steeljane42

Pretty sure it's the privacy>logs&transcripts>add date stamp to transcript filenames. It should separate IM logs by month and local chat logs by day. That's on Firestorm, no idea about other viewers. That said if it takes 5 minutes to open a 80mb text file, then you might consider moving them to SSD if you can. If it's already on an SSD, then check its "health". My local chatlog is almost 100mb in size and it opens within ~1 second.

That would be me. My flickr, discord and this forum accounts are detached from my main account. I'm not a very social person, so for me it's just easier to separate the two. So I use my furniture/animations/builds/perms testing account to post in here from time to time when I'm working at PC and don't really have time for SL itself.

With so many bodies/sizes around the unpacked folder is a nightmare for new users, and not just a new ones. One of my recent purchases had over 240 items in its demo folder for the top alone, another 100+ for the bottom. LL really shouldn't implement any of such rules, because it's really up to creators how they want to sell and present their products. But if they are going to suggest/nudge creators, I think the unpacker HUD that allows a user to select the desired body size(s) in case if it's clothing and just unpacker HUDs if it's not clothing are the best. Easier to keep the backups that way, too.

Detach everything aside of the body and head/eyes/teeth, then right click yourself appearance>reset>skel&anims. It's almost surely the part of other avatars you had/have on that has a deformer included, like that AX Fox or something similar.

Based on the pictures in this thread it's better than current classic avatars, but those people who were (some still are?) expecting it to change the "mesh body/head market" and "upset quite a few current mesh body/creators" are going to be upset themselves. As a stepping stone for learning about mesh avatars/heads/bodies it'll be fine, but for anything else... yeah, as expected they are nowhere as good as even quite old bodies/heads. But hey, still better than having those angular sticks that are supposed to be fingers/toes that new avatars have now.

There're no animations in evox heads that move fingers, not even a posestand (3rd buttom from below in its HUD) does that, so it's not the head itself, but probably a side effect. Redelivery for the test purposes won't hurt, but it's most likely won't help. If you're using a body without built-in idle hands animations and not using a bento AO, then something like this might happen. Belleza bodies are like that for example, both old and new Gen X ones. Although in this case everyone, but you see you with sprayed fingers all the time anyway. Which body you're using? Another cause can be gestures, they often do all kind of wonky stuff like that. It's always worth to deactivate them all and see if it helps. And if you're comfortable with using a discord, then join Lelutka there and ask in the help-lobby, their CSRs are pretty good at helping with things like that. Link to join: https://discord.com/invite/lelutkasl

Deetalez had something similar for EvoX and the body skins. https://www.flickr.com/photos/deetalez/51391545433/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/deetalez/52440863726/ And Izzie's. https://www.flickr.com/photos/izziebutton/51407168157/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/izziebutton/26243214213/

It does (from the dashboard that is). Feel free to test with an alt. It has been the case since I started SL in 2012. Probably way longer than that. But to clarify, I didn't mean the general online status one can hide from the preferences, but the online status visibility from the friends list where location and objects edit rights are. Edit

If you don't see certain friends on the dashboard at all, i.e. they are missing completely and not just shown as offline, then they have unchecked their online status for you. It's not a bug, but a "feature". If they are there, but shown as offline, then it's related to the still ongoing issue.

Kupra demonstrated that being released at the right moment "works". As it happened when community was starving for a thick body when Freya was abandoned already and HG just didn't made the cut for that look. And the alternatives were super low quality with no support. The moment a better alternative did show up with Reborn it was already over for Kupra, even if it took/takes a while to die completely. In a way it's viable as is it's usable, but it'll only add to the desire to swap to "something better" when actual newbies are going to discover the better options. If anything I feel like NUX will do better for those serial altoholics who keep making new avatars, especially ones who do it on a budget not wanting (or not being able to) to spend a lot on those extra accounts. Even with a bit of clothing it should be not worse than meshbody's classic or those two maitreya sized ones (lucy and something else), and without extra steps to get it.

Getting a dev kit is not as complicated as you think it is. Unless it's Maitreya's and Signature's ones, which is why both are being dropped a lot by many creators as well. So not seeing it changing in any significant way. And as yet another example when numbers do not reflect sales. Check Salt&Pepper flickr where she announced dropping Legacy in favor of Gen X Classic. The former has 23k entries on the Lucia's stats list, while GenX had like 300 then (now 400 with some change), and yet she had more sales for Gen X (she sells by the body size, so it's easy to check that way). To put it in a blunt way, people who shop a lot want to look pretty in what they buy, and those NUX bodies are not going to be as pretty as existing ones (if previews are anything to go by, they are on the same level as bodies from 2014, so Maitreya and original Slink bodies). And that's why no one (almost) makes anything for the Genus heads anymore either, despite their freebie head being on the very top of the most used mesh heads lists, too.

I know a few small/medium creators who dropped maitreya last years despite it being the biggest female body out there. It's what Sammy and Arielle already said pretty much. Their sales dropped only by 10-15% after excluding what is most used body on the grid at the start, and later even increased as they started to release more stuff, because rigging didn't take as long anymore. It and the fact who you see around most popular clothing shopping events on the opening days (hint: it's Reborn and Legacy users in 85% cases) points on a simple thing: not all people shop the same/as much. It'll be even more so for the freebie/default body. Basically having it does not mean shopping for it. It is a free body. The fact it's provided by LL doesn't change anything. Some creators could still provide those "standard sized" XS to L mesh clothing if they wanted to, because there's a number of people who still use default avatars. But most of who do don't really shop for any clothes compared to people who are into shopping. Same for any free body out there. They grab it to not look horrible, pick some freebie outfit and call it done. Those who want more swap to the full'regular mesh bodies later. I don't see NUX changing that, aside of making it easier for new users by not having to find any free options, but having it right away.

No one makes anything good for any current freebie bodies, despite the fact they are pretty widely used and getting a dev kit for some of them is super easy (meshbody's classic is given to anyone pretty much for example, legacy's kits are after one classic's release). One could argue it's because it takes time for a new user to find a new body to replace current classic avatar with, but it will also take time and effort to find stores who might make clothing for those new default avatars, too. That said, I do expect stores who already rig for anything and everything, most of which are present only on the MP ( partially retextured FP gargabe and partially just those who somehow find time and energy to rig even for the long abandoned bodies) will rig for the NUX as well. I mean if someone still rigs for the Slink's Cinnamon and Chai (as a prime example of a failed body with pretty no users even at its peak), and there are some who do, then there's no way they are not going to throw one extra size in. But those nice smaller/niche stores who already dropped all they could, often Maitreya despite it still being on the very top of the most worn/used female mesh bodies, won't. Most of them create either for Reborn only or Reborn+Legacy now.

Considering LL themselves said last year how they are not going to try and compete with existing "retail" mesh bodies/heads, it was quite expected. Those who thought it would be something else/more were far too optimistic for no reason whatsoever. A better starting experience for new users without those sticks that only remotely remind fingers. Hopefully even with some simple bento AO. Something to have and use right away without being lucky with finding someone to direct them to some full body+head freebie combinations (altamura had one I think?). And then, if they'd want something better, they already will have a slightly better understanding that mesh bodies/heads are attachments, the idea behind the fitmesh clothes, bento(?) and so on.

You should stop caring about the complexity as it has been played to death for so many years. Anything rigged can and mostly is as complex as creator wanted it to be shown while not reflecting anything else. I keep using it as a perfect example, but here is an old non bento head by the creator who used to be in the market's lead back then. Pretty sure they even still sell it for over 1k after the recent "price cut". Almost 4m triangles, that's most likely as much as your entire avatar times 4-5, depending on what you're wearing, 43MB VRAM, too. It's impossibly heavy mesh and if you're unlucky to encounter it in the already slow/laggy place, it'll probably show the last, yet it's only 9.2k complexity for the current system. Totally honest and fair. /s And then I have some unrigged bracelets that are maybe not the most new and well made, but nothing bad about them either. And simply because they don't cheat the system they have 35k complexity for the fraction (40k for two) of triangles/vertices and 9mb VRAM. LL were developing new calculation system for the complexity, but last news about it are from a couple of years ago, so it's probably put on hold or abandoned. But yes, it's mostly unrigged stuff that has higher complexity numbers with the current, flexi as already mentioned, too. If you're using Firestorm you can get much better idea how "heavy" nearby avatars are by clicking the world tab on top, then improve graphics speed>avatars nearby. Edit to add own pet peeve: People who keep up with the double/triple/quadruple/etc posting for no reason whatsoever. Sometimes it makes sense if the posts are long and each reply is to a different person and/or has nothing to do with another post. But in most cases it's those who just reply with a "funny picture" or 2-3 words who just keep doing it non stop, then instead of actually reading a forum topic it often turns to scrolling through those kind of posts page after page.

They are the smallest/least curvy when nothing is highlighted there at all, clicking anything there only makes them more curved up and slightly longer. You've been around SL for a while, so you really shouldn't be surprised by that. Often most simple things are the most difficult to find. Took me forever to find some classic pumps for Legacy a few years ago for example. Ones that would be well made (texture and mesh itself), and without any gems, ruffles, bows, weird looking heels and so on. The most basic and simple shoes design ever, right? But nope, it was a whole quest to find a few through hundreds of weird and exaggerated ones. Plus basic demand and supply apply as always. Most female avatars I see that are not using either of built-in eyelashes are going for even bigger/longer eyelashes. You can try to demo guy lashes by Avi Glam, they are probably too short, but perhaps that's where lash length options would be some use.

Works fine for me. 1.69.5 had an issue with nipples and nails autoalpha, so perhaps it did break your copy of waifus. Worth to go grab a redelivery/unpack a fresh copy and not use it with 1.69.5 before checking on the 1.69.6.

Some of those newer names also show exactly same thing (avatar age, account must be older than X years to have it), especially first retired ones like Cloud. Just because they are newer, and it'll be soon 3 years after the first batch of them were replaced with the other ones, they are not any "worse" than those old last names. But if we take a personal approach, then I also don't care if a bunch of those last names from 18 years ago gets recycled either, because I don't have/use it. Not to mention they were free, unlike the new ones. --- On the less personal approach I don't think any of them should be recycled. I agree with Alwin here, LL should add more of the normal names instead of the joke/weird ones. Now some "special ones" like Waifu and Daddy were overly popular, there're hordes of Waifus around now at every single shopping event I check, at the every weekend sale, too. But lots and lots of LL were adding to the list over last 3+ years are just plain terrible and totally not popular. That can be easily checked if use legacy search for avatars, enter needed last name and click through pages with matching first names until last name matching the search will start showing. Some have less than 30 users despite being on the list for a long while, some even less. Popular and already retired ones have between 500 and 1000 entries.

I would consider it, even if there's close to no premium benefits for me aside of the extra group slots and faster events access (I can wait just fine for 2-3 days, so it's a very small benefit). Perhaps I'd even get some "free" mainland parcel to decorate as a cute public cafe or something similar. But on top of a hefty price tag upfront they just had to add a FOMO element. That's a big nope for me. While I could see myself relaxing in SL after a long working week and thinking something like "Why not? I spend a lot of time and money here anyway for over a decade already, might as well have this." The typical FOMO with "Limited quantity for the virtual goods." did kill my possible interest completely. It works on many people, sadly, as the whole gaming/entertainment industry shows, but for me it does completely the opposite. While there might some "natural" situations when one might need to rush, on SL's example it would be last names and getting a wanted combination of first and last name before someone else took it, such enforced "limited accounts" and similar things are terrible.

It's mostly on how you perceive IMs/messages than what people say, especially if it's random people. But it's just how it is, some people are more emotional and sensitive than the others, and thus they take same things very differently. I get plenty of unwanted IMs too, some while shopping, some while exploring random places, some around the usual social spots I check. All the usual garbage most people in SL have encounter every now and then. Key is to not care and not even bother responding if it goes that way, and if they still try to continue for some reason there's always a block button. As for your example with a party, it also the difference in the perspective. I personally see the local "shouting" with 20m range is more of like if someone would want to talk to 1-2 people about something and for some weird reason decided to actually shout so their conversation would be heard by all random people around. While IM is just "moving to the side and calmly talking with those who is the part of the conversation directly". I don't yell when I talk to my friends when we sit at cafe in rl either, so everyone around would hear what is not their business. And I certainly do not like those loud people who do that kind of a sound pollution, because I'm not exactly wanting to hear about their family, work, problems or what they ate for their breakfast and so on.

I'm not more social in SL these days than a decade ago, while my avatar has definitely became way better. I'm not more social when I wear some silly animesh avatar, too. Then again I don't really talk to random people in rl either, unless I have a reason to, all of which are usually work related with some basic social interactions (stores/services etc) when and where it's needed. I severely dislike a small talk as well. If there's no substance to a conversation, and those random-public chats around clubs with 20m range (or worse, with a chat extender) tend to be like that, or even worse when it's 2-3 random conversations that just happen to overlap in local, then it's a total chaos. I didn't bother to put it to my profile, because it's no one's business and why should anyone care anyway, but because of that I pretty much never check local chat aside of times when it's either my region with 2-3 people I have invited there myself or their place(s) if I got invited there instead. I still do check some social places of my choice every now and then when I actually do feel a bit social, which is mostly for a bit of RP scenario or two, but then it's pretty much 100% in IMs with people I'm interested in. So from the outside my avatar also looks like it's just afk and stands there to be pretty, which is not the case, if I ever have to afk for more than a few minutes I either log out or at least teleport to my region.

I know the store you meant and they've just got more greedy over time. I have a few of their "exclusive" versions from when they were just testing the ground with those. They had full solid and print packs with 10+ colors/patterns/prints. Then they did separate those to a few more packs, then eventually even more so it became 3 colors per pack, and in the last few (6+?) months they are selling them per color like you said. They've also started to re-release some of those "exclusive" packs (not even that old ones, but 2019-2021 so they already had Legacy+Perky sizes) with updated body sizes for Reborn and Gen X, and some of the previous packs are not being updated. According to their CSR it's because "previous exclusive packs are not the same and new have different colors" (which were 95% the same after comparing the pack I have and the demo of the new one). I have stopped buying there since then, partially because of that and partially because the quality of their stuff went downhill last/this year a lot. Especially when it comes to little rigging mistakes and other small things like incorrect auto-alpha (which you can't ever fix yourself, because their HUDs do not have the kill script function). I sent a few IMs to their CSR about such mistakes and got told they'd let the creator know, but nothing got fixed at all. Quantity over quality won, because they did a lot of sloppy rigging and made other mistakes when they were making their first steps rigging for the mesh bodies in 2015-2017. I remember skipping quite a few releases I liked because rigging was very pretty bad and fixes never happened, textures also were a hit or miss. Then they got quite a lot better, quality improved and designs while simple (given their store's style) were pretty decent, and now it seems to went downhill again with "new release for every weekend" and "THE exclusives!". Edit: I'm all for the stores trying to make some more money and will happily support them if they release quality stuff. But when the methods to get more money become simple "extracting" them, either via low quality releases, gachas or doing something like putting basic colors (black and white mostly) behind the fatpack wall, then I do completely the opposite.

There's already 5 updated outfits by Lunar, too. 3 from Sakura (all on this weekend's sales), two by Wraith (also on weekend sales), new bikini by Bonnie on Equal10 also got an update and more on the way from what I heard. Rip mounds I suppose, not seeing many creators rigging for both waifu boobs and mounds as they are relatively similar unlike mounds and juicy boobs. But given that I do like this new addon and dislike mounds a lot I'll be biased and say that it's for the best.

There's also a hotfix coming early next week, because this update broke autoalpha for the nipples and nails in some cases. So if someone is not a fan of updating often it's worth to wait. I got curious and demoed them too. Best ones I saw so far, shape is pretty natural and size is nowhere the mounds levels. And I've already seen creators updating recent releases with that size (some can be found if check recent ebody's flickr favorites). Too thick/curvy part aside, it's really one fine body with enormous support and seems like creators of it really do their best to improve body itself and to make some extra efforts to make it "fun" with all those mods and how easy they are to use (materials sync alone is great, now addons also react to the alpha HUD). I'm actually tempted to swap to it recently and I probably will when I find enough time. Body itself is easy, it's the unpacking countless outfits with its sizes and putting outfits together is what will take me ages.

Things like games and virtual worlds are more likely to survive even through the current/upcoming economy issues. While they are from being essential, like food and bills, they are cheaper than traditional hobbies (cinema/movies, most rl sports, art and so on). A movie night with a family of 3 can cost up to 100$ for 3 tickets, foods and drinks, and that's just 2-3 hours. it probably does vary per country as mentality is different around different parts of the world, but through our local crises over last decades that I had a "pleasure" to experience the home hobbies like books, games and what not always did better because they are simply cheaper and more accessable. it's the bars, cafes, sport clubs and other stuff that did suffer through them the most.