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How do I phrase "the single minor flaw in an otherwise perfect piece of software" in a way so that even casual readers with no knowledge of said software whatsoever immediately catch the sarcasm?

Yes! I want a Second Life that looks something like this: Only with better windlight. (There is a pond in the second picture so it's not completely off topic )

I'm with you there, at least to some degree. The advanced shaders you get with ultra aren't always betetr than the simpler ones. Very good point. Anime is the Japanese word for cartoon and it shouldn't really be used for non-Japanese styles. But it is. I thought so, although it was a bit confusing when you mentioned hentai in your original post. There is nothing hentai about those pictures, neither by the original nor the modern meaning of the term. There are avatars very similar to those in Second Life but you still have the context issue to fight. SL may be extremely avatar centric these days but we still see the avatar as part of a complete scene. Any part of the scene that clashes with the overall style will look flat, unnatural, unconvincing. So to make an anime avatar look good, you need to palce it in an anime styled scene. You can actually see that in your four pictures. The first two look quite a bit more convincing than the last two. That is because of the clash between the avatar look adn the realistic(ish) stone flag floor.

It was of course. But a line as straight as that was irresistible.

The articles Alwin referred to shuold give you all the information you need but if you want just the highlights: There's no need to worry about that. The buyer will never know who they bought from, the seller will never know who they sold to and Linden Lab takes full responsibility for Lindex transactions so if anything goes wrong, it's their problem, not the buyer's or the seller's. Exchange rate will change over time but not very much and you will always know in advance how much you will have to pay. That is, there is a minor margin of error with instant transaction but it's minimal - more about it further down in this post. If you choose "instant buy", you get the Lindens instantly. You can use any accepted payment mehod directly on the marketplace. That's really just a shortcut to Lindex instant buy: you buy exactly the amount of L$ you need for the pruchase and you pay for the purchase - all in one operation. In-world you can only pay with L$ these days. I wouldn't recommend premium membership only for the L$ stipend but the membership package comes with a few other benefits well worth considering too. Take a good look at it and decide for yourself. I suppose by "default exchange rate" you mean the instant buy/market sell rates and yes, people do buy or sell at these rates. In fact all Lindex transactions are either instant buy or market sell. Wheter you choose instant or limited buy, depends on how much time you have. With instant buy you get the Lindens right away since you are buying Lindens that are already offered for sale and the price is whatever the seller has specified. You will always get the best offer that is avaiable on the market and. There is a chance that during the few seconds it takes you to place the order and you end up having to pay a little bit more than the estimate you get from the order form. But you haev to be really unlucky for that to happen and even if it does, the difference will be marginal. With Limit Buy, you as the buyer decide the price. Then you'll have to wait for somebody who is willing to sell at that price. That can take minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years or an eternity, depedning on how realistic you offer is. The difference between Instant Buy and a reasonbably realistic Limit Buy will always be about 4% and it's up to you to decide whether that is worth the wait. It's not about debit cards as such, it's a question of whether the person who pays can be identified well enough. Linden Lab needs payment from an identifiable person, that is either they need verifiable identification themselves or the transaction has to be through a service that can be relied on to keep track of it. That's partly to minimize the risk of fraud, partly to keep Second Life from being used for money laundering. Umm Rolig, that sentence can have two meanings. I suppose it's clear from context what Rolig meant but since we love tease her and hardly ever get the chance: You can not be suspended or banned for not trading L$ at all but you not only can but will be if you try to do it outside the Lindex system and they find out.

Yes, it didn't even occur to me that it was possible before Arton mentioned it here. Hese illustrations may give a partical explanation: Here's a mesh with 13 triangles, six regular ones, one partly collapsed and six completely collapsed (For those who wonder: the shape in the front is a cube with all the vertices of the top face collapsed, the line in the background is a single triangle with two vertices collapsed.) If I upload it, I get seven triangles according to the uploader: So it seems only fully collpased triangles - with all three vertices at the same position - are culled, partly collpased ones remain. I didn't ctually upload and check the in-world triangle count so it is of course possible partly collapsed triangles are culled at a later stage - after the triangle count has been calculated - but that wouldn't make any sense, not even within the strange alternative logic frame of the mesh uploader.

That comes with Windows Defender as default so I suppose that's what you have then. Is there anybody here who knows how to configure it on Win 10?

I probably can't help you with the details there. It's been a while since I did that myself and it depends on which firewall program you use of course. But there is a control panel for it and there you will find among many other things a list of all programs you have that are using some sort of internet connection and a checkbox for each to tell the firewall which should be extempt. If you tell us which firewall and which OS yu use, there's a good chance somebody else here will be able to tell you exactly how to do it. Or you can search for instruction on the internet. Btw, if you have several viewers installed, there will be multiple instances of the crash logger and the plugin and you have to extempt each of them separately.

Oh kay. You did check your firewall, didn't you? There are three apps you need to put on the extepmtion list there, the viewer itself, and ... can't remember exactly what the other two are named, WinCrashLogger and SlMediaPlugin or something like that. If you don't tell your firewall to leave them alone, you can sometimes get huge ping time peaks when you try to move in SL.

Not at all. I never ever use any LoD models generated by the uploader and only have that problem when I made a mistake and accidentally removed a material in one f the LoD models before uploading. I may be wrong but I think I can guess what caused the problem in your case: I'm afraid that may not be enough. The uploader is very picky when it comes to matching dae syntaxes for LoD models. The materials are referred to elsewhere in the dae file too so changing the material list is not enough. The only safe way is to use the high LoD file as the basis for the other models. Once the uploader has has made up its mind that a LoD model doesn't fit, it won't bother to recheck even if you select another file. I'm afraid the only colustion is to cancel the upload and start over again. Don't blame the program for the programmers' mistakes. The way I see it, the uploader is like an enthusiastic little puppy who runs off to fetch the newspaper for its owner and returns proudly wagging its tail with a lump of chewed-up pulp in its mouth. It tries its best to be helpful but it's just so horribly bad at it.

We probably need a bit more info to find the answer but just to eliminate the most obvious explanations first: Are you on a wireless (wifi) connection and do you have a firewall?

The Ookla test won't show packet loss anyway, only ping time and transfer speed. The first thing you ought to do is check how much packet loss you have. I suppose you've already done that but you can find it right at the bottom of "About (whatever viewer you use)" in the Help menu. --- Next is to check if there is any internal packet loss in your system. How to do that depends on what OS you have but with Windows, open the Command Promt window (window key + R) and type: ipconfig and then hit the enter key to get the IP address of Default gateway then type Ping -n 50 (Default gateway IP address) to ping your router 50 times. That's going to take a little bit of but you want that many samples to get a statistically reliable answer. At the end you'll get a message how many packets were lost. There shouldn't be any. You may want to try again with a larger sample - 500 instead of 50 - for a more reliable result but be prepared to wait a while before the data is ready. --- If you want to, repeat but this time use the IP address of one of SL's sim servers. For example: Ping -n 50 216.82.51.209 That's the current address to Help Island Public. It probably won't tell you anything the first two tests didn't show though. --- It can be tricky to find out exactly where the packet loss occur but try http://www.dslreports.com/pingtest/ That test will trace the routes from four different servers around the world to your computer. It won't show the whole route to Second Life of course but one of those servers is in San Francisco so it should follow the same route much of the way. In any case, if there is a bad node close to your home (which seems likely), it should turn up in the results you get there.

Yes, it's because the new avatar is only a skin and you don't have modify rights. Not a skin actually, it's a fairly complex mesh you wear on top of your system avatar but it can't be exported.

If you use a vendor system, it should come with plenty of sales statistics. If not, you'll find all transactions at the L$ Transaction history at secondlife.com. The statistics there are only kept for 32 days though so if you want to keep track of sales history, you need to download and save to your own computer at last ocne a month. Edit: For the future: it is usually better to start a brand new thread on the forum than revive a five years old one.

That's a very good example of how important context is. The "hand drawn" two dimensional avatar looks great in this watercolorish setting. Imagine the same figure in an SL landscape.

It was Callum who posted the pictures actually, not me.

YW I'm not sure if you should post the answer straight away here though. I never checked but I think suport cases are supposed to be confidential. A summary of what they tell you is ok but maybe not a direct quote. It would actually be better if you managed to convinced the Lindens to write a sticky post about it on the forums themselves. It is something many people want and need to know about and this thread is going to get buried by new questions fairly fast so it won't be easy to find a month or two from now.

Live chat support is only for premium members so you can't. Don't be afraid to file a support ticket though. The Lindens are only happy to get some distractions from their endlesss days of boredom. Besides, as you already said, we pay them good money for their services, we might as well make sure we get something in return.

Please note that this forum is where users try to help other users. If you need direct support from Linden Lab, you need to open a support case. But we can give you a little bit of info and clear up a misunderstanding or two at least: You don't buy Lindens from Linden Lab, you buy from other users who have Lindens to sell and you have to wait for somebody to turn up that are willing to sell for the price you offer. When you place a limited buy order, there is absolutely no guarantee it will be filled within any specific time frame or ever. The time you are given is an estimate, it's usually fairly precise if your offer is close to the current rate but far off if your offer is a few L$ higher. If you need those Lindens right now, cancel the order and open a new one at 256 L$/USD. If you can still afford to wait a day or five, offer to buy at 257. Any order higher than 257 is not going to be filled in the foreseeable future. That's with the rates we have right now as I write this. In a week or two you probably have to go down to 255 for an instant buy and 256 for a delayed buy and the rates may well drop even further - they've been going steadily down for a while now. --- Edit: Looking at your account statement, I see you have a mainland tier to pay. Just to avoid any misunderstandings here, mainland tier is paid from your US dollar balance and not with L$.

It shouldn't even be necessary to use mesh. Some Tokyo Girl avis for example, would look very similar with the right skin and windlight (although not quite as kawaii of course - only Koreans can do that). You might get away with it if you could prove you are 920 years old in real life As for large breasts, there are actually people who would think an avatar like that looked good with watermelons stuck on her chest. It's the same kind of people who thinks Mona Lisa looks cute with a moustache and we've got plenty of those in SL. I suppose that's what the OP is looking for. The Black Desert Online avi may be the ultimate kawaii but it's not what people usually associate with anime. The ultimate problem is that even if you get every detail and every nuance of shading right, an avatar like that will still stand out like a sore thumb in a Second Life setting and once it does, you immediately start noticing the flaws. You need to match the entire scene - including poses and animations - for it to work. If not, it ends up looking as credible as an actor wearing a cartoon body suit in Disneyland.

Well, an avatar like that might cause you some serious age-play related problems of course but yes, it's probably possible to do something similar in SL. It has a strong Korean flavor and lacks the esssential "how-middleaged-men-and-women-think-teenagers-look" caricature details but apart from that, it's quite similar in style to the typical glossy SL avatar. It even have the too-far-set eyes. Forget about the hair though.

I'm not sure what you mean. I took a quick look at the top search results for anime avatars on MP and they seemed to look just a flat, bland and lifeless on those pictures as they do in-world. I didn't look at any anime clothes ads though, maybe those are different. I think the pictures Callum posted explain it. The last thing you want for anything resembling either of those two looks, is enhanced shaders. What you want is a big sun, toned down windlight with the absolute minimum of shaders.

They did that before the update too but yes, it's far more noticeable and annoying now, probably mainly because we have to move the cursor much further to click on the yes button but I think the new design makes the dialog box feel more obstrusive and annoying too. It's quite interesting how what is actually a very minor layout change can affect the "feel" as much as this. Unlike Rolig I can actually see that a more nuanced feeback system may have some value and as for the silly "react" word and the tacky graphics, well the old system had an "unlike" option. Language abuse doesn't get much worse than that. But it's not that important and if it comes bundled with the change in the "Mark forum as read" function, it's not worth it.

I can take that. In fact, I think I needed an excuse for a forum blowout. I've been way too nice here recently and "some people" may have startd to believe I'm a pushover. Glad to hear that. But unfortunately, an hour spent researching is an hour spent not marketing and so from a commercial point of view it's a very bad move. Linden Lab certainly isn't going to reward you for taking the time to learn the craft properly. I don't know what criteria are used to choose who are going to be invited to the seasonal MP promo sales or be featured by LL's tame video blogger or have their builds dragged out of the grave to be promoted as "the Home of the Moles" but quality certainly has nothing to do with it. (I actually asked @Dakota Linden about the MP promo sales once but she evaded the question and I didn't want to push her. ). Linden Lab doesn't even bother with a "thank you" to the volunteers who have spent countless hours to figure things out and try to develop the documentation the Lindens are paid to deliver but can't be bothered to. Or maybe it's more correct to say they aren't able to deliver. As far as I am aware of, there's not a single Linden who knows how to make mesh. Imagine a car manufacturer where nobody has a driver license. That's essentially how LL seems to work. Oh, some of the Moles have become fairly decent mesh makers recently but that took five years and they're still far behind the front of the field where they should have been right from the start. Besides, it doesn't seem LL takes the Moles and their expertise very seriously anyway. When the new increased prim limit was announced, @Patch Linden said he hoped people would use some of that new prim quota to improve the build quality, presumably he was hoping for less LoD butchery. In the four years I have been a mesh builder in SL, that's the only time I've heard a Linden even mention the technical quality and all he had to offer was a vain hope that's not going to make any difference at all. The large amount of poorly optimized mesh in Second Life adds a lot to the overhead, both on the server and the client side. That means more lag, more render isues of all kinds, higher hardware requirements and more bandwidth used. It also limits the possibilities of creating shared social environments in SL. All these factors have negative impact on SL's retention rate concurrency and overall popularity. How much impact is impossible to say but I'm convinced it's significant and it is very frustrating when Linden Lab doesn't seem to care about it at all. Oh well, we're supposed to stay on topic on this forum. I went off on a tangent and then I went off on a tangent from my tangent. I better try to take it back home: Why does this thread exist? Why did Devriv ask? Why did me and Chic and Arton speculate about it? Why did Aquila spend time testing to find the answer? In other words: why didn't we simply read the SL mesh manual?

Here's one: Logins. We're back to the old forum system now where you had to log on separately to the forum even if you came from the secondlife.com site, where the "remember me" function suffers from amnesia and where you have to log back on every now and then if you stay here for long.