Firestorm 6.6.8, the Linden Release Candidates, and Black Dragon in Windows 10-22H2. None of them gives me a problem. I've forgotten when I had my last viewer crash in any of the three. If I were crashing I would be reading the viewer and Windows event logs to see what was going wrong. I would also consider switching to Henri's Cool VL Viewer.

Your viewer can keep up with any Internet speed. My connection can deliver 250mbps and my 7-year-old i5 keeps up. The Internet is NOT a firehose blasting data at the viewer. The viewer requests the data it needs and has to wait for it to download. So the faster your connection the better. Most viewer problems related to your connection are bandwidth limits (volume of data) and latency (lag). Deliberately trying to slow or limit your connection is likely to add to your problems. In the old days, the viewer had a Max Bandwidth for UDP data transfer setting that was important. That is not the case since the Lab changed the data transfer to the HTTP protocol. And back then it was about the SL backend servers NOT keeping up with the viewer, not the viewer keeping up with the server's data stream. So the old recommendations to tweak the Max Bandwidth setting are pointless. Use either the FS recommendation of 1500 or the Linden recommendation of 3500. The Firestorm Team still has the equation up on their wiki for calculating the OPTIMUM Max B setting based on your connection speed. But they recommend a max setting 1500. Today most people's connection speeds calc to something much higher. So most of us skip the calc and try 1500 and 3500 and see if we notice a difference. I don't.

Your computer may have no dedicated graphics card. If it does it isn't using it. The Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics is an in-CPU graphics processor. Since you have only 1GB dedicated for graphics memory I suspect your viewer settings are forcing the system to page memory to storage. Whether a hard drive (really slow) or an SSD (better but slow) they cannot compete with RAM/System Memory. I suspect that is where you get the video blinks. You can read about how to possibly adjust the amount of memory the system dedicates: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=assign+memory+to+Intel(R)+Iris(R)+Xe+Graphics&ia=web You can also tweak the viewer to use less graphics memory. There are articles here in the Forum Answers section that explain how. There are settings in the viewer to limit memory use. BUT... those limits can force the viewer into swapping out textures and you see what we call Texture Thrashing, a texture partially loads and you see it as blurry, then in a minute or two it clears and renders clearly. Then a couple of minutes later it goes blurry and the cycle repeats endlessly. Your computer more than meets the Lab's minimum system requirements. So you should be able to run without problems. But using the Intel CPU for graphics processing is not recommended. Examine your computer's specs and see if there is a built-in dedicated graphics chip. Often a laptop will avoid using the graphics chip to save power. You can set the laptop to use the chip when running an SL viewer. Google and the Answers section here will tell you how. If there is no dedicated chip in your laptop, you will have to tweak the viewer's graphics settings to use less VRAM... video memory. There are numerous tutorials on how to reduce lag and improve viewer performance...

Bad idea. R E A L L Y BAD idea. Clearing the viewer cache does NOT make you look new in SL. Any scripter can ask the age of your Avatar. (See: llRequestAgentData() ) The viewer caches are used to improve performance and reduce the load on the backend servers. By clearing your viewer's cache you negate all those performance benefits. You make SL suck for all of us because we all need those backend server clock-ticks you are wasting. You have a REALLY bad list of suggestions.