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Please let people know to check for older Catalonia Farm scripts. These were notorious for hammering MySql due to writing notecards. Took a year to track down.
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Thank You Fred! :D I appreciate this info! :D Would you tell me how to check for them? I would greatly appreciate this :D THANKS AGAIN! :D
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Dumb. I was born on January 1, 1970 as that is the date it shows on my avatar. And land is free. It costs me 1% of the CPU CPU on a I7 Intel NUC to run 127 regions at 14 cents/kw hour which is 1% of $12.42 ( according to my UPS) or or 12 cents a month.
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PhotoDirector 365, i only use it in exceptional cases. It's a bit inflexible when it comes to image generation, but I liked the result. :-)
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Dreamworld started as a Perl script that would build a working grid on a Pi. In 2010, in 2 GB RAM on a microSD card. Runs better now on a Pi4, with 8 GB RAM, and they finally fixed the floats issue in physics. Still a toy, and very limited.
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The road kill chicken is behind the rear wheel in Hobbiton, behind the horse drawn wagon. The Hobbiton OAR is free but is licensed only for use on DreamGrid-based servers. But you can raid parts.
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I didn't know where the chicken originally came from - I collected it somewhere in the HG back in 2016 or 2017. I love this brilliant chicken and no matter which grid I've been in and which regions I've had, it's always been on one of them ever since :)
Thank you so much for allowing it to be used outside of Hobbitron!!! I really like the humor in your work - even in my early days in Opensim I was fascinated by the snakes on Virunga. It took me 3 tries before I understood why I was sent to a hospital bed every time I came into contact with the "Deadly Nadder"... ;)
Opensim needs a lot more humor and generosity like this, then there would be a lot less drama!!! Thanks again, Fred!!!
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Thank you so much for allowing it to be used outside of Hobbitron!!! I really like the humor in your work - even in my early days in Opensim I was fascinated by the snakes on Virunga. It took me 3 tries before I understood why I was sent to a hospital bed every time I came into contact with the "Deadly Nadder"... ;)
Opensim needs a lot more humor and generosity like this, then there would be a lot less drama!!! Thanks again, Fred!!!
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I spent an hour trying to get that chicken in. way too high poly. Glad to see it put to good use.
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First thing to do is to file a DMCA on the Marketplace. They will remove it.
I know this is very upsetting to see your scripts for sale. On SL, you have to buy the thing to prove it is yours, and if its no mod, that is very difficult to do. Also the copier wants mucho USD hoping you will file a DMCA, and then keep the cash. It's just a load of scammers there.
The "auto remove of the scripts" is a partial solution, but it is a start. The only real solution to script theft is a closed grid, where people cannot create an avatar UUID, or get God mode, and close it to the Hypergrid. That's SL. Here you can impersonate people, steal their stuff and sell, it and it would be nearly impossible to prove who dunnit.
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I know this is very upsetting to see your scripts for sale. On SL, you have to buy the thing to prove it is yours, and if its no mod, that is very difficult to do. Also the copier wants mucho USD hoping you will file a DMCA, and then keep the cash. It's just a load of scammers there.
The "auto remove of the scripts" is a partial solution, but it is a start. The only real solution to script theft is a closed grid, where people cannot create an avatar UUID, or get God mode, and close it to the Hypergrid. That's SL. Here you can impersonate people, steal their stuff and sell, it and it would be nearly impossible to prove who dunnit.
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Its a "region Server" . Its a setting in Dreamgrid. Go to Server type in settings and change it to Region Server. There is a help menu for every setting.
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if you wish to rap battle versus Marshall Mathers aka Eminem, be my guest, sir. He seems keen to battle anyone in the rap game :D But know that you are correcting the words he put in a song; and not my personal grammar. ;)
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My technique is to start with the blender script that removes doubles, and cleans up illegal geometry. That is always my first and last step. Almost will load after that, except an object with no triangles. I have not found a way to find those except to hide each object. and anything left, that are just a dot I delete. There has to be at least one triangle for all 4 LODS, and since there are none it will abort and you will never figure it out. Luna's problem is very common when you use the viewer to make LODs. It can reduce a part below one triangle. One other loader issue if 8 materials max. Thats easy to fix in Blender, select the object and click Ctrl V (Vertex) and separate by Materials. The viewer will struggle with high counts of linked objects, so many meshes is better then one big bunch of mesh. It will rez much quicker too.
Please don't use the analyze button. it makes bad physics mesh where you cannot walk through doors. This has been known and cautioned by developers for many years. You get convex hull and you cannot make it physics type None or physics type Prim. Then you probably make it phantom and then use prims (ugh, they are always 96 triangles) to fix it.
I prefer to make a custom physics model. I start with a plane for a house floor, which is 2 triangles. That one sided mesh becomes my floors and walls (when I want walls). I extrude it to make ramps too, so stair steps are walkable. It is one object, and very low poly.
I rarely use the physics model settings in the viewer. I would say except for avatars, which only use two LODs, it is 99% cubes for me.
I rarely load anything except cubes as the physics model in the physics tab. It was intended to load a physics model directly. That is very difficult to do as the viewer requires a minimum of one triangle at the min/max X, Y, and Z of the model. That's why you always see cube models the same X,YZ size in preview. That really is painful, and really obsolete. If you can't get it just right, your physics gets enlarged or shrunken. And I don't want physical things hanging out there to trip over or fly into.
I load the model using the many cubes technique. One way is to load 100 cubes into blender and export that and then load it as a physics Object in the physics tab. But now the Latest Firestorm has this built-in. Assuming all your mesh objects have less then 21,000 triangles it should load in a few seconds.
Now up load the custom physics model on high physics and it will be in in a second. It's a simple set of planes.
Set that in place and walk on it. Select all of the main model, and make it physics type = None. Now link it to the physics model so the physics is last. It will remain type - prim. Now you have a very low poly physics model, that uses up the least amount of RAM and the least amount of precious CPU. And unlike prim shims on bad mesh, your house is one obect. You can take with you without leaving the invisible physics model behind.
One other trick to bring in very large models is use the cube at 0,0,0, in blender. Brink in chunks of your mesh along with the cube. That way you can zero in on the problem mesh and get it fixed. Use the arrows in the viewer x,y,and z coordinates to position each chunk you upload correctly by aligning cubes. It will be accurate to .01 meters
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Please don't use the analyze button. it makes bad physics mesh where you cannot walk through doors. This has been known and cautioned by developers for many years. You get convex hull and you cannot make it physics type None or physics type Prim. Then you probably make it phantom and then use prims (ugh, they are always 96 triangles) to fix it.
I prefer to make a custom physics model. I start with a plane for a house floor, which is 2 triangles. That one sided mesh becomes my floors and walls (when I want walls). I extrude it to make ramps too, so stair steps are walkable. It is one object, and very low poly.
I rarely use the physics model settings in the viewer. I would say except for avatars, which only use two LODs, it is 99% cubes for me.
I rarely load anything except cubes as the physics model in the physics tab. It was intended to load a physics model directly. That is very difficult to do as the viewer requires a minimum of one triangle at the min/max X, Y, and Z of the model. That's why you always see cube models the same X,YZ size in preview. That really is painful, and really obsolete. If you can't get it just right, your physics gets enlarged or shrunken. And I don't want physical things hanging out there to trip over or fly into.
I load the model using the many cubes technique. One way is to load 100 cubes into blender and export that and then load it as a physics Object in the physics tab. But now the Latest Firestorm has this built-in. Assuming all your mesh objects have less then 21,000 triangles it should load in a few seconds.
Now up load the custom physics model on high physics and it will be in in a second. It's a simple set of planes.
Set that in place and walk on it. Select all of the main model, and make it physics type = None. Now link it to the physics model so the physics is last. It will remain type - prim. Now you have a very low poly physics model, that uses up the least amount of RAM and the least amount of precious CPU. And unlike prim shims on bad mesh, your house is one obect. You can take with you without leaving the invisible physics model behind.
One other trick to bring in very large models is use the cube at 0,0,0, in blender. Brink in chunks of your mesh along with the cube. That way you can zero in on the problem mesh and get it fixed. Use the arrows in the viewer x,y,and z coordinates to position each chunk you upload correctly by aligning cubes. It will be accurate to .01 meters
Your cleanup script enabled us to bring in SkyRealm over 800 parts! I never thought that would be possible, Thank you, Ferd!
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If it was the database, ther are many tools to fix it. I have yet to lose a database when people contact me for support. Well, one actually, but they deleted it and emptied the recycle bin. There should be daily backups in your Autobackup folder. If not, there are tools to repair it ranging from simple batch files in Mysql\bin such as RepairISAM.bat, and some aggressive settings in My.ini that will force it to recover. Also there is an Database manual that covers these steps. However sounds like you've started over. Look to see what's in your Autobackup folder. there should be at something in there including backups of the entire database.
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DreamGrid always writes to disk without buffering. This sounds more like a cache problem. I would not run mysql as a service. DG will ask you to confirm you are on a UPS with shutdown cable, or in a data center before it installs the service. This will make it perform better as them Mysql will enable write buffering.
I would clear the cache from your viewer, and also stop the grid and clear all caches in Setup->Setting Caches. It's harmless. It will just take a bit longer to boot.
The physics dragging sounds like a runaway vehicle or scripts. You may have been griefed and the scripts got activated at restart. You should not be allowing rez or scripts to outsiders. This can be set grid-wide in the Setup->Setting->region page. Only sandboxes shpuld have scripts and or rez on, and with a short auto return return time.
I would also boot with just one region and check that one out thoughrougly. Then enable them oner at a time and watch the CPU and physics in each one.
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I would clear the cache from your viewer, and also stop the grid and clear all caches in Setup->Setting Caches. It's harmless. It will just take a bit longer to boot.
The physics dragging sounds like a runaway vehicle or scripts. You may have been griefed and the scripts got activated at restart. You should not be allowing rez or scripts to outsiders. This can be set grid-wide in the Setup->Setting->region page. Only sandboxes shpuld have scripts and or rez on, and with a short auto return return time.
I would also boot with just one region and check that one out thoughrougly. Then enable them oner at a time and watch the CPU and physics in each one.
Thank you Fred. I am on a ups that is connected to the server via a usb cable that monitors and shuts down windows via software. Strawberry perl informed me it was not the latest version and that if I uninstalled it, that dreamgrid would install the latest version. I uninstalled it, but it did not reinstall strawberry perl. So as a result of that, I am reinstalling 5.51 again, in the hopes overwriting will force an install of strawberry perl this time.
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It will not reinstall Perl. It's only needed for visitor maps. You can get the latest Strawberry Perl online easily enough.
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I should post a pic of my first microcomputers from 1973. In 1975 i had a 7' rack mount server that played Star Trek on paper tape. Heres a link https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3x04w3z9m3dx41eftv2tn/1975....
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Pop tarts and coffee is my weakness. And this does not show me holding my laptop up to my nose to see if there's a missing semicolon or is ir a bug walking on my screen. But I would love this GIANT mouse.
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I'm just gonna drop this link here. The above image is from dreamstime.com, the watermarked one is not not useable in any form according to their license. A single use license is normally $25.00 but now on sale, for $23 a month. *cough cough*
and is
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-illustration-paths-sacred...
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and is
https://www.dreamstime.com/stock-illustration-paths-sacred...
Marianna's complaint was not that Lone stole her texture (she admitted that the dance floor she saw was a different texture but similar) but that he had stolen her idea of an arcane texture on a floor and used it on the dance floor for the social the day of the event. None of which was true. The picture in my original post was from the Gala I had at my club on Luxor 6 months ago, a club I built long before the idea of having a social on WTG was even born. My whole point in posting this picture was to show that I had been using arcane textures on all kinds of surfaces for years, and the idea did not come from anything she had created. Lone got caught in someone's terribly wrong assumption.
The texture above I purchased from Bigstock back in 2014 or earlier (my earliest use of it) when you could still buy single images. It came royalty free and I could do anything I liked with it, including using it on an item I sell, as long as I did not resell or distribute the texture by itself. I don't sell any of my textures. The only item I sell that includes it is a rune circle that has a menu to select multiple textures, so it is not the primary part of the build, and it is not a fast-moving item since I only sell one or two a year maybe. But now if someone wants this texture, it is only available through Dreamstime or any of the Shutterstock companies that operate on a subscription-only basis.
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The texture above I purchased from Bigstock back in 2014 or earlier (my earliest use of it) when you could still buy single images. It came royalty free and I could do anything I liked with it, including using it on an item I sell, as long as I did not resell or distribute the texture by itself. I don't sell any of my textures. The only item I sell that includes it is a rune circle that has a menu to select multiple textures, so it is not the primary part of the build, and it is not a fast-moving item since I only sell one or two a year maybe. But now if someone wants this texture, it is only available through Dreamstime or any of the Shutterstock companies that operate on a subscription-only basis.
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Opensim has always had a severe problem with materials not being saved in IARs. It has only recently in fall of 2023 been fixed. These are safe to ignore and cannot be repaired.
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"Everyones income tax refund is going to be $300 less this year..". If you get a tax refund it means you overpaid your taxes. You should adjust your withholding to pay no less than 90% of what is due, and pocket it. Stop giving the government a free loan! You may pay more in Taxes, because Trump's tax cut is expiring. Blame him.
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I'm not even sure what you're responding to there Fred. Equal could be said about the Trump MAGA nutcases, as they do exactly the same. Putin quite clearly isn't a communist, even if he once was, he is now far more of a right-wing authoritarian who has quite a lot of support from the Russian extreme right, as well as from gobshites like Trump.
From your comment, I would also guess that, at least from what you've written, that you don't have much of a clue what communism is either. Wikipedia has an article that serves as a useful introduction.
*To be clear, lest some suspect that I am, or that I advocate communism, I do not, and certainly not in the way that is was implemented in the Soviet Union, or its satellites. But neither do I endorse the fascism that is slowly, but seemingly inexorably creeping up on us on both sides of the Atlantic.
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From your comment, I would also guess that, at least from what you've written, that you don't have much of a clue what communism is either. Wikipedia has an article that serves as a useful introduction.
*To be clear, lest some suspect that I am, or that I advocate communism, I do not, and certainly not in the way that is was implemented in the Soviet Union, or its satellites. But neither do I endorse the fascism that is slowly, but seemingly inexorably creeping up on us on both sides of the Atlantic.