Chic Aeon

I have Lara too and the same problem but also with my Lelutka head. It is as you say when I have been out and about and hither an yon. So apparently an issue. I have had it for a few months so not new. Firestorm viewer if that might matter.

Since this thread got resurrected I wanted to add that I have not purchased a male body yet, but I have tried most of the BEST SUPPORTED (which would currently be Slink and sadly TMP as there are a lot of those bodies out there). Those are what I see most often in the male clothes blogger boxes anyway). THAT being said I did try Belleza not long ago and I was very impressed. It is a slim body so no way to get terribly "beefy" but I LOVE the hud (as much as I explored it). So I would say that it is the up and comer. I haven't found a combo head and body that works for what I want though (this is for blogging not walking around in LOL). While I was looking I found that Aeros had completely redone the shop since I was there a month ago or so. The old system skins are gone or maybe still on the marketplace. There are some impressive looking Catwa head appliers. And there is a vendor setup holder for Belleza. The free Akeruka head is quite nice but it doesn't really fit the Belleza body. I noted in a post from Berry awhile back that she mentioned the Akeruka male head worked with Slink but not others (Belleza wasn't out then yet -- I think anyway. So for me, I will be watching Belleza and Aeros. and THEN look for a head that will fit both -- at least that's my plan. The free Akeruka (group join fee) gals head works fine with Maitreya as a friend got that. The male head fits pretty well but has one spot near the Adams Apple that is definitely not right and a good skin doesn't fix it. That's what I know !

OK. That looks good and you are smarter ---- But of course there is a BUT coming. I am pretty sure that you will still have alpha issues IF you try and make the bulbs transparent too. Still good to keep going and learn I think. But to your other question. No matter "how" you make that inside face you will need to DIVIDE it into at least two materials == mapped separately. So typically you would map it so that the outside of the bottle including the bottom was all one material and the inside surfaces another. You "might" need a third material for an edge (like on a wine glass). I looked long and hard for an example blender file but while they MUST be in my file manager somewhere I cannot find them. So here is an example of a texture and a glass from inworld and hopefully you can figure out something from that. you can see that the transparent part of the glass is divided into three parts. The stem in this case is solid. Hope that helps. PS. From your screenshot of work in progress I am thinking you will need to get rid of some edgeloops or have issues with LOD and or land impact. Think SIMPLISTICALLY.

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You haven't shown us any screenshots of your Blender scene so we can only guess. IF you made your object with just one face, you either need to build a corresponding face to it OR use the solidify modifier to make a two sided face. Blender shows the face as solid unless you turn on BACKFACE CULLING which I did mention in one of the first tutorials but didn't explain WHY I told you to do that :D. The top photo shows an empty cylinder WITH backface culling turned on. The second shows that same cylinder after adding a solidify modifier. Backface culling is still on.

Any extra MAINLAND tier will get charged to the same credit card that you entered when paying for your premium account. So if you buy a 1024 it will be $5 extra a month. The rates are all listed in the web backend of your account AND if you buy a parcel before you buy it will tell you how much more you will be paying by buying that land. I am also not in the Linden Viewer so not sure where the Land Tab would be. Sorry .The Linden viewer isn't all that popular *wink*. I suspect that you can RIGHT CLICK on the land and get the land tab that way. Prims are directly tied to the size of the land so there is no way to increase your prims unless you are renting (or leasing from a private estate and THEY give bonus prims. This is normally because they set aside roads and lakes and parks etc and give the extra prims not used to the tenants.

You need to have a premium membership to buy land. You can buy PRIVATE land without a membership. You are actually LEASING the land however as you never "own" the land, so a difference there. You need to look in the LAND TAB of the viewer to see info on the land. A 512 mainland lot now comes with 175 prims. You can see the size of the lot and how many prims it will accommodate === again in the LAND TAB of the viewer. Typically private land for sale (again not really a sale) has a big sign to click or one that has all the info about that piece rezzed in the center of the parcel. Good luck.

I have watched this too, and while not a big name by any means after a year and a half on the venue merry-go-round the thrill has kind of waned for me. I have also watched some creators push themselves too hard and definitely lower the quality of their work. You don't even have to be paying that much attention to notice that the quality of event items in general has gone down by leaps and bounds over the last year or so; that's for many events including some top ones. There are still some phenomenal items to be found and I am happy that some creators are keeping their quality high, but as someone wanted a ways back in this thread, those with less skills (not always new but sometimes) ARE getting added to events. Since I don't run any event and don't take tea with those that do, I can only guess as to the reasoning behind the lowering of quality. I have left some events because of that after hanging in longer than many. Eventually, being in a less than great event can actually HURT your brand and others have realized that. People are still doing well in events, some better than others and it seems to depend a lot on WHAT you build -- and not so much on HOW WELL you build it :D. Honestly that depresses me a bit. But, since I try to be a glass half full gal I do my best to show of the folks that are putting forth that superior effort and producing wondrous products. I still plan to do events, but not as many and not as often. I sell best on the Marketplace still and I can build whatever I like with no costs there until I sell and item. So backtracking a bit in my personal business plan and paying more attention on what I "want" to build.

Agreed that the "best" method is to look on the map. Check one continent at a time unless you know you want a certain one. Follow the roads as a roadmap in your case (I follow the beach line :D). As to price, it can be anything for 1 linden per square meter (doubtful for roadside) to unbelievable amounts that are extremely unrealistic. Obviously the folks listing for 50 sq m and up just like thinking that they have "the best" parcel around. And so far as the current situation --- while I actually have a beach and roadside parcel, there is very little advantage to that these days. Folks don't drive around and shop :D. Yes, I can remember going for my very first stroll around the neighborhood of my $25 a week apartment almost a decade ago. But those days are gone. Even having an inworld store can be worked around in many cases. So I would do some more exploring and see how business has changed before you buy. If YOU like to drive, then that is a completely different scenario of course.

As I understand the system (haven't done it but no one seems to be answering -- you can set any rate you wan't but you may have to wait awhile or a long time depending on the rate you set. So it is sort of like offering to sell stock to someone at a certain price -- there may be no takers. It seems to be a gamble whether buying or selling and the further you get away from the normal price the more of a gamble it is. Hopefully someone who has done this can answer in a better manner.

Are you sure that white space isn't the UNTINTED hairbase that came with your head? That is sometimes how they show up. If so you can either tint or turn the hairbase off with the hud (guessing as I don't have that head).

The inside and the outside of the glass needs to be different materials. There was another issue a year ago or so called "phong". If you look that up in the archives you will find info on a very long thread. Basically you ended up with lots of triangles in the texture (where you mesh was triangulated). I haven't seen that in awhile so It I think THAT is fixed. So try making the inside of your glass one material and the outside another. I am pretty sure that will more or less solve your issue. You WILL have alpha sorting and other issues within SL no matter what, but that fixes the main one within YOUR object. This is the reason that you don't stand in front of glass windows when taking a photo :D.

Ahhhh. OK. I see. Well from my experience I would guess it was in addition unless the folks at some venues are making WAY more than anyone I know LOL. And yes, if that was added to the entrance fee, then I suspect some folks would just pack up. There have been places that only took a portion of the profits for many years, but those were shops, not monthly events. The ones like that that I know about ONLY took a percentage but it was more like 25 to 50 which would be OK for some folks and definitely not OK for others. So yes, it will be interesting to see how this flows. Somewhere in the long thread there was mention of new (and sometimes questionable quality) stores getting into venues when more established stores with better quality merchandise could not get in (we aren't talking about me here but folks I know who seem to want to be in a TON of events *wink*). I am not sure if that is altruism on the event owners part or networking or what. But in some ways the idea of new folks in events IS happening -- for whatever reason. Unfortunately that sometimes leads the more established brands to leave the event as traffic goes down (and it really does in many cases sadly). Probably no really great answer.

Well certainly some guys would I amma guessing :D.

Interesting. I know of one venue (what I would consider minor event) that has been doing this awhile. Things are definitely shifting in the venue-events realm; you don't have to pay too much attention to see that. Some have closed, others apparently scrambling, owners being MIA for the most part. I am waiting to see what the next "big thing" will be in SL :D. Always an adventure watching. Since I really hate vendors and don't use them except for charity events, that would likely take me out of the venue carnival. Good for the new folks maybe, not so good for the major brands unless the percentage taken was really small. What "I" foresee happening if more event owners go the split profits route is that creators would make smaller, inexpensive items -- not putting for all that much effort and consider the event advertising rather than a profit making exercise. Probably not all that positive in the long run.

Yes, well *wink*.

OK. I am going to answer this logically. EVEN TODAY (it was easier in the past) someone can come in and live for "free" and have a nice MESH avatar. Here is how I would do it today (and I did it in a similar manner nine years ago). Go to the realms and earn money chasing crystals (not as lucrative as it use to be but still works) LEARN how to build either inworld or outside and upload products into SL and sell them Find a nice place to live for free ("I" just did this even at my old age and it is super with a lovely BIG house and 180 prims == and no I am not telling but they are out there) Get free group gifts and go on hunts for clothes and things. Open a store inworld (again you can find free spots) and / or on the Marketplace. ALL IT TAKES IS EFFORT!!!!!!

I doubt anyone would argue your point. I also think that many of us are wondering WHY ON EARTH you would leave $10,000 in Linden Lab's "care". While we would like to think that the grid will go on for-e-ver, there is absolutely no guarantee that it will. It could be gone tomorrow. So the adage about paying only one week's rent ahead goes WAAAAAAY more for cashing out dollars.

Even though I seemed to be pretty elitist at the beginning of this thread, I do in many ways agree with your statement (not just the line I used to paste in). A week or so ago I even spent the morning making a sort of Pay It Forward Venue space complete with plan and rules and notecards (oh my). It was based pretty much on your concept of new folks and old folks although I weighted it more toward recognized brands as honestly that is what "most" folks want. Before I sent it live out into the firmament, I discarded the plan. Why? Because I was 90% sure that I couldn't get enough old-timers involved even though I was only going to charege $100 a month. So I DO support your position and I hope to see something happen in the future. The problem is that the folks running most of the venues are in a certain mindset. They need to pay their sim tier. They "need" to make a profit for their efforts. That is all well and good, but it doesn't leave room for altruism. I think many folks have forgotten about helping folks out just to help them out (not you it seems, but there is always a minority). Anyway, here's to the future and things turning around a bit. There WERE some events like this in the past (well maybe six years ago?). I was not part of the process but I do remember them. If anyone wants my ready-made venue for this (built for a 1024 lot so about 10 land impact or so per creator) they can contact me. I am guessing it is somewhere in the depths of my currently very messy inventory :D.

Indents have indeed been out for a few decades (I taught MS Word in the day). THAT being said, it is VERY NICE to have the choice for those that choose to be nostalgic. I have great praise for the new forums. They are run by a magical jinn who seems to answer our every wish. Woot.

WHAT SHE SAID! I always wanted to do that

Sigh. Another complainer post. First off, even if you own your own home in real life ( I do) you have to pay TAXES each month as well as other fees sometimes. But most importantly it is your CHOICE to buy a sim. So if you don't want to opt in -- then simply DON'T DO IT! Honestly this stuff gets tiring.

Mesh Sandbox 3 I am pretty sure. Will log in and check. Yes!

Yes, I go that from the notecard message, but my alt got the error on the beta grid along with that other very odd message that you needed to have more than one object in order to link. This when LINKING a group of maybe 10 pieces of mesh which works as normal. So THAT is what got me confused. I hadn't seen the Lelutka message when all this happened this morning :D.

Just a note especially for anyone not used to the beta grid, that my alt has been getting reoccurring (before the grid went down yesterday - early in the day and still now) incorrect alerts. It cannot find her mesh head even though she is wearing it and is looking for a URL for Lelutka and that pops all all in red letters quickly in an alert box. Then she lassoed a bunch of prims (only hers) and linked them and got a warning that she needed to select more than one prim in order to link (well duh!). It linked fine. So things are WORKING OK but it might be frustrating for folks that aren't over there often. EDIT a bit later: This just came in from Lelutka so that is part of the issue. I haven't seen any problems anywhere I have been on the main grid. Odd that for me it has only been on Aditi. That doesn't address the other odd message which was what made me think the beta grid had issues *wink*.