Charlotte Bartlett

You know you have been making houses for too long when you even can’t recognize if it is your own work 😂. I am not online but it looks almost like my Hanna Beach house. I will check this evening!

We have kept our houses to 75L. Any new houses always go into the sale first too versus full price first. Honestly with how the world is right now, I would rather just let things go for the equivalent of 35 cents a house versus trying to argue increased prices when everybody is dealing with increased cost/ in RL.

I have asked if they will provide official tutorials and documentation for the PBR release so content creators can be educated on optimized content/best practices.

LL doesn’t have people who are qualified/versed or educated in content creation and industry standards to ensemble a panel nor would it be cost effective hence the Moles alternative. The ones who were have sadly departed. Prims perhaps but I honestly can’t see new residents wanting a prim outfit versus seeing what mesh offers as an example of “enticing content”. That being said a few prim items could be fun for tinkering with for budding creators like boats, houses etc.

(a) Creators generally don't know how to make proper LODS content so the library could get filled with poor quality items with best intents leading again to a baseline that if it looks pretty it is quality versus how efficient it is. (b) How do you prove "Trusted" and the overhead on that. The alternative is have the Moles create extra Library items. LL the owns the IP rights. This would be an easier project for LL to manage versus oversee creator submitted content and then have to validate it.

Blender is open source and free. Perhaps an idea for how LL could help innovate in this area: Could we create a plug in for Blender that allows SL users a simplistic menu, creation etc. Perhaps having people like Gaia and Avastar (https://www.avalab.org) consult and have them give advisory and help building (and ensure they are paid handsomely for it). There is nothing stopping then a library of basic mesh with proper tutorials and guides being created as part of that plug in. There is nothing to stop LL creating a premium content creator account that gets access to that plug in plus the other features we asked for about 10 years ago for content creators to have "merchant" accounts. Paying back the cost to develop. To date there remains next to zero decent documentation and information about really creating quality content (versus what some consumers think is quality which low LI, butchered LODs (to get the low LI with no LOD optimisation) and 50 x 1024 textures because well it "looks good on ultra at 1 meter away". Any of the good stuff has been from those on the forum who have given so much time to help other users.

Thanks for sharing Tara! I don't want to accidentally self advertise. Ginger we do have also some with large more traditional balconies / large decks (from the inside) like East Hampton or if you want a warehouse with a roof deck with pretty tiles there is the Ana Loft or the Kent Warehouse with half roof deck (both you enter the roof deck from the interior) and ones like the Tulum with roof/pool etc (from exterior). You can see on our Flickr - > I also think Apple Fall has a lovely skybox with a roof deck from memory like a Parisian vibe which is gorgeous.

I will have to look for that sounds interesting! Bring back Starax's wand that was one of the most amazing things that made me fall in love with using SL!

It's actively supported by "Supply Linden" so there is intervention not just pure buy/selling from users (as you would see much wilder swings). Rate changes are gradually eased in (recently from 242 into 244 for stable selling and 245 for quick selling). We did a project in 2021 to evaluate and monitor the LINDEX for an education series for Content Creators. There are patterns, example (sell off occurs mostly Sat-Mon) for "Cash Out" Mondays so you can see where the rate starts to increase a little when demand falls then falls back a little each week.

We pay USD 19.99 for just Painter per month. Albeit now it's Adobe and the last release is a mess. Just checked and you can still get for 19.99 (texturing).

Actually yes... We haven't built in prims for 11 years plus now. However, that building in prims is what spawned a generation of amateur content creators who did branch out but remain creating for SL. People do like to still mod things and create. I think it's a reasonable to encourage it and for those who are genuinely set up to create it's a fun way to get introduced to the possibilities (and retains the user in SL). I had a recent customer who created a mod of our buildings and it was amazing. So amazing in fact she worked with me and we created a mesh version. For the first time (in many years) it was lovely to actually collaborate in world to create something. Those old days of building together and creating a space is really an amazing retainer for low barrier to entry content creation. Something that we could still celebrate and use for the benefit of retaining users within Second Life. I would add to this idea for LL to add a few extra prim options - planes, the ability to "mirror" etc to encourage more in world building and modding communities.

I would like to have more hobby type things in SL where people can do things together. An example would be we create plant seeds and you can mix them to create your own plants that take a month or two to grow. They have to nuture the plants e.g. water, replace soil. weed and your plants will react to things like acidic or alkaline soils and the plant food to create unique plants. I would be happy to make this as a thing. But then it would help these types of thing go from solitary hobby to group events for socialisation. The events each quarter for gardeners to bring their plants and decorate a plot at the SL version of the Chelsea Garden Show. With prizes e.g. a free month of tier etc judged by the Moles/LL. Also a LL guided architecture tour, when users can submit to be in the tour and tickets are sold to join the teleport tour with a group to be shown around the architecture. At halloween a spooky version etc. Expanding that to a Tour Guide company who creates tours from nightlife, hiking beautiful areas, sailing etc for people to join the tour. People who then attend the tours, or the garden shows tend to then be around other folk who have simliar interests and it acts as a connecting approach for making friends. People who make friends in SL tend to stay for the relationships they build.

Each week you can buy a house for 75L at the sales Making it more like 1823....

Love the Cliff House - and agree without the weird top bit. It's funny but I was looking at the house boat and thinking - hmm don't like the UVs on the roof, then realised your post noted it was a rendering.

Those things are totally unrelated and do not impact speed of process credit for established accounts who cash out within their limits, patterns and have up to date KYC. I suspect what you are confused with is the deferred 1099 rules for IRS. These now come into play in 2023. But change nothing for those cashing out, as they would already be self reporting income and being taxed based on the individual tax situation.

I don't have much knowledge of the recent situations. But I can't see why LL couldn't provide region and parcel owners the ability to have a toggle that either allows Bots to visit or excludes them (much like the public toggle). That would allow land owners to decide what "type" of account can visit them.

Prim Drift, delivering gaps since 2006 (at least).... The above points are all good ones. Try to keep things sized to rounded numbers e.g. 12.3 Meters versus 12.303939. Avoid rotation on the Z Axis where you can especially for the parent prim you link into. Plus building / rezzing at height can be painful due to the issues being more pronounced. It's not just prims, happens to mesh too and can be a total pain as somebody will mod something and suddenly prim drift kicks in when at height etc. To the point where when I mesh large house elements I often overlap 90 degrees corner planes slightly, so if a mod happens it still hides the drift at least for those parts.

Not if sent as a gift via Caspervend (for example) the merchant could have seen it was duplicate (also you can set Caspervend not to allow duplicative purchases). No reason not to refund in that a duplicative gift scenario if the recipient is the same avatar.

(1) There is technically a WIKI for this last updated on 21 Oct 21 apparently. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Vendor_systems_comparison (2) A few other creators self host (e.g. on your own server) so something you create yourself. I don't think the rest of the post is directed at me for clarity - some of your elements noted above if you are a business are deductibles e.g. costs of fees, subscriptions (e.g. 3d software) etc. One final note - you also do not need to pay 9.95 USD per month to own a region/homestead, you simply pay the cost of the region from LL.

It doesn't change your tax liability regardless of whether the 1099-Misc gets generated - if you cashed out, you have to report it. I am also a little leery of the posted information via Patch as once in USD and in "Tilia" if that is used to pay for tier technically I would lean on it being reportable as income for tax purposes (and the tier fee put as a deduction). However that's for LL/Tilia to figure out if they are appropriately tax positioned. This is due to Tilia being a separate company/MSB too. The one area it get's tricky is the Tilia 1099-Misc will include the fees they charged for process credit so you'll need to put those in deductibles so always download your monthly account summaries and track the fees so you can avoid paying taxes on those. Typical IRS though as I am sure companies had geared up to auto generate at the 600 threshold versus the old 200 transactions and 20K threshold so you may still end up getting where companies can't roll back the change in time. Either way your tax amounts will remain the same and you should report it all including deductions.

Just a note C4d for the rare users still has the issue. I just did a new house release yesterday for the Sat Sale and have been doing full custom LODs by hand. I have to “wash” the file from fbx to dae in Blender for SL due to the C4D issue. The effort creating a full house is intense and doesn’t pay back commercially. That being said I can at least rest easy knowing I optimized the very best I could. I do tell customers re the LODs as I think education helps too so people start to adjust their view in what “good looks like”. But honestly if I was releasing more frequently I am not sure the workload could be managed.

There are long outstanding Jiras for things like time the creator last logged on etc LL originally communicated until the cloud work was done minimal work on MP would be done. Many other posts on those exact topics here over the years sadly. The Cloud work is long since finished, but there hasn't been any meaningful progress on MP for a very long time. You can bulk update the SLURL but to one location. You cannot also list variants of an item (still and that Jira I think has been collecting dust for years). I am also hopeful with Caspervend they will allow the vendor page from Caspervend to link into MP for dynamic SLURL management so it can read the SLURL of the specific vendor automatically (considering all the other Jira's open I may be waiting for some time). But knowing what is under the MP hood, well...... I don't put Demo's on MP, but teleport links are directly to each house. I get it for fashion, but for H&G it's really tough and we are not being lazy I promise (that comment sigh "lazy"). It's a lot of work to create items on a platform that barely holds it together. Paying for 4 regions so people can experience items before purchase I think personally is still a good service (and costs a lot too). I don't buy either without a demo, but I do appreciate sometimes how a creator can miss an upload, or having the wrong SLURL and I genuinely sometimes take a minute to look deeper if the item is worth it.

Looks amazing!! Love your boat Sansar the region or the old platform!! 😉

Aside from that… shoes really do not need 1024 sized textures unless it is one map for the whole piece (and even then borderline) if It is has multiple 1024 textures, that’s poorly optimized.

And that’s the key for me as I can “fake” if non “shiny” with a decent 2d download auto assigned in Dae to the diffuse channel. Still fun to play with. I can see using it for a few key things like a repeating item (like shiny trim or perhaps even for some interesting glass). I am going to play with things like floorboards and bricks next to see what variances I can do.