Hawthorne Gray

I appreciate your reply Dano. I'll def check the Dagger Blog out - I prefer reading to watching videos by a long shot. I suppose I need to open up my own topic to get more replies. Not a veteran forum user.

I am trying to learn about mesh… mesh everything. Where is a good resource to find out the basics? Appliers? BOM? Legacy bodies?

Also, I'm not a newbie, I've been with SL since 2006.

I drift in and out of SL - but I always come back hungry to express myself by creating a new environments - through prim design, region building, scripting, graphics to environmental editing. So, I'm no newbie. But I can't make sense of this mesh tech. Mesh heads? Bodies? I've tried demos, have no idea what BOM is and can find no guidance that explains what this is all about except in the most cursory of ways. This whole topic makes me think: maybe I just need to move on, what's the point?

Well as I said, I cleaned out ALL SL files - including those of third party apps - and downloaded a fresh copy of the SL Viewer. I don't see anything in your link to clean installs that offers new information to what I've already done. As for connection problems? My second computer is able to log on just fine.

Model: MacPro Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB graphics Memory: 12GB From the Problem Report generated after force quitting SLviewer application: Command: Second LifeVersion: Second Life version 3.2.5.247236 (3.2.5.247236)Event: hangDuration: 3.91sSteps: 40 (100ms sampling interval)Pageins: 0Pageouts: 0Process: Second Life [6238]Path: /Applications/Second Life Viewer.app/Contents/MacOS/Second LifeArchitecture: i386UID: 501The report goes on and on and makes no sense to me so I come to this forum seeking answers. The crux of the problem is that SL Viewer, along with any 3rd party viewers I've tried, will not fully launch beyond a few seconds into the opening of the viewer window. I get a white screen and a spinning ball and eventually have to do a force quit to close the application down. My machine is fairly new and quite capable of running SL but it has been a few months since I last logged in, using beta version 3.2.4. When I found I could not now open SL I downloaded the latest beta viewer and when it would not open I then cleaned out all existing SL files from my system and started with a freshly downloaded copy of the regular 3.2.5 version of the viewer - still no go. I then downloaded multiple third party viewers and none of them work. So, to say the least, I'm completely flummoxed as to what is occuring and hope somone can point me in the right direction to get this problem fixed.