There are a few pretty common errors that happen with Second Life. It’s nothing serious, just stuff that happens all the time. I, like most people, use a Firestorm Viewer, so these fixes work primarily for that. If you’re on Second Life Viewer, you might want to try Firestorm instead. All of your errors will be available in Firestorm as well. 😉
Your outfit looks weird
There’s so many ways your outfit can get messed up… But let’s see.
- You see skin poke through clothing? FIX: Check the folder for the clothing that is “clipping” and see if you can find “an alpha.” Alternatively, you might need “an alpha HUD” from your body’s folder and hide parts of your body so it doesn’t clip through your clothes.
- Your clothes clip through each other. Not all clothes are meant to be worn together. FIX: Wear something else.
- You’re wearing the right alphas, but things are still weird. FIX: You might be wearing incompatible clothes with your mesh avatar. If you’re wearing a Signature Davis body, Signature Gianni clothes won’t necessarily fit, let alone if you’re wearing Legacy clothing with a Signature body. Clothes are rigged for the specific mesh body, you see.
- You look “fine” but everything about you is… wonky or unrefined compared to everyone else. You might need to read about mesh avatars. You’re probably using a “system” or a “classic” avatar. (Same thing.)
Your animations are stuck.
- If you are seated on furniture or dance ball/mat, turn off your AO (animation override) and press CTRL+S
- If you got up, but you’re still animated as if you were sitting on something; try Alt+Sift+A or navigate to: Avatar -> Avatar health -> Stop avatar animations and revoke permissions. That should stop all animations and let you restart the ones you want, like the animation override.
Your animations go out of sync = Fix with CTRL+S
You teleport into a place and you are (partially) invisible. = Fix with CTRL+Alt+R
or go to top navigation bar Avatar -> Avatar health -> Force appearance Update (rebake)
Classic Bake-fail
You log in and just keep loading, loading, loading; you appear as an orange cloud, right? That’s called a bake fail. If this won’t work, you might want to google that. One of the most persistent common errors this one.
Go to your preferences; (CTRL+P) and find Network and Files; Clear inventory cache. Close the viewer and log back in. If you’re not restored, redo and restart your computer. If you’re still not right, you might need to Google some more tips or contact Second Life support.
You lost yourself (camera panned somewhere random)
Either move to recenter your camera, or if you’re seated, toggle the camera view from back to front or vice versa. Then, move the camera with Alt+click and pan.
Objects are invisible or stay gray.
Often, the only fix is to restart the viewer, but occasionally simply touching the object will make the textures appear. Another possible solution is to try Right-clicking on the object and going ‘more,’ ‘more,’ ‘reset -> ‘texture refresh.’
Your neighbor has a uuugly object somewhere you can see it every day.
Right click on the object, choose “more, more” and derender. You can derender an object either temporarily (until you relog) or permanently. Either won’t remove the object from world, but it will make it so that you won’t see it anymore. It’s like blocking a person on Twitter. They still exist but you don’t have to deal with them.
You can also hide a bunch of objects with “area search”. Go to World -> Area Search; search for, let’s say the owner of a bunch of ugly objects. (If they’re on a neighbouring region, go to “filter” and untick the box “exclude objects on neighbouring regions.”)
Select the results and choose “blacklist”. If you change your mind, you can unblacklist them from World -> Asset Blacklist.