Paul Hexem

Pussycat Catnap wrote: Just file a support ticket to have the land set for sale or auction and ignore the rest of the debate. Soon as the store gets zapped it will all become moot. That's good advice, because the land is a great location. I kind of want it.

Paladin Pinion wrote: Kasya Sciavo wrote: Then I consider it most prudent for you to convince LL to ban all such prim heavy things at once. They should not allow the sale of any such things if that is - which of course it is not - the sole cause of lag in SL. They won't ban what you can buy, but I understand the plan is to limit script usage per avatar as soon as the proper tools are in place. Better go shopping for low-lag stuff. Well, that was the plan, but they seemed to have scrapped it, unfortunately.

Kasya Sciavo wrote: Well, now.....is that right, huh? The people who spend money on nice, fairly expensive avatar accesories are to blame? Am, I getting this right, here? How, deplorably selfish of them!....tsk tsk..... They should be warned not to spend on such frippery so they can enjoy SL! :matte-motes-big-grin-squint: By that rationale, perhaps the insane weekend lag on too-many-to-even-mention sims is because I am wearing too much in RL, also, perhaps? :matte-motes-silly: We should be naked at our computers, and only use noob avatars, d'ya think? Or.....could it not be something to do with the poor investment over...what?...6 years..... in improving the grid performance, as has been mentioned in another post so that SL runs well, you know kinda like the virtual world competition is now doing? I am picturing you on a customer relations desk in a department store in my mind's eye. A woman is complaining her fridge freezer she bought off you, and pays a tidy sum weekly for, is not sufficiently cool when she stocks it full of produce. Produce that she has to buy in your store,also. Produce you are more than happy for her to buy as much of as she can afford. You fold your arms, smile...sigh deprecatingly.....and explain to the silly woman she should not spend so much money on produce. It is her fault the fridge freezer is not cold enough! Is she stupid or what? In future, she should only fill it a quarter full....and with low grade produce, too. That way her fridge freezer will run fine. Do you think that woman is going to buy another fridge freezer from your shop? Take a wild, wild guess. Well, with that attitude, yes. You're the problem. You could easily be AR'ed for unfair use of sim resources if you use the kind of script memory your post implies. I'm going to say it again. Good does not equal laggy. Laggy does not make something good. There are plenty of expensive, high and low priced, great quality products in SL that don't have 200 resize scripts in them, or sensors firing off every .001 seconds.

So, recently a club "hired" me to come look around and try to figure out what scripts could be improved, because the sim gets really laggy sometimes. So I went and looked, poked around, tried to figure out what did wat, watched the FPS and Time Dilation, and couldn't figure out what would make the place laggy. Then I script counted some of the dancers. Some of these girls, their hair alone, was over 200 scripts. Obviously resizer scripts, because the hair is no-mod (am I allowed to say the store name and tell people to avoid it?) When I reached the conclusion that the girls were causing the very lag they were complaining about, the response was essentially "Well, it's a club and we need to look nice, we have to wear good hair." They couldn't wrap their head around the fact that they don't have to be laggy to look good. Laggy does not equal good! YOU are the reason SL is laggy! STOP IT. Sorry, I just had to get that rant out.

Cinnamon Lohner wrote: You need to understand how the SL economy works. Linden dollars have no value to Linden Labs. When an object is sold for linden dollars, those linden dollars go to that person's account. If that account ceases to exist, then the linden dollars disappear from the virtual economy. LL makes their money on premium accounts, tier payments and the sale of sims (which is really just an extension of tier payment plus setup fees). And they make a small amount on fees when dollars convert to linden dollars and when linden dollars are converted to RL dollars. The purchase of virtual goods simply circulates linden dollars amongst the residents. --Cinn A little off topic, but this argument (by LL, that is) is a bit flimsy. They sell Linden dollars for money. That means they're worth money. I kind of think that argument is just there so they can pretend they're not accountable if something goes wrong, because most people won't go to court over these microtransactions. I think Chelsea is right when she says a court would have to handle any serious issues.

Darkie Minotaur wrote: Most has been said, I think. Just one more thing that opens some interesting possibilities is that something said on llRegionSayTo on a non zero channel to an ava is also heard by the attachments See, now THAT sounds useful. Everything else seems like you'd have to use one of the other methods, at least once, just to grab the UUID of the object you want to RegionSayTo.

I found a store in-world, complete with listings on the marketplace. The owner is gone from SL (won't even show up in search, and people in his groups say he's banned), but they still have a store on mainland, in their name, and stuff listed on the marketplace. The first thing I wonder is, how do you get support if you buy from this person and something goes wrong? The second thing I wonder- isn't there something illegal about selling someone's creations and keeping the profit for yourself (LL is selling this stuff on the marketplace and presumably taking their cut, after having banned the creator)?

Is there any other reason to use RegionSayTo over RegionSay besides for security- i.e. making sure only one object hears the message? And, how does it compare to llInstantMessage?

RL trademarks are... Well, trademarked. Selling trademarked stuff IS against the rules, and will often be removed from being sold. If the company finds out you were profiting with their trademark, yes. They can take legal action against you. However... While "Pepsi" is against the rules, you could potentially use... "Popsi".

Looking for animations or at least one animation, that gives the effect of using a PDA or tablet PC.

You don't have to deed the land. Just set the land to group, while keeping your ownership. Then you can set group roles for access. Alternatively, yes. Have a scripted object do it. Not hard to script something to only accept input from certain users and set it to the land media.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing with you on any of the points you made. As a matter of fact, with most, I agree. I just also agree with the other person who said SL is due some upgrades.

I don't know about you, but I see a significant difference between 10 and 30 FPS in.. well, anything on my computer, Modern Warfare or no. 30 FPS > 10 FPS any day of the week. If we can do that without training every single content creator in SL in how to be better at content creating, we should.

Oh, no. I get that. The content is easily 70% of the issue. Even user generated, mainland sandbox trash would render well if SL had DirectX 11 support, ran on multiple cores, SLI, etc... All these new (even some of the old!) technologies that modern graphics cards are using.

There is some validity to the statement that the rendering engine needs work, at as far as performance. The same system that can run games like the latest Call of Duty and Battlefield: Bad Company and Crysis and the Dragon Age games all at maximum graphics settings getting 40 FPS gets sluggish as soon as you fire up SL at max graphics settings. SL should never take more power than a Call of Duty game... Until you can get 40+ people on screen with sculpts and meshes and lights and particles and animations all playing smoothly.

Sculpts cannot be flexible. However, if you want a moving sculpted tail, it IS possible to have the tail sculpted in multiple positions and have have a script on a timer hide all but one, to give the illusion of moving around. Or, switch the sculpt map on the timer, to save on prims.

I see that from time to time- builders with lower end graphics cards turn on lights or glow and do a terrible job, because they can't see it.

Anyone else think LL was aware of this (that technically, SL avatars are not allowed on Facebook), and that it was their way to trying to force a connection between your real Facebook identity (assuming you have one) and your SL avatar? Particularly, for revenue generating, privacy infringing type things?

I would use a drawbridge, too. A little clever scripting can make it connect when you need it, and move when you don't.

My friend rents on a sim called Poseidon's Adventure. Yesterday we tried to put in an ASN Stargate and noticed issues Won't dial, and connections don't allow teleports. In my troubleshooting, I bounced back and forth a couple times, and noticed that the SLURL in my teleport history was un-clickable. Like, not a valid SLURL. Example, in world... http://slurl.com/secondlife/Maple/24/217/24 is valid. I click it and get the popup. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Poseidon's%20Adventure/56/83/852 is not. Can't click it at all. I did test a little llMapDestination script, and that DID work, as did creating a landmark, so I'm just plain confused. Edit: So, the apostrophe IS the problem. Doesn't really work as a solution though, because the viewer and scripts generate it with the apostrophe. Perhaps a JIRA is in order?

Does it matter why? Could be instructions in llOwnerSay, that include showing you how to emote. And I've used /me in script a lot, for communications... By the way, these scripted replies, aren't they just more complex ways of doing what I suggested? Assuming the string isn't variable, that should work.And even if it is, you could use llOwnerSay("/me : /me says " + string);

Can you cheat and put in /me twice? Like... "/me : /me Says Hello!"

I have a pair of shoes that have a HUD. It's to toggle the flight controls. Try Hoorenbeek. Mostly men's stuff, but there's a handful of shoes women could wear. Great quality.

It can be done with gaming keyboards. Or, like someone else said, ask a scripter. We can throw something together to pull you in whatever direction you're facing, which gets the same effect.

I'm with you. I think it's a waste to buy something that just lags up a sim and charges you a recurring fee to do it, only to eventually die. Or whatever it is they do. Granted I have a dog- but said dog doubles as a security system, with push and damage enabled, and has no recurring costs. That's the way to go.