Desparate! Help! Lost half my house! can i get it back?

i was putting up curtains....they seemed to replace the wall....open air...so i took them back...when i did - POOF - upstairs and downstairs is gone....along with furniture...how can i recover them??? please help!

If your house came in a rez box, just re rez it.

it was all one piece, didnt have to assemble it...but what about the missing furniture?

i'll have to take everything out before i re-rez right?

Did you check your lost & found folder yet for returned pieces?

might want to check your lost and found folder. most likely the "lost" objects will be there.

if you have backups, just rerezz and replace the missing objects.

not sure what u meant by "half my house", but did u have the right tag on? overshoot your prim limits? or boundaries?

Nope - just re-rez it around your objects - in fact your existing objects should help you to be able to align the house back to it's original position easier (you can use wall pictures etc to make sure they appear in the same place as they did - one they do, your house was back where it was).

One tip for you - once you have re-rezzed the house, right click on it and select edit. Then look at the object tab and make a note of the x,y & z position co-ordinates, and the x,y & z rotation coodinates. That way, if you ever do it again, you can simply delete the remains of the old house building, rez another one and manually type the co-ordiates in again to move it back exactly where it was

Gomez

Dang, you beat me to it!

Mandy C

Hey, lock the structure after you do that

As far as the problem with the curtains goes, that is what happens when you try to put a prim with alpha-mapped curtains in front of a single-prim wall prim that has an alpha mapped window. It's called the alpha sorting glitch. An alpha texture on a prim that is behind another prim with an alpha texture on it gets displayed in the wrong order.

What likely caused the deletion of your house was you were outside the house, and intending to click on the curtains to delete the curtains, you actually clicked the wall of the house, which you couldn't see because the curtains were inaccurately being displayed in front of the wall.

There are several solutions for your curtains, once you get the house back in place.

1. Use prim curtains that don't use an alpha texture. I make and sell such curtains, and they use a script to actually re-size the curtain prims and retexture them, so they open and close on touch. Requires no changes to the existing wall or house.

2. Use a texture change script and custom textures to alter the texture of the whole wall itself, on both sides, so in one state it shows the curtains open, and in the other state the curtains are closed. Assuming your house is modifyable, I could likely help with that scripting, as could quite a few other SL builders. The problem here is that if you don't have a copy of the initial textures for both sides of the wall, we would have to re-rexture the walls with a different texture. Your home builder may be willing to work with you to provide the textures or modify the house in this way.

3: Make a more complex wall, that uses non-alpha textures on the wall, and use a changable alpha / non-alpha texture pair for each side of the scripted window prim. That is how I build my custom homes. It gets the best results, because the wall doesn't have any issues with any other alpha textures (plants, skirts, digitigrade legs, high heeled shoes...).

Heh, that happened to me once, but I was in a worse situation. I was working on a 3 story house for some person, and after i got that done, I just added those squared pools into the house. All of a sudden, poof, the whole house just disappeared like that, and I only have the pool left. I never got it back in my lost and found so I was quite angry at that time.

When searching your inventory (maybe in Lost&Found, maybe in Trash, maybe in Objects, maybe in the folder your house was originally in) don't forget to check things that are called 'object' to see if they are in fact half your house. Sometimes part of a structure isn't named properly like the complete structure is.

When you look at an object in your inventory, its identified by a little 'cube' icon in front of the items name. Coellesced objects ( more than one object jumbled together during a mass return of items to inventory) are designated by a weird little icon in your inventory that looks kinda like a bunch of mini cubes mashed together. When a house and furniture get returned to your inventory at the same time, they are 'coellesced' into one object. Look for the weird icon.

all this happened to me when decorating my house(lost walls and stairs), since then I always click the -locked -button in the -edit-menu of every sigle object.....

Does this run in the Matova family? I did the same thing with both of my houses! One I was able to just re-rez but my current house does not allow that and I had to buy it all over again for some reason. Felt so silly...

Just a tip -
When building, stop every few prims and right-click then Take a Copy

Just like in programming, back up early and often.

Unfortunately I had that happen and it only displayed the normal cube icon...I was angry for days and then imagine the surprise when I wanted to rez a simple tea glass and all my lost stuff, including half a house, turned up as well....

so make sure to check basically all your objects....