Disable avatar movement when building?

I seem to recall many moons ago there use to be an option to disable the movement of your avatar when building and I don't seem to be able to find it anymore more. Wondering if anyone else remembers this or knows where it has gone. I think the option actually said something along the lines of "Don't show my color effects" or something like that. As it also stopped drawing the colored dotted line to the object you were building/editing.

If this option is still around It would be nice to see one of those fab Torley Tutorials about it

you can sit on a box that will stop you from moving about

you can disable your particle effects for yourself..
but not for others.
and for as long as i've been playing SL there's never been an option to "don't show my colour effects".

Tools / uncheck "Show Selection Beam"

And why would you need a tutorial just to uncheck a single option?

Right, but I can think of another option in the Debug menu that could be useful, especially for working with tiny objects (but can't remember the name, of course) to change the thickness of the highlighted outline. I'm thinking that a KB page on customizing the viewer for special editing tasks could be useful. So I agree: as much as I think Torley's videos are wonderful for introducing topics or showing complex procedures, sometimes just a bullet list is faster to work with and search. Or--imagine--searchable documentation for each of those debug options! Radical thought, I know.

Vote for this:

Hide Selection Outlines: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6918

Good one! Voted.

I voted. The farking selection highlights bother the crap out of me when I have to magnify on a tiny prim. And they get the way when you're trying to do a fine line alignment on two prims.

Actually, if I don't want my avatar to move, I sit on a prim. Faster and if I do need to move the avatar, I can yank her around via the prim. It's also a great thing when you're working in a public sandbox.

And the selection beam? I stopped trying to turn that off when I realized others could still see it.

Voted- that drives me nuts!

Do they? I know they hide the junction when the object is just selected; but when you "grab" one of the movement arrows, the selection highlight disappears while you're moving the object and I don't have problems lining things up.

Hi, Lesheran.
Welcome to resident answers.

There was more than just this one option in the tutorial, Kitty. It had several tips on helpful tweaks for building.

And ... in case you would like to see all this in world, Torley has an island with most of his video tutorials around for viewing.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Here

You can get a slurl from that page to his island.

Or ... here is a list of his video tips of the week:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials/TotW

Have fun, Lesheran. And come back any time you have a question.

Yes, but sometimes, I use the build tab's number system to do a wee bit at a time. It doesn't go away then and if I'm zoomed in (as with the tiny prims) those lines really become a pain.

I admit, because of the selection highlight, I rarely use the numbers unless I'm simply doing the math and setting them precisely.

Which kind of makes my point: a tutorial you can't find isn't very useful, is it?

If Torley put as much effort into just writing things down as he does in giving people seizures from his camera panning then you could actually just search for it.