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VanillaSunsets

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  1. I seem to be having the same problem since a day or two. Reset doesn't fix this. New animations are set to None...
  2. Sadly a lot of my fav fashion blogs have disappeared over time, some still are around but not updated. I would love some links to fashion blogs that are still active. Must admit, I am not a fan of the blogs that use a lot of event items, they are impossible to get when you don't watch all blogs all the time. Not that they aren't lovely and make me drool at times, there is just nothing worse then falling in love with an outfit that you can't ever get your hands on! Post them anyway, coz.... I promise to compromise and watch the events more closely but I'd still like more of that event style available for sale without having to always check the events. If you know or have a blog pls link me to it, I am sure lots of us can use some fresh inspiration!
  3. Make a new avatar and don't use a male name this time.
  4. The chance of you finding a face that looks like your current one are about 1 in a million. How your face looks right is determined by the shape sliders and the skin you are wearing. Meaning you will have to start rebuilding the shape/face once you get the mesh head. Even if you can use your current skin it will not look the same, "out of the box". I agree that things should and could be much simpler when it comes to mesh bodies. But for now we have to adjust to what is possible and available. Another thing that comes to mind when I read your posts is to maybe not start using a mesh body until you find a wardrobe that you can use with a mesh avatar. Look for outfits that suit your style, I am sure that is possible when you invest some time in that. If it is a money thing, if you are not able or willing to buy mesh outfits I would not go for a mesh body in the 1st place as it is just very expensive if you want to do it right.
  5. Maybe it would be wise to see this as just a matter of taste. We do not all see or feel the same way in this case. That isn't personal, nor is it a matter of siding with LL or you or anyone else for that matter. If we would go out for ice cream and you are eager to get a scoop of chocolate and I keep trying to convince you you should go for vanilla (yes, pun intended :cattongue:) coz it is just tastier.... You would probably stick with chocolate and I would not be insulted or accuse you of having an ulterior motive for having the chocolate. Yes, you see the same names a lot. This also means there is a group of ppl that spend personal RL time to react, help and discuss. That does not mean they will always agree or cheer at every idea posters bring to the forum. Again, this is not personal, it is an opinion. Would anyone here be of any use if we weren't honest and critical? This is the whole point of a forum, let's agree it's a good thing to disagree on some matters. This makes a good discussion and will make us see things that are discussed from different points of view.
  6. As you discovered you cannot edit a rigged mesh item. They will be the same size and position no matter what you do. Clipping is a common problem as a rigged mesh item is designed to fit the creators "fitting avatar" in their program of choice. Most use some sort of standard size and some design for a specific mesh avatar brand. Making it a bit hard to find clothing that fits 100%. There is no longer a "one size fits all". I believe most of us can agree that this is the biggest and most annoying problem that occurred when mesh clothing came out. If you bought these items with modify permissions you are able to change the texture, but.... this will not help you if you do not a have some way to make a correct texture layout. For that you will need the UV maps or the original texture and this is probably not the case. If I understand you correctly you are trying to put an alpha on the pants and/or boots? Normally this is not the way to go. The alpha's to prevent clipping is done by putting the alpha on your body, not the worn items. How this is done depends on what body you are using. If you are using the default system body you can use the avatar UV maps to figure out where you would like the alpha to be. Resulting in that part to become invisible. If you use a bought mesh avatar you probably have a HUD that helps you hide specific parts of that body. I hope this helps? You can find some avatar UV maps here in case you use the system body: http://www.robinwood.com/Catalog/Technical/SL-Tuts/SLPages/AVUVTemplates.html
  7. Welcome to SL! Ok, I'm not sure what you mean. Do you want to change the color of some objects you bought as you say you do not want them to be made from scratch? If you bought the items they may be modifiable and you can indeed change the color and many other things by right clicking them and choose edit, then select the texture tab. Make sure to make a copy before doing that!!! Then you also say you do not have the skills to make them yourself. Meaning you do want someone to make them for you (that would be from scratch). If you want something custom to be made for you you did come to the right place. Just be aware custom made items will cost you. It is RL work and creators deserve a RL realistic wage in return. If you want that, I hope you will find someone that can do the job. No need to apologize, we were all new at one time. Have fun!
  8. Gosh, for a second I thought you misspelled Al Qaeda... But then I read the post and sry, no idea about jobs for kids. Maybe if you find some sim that RP's a 3th world country? Not being negative or nasty, this is a smart anwser.
  9. Hmmm, how on earth did we go from XP to gay persons rights? Yeah, I did worry about that a lot actually! Coz my RL eldest child is gay and I want his life to be good and safe. Bet you did not see that one coming...? Save yourself the trouble tying to see me as being someone that discriminates. I am honest tho. Do not confuse honesty with prejudice. XP was a good OS, but technology is progress. Sure, we all know that does not go overnight, and bugs will always be there. That's how things evolve. Fail, fix, fail, fix, but when you look back things did get easier and better! I am taking a risk here... you may get upset but.... If you run a system that was build in the XP years, you should already be happy it still runs. If you have a younger system and installed XP on it, why did you not go for Linux? It is a great OS and most software runs smooth on it. Probably you will have less compatibility problems running Linux then you have right now running XP.
  10. The most common info on mesh bodies and how to use them is here: http://meshbodyaddicts.com/ This website also explains how to use Omega appliers, where you can get skins that can be applied to your mesh body and/or head. It covers almost all mesh bodies. Some designers offer a body, including hands and feet. Some also sell the heads. Ofcourse you can mix and match to get the look you want but always make sure to try the demo first. You might also wanna have a look at some SL fashion blogs to get ideas. Most bloggers will have a list of what is worn on their pictures. Picking your mesh body and head is complicated, keep in mind you want to be able to buy clothes that fit, hair that fits etc. The most populair brands have more options when it comes to that. A skin is never a mesh object, it is a texture that is applied to the mesh body. Make sure the one you buy is not a system skin or it will be applied to your system body. That means it will not be visible at all as your mesh body is a worn object that will cover your system body, it is so to say on top of your system body. I hope this will help you! Take your time, read a lot of information, try all the demo's! Mesh bodies are expensive so choose wisely.
  11. As far as I can remember from my "wild" DJ-ing days there was no free way to stream, I used Virtual DJ and rented a stream in SL. These days there is some open source software claiming it can stream to SL ( oa Mixxx and Internet DJ Consule) but they run poorly on Windows, at least, last time I bothered to check. Both may run ok now but may still need you to rent a stream.
  12. You are just a ray of sunshine, aren't you! Guess I found me another poster that I should better be ignoring. Ppl like you make me.... glad I am not you:catvery-happy:
  13. Someone is not having a great day, or what? I find Lydia explains very clear she is looking for a friend ( how to define a friend... you first start defining an electronic type of friend and how to hook up with those?) Why is she here? Read her post! Everything in SL is based on RP in some sort of way (this is not a pixelated form of Skype, our avatars are pixel dolls and if we wanted to act like IRL all the time we would just open the front door and walk outside) and yeah,50 % is just BS. Nonetheless, some ppl would like to make friends trough all the RP and BS, just to RP and talk some more BS. We already have "normal" friends IRL, why be lonely in SL? Wow, you can really take all the fun out of something. Wonder why you even took the time to react. To Lydia: I think you post is clear and friendly, hope you find some great friends!
  14. I did not know yet about the textured template, thank you! I also love the long tooltips idea, that would be just so helpful to us! I think all the things you summed up will be another great improvement to Avastar. Again, all the work is much appreciated as Avastar makes working for this platform better and easier.
  15. If you were only able to log in once and have been crashing a lot... Check you internet speed/connection. Check you viewer settings (graphics and bandwidth). Start setting your viewer graphics very low and see if that works. If you run SL on an old system you could just not be able to run it on high graphics. If you system is up to date and not very old it is likely your connection. Resetting modem, router etc may solve it already.
  16. Ppl like you always scare me just a bit. SL has always had some groups or individuals that wanted to be in charge of law and order, of justice and punishment. Most of the time this went terribly wrong, ppl being accused, ppl were abused by ppl that had took it upon themselves to be judge and jury. Even worse, RL info on some ppl was collected and those leaked as they were obviously no pro's. SL has LL as judge and jury and they have given us the tools that we need already. You can mute, de-render and if you own land, you can ban them. You can do a lot to stop abuse and or a stalker. Even on your own by not showing the places you go in your fav's and just changing your ways, groups etc. I know, sounds unfair but it is actually the same as IRL. A stalker or abuser has his or her ways to find you, make sure you rule that out. How can you possibly judge a situation. Abuse and stalking happens in ppl's private SL life and some of it is not what it seems. Sometimes the one complaining has done some stuff that they will not tell... Some ppl just like to cry wolf... To be even trying to solved private stuff like that can only go wrong, sooner or later. I respect that you find it disturbing things like this happen and that makes you a good person but non of us are toddlers and we prefer to solve things like this on the forum and in world like it should be solved. EDIT: ADDED a bit later: Reading back on your forum posts, you have been on this forum only to complain about your clan and some club. Both charged you for things like blood and advertising on a board. Maybe you should spend more time on reading rules of clubs and clans or checking your own security (account related, as you claim to be hacked??), instead of getting involved in other resident's problems. Seems like you have some problems to tackle of your own first? So why you are offering your services is a mystery to me...
  17. I have have Sparkles installed and have given Avastar2 a go but I could not get an avatar made out of quads. I loved that one! Did I miss a button or option to get back the quads? Also, I still at times run into troubles finding the right way to do things as the menu changed again. I love all the new options and am a big fan and supporter of Avastar but it gets harder and harder to find up to date tut's and manuals or video's. I don't need them most of the time but when something goes not as expected I do need them to solve my problem. I hope Avastar2 gets out of beta soon and the doc's will be updated accordingly. Maybe some good hearted fellow resident has some spare time to maybe put some video's up? I know I am not the only one having troubles keeping up with all those new buttons and options, I have worked with Avastar for some time, I can see it would make a newbie creator pull out a hair or two! Thanks for all the hard work and for hanging in there while our platform changes fast (well in some ways, lol)!
  18. 10K L$ is still only about 40$. Even if you give the creator a very low hourly wage, that comes down to about 3 to 4 hours of work. If you want quality you will have to be prepared to spend at least 10 times as much. Creating, skinning, rigging an avatar from scratch is not done in half a day, it takes a lot longer if done right.
  19. You are waking up an almost 2 yr old thread from the dead. Meaning the OP that had a thing with XP wrote that 2 yrs ago, that should say enough. The OP probably has switch a long time ago. Why would anyone still run XP? Not even it's maker supports it anymore (ended somewhere 2014). LLIAMAH wrote: I know that I have to upgrade your computer to fix any problems . But I will not do it . OK, not very wise, but sure... LLIAMAH wrote: I will use windows xp several years. And if I can not play in the Second Life on windows xp then I can not pay. so it looks like. Very true... And so be it.
  20. My landlord, who manages the land my store is located on, just send me a nice note that I will have more prims. She's wonderful, and always has been. Ppl like that are rare, I have been renting from her for yrs and am thankful she kept on going trough all those yrs, giving me the feeling I am safe with her as a landlord. IM me for her name, in case your landlord does increase your rent :cattongue:
  21. OK, not saying you did it.... but this looks like it could be a stolen skin (ripped from the game). Those often have a hairbase and make up baked in as the person that ripped it did not take the effort to take of those layers. A few yrs back you came across a lot of these stolen skins, they were all around, some are still on the MP. Where did you get the skins? If this is not the case... have you tried playing with some light settings, like adjust daytime or test some Windlight settings? It could be shadows, as the light isn't kind to the SL standard avatar in general. Do have a try adjusting the face sliders (eyes, cheekbones etc, make sure to save your shape before you start to be safe) That combined with some fiddling with the lights might at least exclude some things that could be causing you to look like this?
  22. Tho I absolutely agree that griefing and/or harassment is a very bad and cowardly thing to do... If this causes you stress and it is actually affecting your health, you should take a look at how deep in SL you are. If SL is able to affect your RL this much, maybe you yourself should take a healthy step back. I know, you did not ask to be treated like this by this person, but again, if this whole thing gets to you like this, it says as much about the griefer as it does about you. You are no longer in kindergarten, there are tools to minimize or stop someone from harassing you. Use them and try to deal with the situation by using those tools. LL will not step up for you, they rarely do. I do wish you the fun SL you deserve, I hope this person looses interest when you start taking the right steps.
  23. Have to agree with Alwin. I doubt a platform like SL is suitable for a 4 yr old. Sure, to sit on your lap for a few minutes, taken you are in an area suitable for a kid. The rides and amusement parks in SL are not build for a RL 4 yr old, the are build for residents that RP a kid or teens that are allowed in SL. You kid will have enough time later on to explore a platform like this, for now he is much better of with RL toys or a picturebook. If you insist he/she plays games, get a Nintendo or a PS. Those were meant for kids in that age. In my yrs in SL I came across more ppl that had a too young kid on their lap while playing SL, used to hear them on voice chat. A lot of times they did this coz otherwise the kid would go do "bad" things coz they were too busy playing SL and not attending to what a child needs. Attention from a parent that isn't focused on SL. Not saying at all this is true in your case but I know this happens...
  24. You are not being too critical, asking yourself and this community a question is good, you will, as you see, get many perspectives. One thing not mentioned is that a majority of ppl do not even realize they are judging, it takes less then a split second for your mind to form an impression of a person. Same goes for a situation. And you will act and interact based on the impression without realizing you have put that person "in a box", labeled probably nice, probably rude, probably smart or whatever. Sadly this goes also for skin color, where you live and many other factors that are making ppl see and therefor treat you a certain way. The trick is to try to realize humans are made that way... it was useful at one time when we lived in caves, tribes and were actually in real danger at times. The other, more important, trick is to try to be conscious of the fact we do this by nature and think another split second and be sure not to judge that fast.
  25. As in not to having a try at trees?
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