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Minimap goes from normal to black in home sim

Svar Beckersted
Registered User
Join date: 14 Apr 2006
Posts: 783
05-20-2007 16:07
I have tried to debug this but am at a loss. When in my home sim my minimap goes black with my main account. An alt account on the same computer doesn't go blank. Then I went to another computer and logged in with my main account, same problem. There is something changed in my main account preferences that causes this but can't figure out what. Anyone have any idea how to fix this.
Svar Beckersted
Registered User
Join date: 14 Apr 2006
Posts: 783
05-20-2007 21:27
OK I have an update to my ongoing dilemma. I accidently returned everything in the sim that didn't belong to me and when I did my minimap returned to normal. I asked for and got a rollback of the sim by 1 hour so got all the objects back along with the weird minimap behavior.
Broken Xeno
~Fething Alt~
Join date: 9 Mar 2007
Posts: 632
05-20-2007 21:38
So it sounds like it has something to do with the objects on your sim?? I've never seen my minimap go black before... I have seen it remain blank right before the ground rezzes, but never black :s
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Livinda Goodliffe
Squeaky Wheel
Join date: 28 Dec 2005
Posts: 215
05-20-2007 21:41
It could be a huge prim blocking view.
Desmond Shang
Guvnah of Caledon
Join date: 14 Mar 2005
Posts: 5,250
05-20-2007 21:51
Someone left a sim-sized megaprim out; possibly up in the sky or below ground level.

When your avatar is near enough for it to be in 'draw distance' you'll see it. If your other avatar is located somewhere a bit further away, it won't render and thus won't block your map.
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Svar Beckersted
Registered User
Join date: 14 Apr 2006
Posts: 783
05-20-2007 22:24
The object that was causing the problem was 2 prims and left there by lafureur3 Oh who doesn't have access to the island so I don't know what it was. I never saw it I just returned the object back to her and asked for an explanation in an IM. I get vehicles left in there all the time from people who don't have access and get unseated when they cross the sim boundry, I just return the vehicles to them.

Thanks for the replies, my map was black when I got to within between 88 and 125 meters of the boundry from any direction so the effect was big.