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Help! Mystery particles...
Thormec Micheline
Registered User
Join date: 16 Oct 2006
Posts: 46
12-04-2007 12:25
Without any apparent reason, mysterious triangular shaped particles started emanating from certain objects and avatars on my viewer. Please see images at
http://www.woohoo-nyc.com/mysterious.html
Sometimes they’re red, sometimes blue, sometimes green. Most of the time they’re somewhat translucent but every now and then are solid. It seems that the more linkage and the more scripts the prim has, the more frequent and less translucent the mysterious triangles are. I’ve searched for “worn” in inventory, but that shows nothing out of the ordinary. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Atashi Toshihiko
Frequently Befuddled
Join date: 7 Dec 2006
Posts: 1,423
12-04-2007 12:28
Under the Client debug menu, make sure "View Updates" is not toggled.

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Meade Paravane
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Join date: 21 Nov 2006
Posts: 4,845
12-04-2007 12:29
You've somehow enabled Show Updates - turn it off in the Client menu or with ctrl-alt-shift-u.

It's a debug thing.. Green is an object being deleted, blue is an object position/rotation being updated, red is a full object update.
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Nebulae Sands
Registered User
Join date: 19 Mar 2007
Posts: 18
12-04-2007 15:59
Hmm interesting. I know now what these particles are caused by, the "show updates" toggle, but they started appearing for me suddenly also and I'm fairly certain I didn't accidentally hit ctrl-alt-shift-u :p .

Was a bit alarming at the time, a relog doesn't remove them of course. Perhaps this is a minor glitch with the latest code?
Serenarra Trilling
Registered User
Join date: 14 Oct 2006
Posts: 246
12-05-2007 04:15
It seems that with each update there are occurences of various things like this that get turned on by the simple act of updating your client. This is one of the common ones.