Belaveth Lysette

I can see my complete avatar with no problem, but I had others in SL who said they saw me as a cloud, that my avatar is not appearing. How can this be? Even if I did some tweaking in advanced settings I wouldn't know if that helped since I already can see my avatar. To begin with I'm not using a newbies avatar. My whole avatar is custom made. I hope I don't have to digress my cool designed avatar back to a newbie avatar just to get others to see me normally.

I found out what happened. Your tip helped me to troubleshoot. Someone offered me an item called an iPhone which I accepted. But I didn't activate it. It appears I must have activated it unknowingly. Yet the item was not highlighted in the inventory. It's annoying I could not deactivate it, but the activation stopped on its own some minutes later. From now on I won't accept any more items from someone I don't know, or rather, I'll test it out first someplace where I'm alone.

I was standing around a group of avatars at an infohub. Somehow someone attached a disgusting animation to my avatar which deformed it and made particles fly from it. I did not attach the animation myself. I tried to turn it off by looking through the menus and I could not turn it off. That is rude that someone else can attach an animation to my avatar without my permission. Is there a way to turn off this unwanted animation?