A while back, I had reported that the Detach Bug had been fixed. For many months we have been waiting for the fix to be implemented in the official SL client. It’s finally been released and as best as I can surmise, the fix now prevents you from making copies of worn objects. This does indeed prevent the first reproduction of the bug, but it does nothing to fix the core problem. HUDs that are worn from the ground are still in danger of being lost when they are next detached or when you log out or crash.
How to prevent the Detach Bug
Never wear your HUD directly from the ground. Right click on the HUD and take it. Then wear it from your inventory.
Wearing objects from the ground may lead to inventory loss
What to do if you have lost a HUD or other detachment
You should do the usual things from the Second Life Wiki like clear your cache. But if that doesn’t work, contact Second Life support. Open a ticket on their website and ask for an inventory restart/fix. Explain that you have lost a HUD when it detached, that it disappeared from your inventory and that you have tried solutions from the wiki. They will help you, even if you are just a basic member. Their support might be faster if you are premium however.
Second Life support can help you! If you lost your HUD from the Detach Bug, they can almost always retrieve it using their inventory fix. Always contact support for this problem.
What else can you do?
Please take the time to log into the jira site (the official Second Life bug tracking system) and vote on this problem. The current jira issue for this problem is SVC-2956.
UPDATE (June 26): There is another well commented description of the same essential bug on the jira. Please vote for VWR-12525.
UPDATE (August 21): Andrew Linden offered to run the fix for anyone who needed it. If you have lost a HUD in this way, IM Andrew Linden and ask for the fix.
There are eight new copyable dances for sale at HUDDLES Headquarters. The dances are made by AKEYO and are full motion capture animations. They look great, come try them out. They are only 300L each.
I finally rooted out a problem I was having with my gift server for the new HUDDLES Landmark Pal Deluxe. Now it works! Luckily the problem was in the server and not the HUD, so no update is necessary. If you have the Landmark Pal Deluxe and want to give the free trial version to your friends, it should now work. Go ahead and give it away.
If you haven’t yet tried the new Landmark Pal Deluxe, it’s really neat. I’ve found it to be very useful personally. It’s great to keep track of all your recent locations via the handy history menu. And it’s so nice to be able to save your favorite places in a variety of ways.
I found another neat video from the showgirl underground in Second Life. The group is called Showgirls & Burlesque and they have a channel on youtube. This one is a more of a short movie than simply capturing a performance, complete with some touches of dialogue and storytelling. And I’m told they also use the HUDDLES EZ Animator Deluxe to coordinate those dance moves.
Svetlana Mosienko: YES we use EZAD! Don’t know what we would do without it:)
Last year I blogged about Phoenixa Sol and how she used 8 Quick Pose HUDs at once to create unique dance routines. Well I was recently sent a link to a video by a dance group who uses an EZ Animator Deluxe to choreograph their shows:
Although, I haven’t been a user of twitter before, I got to thinking about how one might update a twitter stream from a LSL script in Second Life. It took me a little time to figure it out, but it seems quite easy. Someone posted a solution to the Second Life forums a couple years back.
User is your twitter name, password is your password and msg is the message you want to send.
I’m thinking that it might be nice to add this to the EZ Animator Deluxe, but I’m wondering if anyone would use it and what features would they want. What do you think?
Oh, by the way, you can follow me on twitter, my name is KeikiAtHuddles.
Try my new HUD, the HUDDLES Landmark Pal Deluxe for free. Use a fully functional version for 14 days before you buy it.
You can get a free copy of the HUD either by getting it as a gift from someone who has one, by grabbing one from xstreetsl.com, or by going to my store, HUDDLES Headquarters and picking up one there. If you want to grab it from my store, just touch the sign (only pay the sign if you want to purchase it).
I have now released version 1.3.0 of the EZ Animator Deluxe. There have been no changes from the Release Candidate version that I set out a week and a half ago. So if you already updated to version 1.3.0 Release Candidate, there is no reason for you to do this update.
To get the latest update, go to the update area underneath HUDDLES Headquarters. Use the following SLURL to get there directly:
Once there, click on the green ball to get the updater object. Rez it and follow the directions that are on the object. The directions are also on this website. And if you want to see what has changed since 1.2.1, check out the change log.
There is a new test version of the EZ Animator Deluxe available to current owners. This is a bug fix upgrade. Also, the main scripts have all been recompiled using mono which should improve performance.
If you have an EZ Animator Deluxe, head to HUDDLES Headquarters. The update area is directly below the store on the island. Use the following SLURL to get there directly:
The HUDDLES Catwalk HUD was designed by Luth Brodie (of Reel Expression) and I. It is the first of many icow collab projects. For now, it is available only at the ICOW Sim.
It is combination walk replacer and posing HUD specifically designed for use in fashion shows in Second Life. It gives you an easy way to walk down the runway and strike a few poses and comes with a number of poses built in.
At a minimum, your HUDDLES Catwalk will come with four separate stands, which correspond to the four buttons with arrows. These buttons are for:
first pose – this is the up arrow (or forward arrow) button. This is the first pose that automatically plays whenever you stop walking.
left pose & right pose – these are the left and right arrows on either side of the HUD. They are typically poses that face a bit to the left or right.
over shoulder pose – this has the curved u-turn style arrow on the button. This pose typically will have a pose suitable for hitting when you are walking back from the front of the stage.
other poses – if you have added more poses (or you bought a preloaded set with extra poses) you will see numbered buttons, up to 12. You can play any of these poses by clicking on them.
Available Sets:
There are currently 4 sets available. More will be added soon.
