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Transparent cones, infection or feature?

Vanessa Niven
Registered User
Join date: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 24
09-28-2007 07:33
I went to a sim and during my visit my feet started to emit some sort of particle (only I can see this no one else)

I teleported home thinking I had been infected maybe, it didn't fix the problem.

Symptoms:

*When I arrived at home(or any sim) about 40 red/transparent cone shaped particles elevate up in the air from myself. Then a few blue/transparent cone shaped particles elevate off my boots.

*I look in the distance as I enter Sim , every object and tree has a single red cone shape rising from it like a particle then disappears, all the vendor boards I see will emite this red particle, I see a bike drive past and it has half a hundred of these Blue cone shaped particles rising from it.

*Various red/blue combinations coming from scripted and non-scripted objects, a few seconds apart, sometimes relating to movement then ceasing after the movement stops, sometimes not relating to movement.

*When an object is deleted or detached I see a bunch of GREEN cone shapes rising from what was deleted or detached, the only time I see green (before was red/blue)


What I have Tried (and it did not help):

*I have tried restarting SL

*I have detached all HUD elements, clothing, hair and attachments

*I have selected and unselected everything in every menu, especially the beacons section.

*I have cleared SL cache.

*I have shutdown my computer completly and turned it back on.

*I have re-installed SL.

I still see these blue and red transparent cones rising from myself and no one else can see it, I cannot right click on the object to see owner, it does not exist.

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Ann Launay
Neko-licious™
Join date: 8 Aug 2006
Posts: 7,893
09-28-2007 08:02
Do you have the Client menu up top? If not, use Ctrl-Alt-d to bring it up, then make sure 'Show Updates' isn't checked. Alternatively, Ctrl-Alt-Shift-u will toggle it on and off.
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Chas Connolly
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Join date: 24 Jan 2007
Posts: 1,433
09-28-2007 08:07
Having you tried scanning - with something like Scan-foo - for objects not owned by you?
Ann Launay
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Join date: 8 Aug 2006
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09-28-2007 08:16
I'm almost positive 'Show Updates' is toggled on. I just double checked it and the result looks exactly like your pic.
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Congratulations and shame on you! You are a bit of a slut.
Ange Jacobus
TBD
Join date: 6 Apr 2007
Posts: 109
09-28-2007 08:50
I think Ann's right....I had that happen to me once and I could not get rid of it to save my life. I tp'd to help island and a mentor told me how to get rid of it by turning off show updates in the client menu. I had accidentally turned it on by pressing a ctrl+alt shortcut.
Ava Glasgow
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Join date: 27 Jan 2007
Posts: 2,172
09-28-2007 11:01
Just confirming... absolutely Ann is right. There is no question about it, the picture clearly shows the "Show Updates" colored poofs.
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Vanessa Niven
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Join date: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 24
09-29-2007 06:11
Fixed now, thanks.