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This is no "fix". If someone is that determined to make highpoly mesh, all they'd have to do is break their item down into a few pieces, each one being under a set limit, and uplaod that way. inworld its a linkset but it can still have several hundred k making it all up. There are some who already do mesh this way, both clothing and decor.

One thing you can try,.assuming blender is in use here. Join the piercings to the body (bind first). Then select all the vert on left piercing, shift select a single vert on the left nipple, and click copy under the vertex weights list (found in the N panel). Repeat on the opposite side for the Right piercing. Then select both piercings and separate them and then refresh the binding. This way you can get just the weights if the nipple centre

There are several groups in world that run blender courses from Builders Brewery to Blender Benders 2.0. Be prepared for a rather steep and long learning curve.

you can get the standard avatars from the SL wiki to be used for Rigging, you can also get copies from the avastar workbench. These models though are only good for rigging for the basic standard avatar, if you do not have these files already then you are going to have to edit your mesh to make it fit on those bodies, and then follow some blender guides for how to rig and weight paint. If you want to do this rigging for mesh bodies then first you will need to get the dev kits for each mesh body that you intend to rig for. Some of these will require applications and will require that you have a store on MP or inworld where you work can be seen.

The do have a discord, contact the CSR for an invite

I've seen a some stores add extra on the MP but not always the full 10%. Personally I keep my prices the same on MP as they are inworld and I've never had anyone comment on it. If I lose a bit through MP fees then so what, Its just another cost of doing business, and the discount I do offer inworld to group members is greater than the10% that I pay in MP fees, plus on top of that they earn store credit too. Basically I give away more selling inworld than i pay on the MP, but it's a perk for customers that I'm prepared to swallow.

the shape slider will allow you to only go so far as the shape slider allows. Beyond that, how folk generally get taller or shorter avatars is through deformers, or through a mesh body itself which is scaled to be smaller or taller

when providing info to tilia the verification is often instant, you wait a cpl of minutes and its all approved. If there is a problem it may take longer. If its been a few days just file a ticket and ask about it.

marketplace orders where delivery fails are usually automatically refunded. Make sure you check your transactions carefully and see if there has been a refund.

BoM & applier are 2 different things. BoM is just a system layer that you wear. An Applier is a scripted hud that applies a texture to a mesh body layer. Nearly all mesh bodies are made to use the Standard SL UV maps and you can download those from the SL wiki at http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Clothing_Tutorials once you got the UV maps, load them up in the texture programme of choice and away you go. With system layers you can use the local texture option to test your texture looks ok before you upload.

you'll have to ask the CSR's in their group for an invite

This is incorrect. The new V5 auto-hide does work in stand alone objects, just like the previous versions, the CSR's for Maitreya have even been explaining to users in the discord chat how to do that. and it is even in their own written instructions about it being in a prim. Personally I have a pet hate from auto-hide scripts, and never include them, and only provide a system alpha now that BoM is becoming ever popular

You don't need an item to be mod to add an auto-hide script, just stick the scripts in a normal prim and wear the prim when you wear the clothing.

if the error is something along the lines of "Failed to Find in database " The check out this wiki link from FS https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/failed_to_find_in_database If the suggested fixes don't help, then be sure to try out the SL viewer and file a support ticket with them if the error persists.

Hold shift & press ESC a few times to reset camera. I would suggest you join the FS support group and ask in that group for assistance regarding the viewer. you'll get the help a lot more instantly that waiting on a response in the forums and save yourself a lot of pointless time redownloading viewers. You can find the help groups in various languages by going to the Help menu at the top of your viewer and selecting "join Firestorm Support"

I've had this "catch all" error on both FS current release & public beta, on uplifted regions and non-uplift, on both aditi and agni grids, for large and small file sizes. I have found that it always appears to be a temporary issue and that the upload goes through without issue on closing the uploader and starting again. It's been a message I been seeing for months on and off, couldn't tell you when it started, and I've never bothered reporting it because I cannot reliably repro it, and for the sake of a 30 second pause to have a good ol' gulp of coffee it's hardly seemed worth the hassle when the error doesn't come up again

contact live chat (if premium) or file a ticket to report it

step 1: learn blender. You can join the Blender Bender group in world, they have a blender course starting very soon. It wont teach you rigging to dev kits, it only dips its toes into blender rigging, but once you know your programme you will find it easier to do more step 2: save up to get Avastar step 3: build a portfolio. use FP meshes and texture them, of freely available kits like tonic or ebody or some of the furry kits, or even just standard SL body, and make mesh for those. when you have a portfolio and a store presence then you will be able to complete the application forms fully for the likes of the top brand dev kits. Also for some dev kits Avastar is a compulsory due to the way the kits has been set up which make them incompatible with blender native rigging. Legacy, Maitreya, Belleza, Signature, Slink, they all have an application form process. My advice, don't skip steps. You really need to learn blender. You need to learn the modelling, the UV mapping, the texturing, the SL limitations etc. There is no add-on that is gonna do this for you, even avastar, you need to have a grasp of blender first and know where to find different things. Weight painting for example, avastar can give you a good head start, but the act of weight painting is a blender function.

You can see the version number at the top of the viewer .. IF you enable it. This hasn't changed, and it's the same options we used to display the channel name, only now its the simulator version. Just right click the black bar and enable the option to show simulator version

the act of linking an item to another as a demo is what designates the item as a demo, and as per the listing guidelines demo's must be linked to a main item. A Demo can not be a standalone listing. in each item listing there is this field for adding the demo item so create demo item listing, then create main item listings, and add the demo into that field for all related main items.

what you probably have is just a head tattoo which is why the face is changing and not the body, this is not an uncommon practise with skin stores. But to get the body to change you will need to get the corresponding body skin to match the tone you have for the head

you can do without sparkles it has a number of tools to help with animations, a few tools it has to help with rigging are now in the main avastar too. But dont jump in to getting avastar just yet, get blender installed and learn blender (2.79 for now and 2.8 as avasatr has not fully released an update for 2.8). Get familiar with blender, learn how to retopo the work you got done in MD and how to edit and build in blender, bake textures etc, all of which are blender tools, then when you got that down its time to bring in avastar,

seriously, consider getting avastar if you are using blender, or mayastar is using maya. if you have never rigged anything before it will help, especially when it comes to trouble shooting. If you go with avastar they have a whole section of guides on their website specifically for rigging, they also have an inworld group, and a discord channel for support. You will likely also find that dev kits are provided to you as blend files set up with rigs ready to open and be used with avastar, or you'll have dae files which really do benefit from using the dev kit manager in avastar.

this was filed as a jira a cpl months ago https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-228268 a change occurred between the last FS release and the version before, a change made by LL as this happens also on their viewer. You can delete the folder, but the folder comes back. The way around it for now is to hide empty system folders which is an option in your prefs.

What Chic said is basically the essence of it, the alternate way is to select just the edgeloops around hems would be visable and then add solidify from the menu to just those loops and delete the joining ring of faces afterwards. Both need a little clean up afterwards, and personally i find it better to do just before export, after rigging.