As Serene Jewell is absent from Kitely for an extended period due to illness and some RL activism, Ada Radius and I are going to be sharing responsibility in running the Blender for Beginners/Blender Buddies classes, and they are moving to the Hobo Sandbox in Cookie II. We have had some classes in S...

To make my steps work in Opensim, I upload them with a ramp for a physics model. Otherwise, not only is there a chance they don't work at all, but they make an annoying thumping when you walk up and down them. And you can add a four vertex plane with its own transparent material to any mesh steps t...

This all being said, I sympathize entirely with your predicament, as a strong defender of IP, I wish the OS community would take a stronger stance against piracy, including having a governing group that ensures that users IP rights under WIPO are protected by all grids that join the hypergrid, and i...

I am coding the new greeter board for the kitely welcome center, and am noticing that a 60 second timer event is tripping every 20 seconds at a minimum. When I first rez the board it goes into a paroxysm of timer cycles, i.e. more like 60 milliseconds rather than 60 seconds. If I log off and let the...

Bumpiness is not alpha, it is a normal.
Shininess is not an alpha either, its a specular or caustic.
Emissive is not an alpha, it is full bright or a light source.

PRIM_ALPHA_MODE is not a prim transparency. I guess this is an alpha mode: https://modemworld.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/mats-4.jpg First picture on the left - Alpha Mode, values None, Alpha blending, Alpha masking, Emissive mask. If you want to change prim or object transparency, use llSetAlpha o...

According to comments in this article on Hypergrid Business that is announcing the new low cost of DMCA registration for grids, someone from Zetamex grid is stating that they are refusing to register with or recognize the DMCA, even as it applies to Americans on their grid, because they are a German...

Please note that language translator devices/huds seem to be very intermittent or failing entirely this week. Possibly the webservice providing the translations has clamped down on the number of free translations (I believe its google doing this), but we need to look at other options. This may requi...

I don't even know what PRIM_ALPHA_MODE is returning, it returns two integers! An alpha_mode and a mask_cuttof, whatever those are. alpha_mode is supposed to give you a 0 or 1 to indicate whether it is on or off. Mask-cutoff is supposed to tell you what the alpha transparency value is, but in Opensi...

The LightShare functions (prefix "ls") have been in existence for a number of years to enable scripts to manage/control region and user windlight settings. Unfortunately, there are some serious issues with using LightShare functions in scripts under OS 0.8.2 due to a number of problems that include ...