Chic Aeon

Well it does have super long LODs also -- more than most folks would need. BUT it breaks apart -- when it breaks a part -- rather oddly, hence my thought that it likely didn't have custom LODs. There are some exceptionally well-made items out there (rarely but there) that DO apparently have custom LODs along with very reasonable top triangle counts. Those folks deserve lots of clapping I think. I never found that my LODs were much better than the uploaders, but again, my stuff in general has always been pretty low poly, will any extra edgeloops not needed -- removed. So "for me" I worked WITH the uploader and then TESTED a lot. My only hints on a kitchen would be to remember that no one will likely see the hardware or knobs from a long distance so they can be VERY minimal. There is also the "billboard" trick where you swap out a previously "hidden" pane for a pane with screenshot to replace things that break apart easily. But typically a kitchen wouldn't be seen from a long distance so not sure that would help. Mostly used for complex windows.

That is certainly a possibility so I looked. (I had this in inventory). This is an EIGHT YEAR OLD model and I strongly suspect it was made without custom LODs (nothing intrinsically wrong with that; I seldom make my own mostly because my items are designed "simply" to start with). Designers hopefully learn and grow over time and often make different choices than they did in the past. Sometimes this is for the good (current Nutmeg designs are a good example) and sometimes for the bad (quite a few of my favorite brands have gone over to the dark side with heavy mesh and textures). So yes, it will not work for everyone. With a few different (logical) choices this chair could have been two or three li). But that was then ... It is certainly a good value at the group price if you have the prims to spare. The LI is not off the charts by any means. Hence it is still in my inventory LOL.

While I think "most" people use Avastar to upload (bvh upload was broken in that software for years but may be fixed now I haven't tried lately) it may ALSO be the priority that you have set your animation on. Try uploading with priority 4 and see if that works for you. If you already did that then I have no idea other than a program that will export anim files (there is another besides Avastar but I don't remember what it is). Good luck.

OK Guys -- policing here, THIS IS NOT A THREAD ABOUT THE MARKETPLACE. PLEASE KEEP ON TOPIC!!!!

Actually there have been plenty of violations all along. I reported a few at the beginning but most were ignored. The gacha machines I reported were removed (this on a round when they weren't allowed) but other things such as full price items set out when everything was supposed to be 20 percent off or more -- were ignored. I have found over time that it is best to keep your mouth shut in most events (Lost and Found was the only one that actually policed that "I" found) as most event owners do NOT want to know and the person reporting is NOT in favor LOL.

The last round of the Shop and Hop (December) changed the rules so that gift cards given out needed to be hefty. I think it was $500 lindens. So that is no longer the case, but I do agree that a "gift" should be large enough to actually buy something easily and not have to add your own lindens in order to purchase.

You may be speaking for yourself but in five or six years in events I broke even to making $120,000 lindens (the booth fee was 5,000 on hat one) on each event. The only event that I participated in at the end of 2021 I made over 6,000 linden profit (a niche event that I had fun being in). The creators that I know and chat with are USUALLY making a small to good profit in each event. These are GOOD creators, not "slap on a tint to a template" folks. From what I know and who I talk to I suspect that overall among long time creators that event profits are down. That is in PART because many to most creators are taking place in the events still but not making anything very exciting -- just going through the motions. There are exceptions of course and those are the people I usually buy from :D. If creators choose to spend event fees knowing it is a loss that is of course their choice. I never saw any point in that and when the event started to wane and my profit margin decreased even with good creative products --- I just left that event and moved on.

Shop and Hop has always been completely free. It tells you that on the announcement each time it accepts applications. In the beginning (the first one) most all of the shops were very "top drawer", then it became easier to get into and then (change of focus) it became more "all inclusive" which is some ways is nice for the creators. But the quality has gone down over the rounds and hence (and I noticed this too) a lot of the top brands apparently no longer applied. Towards the beginning (I was in four of five I think) the income was good for all the folks that "I" knew and chatted with. Then they let in 2 gachas and that became MY HIGHEST event ever. Now of course the gachas are gone :D. My best guess is that some brands have stopped taking part BECAUSE of the all inclusive (honestly some shops are terrifically tacky to the point that it hurts me to walk by). They likely don't want to be in the same company with those folks. I pretty much concur. The last round (Christmas) I looked at the list and just went to the shops that I knew so that I could make a blog post. That kind of defeats the purpose of the all inclusive bit. BTW the event got MUCH larger in its all inclusiveness making it a real chore to do in one day (I have done it but it isn't fun). The folks I know who are now participating (they were not when the event was newish) are doing "OK" but not making all that much profit even with the FREE FEE.

)Thank you all for your comments. Just a couple more thoughts about things mentioned so far since I have been watching this VERY closely for a long time. The "original creator mesh" events are for the most part no longer that even if original is still part of their tag line and still part of their designer rules. Many to most of even the most popular events are "overlooking" the criteria and woe be the person who reports the infringement to the event owner. Rules have also changed to let makeup, shapes, poses, eyes etc. be acceptable. And overall quality is down with brands and items being accepted that were never a part of the original plan. WHY? Because the event owners make a ton (TON) (TON) or money off of the fees. For awhile I was counting the participants in the top events. They were dropping each month along with the quality of products. There are a few events that I am pretty sure have MANY alts making "easy to make" items as filler and STILL their booths have dropped from over a hundred Wow-I-would-like-to-get-into=that-event to around 25 look-at-everything-in-less-than-five-minutes offerings. At $3,500 to over $10,000 a booth -- it doesn't take many ACTUAL PAYING CREATORS for the event owner to make money. There DO seem to still be a few event companies that are doing a great job and trying to keep the quality up, but they are in the minority these days. One very popular and VERY old event is now actively advertising for applications AT THE EVENT! Oh my. The self-regulation idea has come and gone -- a failure. A few very popular events have closed but most are still chugging along in a shadow of what they originally were. For each one that finally closes, two or three pop-up. If there is something new and different, that is one thing. Most often they are just the same as what is already out there. I see more and more "repeat" offerings on the sales events to boot. The only positive thing I can say for the current trends is that it let's more new creators (template folks as well as original) take part in the EXPERIENCE of being in an event. This is a plus. But it is tainted somewhat by the lack of quality and effort needed to get in. As a creator I am glad I am "retired" and basically doing customer support. I signed up to be in a couple of upcoming event company hunts, but not for exposure, just because I want folks to have something worthwhile to do. I was in ONE event last year - a themed one, and plan to be in at least one this year LOL. But watching the waves come in is a fine meditative activity :D. Thanks again. I'll check back.

I was about to start putting my personal thoughts on paper -- well virtual paper anyway, but then I stopped to reflect. I know I am not alone in the "Please, please, make it stop" outlook concerning the preponderance of events. But, is there an equally stalwart contingent that have hunkered down in the trenches waving "We Want More!" ? I just counted approximately 250 events listed on Seraphim, most of them occurring weekly or monthly, That is close to 4,000 events (super sloppy in my head math but you get the idea) events per year. Some are large, some small; a few (I can think of only two really) that I look forward to when they come around twice a year. I find I don't really care much any more. The possibility of finding something I really like at an event has decreased over time. These days I am better off exploring some well-made sims and inspecting the stylist's choices. I now only look at a very few weekend sales. This past Saturday I bought two things and featured nothing. Still, that may just be ME. So give me some input here guys. What would you like to see happen to events? I know a lot of very talented creators whose incomes are WAY down and who make very little profit on events these days. These folks toil more with less reward. This can't go on forever.

Ability to pay directly with linden dollars rather than USD. Patch mentioned that possibility to pay more things that way -- might have been a couple of years ago by now. Doubt it will ever happen though.

In my experience the one star reviews -- especially with no actual complaint -- are made by competitors. The same when there are 10 ish five star reviews on a new product. Some of my top selling products have NO reviews at all and I have sold thousands of them. So reviews that aren't chatty and give a lot of relevant info don't count at all in my book. On the plus side LL seems to be removing bogus reviews more than in the past.

It is also possible that I was online much more (like all day besides when the typist was sleeping) and working my machine hard. There were some sims I would always crash in (mostly role play with lots of heavy mesh or sculpts). If someone is worried about how hard they are working their computer, they can always install Speccy (free) and check the temperature of your computer. Sure there are other programs that do the same checks.

Please note that even with a very hefty desktop computer directly connected (not wifi) running at LOD 4 can FRY YOUR COMPUTER'S POWER SUPPLY. I went through two before I figured out what the problem was. LOD2 is the safest for most people even if you run on ultra. The preponderance of heavy mesh being uploaded these days just compounds the problem.

Interesting! I was wondering why some events were getting so tacky. Others though (also tacky) still have the older system. I have noted though that event owners have definitely lowered the bar and some well-known long time events are actually ADVERTISING for creators (oh my). EDIT 15 minutes later: I just realized that it is VERY likely no one could get to the event space without being in the group, so that there WAS criteria of some sort. The pay the booth you want method has been around many years -- just not on events that I was often in. Wanted to also note that there are many MANY non-premium creators in SL. That is very evident from past comments on the MERCHANT thread. I personally never had any problems with group slots and the only year I was premium was the year Belli was introduced and I wanted one of the first houses. Agree that for a very long time there have been too many events and some priced too high and once that started proliferating it made it less and less profitable to participate -- hence much less participation from quality creators. Assume that anyone watching the regular events has noticed that. Very widespread going back years. As for the January slump, my business with no events and no advertising and no group and no sale items and no new releases is doing better in January than it has for a few months -- even after I took a lot of main store items down from display and basically left the city and prefab store.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! As someone who has had many many lots (maybe 25) on mainland over the years and ended up with neighbors who terraformed so that I couldn't use all of my lot ==== and those who just made things very ugly -- I would definitely vote against this. If you want to raise and lower the ground more than the default look at the very old "color" sims. They have much higher options.

In the VERY olden days -- before third party viewers by a couple of years I think -- there was no choice as to status. If you didn't move your mouse or something similar ever 30 minutes (not quite sure on the time) you just slumped over. Then, mostly because there was lots of camping for linden dollars going on, some techie folks made attachments that "kept you awake" so that you could camp and earn money while the typists slept :D. I turned off that "away" function at the first chance. Those slumped over bodies do nothing for the landscape and I didn't want to be one. I have a feeling that many to most of us can be "away" and no one will ever know. So doubt the color code would do much except point out new folks LOL.

Wanted to mention that there was a recent thread talking about some part of the service being down that was needed for the "bots" (not alts logged in by the owner) and the conclusion from that was that there were about 20,000 bots. Add in the extra avatars made to count as traffic and the concurrency rate is probably below 22,000 -- certainly not what it was in SL's heyday and before bots came into being. So we obviously have fewer avatars that buy on a regular basis. Add to that the aging of the population. Many of us have a decade or more of good looking and usable items. It is difficult to justify buying yet another couch or sweater or even hair. I have been watching the events closely for about three years, the last year that I participated a bunch and the two years I have been retired. What were the top events of old have been going downhill for some time. A few have closed and others are stumbling along with a fraction of the sellers they once had. Shapes and makeup and poses (all fairly easy to make) have replaced original mesh and there is rarely anything I want to buy. I agree that the sales venues must be hurting creators -- whether they partake in them or just watch from the sidelines. Many of the discount events have some really horrid items, but what is more bothersome to me is that some of our top designers have recently begun to participate. Trompe Loeil joined FLF last round and this week TRUTH has a stunning hair with massive huds for 50 linden. The shopper in me is thrilled but overall I think that is a very disturbing sign. It feels like they are desperate to keep their income at old levels and I fear that --- for most people -- that will be impossible.

I just had this happen for the first time last night and again this morning. Before (early Dec) it was fine. Also a friend request that was accepted and "took" disappeared from list when logging in the next time. So this is certainly problematic. Happy to see this post. Very timely. PS. This had nothing to do with an alt but a land group and the land group's owner.

There is no reason to do this and in some cases it would be UNWISE to reveal your real name. Customers will pay your avatar. Your avatar will get the money earned and either spend inworld or convert to US dollars (to pay tier of premium membership OR transfer out to Paypal; fees will be taken out). No one needs to know you are "Jenny Blanchard and live in Oklahoma" :D. Really no one cares.

Agree with sandi about high resolution and DOF. And your photo IS large. But I just did a test and I don't have the same issues as you do. Since your frame is "tipped" I am guessing you are using Black Dragon and so that preview issue may be JUST a part of that viewer. Does the final snapshot turn out the same? PS I am using Firestorm. Also I have no idea what the "remember" box that is checked does. So you might investigate that.

No easy way that is why some folks only make for a few brands (or Just Maitreya) bodies. In Sansar you could more or less import from MD and it would fit "most" bodies with some adjustments by the buyer in the dressing room. Second Life has a completely different set up mostly because of changes over a long period of time. Long ago there was "fitted mesh" which a few designers still use, but it had its own problems and did not "fit like a second skin" that we are used to now. Good luck.

Well so much for transparency and "heads up". Hope it works out for you.

Well we know that they have been planning on "discount" texture uploads for a long while (years?) and you can see evidence on the beta grid -- or still could the last time I was there. Some obvious things that people have repeatedly said they wanted would be: Homestead purchase without having to buy a full sim A "Belli" type area but with bigger lots like double sized giving people more land impact and fewer houses per sim Yet again more groups (I don't get that personally but I sure hear it a lot) Yet again more attachment points (like the two animesh attachments for premium type thing) The ability to have more than one Marketplace store Just some obvious ideas

Some of those goals in the list have been on and off the roadmaps a few times already (looks like seven). Nice to see a list. Hope that some come to fruition. I am still worried about that lindens to USD becoming taxable under Tilia edict though. We still haven't heard explanation about that and the change would be a game changer for many people -- and not in a good way. Fingers crossed that the future is bright.