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    Crowd Scenes

    in Machinima Forum

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    ok honestly I know there is this machinima policy but if you film a crowd in an event - is someone really going to pipe up and say they was me i didn't give permission? In RL we have what is called the expectation of privacy. If you are out in public you have no expectation of privacy. If you don't film the name tags who is going to complain..... I know this policy was put in to try to cut down on the trolling videos, but the whole idea that video needs a different set of permissions vs photos is a bit silly. ..

    Beq Talks About The Future Of Firestorm And PBR

    in General Discussion Forum

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    5 minutes ago, Rowan Amore said:

    I have no problem with 40+ avatars using the Firestorm PBR viewer.  However, I do have shadows turned off unless I'm doing a photo.  That's the only thing that will push my fps down and even then, it's consistently around 40fps with shadows and 80-90 without.  

    what hardware is that? I have a i7-10700k, a 3070, 32gig ram and all m2 SSD and with 'everything on' in a crowded event maybe 10-16fps - empty sims or a few people no problem but it is always the large amount of avi's that drop the FPS like a rock! just reading about the new PBR it seems like that rock is gonna get even bigger

    Is current Spacemouse supported?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

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    It does work in all viewers I have tried although FS works best primarily, for me at least, a couple of features: input a number for feathering. I keep mine at .05 for filming work, and getting it that low with just a slider is hard and then the cam controls in the phototools panel. I use the left button to both turn off the UI and to activate the flycam for everyday filming use this is how I keep it set
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    Will SL be better as Mobile App is introduced?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

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    2 hours ago, Flea Yatsenko said:

    Retention is never good for free to play games.

    https://www.businessofapps.com/insights/paying-user-and-rolling-retention-rate-benchmarks-across-game-genres-study/

    https://www.mistplay.com/resources/mobile-game-retention-benchmarks

    I know it's mobile but still, it's pretty relevant. Look, 30 day retention rate is 3% on average. Retention isn't an SL problem, it's a free to play problem. And SL retention is never going to be high when it's free to play and people see what it costs to make an attractive AV.

    Free to play retention rates are also very low because there's no risk in trying a F2P game. It's just a download to see if you like it. And yes, sorry for calling SL a game 😅

    One could 'play' SL free forever, and Linden wouldn't make a penny, Linden is counting on new users to stick around and start spending money on shopping, maybe buying land, maybe become a premium member. Linden's issue seems to be new users never return. Learning how to use the UI, where to go, what to do, making friends all that - I just don't think a mobile app will solve

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    So what changed in the Terms of Service?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    On 5/2/2024 at 1:35 PM, Rowan Amore said:

    Residents presenting as Child Avatars shall be prohibited from the following:

    Entering any Region rated Adult. Residents must change to a non-child or non-childlike avatar to visit Adult rated regions.

     

    again one of those well intentioned things that doesn't always work out properly. I do weddings, and alot of wedding are on private sim, often with a A rating, and alot of wedding have children - flower girls and ring bears, along with sometimes just children of the guests

    SL Stuttering

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted

    18 hours ago, rottweiler Arai said:

    My solution was to turn on custom port in network on firestorm and also if you use amd cpu turn off fptm in bios

    Tho the second fix has to be done exacly as this article decribes or u can get locked out of windows.

    Here is a bullatin by amd reguarding it

    https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/faqs/PA-410.html

     

    I don't have a AMD processor but is the custom port? you have numbers or specs for that? I have 500 up and down so I'm really not thinking it is bandwidth bottleneck issue - but might as well try if I can
     

    and I've learned long ago don't F around in bios lol

    SL Stuttering

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Jackson Redstar

    the stutter is in the GPU graph - the valley is the 'freeze" on screen the the peak is where things are moving again. Stop, start, stop, start. Other wise, wasn't much lag, it was pretty smooth for a fairly crowded event - about 25fps or so.  I dunno maybe it's just a Windows thing. Next time I will record the scene on video

    What is the cost of the computer you use to run Second Life?

    in General Discussion Forum

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    10 hours ago, Rick Nightingale said:

    Seems they've improved efficiency a lot since my GTX 1080 then; perhaps another reason I should consider upgrading. Mine can certainly help keep a room warm, and overheat it if we get a warm summer spell; unfortunately very rare for the last 10 years. Previous to that, there were times over the summer I couldn't bare to run the PC during the day because the room just got too hot and that was with a GTX 960 in the previous rig.

    Idle, with Firestorm minimised and just this web browser up, the GPU is at 52W. This is it at the fair about 30 seconds after TP'ing in. I saw a peak at 137W while turning around.

     

    Yes the RTX can be more efficient and run cooler - but this is why also is a good Idea to set a FPS limit, no need to for the GPU to be cranked at 100% all the time. I keep min at 32 fps, more than enough for a smooth experience in SL when everything is going good (that is with the shaders and shadows on)

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    Help with extreme stuttering getting worse the last couple months

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Jackson Redstar

    in Windows I remember there is a 'game mode' in the settings - I cannot recall the exact thing, but I had a newer system and was having alot the same issues and it turned out to be something to do with game mode settings. It is a bit fuzzy for me but I seem to remember also i had to turn off (I think) Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. In any case, sometimes in crowded sims, SL still does the stutter and I can visually see it in the task manager monitoring the GPU graph 

    If you are seeing this recording, at least in OBS, you can monitor to see if you are getting rendering lag or encoding lag. Lately, for some reason, I been getting at random times extreme encoding lag even though nothing has changed in my hardware, software or settings. I also use the FPS limiter in FS set to 32

    Thunes to acquire payments platform Tilia LLC

    in General Discussion Forum

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    I can remember even after having had a verified paypal account for over a decade, when Tillia came around I had to get get 're verified' which included among other things, dancing on one leg in a pink sock while the other was wearing blue, naming each of my 10 toes and the reason I chose those names, identifying 100 different species of birds along with naming the last 200 transactions on Linden, the exact amount and the reason for them.  Sure would hate to go through all that all over again!

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    Second Life - Performance Thread

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

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    29 minutes ago, Flea Yatsenko said:

    Lower draw distance, increase LOD (usually Object in graphics settings). Best way for higher image quality with better performance. And disable MSAA. It kills my performance when there's alpha masked textures, like plants.

    Draw distance is huge, look at this area of a circle calculator

    https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/circle-area.html

    Notice how area goes from 804 at 32m view distance to 3216 at 64m view distance. That area is all filled with stuff your computer needs to render, download, etc. The less area your computer has to render stuff, the less it has to render (most of the time, there are exceptions) so the better it's going to run.

    OK I should clarify. I am looking at this from the perspective of creating video in world. Lowering draw distance is not always an option, Turning off Dynamic Draw helps keeps things rezzed but it can really degrade performance. And MSAA - Im not even sure that is.

    Second Life - Performance Thread

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

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    all these devs in the comments here melting my brain with technical explanations. :) Are there any good debug setting we can set to increase visual performance? I remember back in the old days there was settings like MeshTriangles or something and Triangle-something, damn i can't remember them now, but is there anything someone with a 'powerful enough' computer can do to, when it comes to tweaking debug settings, to improve visual performance?

    Revalue the L$ -> $1US = L$100

    in General Discussion Forum

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    and of course, in the 'old days' - pre 2021, LS could be a little side hustle, money for gas, some groceries , but now - anything more than 600 bucks, in the USA, you get in a for instance, PayPal account, is reported to the IRS - so now, those measly scraps of Lindens you did get, you now get the pleasure of reporting it and potentially owing taxes on it!

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