Prokofy Neva

It's kinda cool. First, you have to have a premium account to find the Mystery Portal. Hint: look around the premium sandboxes. Next, you have to viewer 3 on to see mesh--without the ability to see mesh, this will be kasha. Then you get to this other world and... well I won't say more : )

It's not a "report" Qie, it is a *fact*. We've replicated this dozens of times now. Phoenix/Firestorm does not handle group changes UNTIL you relog. Sometimes even twice.

You have to make sure also that you really grouped your land. If it says "set to group" and "owner makes contribution with deed" that's not the whole process. You then have to press "deed to group" and have a group ready with the available tier, or that "contribution" has to be enough to cover tier. Until the land says not your name as owner but XYZ group owned, it isn't completed.

This is a problem on Viewer 2.x and on Phoenix/Firestorm viewer. After you have switched the tenant to the role with the deeding powers, or after you have sent him an invitation to that role, make sure he then *relogs*. Sometimes *twice*. Relogging should then make it work. That is how I've done it many times. I have hundreds of people in mainland group rentals, and relogging fixes this problem.

I've had billing problems a number of times. One trick I use is to go to "add credit" on the billing menu. I put a credit on to my account for the amount of the tier, or what's owed. Then it zeroes out.

Is there going to be new content in the Premium Account this month and every month? I forget where you go to get it.

Since you don't seem to want to read a wiki, although there is a lot there, you should go to a public sandbox and just start putting out cubes by using the "create" tool and seeing how it works and practicing and experimenting and learning from others in the sandbox. And go to Builder's Brewery and Ivory Tower of Prims

This isn't something you can report because it's not an offense of the terms of service. Linden Lab doesn't deal with inter-residential disputes. All you can do is try to keep IMing them and to go on SL blogs and forums (not this official one) and expose the name so that the public knows you are dealing with a fraudster -- if that's the case. Some groups have you join the group on your own -- well, perhaps I'm one of the few that has people join on their own just so that this very problem doesn't happen. It's a reason you should preferably pay into a rental box or terminal that you can refund from and that provides some inworld evidence of your payment rather than paying an avatar directly. But since a terminal only leads to an avatar anyway, you are never 100 percent ensured against fraud in SL. Buyer beware.

It's that time of year when stuff starts following you, ghosts, creepy pumpkins, flaming hell-skulls. The question is, how to make the follow thingie *stop* following you? Here's the follow-fairy script or the Burning Man flame follow thing, looks identical: float radius = 8; default { on_rez(integer start_param) { llSetTimerEvent(start_param); } state_entry() { vector pos; // get the current position the the object pos = llGetPos(); // make object phsyical llSetStatus(STATUS_PHYSICS, TRUE); llSleep(0.1); llMoveToTarget(pos,0.1); // get the key of our owner key id = llGetOwner(); // set up a sensor to find our owner llSensorRepeat("",NULL_KEY,AGENT,radius,2*PI,.4); } sensor(integer total_number) { // llDetectedPos returns the position of the object that triggered // the sensor, in this case the avatar we want to follow vector pos = llDetectedPos(0); // calculate an offset so we do not end up right behind // the avatars head vector offset =<llFrand(2) - 1,llFrand(2) - 1, -0.8>; pos+=offset; // now move to the position our avatar is (plus the offset) llMoveToTarget(pos,.3); // finally, turn to face our avatar llLookAt(llDetectedPos(0) + <0,0,-0.8>, .1, .1); } timer() { llDie(); } }  But how to get it to sTOP? Is theer just some simple like that makes it die? Inky Jedsky's flaming skulls die after like a minute. P.S. And if this script contains a "die," it's not dying. What do I need for it.

I have stalls in Alston and Baileya for $50/35 prims and elsewhere, visit my shop and look at the commercial land notecard. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Alston/119/23/38

Hi, this meets some of your requirements, $500 a week, with 100 prims to use, fully furnished: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Moraine/17/32/47 It's in mature, you can put in a skybox and have pets. You get perms in the group to use ban/eject and put in your own music. No security orbs allowed, they're annoying to everyone else.

Well I'll go ya one better. Large groups won't load...the chat won't work in them...the people won't alphabetize or even be found in them -- it says "not found" even when they are there...the land in them won't show up...the acres left won't display so you can't tell, is there enough tier or not... In short, make smaller groups.

I now have about six different stories with six different scripts and cut prims and stuff -- it's like asking directions from 3 people in Maine you happen to see in a gas station. Ayup...wull ya wanna go up to Rt. 96 No no no. What he wants to do is take the back road behind the Wal-Mart Nope. I'll tellya whatcha gotta do. Whatcha wanna do, see, is you go up to the stoplight. Etc. Very confusing. Second Life is too hard.

What is a linked prim, and what is a root? That is the question. That is, sure, I know -- after 7 years in SL -- the theory of these things, and I know there are "root prims" that one must be careful to "link to right". But in layman's terms, it's easier to explain it by the actual object. Like the bottom of the box is the root, the lid will be linked.

Hi, thanks, I'll have to try this. So far Void Singer's script is what is working for me because it enables the lid and box to be linked, which they need to be in a product like a box of cookies that would have to be moved around by the customer, without having to rez out aggregated prim batches every time. But you do have to link it right, I believe you start with the bottom of the box, then link the link second -- or else the entire object moves up and down. When you see it doing that, you know you haven't linked in the right sequence. Cutting prims is something that isn't an automatic easy thing to do for beginners or even people who are simply mathematically challenged like me. So I'd rather have a script that will move any object of any cut or type, prim or sculpty, so I will try this other script. But for now Void's is working because Osprey gave me a pre-cut prim -- she's the best!

I have a simple thing I want to do that always drives me crazy in SL. I just want to put a lid on a box, and have it click to open and shut, to go up and down. Why is this so hard? If I put a door script into it, it gets all messed up because of the way doors are in SL, which are really solids with half invisible with strange things going on with axis this and that. I have one box I made someone helped me with where DoorAxisX worked. But now it won't on another box, possibly due to conflict with another script, or horrors, the way the prims are linked up. That is always confusing. Can somebody just baby-step me through making a box lid with a script in it that works at any angle, i.e. wherever rezzed out.

Hi, I think if you apply the same energy you are putting into scatter-shooting your request to obtaining some focus, you might do better. Just as you feel you don't have the patience to attend classes and they might not be convenient to your schedule, so other people may not feel it's convenient to adjust to *your* schedule and spend long hours trying to type out to you or voice to you the basics that you might master on your own. You don't have to go to a class and sit, there are self-paced tutorials in places like Builder's Brewery and Ivory Tower of Prims where you can start clicking and trying things on your own -- you learn by doing. Like a lot of technical things in life, learning on your own by trial and error can work better than reading a manual or sitting listening to someone. You can also narrow your focus and avoid frustration by first deciding what you want to do in SL. Do you want to socialize and dance? Do you want to shop? Do you want to make friends? And then start adjusting your business idea to the activities you really like doing yourself. The whole furniture industry is in transition now from prim and sculpty to possibly mesh, but at least from prim to sculpty. So it means simultaneously struggling with three types of tools or learning difficult outside programs like Blender, which even the most patient artists say is really finicky. Clothing is possibly easier to make, but requires Photoshop as well. Try making your own appearance, finding freebies, and shopping a little and seeing how you make up looks to see if you want to try to learn more and break into this competitive area.

You can visit my Business Tutorial for SL in Iris at the Moth Temple -- there are tips, scripts, etc. all available there. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Iris/124/153/23 a work in progress

Hi, I have a snow mountain roadside and waterfront combination parcel on the Mainland sim of Refugio. I think it fits many of your requirements. $2900/wk with 10 percent off for 4 weeks in advance. It's 8016 meters and 1834 prims. It faces open Linden sea. If you want serendipity and fly-bys for a store, this is next to a road where people run vehicles, and it is near my rentals and plaza where there are a number of art galleries and shops. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Refugio/168/19/63 But if you want privacy and a residence, it is not a very busy sim and on that side of the sim you are next to other residences. We don't allow security orbs, you only get ban/eject powers in the group. Prokofy

Hi, I have the haunted monastery of St. Thaddeus in Tethys which you can visit here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tethys/49/212/81 Tethys is really a unique old Linden-made mainland sim which has among the highest baked-in mountains in SL and a really cool tube ride on the rapids made by ancient Lindens in 2003. I worked really hard on making this monastery last Halloween, and I had help from various friends like Fleep Tuque. I have the potions maker there which is really fun. I recently bought the land next to it so I have more prims -- and now I'm looking for more ideas to decorate this year, send me your suggestions. This is part of the SL Public Land Preserve.

Do you have a beautiful yacht hidden in your inventory that you never get to show your friends or use for entertainment because it doesn't fit on your land? Wish you could sail instead of bang up against the sea walls on private islands? Come to Carlisle on the Mainland where you can have all this and more. Beautiful old Hidden Lakes Mainland sims, park your yacht on self-service for just $1/prim/wk, no waiting for the group. Stay as long or as short a time as you like. Use the yacht club and add any furniture you need. Beautiful place to stay, delightful fairy grove next door. Boating throughout the mainland from this point. Join the SL Public Land Preserve for a one-time fee of $5 and help keep SL public spaces open.

Also I couldn't agree more about the "don't rest on your laurels" and "blog, blog, blog". Ever since "World of SL" went away, there hasn't been an all-purpose fashion feed to look at, or a feed that mixes both SL commentary and fashion both. I can individually subscribe to a few, but I don't know what to pick and I'd rather have a medley of the best picks. What do you recommend as an aggregator or feed for SL fashion?

Where did that model get his eyes?

I love Zaara's, her stores have nice architecture, too, the sims are nice to visit. Do you know Shekhawati-The Land of Merchants? Great Indian mall with realistic architecture, shops, art, clothing. There are hundreds of real-life country sims in SL, I have a list of many of them you can pick up at the International Bazaar in Ross. I've come across this claim that there are no good black skins in SL or that they are merely white skins tinted black. It's not true. There are tons of them, and they are high quality and realistic. Use search/places which often yields better results that search/all.

Well, I guess we've arrived, eh? On Oprah and all... I thought this was an extraordinary film. It was shown last year during SLCC10 in Boston, and it was quite controversial for some of the SL oldbies especially -- you either loved it or hated it. I loved it because it featured some very real second lives and very real situations, but some of the idealistic oldbies felt that it was "too negative" and that films about Second Life should be only Happy People Eating Noodle Salads and only positive. It was really quite something to follow these different lives. Here are my reviews -- and my review of the viewers... it was really an eye-opener for me to see how much the educators couldn't appreciate this film and wanted to assign the film-maker some social role of portraying only "educational" aspects of SL. http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2010/08/im-real-hes-fake.html http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2010/10/ive-been-meaning-to-write-this-post-since-slcc-there-were-many-positive-things-i-had-to-say-about-this-years-very-well-manag.html