Secrets of the Debug Settings
on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 at 4:33 pmI was poking around last night in the (not-so-)new debug setting. There’s a window you can open ( CLIENT > DEBUG SETTINGS ) with a huge drop down menu of options. While some seemed not to ’stick’ when i changed them, I found two that may be of immediate use to people:
-PlayTypingAnim
Turn it false and your av won’t do the typing animation anymore. BONUS: No typing sound either :)
*update* This seems to do more than just disable the sound and anim - it also stops llGetAgentInfo() from seeing that the av is typing, which is unfortunate. Also, see comments, but setting it back to true doesn’t actually turn it back on, so use with caution. :)
*update2* To turn it back on, on mac at least, find your user_settings folder, and open the settings.xml file, and find playTypingAnim and change FALSE to TRUE. Save it, and relaunch SL, and all should be good again.
-Default Object Texture
Sick of plywood? Put in a key of any texture, and this sets the default texture for fresh prims you rez.
There’s lots more in there, which I will have to play with. Things like setting the URL for the Help (F1) system seem to be there, but didn’t seem to ’stick’. I know you can hack the client to have a browser in the f1 already, but this seemed like an simpler solution.
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September 20th, 2006 at 9:18 pm
Usually to avoid the typing animation and sound, you can prefix your text with a forward slash. This way, others don’t see/hear you either. Really good for when a large group of people are watching a live stream video in-world.
September 20th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
I know a lot of people would like to just turn it off permanently, and this seems to do that. So you don’t have to remember to hit / all the time.
December 18th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Does anyone know of a complete list of debug settings?
Anyone know of a way to generate a new complete list of them when a new version, which may have new ones, comes out?
December 18th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
Well, could probably do a diff between the old .xml file and the new one, to see whats changed. If I ever have a chance, I’ll set something like that up to be public browseable.