Earthquake!

[Lynne Hand]

Has anyone else experienced an earthquake in world? I wasn't sure if it was just me, but now I've seen it happen to another avatar and to an NPC on the LEN campus. It seems to be triggered by sitting and standing from time to time, the avatar starts jumping up and down and moving with no control. The only way to stop it is to sit quickly or start flying. It just happened to a student of mine, who luckily isn't a newbie, but was still somewhat disconcerted and is now convinced her character has a death wish.

When it happened to the NPC at the LEN campus a student and I had to watch as the poor guy ended up jumping off a cliff and into the sea. I looked for him, but I think he drowned. When we relogged in later, he was back and miraculously dry.

Any ideas as to what is happening, and most importantly how to stop it?

[Ilan Tochner]

Hi Lynne,

This is a known OpenSim problem that sometimes occurs with ODE physics. We hope this problem will be eliminated once Intel finishes developing the BulletSim physics engine which will replace ODE.

[Lynne Hand]

Ah okay. As long as it's not me pressing the wrong buttons. Thanks.

[Ilan Tochner]

You're welcome Lynne, please let us know if you have any further questions.

[Constance Peregrine]

Actually had what we were sure was an earthquake in a region i managed once....cracked the prims across a jagged line over half the region..took forever to fix it all

...course, that was the inworldz grid....lol

[Ohn Lang]

how cool would that be! /me starts thinking about how to make earthquake.

[Your Teacher]

Hey guys! This wasn't a suggestion!

I know you can do it in SL, as on their version of the Grand Canyon I lost all my students to an avalanche once. It was a tragic day for us all.

[Constance Peregrine]

how cool would that be! /me starts thinking about how to make earthquake.

ours was due to one of the weird bugs inwz had [and still has] due to all the --changes-- they do to the base code there-))

but an earthquake done on purpose would be interesting-))