Anicha Heartsong

I don't understand much if any of all this, but - (/me adopts solemn yet commanding tone of voice) - "Make It So"

Now that we have EEP we can easily make windlight settings to match our parcels and our moods. I can put the sun right on the horizon for a glorious sunset - in the east. I can if I want to. But why only the one sun and the one moon? That's a bit traditional isn't it? I say we should lobby the Lab to give us the option of extra suns and moons if we want them. Any takers?

Sold

Need to sell - any reasonable offers considered.

I guess directions would help too: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aplasta/145/144/144

The region is rated Moderate, btw

5632 mountain land at 5632L or less - make an offer I’m selling my 5632 plot in Aplasta at a bargain price because I need to sell real fast. The plot is protected on one side by the Great Linden Wall (which is also a raised road) and has abundant abandoned land on the other three sides. There is little pressure on land around here, so it is free of neighbours with a good chance of remaining so. It is also high up, with great views and you can see the sea - if you reduce your draw distance! I can sell the plot with all the landscaping intact but the houses and walls pictured are gacha and will be going with me. (I can replace it with housing from Trompe or Scarlet Creative if that helps you out). The landscaping includes trees, rocks, waterfalls with It’s Not Mine showers scripts and a lifesize model of Stonehenge. Happy to reduce the size of the plot if it exceeds your tier. It’s sized at present for 5x1024 + the 10% bonus for group ownership. If viewing please note that some of my landscaping may have ever-so-slightly spilled over the edges of my plot onto adjacent abandoned land, so please check out the actual size of the land being sold. (Unrender volume = alt-cmd-shift-9 on a mac) Please contact me with any questions or offers. I’m on UK time but will get back to you as soon as I can.

I've used many different Macs in SL over the years and none of them have given the results you mention, so no idea what is going on there. CalWL can be a bit harsh in itself, though the colors are usually kind of balanced and neutral, but try some of the others. I have an M1 mac mini and it does go beyond 'high' on the settings - will go all the way to ultra and shows it quite well, though very slowly if you go to a crowded club. Have you tried enabling support for HiDPI, to see what impact that has? It is specifically for Mac retina screens, which you have on the Macbook.

Pintowit - have you calibrated your monitor yet? If so, that might help. (System Prefs | Display | Colour ) But is this only happening in SL and not elsewhere? If that's the case then you could try changing your windlight settings, or even making your own windlight setting using the new EEP thingy.

I've recently got an M1 Mac Mini, and been comparing it to my old computer, an Intel i5, five years old but with an 8GB graphics card (a 'hackintosh' tower running MacOS Mojave) . I've been getting terrible FPS on the M1 - and logged in with a trusty alt was getting FPS of 42 on the hackintosh and 3.2 FPS on the mac mini. So I compared the Firestorm preferences, and the big difference was that I had 'Enable OpenGL vertex buffer objects' turned off on the M1 but turned on for the hackintosh. When I turned it on for the M1 my FPS immediately shot up into the high 30s. So, if you have an M1, check that setting under Preferences | Hardware.

Optimo - I've already tested the animations and found many that do work. This is an option. It takes time, but you can get good results. The Lelutka animations work on the Genus head and in most cases are better than the Genus animations. Rowan - I suspect the Catwa hud would only work with the Catwa head, though I haven't tried it yet. I'll give it a go, but I suspect that will be the case.

I want to find a face animator hud / AO - or persuade someone to create one. (I’d do it myself but couldn’t script my way out of a paper bag). Why is such a thing needed? Most of us these days have mesh heads that come with a range of animations. The huds that control these tend to be a bit clunky and lack flexibility. You can’t create your own animation sequences effectively. In particular, what I want to do is take the best animations from a series of heads that I own (Catwa, Genus, Lelutka, AK) and blend these into a series of sequences for different occasions. (In truth, I’m wearing a Genus head at the moment because it goes with a skin I love but I’m using Lelutka animations with it almost exclusively. They’re much better, IMHO) I’ve already extracted the animations I need (wear the head, right click, edit, contents tab, drag and drop to a suitable folder in inventory, repeat for all the other brands of head you own). I’ve also made sequences - such as chatting; flirting; sensuous; happy; etc. I’ve tried two approaches so far, both of which work up to a point but are fundamentally flawed: 1) Put them in a Zhao AO and use notecards - They do work as face animations and you can run your standing anims using the Firestorm AO or a second AO hud. This approach is flawed because when you sit on furniture such as a seat, bed, etc they stop working. And that’s when you are likely to need them most. (Kissing someone tends to attract their close attention - in an ideal world). 2) Create ‘standing’ animation sequences using the Firestorm AO which are actually face anims. This works and is dead easy because there are no notecards to deal with. You can still have your standing animations running by also wearing a traditional AO. But this is once again flawed because they stop working when you sit. So, I want a hud that will allow me to keep them running at all times - or at least until I turn them off. This is possible, because the head animators that come with the mesh heads achieve this. I also have a head animator from Chrysanthemum which provides ‘sexy’ face expressions which continue to run while on a chair or bed. (It comes with its own anims, but doesn’t allow you to add your own. They are all a bit ‘advanced’ and wouldn’t be used for a mere cuddle). Please note that I’m not aiming to sell this or load it with animations to then give it away. This is for personal use and once loaded with the anims taken from the mesh heads it would not be transferable. It might be something which a creator could sell to people such as myself, provided the customers were willing to load up the animations they already own. It might be possible to edit the Zhao scripts to adapt them for this scenario but I don’t know where to start. Does anyone know of such an animator already available? Or does anyone know where I could find appropriate scripts to create one? Or is anyone keen on making one from scratch?

I find Discord unuseable. I routinely use a VPN for privacy, but Discord won't let me login when running a VPN without first verifying by email and blah, blah, blah, all of which takes far too long. So I lost interest. Now SL groups are moving to Discord, and I won't be part of the conversation, but I'll survive.

Hi, could you confirm the size of this parcel please? Thanks

Ardy, where are these regions with zoning restrictions? Any easy way to search for them? Or a list of them all?

Seconds Skins - they disappeared more than a decade ago. I never really liked their skins, they were too 'realistic' for me. But they made the best eyes. I wore them forever - (or at least until mesh heads started to really take off) and would get lots of comments about how they looked 'alive', how they were mesmerising and hypnotic - but they were just being normal eyes, no weirdness involved. Of course, the time came when I got a better graphics card and monitor and everything began to get better, higher resolution textures, all of that, and the Second Skin system eyes had to be put out to pasture. I now recommend AviGlam, by the way. But most of all I recommend searching out and investing in the best pair of eyes you can find - that's the quickest and best way to improve the overall appearance of your avatar. We're apes, and we notice eyes.

Thanks everyone. I did lots of logging in and out, but eventually some more coalesced items turned up and one of them contained everything - hundreds of items including all the gacha stuff, land formations, trees etc as well as various boat demos that I didn't even know were rezzed on my land and must have been hiding somewhere. (So that's where all the prim allowance went!) Crisis over. If something similar happens to you, keep checking the lost and found folder and every single coalesced item - they're the ones with the funny multiple box icon. Rez them somewhere friendly - a good sandbox, because there might be a lot of items all trying to rez at once. I used Builder's Brewery. Better still, if you have a lot of gacha items and you're selling your land, take them back into inventory... learn from my mistake - because sorting this lot out was a pain in the proverbial.

Thanks for advice. I did investigate the coalesced objects - nothing doing there. I realise I should have cleaned up first, but it was my home, I was still living there, and I didn't really expect it to sell that fast.

I recently put my land up for sale. It sold immediately, taking me very much by surprise. The buyer has cleared the land by returning everything of mine. But all my lovely houses - an entire extended Gacha collection called 'Primavera in Toscana' is not in my inventory. It's worth around 8,000 to 9,000 Linden in total, because of rarity value. I'm not very experienced with Gacha because I'm not all that keen on the whole concept but I love that particular set of buildings, so I made an exception. Now it's all gone, however. Has anyone had similar experiences? Or can anyone suggest anything that can be done?

Seems like AvSitter doesn't use the UUID but keeps using the username you had when you bought the item. So that's going to be annoying, and confusing. Now I'll have three names in use: my old username; my new username; and my display name (which admittedly I can get rid of)

So, the solution is here: https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/copying_per_account_settings_between_accounts Doing that - a simple cut and paste, restores stuff like block lists and derendered items as well as chat logs.

I was only joking. I didn't think LordPeter would ever suit your avie. 'So' is cool though.

LordPeter Whimsy has a ring to it 😀 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Peter_Wimsey)

Boy, do I feel stupid. I was so excited to be able to change my name I plonked down $40 and picked one of those last names that seemed to suit me best. All went well. Then I checked my email.... and discovered I was one of the people who had won a free name change! And I didn't even realise! Plus, I didn't choose the name I had suggested, didn't even remember putting it forward. And just for the record, it was me that suggested 'Vanilla'. So now you know who to blame. I've asked the Linden's for a refund but maybe I'll just have to store it up and change my name again sometime.

Most combinations of bodies and skins end up with some kind of neck line, often depending on the lighting conditions. Some people think they don't have one - but if others are using a dawn or sunset windlight setting, they might see a neckline even if you don't. Skell is right to mention the gloss / shine / environment settings. I have them turned off for both body and head, which is a shame in some ways, but getting the two to match with 'materials' active is too painful. Neck lines have been a problem for as long a there has been mesh heads and bodies. I can offer a solution though ... On Friday Izzie (seach "Izzie's") released a BoM next fix as a tattoo layer. It only works with BoM but it's remarkably effective. I have a matching body and face skin from Pumec with a barely visible neckline, most people would say there's none, but even so the new product from Izzie's improved things. On Friday it was part of the '50L Fridays' deal. The price may have gone up now, but is probably still worth whatever she's charging. It probably won't be more than 200L. And if you get straight over there it might still be at the sale price. It's outside the front door if so. There is a demo. And I don't work for Izzie's, have no affiliation and don't know the maker. It's a genuine recommendation.