sculpties misshapen

hey havin a nightmare tryin to see sculpties i have tried everything but stillno joy anyone any ideas?

actually nope

Is this a new problem, or have you never been able to see sculpties at all? And is it just some sculpties, or all of them?

If you've tried everything, you've no doubt tried clearing cache (Edit / Preferences / Network) and relogging. If that didn't work, perhaps delete the preferences files (to get rid of all settings, in case something got tweaked that shouldn't have--although I don't know that would be... some wacky debug setting for LoD, maybe).

Oh: this is with the standard viewer, right?

(If by any chance you just mean that sculpties load really slowly and then look like crap: yeah. Works as designed. )

i think its always been aproblem jsut got worse now as more n more r about.

Goppo

There is something you can try. First you need to enable the Advanced menu (if you haven't already): ctrl alt shift D. Then scroll down until you come to Debug Settings. Enter RenderVolumeLODfactor and change the figure from 1.25 to 4.00 (some people recommend as high as . This should help.

ETA: Marianne posted while I was composing my post, and nope - I'm not just quoting from that page - I've been doing this for months.

have tried that i think it mite b because i am sufferin with bad client lag but i dont know how to improve that

Maybe it's your graphics card. What are your system specs?

a quick q one i change that settin is there any thing i should press as if i go bk to it when i log bk on its bk to 1.25

how u delete preference files?

The location of the preference files depends on the OS. I'll try to edit this to add a link here to another post that has the whole procedure, but if you happen to be on XP, they'll be at C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\SecondLife\avatar_name ... you can just delete the whole folder for that avatar and it will be rebuilt from scratch the next time you run SL. (In addition to restoring settings to default, it will also restore all the newbie dialogs, so that's annoying but tolerable.)

[Edit: Well, best I can find is a KB article on the wiki, http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clearing_the_cache that shows the default location of the cache files:
* Windows XP - C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\SecondLife\cache
* Windows Vista - C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife\cache
* Mac - /Users/YOUR USERNAME/Library/Application Support/SecondLife/cache
* Linux - ~/.secondlife/cache
so in place of "cache" you'd be deleting the folder corresponding to the avatar name. (You could delete the cache folder, too, of course, and it would be rebuilt; that's supposed to be equivalent to clearing cache from inside the viewer.)

There's also another "app_settings" directory under Program Files (on XP... wherever the app executable is installed)... other than windlight "day" and "water" settings, though, there's nothing there that should change, and then only if you go to a lot of trouble to save those kind of settings there. And anyway, that all gets replaced whenever you reinstall SL.

As for improving client lag... well, probably best to start with what your configuration is like now: seeing the contents of the top pane of Help / "About Second Life..." would save a lot of guessing.]

One other thing... after you post the configuration info from "About Second Life...", and while we mull over that, you might try downloading Snowglobe if you haven't already, and seeing if that helps. Some have reported that it's much faster at loading textures including sculptmaps, and is generally less resource-intensive. (That's not been especially the case for me, so YMMV.)

The current "released" Snowglobe is to be found with the rest of the downloads at https://secure-web6.secondlife.com/my/support/downloads/.