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  1. I just came by to moan. (and all of the information below will also be highly wrong, but just feel my pain) ALWAYS use the demo first to see if it is what you wanted and does what you expect. ALWAYS, don't spend one linden until you've got the entire avatar tested, or you'll end up chasing your tail. I must have 6 or 8 female avatars in varying states of unsatisfactory mesh incompleteness. I don't understand what mesh is... sometimes it is shape, sometimes it is skin then sometimes apparently it is "bones", my goodness me, but I don't get on with it at all. How new people cope - I dread to think. The more I try to figure it out - the more confused I get. One of the problems is everyone has gone off in different directions, some like making heads ...ooh animated heads, Wow, lets have a thousand different mouth patterns then. (rolls my only two eyes heavenwards - and hopes they don't fall out.) Then there are fingers - and whose little toes are these? oh look fingernails, oh boy, more OCD things to faff about with. Breasts? Oh yeah, you're gonna want Big Bazongas and then there will be femboys who want flat chested looks. so ALL of this ends up being a swappit body, head, hands, feet, boobies. I got Maitreya body -oops!!! my fault for not realising they were pedantically selling a body.... did I want a head too? Well, yes, please - that would be great, after all, my human body included the head. Sighs. Ah well, no, you see, what you're actually doing is using the legacy head with a maitraya body shape with some skin and maybe hands and feet that I think could be 'Slink' that might be because slink feet came out beforehand, maybe for when we first started seeing sculpty shoes. I don't know, its all mad now and nothing fits. Frankly, I think Maitreya should exhibit their bodies WITHOUT heads, so people get it and don't mistakenly assume they're getting a whole, complete, intact, avatar. So now you start looking into Bento Heads, so you need to get your head around Catwa.... I've just gotten completely confused about whether Catwa is the family or genera or bento is the species. I can't figure out where on the family tree of avatar components these things apply. "Bento is bones and Catwa is the brand" is what I think I understood from what people said to me through their LoL's on the group IM You need an education and experience equivalent to a Master's degree - and takes about as long just to get the body, head, fingers boobs, just right and co-ordinated.... now the issue is that skin no longer works on that body or head, so you now need "Appliers" which pastes your skin over the shapes of the body and head. I also have clothing outfits which have as an attachment point my right hand... for a frock!!!!!!! so, when I slip up and "wear" a leash handle instead of "add" it, my dress comes off. Then it is like "Dang! what WAS that dress called???" ( to try and locate it in my inventory while I stand there nekkid... wonder if someone will invent an Bento "Blush" animation for my head? I tried Maitreya, but then my old skin (which was perfectly nice) had a seam between legacy head and Maitreya body. I still haven't worked out if I can fix this without having to commit to buying a new head. Why am I buying a whole skin now? I really only need the face. (Hannibal lecter eat someone else's heart out). Stuff it - I'll wear neck jewellery or a collar, (cries softly, but no tears appear as my face animation isn't configured correctly) How much thousands of lindens have you got? Well, say goodbye to it all - because now we are going to start looking at clothing your new avatar and joy of joys, nothing fits anything else. I have several avatars with maitreya and I had a struggle with it - it takes advantage of the three layers of tattoo, underwear and clothing, but sometimes stuff sticks, or the layers they interfere with one another. If the Sim is laggy it might have a delay, so you're clicking something else now when the front half of your stockings disappears on one leg. I honestly ended up bringing in another alt just to watch what was happening on the one I was editing So then I bought a Bento shape, thinking that might work, a lovely thing, a 'whole avatar' but made by someone who doesn't adhere to measurements that others use... in fact, you start to realise they're ALL different. I got a Wet N Wild avatar that is hot, but I cannot get one single pair of shoes to fit - and she came with platforms 5 storeys high so I would please like just a nice pair of high heeled court shoes. I'd just got that avatar some stockings for her maitreya body - shape thing, whatever it is... they work well I don't dare try to get them on the new Bento shape. You start to hear all these names... I guess it would be like going to a Motorbike Fayre and discovering people selling lawn-mower parts and bits for chain saws in amongst it all.... hey - maybe it might be compatible. Nope. forget it, don't waste your money. Nothing will be compatible. There are the Slink feet, I can't remember what Belleza is, but they feature in there too, and, of course Maitreya and Catwa... You'll realise that dress shopping now means you are looking for these logos to match what you bought. Creators are having to build three or four variations, so I assume they have more work and that is bound to put costs up. Gone are the days of uploading a photo of your cat and making a T-shirt. It is WAY more sophisticated than that now. I'm too old now to bother learning 3D modelling, but it was a consideration, because I can't buy much "off-the-peg" any more and forget the Freebie Warehouses. Nothing from there will work on mesh. Well, it will SAY it works with Mesh, but just not YOUR choice of mesh body parts... Bones?... you buy virtual bones? What the actual ......? Yeah, there ARE freebies Bento bodies, but I tried one and I couldn't work out how to use it - I ended up with two bodies on, I looked like a broken chameleon. I just don't want to spend the rest of my life getting every little bit of my avatar perfect I want to get on and have fun living in a virtual world, not going to the make up department for weeks at a time, hopping around SL looking for that one pair of shoes that just might fit my stupid feet. I never ever did get the make up working either, probably because I was using the legacy head - I don't know. There, that was a good rant. I'm glad I got that out of my system
  2. SECOND LIFE SPECIAL CHARS (well, some of them) When I want to talk to someone who has fancy chars in their name, I just grab it in chat text and copy it - anyway, here's a bunch I found and sorted into categories a bit. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ STANDARD SYMBOLS TO FANCY UP YOUR PROFILE. ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡ ╔═════════╗ ║My Name ║ ╚═════════╝ (\ /) ( . .) c(")(") PUT the Bunni in the Box!!! ICONS ☎ ☏♨ ♧ ☞ ☜ ™ ⊕♨ ❉✿❀ ☻ ™ 乀 ♥♡ ღ ☂ © ® ™ † ₪ •ิ . • 彡 ❣ ☊ ☌ ☃ ✞ MISCELLANEOUS № ¤ ∞ ㊝ ≡ ✖ •ิ ๑ ۩ ۞ ▪ ▫ □ ˇ и ζ £⊕℡❣•۰•● ∈ 【】√ 【 】 ™ 乀 の♈ ◖◗♋ ☃ ۩ 美☠✔✯☑ □ 灬 ≈ ◈ Ш ∷ ღ ☃ ❆ ∆ ⓛⓞⓥⓔ ◈ ◊ ▫ Café Male ♂ Female ♀ MUSIC ♬ ♪ ♩ ♭ ♫♪ SHAPES ☆ ★ ▽ △ ▲ ••● ¤ ◊ ◕ 。◦ ° °º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø❉ ☃ ❆ ◎ 〖 〗『 』【 】☉ ◈ ▣▤ ▥ ▦ ▩ ■ ◆ ◣◥ ▲ ◐ ◑ Cards/Gambling ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ ♧ ♤ ◊ ﻬ ஐღ ↔ ↕ ↘••● ¤ ╬ ﹌ ▽ ☜♥☞ ♂ ♀ ◊ ∵ ∴ ∷ # NUMBERS ① ② ③ ④ ⑤ ⑥ ⑦ ⑧ ⑨ ⑩ ⑪⑫⑬⑭⑮⑯⑰⑱⑲⑳ [these are handy to put your Profile Picks into order] LETTERS ⓐ ⓑ ⓒ ⓓ ⓔ ⓕ ⓖ ⓗ ⓘ ⓙ ⓚ ⓛ ⓜ ⓝ ⓞ ⓟ ⓠ ⓡ ⓢ ⓣ ⓤ ⓥ ⓦ ⓧ ⓨ ⓩ Café FLOURISHES ⊱ ⊰ 。‿ ღ ≈ ❉ இ ※ ஐ ๑ ︵︶︹︺ㄨ ஒ ண ஆ ௰ §∮ミ 灬 җ ۝ O i' ขี้ แ ง SYMBOLS √ ƒ Γ Δ Θ Ι Λ Ξ Ο Π Σ Φ Χ Ψ Ω α β γ δ ε ζ η θ εїз ≈ £∞ ·.· ε ïз ‡ † @∩_∩ ≮≯ ≡ +-×÷﹢﹣±/=╰☆╮≠→←﹏﹋﹌ 。 ξ № ξζω*ㄨ ≮≯ +-×÷﹢﹣±/= ∏≌♀『』Ψ ※ BOXES ╠ ═ ╝═╝╠ ═ ╝ ╬ ╠ ╣ ┽┊ ░ ▒ : ﹎ ︷ ﹌ ▂ ▣▤ ▥ ▦ ▩ ■ ARROWS → ← » « ➳ ➽ CHARACTERS Š Õ Ő ő ∞ © Ž εїз ASIAN ㊣ ㊤㊊㊐㊋㊌㊍㊎㊏ ㊐㊑㊒㊓㊔㊕㊖㊗ ㊀㊁㊂㊃㊄㊅㊆ ㊇㊈㊉ Loading Done [███████████████████████████████████] 100%
  3. I can no longer see 'glow' so I decided to download the viewer again, but then it simply won't run at all. I just get a blue window frame with half the screen grey and half black and I can't even close it without using the Windows Task Manager. I am sure I reported this to Linden Lags ages ago, but got no joy. I do remember trying this ages ago and still the same problem. I just complained AGAIN. I am having to use Cool Viewer 3rd party viewer (which I like perfectly well) but it seems crazy nobody seems to fix anything any more. How the heck do new people get logged in at all? They must be losing thousands of potential customers. *sighs*
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