[Opensim-users] Grey avatars & no hair or eyes!

[William Magee]

> However, if we TP to another region, then it's back to grey.

In the SL blog I mentioned
(https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2006/10/12/gray-and-missing-image-avatars),
James Linden says:

"Try not to teleport immediately after changing outfits, especially if
your avatar is still changing shape or images on your screen. One of
the bugs we found that isn’t fixed in this release can cause “missing
image” when quickly changing outfits before teleports. It usually
affects the face or eyes."

It seems we are dealing with the same or similar issue here, 3 years
later. The assets need time to upload -- apparently a lot of time.

Regions are standard in standalone mode - usually assets follow the
avatar from region to region.

What you say about standalone mode seems true. I have a 0.6.7 on an
Ubuntu laptop running in grid mode - no problem with the eyes. Same
release on an Ubuntu machine running in standalone shows this white
eye problem.

Switch over to grid mode. That might help.

Good luck!

Bill

>
> So a few questions:
>
> 1) Are you allowed to have regions in standalone mode?
> 2) Do I need to enable or config something to enable assets to follow the AV
> from region to region?
>
> Thanks, Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Buckley [mailto:kevin at buckley70.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent: 19 October 2009 16:37
> To: 'opensim-users at lists.berlios.de'
> Subject: RE: [Opensim-users] Grey avatars & no hair or eyes!
>
> Thanks Bill.  I tried logging into OSGrid - no problem, no grey avatars.  So
> I downloaded the latest OSGrid release from there (rather than r0.6.7),
> changed it to Standalone (Opensim.ini, Standalonecommon.ini) and ran on my
> server (I even used a shiny new MySQL database).
>
> Same problem.  Other avatars are grey and my eyes (not my hair now) are
> white.  If I edit appearance they change colour for a few seconds then
> revert to white.
>
> So seemingly it must either be related to operating Standalone, or there's
> something about my PC/software (Windows XP SP2, Pentium processor) which is
> causing it.
>
> It's very frustrating when you do the same as everyone else (allegedly!) but
> YOUR build behaves differently!
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of William Magee
> Sent: 19 October 2009 10:44
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Grey avatars & no hair or eyes!
>
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Well, I sweated this gray clothes blank hair and eyes thing for 2
> days. I redid the body parts and eyes again and again. Finally, I
> logged in one time and it was all good.
>
> But that is too much work for a production machine, so I moved the
> school back onto the Diva distro, which does not have this problem.
>
> Here is some old info from the SL blog that I was getting ready to try
> when my avatar finally decided not to be a ghoul:
>
> At https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/opensim-dev/2008-September/003133.html
>
> I find this:
>
> and for what its worth... just for kicks I added a 5 second sleep into
> the inventory retrieval in the mysql inventory module, it fixes the
> gray avatar problem. which seems to indicate that the client is
> expecting a particular order... and speeding up inventory retrieval
> broke that ordering.
>
> And these might help:
>
> http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/09/18/getting-technical-baked-avatar-texture
> s/
>
> http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/11/gray-and-missing-image-avatars/
>
> Good luck,
> Bill
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Kevin Buckley
> <kevin at buckley70.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>> I did that already - and that solved my initial 'cloud' problem.  I even
>> imported some clothes and skins from 2L that I created there.  Still same
>> issue - I can see myself and my clothes/skins/hair, but other AV is grey,
>> and my hair and eyes are white (blank?).  And vice-versa.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
>> [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of William Magee
>> Sent: 19 October 2009 02:53
>> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Grey avatars & no hair or eyes!
>>
>>
>> This problem can be fixed by creating new shape, skin, hair, clothes,
>> etc and changing their default settings (including their names, I
>> think).
>>
>> The mantis says this:
>>
>> This issue is kind of expected behavior. If you create new clothes and
>> don't change it's parameter, the viewer understands it to be the
>> default wearables (aka Ruth). Since the viewers no longer has (SL)
>> Ruth, you become clouds of gas or all greyed out. Not sure how to fix
>> this yet.
>>
>> and:
>>
>> It's been decided that grids are supposed to implement first clothes
>> for users to avoid Ruthness issues. Still trying to come up with a
>> default real clothing, but this issue is not really bug, so closing it
>> down.
>>
>> See the report:
>>
>> http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=3804
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Kevin Buckley
>> <kevin at buckley70.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>>> I’m having a few problems with rel 0.6.7.  I am running standalone and
>> have
>>> 2 users (each are ‘Master Avatar’ of their own regions).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When we are both logged-in we see ourselves OK but see the other AV as
>> grey
>>> (apart from hair and eyes – see below).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We see our own hair and eyes as blank (white) but other AV hair and eyes
>> as
>>> OK.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If I edit appearance, hair and eyes become normal – but a few seconds
>> after
>>> exiting ‘edit appearance’ they revert to blank.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone experiencing this (and knows how to fix)?  I’m using MySQL by the
>>> way.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, I have Physics set to ODE and this is causing a lot of ‘flailing’.
>>> How to fix?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any suggestions appreciated!
>>>
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William Magee, Ph.D.
Tibetan Section
Dharma Drum Buddhist College
Jinshan, Taiwan
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