Damian Mills

omg I'm such a dufus. That was EXACTLY what I was expecting AND I went back and read the wiki looking for that info.... and somehow failed in both cases. I'll give that a go Rolig. Thanks

Hi everyone: I'm writing an experience teleport script. Aside from the teleport (which is working fine), I would also like to set a particular sky setting when you teleport "up" and then undo that setting when the avatar teleports "down" again. I had no problem using llReplaceAgentEnvironment to set the new sky. But once set, I couldn't figure out how to unset it except for leaving my property. Even the client environment controls seemed inoperable. So how can I, programmatically, release control of the environment and return it to it's previous settings? Thanks in advance

Both parties WANT American elections to be fraudulent. Consider that list you have expressed along with a mile-long list of similar reasons. Anyone who was actually concerned about election integrity would be calling for things like international monitors, paper ballots, vote-counting transparency, UN-ADJUSTED exit polling, etc. In other words, they'd be calling for the same things the US calls the gold standards for election integrity all across the globe. But I never hear cries to bolster election integrity -- just to overturn the results of whatever the last election was because one side or the other didn't like the results. Insofar as this thread, yeah the Democratic party scares the heck out of me (both leadership and rank and file). I separate that from "the left" because clearly there is nothing "left" at all about the party or what it promotes. The actual left is powerless in the United States... that's what the FBI (and now the CIA and NSA) is for. I suspect we'll see another "Patriot Act" under the Biden presidency to clamp the lid down even further.

Wow, awesome tip Arielle. Thanks. Sure enough, going into debug and setting this to TRUE gave me another ~10FPS or a whopping 25% FPS bump.

Let's take this one at a time. Is it porn? Um... not by any normal definition I can think of. I suppose an incredibly repressed person might think of all sex as porn but.... ewwwwww. Is it cheating? I think that's a poor question. Who cares if it is "cheating" or not? That's just a buzz word specifically intended to obscure the facts of the situation with a big red flag. Here's some questions I think are more relevant: Does your wife want you to do this? If not, then whether or not it was cheating before, it certainly is if you do it AFTER knowing that and you hide it from her. That'd be like the textbook definition of cheating. Is it good for your marriage? And here I'm assuming you value your marriage. If you do, then who cares whether it ought to annoy your wife? It does and that's the reality you need to deal with. I had sex with someone in SL a long time ago and honestly I did not see it as being unfaithful to my wife. She did. We had a conversation about it and that was the end of that. Do I feel bad about doing it initially? No I do not. We just didn't see the situation eye to eye. But after the conversation we DID see eye to eye and so it doesn't happen any more. I'd feel pretty bad about myself if I did it now. The bottom line is my wife is important to me and so what bothers her, bothers me.

Insofar as I was able, my avatar is me. There were issues with the Gianni body because even at 0 settings, it's WAY too muscular. Heck, at 0 settings, it still looks like a professional body builder. But ignoring the shape of the body, the hair, beard, and wardrobe are all pretty similar. Heh, in the case of the hair and beard, I liked them so much in SL that I grew the beard then went to a high-end barber to get the haircut and beard shaping of my avatar. I took some liberties with the face and gave myself a nose job. My steady dance partner does the same thing. Her avatar is basically the 25 year old version of herself. When we eventually due our RL meeting, we'll both recognize each other. I don't care about absolute height. That's just a number. What I DO care about is the relative heights of myself and my dance partner. So yes, I got out a spreadsheet, figured the ratios, then set my own height to be proper relative to her avatar height. In general I much prefer realism in SL... that includes both avatars and environments. It's often times an odd feeling walking around with non-zero fat sliders, muscles set down at 0, and a moderate height in a world composed of men looking like the incredible hulk and women looking like a Kardashian turned up to 11.

Heh, I readily admit I have no idea how to get an unprocessed, usable photo out of firestorm. I can handle everything else I need in-game. But the gamma is invariably WAY too dark. the actual in-world scene is quite a bit brighter than the captured photo. This is so common that I have a typical adjustment layer I pop on... exposure: +0.5, Gamma: 1.2.

OK, I must be having some sort of brain freeze here but I've found ways to make it play a variety of sounds... but all in-world. what's the function to make a simple client-side beep?

Now that this project is done, I wouldn't mind putting a free mesh body on my alt. But it doesn't appear the LucyBody is available anymore. Do you have a place to get it? If not, anyone got any other suggestions?

No, what I meant was that I'd like mesh that doesn't break down with LOD issues. One major body creator clearly failed totally with LOD and it shows every time someone wearing it appears. I'd like any mesh I get her to be "solid" as opposed to collapsing into triangles at a distance.

I’ll have to ask, oddly it didn’t show up in my list my what is she wearing hud. I don’t think it’s made any more... not sure the maker even exists.

I'd really like to thank you all again. I managed to pickup the Lara body and a quick pass through the sliders tells me it'll be able to match her slim-hipped, B-cup figure nicely. Insofar as the "mesh wars", there isn't really any aesthetic issue here. The only aesthetic judgement is hers and the only acceptable answer is "the same as she looks now". Whatever body can do that with the best selection of TOP quality clothing is the winner. What I like... you like... or someone else likes isn't really a part of the equation. The real problem is going to be the face, not the body. Lara, it appears, will match her slim hipped, b-cup figure quite nicely. The face is a whole other can of worms and what has stopped her in the past. She's got some old mesh head but she's made it into something adorable and personal and, although she gave it a go once or twice, she wasn't able to get that same look on a different mesh head. Her existing head doesn't play well with mesh bodies so she's locked into the classic avatar unless I can get her into a modern, name brand head. And frankly, i don't think she cares about it enough to hammer out the shape issues. In the end, this is just a pet project. She likes how she looks right now so there's no huge need to change. it'd just be nice to have access to a wider selection of clothing. I'm more of a maker in SL than she is so I thought i'd take a stab at it given a free Catwa bento head. May the gods of shape sliders smile upon me. Failing that, maybe Skell will smile on me if I need some help

Thank you all for the help. If Maitreya is still in business that’s where I’ll go largely due to brands like erratic. insofar as “solid mesh” next time I’m at Muddy’s I’ll just find out which major body maker has failed so utterly with their LOD and avoid that one. Regarding shape, my contribution to this is to try to use the Freya head and some body to exactly duplicate her existing mesh head and classic body. So I will know right away if a given body works or not. it sounds like my picks, in order of fashion availability (which is the entire purpose of this upgrade anyway) are Lara, slink, Freya.

Hello everyone. I'm trying to setup a friend's avatar and I picked up the free catwa head and I went to get a Lara body to go with it and... Maitreya is closed? I went to the sim and it appears abandoned. Am I missing something? If not and Maitreya is really out of business, then what I need is a recommendation on bodies. The primary consideration here is access to a wide variety of clothing. As secondary considerations... BOM capable... ideally with the onion skin layers detachable and without using any sort of relay hud. Solid mesh... I don't know which female body it is, but I routinely see women at clubs with partially rezzed, triangle bodies. This body is, apparently, quite popular but whoever designed it did a very poor job with LOD. That sort of thing is unacceptable. Not super curvy. The friend in question has a slim figure in RL and retains it in SL. So no giant butts or breasts. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Not a snob but perhaps a bit unknowledgeable. The quality of someone's look doesn't have much or anything to do with whether they use a mesh body. It has a lot more to do with their design skills as they put together the avatar. Every single day I see hundreds of full mesh avatars that look hideous. It's more rare, but I find plenty of classic avatars looking very well put together. Insofar as your preferences for mesh avatars, everyone's entitled to their preferences.