Nalates Urriah

When working with sculpties you have a very limits number of vertices to work with. Plus they all have to fit into 64x64 image matrix. Look on Domino Marama's site to make sure you understand the limits when working with sculpties. http://www.dominodesigns.info/manuals/primstar/understanding_sculpt_maps

It is hard to see the faces of the blouse. But, it appears that is the problem. The edge loops run across the breasts and continue out onto the sleeve under arm. The edge loops under the arm should make fan... like an Asian fan. The hinge point should be on the shoulder. You need to create an accordion under the arm so the sleeve can fold up. I suggest you look through modeling tutorials on YouTube to see how they make sleeves and model shoulders. It is going to be tricky to get the weighting right. You are going to have to work out a balance between the torso and the upper arm. I would move the arm down about a quarter of the way and adjust the weighting. Then on to half, three-quarter and 100%. Then move it back to the T-pose and start over. With practice you'll figure out how to make it work.

There are rumors of a materials system in the works. The Lindens won't say any more than that they have thought about it and considered it.

There are a number of things that could be wrong. Without checkng the tutorial you reference and checking the file, its hard to know. You can skim through: Second Life Mesh Clothes Blender 2.6 Setup 2012 Tutorial

Try this site to see if you can run SL. This is not perfect, but it should give you and idea. Can I Run Second Life? To add your info to an existing question use OPTIONS->EDIT. It’s in the upper right of your post. Laptops use a power save mode that often disables the video card. Check that your video settings in your video ctrols are for Performance, which will run the video card rather than attempt to save power. Also, run plugged into wall power. You can try setting your graphics settings in the viewer to LOW before logging in.

I agree it may become way obsolete long before it fails. You will see graphics cards for sale on eBay as people upgrade to newer cards. Cards do fail. The most common cause I have seen is a cooling fan freezing up. The fans are often custom fans and difficult to find. Places like www.mcmaster.com/ may have them... they have about everything on the planet for making stuff. In other cases heat sinks are allowed to fill with dust. Both scenarios lead to over heating and eventual failure of the chips. Running silicon chips at and above 75C shortens the time to failure. But, they may last for 3 or 4 years running at hgh temps. Overclockers have been known to accidently kill video cards. They often run the cards at high temperatures. They also tend to update cards and other hardware often.

This is unusual. If the two of you travel to another region, can you see him there? Is her/his avatar the only one that is ever invisible? Is he/her always invisible? When you ask a tech question include information about your computer and viewer. Get the info from the viewer's Help-About... and paste that into your post with your question. To add your info to an existing question use OPTIONS->EDIT. It’s in the upper right of your post. Several viewer have a Derender feature for photography. Select something and 'Derender' it and it goes invisible. Since you don't say which viewer you are using I can't know if that is the like problem. Relogging usually resets the 'Derender' status.

Meeting with Lindens in-world is easy. Most any of the user group meetings will have one or more Lindens present. But, they stick to the meeting topics and seldom talk about things outside the meeting scope. To a large extend that is because they stick to their area of expertise. In general the Lindens know very little about what developement teams other than their own are doing and then it is only in very general terms. Finding the Linden you need for this problem IS probably impossible. All the Lindens having anything to do with the Market Place and web sites are pretty much in hidding. While you can add information to the JIRA or create a new entry all JIRA entries are prioritized. Since Direct Deleiver has problems and is behind schedule, anything else is likely to get a low priority and it will take some for them to get to it.

I'm guessing the "...you will summize that he wants to to propogate and bear children to be a slave race!" is the reason. This is and old problem with the market place. You can't know what things make an adult listing because you might change the wording to sneek an adult listing into the Mature Section... The ideas the Lab has on how to rate things Adult are pretty much rediculious. But, the community has not been able to change their thinking.

Oh yeah... I forgot about walking into walls with Nirans... :smileyvery-happy: One gets used to the change or learns to change the camera's default position. I suppose machinima types are used to having the camera in odd places.

Have you checked your balance in your account dashboard? Go to SecondLife.com and login. That should take you to your dashboard. You can check transactions and your account balance. That should tell you if the viewer is not showing changes or if they are not happening.

Most likely this is a connection problem. So, check that first. Troubleshoot Your #SL Connection. No matter how good you think your connection is, you could be having a problem connecting to the SL servers. The link leads to instructions on testing that specific connection. When you ask a tech question include information about your computer and viewer. If the viewer will at least show the login screen, get the info from the viewer's Help-About... and paste that into your post with your question. To add your info to an existing question use OPTIONS->EDIT. It’s in the upper right of your post. Avoid clearing your cache unless you are certain you have cache corruption.

When you ask a tech question include information about your computer and viewer. If the viewer will at least show the login screen, get the info from the viewer's Help-About... and paste that into your post with your question. To add your info to an existing question use OPTIONS->EDIT. It’s in the upper right of your post. Avoid clearing your cache unless you are sure you have a cache corruption problem. Each time you clear the cache the viewer has to download a bunch of stuff all over again. If your having some type of problem, try installing the viewer over the existing install. That will make sure all the files are working. After you crash the viewer, try restarting the computer. When the viewer crashes, it sometimes leaves tasks running that confuse the restarting viewer. Try setting your graphics settings to LOW before logging in. Beyond these guesses we need to know more about your system.

I think it is a very good post for models and others buying mesh clothes. Thanks for writing it.

When you blow your settings it can be a pain to recover. To reset the viewer's settings find the file: C:\Users\[win_login_id]\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml and rename or delete it. This will force the viewer back to all the default settings. Plus it will check your video card and adjust settings for your card.

If you find it is not DNS then try updating your video drivers. SL runs using OpenGL. NIVIDIA does a better job of supporting OpenGL than AMD/ATI does. Mac's tend to have ATI video cards and so have more problems with SL than Windows machines. You can try opening Preferences before logging in and setting your graphics to LOW. If that allows you to login and run, then it definitely is video.

BUMP. In the open source meeting today (6/14), I asked Oz Linden if he has enough test clothes. He does NOT. He especially needs male mesh clothes for testing. Currently this is not delaying the project. But, it soon will. Please contact your fav clothes designer and ask them to provide more examples.

The Lab does not publish that information. The Lab, as Qie points out, is only providing numbers to the TPV Dev's. They are under NDA to not disclose it. So, you are NOT going to find anything authoritative. You can get a good idea of which viewers are most popular with SL users. Look at the TPV Directory. The Lab requires something like 250k uses in a month to properly evaluate crash stats. So, the viewers in the first section of the list are the more popular and getting more use. The list is to show the most stable viewer, the one with the fewest crashes. But, the minimum use requirement gives us a hint at which are getting the most use. Those in the second section are not getting enough use to provide significant stats on crash rates. If you want to know about viewers Inara Pey and I review viewers. See her site: Viewer round-up summary: week 23. If you visit my site (link in sig) look in the menu for Viewers. We are currently in a lull without much viewer development news. If you just want to get some idea of how viewer use stacks up, Lindens have made comments in various meetings and conversations that give us hints. Also, some TPV Dev's have said things that give us a since of proportion without actually giving us numbers. From that sort of empirical data Firestorm and Phoenix are the most used. I think I remember being told that Firestorm is now in use by more people than Phoenix. The LL Main Viewer is in use by about 1/3 of the SL users. Best Viewer SL users all have their favorite viewer. There is no BEST viewer. Niran's Viewer is a fun viewer that gives gorgeous renders and I call it a decedent of Kirsten's Viewer. Niran changes the user interface often which drives some people totally nuts. But, as he/she says the viewer is primarily built for Niran. I call it a user interface experiment. Exodus was targeted at gamers, those into combat in SL. Firestorm is the power user's viewer. Cool VL Viewer is technically up to date V1 user interface. Singularity is a fast viewer but lagging behind the tech advance curve. The dev's have many interests and limited time. Currently only Imprudence is more stable than the LL Viewer, but it lacks many of the new features we have in SL. It is falling further behind as the development team is focused on the Kokua Viewer, which is working to be the OpenSim/SL viewer of choice.

You are not really giving us enough information to know what you’ve done wrong. That leaves us guessing. Some pictures would help. The models and the uvmaps would help. Also more description as to how to made the models. I’ll guess you are leaving out a step. If you try to write a description for a post here, you may find the problem. That you using 2.59 has me wondering if you know about Blender Archive Installs. I’ll suggest that you check out how to use: Blender Archive Install Archive installs are easy and allow you to have multiple versions of Blender installed and working. Blender is updating frequently. It is always a bit iffy installing a new version. We never know what surprises they will contain. Surprises and bugs often mean we need to use an older version. So, it is handy to have them available and working. The new versions do have bug fixes and new features. Generally they are fixes we need for working with models bound for Second Life. So, we need to be updating.

You might want to look at this video. Bsurfaces v1.5

You could bring a copy of the bed to the Content/Mesh UG on Monday. Nyx will often look at strangely behaving mesh items to see if it is the object or a bug in the system. Nyx will need to see the .dae file.

If you are on a laptop, that may be the problem. Laptops try to conserve power and will often turn of the video card and run on just the CPU. There is a setting in your video card's controls to chose between performance and power saving. Set it to performance. Also, plug it into wall power. I don't use ATI cards. So, I'm not sure but I suspect there is a Games settings section in your video card controls. You should be able to setup a special configuration for Second Life. Be sure it is set to performance or to always use the video card. You can use a free program GPU-Z to see what your computer is doing with the graphics card.

I think the Phoenix data is out of date. If one wants to check their actual connection speed to SL they need to login and open Help -> About... and get the server name or IP Address. Then run your test to that server. It can change depending on where you are. When I do that the servers always show up as being in San Francisco.

You have to deal with server load too. My connection clocks in SpeedTest.net at 31mb/sec. Using more than about 1mb/sec for max bandwidth seems to degrade performance. Set your cache to a large size. That will help reduce the amount you must download.

Try reading through this. It is a b it old, but I haven't heard that things have changed in this respect. Understanding the Maximum Bandwidth Option in the Second Life™ Viewer