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Ordinal Malaprop

really very ordinary

Join date: 9 Sep 2005

Posts: 4,607

12-10-2005 04:50

This was really puzzling me last night. I gave a copy of my 3D radar object to someone, mod and copy, and they IMed me to say that it wasn't working. Odd, I thought, so I went across and took a look.

The radar rezzes phantom temporary prims every $time_interval to represent the positions of people around it, and a central prim of a different colour to represent the position of the radar itself. (The full script is somewhere in this forum.) This marker prim is called "Marker" and it's in the inventory of the radar, at least it was when I gave it to him.

When he rezzes the radar, it creates the central radar position prim and then starts to complain that it can't find object "Marker". He opened up the object and looked at its inventory and apparently there was no object "Marker" there - though there must have been one if it rezzed the original radar position marker.

When I rez the radar it works fine.

Just to check whether I was doing something stupid with permissions or whatever, I gave him another object which also rezzes temp prims and that worked fine for him (it wasn't even modify or copy).

I'm confused. Help.

Cid Jacobs

Theoretical Meteorologist

Join date: 18 Jul 2004

Posts: 4,304

12-10-2005 04:54

It sounds like the "Marker" prim needs copy perms set on it so that the radar can rez multiple copies. Go into the inventory of the radar and set the checkbox for copy on the "Marker" prim and it should work correctly.

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Ordinal Malaprop

really very ordinary

Join date: 9 Sep 2005

Posts: 4,607

12-10-2005 05:06

I tried that, but it didn't seem to make any difference.

Ordinal Malaprop

really very ordinary

Join date: 9 Sep 2005

Posts: 4,607

12-10-2005 05:21

Right, we just IMed in SL and sorted this out. For anyone who's having similar problems - the permissions of an object in another object's inventory aren't inherited from the original object you drag in.

My problem was that I was dragging the marker out, setting it to mod/copy, then deleting the old marker and dragging the modified marker back into the radar. But that doesn't help. Right-clicking and getting Properties for the marker inside the radar's inventory, however, *does* let you modify them. There's a bit of a lack of sense in this system if you ask me but hey.

Cheers Cid! Very helpful.

Confusing problem with inventory objects vanishing (or something)
Ordinal Malaprop really very ordinary Join date: 9 Sep 2005 Posts: 4,607	12-10-2005 04:50 This was really puzzling me last night. I gave a copy of my 3D radar object to someone, mod and copy, and they IMed me to say that it wasn't working. Odd, I thought, so I went across and took a look. The radar rezzes phantom temporary prims every $time_interval to represent the positions of people around it, and a central prim of a different colour to represent the position of the radar itself. (The full script is somewhere in this forum.) This marker prim is called "Marker" and it's in the inventory of the radar, at least it was when I gave it to him. When he rezzes the radar, it creates the central radar position prim and then starts to complain that it can't find object "Marker". He opened up the object and looked at its inventory and apparently there was no object "Marker" there - though there must have been one if it rezzed the original radar position marker. When I rez the radar it works fine. Just to check whether I was doing something stupid with permissions or whatever, I gave him another object which also rezzes temp prims and that worked fine for him (it wasn't even modify or copy). I'm confused. Help.
Cid Jacobs Theoretical Meteorologist Join date: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 4,304	12-10-2005 04:54 It sounds like the "Marker" prim needs copy perms set on it so that the radar can rez multiple copies. Go into the inventory of the radar and set the checkbox for copy on the "Marker" prim and it should work correctly. _____________________
Ordinal Malaprop really very ordinary Join date: 9 Sep 2005 Posts: 4,607	12-10-2005 05:06 I tried that, but it didn't seem to make any difference.
Ordinal Malaprop really very ordinary Join date: 9 Sep 2005 Posts: 4,607	12-10-2005 05:21 Right, we just IMed in SL and sorted this out. For anyone who's having similar problems - the permissions of an object in another object's inventory aren't inherited from the original object you drag in. My problem was that I was dragging the marker out, setting it to mod/copy, then deleting the old marker and dragging the modified marker back into the radar. But that doesn't help. Right-clicking and getting Properties for the marker inside the radar's inventory, however, does let you modify them. There's a bit of a lack of sense in this system if you ask me but hey. Cheers Cid! Very helpful.

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