Extrude Ragu
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When you say downloaded a PBR viewer, do you mean the SecondLife default one, or a TPV?
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I have more alts than I can count but I mostly just like using them to play dress up. I'm weird. I just enjoy that they each have their own name and I can give them character quirks and personality of their own, with their own adventures in the virtual world.
Another thing is because I run a community sim, I don't like to leave it unattended too long. Having alts knocking around means I can attend an LL creators meeting whilst still being with friends and loved ones in my own sim for example.
Also it's weird but because my sim is a community sim it can kinda feel like a 'state visit' when I send my main to sims with overlapping communities/similar interests. Like I don't hide that it's me being on an alt, but the fact it's not my main seems to get the point across to people that I'm not here for some ceremonial purpose but just come to hang out casually, not to be treated like the owner of that sim or the store owner of that store.
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7 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:
Hope that is more clear now.
Ah, I think so.
Yes, there's definitely the case to be made that by SecondLife moving to a more standard format like gltf, that it becomes easier to upload content that doesn't belong to them. It's a reasonable concern and one I share too.
On the flip-side, it also makes it easier for a content creator to upload content that does belong to them. Most modern tooling like Blender, Substance etc is PBR first and creators were having to convert content they made in these programs to look right under secondlife's older renderer. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the process but lets just say it's not an exact process and a lot of time ends up requiring a lot of time depending on what you're making.
I also think it will lead to more original work for the reason that the pay-off is higher for creators. For example, here is a trim sheet I made the other day for creation purposes in Secondlife. A PBR street texture.
https://gyazo.com/d1cd39ff6893d1d2d7707c3bf7a8c118
If it were not for PBR support I'd have never bothered to make it, because the old renderer in SecondLife would butcher them it's simply not worth it to spend the time. Now I know I can get decent wysiwig, I am more happy to sit and spend more time on materials.
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40 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:
I think overall it will dilute the quality of purchased items and that is NOT something I want to see.
This last statement confused me a bit. Do you mean the existing items you already purchased will look worse?
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5 hours ago, Porky Gorky said:
...using the probes seems to be extremely restrictive. We have either a sphere or cube to choose from and they can be scaled and rotated and that is it.
You don't need to make the shape match.
In graphics there are two types of reflection map, both are essentially a fancy picture taken from the center of some place, that is used to approximate reflections.
When you place a sphere probe, what you're essentially doing is telling the viewer to do is automatically generate a reflection image from a specific spot.
Here is an example of a 360 map image.
The probe size in SL simply decides the 'draw distance' If it's not long enough to include the walls, the walls won't be in the generated map.
The name of the game is just getting good approximate reflections so that reflections color correctly. In non-boxy spaces you'd generally place a sphere probe.
If two probes overlap, the viewer will blend between the two reflection probes.
A box probe simply generates a similar type of image, but generates more accurate reflections in boxy spaces.
The viewer will generate reflection maps even if you place no probes - But it takes a 'best guess' approach, which doesn't always get best results.
Obviously improving the automatic probe placement is something that LL could be doing as well in the future. Just explaining how it works.
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Yes, not claiming its a perfect solution. Often people in the group do bring up points from the forum though, so it's not a complete loss to talk about stuff here either.
Inara Pey does a good job documenting the meetings, if you are interested in what LL are working on and what is getting discussed
https://modemworld.me/category/second-life/sl-tech/sl-project-updates/
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I find LL does engage, just not really on the forums
The Content Creation User Group is a good place to go if you want to talk to LL viewer developers, whilst the Simulator User Group is a good place to raise script concerns.
I have been daily driving Firestorm PBR Alpha and yes it definitely has FPS issues. But I personally haven't had FPS issues in the LL default viewer or Alchemy Beta. Since the Firestorm build is in alpha, I think this is to be expected though. I'm waiting to see Firestorm PBR Viewer reach at least beta before I start criticising it, because alpha in software generally means it's still under heavy development and likely to change a lot.
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Your legs aren't useful to mega-corporations
They'd sooner you were a sock puppet so they can have their hand up your .............. behind
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1 hour ago, Solar Legion said:
I'd prefer to state my views once on particular topics as frankly I see little point in rehashing things or tackling what amounts to the exact same arguments (being polite on that for some) with differences in wording.
I've found Zal's over the top method to often be just that on some topics - over the top and unnecessary.
So going through all of my posts one by one just to put a laughing face on it isn't over the top and unnecessary? I never thought I'd find myself defending Zal, but you paint yourself as reasonable. If you found my opinions laughable you would have said it once and moved on. You're aware that every time you click one of those buttons it creates a notification right? So when you go through and do it 5, 6, 10 times it is like harassing me in a way? Yes? Can you see why I might be prompted to react and ask why you are doing it?
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To be honest we're all just killing time lol
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A rare moment of Zalificent appreciation - I prefer Zalificents criticism of me to the way Solar treats me. Whilst often inflammatory in some way or other, at least she takes the time to explain her point of view very clearly. I appreciate someone who will stand behind their words and face me head on.
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9 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
IMHO - hiding "Premium" status makes a lot more sense than hiding "Account Age".
I agree that it's nobody's business whether you are a Premium member or not'.
I do not agree that account age is the same, that there are valid, non-paranoia, non-abuse-intended reasons to hide one's account age.
^^^ I said it, no take-backs!
I think what it comes down to really is personal preference. Different people consider different things more personal, different things some residents are more comfortable sharing than others. Residents tend to lead very different SecondLive's to each other. What seems reasonable to share to one is not reasonable to another. In the end, my personal feeling is its best to just let residents choose what they want to share. It doesn't really do any harm and prevents hard feelings from people who might otherwise feel intentionally excluded in some way or another.
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10 minutes ago, Zalificent Corvinus said:
"The School Of Over-Complicated Solutions In Search Of A Non-Problem" approach to feature requests.
Filing Jira's for such "solutions" to problems that 99.99999 % of SecondLifers don't have and don't care about.
Claiming that any poster who DARES to disagree with inane ideas based on wild assumptions is "negative and contributes nothing to the forum".
There's THREE reasons why people might subject another person's posts to well deserved sarcastic mocking laughter.
One could also add posting laughable garbage, then whining when the laughable garbage gets laughed at, then demanding to know what's laughable about the laughable garbage, when that has already been made abundantly clear earlier in the thread.
I missed you too
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Thanks for trying to help mediate, Perspephone.
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7 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:
Ah yes, such a leap in 'logic' ....
It has nothing whatsoever to do with 'privacy' and everything to do with keeping things that have no relevance whatsoever to the thread, out of the thread.
I would simply put forward that I think it's to the benefit of everyone in the thread to know what your laughing reactions meant, and to find out if you were just trolling or had a genuine opinion to give. After all, we're here to have a discussion, and it's important to understand each others opinions and interests clearly.
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22 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:
Yes, relevant to you - not to the thread/'topic' at hand.
Beyond asking for clarification, the rest ('niceness' and such) should have been sent via PM as such has no bearing to the thread. This includes the latest response.
Oh... you mean a private message?
I must say I find it quite amusing, perhaps even 'laughable' that in a thread about privacy concerns of residents, in which you chose to laugh at them, you asked for your own privacy, when asked why you were laughing 😊
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12 minutes ago, BilliJo Aldrin said:
rezz date can’t show how old you are in real life, it can only show how young you aren’t.
So who cares?
Snobs against noobs, snobs against oldies, who cares, if someone disturbs your SL because they don’t like something about you (or your avatar) just block them and carry on 😁
I mean yeah there's always going to be snobs, people who treat you differently depending on your age. Even if you hid your age there would be people who treat you differently because you hid your age.
Still, a lot of residents come to SL to get away from RL. People knowing young you aren't is RL. Why should a resident be forced to share that information. I think that letting people not share it would make SL more enjoyable for the people who play to get away. The people who play SL to date would simply look for people who do share that information. We can all live in harmony.
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Fine, but I didn't know that did I. To me it just looked like you're trying to get a rise out of me or something.
11 minutes ago, Solar Legion said:Your views concerning my 'niceness' are your own personal opinions and have no bearing nor relevance here.
They are quite relevant to me. In my life I prefer to engage with people who have my best interests at heart. I don't like to waste my time caring about the thoughts of people who would be quite happy to have a negative impact on my day to day life.
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1 minute ago, Solar Legion said:
I have made posts concerning this topic here and in one other thread. Read them and figure out the reason for the reactions.
I have made no direct responses (meaning I have not used the quote function within this thread) quite deliberately as there is no point in doing so.
Further there is no "conversation" to be had on this topic beyond what has been said by myself and others regarding the uselessness of the idea/request.
Again: Find and read my responses - I will not be entertaining requests for explanation as each response by myself and others contains such explanations.
No, I don't think I will. I think that anyone who thinks it's ok to laugh at strangers and then tell them to go dig around and figure out why they're being laughed at is not a particularly nice person worthy of my attention. I'd be more inclined to block you. Feel free to correct me on my perspective of you, but right now I don't think you're very worthy of my time.
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Just now, Solar Legion said:
Nope. I've made my views on this clear - figure it out.
Well, not really. You just react to my posts with laughing emoji's but it doesn't mean an awful lot to me.
In general, I don't mind being laughed at, if the person doing the laughing has something constructive to say. But if you have nothing constructive to say, what value do you actually add to the conversation? Should I just ignore you?
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@Solar Legion care to share what's so funny?
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FWIW I put in a feature req based on this thread:-
https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/make-sharing-account-age-optional
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5 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:
It allows region and parcel owners to restrict younger accounts and give freebies only to younger accounts.
A simple solution to this would be to make the ability to hide SL Birthday something that is only available to +30 day old accounts.
7 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:necessary for some of the functionality of SL
To avoid breaking scripts, an account with its rez date hidden could simply return something like 0/0/0000 or a predictable constant like SL's own birthdate. Viewers could be programmed to recognize such a date as the 'chose to hide' date whilst scripts will just see you as a particularly old avatar.
10 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:For the last 20 years, hardly anyone has complained about their account age being visible to other users.
I don't think using the past as a precedent for the future is good here, because as people get older they are more likely to be conscious of their age and more likely to want to escape it. It's only natural that as a platform like secondlife ages, issues like this will become more common place over time.
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32 minutes ago, Midnoot said:
What about freezing account age at any age we chose?
Disavow. I think it's one thing to choose not to share and another thing to tell players something that isn't true. This really would be lieing.
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