Boxes - Outfits

I bought loads of outfits and they in objects section and come up as boxes instead of the outfits. How do i make them the outfits?

Drag them from inventory to the ground on a parcel that allows boxes to be opened.

Click the box and choose 'open.'

Click the copy to inventory button in the pop up window.

Click the box again and choose 'take.'

So just drop it on land? o.o Any examples? xD

you drag the boxes out of your inventory and onto the ground..then right click the box and you will see a pie with the option to open..

click open and then you will see a window pop up with a button to copy the items to your inventory..

then it will place them in a folder in your inventory..

if you don't own land you may be best off doing this in a sand box or at someones house where you can drop items..

But i cant find anywhere that allows me to drop stuff D=.. No i dont have land, im a noob.

You can watch a video tutorial here that shows how:
http://secondlife.com/my/whatnext/video-tutorials/
Search for "Open Boxes" and watch the tutorial with that name.

ETA: Search places for "sandbox" to find a place where you can rez things.

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you can do it in a sandbox..also i think info hubs let you too

I know of a place.

(Sandboxes usually allow rezzing objects, too.)

A lot of stores have "rez areas" or "unpacking areas" marked out where you can drag boxes out of inventory to open them. Often they have a short auto-return time to stop them getting littered, but it's still courteous not to leave stuff lying around.

Note that some boxes are smart enough to self-unpack when touched, and self-delete when finished. I've even had one or two that you wear to unpack so you don't need to rez them, and which then detach automatically. It's even nicer when the object is labelled to let you know what to do e.g. (Boxed) or (Wear to unpack).

I'm NOT a noob but I have a question about this too. Why DO some sellers put their items in boxes and some don't? What's the advantage/disadvantage to putting it in a box? Is it easier to put it in a box rather than a folder? I've never understood the point.

One reason, I think, is that it makes it very easy to sell multiple items from one vendor, cos the vendor only has to locate the right box -- which may contain several items of clothing -- to give the customer.

Type the phrase "changing room" in search - there are at least ten different places that will allow you to not only open things, but change into them privately too.

For (rezzing) bigger items like cars, use a sandbox.

Items are usually 'boxed' so that one server can deliver items anywhere in-world and the merchants only have to maintain their items in that server, regardless of how many vending-machines they may have throughout the grid. This is the standard 'networked-vendor' architecture and is also used by XStreet, where the XStreet magic-box is your server and items must be boxed for delivery.

There are two methods of delivering items to people in LSL (the scripting language):
1. llGiveInventoryList() - CAN give multiple items into a folder but CAN'T give them outside the current sim. If you use this you need to maintain and update vendors in every sim where you wish to sell.
2. llGiveInventory() - CAN give to anyone anywhere in-world but CAN'T give more than one item at a time. If you use this you need to box collections of items into a single box.

In addition there are the options for setting an item 'for sale' (buy original/copy/contents) but that means haviing to maintain every single item, which is even worse than each sim.

The most annoying example I ever had was a vendor which gave me a folder containing a box, which unpacked into a folder... containing a box, which unpacked into another folder, containing the single object I'd purchased. I'd begun wondering if it was boxes all the way down.

My inventory now had three new folders, all with the same name, each containing an identically-named object, only one of which was then thing I'd bought. I wasn't even sure which to delete. No wonder some people end up with tens of thousands of items.