I finally figured out how to get rid of …

I finally figured out how to get rid of the black bars in the current SL or Hippo viewer when first connecting to an OpenSim. The clue the tipped me off was that when first connecting to my desktop sim the “Uploaded asset data for transaction …” would scroll across implying that something cached or available in the viewer was being uploaded as the default skin or shape. If I used a viewer that did not have the info cached for some reason it would upload a corrupted shape or skin and that would become the new default. So here’s what I did.

1. Drop the desktop db
2. Restart OpenSim
3. Delete the Application Data/Second Life directory entirely
4. Startup SL browser pointing to SL itself
5. Load the Test Avatar from the Character menu under Advanced
6. Strip
7. Create a new skin and shape in inventory
8. Wear them from inventory.
9. Log out of SL
10. Log into desktop OS using same viewer
11. Watch for the “Uploaded asset data for transaction …”
12. Notice bars gone now

Rough, but that seems to have done the trick.

Found this excellent tutorial for gettin …

Found this excellent tutorial for getting MySQL running on Windows desktop OpenSim. Linked to it from the opensimulator.org MySQL config page, which otherwise is horribly out of date.