Nalates Urriah

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

If it is just a setting problem, a clean install is overkill. Your settings are in a file: C:\Users\[win_login_id]\AppData\Roaming\[viewer_name*]\user_settings\[settings_file_name] Some viewers use the Second Life folder regardless of viewer name. Those that do usually name their settings file uniquely. The default name is settings.xml. For Phoenix I think it is phoneix_settings.xml. XML files are text files. You could edit the file to change the setting. That can be a bit of pain but its not rocket science. The easy fix is to rename or delete the settings file. The viewer will create it with all the default settings.

I'm going to disagree with both of the other answers. In 2011 a new caching system was added. The current cache is indexed. So, search time is minimal in ALL cases. Prior to the new cache a texture was searched for by the Operatng System by looking through the file system. Now it is a data query into a database index. In the old cache a large cache took longer to find the needed file. A too small cache that filled up meant that the system had to find old files and delete them before attempting a download, which made things really slow. So, depending on the computer there was some balance point between the cache filling up and slowing for deletions and having too many files to look through. Experiementing was needed to find the optimum size on each computer. Now 500mb is the minimum cache size. For best performance some are placing their cache in a RAM or SSD drive. But, it has to be persistant or you are forver downloading files and running slower. Wherever you put the cache it will likely work best if it is on a drive other than the drive with the operating system's temp files and paging file. Size is far less of an issue than it has ever been. But, if you use multiple viewers, i.e., Firestorm, project viewers, ... be sure they have separate caches. Any that share the cache should have the same size cache set. Allowing the main SL Viewer to have a large cache and a project viewer a small cache seems to slow the small cache viewer down. I have not tested that idea scientifically. It's just my impression. Go for a larger cache. Watch the size of your caches. Regardless of what size I allowcate (1-10gb), the cache seems to run between 600k-700k.

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? 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.

It is a bit on the weak side, but should work. http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=Radeon+HD+5450 ATI/AMD is weak on OpenGL, which is what the SL Viewers use. NVIDIA has stronger OpenGL support.

Maestro Linden said he thinks they have a fix. Its in queue for QA but there is a crunch for QA resources just now. More people are adding their information to the JIRA SVC-7727 and clicking WATCH. My Saturday password change seems to have gotten my problems resolved. But, one of the Lindens was experiementing with my inventory to see if they could resolve the problem. So, I can't say whether it is the last password change or the Linden's doing that resolved my problem. For now it remains a problem for many trying to use the ADITI grid. My suggestion is to create an Alt and have it login to ADITI without ever logging into AGNI.

Kamile and Candee, 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? If there is a hardware deficiency, it should find it. If your computer is ok, then check your connection. Troubleshoot Your #SL Connection. If the problem is neither of those then post with more details. 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.

Check that your computer meets the System Requirements | Second Life. 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? 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.

Type in a region name when you login. Try Morris or PathTest1, 2 ,3. or 4. See Jira SVC-7727. There is a fix coming.

There is discussion going on about how to make mesh clothes fit better. The debate about the next step centers around what is known as the Parameteric or Mesh Deformer. This should be of great interest to fashion designers and residents. If you have tried on mesh clothes you know there are some appearance sliders that push your avatar's body outside the mesh clothes or leave gaps between the clothes and the avatar. That is because mesh clothes currently response to only a few of the appearance sliders. The Mesh Deformer is a feature that will change that and make them resonsive to all the sliders. Designers are involved in figuring out how to make mesh clothes fit well. Part of that discussion is about how the Mesh Deformer should work. You can read the discription of the two basic sides of the debate in: The Great #SL Deformer Debate and #SL Mesh Deformer Debate Update. If you are a clothes designer, please stop by and take the poll on how Mesh Clothes fit and what you think the solution for the Deformer should be. See: Do #SL Mesh Clothes Fit it contains the poll. If you don't understand the problem or choices, you can still provide useful information. Anyone can provide information on how well or poorly their mesh clothes are fitting. Please contact your favorite clothes designers and have them check out the debate and take the poll. While there is no garantee it will change the Lindens' minds in your favor, a few Lindens are aware of the poll. It is not a scientific poll where I can control the sample or accracy, but it may influence the Lindens. Thanks for your help.