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It seems that my AV has a problem with either her legs or sitting. When I click on a pose ball and she sits straight up like I am sitting in a chair. No matter what the ball is suppose to
do.

If am standing my one leg turns out and some times it looks like she is hunched over.

I also notice that sometimes a little directors chair will show up by the cursor.



Please help.

Thanks

Are you using an animation overrider or some other attachment that might be interfering with the pose balls?

Do you have an animation override (AO) on? If so it might have a sit in it that overrides the poseball animations - try turning off your AO and see if it helps.

How you turn it off depends on which on it is - some respond to chat commands like "/ao off" or "/1 ao off" - others are attachments you are wearing that you will have to remove.

I am not sure how would I check this?

Miranda, in your inventory search for (worn) to see what items you are currently wearing. See if there's anything called an AO, or anything else you aren't sure what it is, and remove it - if that works, you'll at least know what it is.

Another thing you should try is - have you cleared your cache (in preferences) and relogged into SL?

Finally sometimes animations can be slow to load and leave you in a sitting position for a few moments before starting the animation. Have you just been patient and waited to see if the anim loads, especially if you have a slow-ish internet connection?

I have tried to remove everything.

It looks like it might be working now. How would this get activated? I want make sure i don't do it again.

I has been there for a few days.

Thanks for your help and quick respons. IF I have any other issues I will ask.

Thanks

Miranda

On this thread http://www.typepad.com/site/blogs/525375/dashboard people are reporting interesting different problems with animations since SL went down last night - if any of those sound like what you are experiencing, Miranda, maybe it's not your avatar at all but just an SL glitch. You've exhausted my knowledge!

Hi Miranda,

Glad your problem is solved....but for the future, it helps to understand what an 'AO' actually is. An AO.....animation overrider....is something that your avatar wears as an attachment....sometimes it is on the body.....but more often it attaches as a HUD that you see on the bottom right or top center of your screen.
These AO's simply override your avatars basic movements like standing, walking and sitting, to smoother more realistic poses and movements. While they are activated....you don't have to do anything.... they are automatic. But....in order to sit on a pose ball or use another animation (like a dance) you have to turn the AO 'off'.

Lag can also effect avatars movements and cause some pretty hilarious contortions sometimes. Poses take time to load....dances get jumbled and ya wind up bent in half......lol it happens. A lot of things contribute to how the game runs for you......your operating system...video card....connection speed. SL will have a lot of glitches if any of these things are not compatible with running the program.

You are really going to want to keep an animation overrider activated at some point down the road. I have had some that acted up when I try to pose - especially with a posing or fitting stand you use for trying on clothes. But the better ones don't. ZHAO II is one of the best, I think, and it's free.

Some AO's are included in shoes. If it's not in your shoe, and you don't see a couple of mysterious green and white buttons in one corner of your screen, you probably don't have an AO. But, be aware -- Second Life (tm) is not perfect, and it's been acting up a lot lately, especially last night (SL time). It could have just been a server side problem that cleared up by itself. You get used to that.

[edit: others had more thorough answers above. I stew over mine too long.]

This just means that you can sit on the thing under the cursor, using a regular left mouse click instead of having to go through right-click pie-menu / Sit. For modifiable stuff you own, you can set this yourself by putting it in the Editor (right-click / Edit), clicking the "More >>" button (unless "<< Less" is already showing), and at the very bottom of the General tab, setting the "When Left-Clicked" pulldown to "Sit on object".

If, when you are 'wearing' the AO, you see a display on your screen (called a HUD), then it will usually have some sort of clickable control system that should make it easy for you to turn it on and off. If there is no display on the screen, then you can try typing "AO off" or "AO on" (without the quotes) in chat to see if that will turn it off and on - some need a slash '/' in front of the word AO.