Linden Lab – Page 191

January 26, 2012January 26, 2012

Avatar Draw Weight

I’m a big fan of Linden Lab engaging in a go green campaign to try and encourage people to create and build more efficiently. However these things are often misunderstood, lead to finger pointing and can spoil people’s fun, so can overly complex avatars with lots of attachments but we should be encouraging freedom of expression.

However, it’s always good to have measures to look at, which brings us to the replacement for Avatar Rendering Cost, now it’s Avatar Draw Weight. This will display a score for your avatar, and other avatars around you. I’ve never been a fan of this score displaying the scores of other avatars as it can lead to finger pointing … wait I already covered that! To check your own draw weight, go to preferences, enable the advanced menu and then from the advanced menu, go to performance tools and select “Show Draw Weight For Avatars“.

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January 23, 2012January 23, 2012

Flags, Inventories, Mesh Deformer and Direct Delivery

There are a couple of items that Linden Lab could do with a little help on and the Adult Community on Zindra are talking of holding a flag competition, although rules on communication make this a little tricky. First of all the Linden Lab help wanted. Linden Lab have now, for a couple of weeks, been seeking feedback on the upcoming direct delivery system for the Second Life Marketplace, details of the direct delivery beta can be found here…. that post really should be a sticky, anyway, Linden Lab need some feedback.

I appreciate that merchants are human too and have time constraints but this is a big change with regards to how people list items on the marketplace and feedback, good and bad, really will help …. ok it should help! There’s a project viewer download and some instructions to read, but if you find the time, try and provide some feedback.

Moving on, both Inara Pey and Tateru Nino, who is poorly and I hope gets well soon, point to a request from Linden Lab regarding a new project viewer that has a simple inventory, the forum post is here….another post that should probably be a sticky. Simple Inventory, as the name suggest, is a simplified inventory, it’s a feature that never quite made it into the basic viewer that was doing the rounds, so if you do get a chance to look at it and post feedback, remember that it was done with new participants in mind.

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January 21, 2012

Scouts To The Rescue Over Billing Confusion

Back on December 14th I pointed out that Local Payments were coming to an end. Local Payments, were a billing method for people outside the USA, which allowed people to pay tier and fees in a local currency. The information in the email advised people to update their payment information.

However there was a missing step, which seems to have caused confusion, it did for me anyway. The issue was that when I went to update my information, the information was already there on my account. I left it there, I didn’t see the point in adding it again when it already existed. D-Day passed, billing went fine and then came the second email, with a title of Final Reminder (which is always worrying):

“Dear Ciaran

This email contains important information that affects your Second Life account and requires action in order to continue any payment transactions with Second Life.

Due to the conclusion of the Second Life local payments beta program, it is required that you add a new credit card or PayPal account by going to your billing information page on Secondlife.com:

Although our local payments beta program ended for a small group, we have extended the deadline to update payments information to another date.

If your payment information has not been updated, your next automatic payment will fail, and you will receive automatic delinquent account messages notifying you of this failure. You may update your payment information at any point, but to prevent this failure, you must do so by a certain date.

If you have any questions or concerns, please visit our Knowledge Base.

Best Wishes,

Linden Lab and the Second Life Team”

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January 21, 2012January 21, 2012

Oh For Goodness Sake LL, Link My Alts!

I’ve just discovered, after reading this thread in the official forum, that people who aren’t PIOF or haven’t passed the Mesh quiz, can’t list Mesh items on the marketplace. A couple of things stand out here, one, I can’t upload a Mesh model and hand it to my NPIOF alt to list on the Marketplace as partially Mesh or 100% Mesh, my NPIOF alt can still list it, they just can’t select that category.

Secondly, people who sell full perms Mesh kits will have customers in the same boat, people will be able to list it, but they won’t be able to click the radio buttons for partial or 100% Mesh. I can understand the passing the Mesh quiz requirement to a degree, I really can’t understand the PIOF requirement because a Mesh model in Second Life should, unless there’s a major flaw, have only been uploaded by someone with PIOF.

However we’re back to an old bugbear of mine, why do I have to put PIOF on my alts to get PIOF rights? I have PIOF, it should cover all my alts for that flag, so once more I have to point to Argent Stonecutter’s Jira-6212 – Create a Master Account.

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