I'll answer any & all questions I can. I'm providing this experimental space because since topical blog posts don't allow for such variety. 2 rules:
- Just about anything re: video tutorials, tips, tricks, 'n' how-tos is welcome! E.g., if you have a vidtut request.
- No questions about official Second Life stuff (stuff I can't help with). This is my personal blog.
If you prefer, send me a private message.
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ok.
could you make a tutorial about how to script a object to teleport you.
Torley, get LL to communicate please! Jacks announcement is a disaster and you have pulled up the drawbridge.
@Sean: I may consider that! Yours is the first request I've heard. There are some good free and inexpensive teleport script gadgets which I recommend looking at, and you'll learn by examining the script and reading the docs.
@Paddy: I'm really sorry because my personal blog isn't about Linden policy (see #2 above), but at work, I've definitely been forwarding ALL the feedback I get and encouraging nothing less that timely, relevant, continual communication about that.
Torley, Thank you. My previous post was written at a time when feelings in the community were running high. Since then there has been a modicum of debate filter out of LL. I fully appreciate you can't comment here and thank you for taking the time to reply.
i love buy os butt cost for it go up no cash b off sell land to ppl i pay os 75$ not cannot pay 125$ no 1 buy 938pam for 14000L jack linden and M Linden to greedy good 50% ppl go off sl i tell you r out linden cool 1 you good job and bet you fun to do it you help
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you need make Video on ageplay and ok sl ppl saying i ageplay i not do sex my kid av ppl say report me for rp a kid on sl i join sl b a kid 1 time and i good and fun do it not in to online sex i say kill sex on sl i love see you 1 on sl and i love sl chat voice talking top texting to ppl on sl you tell i not good
Ooh, I had to read that two or three times. Loan1wolf, allow me to translate, you mean something like this?
You would buy an OpenSpace estate, but you find it too expensive. You think such high prices will drive people away from SL. And you think Torley is a cool Linden, he does a good job and he has fun doing it. Also, Torley is helpful.
When you have a child avatar on SL, people report you for it, while you are doing nothing wrong. Child avs in SL have a bad name due to bad stuff being done with them and you feel the consequences. You think we should show more there's nothing wrong with having a kid avatar, just as everybody can be a tiny or a furry or a robot if they so desire.
you poor time read i saying i not texting i miss words or —- up words and love i chat voice on sl make ez to play i see so texting to bad to i talk in a Video so tell i saying i no longer do texting to ppl i make ny point it ezer
@Paddy: Thank *you* for understanding.
@Daed: Thanks for translating! False abuse reports get thrown out by Linden Lab's Governance Team. And like Jack Linden just said @ http://blog.secondlife.com , there'll be followup re: OpenSpaces.
Hi Torley!
Love your tutorials — they have been so helpful! I have a newbie kind of question (and I'm not a newbie…so too embarrassed to ask someone in-world.)
I have several freebie AO HUDs and loads of animations I've picked up as freebies along the way — but don't know how to get the animations I like into a HUD. Or even how to edit the ZHAO II I have to take out the one stand I really hate.
Anyway, without going into unnecessary details about my failed attempts — maybe I'm trying to edit a HUD that isn't editable(?)– have you made, or would you consider making, a tutorial that shows step-by-step how to load/edit an HUD?
My current solution is to set the ZHAO on 0 for the stand time, so it doesn't cycle through to the stand I hate. I'm kinda tired of hanging around with a static pose like a dork (I'd rather hang around like a dork with many poses.)
Thanks!
@Cyn: Thanks for explaining and sharing — no embarrassment, it's better to be curious than quiet about it! ^^
I've thought about doing a how-to-AO video before, but with several popular brands out there, I thought the actual makers would be better-suited, and beat me to the punch. But some of the general principles are true in a variety of cases… it's a good idea…
What you describe sounds like a permissions subtlety, where editing is restricted while an object is attached. While not obvious, try dropping the HUD AO object on the ground, THEN open its contents and try to drag stuff in?
It may be related to this longtime confusion: http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-5710
Hi people,
just want to introduce myself on torley.com, hope this is the right category for that purpose.
Regards,
Max
Hi again, Torley!
Is there a way to edit a landmark in your inventory? I'd like to change the photo and description, but can't figure out how to do it.
Thanks!
@maxpiut: Sure is fine, and welcome here!
@Des: No, alas, you can't do that. Photo and description are controlled by the parcel owner(s) — so if the place where the landmark was made gets a new description, you should see that reflected in the landmark.
I won an 10,000L contest at the vooodoo lounge & I was not paid. I tried to contact Lias Leandros all day yesterday about my prize $ & she completely ignored me. When I tried to go to the Voodoo Lounge & ask her about it she tried to freeze me & today she banned me from the Voodoo Lounge. I reported her to the Lindens. :] There are 2 other people who also won & they also were not paid. I had some people contact her because she has me on mute. She told them I wasn`t going to win anyway because I worked at the Voodoo Lounge. But before she announced that staff can`t enter I quit the week prior. She took the other staff members down but left me up. & STILL will not pay me. Is there a way where you can shut her club down or take the 10,000L that she owes each of us?
Thanks for reading,
Kristin Rexen
& also here`s proof that i won
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Hey Torely,
So My Question is….. When U have a Skin and Its Turn Two Tones Your Face Dont match the Rest Of your Body Skin Tone …How Do You Fix That?
Hey Torley,
I'm gonna keep asking questions until you either kick me out or shut down the thread!
Next up: I make a sign that is odd shaped and uses transparency. Works great….until you place it near another object that uses some transparency, such as a window frame.
And then the sign goes in and out, depending on where you move. So from one spot, it looks great, in another spot, it looks like it's outside a window (yet it's not), and from another spot, you can't see it at all.
The two objects using transparency seem to move forward and backward, so that the sign is in front one moment, and the window is in front the next. Hope this makes sense.
The only fix I've found so far is to make a sign that's a square shape and stop using fancy shapes.
Anything I'm missing?
Des, that is one of the oldest unsolved headaches in SL. I keep hearing that they are working on it but it is a difficult problem. Sometimes, depending on the situation, you can alleviate or eliminate the problem by interposing an opaque object between the two alpha objects. Otherwise, until it is solved, restrict use of shapes with alpha areas.
And I Have Another Question…and Why when i Put say … a Footbase on My entire bottom half Turns white..or black?? How can I fix this??
Des,
As AnnMarie said, it's a terrible problem. One good solution though is to use 1-bit transparency. This means you have a 256 colour indexed image, one colour can be completely transparent. So any diagonal transparency will have slightly jagged edges, but depending on the on-screen size, this may not be very noticeable. When using only square transparent cutouts, this technique is especially useful, as it eliminates the problem and results in smaller texture filesizes, which ultimately makes everybody happy.
How to do this with your image software, depends on what you use, usually there's some option to use indexed colours somewhere, needing some optimization (you only have 256 colours instead of the usual millions).
A general reminder to please see #2 above, as I can't help with policy/support/bugs/etc. on my personal blog. If I DO know something useful I'll chime in, but don't count on it.
@LilSexyDevil: Have a picture? Sounds like the NVIDIA driver bug in https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-7957 for which a fix is present in the 1.22 RC.
Thanks AnnMarie and Daedalus for helping. This problem is https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-27 which Daed also posted on before.
on youtube, how do you get the branding options on your channel?
@JJAHT: I applied as a YouTube Partner.
Hello Torley we would like to propose to make a video about the world of furry and Neko on second life is what you would present it intereses animals x3?
Heya Torley, to be honest, I'm not the best scripter
do you know of any places that hold scripting classes or something?
@ChrisMignon: Replied to your other comment.
@Kristoph: I'm not sure what's out there right now but I think NCI (New Citizens, Inc.) will have pointers. Have you tried Search inworld?
I mean that in RL and SL ago animal fur as well furry it would submit a video on animals is a hair we wanted to do but do not have the equipment aproprié: (so we especially me, since I know you made great video I proposed an idea that would make a video which shows the furry if you voulé I put my avatar picture on my blog I am a rabbit: D Rl I wear in a rabbit costume with google I translated the message I do not speak English
Hi Torley – great work!
Not so much a question as a suggestion…
I have great trouble with permissions – I have just finished mucking things up again, when I try to give objects to other AVs.
I don't fully comprehend the implication of the various permissions – and how the permissions of – objects within objects affect the permission behaviour of the whole.
And the way permissions change between inventory and rezzed object is a complete mystery to me.
Could you please produce an "Awesome" tutorial about permissions?
(or at least provide a pointer to a definitive guide)
I am sure that once ther is a Torly video on this subject – enlightenment will be assured
Peri, Torly will probably wait until release 1.23 when this serious problem will have a nice solution. See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-5082.
Until then you have to check the permissions on every prim, every script every texture etc., which can be very tedious on a complex object. Even after checking everything the only way I know of testing is to give it to an alt so they can test the permissions.
AnnMarie, Thanks for the tip.
Well, I can see that a "bulk update" facility would be a boon (in R 1.23) – I would like to just get permissions right even when done by hand
My problem is understanding the implications of copy/mod/transfer (which seem to be straightforward) and how the c/m/t settings of the internal parts interact with the whole.
I feel that I don't have a proper "mental model" of how all this works – and thus an "Awesome" tutorial would be a great help…
Check out Ayumi Cassini's article about permissions. Look for the one titled "Copy, modify, transfer… velocity?"
Daedalus, thankyou so much for this link – it is exactly what I needed – and now I understand.
The crucial point is that permissions are only applied upon rez and ownership transfer – this was the gap in my understanding!
AnnMarie, thankyou for your suggestion – I have made an alt and will be doing a bit of experimentation to get this all sorted once and for all.
@ChrisMignon: I wish I could speak better French! I sometimes wear furry avatars in my video, but pardon, I don't have time presently to make the video you request.
@Peri: Have you seen what's in our Knowledge Base @ http://secondlife.com/kb Some of it could be updated with more AWESOME style, so I'll let fellow members of our Documentation Team know as we continue to revise articles. Some permissions stuff (like granting to a friend, which I did a video for) is well-suited for a video, other stuff needs a neat chart.
Glad that article could help ya, if you have specific questions about what else doesn't make sense to you, please say so. I agree some aspects are unintuitive.
@AnnMarie: Thanks for calling that out. There've been some great "featurettes" lately; subtle features which make a tremendous difference.
I've gotta send Ayumi's guides around again, those rock. Thanks Daed. =D
Torley (and everyone else), thankyou for the feedback. Yes, all issues are dealt with in detail within the KB (but maybe not all together) – I must have just been having a bad day when I made my original post
effects when perms are changed in inventory prior to transfer.
The crucial point I was missing is that perms for containers and their contents don't get correctly set until the object is rezzed – this can lead to some unexpected
Torley – I love the videos – every time I watch one I learn something. You are awesome!
I'm glad I could help with that permission article
This issue is not talked about too often, however I think it's very important for every content creator in SL. So I'm hoping my little guide will help others understand permissions better.
Thank you Torley and Daed for spreading the word about my articles ^^
@Ayumi: Your guide is one-of-a-kind (well, until you make more of them and/or get shamelessly copycatted
) and beautiful. One of the best I've seen. I really hope you'll make more — and please let me know if you do!
Hi torley,
i've been looking everywhere on the web but cant find anything about creating jewelry …
can u tell me how to create jewelry ..
Gr
Hey, Torley, Do you have a tip for subdividing land when it is under water and you can't see the "Select" lines (apart from doing smaller pieces and then joining them later).
And another problem is working on large areas where you can't fit the land in the screen while still seeing the selection range.
@Clemens: Where have you already searched? Have you seen Natalia Zelmanov's fab guide?
@AnnMarie: In those cases, I've hid the water. Advanced menu > Rendering > Types > Water OFF.
And for large areas, Advanced menu > Disable Camera Constraints and increase draw distance. AND maybe, View menu > Zoom Out several times. But doing too much of that badly distorts perspective.
The spammers! They found you! That last message, Google it and you'll find it on forums everywhere.
What is the joy of spamming random messages, not trying to sell or scam?
Oh bastard spammers, I do not appreciate you making it through Akismet! *deletes*
Just a brief short flash I had go through my mind, seeing as how much newbies ask about "What is SL all about, what can I do here"
I thought maybe an introduction video should be part of the subscription process, also many many many newbies don't even notice all the signs in the welcome areas, as they walk right past them… Thus often they do not know about the video tutorials… This should be brought to their attention in a more direct way, a way they can't miss.
Hi Torley
I have watched the media tutorials and can now stream music to my Parcel. I was wondering if you could add one that shows how I can stream music from my PC as a DJ. I could ask one or two friends in SL but it would take up a lot of chat time and a video would make it easier to see the correct steps to take. Apologies if this is covered elsewhere.
@Mr Waffle: Indeed, this is always an utmost concern. I'm on Linden Lab's Documentation Team and working on better ways to make vidtuts & other helpful instructions (e.g., a slick starter guide) available at startup. It's too bad we can't yet play Flash video seamlessly in SL — that would allow video-sharing MUCH easier. I've been keeping tabs on any progress made, you can bet I'm so eager about it.
@Gonzo: That's something that could use an easier guide. I was going to make a video tutorial on that but ran into router problems. This was some time ago so I may try again, but it's reliant on 3rd-party software. In the meantime, please see: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Streaming_Music
Thanks Torley I will check it out. Would be great if you can get a video tutorial working as well.
Dear Mr. Torley,
Is there a way to show your video tutorials on a media screen in SL? I keep getting the whole URL page with no access to the video. Can I extract the video file and save it on my own website so I can access it in SL? Youtube have the video URL coveniently buried so you can't access it directly.
Perhaps you have a site that will stream your videos directly or can you supply the video files for saving on my own website for delivery to SL?
@AnnMarie I'm sorry I didn't reply earlier! I should close this thread as it's old now, but DID want to answer: YouTube's MP4 support is iffy but I DO have pretty-stable Second Life Video Tutorials URLs that will work. Try the ones in http://torley.com/files/vidtuts/ or precede a tutorial name there with http://vidtuts.s3.amazonaws.com/ (which isn't browsable, but is more robust). Hope this helps and if you have followup questions, reach me at http://torley.com/contactsl
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