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Im not sure if its my settings or what but when I try to screen shoot anything the view is simply distorted. but Ive noted that other folks taking glorious pics dont seem to be having the same problem. I dont know how to fix the distortion. For example I want to take a closeup of my avatar face and the closer I get the more distortion. tips n tricks?

FINALLY found a pretty comprehensive list of mesh bodies. however one, at the end of the list ULukie seems to have disapeared. I see TONS of appliers for it. the sim is devoid of anything though and there does not seem to be a marketplace prescence. Did they give up go away or maybe change their name? moved but left no forwarding SURL? any info appreciated. thank you

Can anyone tell me how to make the settings stick in firestorm? Worked nicely in SL viewer but when I tried to follow the same steps in the firestorm viewer instead of opening a debug window where I could type the item needed all I got was a long list of IDK what? so methinks the terminology is different? Original question was how to make SL viewer keep my environmental settings because SL defaults to blowing your stuff away instead of keeping it. I seem to be having similar issue with firestorm now. not sure why.

Not sure exactly where to post this particular question. As noted elsewhere Ive been looking in earnest at mesh bodies, but having a horrible time finding them on the marketplace, or even in blogger reviews on the web for that matter. So I thought, WOOT lets come to where the makers are! so, if you make a mesh body, or know or love, or want to recommend one, please post your store or marketplace link here if you would. Please dont IM the links to me. I loose IMs, and its just easier for me to refer back here. Not to mention I cant be the only one looking for mesh bodies and not finding them. I am looking for BOTH male and female for the alts I use for photography and clothes making among other things . I have discovered Maitraya Lara, and Adam from Absolut Creations. Both of which I really and truly love, but I dont want to purchase until I see more of what is out there. I read about several which I could find NOWHERE and I tried a couple that left much to be desired. I like Lara and Adam not only for the beautiful craftmanship, and ability to use my own shape underneath, but because the HUDS are super easy to use. AND I got to keep my own "face". Which means a lot to me as I create my own shapes and unfortunately my face is linked to my default body. I also own slink hands and feet, slink shoes, etc, plus other "attachments", for both so that is an issue...the mesh body has to be compatible in some way with these things. As a creator I also prefer a mesh body where the creator provides a developer kit. Not sure how to use that yet, but as I make my own skins and am learning to go beyond old style clothing in order to create mesh clothing, Id want to be able to incorporate this in my process once I figure out how the developer kits work. And lastly, of course, I am totally a shop-aholic so its essential the mesh body already have a following with regard to mesh clothing designers, skins etc. I did look at slink but was not as impressed with the HUD system as I was with Maitraya Lara HUD. Despite the fact I loved the Adam mesh and its HUD, and loved the creators female mesh, the HUD for the female was not as nice as for Adam. I don't have to have male and female mesh bodies from the same creator, but it would be an incentive if the HUDS were very similar. Im not really seriously looking at purchasing mesh heads YET, as noted I tend to love my own faces...however, am very interested in seeing what is available, what bodies they work with and if there is a developer kit or applier system.

I appreciate your time but you just told me everything I said. What I want to know is how to apply my things using an applier, and/or if thats possible? If I read between the lines the answer is yes? I believe you said something that might help me ask a better formed question, which was, and Ill paraphrase, you have to have the clothing UUID? Or the UUID for the texture used to create the clothing item? is that correct? so, theoretically, if the items are full perm, or I made them myself..which I do a lot of for my own use...I would have the textures, and could then use the OMega applier? to incorporate? or other appliers which are related to the particular mesh body? Is there some reference material that details this? I guess thats what I am looking for because when I google I get tons of, excuse my american, "crap" that does not tell me anything at all. And lastly, I didnt experience any severe lag when wearing the mesh body as Id thought I might. In fact it was pretty awesome all the way around. Im still looking at mesh bodies ... even though I love the two I found yesterday, because I need to know what Im losing vs what I merely need to convert. UUIDs...that was a very helpful tidbit. Thank you!

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I spent SIX hours the other day just trying to find mesh bodies. And though I stumbled across a few I by no means found the majority of what Id read about on various blogs. Typing in fitmesh body in the marketplace returned clothing. Not bodies. I drilled down via the menus...a tedious waste of my valuable time and finally found base body. However, base body is not limited to mesh bodies. The majority of what I found there returned the default shapes we all know and love. Not mesh bodies. To be fair I did find a couple there...but only after going through ALL the pages. Lets PLEASE have a category which is not buried under 7 layers of categories called MESH BODY & PARTS. Under MESH BODY lets have MESH HEAD, MESH TORSO (of mesh body?) MESH FEET, MESH HANDS, MESH EARS, MESH **bleep**, etc. body parts. and lets NOT have "shapes" and skins under MESH BODY PARTS. Lets have SKINS and under that lets have "default skins" and "applier skins". people shouldnt have to work so hard.

Sooooo mesh bodies have been around for awhile but Ive recently become interested in them because they simply look better than the default avatar body. and by that Im referring to smooth edges on the body. Im not sure why the default avatar looks so crappy in comparison but it does not photograph as well as a well made mesh body!!! I spend less time in photoshop with a mesh body than with the default. So whats the problem you ask? In testing several mesh bodies I find I can not wear 99% of my purchases or creations. I have a LOT of items in the form of tattoos, clothing layers made from the default avatar clothing layers in addition to a massive collection of mesh clothing. MOST of which can not be used while wearing a mesh body. I see that some bodies put out appliers that allow skins to be added to the HUD or makeup or tattoos for example to the mesh. But none of these, as far as I can tell, allow me to add my own things to the mesh body. what to do? Im asking as a creator AND as someone who has tons of things I do not want to give up for a mesh body. It seems to me though, that the best mesh bodies are fitmesh? meaning I was able to use my own shape with it...not at all restricted to the body that comes with it...YEAH!!!! so...you would think I could still wear my mesh clothing. not usually. but sometimes. but the biggest problem is that mesh body showing through my mesh clothing because the mesh bodies alpha masks dont quite fit the areas I need to hide. But it works enough that I could live with it. not when it comes to my tattoos and default "clothing" layers. how do I "apply" those things to the mesh body? Surely there is a generic applier system a non-creator could use to add clothing over a mesh body? or do I just get the applier system from the mesh body creator? I know Im being a noob here but I dont know enough to know what Im supposed to be looking for or even if what I want can be done. To be specific here are a couple of examples. I have a male avi that I use for photos...he has a lot of hair tattoos, beards, chest, designs...then there is the female I use for photos and she has makeup, head/hair tattoos, undies in mesh and default clothing. how do I "apply" these to the new mesh body. Im looking at maitreya for the female and adam from absolut creations. Both beautifully made BTW. Ive seen reference to "omega" system...which originally I thought was mesh body company...but now seems to be a system one can use IF the mesh body creator is compatible with it. just when I felt like Id figured it all out...thanks for your time and please note my interest IS as a customer and as a creator so responses across both bows totally appreciated.

I wasn't looking for recognition. Im not a newbie despite this particular avatars birthdate. but I did note these things keep changing and don't always seem to correlate to anything. Nor when things "change" have I ever seen linden giving an explanation that isnt passive. meaning you have to look for it and your going to find it only if you know exactly what you are looking for. Not anti-linden but there are so many things with regard to the website that could use some serious polish and finesse. I believe its still 2004 in the land o linden website forum. But I shouldn't squawk. the improvements to the viewer and the marketplace have been honest steps forward. and Im totally stoked about bento...though really I WANT SOME TOES to go along with my finger bones please and thank you!!!! to Karen: and the "pins" being relating to your mistress...thats the best answer Ive ever seen. Loved it!

thank you Theresa! I had no idea regarding that or that its default state would be set to false. that did the trick and I officially love you. not "that" way...but big hugs. you just saved me so much pain!

Thanks for the feedback. I tried to join the group from the island but it didnt add me to any group and just kept giving me a link to the website. the website has a number of links that are going to error 404. so I was not able to follow everything when I was trying to learn about these products. I watched Medhues video on avastar from earlier this year which is why I decide I need Avastar. However he said go to Gaia Clary on youtube to get more avastar videos but when I went I only found two on bento. so was kinda hard to figure some things out. I am going to get Avastar but I just ordered a new computer today so going to wait until that gets here next week. so many things Im going to have to transfer from old computer to the new one. so Ill come back to avastar then. I think its going to help me a lot. Deleted all my comments about the website etc as I felt I was being TOO helpful to put it politely.

I considered that Chrome was causing the problem. but even with SL viewer trashed and re-installed it still keeps opening the inworldz viewer even though it was not last installed, last used or first. Prior to it deciding to make inworldz the default it was making Firestorm the default and I had to trash that viewer as well. I reinstalled Firestorm and its not popping up as the default anymore. but still having the problem with the inworldz one. The only way I can get SL viewer to load instead is to trash inworldz viewer. IDK what it is about chrome that is doing it. but the problem defo originates with chrome deciding what is the default and what is not. and I have not been able to find a way to override it. back in the day you could click on an application and set it as the default. but I dont see that feature available anymore when I select more info on the app.

okay so Im using blender sensei to get more comfy with blender and have also decided to get avastar. but have a few questions and not sure who to ask. first is there any conflict between sensei and avastar? they are both add ons that change the UI..so Im thinking they can not both be on at the same time? and second question...what benefit is sparkles? I see both on the website. I see that sparkles uses quads instead of triangles. but I thought SL needs the triangles? and I want to create clothes, shoes, feet...is it better to have sparkles or avastar of both? Im kinda confused because I noted someone else asked if sparkles came with avastar so you do not need to buy both...but the question on the website was never answered. so...thinking that Id find themost users of either of these tools here since its all about SL.

ARRGGGGHHHH. Everytime I install the firestorm viewer it somehow sets itself up as the default viewer and thereafter whenever I click an surl it auto opens firestorm even when I am already using the SL viewer. Unlike my other software I cant seem to find a way to make sl viewer my default viewer for chrome or firefox browser.

I set my environment settings to custom. yet every single time I log in I have to set it AGAIN. is there someplace in preferences I didnt think of where I can set it and leave it so its not something I have to do every single time I log in?

Getting too many responses inworld. so withdrawing the request. I would delete this but I cant figure out how to do that!

FOUND IT. for anyone else who might like a quickie reference: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/help/faqpage/faq-category-id/ranksroles#ranksroles_changerank

Ive noted I went from "honored resident" to simply "member" and that each of these designations, among others also have various colors. I cant however, find a posting from lindens regarding what any of them mean as far as levels, etc. and or how I was demoted. Probably too damn sassy for my own goog. lol

I dunno about anyone else but Im not spending that kind of money. Not even if I had it. Thats just greed pricing. So hopefully SL isnt putting all its money into that money pit. As if the world doesnt have enough "elitist" only games to pay and play for.

followed all I could do to get beta to update my inventory but it was a no go. Finally I cleared cache on beta and then the SL viewer kept stalling and becoming non-responsive. Finally loaded after I used the firestorm viewer. But still dunno what to do to get the flipping beta to update with what I have on the regular server so that I can test out a few things before paying out the nose to upload to said normal server.

Thanks for the info everyone. I understand specular maps and to a certain extent normal maps as many of the templates Ive purchased over the years have these included. And I see them in the PSD files when I create my own textures for the products. Though I normaly just leave the purple maps off...I think those are the "normal" maps? Im doing blender from step one with blender sensei so Ill probably learn a bit more of that down the road. At least now, thanks you you guys Ill understand what Im looking at. Im super visual...which is why learning for me can be harder...i.e I read books like an insane person...but when it comes to learning hands on is always better than reading. So videos help a lot though you cant ask a video a question when you get lost or stumped or push the wrong key. So, appreciate all your help very much.

thank you Nightfire. This new addon called Blender Sensei and the creators tutorials are helping me be much less frustrated with blender. Now I just need to get a cheatsheet for all the shortcuts. :-)

Thank you Natales!

Ive had some weird experiences like this as well. but so far cant figure out how Im getting stuck. Im hoping this new addon Im using will make things easier. its called Blender Sensei. You could also try asking at blenderartists.org. I just discovered that site thanks to another user. If you find the answer please post it here even if it seems silly. Im convinced I must be doing something wrong but I cant figure out what it is. also, if you post a pic of your screen as it is when it starts doing this it might help some blender expert to see if there is something you might have accidentally clicked on that caused the problem.

Im not sure if this is related but Ive noticed lately that shoes Ive had for some time bounce me up or down by as much as a few inches to sometimes a couple of feet. and I have to adjust my hover. then when I take them off I am too low or too high again. And this is mesh Ive owned which worked fine before the last 2-3 updates of the SL viewer. so it surely cant be just you.