Fake mesh people in scene creation - love 'em or hate 'em?

[Ingrid Ingersoll]

I'm leaning towards not loving these mesh people... creepy right?

[Extrude Ragu]

Looks like a photo scan of a real person, which is kinda creepy yea.

[Luna Bliss]

lol it does feel a bit creepy, but I'm getting used to it.  They felt reaaaly weird at first.  Now I take photos alongside them for laughs.

[steeljane42]

Can't stand them. If I ever check someone's place and they ask for an opinion and have those ugly things around, then I always tell them how removing those will make the place better with zero extra efforts.

[Ingrid Ingersoll]

😬

[Scylla Rhiadra]

Not big on them. Uncanny valley stuff, really, and they just don't visually work with SL avatars well.

I derender them if I'm taking a photo near them -- although I did include them in a pic once, because it was set up by a friend. I carefully framed the shot so that their faces weren't visible.

[MissSweetViolet]

I'm love/hate on these things. They can be good if your creating say a themed event or set up, I'm seen some places where they did add to the vibe of the space, but then again, they are also eerily not suited to how SL looks and also make me concerned for who their scanning/using pics of to get these in SL. Most places/occupations require that you get a model release to use someone's likeness and the RL photographer in me immediately jumps to this requirement. Somehow I highly doubt those who upload these are getting a model release each time, unless their buying licensed photos for every one they upload, I somehow don't think so.

Edited August 25 by MissSweetViolet
Spelling corrections.

[Love Zhaoying]

My problem with it is, they almost always look "more realistic" (photorealistic) than SL avatars. 

[Amata Karas]

I don't have strong feelings about it. I get the idea of using them in RP, example, to show a business is open 24/7. I don't prefer it, it feels like The Sims to me. 

I have used them for photos to add to a scene as a prop. 

[diamond Marchant]

5 hours ago, Ingrid Ingersoll said:

I'm leaning towards not loving these mesh people... creepy right?

Thinks so. This is why I prefer mannequins.

 

[James Starling]

31 minutes ago, MissSweetViolet said:

I'm love/hate on these things. They can be good if your creating say a themed event or set up, I'm seen some places where they did add to the vibe of the space, but then again, they are also eerily not suited to how SL looks and also make me concerned for who their scanning/using pics of to get these in SL. Most places/occupations require that you get a model release to use someone's likeness and the RL photographer in me immediately jumps to this requirement. Somehow I highly doubt those who upload these are getting a model release each time, unless their buying licensed photos for every one they upload, I somehow don't think so.

It's worse when you consider that there are child versions of those fake stand ins. Those I find very creepy and I agree it is all very dubious whether the correct permisissions / releases have been obtained.  

I don't want real kids anywhere near SL. 

[BilliJo Aldrin]

I'll treat them the same way I treat animesh... blacklist

[Lyric Demina]

I dunno; I think adding Pan to the scene made for great photography.  He's a mesh person; his flute played real music; it was a delight to find him lurking in the woods.  (Poesy Wildes)  Whether human or half-divine, I don't mind the illusion of population at all.  Often if I'm in the mood to just pause and photograph, I'd prefer the people to be motionless and predictably posed.

[Qie Niangao]

10 minutes ago, diamond Marchant said:

Thinks so. This is why I prefer mannequins.

 

That's interesting. I might use something like that, or ideally even more abstract, analogous to the almost stick figures in architect's renderings that show scale and street context.

For a long time I hated the mesh people, then I found a perfect fit for one as a kind of visual joke. And then I put a bunch of them in one area of a street scene that's supposed to be a transit hub,, which is a heck of a lot spookier with nobody around than with some human forms queued for the bus and otherwise making the place look more occupied and less post-apocalyptic.

Oh yeah, that reminds me, at another build I have a corpse or two and some spare body parts tastefully secluded around a loading chute, but it's somehow less disturbing that there's no illusion they might respond to chat.

[WeFlossDaily]

I love em. Here's a selfie with two of my bois. =P

Edited August 25 by WeFlossDaily
*I mispelled seflie *and with

[Rowan Amore]

I had a couple set out on my front porch to scare people away if they managed to make it past the guard mushrooms.

https://flic.kr/p/2pPLodq

I do, however, derender them if they're around at other places and I'm taking a picture.

[Marigold Devin]

Not a fan really. Too photorealistic and smile too much. 

 

 

[MissSweetViolet]

3 hours ago, brodiac90 said:

It's worse when you consider that there are child versions of those fake stand ins. Those I find very creepy and I agree it is all very dubious whether the correct permisissions / releases have been obtained.  

I don't want real kids anywhere near SL. 

Yes, very much agreed. I also feel that the age should be 18+ to join SL and not 16+ [I believe that's the current requirement, someone please correct if I have that wrong]. A real child has no business here that couldn't be better served [maybe? some of those sites can be kind of creepy too] by another site aimed for them.

But before I digress from the topic to much, over all the concept of them is more creepy then helpful, even with the few valid use cases there are. Plus in theory, avatars should helping the sim to feel full rather then stand ins. Though I could see their use for quest NPCs and of theme sims, I've seen that in the past. On the MP some people have made animesh versions of SL avatars, perhaps something like that would be better suited.

Edited August 25 by MissSweetViolet
Clarification.

[Gabriele Graves]

Also not a fan for the mostly the same kinds of reasons that others have mentioned.

[Eddy Vortex]

8 hours ago, Ingrid Ingersoll said:

😬

[Orwar]

   Don't like them, can't say I 'hate' them though. 

[Anastasia Loxingly]

I saw some of these IRL used in a mockup for a nearby shopping mall redevelopment, was kind of odd seeing the same assets used for a real business purpose.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

1 hour ago, Marigold Devin said:

Not a fan really. Too photorealistic and smile too much. 

 

 

Hello Marigold, and welcome back!

(And why are you looking as though you just deliberately pushed that poor woman over?)

[Cube Republic]

They're awful. Probably ripped from some website too, look like presets for archetectual visualisation. 

[Ceka Cianci]

I remember years ago, I used to just run them over..

hehehe