FAQ: Cybalounge:
FAQ with search on page
Updated 5/18/2018
Frequently asked questions about Cybalounge. This is an active page that is updated when new questions are asked and answered
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- Cybalounge.
- Cybalounge is ready for virtual worlders to use: Tutorials and suggestions
- What guests can do in Cybalounge and how. Tutorial
Search on page (in Chrome)
- Press Ctrl+f. Search bar appears in upper left.
- May work in other browsers, too.
Key terms for search on page
- activation link, avatar
- build
- child prim, compound object, COLLADA
- find, FPS
- import
- lag, limit, location
- notecards, nothing happens
- problems
- remove
- share, sitting low, start, social
- teleport, travel
- voice does not connect
Start
What happened to the activation link I am supposed to get?
- If it is not in your inbox, it probably went into your spam or junk mail folder.
How can I find the location I just got when I registered?
- Click the pointed pushpin.
- Click Private in the tab bar (top)
- Your location is here, not with your name but with a number.
- Click Enter to go there. You probably want to rename it and maybe set it public.
- Web-worlds: Cybalounge building: location settings
Problems
I click the button and nothing happens
- Try it again and watch for a notice of popup blocked.
- Browsers may block popups whether you tell them to or not.
- You can authorize popups for this site.
- They also can forget that authorization the next time you need it.
Your world, place, location
How many prims or avatars can I have in my place?
- The system has no established limit on either.
- Objects increase load time and memory requirements.
- Avatars increase processing and memory requirements.
- So the load time may get too long.
- Or you may see a drop in the Frames Per Second (FPS)
- (FPS is the number in parentheses at upper left.)
- 8000 phantom prims had negligible effect on FPS.
- For avatars, the location setting by default says 10, but you can change that.
- This option is only to let you avoid numbers that create lag.
- Cybalounge building: location settings
- Limitations are imposed by the browser and computer capability.
- These will allow higher limits in the future.
How can I get more locations?
- At this time, the only way to get another location is to register in another name.
- You can friend yourself and make your avatars administrators of the other places.
- You can create multiple places in your location by making multiple floors.
- Just provide teleports to each floor.
- Teleports in Cybalounge, in location and to another location
- In the future, I expect there will be an arrangement to get additional locations.
- Additional locations might come with a cost.
- Location is used in Cybalounge to refer to a space. It is like a sim to virtual worlders.
- It is a web page to web site managers. Locations are 512 x 512.
Travel
Is there an easier way to go to other Cybalounge worlds?
Build
What are compound objects and child prims?
- Child prims are prims created or rezzed while another object was selected.
- The previously selected object becomes the root prim.
- Child prims are placed relative to the root prim.
- You can change the placement in the position attribute of the child prim.
- A root prim and one or more child prims constitute a compound object.
- Combining primitives, Gluing
How can I get a mesh file that I can import?
- Import a COLLADA from Live Home 3D Pro
- This method is in active use and works reliably.
- The same method may work with many other COLLADA files.
- But COLLADA files can vary enough so that it will not work with all such files.
- We do not yet know a detailed specification to ensure that COLLADA files work.
How do I remove objects from my place?
- In edit mode (crossed tools), click it, then click Remove in the menu at right.
Social
How can I share powers on my place with others?
We use notecards in our meetings. Does Cybalounge have these ?
- We would use a message board set to public instead.
- Here is how to set it up: Web-world message board
- Anyone can write on it or paste text into it (if it is set to public).
- Click on it. That opens it in a separate panel.
- In that panel, you can scroll it and type or paste in it.
- Another option is to create a collaborative blog and bring in posts on a prim.
- Drag and Drop building in Cybalounge: Tutorial
- You could have multiple message boards, but they can slow things down.
- And if you leave them out, they will slow down loading.
Why won't voice connect me with my friend?
- Sometimes Firefox and Chrome won't connect with each other.
- If you can both use the same brand of browser, that may fix things.
- Unless it is MS Edge.
How do I copy text from the chat window?
- Double click on the first word in the text string.
- Hold down shift and click on the last word in the string.
I am sitting low; can I sit up higher?
- To change your sitting position, press u, d, l, r, f , or b.
- That will move the avatar up, down, left, right, forward or back.
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