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I do keep up with that, and I did read/listen to the parts of that last TPV meeting I was curious about. She knows the current complexity formula is useless (and given her remarks in chat it was obvious) there's no way she'd want any limits until it's all redone, and then it would be a whole different story than trying to force it now. The rest of that part of the discussion? Lots of yelling, especially by a certain person in chat, and a lot of "wishful thinking". And yeah, given how it's one of the main sources of income for LL, the whole avatars ecosystems, there's no way they'd shoot themselves in the foot and enforce new limits on the old types of content. "Yesterday you could buy and wear 38 things, and today it's 20, or less." Pretty obvious how much less people would spend on their avatars customization. And that's mainstream stuff, fantasy community would just die as they need a lot more room already. So it can only work with new types of content, e.g. animesh. It was released like this already, 1 only (2 for premiums), and a heavy li "tax" if it's rezzables. I'd argue all that made it far less popular than it would be otherwise, though, especially rezzable ones as some bigger/heavier ones are too much for tiny plots where they'd take half of li. But even then, it's a new content, with its own set of rules, and not quite breaking 21 (soon) years worth of stuff because "complexity purists" can't be bothered to use provided tools to avoid seeing those that don't fit their idea of a "good avatar".
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With the gamed complexity formula that is going on for as long as mesh exists? Yeah, it's definitely will be an unpopular idea. It's funny to see some people (like above) still think that ARC matters one bit. There are 4.5m triangle attachments with 3.5k "complexity". Here was Beq (lead developer of Firestorm) had to say about it not too long ago.
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Price aside I personally don't like the look of it at all. If I were shopping for a new body now (new account or whatever) I would not buy this one even for 2.5k. I like Reborn these days, but even if it was "too much" for me I'd pick regular Legacy over this one.
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Linking is not a panacea, sadly, just a workaround. If it's for the picture purposes, then sure, can link some pieces together, because after the idea and setup are finalized there unlikely any big changed needed anymore. But for everyday usage the negative side of linking is a bit much. For example some fantasy stuff. Any little texture based change that is not simple manual tint will require redoing whole linking process from zero, because HUDs won't work properly anymore. Want to change gems textures, metals, feathers etc? Right, instead of doing it right when and where you want it, you'd have to go back home or any other place with rez tights, putting unlinked copies on, doing changes, rezzing it on the ground, linking, picking back and finally wearing outfit with said changes. Not a very viable solution in my book. And with an ability to link rigged mod pieces together the only possible negative side of having more attachment points is gone for ages. Because anyone already can link a 50m triangles piece together taking just one point, and this piece will likely be more than people would normally wear on the current 38 point. Or 138 points. So having more would really be just more for the convenience purposes, rather than "wearing more triangles".
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I'm also happy with Reborn ever since I've swapped to it. Actually not sure what body I'd have to see to actually switch to it. It's certainly not this "new" Legacy waifus edition, nor the LaraX for me as I just don't find it visually appealing. Perhaps a new body by Maitreya or Ebody whenever they would want to make one, actually new body and not the rework/update of existing ones. But because their existing bodies are so popular I can see why they wouldn't really bother to make anything new. And there's no competition around at all, because Belleza being Belleza, and TMP being TMP. P. S. Friend wanted to go grab a demo to check it herself, their mainstore's region now enabled key experience which has to be accepted to even enter, and likely thanks to that it's nearly empty now. TMP REALLY being TMP. At least demo is available around other places like Stealthic's, but yeah, they never learn, do they...
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There's gallery on their site with much more, but not too much new stuff from what I've seen. Most are updates. And I've only noticed two exclusives on the list, although I did scroll through quite fast. And the issue that is present on their 1.6 bodies with finger/toenails is also a thing on this one (well, duh, it's the same body really). Only way to restore the nails after hiding hands/feet via HUD is via chat commands. It's a "known issue" since June. They had time to mesh up a new "addon", but absolutely ignored this.
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Demo-ed it now. It does look very "off" in my opinion. I've used the shape I had for Legacy and it's just "wrong" proportions. To balance out heavy top I had to add quite a bit on the bottom, and it pretty much became slightly odd looking Reborn+waifus at that point. Yep, it's Legacy Perky all over again, because why make a good system with seamless body mods and materials sync like Reborn did it (or even Maitreya with their initial petite/flat chests), when you can sell what is essentially a body mod priced as a whole body.
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Yes, it is possible with any animations and any mod AOs, which Vistas are. Take out the desire animation, rezz other AO where it will go, drop needed animation(s) into AO's content, then edit notecards (should be obvious which ones, in Vista's case ao.default for walks/stands etc, dance.default for dances) and add animation to the correct category.
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I'll demo later, because why not, but I really don't think this body will get too popular. I still remember PR campaign with original Legacy release, when bloggers and creators "been talking about it" for weeks prior to release, all the previews and saying what an ultimate body it is. This one was kind of just released, missed skin fair, too. With zero previews and (totally unbiased, of course /s ) reviews. Lelutka and Stealthic collaboration is a good way to get the word going, though, but I'm not sure it's enough. And while I'll demo it when I'll have time for it, I already know that I'm very unlikely to buy it and not even because "Legacy bad" or "but muh complexity" kind of stuff, I was pretty happy with Legacy from 2020 to 2023. But simply because it's only a half of a new body if waist and below fits original Legacy clothing. I also use deformers on Reborn and pretty happy with the result, so why would I really go back to "almost Legacy, but with built-in waifus-like addon"? Similar(ish) deal as with LaraX, although that one I just don't find visually appealing the slighest as it's really just rehashed Lara with long overdue fixes to the most problematic areas (at the cost of nearly entire wardrobe it had). Give me a new body, made from the scratch, that is good looking (subjective, of course), and looks like worth trying/wearing to see if it'll get enough support so it could become my "main body". Well, unless it's Belleza, in this case they can keep their new bodies too. Those reworks/rehashes/half of new bodies really don't appeal to me at all.
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A little heads up for those who use/have omega appliers for eyes. 4.0 has omega removed completely as omega's creator/owner is not around for years and whole thing is abandoned, so apparently Lelutka couldn't fix some of bugs with it. That's according to CSR on Discord. Workaround for those with 3.1 heads is to use a style hud. Eyes presets can be saved there, then restored on 4.0 heads/eyes. I suppose people who will only have 4.0 head won't have this option if they'll want to grab some of those older eyes appliers that don't come with Lelutka's option. But everything from early 2020 has Evo/Evox (2021 and later, but they work exactly the same) option, and many older releases got updated too, so it probably won't be a too big issue for the new users.
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Skin Fair 2024 - what are you excited for?
steeljane42 replied to Stephanie Misfit's topic in Your Avatar
Nothing for me after checking it all. Not a budget issue in my case, I'd love to throw some money at creators, but there's really nothing I want. Not liking the Billie head on myself at all and given the rig it doesn't shape into anything I like, especially the chin area. Snow Rabbit head actually looks pretty good, and that comes from someone who has been using Lelutka heads from pre-bento days. But it's just not the look I want/need for myself either. Genus morph stuff looks terrible in my opinion. Plus it's Genus, with their so called "4k" rubbish, so a hard pass. -
Orwar already has mentioned part about envirnonmental shine on the mesh heads, but I'd also add to it other examples. Terrible shape, and there's a lot of people who sport them, makes those expensive heads look hideous. I don't mean terrible in a sense of aesthetics, but actually broken so eyes poke through the eyelids and teeth show through the lips, such kind of things. Should creators abandon bento and go back to static heads from 2015 now so people can't ruin their work by shapes? Same for the clothing, if you want to use it as an example. No matter how good rigging is the extreme slider values (either minimum or maximum) will break it and make it look awful. No exceptions. There will be everything, from clipping to angular edges and stretched (in case of maxed out sliders) textures. I don't think anyone would look at those and think it's a creator's fault. Now I do agree that copybotting is not something that anyone should do, and as much as I love to mod things there are some items that I don't care about modding wise, like jeans. If I like the fit and texture then it's really all I need from them, so I do buy no-mod things too. That said leaving item mod allows for a lot more fun to be had. And some creators like TURB are totally fine with people ripping off their original textures as long as they don't sell those originals, and even tell to those people who do to show them their take on it. Some others provide the UVs, for the same reason, and I don't mean the FP garbage that has to come with with those, but original mesh creators. I tend to support those creators quite a lot by buying their creations at the full price.
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Not arguing about your decision to run viewer at any desired settings, but there will always be "those people". Someone on a potato with possible lowest settings will see your place and your entire avatar in the worst possible way. Always, no exceptions. I don't remember when it was removed, but when one could uncheck basic shaders in preferences it would break others' mesh avatars for this person completely. Can't say it ever should have been a reason to not use mesh, though. It's no one's loss really. Unless it's a commercial kind of place which does try to get people visit, spend their time and there and (hopefully) spend some of their money, then it's most likely made at the expense and for fun of the place's owner. Even if it's kept public some random visitors not coming back (for absolutely any reason, not just LODs related) can hardly be considered a loss. I strongly believe that like with avatars the regions/parcels should be built exactly how their owners want it for themselves. And if other random people don't like it... who really cares?
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Pretty much. Unlike was posted above, most people I know, myself included, do keep LoD on 4 at all times. I still do appreciate well made LODs, however. Because while the 4 is a standard pretty much, some creators manage to make such bad lods that their stuff breaks from just a bit of zooming out. 2-3m and it already shows some textured shadows under pieces that have vanished. Good example would be one fairly popular furniture/decor store starting with N. Many lovely looking pieces there, but LODs are just beyond terrible on 3/4 of their releases, so even indoor furniture/decor is unusable.
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I'd say it's more about the body addons and mods than the boobs size. While there are some of them available for other bodies, Lara(x) included, like maze thighs, they tend to look very weird on thin bodies. I'm not a big fan of squish effect myself, but it definitely looks much better on Reborn than it does on Lara(x). Then there are official mods that actually have support of big clothing creators, juicy boobs and rolls, and waifus. Alternatives for Lara (not sure about X version yet, not really following it at all) do exist, but there's nearly zero clothings for them. Legacy just made making mods for their body useless in 2022 when they forbid creators to release dev kits for those mods (except ones that were released before this), making them pretty much a waste of time to make. And released no mods themselves. Reborn is a fun body to play with, due to numerous mods, being mod itself, and enormous support by all kinds of creators. And, well, shape/aesthetics are just preferences in the end, that's too personal to really try and figure or argue about. For example some people are happy about LaraX's improvements and changes, which have definitely happened, but I see it and think: "Nope, do not like it one bit, and would never buy it these days, it's the same old Maitreya I've got tired of in 2020 when I swapped to Legacy (and to Reborn in 2023)."
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Just in Case - Inventory Hoarding
steeljane42 replied to Persephone Emerald's topic in General Discussion Forum
I keep original boxes/unpackers as a backup in well organized backups folder. Because you never know when some creator will decide to leave SL (and they can manually take their items down making them impossible to redelivery anymore) or a delivery system going to break. There's probably a few of those backups/boxes I could delete now, mostly with the old clothing that never got an update for any newer bodies than maitreya/freya/slink from back then, but not too much as I've been deleting them and some things actually got updated, in which cases I've replaced the backup boxes with a new versions. But unpacked things and stuff that I know I would never use is an instant deletion for me. I've deleted all old standard sized clothing I had before mesh bodies became a thing, and just about everything else from there. Same goes for stuff that I just won't ever use, for example darker skintones as "it's not me", and just some stuff I don't like anymore or that got replaced by better items/creations through the years. -
Reborn has some arm mods, although I would guess they are not compatible with plenty of clothing. Not quite what I'd use myself, but I've seen both in-world and from a quick glance they did look fine, especially the 2nd ones despite their name. 1st: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Ebody-Reborn-Muscle-Arms/24039866 2nd: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/kuromori-stiff-masturbation-arms/25484953
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Expectations are fine to have, and I would guess most people who are familiar with weekend sales have them on the realistic side. You/I/they are not getting Deadwool quality clothing (just using it as an example of very quality stuff that never does weekend sales) on such sales. And the, let's call it, "lesser quality" items are often already in the "never sell" category. Weekend sales, combined with some updates (still work to rig for such an update. of course, but usually not nearly as much as the new item with many sizes) are a good way to give some items that would just collect virtual dust forever a second life (pun intended). Same goes for some texture refreshes. Then there is a whole lot of creators and merchants (those who don't do own mesh, animations, textures or anything, and just repack stuff they bought elsewhere) whose releases pretty much aimed at such weekend sales from the very start. I've posted about this years ago. There's absolutely no way something mediocre, both look and rigging wise, split to 3 or even 4 pieces sells normally for a 300/piece on a regular event, when there are better alternatives. But the weekend sales where it's "just 300 for the whole thing"? Yeah, it does sell then. Of course there are actually a few top quality creators that join such sales every now and then, usually not very often, and then it's exactly what been mentioned before - for the exposure. But the "lag" between the event release and the weekend price release in such cases is often very very long, years sometimes. And in this case I think it's also totally valid to throw in something older so new customers might find their stores. As much as I shop, and I do shop way too much, I still find some new creators/stores through regular events and (much more rarely) weekend sales.
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I think it's safe to assume that as there has been zero featured and "blogger network" news posted since February 23rd. I'm not sure if it's related in any way, and perhaps it's just something broke on their end, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were more departures from LL along with the ones that have been discussed in the other topic here.
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It's actually not doing super amazing considering it's a free update. There's 6k unique users detected with it ( a bit more with petitex). For the last 90d it has 4.5k new entries, but original Lara has negative 1.6k users for the same time frame, and assuming most of those users swapped to X instead it's a similar growth to what OG Lara had. Reborn in the same 90d has almost 4.9k new detections. Total seen number - Lara will remain untouched for a few more years (150k, 2nd being Reborn now with 35k), most likely 5+, but it has all the entries from people who never log anymore for years, so it's a very bad indicator. BB site had a useful last 24h data, but it's broke recently, but before it did it usually had around 7k Lara 5.3 (some more with 5.2 and really old ones like 4.1), 5k Reborns and only 1k LaraX.
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Thanks for the update on it. I was pretty sure they'd try to go for this niche now too. Maybe a skin fair release unless they'd want to run their own Legacy Spring event again this year. I wonder how this one will do, though. Back when Legacy was released it just hit that perfect window when people wanted something more than Maitreya, but Slink HG "wasn't it", and Belleza bodies were semi-abandoned, so combined with their very pushy PR and buying out creators who were "thrilled about it" they've managed to squeeze into the market and had their comfortable 2nd spot until Reborn got as popular as it is now. These days.. not so much. Failed GenX bodies is a good example of "not being needed or wanted". Now Belleza never had a good presentation, so this one will probably do better. Maybe if they do this 50% off for the users of other bodies campaign again that they did last year, or even 50% off for the Legacy users. Because if it'll be 5k, and with nearly no clothing and their terrible no-mods/addons policy in place, I don't see people rushing to buy it.
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I'm personally more bothered of having to scroll through all those endless repeats whenever I check weekend sales sometimes, than a little increase in price. There's a number of stores on those lists/events that seem to cycle same few items for years at this point. I can't really imagine they even make the entry fee back at this point (and if you check their locations they are always empty or nearly empty), but being friends with event owners helps in some of those cases.
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Are we ever gonna be able to hide account age?
steeljane42 replied to Midnoot's topic in General Discussion Forum
Only lifetime premium if someone got one last year. But there's a script functionality to check for that if someone is being nosy. --- As for the hiding account age, nope, can't relate to it. Perhaps because I don't really do online romance/relations and never did, but can't say I care if someone have been around for 15+ years and is probably in their late 30s at best, probably much older. If anything, when it comes to times I engage in RP, I do prefer people who has been around for sometime to one week old throwaway accounts. They usually (not always, of course), take things more seriously.- 545 replies
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They've added 20 new non gimmicky names in early January, though. And as with usual holidays names when these will rotate out a bit after Valetine's they are going to get replaced by normal ones. I've actually liked a few of January's batch. Not enough to change one I've picked in 2020, but some usable ones there, for my tastes anyway.
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It especially won't be a performance hit because those heads are likely not going to be popular unless they are going to do some crazy promotions with those. Like free/nearly free heads. Going EvoX didn't help Catwa at all, last time I checked that last release of theirs with EvoX had around 225 entries on the worn heads list after over 3 months since its release. And if you don't see something around at all, then no performance hit even if it's terribly made. /s