Chic Aeon

Agreed. Land prices and availability have been up and down for over fifteen years -- just like the RL land sales at least in my part of the US. When there isn't ENOUGH mainland to buy (not lately since the LHs anyway) folks complain about that. If you think about it there is a lot MORE MAINLAND now with Zindra and Horizons etc. I have probably moved well over three dozen times in my years here and with some looking I have always found a good place to live on the cheap -- either buying or renting. Many of those times it was mainland simply because mainland is usually cheaper. I really enjoyed my time in Belli that first year but over time it got so very laggy (like everywhere that I went there) that it was pretty much unlivable. Way too much heavy mesh. Happily it seems our no name "shaming" posts did let creators know that a lot of folks really DO CARE about stuff like that. It does have an impact. So small steps forward.

8f8 has a sewing machine just out at ANTHEM for 349 (no checking machines to get the right number up to buy is a plus) which is more complex and all in one piece. The machine is newer but still treadle. The triangle count is good for this complex of an item and WAY better than the olden 8f8 days (woot). Not sure if there is a sit on the stool.

There is less land for sale now where my shop is than has been in a long while (mainland) BUT I scored a very nice (with buffers) snow parcel in a mainland sim with other snow parcels with buffers for 700 li and 350 a week. I am nowhere near using those LI points but it is a very nice place. I don't see that things are a whole lot different than they have been over the years. If one wants to point fingers then I would say that the new Premiums Plus 2048 homes are a big part of any problem that there may be. And since there is a new theme for those coming out it seems like they have worked well (monetarily anyway) for LL. But what is good for some folks is less than great for others. I am only a renter and happily so.

Impressive! Winner, winner -- ARCADE

Well to be fair LOL plenty of items with "materials" look horrible under some EEPs (hence my lack of using them for the most part). NEW isn't always BETTER --- but going with industry standard is most likely a good long range move. When I tested a month ago when only a few regions were active on the main grid, I really couldn't tell any difference (with the things I tested of course which were "supposed" to look the same). https://chicatphilsplace.blogspot.com/2023/11/pbr-hits-grid-slowly.html

For Shop and Hop for example, I only take what I think I can use (or blog). I appreciate the pictures as that cuts a lot out. I don't take makeup or gestures or eyes as I will never use them. And usually I only take things from creators that I know and have bought from or blogged previously. I always open things right away and sort by category. Then I pick out things I want to feature and do posts. SOMETIMES I keep things, other times not. 16 years 72K posts and that includes all the product and parts of products I have created and numerous backups. I mostly keep "niche" items that I think might come in handy for a post in the future. If there isn't a picture of the item I often use the build menu to see what it says is inside the box. If it says "horns" or piercing" for example I just go on to the next. I also don't pick up gifts from booths that are "not me". If I wouldn't buy anything from the merchant it is unlikely I will want their gift. We all have different tastes.

OK. Not anyone interested I guess so letting this go

I am not playing around yet but wanted to mention that in Sansar with I think a very similar system you could basically "ignore" the PBR by putting in grayscale textures in the panes. I DO think that PBR can be lovely but not everything needs to shine and reflect IMO. So "there" I just pretended it didn't exist LOL. I won't be looking at this closely until FS gets PBR but I did check my current builds in the PBR Linden viewer and they seem to be fine. So hopefully that holds true.

Absolutely gorgeous. Ransom Manner. The Arcade. Two pieces (machine is the rare). Also comes in black. THREE LAND IMPACT for both with unbelievable LODs. I am indeed in love (and lucky).

A new thread to share your favorite Advent finds of the day. So many Advents out there, I am only checking a few. PLEASE POST ONLY ON THE ADVENT DAY when the item can be collected (unless of course the calendar is one that lasts all month and is open). Cothes, Home and Garden, Hair, Skins -- whatever. Please mention the store of course and give a SLURL. If there is a group need please add that and cost if there is one. This is Day One at Simply Shelby. The standing lamppost comes also with blue glass. No group needed. The calendar is in the middle of this skybox. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Starry Sky/184/145/801

Aside from the fact that you are reducing the graphic to an SIXTEENTH of a the original size (hopefully your original graphic was ACTUALLY 1024 x 1024 and not what you mentioned as that is important to) it may be the quality of your graphics program. ALSO you should be uploading as a PNG (usually) and not a JPG. If you upload as a jpg it starting out blurrier than needs to be. A bunch of us did some tests a few years ago and found out that the uploader (then anyway) did a better job downsizing textures than our various graphics software. This only works for larger textures though. I typically bake (for furniture) my textures at 2048 and let the uploader change them to 1024 (the maximum (in theory :D). I did a test with PaintshopPro 2023. Note that the web upload will compress MORE than what I did so they will be less clear than (possibly) what you upload to SL. So there is a bit of a reference for you. You COULD try sharpening your 256 photo before uploading but I am not sure that would help much.

It looks like your second prim is HOLLOW. Any "torturing" of prims gets them counted as "new mesh" and not "old prims". That is simplistic A friend had the same issue yesterday; it was the hollow. So just leave them as prims.

Avast exports anime files and I think "poser" might (haven't used it and forget who makes it). What I READ was that long ago anime file was the default format for SL and then bvh was added. The only reason (or a big one) that I bought Avastar was so that I could make animations again -- this time from Blender. There have been long conversations on this in the past so if you do some searching in the archives you may get more info.

I was NEVER able to get that to work and all the info that I could find said that Priority 5 or 6 would only work with ANIME files. I used qavimator since it first came out and certainly since 2013 when I did a lot in Opensim. So the last ten years ...

VERY old program and especially if you are on Win11 it just may not work any longer. You can run a utilities program like Glary and see if you can fix any issue. Updates break things for me regularly but usually Glary fixes it. And yes, creator has stopped working long ago. I liked it too as it was simple. Your current choice is Blender with Avastar == at least that is what most folks are using.

Clothing that covers pretty much the whole body "may" work. Easier in the winter certainly. You will need an alpha layer to make your body itself disappear. I am pretty sure there are some alpha layers in the library along with the default clothing. While Senra is big step ahead, it is still an experiment and so far most creators haven't opted in. BUT you can likely still use older clothing like for Slink etc. Just try demos as well as gifts to see what you can find. Gabriel has a store with its older clothing for almost free == assuming it is still there to the left before you get to the main shopping area. I did a blog post on Senra when it first came out. Here is the one for the males but I was mostly looking at improving the look and not for clothing. https://chicatphilsplace.blogspot.com/2023/08/updating-your-ll-senra-avatar-for-free_0902081922.html

I can't say that if I made clothes I would be "jumping" to create. But maybe eventually. There were some real problems with the first release -- unless of course you WANTED to look pregnant LOL. Appreciate the info.

Haven't followed this thread as aside from testing and blogging I am not using SENRA, but --- Has LL put out the improved version yet? I have only seen an announcement for the kits for creators being sent out. Are there actually creators creating for SENRA bodies? I haven't seen any. Just try to keep up Thanks.

That won't work. You need skins MADE to work together from the same skin store. I don't know anything about Legacy but assume it came with a body skin then try using that with the head skin (or tattoo depending ) . Or the other way around. If you decide to buy new skin be SURE AND DEMO them until you get a good match. Sometimes there are neck changes on the body (I don't have yours) that you need to try out to get a good smooth neck seam. Sometimes depending on the skin maker the skin will just NOT look right no matter what you do even if you are following all these things. In that case it is the skin maker's fault :D. You might also ask in the Legacy group and or the Lelutka group if there are certain skin brands that work well.

So I made a little shed with snow to go with the house. Because most folks living out in the country have CLUTTER. Lots and lots of outside clutter. So now to fill it will clutter and I am sure I have plenty. For anyone that NEEDS a little snowy shed this will be my gift from Shop and Hop. It's starting to look pretty cozy over there. Yep, now we are getting realistic.

When I tried to find some "free money" places for a newbie blog post the only thing I found was some trivia AND of those places that advertised none were active. That was a few months back but doubt it has changed much. I made all my "creative" money by camping way back then but that was when bots were brand new and there were still a lot of people camping.

You know it is a pretty tree with nice presents but "I" couldn't get past the ornaments floating in air and not on any branches or within the greenery.

Making progress. AND a comment not so much in favor of all the portraits in the thread recently. There are already THREE main (and more) "show me your avatar" threads. Would be good to have this about our INVIRONMENT as I believe it was meant to be -- at least I took it that way. Anyway, working on some outside décor. So far I haven't purchased anything and have found some forgotten things (and remembered things) in my inventory. Also retextured one of my old interior sets. I had done this before during our decorating at Snowglobe winter but they disappeared from my inventory so ONE MORE TIME.