Since our bodies are mesh, why dont ll just improve it a bit so we dont need the new mesh bodies?

[aristoteles Himanez]

I ve heard that our bodies in sl are mesh. Din't know that..Is it true? In this case, why dont ll just improve it a bit? I mean they are really terible in design and the ones that made them should be a bit ashamed.

Instead of ll doing something about it, I see that there are mesh bodies in the market, which of course have the problem that cannot be modified in the head. Do ll think of doing something about these terible bodies they created in the first place?

[Rolig Loon]

Highly unlikely, especially now that creators can make their own mesh avatars.  We have been complaining about the avatar mesh in SL since Day One.  Everyone agrees that it was a bad design.  At this point, however, there are hundreds of thousands of us running around with avatars based on that mesh, and there is a decade's worth of merchandise (clothing, skins, shapes, ....) that was created for that mesh.  If Linden Lab suddenly changed the basic avatar mesh now, for example, I would have to completely redraw and upload every dress and blouse in my shop --- at great expense and with a huge loss of time --- and I'm a small shop owner.   The upheaval would be just as bad for consumers, since they would suddenly find that there's almost no clothing made for their new mesh bodies.  (EDIT: Incidentally, that's why I suspect it will be a long time before customized mesh avatars will be much more than a niche market too. Customized mesh avatars need customized clothes, and there's not much of it for any specific avatar.  That's a good discussion for the General Discussion forum, though, not Answers. :smileywink: ) The bottom line >>> We all agree that the basic avatar mesh was a bad design from the start, but don't expect it to change now.

[Claireschen Hesten]

from what i've heard LL didn't actually create the meshes for our bodies in SL but they were the default male/female body mesh from a mesh creation program that were used

[Innula Zenovka]

You might want to watch this jira: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-3432

[Holger Gilruth]

ask this lindenlab not other users

[Luc Starsider]

Hehe... I was going to find and link to the same jira... Notice the creation date? Perhaps this year.

 

- Luc -

[Baloo Uriza]

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aristoteles Himanez wrote:

I ve heard that our bodies in sl are mesh. Din't know that..Is it true? In this case, why dont ll just improve it a bit? I mean they are really terible in design and the ones that made them should be a bit ashamed.

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Because it's not within the realm of Linden Research's scope to really provide content.  That's up to you.  Resident creativity is a big part of the Second Life experience.

[Innula Zenovka]

I think the OP's point, if I've properly understood it, was that the basic avatar mesh to which we apply the skins we make isn't too hot (for example, the only way to have feet that don't look like flippers is to wear sculpted or mesh attachments).