Object is not rendered, but text is floting on top!?

Beacon does not show it either!!

A SL client bug? Or just an invisible object? But if object is touchable, then the cursor should change to the touch icon, but it doesn't!

What's the best way to find an invisible object?

View Menu > Highlight Transparent (Ctrl-Alt-T)

thanks...

and someone told me that before!

But have u ever encounter an object that does not show in Highlight Transparent?

It's possible to get text to hover a great distance from the object to which it's attached. It's supposed to be located "above" the object, but that can be defeated by slicing or otherwise truncating the object's vertical extent in various ways.

(In addition to obscuring the source of the hovertext, another reason to carve up the object is that the distance from which the text is visible is proportional to the dimensions of the object, regardless of how much of it has been chopped away. I.e, hovertext can be made almost arbitrarily annoying.)

Qie, can you tell me how to set text not above the object?

ps. not trying to annoy anyone

It would require an adustment to the script. I think in scripting forums they could give you the exact info you need. There are modifiable hovertext scripts available in the scripting library.

Sorry, been otherwise occupied and missed this thread for a while.

A script isn't necessary*; it can be done in the Edit tool.

To illustrate: make a big box with hovertext, then in the Object tab set Path Cut to 0.73 / 0.75, Hollow 95%, Slice End 0.05. With a large enough box, the text is pretty far removed from the "stuff" of the carved-up box.

A different effect: take the 95% hollow box and rotate it 90 degrees in X, Path Cut 0.5 / 0.75, and Top Shear 0.5 in Y, and squash the Z dimension as thin as it will go (0.01m). The hovertext will be below the "stuff" of the object.

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*Well, except to get the hovertext on the object to start, a la:

default { state_entry() { llSetText( "Some Hovertext", < 1,1,1 >, 1.0 ); } }

Other possibilities: a sculpted prim with a pure color sculpt texture, or a prim with an invisiprim surface texture.