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Hello 👋 I'm brand new to SL photography and I'm actually following a tutorial right now. Just trying to figure out why "Enable Advanced Lighting Model" is grayed out in Preferences and Phototools. Is it because my graphics card is too weak? If so, I understand, just need to know that's the reason why. Using Firestorm 6.4.21 (64531) 64 bit / Radeon RX 580 graphics card

i have two previous versions of firestorm on my E: drive, from my old machine. i had 'firestorm 3' installed on win10 to a network drive. (yeah, that didn't work.) now the hard drives are installed in the machine, and are local. i went to uninstall 'firestorm 3' but the control panel said it didn't exist. so i installed firestorm AGAIN, to E:\SL\Firestorm 3 this is a new download, version: 6.4.21 (64531) ran firestorm, didn't log in, went to preferences, backup & restore, pointed at my backups and hit restore. didn't work. remembered i read somewhere, you need to log in first, and do a restore, then you can restore while logged out? logged in and pointed to backups, restored preferences. THIS time i got a message that said 'restore is complete!' huzzah! and yet... i started firestorm again, it DID NOT load/save my preferences, they're all back at default, it DID NOT remember where the backups were... WHY? what did i do? what didn't i do? and is this the right place for firestorm help? the 'real' forums don't have a 'viewers' section. thanks, guys!

If it is ok, I ask them here, if not, please remove them to the right forum. 1. How can I make a place a favorite? Think I tried everything, but probably not everything. 2. When I open something, there are shiny lights going there. When I touch something else, there they are again. Is it possible to not see those? Again, sorry if this is the wrong forum.

If there is already a forum discussion for this, please let me know as I have searched and was not able to find anything. What attachment points do you use for different types of rigged mesh? Do you have strong opinions on the attachment points you use? Or do you leave everything at "right hand" (seems like most vendors leave everything on right hand) and just do an add for any new items on your outfits? For example if you have dresses, do you like to set the attachment point to chest or pecs? I try to be somewhat consistent, but sometimes I say the heck with it for new items and just "add" and have multiple items sitting on the right hand attachment point. Also do you have preferences for non-rigged items (if you don't mind moving items around to get them where you want)? mesh feet - (left hind foot) mesh body - (spine) mesh head - (neck) hmm I may want to change this one if I wear necklaces more mesh hands - (left hand) mesh eyes - (left eyeball) shoes - (left foot) if only 1 point needed, otherwise left foot+right foot dress - (left pec) glasses - (nose) not usually rigged but I will move them around to fit on nose if they aren't already there. shirt - (chest) pants - (pelvis) necklace - (neck) skirt - (left hip)

hei Hei 😘 So I'm just trying to figure out how by following the rules of "preferences" switch to "General, Moderate, Adult". I've done that about like 16 times, lol and nothing has changed. I tried restarting the viewer, going on a different viewer (FireStorm) and nothing.. I know my age signing up was old enough, my account alone is about 7 years old now lol If anyone has been going through the same problem or went through it and fixed it.. I'd love any tips or tricks. Thanks a ton! 🖤👻

I am using Ubuntu Linux and have a problem with the SL Viewer. Up to version 4 I was able to select either the built in browser or the default browser from the Preferences tab: On the viewer I chose Me > Preferences > Setup > Web: Then select either the default browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, etc) or the built in SL browser. Beginning with version 4 of the Linux Client those options are grayed out and cannot be changed. Default browser is the one selected. The options for enabling plugins, accepting cookies, and enabling Java are active and can be changed. How/what can I do to restore the browser built into the SL Viewer? So far I have updated the system, all drivers and utilities, changed firewall settings, updated the browser with no success. I have also edited the settings.xml file to confirm that the correct values were entered. Without this setting I can't check profiles or search places, people & things from within SL. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.