#Second life debug settings how to#
#Second life debug settings Offline#

There’s always “Reset to Default”, or you know, you can ‘write down’ where it was set before you changed it and change it back if anything looks wrong to you. Adjust ONE at a time and see what happens around you. (If you put these settings into your viewer and feel as though something is wrong with the world around you like invisible walls, etc,’ this is why.) You can tell what setting did it by reading the tool-tips provided in each of these debug settings. These numbers as they are, are too low and will cause some floors, walls, and other parts of sims to disappear. I looked at these settings myself, basically they allow you to set maximum thresholds for each of the listed categories. I’ll give this a try and see how it affects such things.

This gives you a chance to get away, at least. And while the end result is the same, I expect that includes the problem of the rapidly changing object flooding your connection with updates for the viewer to ignore. If these things, sometimes called lag-bombs, don’t crash your viewer instantly, you have a chance to Block/Mute the object, but you have to act pretty fast. The 64m limit that now applies would give a much larger facet area. A 10m cube, the old limit, has a maximum facet-size of 50 sq m. If it is, you’d expect to see some effect on large prims. The SurfaceArea limits won’t be the number of facets, there’s a lot more than 114 on an Avatar.

I’m not sure if there is something similar for Phoenix and it’s ilk. There is a setting in Firestorm to switch attached lights on and off: Develop menu, Rendering sub-menu. This change has fixed one of the biggest griefer problems in recent memory, but I suppose it won’t be too long before some smart griefer comes up with another way to annoy people. The griefers come up with a new and devastating way to crash people, and then some bright scripter among the residents or at Linden Lab figures out a way to bypass the griefing. I guess griefing in Second Life is kind of like an arms race between countries in real life.

#Second life debug settings Offline#

I haven’t been kicked offline by a graphics crasher since making these changes, but I’m not sure I’ve really seen a graphics crasher since then, either. But I’m glad there’s a way for the rest of us to decide whether we have to look at it. If someone wants to make sure their face is brightly lighted at all times, even at midnight, they can do that. I don’t know exactly what a graphics crasher object was made of, but I do recall editing a few of them and seeing hundreds of individual objects inside, all linked together.Īnd if this change means that we can’t see facelights any more, then I think it’s a great benefit to everyone! We’ve all seen places in a sim that are all lit up like an airport runway, and at the center of it is an avatar wearing bright facelights. So maybe those numbers indicate the number of facets that the viewer will attempt to render, and after it reaches that number, the rest of the facets are just rendered as a curved surface.

If I had to take a wild guess, I would say that the “SurfaceAreaLimit” number might refer to, say, a representation of a diamond with many facets, and each facet being a “SurfaceArea.” If the viewer had to show you which way each facet was pointing, then things could get very complicated if you built a diamond with a million facets and started it rotating. I’m not a scripter, so I don’t know what these settings do. Once set, your viewer will automatically derender any worn or rezzed linksets that lag and crash your graphics driver.

Me-> Preferences-> Check Show Advanced Menu->Debug-> Debug Settings.

Open Debug settings and set the following values:

#Second life debug settings how to#

Thanks, Christy!Ĭrash B Gone Debug Settings for your SL ViewerĬontains information on how to adjust a few debug settings that will allow your viewer to automatically derender rezzed or worn graphics crashers.

These instructions came from Green Lantern Christy Rain. They will make you very unhappy in the end, and you will want to go back to your original setup. I will leave the article here for historical purposes, but please do not use these settings. NOTE: The settings in this article will cause you to not be able to see some floors and walls in Second Life. UPDATE: We have found a better solution: Here’s how to defeat graphics crashers