Aethelwine

The Hud with the body has alpha styles...eg. Pants 1, 2, 3, 4. Boxers, Jacket 1 & 2  But they are very limited compared with other bodies. If those settings don't work for you, all you can do really is hope for an update from the creator. If you search for broderick on marketplace I can see 3 stores that do jeans\pants supposedly for the avatar.. I would still demo them before buying them. The comments section for the avatar on marketplace seems to indicate dissatisfaction with the alphas and lack of tattoo and other layers. You may want to look at other avatars if you want to dress them up and not just go around as a naked beefcake. . The meshbodyaddicts website is probably the best resource for information about male and female mesh avatars. The Slink or Adam avatars seem like the best choices for wearing clothes.

This from Utilizator is normally what I think of when someone mentions an "Avatar 2.0", but it is a different mesh body system to Maitreya. I don't understand what you mean by using the two together. Clothes from each will be rigged differently and won't fit one another, Utilizator can't use Omega appliers because it is texture mapped differently. I don't really understand what you are getting at with your question, but as I understand it the answer is basically: No. They do the same thing but in different ways. You can't use them both at the same time. Unless maybe you can use the head with maitreya body, but I don't know that you can if that is what you are asking... but since you talk specifically about using the body together that doesn't seem to be your question.

That is quite normal. I am often chatting to a silent passenger on my boat only to get an im asking me to to them to me because they crashed. I have never thought to raise a Jira about it.

In my experience on a 2.6 Mbps internet connection it hardly ran at all, dropped connections and when it did everything was blurry. If you don't have more bandwidth than me on your internet connection it is a waste of time.

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If they are estate managers they wont need group rights to return objects

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Thanks Whirly. I will take a look at your post and go through it later and respond. I am pretty sure I have the texture memory size maxed and I was getting the constant blurring in a skybox, so there is perhaps more going on than the obvious. I will check it out in more detail when I have time later. Edit just checked and video card memory was maxed. Turning it down has maybe fixed the problem. I have a 2Gb card but setting the hardware to 1Gb seems to fix it. ----update---- I was wondering all day if I had been short changed on my graphics card when I sent it in for repair and got a 1Gb card back, but Speccy and NVidea's only information seems to indicate it has 4Gb of memory onboard. The texture thrashing occurs when I set Ukando on max of 2Gb, it seems ok on less than that, but since Firestorm's max is 1024mb I will leave UKando's at that for now. Replicating the Firestorm issue is not so easy. I will come back to that I am sure after Xmas, (I will be on Lumiya for a week from tomorrow) and when I do I will investigate further and if necessary do a JIRA bug report. It is most noticeable on group rides where 20 or so of us explore a biking sim on bikes. Ps I didn't adjust that setting in Firestorm. If I have changed any Debug settings in Firestorm it will just be for the camera view. (The Computer got wiped several times before the shop replaced the graphics card. The Firestorm install is only a month or so old)

ChinRey wrote: Perrie Juran wrote: When it was first introduced there cropped up those people who's attitude was "if it is mesh it's got to be good." Oh yes, "Mesh for Mesh' Sake" - that's a serious issue. To me the saddest aspect there are the old school builders who used to be great before they turned to mesh. There are some builders (I won't mention names of course but most of them are doing landscapes and plants) I truly admire for the great meshes and sculpts they used to make. But then mesh came along and they bought Mesh Generator or Mesh studio and ... got completely lost, producing mesh garbage that is way below the quality of their own old builds and well below what we really need in SL. On the other hand there are some things that just don't work with prims. I wanted a see through dance floor to fit a circular room that didn't have alpha problems. so I stretched out my tube added my texture set it to alpha masking and sat back happy at a job well done until I realised my prim now had a land impact of 200. Rather than give up on the idea I added the script to it to it to make it in to mesh and load it back in to SL, rezzed and textured that and the land impact was back to 1 again. A variation on Dilbert's Mesh tube does work in SL, in a way that the same shape in prim does not.

Anya Ristow wrote: Aethelwine wrote: Well I can't really say I have noticed much change. Clubs I went to when I started out were always full of people gesturbating and others mostly AFK whilst they shop on marketplace and listen to the music. When was "when I started out?" If it was 2011 when you joined this forum then you've never known a time when people talked in open chat everywhere on the grid, because that started to decline in late 2007 and by mid 2008 clubs were full of what I called "club chat", which is gesture spam and nonsensical, tiny snippets of random prerecorded comments. That is, bots. No, they aren't AFK while they shop. They are brought in by the venue owner to make it look like there are people in the club. Multiple avatars are run by one person using a bot client, and the "chat" is generated by the client. The person running them can respond to chat or IM, but their own bot chatter can make it difficult to see that someone has walked into the club and said hello. That, or sometimes they're just watching TV, or too busy setting up bots in another venue. So, actual human visitors can be ignored. My initial foray in to secondlife was in 2009, but fairly shortlived as my pc just wasn't up to it. I walked into some water on help island or wherever i started. I couldn't see anything much for graphical glitches and well I relogged and I was still in the water and I couldn't get out. I came back in 2011 on this account with an upgraded computer and have stayed ever since. I have never considered whether the gesturbating friends of the hosts you see at some events are bots or not, perhaps some are, but not all of them. For the most part I seem to recall them saying hi to each other when they arrive before they start showing their gestures off. I don't care for it but each to their own. So long as they don't get in the way of the music I will put up with them. Aethelwine wrote: I actually see much less of that nowadays because I rarely go to clubs and instead go to events with djs and people chat at them and don't gesturbate. And the trick is to find these events. I know of one because I found a club owner on another web forum and got in her in-world group, where she posts event notices. And I know of a discussion group that posts in-world group notices because I found them years ago through word-of-mouth. Now, imagine you are running out of things to do because these groups and venues are closing up. How do you find new ones? When someone asks what there is to do in SL, this is the info they need, not a vague, unhelpful, "yeah, I still find things to do. I don't see bots at the events I go to." If you have a strategy for finding these events, describe it. Describe it in enough detail that someone else, perhaps a newbie who doesn't have twelve hours worth of patience before they find their first event, can reproduce it. If you know of a venue that has real events, name it. If the event it regular, name the time. If you know of a group that posts event notices, name it. I've asked many times over quite a few years where people are finding live humans at the keyboard, and these unhelpful responses account for almost all the answers: 1) A described strategy that no longer works, because the person is describing how they *used* to find things. Or it amounts to "check the events list", which only works if you have unlimited time and patience, and probably means you are describing a strategy you don't actually use, or that you can't tell the difference between humans and bots so the events on the events list seem real enough to you. 2) A named venue that currently has no live humans, because the person hasn't actually been there in years and they don't know that it is no longer active. 3) A named venue that *everyone* names (NCI, Shelter, Blarney Stone). Again, this tends to be from memory, not from current experience. 4) A named venue that is empty or has bots 166 hours per week. A more helpful response would be to name the update group where event notices are posted, so one can show up during the 2 hours per week there are humans there. 5) Most of the responses amount to "no, you're wrong, SL is full of human activity" without naming anything at all. I don't mean to pick on you, Aethelwine, but I have years of experience asking this question and in all that time only a couple people have been helpful. Almost everyone else is just here to tell me I'm wrong, out of pride or something. When I first joined Sl seemed a very lonely place you could be in a crowd and no one would talk to one another the hubs were full of noisy people being stupid or offensive. I would have given up on it quite quickly if I hadn't been preyed upon by a bloodlines clan member, who bought me a Hud and introduced me to a premade group of friends with social events. Alot involving the War thing where they jump around attacking one another and stuff. I had too much lag to get involved with that, but having a premade social group made the difference between going and staying. They eventually fell apart but I found another bloodlines group to hang out with. In my travels I came across Hippie Bowman's sim and got involved with building, the Breakfast club and events and people there. And then I joined a motorcycle club and things really took off. My friendslist expanded exponentially. They had events, affiliated MCs had events, like one big family of people. More recently I have taken up sailing going on LCC cruises, Topless Cruises and RSYC cruises. I always contribute what I can, building advice, finances to keep the sims running, hosting, Djing just getting involved. I am now a Vice President of an active MC that runs two of the best biking sims (RRMC), and a Cruise Director for the Thursday Topless Cruises. I struggle to manage all the chats and social side of things to make time to do the things I like doing like sailing and riding. I don't think I am special. When I first joined I was afraid to talk in public for fear I would look stupid, I still do. But once you get to see people enough they become familiar faces and then it becomes easy to talk in public and private. There isn't any secret formula to finding events. You just look for the things that interest you, do them, meet people talk to them get involved in their events and then the conversations start happening, just naturally. As for event groups, if you like live music... then Live Music Enthusiasts is a good place to start. The performers chat to the crowd and encourage conversations. Naz Fride DJs an event at Atomic Palace Saturday nights I have really enjoyed going to, on the few occassions I have managed it (it is the middle of the night for people in Euro time). Commune Utopia has great events and are a nice bunch of people. Hippie Bowman's breakfast club on Sundays and anything he does. Helping Haven do nice events and are a nice bunch of people if you like helping people. The Caledon Group, The Wastelands, the sailing groups are all good for after parties and chatting during the cruises and after. My MC too RRMC has about 5 or 6 events a week to get involved with, some riding, some dancing and djs There must be countless events and communities to get involved with and find friends to chat with in SL, you just need to look for when their events are. After my first few years here I now have more to do than there is time in the day. Because of sailing what people think of as mainland is expanding through the addition of private sims on its borders, the Seychelles, the USS sims. SL seems more alive today to me than at any other time since I joined.

I don't know if there is some restriction to using animated textures on mesh, since I have never looked at it that much or had any desire to, but I do have mesh objects with animations SDS Distortion planes for example.

Well I can't really say I have noticed much change. Clubs I went to when I started out were always full of people gesturbating and others mostly AFK whilst they shop on marketplace and listen to the music. I actually see much less of that nowadays because I rarely go to clubs and instead go to events with djs and people chat at them and don't gesturbate. There is a time and place for both and thinking about it, it seems to me that balance and dynamic has probably always been there and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I don't always want to be involved in chats when I just want to listen to music. Pamela Galli wrote: Well, there is no denying that mesh has evidently not given SL a big boost, especially considering the huge amount of time and effort that has gone into learning, say, Blender. It may have even slowed its erosion. There is no real way to know. I just know that when I heard mesh was coming, I assumed that meant that a ton of ready made content would be imported from the Internet, which it has. So now SL looks better at least. The other thing about mesh tho is that it really cuts LI. People do not have to pay for as much land. I was filling up almost a sim a year for a while, but that stopped when I began replacing things with mesh. Like with most things, there are trade offs. It is only really after the first few years that I got involved in building anything, and that would be post mesh. First with prims, then using sculpt generator thing, and now using mesh studio. A friend makes motorbikes from prims in world and then meshes them. A 30 land impact bike he makes is often the result of 2000 or more prims. The tools are still there for in world creation, it takes time to make complex builds, but it always did. It may cost to buy mesh studio but the savings on land impact, as Pamela states more than makes up for that. As for no good vehicle scripts, I really wonder if the op has used any of the scripts designed for that over the years. If SL is in decline for the reasons the op gives then it is sad because the reasons aren't valid. Anyone can build with prims, and do much more with them now than ever before.

I don't have this problem on firestorm, but firestorm has a different problem and keeps deciding to stop loading textures after a while. So for example when exploring a new area of a sim often only half the scene will load, or I go to a shop and after a while, it stops loading textures until I restart the viewer. So I decided to try UKando (SLViewer has no parcel boundaries on the minimap so is useless to me), and immeditately I notice the problem I have had with Singularity and otrher viewers. where object go blurry, they resolve, and look ok, you turn around and look back and they are blurry again. So everything is always going blurry and reloading all the time. I looked up a solution and found that setting debug settings "TextureLoadFullRes" to True, fixes the problem. But it also means when sailing around things load even slower and I end up sailing through gray half resolved rivers, when on firestorm they might be a bit blurry but you can generally make out what it is you are passing and can pause if something takes your interest. I know others have had this problem, it seems quite common. Are there any alternative solutions than the "TextureLoadFullRes" one that would have less of an impact when exploring? I doubt it makes much difference but my PC: Intel i7-4770 CPU @ 3.4GHz. 16 GB Memory, 64 bit Win 8.1, GeForce GTX 745

It is possibly a fault introduced while they are updating the avatar with new bones ? http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Project_Bento/5.0.0.309171

Have you tried doing a link set search under path finding? It won't show individual prims but gives you a lot of information about every link set on your land, including the option to teleport to it.

Benson Gravois wrote: Well if you want to stop driving and walk down to the kitchen to sit down say, it would suck if the boat disappeared every time you did that. It would suck even more if every time you came back to your parcel your found people had left their boats and stuff scattered around and had to return their stuff. There is a good reason for why people and the lindens use autoreturn. Boats that are "liveable" and vehicles get around that by including a pose menu that allow you to go from the helm to other poses around the boat without standing and walking around.

I meant mlcc loonetta not oceanic. Take a look at the oceanic too it is similar. Just not quite as pretty.

I would say for a "liveable" boat with sails you have two options and which is best depends on what you want. A) If your idea of liveable is to be able to sit at the seats inside and out, lounge about with friends, use other poses like showering cooking etc with friends then you best choice is the MLCC Oceanic, B) If you want to do all of that and have cuddles and ... well bump pixels then the Bandit 55 or 60, There other contenders but none are as user friendly for someone new to yachting, or they don't have the option of sailing... which if that is what you want then I would answer differently. As to your second question yachts like any other vehicle will be returned in areas with autoreturn after a short period of time after you get up where that is enabled... which you will find to be the case in most places. - Really no big deal since why would you stand up anyway unless it was to disembark or get on another boat?

If you have clicked the kill scripts button that will stop the hud from doing anything and the appliers from loading because you have killed the scripts (ie deleted them). Use a fresh copy or go back to the store to get a redeilvery and start again with a fresh body.

Check your power supply is up to it that may need upgrading with a newer graphics card.

I find one head enough (the system head fits it nicely)... no need to buy a mesh head

If you just want your club name in nice writing try making something on this website and downloading it for upload as a png with transparency. http://cooltext.com/

Maybe look at the Eve Slim body, the breasts around 20 size would look natural with the right skin on the body. Slink Physique is an option but the breast shape doesn't really work small. The MBody has the best petite look but it isn't omega compatible, you would have to work with your own textures for it, so my recommendation would be to look at the Eve slim body.

One way to mitigate this sort of grieving is by using a hud that displaces both the camera view and the avatar such that the titles are no longer above your avatars head. I am not sure I would want that added to the viewer though as the setting would be more likely to cause confusion than help.

My understanding is inventory lost rezzing is the responsibility of Linden Lab not the maker. Alot of makers understand the issue and will offer a replacement, but there is no obligation on them to do so. You should do what you have already done, check folders, clear cache, raise a support ticket, try to contact the make. In the end I suspect you will just have to put it down to experience and avoid buying stuff that is no copy in future un;ess you absolutely need it, because this still happens all too frequently.