Chic Aeon

Just a thought. If you are looking to make some chiaroscuro photos a facelight set to dim OR a globe with some low lighting will likely be necessary. The whole point of that style (which I love) is "light and dark". All dark doesn't really do it :D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro

Long thread on this at the end of last month. Reports are that The Lab will not up your credit limit unless you can show NEED (for 60 days or so) of going over what you have. So NO saving up to save on the fee it seems. I got caught with that and now have extra that will eventually get sent out AFTER my 30 days is up again. You can file a ticket to up your credit limit (I think it is under the manage money area but not sure). However, as I said I haven't heard of anyone actually GETTING an increase (mine went down as I guess yours did too). Oddly some of my friends have cash out limits WAY beyond what they use. Have no clue there.

I thought of an interesting verified example of database issues while taking a break. It was different than the giant folder disappearing thing but a good clue. A year ago (I remember as it was the first time I was in Tres Chic) my store logo texture disappeared. Not only the 512 but the 256. I checked with friends and alts who should have had a copy. NO copies. Since my logo was from 2010 I no longer had a copy on my computer, the fonts used in making or even the software ^^. I wrote to the Tres Chic keeper of the logos and asked him to send me back my logo that I had sent to him JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS BEFORE. It was gone too. Luckily I remembered I had a copy in Opensim, got that and uploaded again. That was VERY STRANGE. I have friends who work with giant databases (not as big as SL but big big web retailers) and they are forever going back to old copies to fix issues. The problem here is that there don't seem to be any "old copies". ^^ The idea that you can send in a ticket and get things fixed is a nice one but I haven't found anyone yet who has had this work. My close friend got five things back of thousands. That really doesn't cut it. I never tried as I am not premium.

Well I am actually HAPPY to see that people are taking this seriously as "I" have been writing about it for at least seven years to lots of "oh just clear you cache", "things really aren't broken" etc. So at least one good thing has come from it. I don't believe it was deliberate either as it HAS happened to lots of folks over the years and none seemed to be particularly "evil" LOL including ME *wink*. This isn't really new news to me (and it certainly might be that some people are affected more often depending on where their avatar's inventory resides). BUT, saying that, I have seen a lot of odd things happening lately like empty folders in my main inventory that shouldn't be empty or as duplicates -- things like that. I WILL say that several times I had big losses I ALSO lost my backup files of the items --- hence the main "house and garden" type folder as well as the "backups - 2015 > H and G" folder disappeared. That leads me to believe that SOMETIMES it is an item that might trigger the deletion. In the last big loss only a few months ago I only recognized the event by seeing my inventory go down by several thousand items AND I HAD NOT EMPTIED TRASH. I shook my head (again) and figured that I would find the missing things eventually. I did a couple of weeks ago when I was working on a build for SL14B and needed something from my old LEA20 site. Almost ALL those items from MOSP were gone (and I had MANY BACKUPS by date). That was a shocker. Most things are OLD by now and I am not terribly crushed, but still. HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!! And to Prokofy (can't get the alerts to come up lately) if that message about redelivery terminals was to me, it will never happen. I absolutely HATE the look of vendors and have all my items out in the old fashioned way with people buying a copy so that they can actually SEE what they are getting. That is MY choice of course and if you decide not to buy items from me again I won't take it as an insult to my modeling abilities :D. We ARE supposed to be having fun here after all.

AND for anyone doing the math the YEARLY DEAL IS ALWAYS THE BEST!!!! Not sure why folks don't get that :D. Even if you "quit" partway through and just left your avatar here you get back most of your money in stipends. So this never really WAS a DEAL - LOL. Or at least not a great one.

Good. While I was "tubbing" I had another idea. You MIGHT have mistakenly uploaded as a RIGGED object when the item wasn't rigged. That could have caused some issues. Note it is ALWAYS good to apply location, rotation and scale as well as tranforming origin to geometer before exporting. Someone wrote that on the forums MANY years ago and I have been doing it almost faithfully since then. Every now and then I forget and problems CAN happen. Happy modeling.

Not sure about the invisible when rezzed issue but before you export next time (the beta grid - free - is your friend) in OBJECT mode, using the OBJECT tab, apply Location as well as Rotation and Scale and then TRANSFORM Origin to Geometry. That might solve the issue. SO many things can go wrong when you are just starting :D. You might also have a tiny bit of something far away that made its way into the file. To solve that (assuming it isn't joined to the main model) you can select the main model and then use the PRESET in the sidebar of the export screen to Export for Second LIfe and Opensim.

Those are a few steps back in time of what shoes are now. I am guessing that they have old invisaprims? (been a LONG while for those). They were replaced by alpha layers and then later by shoes with mesh feet built in (those would still work for legacy avatars without mesh bodies). Many folks now have mesh bodies with mesh feet included and those have different shoes for the different bodies. So a Maitreya body would need shoes made for Maitreya, a Belleza body shoes designed for Belleza etc. If you plan on keeping your older style body and not investing in mesh feet (Slink is the brand for those and still supported well) then you can look for shoes that have the feet built in OR go for boots which still work (if they are NOT rigged) for everyone. Look around in stores that sell older style shoes and you will likely find some gifts to try OR check the marketplace for free shoes. No doubt there are some there still that will work for you. You might also look at items in the default avatar folders that come wtih second life now. There are at least some black heels that should work for you, maybe other styles too! Good luck.

Well come by and look and let me know what you had. They are off of the courtyard toward the southwest and pretty easy to find. Sorry. Know it is depressing. It has happened so often to me I am pretty much immune these days. And NO we did NOT delete the folders. I always look carefully though my trash before deleting (well duh). The most I could lose by not noticing would be a single item or two. Insert Sigh.

Assuming from your message that you have a mesh body, try going to the shop and getting a redelivery and then using the NEW body which in theory never got a message from the skin demo. Put your old skin applier back on. Sounds like the applier has an issue of some kind. Best to just toss the body that isn't working and start over. You may also have the original box that the body came in and can just open that again and get a new body to use. Good luck. Clearing your cache might also actually work in this situation :D.

Yep. In theory if you file a database loss ticket RIGHT AWAY you MIGHT be able to get your items back IF you have exact names of items. This however doesn't always (or ever?) work. Not new news and I have STARS in front of all my important folders now so that I REALLY notice before I empty my trash. *****I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANY OF MY FOLDERS IN THE TRASH BEFORE PURGING --- yet mysteriously those items are just GONE. ***** Hopefully you can get some re-deliveries. I know you bought my Southern Comfort Victorians at Draftsman awhile ago. Happy to send you other copies if you lost them.

I am a little surprised at your comment, not your choice but your comment. Maitreya last I hear had approximately 75% of the female mesh body audience. There are MANY MANY designers (I blog for a few of them) who ONLY make things for Maitreya. Belleza seems to be next (now) and Slink third. A few folks still make standard sizing or fitmesh for legacy avatars. A few do Tonic and TMP and a few that I really don't recognize but this is a very low percentage. Meanwhile note that APPLIERS are for texture items, not mesh. For mesh to really fit you DO need a kit and many body makers do not give out those easily. You have to prove you know what you are doing in making your original mesh. This (I believe) is to keep those that do NOT know what they are doing from tackying up the wardrobe options *wink*. There are plenty of clothes out there that are called "Maitreya" that obviously had no kit involved as they do NOT fit at all. So always of course TRY THE DEMO. Other items from smart designers don't even need alpha layers on. Many differences.

Note that you do not NEED to put a SKU number in the marketplace listing. It is optional and presumably for big retailers to keep better track of their items via databases. DO NOT PUT THE UUID numbers as the SKUs. Anyone can then use a script to add your textures to their product (oh my) which pretty much defeats the point of selling textures. Look at other texture places and read their End User Licenses. They are likely very much the same. You need that on each page of your store listings.

Note that I actually CALLED billing and asked a similar question, got an incorrect answer and ended up paying for tier that I didn't use. So beware. I would wait until the land is gone just to be safe. Just saying -- there are no guarantees that the info you get will be correct --- sadly, it happens :D.

One thing you need to note that you may end up paying tier on a lot you no longer have. That happened to a friend. So best to give up your lot and then the NEXT month downgrade ^^. Doubt the rule has changed -- to lucrative :D.

While I almost never (NEVER) use the official viewer it is good to know about the linkset maximum. And really an extra few lindens isn't a big deal if it works! My question might be "can you WALK on the landforms?" It might not be important but that is a really low land impact for a huge piece of mesh LOL.

As far as "I" know and I too do not make rigged things (or only under dire need on grids with NO products LOL) you DO need to rerig for each body type. It is ONE reason why so many clothing designers have gone to the "Maitreya Only" (that used to be 75% of the mesh body audience for gals, not sure now) OR "Omega" only. So you might want to follow their lead LOL.

I doubt you will find someone. If you figure that a mesh head goes for $600L to $3000L or more and that someone making a good head can sell thousands, that's upwards of $10,000 US -- maybe more. Hence anyone that knows how to make said head is very unlikely to do "work for hire". It just doesn't make sense.

I have had many inventory losses over the years, the first big one about six years ago and that was the loss of my WHOLE "Home and Garden" folder and I blog and hunted then so it was a pretty big one. A "sister" lost ALL of her shop items (about a half a sim store) and only had things that were rezzed in world. She closed her shop after that just from disillusionment. Comments on the forums are often "oh you didn't really lose it -- you just need to (insert advice that doesn't work because the goods ARE gone). Now and then things come back singly in VERY odd spots. Like an animation under body parts -- that sort of thing -- making no sense at all. But those are rare occurrences. There are definitely problems STILL with the database. A few months ago I notice that I was about several thousand items "light" in my inventory which is currently at 30,000 partly because I go through and delete often -- and partly because of the "inventory fairy" who deletes for me. After about six major losses over the years, I sighed and figured I would find out eventually what I had lost -- and I did a few weeks ago. Most all my backups (and I had MANY copies as I have learned over the years) of my installation at LEA7 (three years worth). I have a few things left, but a lot is gone. I am used to this now and happily I am not a person who cares that much about material goods (virtual or real life) so after that first big debacle, the following losses were less traumatic. I do by the way have subfolders and subfolders under subfolders as I am very organized. I also put copies of items in boxes and have REDUNDANT backups. Still -- almost all of LEA7, gone. I have no clue how that happens really. The safest thing is to rez anything you really care about, but that doesn't work with clothes and hair and such. In Opensim there are regular backups that can be reinstated and I have to assume there are (or should be) backups in SL, but I have not seen them working -- ever. Tickets get you nothing but a "we'll try if you can give us an exact list of what you lost". Well DUH! All that being said, I would NOT be one of the ones going premium or paying extra to "protect" my goods. Partly because I have no faith that they would actually be protected -- the track record is so bad and party because I always have new and better things coming in. I make my personal backups on the beta grid and in Opensim -- and of course the active files on my computer (and drive G backup :D). After that I just try and let it go when it happens. I figure I have lost well over $10,000 worth US over the years. Happily I didn't actually PAY most of that out. I did however work for the items, so that counts too.

In the appearance menu up the "body fat", "love handles" and "belly" and that will get you most of the way there :D. This from his existing shape maybe or a free one he kinda likes but isn't "fat" enough? Just PLAY!

@Adam123 Gearz LOL. Well never trust Google! It isn't QUITE all-knowing.

From looking at your supposed texture (the black and orange bit) it looks like you are thinking in "sculpts" mode. So the first thing you likely need to do is clunk yourself on the head a few times and try NOT to think about sculpts. It is a whole different world. Note that there are MANY ways to unwrap just as there are MANY ways to model :D. You will find your favorites -- the same method doesn't work best for everything. Also try not to succumb to the Smart UV Project mode. It is SO NOT SMART - LOL. Medhue made a tutorial on how to unwrap a cap awhile back. Here it is:

Along with @Tamara Artis 's great list, if you need help with Windlight settings, I made a few video tutorials awhile back. I know more NOW of course, happily we keep on learning. But they are here: http://chicatphilsplace.blogspot.com/2009/09/windlight-settings.html Wow, that pasted in link worked today. The devs are REALLY paying attention to what we want on the new forums. Big TY! The last time I used Singularity (and it was awhile ago) I didn't think the graphics were as good as Firestorm. So that could also be part of the issue. Singularity is great for folks with lower powered computers though (or apparently for racing). Still that could be a part of your issue. The great photos you see are most likely taking on Ultra or one step down. Most FASHION (not for profile) folks also take giant photos and resize down (mine is set at over 6000 pixels wide). You don't need that for profile photos though. So a super good computer helps :D. Forgot to paste in my graphics screenshot:

There should be a link in the header menu methinks. Thanks for letting me know where they are. I HAVE looked before. And yes it was "advertising" :D.

@Aislin Ceawlin Links to Marketplace are often deleted. Obviously this sort of makes sense as anyone with a few alts could make all sorts of "advertisements" that seem like they are answering questions -- such as the "can someone tell me who made this hair" posts. MY question is WHERE ARE THE GUIDELINES? They use to be pretty obvious but seem like they are in hiding in this new system (which I give lots of kudos to in general by the way).