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Just got a newer imac with MORE memory but now CS5 says it does not have enough memory to import or open the avatar obj file. nonsense. if it opened in the ancient imac it should open in the newer one. right? but its been awhile since Ive done this maybe there is some setting I need to get a handle on? Ive watched some old videos. Cant see what Im doing wrong. its a 9k file for gosh sake, how does that not open in pshop? Both the avatarSLFemale.obj file and the avatarSLFemale.mtl file in the same folder.

Im still seeing only 117. and the new homes pertains to "horizons". You have to purchase your ugly home and let your premium account give you your 512 prim alotment for free. you get 175 prims. which is better. but...the homes...even uglier than the ancient premium linden homes. Really not what I was looking for in terms of an upgrade. I do not think lindens are listening.

Ive read about all the gigantic prim increases everyone else is getting. But so far this doesnt seem to be applying to the linden homes a premium subscriber can get. Im still seeing 117. Shouldnt that be more like 225? In order to be in keeping with everyone else?

I do not think Linden should give free homes. What I would like is that my PAID subscription get more choices of home style because the current are ugly and outdated. What I would like is more prims so that I could actually put anything in my linden home. 350 prims and nicer mesh homes to choose from. If you want freebies...there are other metaverses out there that give land and homes away in order to attract users. Many operated by nice folks. Most of them not having the luxuries you find in SL. i,e no mesh houses, no mesh bodies, no mesh heads. Linden homes are truly outdated. And unfortunately the new "Horizons" themed plots which you have to purchase ( lots of prims but equally ugly homes) only shows that Lindens are still out of touch with their customers desires. We're not stepford people. Premium members want 1. greater selection of homes 2. ability to rez the desired home in a desired neighborhood. So, all homes in the 'hood are not alike. You pick your home from the list and you pick your plot as well. 3. newer mesh homes that use prims more efficiently and can be tailored with more options than the limited palette of current linden homes. Lets use our own textures please. 4. TONS more prims 5. more space between homes with some nice waterways instead of every home landlocked Yes I can get all of the above by buying a bit of mainland. However, there the "uniqueness" of the neighborhood gets far too radicle. I might like a mix of a-frames and plantation style homes. But I sure do not want a giant arse castle out my back patio and I dont want a shopping mall out my front door. some structure good. little more variety awesome.

Second Life version 4.1.1.320331 Every time I hit "preferences" this transparent blue skins the whole screen dimming everything. I can still access the tabs but it makes it hard to see. in addition once I close preferences that blue film remains. See attached images showing before opening prefs, with prefs open, and after prefs closes. Please note this ONLY occurs with the SL viewer. Not with other third party viewers. 

I purchased avastar which does make it super easy to just open an avatar and you can use sliders to change the shape if you want or import other mesh body dev kits. well thats fine. but Im a newbie trying to figure out how to use this to create clothing and I cant find any videos from the avastar creator on how to use her tools for doing this. just a lot of videos that have no step by step process from start to finish. Not one example. Or Im searching incorrectly and just not finding them. Right now very frustrated and cant see how this helps over just using plain vanilla blender. Can anyone point me to videos that show using avastar to create clothing from start to finish? its okay if its simple top or anything. just need to learn the steps...the process. later I can learn how to make it all purdy. Just an old lady with a hobby...

I hate that fireplace too! lol. and you just gave me an idea...wouldnt it be great if there were a way to up date a linden home with our own wallpaper or paint? Curtains et all?

I dont want a sky box. I like having neighbors. I just dont want the old style linden where everything is the exact same and I dont want what I see on the mainland with everything all over the place. If I had more income, and if owning your own sim had not become so prohibitive Id build what I want and rent out to folks who are like minded. Im just NOT seeing what I do want. and you never know until you ask. Linden cant cater to big sim owners completely or they wont survive. they need us peons as well. lol.

Ive been on the mainland. been an owner. I want hassle free, not outragous prices, no crazy castles next to my home, more prims and for my PREMIUM account the option of just having a bit of land that I can put a house on. and not a teeny 512 plot. Please do not assume just because I want better linden homes that I have not tried anything else.

not suggesting any deletions. suggestng more options.

its hard to find a nice 512 house. most are like 2048 by 1024!

Hi, just tried your settings from your blog for camera. for SL viewer I still ended up with my avatar too far away. in fact nothing seemed to change as I retyped numbers. however, using your other notes regarding FOV, cntrol 9 and control 0 about 6 times brought the avatar where Id like to follow it from behind on screen. Hoping this is the case when it moves. Havent tried it in a building yet. that being said, went into my Alchemy SL viewer and it all worked GREAT. So much nicer than how it keeps defaulting to my head jutting out of the bottom of the screen or bouncing in and out of things the minute I start to walk. Wish there was a way for settings I make to stick. because like you or someone said, every single freaking time the viewer is updated I go back to seeing my avatar in ways that make me want to just give up and quit.

some linden homes are too small. some are too big. Ill check your notes on cameras as I have problems with this in sl viewer. not in alchemy viewer, just with sl viewer. thanks yu

Im still seeing only 117 prims. where did you see that there were more prims?

Ive noticed when other people take images or do videos their avatar and the scene doesnt look distorted. and by that Im not talking about mesh distortion Im talking about perspective. Ive tried changing the camera. first of all it never follows where I want it to follow. it jumps around. Im either bouncing in or out of where I want to view. and if I zoom in there is also distortion of the face. Ive tried a larger computer monitor and still its a camera angle thing. I want it to stay at a certain distance from avatar most of the time. but be able to zoom in for closeups when Im testing makeup and eyes that I create. but, always having to take a lot of time adjusting as sometimes it wont even zoom in. I have to camera angle around and then trick it back to the front. very annoying. Not sure what to do. its been going on for years. seems like gets fixed then an update or two later right back to junk view.

The current linden homes are outdated and offer few choices to fit many peoples life styles. Some are so small you bob in and out of the house visually or cant see your own avatar. some are so thematic they offer no room for creativity, and some are so outdated and stale they also dont allow creativity. I usually settle for the boxy one as its the one easiest for me to see my avatar moving in and around. But its not the style I want. its too sterile. Id rather have someone more homey and country. like a wrap around porch and a neighborhood where the homes ARE all homes as they are now, but a bit more variety. Keep the boxy and the A-frame and add something more homey with a wrap around porch and put them into the same region. and add more ponds or something that gives the land a little more organic feel. And lastly, OMG more prims please! I know you keep it dumbed down so people will be forced to buy land, pay more, and or pay lots of money to other land owners. BUt I really hate having to go back week after week to check the status of the rental. And for buying mainland to put my own home on...well thats a nice idea however there is rarely anything available that isnt overshadowed by someone elses "themed" castle or large fort. I just want a nice neighborhood with more character in my own home. and for simpliclty I want it to be part of my premium. I like spending the rest of my moola on purchasing cool things from creators. Im tired of the lack of homes in a price I can afford and prims to play with. Im that person in the middle. long term in SL but cant quite find my price range and comfort zone. Love ya SL, but please...something new in the homes. I can post a few pics if anyone cares. Alternatively, let us have linden land with no prefab, up the prims so we can either build our own home or purchase one that is more interesting and the size and dimensions we want. you could do it as an experiment with maybe some boundaries. like if its a "homey" neighborhood...no castles. If its medival themed the home would have to be themed similarly.

Has anyone tried STRATA DESIGN 3D SE or STRATA DESIGN 3D CX?

Anyone heard of using these three things to make mesh avatars? or clothing? Not quite sure how using make human or bastioni would work but Ive seen some reference to doing so. http://www.makehuman.org/ http://www.manuelbastioni.com/index.php

Just purchased avastar. watching the videos for noobs. Cant figure out why some of the move selection handles are missing on the avastar avatar. Ill add photo to show what I mean. and yes, I tried selecting the avatar. no handles. 

Tried it several times. I noticed no improvements. Im still getting everything UNrelated to my search parameters. Searching for a particular store results in finding everything UNrelated to the store. even including a store product along with the store name results in everything but the store Im looking for. The only time you can actually get a store to come up is IF that store name contains all the characters our store names are no longer supposed to contain such as .::your store name::. The category listings seem "slightly" different but most of what we commonly would consider as 'MAIN' are buried under subcategories. Dont even get me started on the fact that searching for a MESH BODY brings up thousands of "default" avatar skins and shapes. these things should be in separate categories. Maybe we can hardcore defined by use of keywords that the seller MUST select from before placing the item on the marketplace. these keywords would be used to give PREFERENCE in a search display, OVER what the seller has listed for keywords. The seller could also implement additional keywords, but those user entered keywords would not take precedence over selected keywords. This should already be happening when you choose a category, but the problem IS that the categories alone aren't working to weed out the chaf. Right now I sell eyes for "default" avatar eyes. In keywords if I put "not mesh eyes" I can bypass the limitations of the categories and FORCE my eyes into a search for mesh eyes. I dont do this because why the hell would I want people looking for mesh eyes to stumble across something they do not want? My pet peeve is people who do that. For example when I am searching for FULL PERMISSION shoes and I get some lame sellors gorgeous shoes which are labeled NOT FULL PERM which throws them right into FULL PERM. NO one will assume your shoes are FULL PERM unless you do something that forces search to put you into that category. And I think people do things like that because you may miss the "NOT", buy the shoes and be stuck with them. ID like to see a sellor have to REFUND when they use terms like that which purposely place them into the search engines results because they purposely used a words like that. There is NEVER a reason to put NOT FULL PERM into an item. if your store name is FULL PERM TEMPLATES and you decide to sell things that are not full perm, GET ANOTHER STORE. There are no sanctions against sellors who use keywords for which their product is UNrelated. It totally relys on purchasers to spend valuable time and effort to 'report'. WHICH. btw, does NOT result in the problem being fixed. The only time a marketplace item which is posting purposely in error gets fixed or removed is when the sellor is violating copyright. I love SL. Not sure when I will stop. I keep trying not to love it but Im such a digital diva. Conversations like this might look like "grief" and it is, but if we dont talk about what it is we do not like, what we want changed, what we would like to see, nothing will change. Some people believe lindens are not listening. But you know what? I think they are. If they were not listening at all, SL would not STILL be here. I personally love much of the progression I see. Just would love to see some of the basics step out of 1997.

Never quick read. I scanned your response and thought you were giving me flack. then I read it again and realize you are well versed in the SL MP. I DO LOVE SL. just want them to make things easier. and not just for me. Considering the life of SL IS its creators...it just makes basic sense to make it intuitive and easier for people to find the creators products. Ive been around a LONG time and seen some of the best leave. Some left for stupid reasons...they didnt want change. but many left because they just couldnt make enough to justify the cost of the SIM for inworld stores. which is why I dont have an inworld store. Not that I have enough product to justify an inworld store. But many do. but cant survive because no one even knows they exist. YES, we are responsible for marketing out products outside of SL...and granted MOST do not. But seriously, when the most basic tools such as the marketplace and inworld browser make things harder...its gonna be harder to keep creators selling and staying around. sometimes I talk to much. Apologies for not reading what you wrote correctly the first time. And thanks for your response.

I love meshbodyaddicts.com unfortunately SL is not where I first learned about it. Again, from the outside to the in. this is a great website with detailed comments on many mesh bodies. the last time I went -- about a month ago -- some of the products reviewed were no longer available anywhere. so in a sense the previews are out of date. but that is the nature of a blog! THE GREAT thing though is that meshaddicts also has an inworld sim where you can get SOME of the bodies. But alas does not have everyones mesh body on their campus. But presenting all mesh bodies is not the responsibility of meshbodies owner. I also learned about some when I stumbled across OMEGA APPLIERS (again from the outside in). They have many many mesh body creators bodies on sale in their sim. Id never found half of the ones I tested if not for them. http://lovenlustdesigns.blogspot.com/

I ultimately found 7 mesh bodies by using google. These led me back to marketplace, and most of them were not under the same category. And Im not sure how much more detailed one needs to be than entering "mesh bodies". IF we had a dedicated category called "MESH BODIES" then entering that search term should pull up everything in that category. And anything put in that category that was NOT a mesh body, could be reported to get it removed. Id also like to see a more intuitive search engine that KNOWS when I type "mesh bodies" that I might want "mesh body". or the other way around depending on what the category actually is called. It could be "MESH AVATAR". And typing in 'MESH BODY" or "MESH BODIES" should return a message that says "did you mean "MESH AVATAR" and present that search. Things like this would mean more to me, a long time user, than having all of SLs focus on the very expensive 3D viewers that the majority of us can't afford. Or, rather I can, but I choose not to at this time. I tend to boycott all OVERPRICED "new" things. Especially if whats old, hasnt improved. I love my SL. but its really missing some basic improvements that are over a decade behind.

Hi diskomo, thats how I got my bodies as well. I think that if the creators had a presence in the MP store it would help people find their products and help them be more successful. Matraiya and Eve/adam creator have been around a long time. I was only aware of them because Ive been around in SL about as long as they have been...actually longer if you count my original AV. So maybe they dont "sell" on the marketplace...but they could have a presence and upload ads like the realtors do. you buy the card fo NO lindens...usually has a description and always has a SURL. inworld search browser doesnt work well either. but Im not sure how to improve it. for example, when I searched for mesh bodies it was not adam/eve or lara's creators that popped up. And I dont think anything ever gets deleted as I have often ended up teleporting to what I think is a store inworld with something I want only to find abandoned land or some crazy adult place. Not that I mind crazy adult places...just not when Im searching for something else. I think how we change things IS to talk about them. And not, in taking a dump on people who are interesting in seeing things improve. Im very interested in a way to block people the same way I do with other social media. However, my beloved SL is also about 10 years behind that most basic feature.

Hi Steph, my point eacxtly. its hit or miss. even IF you can find the category you want, its buried and not always intuitively. And I think part of the problem is that people who sell on the marketplace give keywords that do not apply to their product in order to bring themselves into prominence. And that further convolutes "searching". For example a guy who sells default avatar jeans but puts "NOT MESH" in his search terms comes up under "mesh jeans". And not all creators of mesh bodies put their mesh bodies in the same place. Which is again my its critical that "search" function properly. Ive often found what I wanted on the marketplace by going AWAY from the marketplace and using google to search. Then finding what I want and clicking it back to the marketplace. its 2016. Ive been with SL since 2004. I love SL, but there really is No excuse for how little the marketplace has changed.