Will SL Ever Have Realistic Gravity?

[Jennifer Boyle]

I happened to look at my earrings while I was lying down. They were horizontal.

[Kimmi Zehetbauer]

Noticed that. We also need avatars to go "splut" if they fall off a building! 🤣

[Rowan Amore]

37 minutes ago, Jennifer Boyle said:

I happened to look at my earrings while I was lying down. They were horizontal.

Good lord, I hope not!  It's bad enough we have to deal with it in RL.

/me looks down at her always perky boobs

[Silent Mistwalker]

3 hours ago, RowanMinx said:

Good lord, I hope not!  It's bad enough we have to deal with it in RL.

/me looks down at her always perky boobs

Gravity is inevitable. It's just more noticeable on us than it is on men. 🤭

[Ceka Cianci]

Only when we become flexi can we truly know the gravity of the situation.

[Jordyn McGregor]

4 hours ago, Kimmi Zehetbauer said:

Noticed that. We also need avatars to go "splut" if they fall off a building! 🤣

Mine does go splut...because I never got an elegant landing animation for my AO.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

44 minutes ago, Silent Mistwalker said:

Gravity is inevitable. It's just more noticeable on us than it is on men. 🤭

Oh I don't know about that. After they hit about 50 or so, defying gravity in order to have sex does become a challenge for some men.

They even have drugs now to help them spring upwards again.

[Lindal Kidd]

We do have realistic gravity.  Only problem is, it's optional.

Although I don't think of it as a problem so much as a feature.

[Coffee Pancake]

 Personally, I'd like to see sim / parcel based unrealistic gravity / physics with owner controlled settings.

 

[Silent Mistwalker]

27 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

Oh I don't know about that. After they hit about 50 or so, defying gravity in order to have sex does become a challenge for some men.

They even have drugs now to help them spring upwards again.

Well. AT least you got the gist even if you didn't get the joke. 🤭

[Silent Mistwalker]

22 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

 Personally, I'd like to see sim / parcel based unrealistic gravity / physics with owner controlled settings.

 

That sounds like fun.

For both owner and victim scapegoat specimen sacrifice prey. 😇

[Lindal Kidd]

29 minutes ago, Coffee Pancake said:

 Personally, I'd like to see sim / parcel based unrealistic gravity / physics with owner controlled settings.

 

"Welcome to beautiful Mesklin!"

[Scylla Rhiadra]

1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:

 Personally, I'd like to see sim / parcel based unrealistic gravity / physics with owner controlled settings.

 

I think this is flat out a great idea. It's a real limitation of SL that so much of the fundamental of the environment slavishly imitate RL. Wouldn't it be cool if you could create places where the rules of RL don't apply?

[Bree Giffen]

I recall being at a Fameshed X event once and there were these male avatars with flaccid body parts that actually flopped around as they walked. 🍆

I don't know how it was done and I certainly didn't want to stare or click on it. Clicking on body parts always has consequences. But, that sort of thing ought to be used on earrings. 

[Rowan Amore]

19 minutes ago, Bree Giffen said:

I recall being at a Fameshed X event once and there were these male avatars with flaccid body parts that actually flopped around as they walked. 🍆

I don't know how it was done and I certainly didn't want to stare or click on it. Clicking on body parts always has consequences. But, that sort of thing ought to be used on earrings. 

I believe that body part works with a hud.  It's bento like a tail or ears.   All physics movement is custom and done outside SL in our 3D software
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ XXXX does not respond to inworld physics.

[Silent Mistwalker]

2 hours ago, Bree Giffen said:

I recall being at a Fameshed X event once and there were these male avatars with flaccid body parts that actually flopped around as they walked. 🍆

I don't know how it was done and I certainly didn't want to stare or click on it. Clicking on body parts always has consequences. But, that sort of thing ought to be used on earrings. 

Might be the same feature that causes boobs to bounce. Avatar physics.

https://strawberrysingh.com/2015/07/24/second-life-avatar-physics/

[LordHappycat]

I kept imagining that SL would have PhysFlex or FlexPhys (or better name) for handling a gravitational engine of some kind on SL. I'd love to be able to see tails to furry avis droop down normally as they should, instead of perked up almost all the time. Would be nice to see clothing actually sack down onto your avatar. Just something to show a little realism here and there.

[Rowan Amore]

I don't come here for realism, Dangit!

[Eggy UwU]

29 minutes ago, RowanMinx said:

I don't come here for realism, Dangit!

what is realism though? maybe SL is the realistic of the realism! 

[Silent Mistwalker]

1 hour ago, RowanMinx said:

I don't come here for realism, Dangit!

Well I did!

 

 

If you've never watched the outtakes from Armageddon, you should. It's hilarious. Something about a spaniel.

Edited December 29, 2020 by Silent Mistwalker

[Arduenn Schwartzman]

On 12/28/2020 at 7:36 PM, Jennifer Boyle said:

They were horizontal.

If only mesh could be flexi, like prims. I propose a viewer with flexi mesh: codename Sushi.

On 12/28/2020 at 7:36 PM, Jennifer Boyle said:

Will SL Ever Have Realistic Gravity?

What, is 0.1667 g not good enough for you?

Edited December 29, 2020 by Arduenn Schwartzman

[SpiritSparrow Skydancer]

You can create a prim, sit on it.. send it to say 1000m and hit physical then let go You will experience gravity.

[Coffee Pancake]

13 hours ago, Tarina Sewell said:

You can create a prim, sit on it.. send it to say 1000m and hit physical then let go You will experience gravity.

Nonesense! Your avatar never moves, the ground in SL rushes up to be your friend.

[Madelaine McMasters]

1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:

Nonesense! Your avatar never moves, the ground in SL rushes up to be your friend.

When I was a child, my father planted a seed in my head that's still very much alive. During my first ever elevator ride (a thrilling experience) he suggested we imagine that, rather than the elevator moving us up and down in the building, we remain stationary while the entire universe moves down and up to accommodate our desire to relocate.

To this day, elevator rides reaffirm my belief that I am the center of the universe*.

 

*Okay, okay, and anyone who's riding in the elevator with me.

Edited December 31, 2020 by Madelaine McMasters

[Love Zhaoying]

7 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

rather than the elevator moving us up and down in the building, we remain stationary while the entire universe moves down and up to accommodate our desire to relocate.

Reminds me of the "warp drive" in one series (perhaps Bill the Galactic Hero?) where the ship grows to an impossible size, then shrinks down at the desired location.