Why does my avatar appear as female to others? (I am male)

[Gunga Bayn]

I am using SL Viewer 2 (Second Life 2.6.3 (227447)) (linux verson) Ever since the enhanced physics was released, I appear to others as wearing a female body shape. The others are using Phoenix 1055 for the most part,  I have seen other posts stating that phoenix should have a fix in versions after 1052 yet this clearly isn't the case... very frustrating!

And as Phoenix doesn't like my hardware (no streaming audio using pulse audio drivers) I'll be using singularity (a non viewer 2 core viewer...) for the forseeable future. sigh.....

 

[Ansariel Hiller]

That is caused by avatar physics introduced with LL's official viewer 2.6.3 and the way it sends shape data to other viewers (see VWR-25479) Third party viewers without avatar physics support probably will contain a fix (Phoenix includes the fix from version 1052 onwards), but old official Viewer 1.23 or Snowglobe 1.4/1.5 from LL won't be fixed.

Addendum as you obiously already read my other posting: The latest official Phoenix version is 1050, so unless people compile Phoenix for themselves, they will not yet have a fixed version. But as far from I see from the commits for Singularity, it will have full support of avatar physics in their upcoming release, thus the issue will be fixed by incident.

[Luc Starsider]

Wow! Is it really the case? (the appearing as a woman part) Does it happen all the time? Does it happen only when you are wearing a physics layer, or regardless of that? I hope it only happens when you wear a physics layer...

 

- Luc -

[Peewee Musytari]

@ Luc, they see Ruth, not sure she really counts as being a woman more like a mutant lol

[Luc Starsider]

Be kind to Ruth! She has done nothing to deserve the way she is treated. I guess it's all right then, or what?

 

- Luc -

[Gunga Bayn]

to be clear (er) - My friends see me as female whenever I use SL viewer 2 (current version), They are using the current version of phoenix 1050 and see me as female frequently. NOT ALWAYS, but often. sometimes a TP corrects it... or not. Sometimes resetting to test avatar corrects it.. or not

So it appears the "FIX" supposedly in new versions of third party viewers, don't work or aren't there... Thanks for responding though, hope time brings new viewer versions that actually do correct this.

[Luc Starsider]

One thing I can think about off the top of my head is to try disabling http textures in the viewer. It *might* help, but I'm not sure it will. Worth a try, though.

 

- Luc -

[Peewee Musytari]

Also if you have the new physics layer attached, try removing that.

[Ansariel Hiller]

To make it clear: Currently no official release build of CoolVL, Phoenix, Imprudence or Singularity has the fix! They are most likely to come in the next release versions!