gesture creation bugged?

Either there's a bug or I'm going this wrong. I'm trying to create a new gesture. It plays the animation and sound just fine when I preview it, but then I save and close the window, and it doesn't work. When I double-click to reopen it, the animation and sound are gone. How exactly does one create a gesture that simply triggers a sound and an animation?

Yes this is a bug - I reported it yesterday, good to see others are now finding this as well. Please send bug reports in!
Still living with my tight pants, mouth hanging open, and no new gestures...
Xaria

Darnit, I literally just today had a client pay me to create my first gesture. Oh well, at least now I know I'm not going crazy; I guess I'll refund them. Bug report submitted.

I'm getting this error too. Trying to make a gesture that plays a quote a few times at once (it's rather quiet), and displays a text version in Chat... when I save and reopen, only the first instance of the Sound is there, the rest of the lines were replaced by "Wait" commands, which I never entered...

Purchased Gestures are also affected... so I hope they fix this fast before any more of my existing gestures get messed up... just changing the keyboard binding completley trashes the gesture.

Hope it gets fixed soon, have a few too many 1000's of them out to fix them all LOL



"The Gesture Maker"
Kurt Ludd

I submitted a bug report describing a behavior that might be related:

1. Edit a gesture and change its trigger (e. g. add a character to the trigger string).
2. Trigger the gesture by typing changed string in chat bar.

Avatar will not be animated by gesture, but gesture will be listed as "Playing" in Gestures view (ctrl-g). Gesture will not stop automatically but remain listed as "Playing" until "Stop" button is clicked. The AV is never animated.

Can anyone reproduce this?

I got this result with a number of standard gestures that worked correctly before I changed their trigger.

Thanks,
Frax

I reported the same bug last night -- create a gesture, it previews normally, but close the window and try to play it, it doesn't work. Reopen the new gesture, the steps have been garbled or deleted.

Having trouble creating gestures. They're not saving properly. Will report the bug too.

I have reported this bug also
I thought it was me being silly
creating and preview all ok - animation sound and chat
as soon as you save and then look at properties its corrupted

interesting to read this. apparently theres more to that bug, since I discovered this:
edit any gesture you received and it will not work anymore. like, I received a gesture which had a trigger key (F9) assigned. I removed it, hit save, and the gesture stopped working altogether. annoying :/

Whatever you do: don't edit any gestures you wish to keep!

Also, don't try to make any gestures.

Also, don't buy any gestures.

Also, don't pay $10L per file to upload media you spent hours cutting and converting, as I made the mistake of doing.

OK, so Search doesn't work, TPing doesn't work, people are loosing their inventory objects, and now *another* major piece of the system doesn't work: gestures. This software is terrible! This is unfair to those of us who are paying to upload files. They charged me to upload the files and if they are asking me to "bear with it" until they deliver what I paid for that's a slap in the face.

These aren't *minor* issues; people have spent lots and lots of money on their inventory items, people buy and sell gestures (for instance), and for those of us who have paid for a premium acct or worse - bought land or even worse - are trying to run a business - LL is not delivering a quality product (or even a working one). Bugs I can understand, barely skirting the lines of basic functionality is too much.

I am quickly approching the point where I say enough is enough. I'm wasting my money, I'm wasting my time, and I'm getting all worked up over a virtual world when I've got plenty of RL stuff to worry about.

I'm begining to feel like a real sucker for throwing my time and money down the drain. I sure hope LL get their act together soon.

Has anyone heard an anything regarding a possible update to correct this bug? Really annoying. Nothing seems to work anymore in SL.

SpaceAce, from what I can see, this bug is still with us, and has not yet been addressed by LL that is a problem. This needs to be looked at and put in with "known issues" as soon as possible.

The only thing I can see in "known issues" right now, that has anything to do with gestures is:

SL-11589: deleted gestures still work
Affects: 1.8.3 (Content Management/Loss, Security - Exploit)

Which is not the problem being addressed by us. That gesture bug seems to have been around now for quite some time and obviously has still not been fixed (if it has, I stand corrected and ask why it is still in the "known issues" page). This is seriously frustrating knowing that gestures are far more messed up now than this prior "known issue of deleted gestures still work" from 1.8.3 - we are on 1.13.1 and a gesture bug from 1.8.3 has still not been taken care of...well I'm not going to hold my breath on how long it may take to get this new gesture bug to be taken care of.

Everyone please send in bug reports, and thank you to those of you who have already filed a report.

/boo (no sound, no animation),
Xaria

Well I'm glad i found this thread, I have just started creating Animations to go into gestures and Bang everything stop working, I thought I had corrupted my profile or something. I have sent a Bug report, the fact it does not show in Known Issues does not fill me with confidence!

Thanks Kurt for starting a thread about this in "Linden Answers". I cannot imagine having a business selling gestures with this bug, your SL must be a nightmare right now.
I cannot believe this thread has been going on for days now, without any word from LL. Has anyone even heard of a scheduled update in the near future or anything of the sort to fix the many, MANY things that are wrong with SL right now? I know I havent, and I feel as if we have all been left to suffer with these ridiculous bugs.
Frustrated, Xaria

Just FYI,

On Sunday, I also started a thread on 'Linden Answers' regarding the gestures issue. The response I got went like..."I can't seem to replicate this activity. Please report the bug." Well, I and several others have reported the bug, and to my knowledge, there has been no public acknoweldgement of this issue.

I got a response but guess we wont get anything fixed untill at least next update.


Kurt Ludd

A response is good, as I recall we have had three updates in as many weeks, so you never know! its very frustrating just as I got the hang of making Animations work and was looking to start selling the Gesture Creation tool brakes! Reading other posts on here I can see this will not be the last time SL will cause me annoyance, but I still find it exciting concept.

Just want to chime in that I had this issue too, will log in and report it as a bug now that I know it actually is. thought it might just be me.

it's made it to the Known Issues list

http://secondlife.com/support/known-issues.php

Way to go everyone! Now if we can just hold out for the next update, maybe this issue will be resolved!!?...ok maybe I'm just a little TOO excited about it being in "known issues" now. LOL
But on a more serious note, thank you everyone for staying on top of this, and filing bug reports! Bravo!

Now off to the Slmobile to defend the grid of evil griefers, and report other bugs!
/me whisps away behind her cape,
Xaria ^_^

I dun see it in th' Known Issues... >_>

I am pissed! Since th' last update, I haven' been able ta make any Gestures! Jus' like everyone 'ere said, every time I close th' Edit window...my data gets cleared 'n r'placed wid just data! This...is why I left Second Life in th' first place. Unr'solved an' often ignored critical errors!

It was in Known Issues earlier, but it's gone now. Does that mean it's been fixed and it'll work in the next update?

I sure hope so - as of last night, it's still not working - drives me crazy!! I have to copy from the original library to replace gestures that have been messed up from editing. one NASTY bug - can't make any hotkeys / shortcuts for them at all!!