steeljane42

I agree. And also the earlier new/returning user learns about how most skin creators do it the better. And most, especially top tier skin creators, do separate their head/body skins. 7DS and Wow skins are pretty bad quality compared to actually good skins, so unless budget is an issue I wouldn't push users towards them. Good skin matters as much as the head itself, and bad skin can (and will) make even the best heads look quite terrible. Now what looks good or bad is subjective, not going to argue about that, we all have our preferences. But low quality skins simply lack details that the good skins have, and look very bland in comparison.

Current complexity formula has been played with for so many years that it has higher chance to show phases of the Moon, than anything relevant for SL's content/performance. You know it really is broken when a couple of basic textured mesh cubes have less "complexity" than 4m (yes, millions) triangles old non-bento heads by Catwa that you can still encounter from time to time. LL was reworking it and the land impact calculation formula along with it, but they've put it on hold a few years ago, and knowing LL it's most likely abandoned at this point.

Which is the worst possible thing as far as SL performance is considered. You are basically wearing 5-6 sizes of same outfit at the same time, the rest are just invisible. Now I don't really care about perfect SL optimization, far from it, but some of her pieces hit well over 1m triangles (more than average dressed avatar in normal outfit, accessories etc together). I pass on her stuff even for weekend sale prices because of that.

Single colors. I wear black at most times, occasionally white, unless it's a rare denim piece, which I prefer in classic blue tones. So the body size pack with all colors means "a single color" for me in most cases, and I'm not buying a single color for 500L$ those body packs usual cost. But it gets even worse, after swapping from Legacy to Reborn, which actually has a few well supported mods, and seeing some creators also separate waifu/juicy/rolls sizes from regular body in such packs... Nope, not buying anything there, unless it's a weekend sale.

Absolutely best privacy in SL are full homesteads/private regions with locked down access lists. Only thing others can see "from the outside" are green dots on the world map, which doesn't say anything really. It's one pricy solution, however. But for the more afforable solution, yeah, a non skybox/skydome, but a full parcel (even if small) on any private island with instant eject security orb will do the trick more or less.

That, and the ability to blacklist stores from showing completely would help a lot to make MP a bit less terrible. Not breaking the search (again) would do it, too. But for the MP as it was for the last few years, and especially when LL "upgraded" elastic search, I can't say I can or want to use it anymore. As of today I have 25 purchases made on MP this year, 15 of which are demos from the stores on my favorite stores list (means I don't have to deal with the garbage search). One would think with 10% cut LL takes from MP purchases it would be in their best interest to make MP more usable, but it's definitely not the case. So shopping events/weekend sales/in-world shopping it is for me.

I believe it was, yes. But over the years I've seen so many of those suggestions. I barely check the mainland forum, because it has never interested me, but almost any time I do... something similar is being suggested there.

I do remember seeing a few of those around. Skybox ban quite a few times actually. I think I do remember the suggestion to limit IMs on the mainland, too. "Because it's not realistic". I suppose that person is not aware about cellphones (and unlimited plans either). And I do remember at least a couple of those public enemies indeed, just one of them is overly active with his "amazing suggestions".

You have to activate 3 voice/talking gestures that should be in your folder where the head is, then it should animate head's mouth when you voice.

I was pretty happy when I've changed mine, too (not on this account, however, it's perms testing/working one, it can live without one). Did it on the very first day they became available, then had to poke LL support and JIRA about a few leftover places where the old name was still shown until they fixed it around a month later, but still totally worth it for me. Like some others said it's vanity, but so is pretty much any other thing in SL.

While it is, there's certainly a few names that didn't appeal to almost anyone. You can use legacy (non web) search to get a rough idea of what's really popular and what is not. There are certain last names (new ones, not the ones before whole resident thing) that have around 15-25 users. Popular ones range from 500 to 1000 and probably some are even above it, can't say I did count them all. Is it worth the place in already small list for months when it's that unpopular? Probably not.

They did not.

And that's how we got to the times where/when you disagree with something/somebody it's now considered "trolling and attacking". Not just on those forums, of course, but everywhere on the internet and rl, too. The OP is silly, to say the least, and so is this suggestion as it'll only take LL's support time for literally nothing. Time they could use to, you know, actually help people with account/payment/tech/land etc issues. The support's answer will be their standard one either way. And the only correct answer has been given already. Block/derender and that's about it. But because that answer is not to the OP's liking (and some other white knights') I must be a troll, vampire and so on, too. /s

Fees aside it's just something they've decided on. Back into Origins heads days MP fees weren't as big as they are now, and they still never sold their heads there. I'm almost sure even pre-bento heads from even older times also weren't there. They have an extra HUD with each head that is named update.my.*headname*.

Unlikely. I still see some new people (thankfully not too many) start with Catwa heads, probably because it's what they find on the MP given they are sold there, and Lelutka's are not. Most swap to something better (i.e. Lelutka) rather quickly if they stick around for more than a few months. "4k" (which it isn't, of course) or not, but that freebie head is not going to change anything, the older freebie version was exactly the same. A budget option for those who can't really buy anything better or making their 20th alt for no reason, a temporary option until Lelutka has a sale for those who want to save a bit, and so on. If anything the messy HUD, lack of support and (subjectively) quite bad look will push new users to the better options. So far according to the stats list their most popular not free head (Babyface 001) went from negative trend of -300 within last 180 days to -240, and 50 of those were within first two days of an update. And is around 350-ish spot in most seen attachments by bonniebots today/yesterday. So as expected people played with it for a few minutes/hours and put back to the shelf. If they really wanted to/want to make a comeback they need to make a new line from the scratch instead of just a very long overdue facelift for those old ones.

Partially, probably. But there are multiple reasons. From general lack of knowledge about proportions, to using default/provided shapes for their heads/bodies/skins (most of which are kinda bad and too tall from what I saw) and to compensating when they see that "everyone are too tall". But it really got way better over the years, at least around modern parts of SL. When I joined 11 years ago and made my first shape shortly after I set my height to 1.8m* (5.9 feet?) and compared to most female avatars around I was on the short end. These days I'm 1.65m and I'd say I'm average height wise at most places I go to. But every now and then when I manage to wander into some "old school" SL with those 2.2-2.4m tall avatars still around I do look pretty tiny indeed. Newer furniture/animations are also getting there. Back in the day I had to adjust myself on most of them, because they were made with 2m women in mind, and these days most decent animations work/fit me out of the box. *Height is taken via FS/prim, because agent height used by LL viewer (and some others, apparently) is pointless.

And this is exactly why I gave up on gifts many years ago, with very rare exception here and there. Shop and Hop is especially bad on this, because of the layout (it is a bad layout for shopping in general), because of the scale (far too many regions, especially on the last few rounds), but most importantly because it's just unusable stuff in almost every single case. I still occasionally "edit-check" the boxes with gifts of some stores that look interesting enough, but yeah, in 99% cases it's either a choker, earrings, tattoo or something really really old. SL20B round of Shop and Hop was especially fun in that regard. One of the biggest hair stores on the grid? Earrings gift. Just... why? They are not even greedy with FLF/Weekend sales every other month now, and they have plenty of still nice, but a bit older hairstyles to put in there, but no, it's earrings. I don't even need it, because I buy all their hairstyles that suits me on release, but would be nice for others. Big clothing store? Earrings. Despite not having a single accessory release before. Furniture store with some decent creations every now and then? A choker. And so on. Thankfully many stores I like do/did post what they are offering either on their flickr or in the group notices, so checking it was pretty fast, and picking those 3-4 actually nice and quality gifts along with a few credits was even faster.

That's what most shape makers do. They sell a shape made for the head, and often it has a few versions included, like that head+Legacy/Gianni/Jake etc, and a style card how to achieve the same look as on the ad. So the skin, other BOM addons/layers if any where used, clothing/accessories and so on.

Shapes do not have demos in 99% cases now, if last 1% was aware "why" it would be 100%. Any shape can be exported to .XML, and then imported back to your own mod shape. So the old-school "protection methods" of making huge hands/feet on the demo shapes serves no purpose as it can be fixed within a few seconds.

Not Found and Stray Dog. Avi-glam and Avarosa also make skins in NF skintones, so you can get a Lelutka skin there, and body skin at NF. Lelapeau should be compatible with NF tones as well.

Back when this event (It's Uber, isn't it?) did this first time the main reason was so it just doesn't stay camped by freebie hunters 24/7 for a week or longer. It actually was pre-planned with merchants, so every single one had a LM to their stores for the gifts. And there were group notices and what not to go grab gifts at the mainstores instead. I haven't checked the current anniversary round yet, but if this one is a mix of LMs and gifts, then it kinda eliminates this purpose because people are going to check every single gift to see if it's a LM or an actual gift.

They have also just opened a section on their Discord which does feature entire list of approved creators. https://discord.com/channels/670329692582051852/1141024515074306068 For the copyrights and other stuff it's best to ask Lelutka, but I would guess it's totally DMCA worthy since that UV is Lelutka's creation. Probably not worth the hassle, expenses and time, though, given how small of a brand Rebirth is.

If anything head prices went down over the years, not up. Non bento heads in 2015-2016 did cost more than bento heads do now, and Lelutka dropped their prices ages ago from 5k to 4k during the "stay safe at home" campaign or whatever it was called. Even Catwa did not too long ago, but for entirely different reasons (but hey, good for those 3 people who still like their heads). 4k or 16$ is a fair price for a complex product like that. There's only very few quality heads/bodies creators in SL and I do believe they should be compensated for their work accordingly. Not to mention Black Friday sales (50%) and free Xmas giveaways for 3 years in a row (that's 6 top quality mesh heads now). So if one really doesn't want to spend more or anything at all - waiting is always an option. They did it in 2021 already shortly after original 3 EvoX heads release. It's very visible when you check popular skin creators releases/flickr and check what was made for SLUV/other brands, and what was made for EvoX. There's a small pause between March (EvoX release at Skin Fair 2021) and some remaining SLUV skins being released, because those were made by many creators in advance. But Summer 2021 onwards, especially after they've announced all other Evo heads getting a EvoX update, it's 95% to 100% EvoX content as far as new releases/events are concerned, with older stuff for Evo/SLUV/Genus/Catwa being pushed to weekend sales until eventually even those became more rare (as there's not much demand for it).

They won't. Genus is not just "a little too late", they are very late. And from what I saw it's almost the same thing as before, apparently still with bugs. Also: see Catwa's price cut for their "amazing" old and new heads. Well, it happened, no one cared really, general stats on all possible stats lists still show them as declining. To have any chance at all to compete vs Lelutka they'd need entire new line of really amazing heads, bugs free and actually very different from the existing line that they couldn't/can't fix properly forever. Something like Lelutka did when they did launch Evo line (except the bugs, Origins line wasn't a buggy mess like Genus). I expect some people who even remember what Genus is to toy with those updated heads for a bit and forget they exist again, because it's really nothing new aside of new UV.

There's a bug in new BlueSteel indeed, but not rollback worthy by the looks of it. Still annoying, though. https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-234277 Hopefully it'll be fixed before next week's RC rolls, I was (and still am) looking for the RC names to be back fully, but if this is not a super easy fix, then it'll probably delay LeTigre and Magnum rolls by another week at least.