Chic Aeon

Well in a perfect world but not-so-much in ours :D. A new male body (beta) came out a few days ago. I was very interested to try it out as the others I have demoed didn't measure up. I should say that I resisted (avoided in caps really) mesh bodies for gals until Lara came out. I am not a big shopper and I tend to keep things I like for a long time, not change hourly. Anyway the new body had some pluses. The default body skin was way nicer than many of the others I tested. The hud looked impressive with some extras (apparently - it was late and I had been blogging for nine hours so beyond exhausted) that weren't in my Lara body. And then there is that "but". The shape I was wearing the body with wasn't one with super muscles or even all that large -- compared to many male avatars. It was fairly 'beefy' though, not a swimmer's body as my mum would say. I noted that the mesh body was considerably smaller in some areas than the shape beneath it. You could see the legacy body shell on top of the mesh body -- especially in the chest area. The wrists and ankles were way more slight that you would expect in a guy with some poundage and muscles. The butt was larger and longer than the original shape. So, I went to work changing the shape. I could fix the buttocks OK but even with the sliders maxed out at 100 I couldn't get past that swimmer's body look. It is a good body except for the ankle and wrist thing, but it definitely isn't "fitted" to go over the shape underneath. Perhaps that will change some over time as testers put forth their comments. It is still the best male body on the grid IMHO, but it isn't really "fitted" as we would expect it to be. And thanks for making that comment as I really wanted to say this but didn't want to start a new thread LOL.

I actually had the precursor prim version of that from LONG ago. It was very cool and pretty impressive -- say seven years ago. I expect that the mesh one is also. I followed the breadcrumbs to the place the store "was" abut not there any longer. Likely they are gone or could be an alt account. IF you bought it from the marketplace you might be able to get a redelivery by putting in a ticket with MARKETPLACE as the area you are writing about and explaining that it seems like the person has left and you need a new copy. I have no idea if that would work but likely worth a try.

You should be able to test the DEMO before buying. To see the complexity use: Avatar > Avatar Health > Show Avatar Complexity Information. I suspect you could also take the DEMO to a place that counts scripts (like where you found out about the other hair and see if it is script heavy. OLD hair in particular can be problematic but there are some hair makers that simply make overly complex hairs that you really "should" avoid. The good news is that there are lots of hair makers that make great designs that are more friendly to the server. Good luck shopping.

Well none of that happens for me in the latest Firestorm viewer. I have to right click and THEN choose edit to get an item to edit. Likely this is something new in the Linden viewer? There could also be an OPTION somewhere in the Preferences menu that controls this. I know not what that might be :D.

I think we "get" that now Dakota and thank you ---- BUT if there were going to be some major rule changes that impacted some folks MAJORLY it would have been a good idea to let folks know so that they could have cashed out and THEN changed to the new rules. I have to say that this does seem unfair . Not for me really, but HOW are some people like th OP supposed to cope NOW after the rule change. Honestly, this isn't good press for LL. Know this has probably nothing to do with you personally and thank you for your input, but -- NOT GOOD in general and that is fairly easy to see from the comment LOL. A more informed populous would have definitely been a better move.

As Alwin said (but maybe not clearly enough :D) you need $13 in order to cash out. $10 is the minimum for Paypal (their rule) and Linden Lab takes out $3 now. So make some more money and then you can cash out.

Thanks for mentioning this. I knew it was in the works but not that it was out.

That was a really "hot" feature when it first became popular (like For-e-ver Ago) but now most to many of us are less than thrilled. If you store or club or whatever is mostly new folks then it might be impressive, but it not --- likely not LOL. Just sayin' *wink*.

Well that might not be the best idea. I had a good friend that almost lost his account (many accounts) because he truly was trying to be helpful in this manner. I believe this is against the TOS and can "appear" to be money laundering even when it is not. So I would certainly CHECK CAREFULLY before trying. And to the OP, I think that there are European numbers that you can call. I do get the "volcano ready to blow aspect". I almost never lose my cool, but every few years it happens and you do NOT want to be around when it does LOL. .

OK. I am not sure you explained your issue THIS clearly before -- or if you did, I missed it. While "I" could catch up with processing (and yes, I did have to wait to get my money out passed when I was planning -- for me too quarterly) and I always understood LL's plan on this -- but I DO SEE now that they have messed up with you. If your figures are correct then they should let you process maybe $3000 a month (using their logic) so that you could eventually get all your money back. True, it will take time but as it is you would never make any headway. Have you tried CALLING and talking to someone? That is what I had to do with the "Patriot Act" accountability thing a few years ago. My little town doesn't HAVE mail delivery to houses and so we are forced to have postal boxes (and pay for them) and those ARE our actual legal addresses. That did NOT work with the system they were using, even though I was perfectly willing to give my house address also. Finally I got someone "higher up" on the phone who saw the logic in my argument -- since my driver's license had BOTH my mailing and physical address. The folks at the bottom of the food chain in tech support type roles often just follow a book of rules and are not actually required to think --- this everywhere, not just the Lab :D.

it says 10000 ten thousand American dollars. Yes it costed me 15$ too (before the end of March), that's why i was holding on to it and cashed out once in 3-4 months. Now i can't withdraw more than 2000 a month so it will cost me 10000 = 5 x 2000; which is 15$ x 5 = 75$. And they apparently don't need my 75$ either, - oh i do wanna pay it, please LL take it!! - but no they won't, because they just won't let me withdraw a penny until next month. and LL refuses to explain why. I just want some clarity. I just want some transparency. I want to know why it was good enough for 10 years to pay 1$ withdraw fee, and what made them change it now so that it is now 75$ (for me) instead. It seems pretty obvious (to me anyway) that they wanted to make more money on the handling of dollars OUT of the platform. Gotta pay for Sansar and that may have well been the impetus for the fee hike. And honestly I think a US dollar fee on 10,000 WAS a bit low - LOL, not that it would ever have anything to do with ME anyway .

Have you tried going back into the tools and turning everything back to the default setting. Those are the "D" buttons. You might have camera position smoothing turned up which can be pretty disconcerting. Good luck.

Yes It would be even cheaper to cash out once a month. I just count it all as a business expense, and with all the fees together including tier on my four sims, it seems to me a bargain, esp after buying down my sims tier. There is no deal as good anywhere that I know of. OK. I just wanted to make sure we were on the same "page" LOL .

Sooooo -- I think much of the point was that for some folks (like you ^^) wouldn't it save money to just process once a month? That was why some of us were holding onto our money -- to save the fee LOL. Basically the rules changed and cost most all of us more money, but again we don't get to make the rules.

That's good to know but I tried typing in lots of artists and songs and got nothing, so whatever is in the database isn't a very extensive list. It would be much better IMHO if it had both songs you could use and songs that will get flagged. For some folks, the upload time can be VERY long and then to find out they shouldn't have used the music LOL. So I am kinda doubting that folks can really use their favorite songs all that often. Of course mine might not be theirs. Onward.

YES, but unfortunately some unscrupulous companies have repeatedly (in the past anyway) flagged songs that were released under creative commons licenses. Then you had to go through all the hoops getting the adware off of your video. I always did get it taken off as the songs had been used correctly, but I have had no issues since -- when using creative commons work -- I put the music credits and WHERE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE at the top of my videos. The people trying to make money don't want folks to know that they do not have to buy the music in question :D.

Creative Commons licenses cannot be revoked. This screenshot from Creative Commons Org site. AND you are supporting people who actually WANT you to use their work as long as you abide by their CC license. Also, I have found that companies tend to flag creative commons work used under the correct license terms (as I stated above) but by being VERY clear where you downloaded the music and the CC license, the folks trying to put ads on your video take them off if your do get a copyright call against you. What bothers me the most is the companies who are not flagging videos because of actual copyright infringements but just so that they can make money -- and from YOUR video LOL. That yellow is because I was searching a LONG page looking for "revoke" :D.

A very simple solution is for YOU to not pay the $30 to Linden Lab and notify your landlord that you do indeed want to pay THEM the $30 so that YOU can have your land in search (sorry, confusing day here LOL). I specifically asked my landlord to do that for me (not Excalibur) and have been happily paying that $30 to my rental box for about a year. If you want to make your own CLASSIFIED ad I am guessing you can do that and pay the $50 minimum charge. I really didn't read through your whole rental agreement, but it seems like a safe bet. Note that this is a fairly typical way to do things with rentals.

Note that YouTube can and will freeze your account if you use music that they decide you should not. I had a friend that had that happen, so beware. BETTER to use Creative Commons music (there are various levels of use - some include commercial), buy your music from a royalty free sites or use the free music available at Youtube (Vimeo also still I think). It is also very good to source your music both in your video and in your video subscription. Even if you use creative commons music, YouTube can (and does sometimes) put ads on your site -- separate from the video ads -- that lead to places to buy the music and pretty much saying that you it wasn't yours to use but they are compromising (sigh). This is actually not YouTube deciding, it is the people who may or may not own the rights to the music (very messy and sometimes those folks complaining about your use of the music have no rights at all). I have found that by sourcing your creative commons music (your royalty free music would be the same, I just don't use it) with a link to where folks can download for free stops this problem. It used to drive me nuts! Anyway, music is copyrighted so be careful machinima makers References for those that don't know me? Here ya go: http://hitmewithyourbestshots.blogspot.com/ Plus three years running the Machinima Open Studio Project at the Linden Endowments for the Arts.

This is probably better asked in the wanted or general discussion forum. This is for folks MAKING animations and the problems they run into. You can tell that by the path: Creation Forum Animation Forum animations

Well typically people would tell you to look at (insert specs here). But as I type this I am on my building pad at 3115 meters with very little on (blogging a skimpy outfit and I can only see a small part of me anyway) and my framerat which is typically over 100fps is at 16.3. So from my point of view it is likely NOT you. I am on mainland. Not sure if that matters. Going to check. 57.4 over at SL14B (not open to the public yet). Before spending a ton more angst, I suggest waiting to see what the new week will bring. Back at my building pad. Back at 17

I can think of no way, so if that works better for you you have that alternative. I typically tip directly but I don't get out all that much LOL.

While I can't guarantee this is the reason there are a lot of builds on the Marketplace where the builder has pretty much left (or actually left) SL. You do not even need to log in to take money out. That is at least part of the answer. Have you tried to contact the creator as ask to see a demo in world. They could -- if you let them and if they are actually IN world now and then -- rez the house on your land. I have a few older houses that I don't have rezzed in world. I CAN rez them of course but only on request. So try asking. You might get lucky.

I think we have all said that there isn't enough money to cash out except (as Lindal said and I didn't know except that it is so in Inworldz ) if you are abandoning your account. Unless someone else has a different idea, I believe that is our communal best guess :D. This message you get: "count does not have sufficent funds to request a payout. " is the answer. You need at least $13 to take money out. Make some more money, turn it into cash and take your money out then.

Where are you attaching the belly jewel to? I am guessing that the PELVIS would be the best place. You need an area that doesn't move all that much. When prim skirts and belts were in fashion, the pelvis was the attach point. Yes, I did a quick test, and pelvis is the attachment point. It stays with you and is pretty convincingly in place. This is just a plywood sphere for testing but a belly ring would work the same way. You will need to CAM INTO THE BODY in order to grab the "jewel" and move it to the belly button area. Then you detach and ATTACH AGAIN so that it "remembers" where it belongs. I didn't really plan for the photo to be THAT big - LOL.