LilithServil

No no, you were right the first time LOL. I want a mesh base that essentially hides the fact that the tail swivels in the body instead of being directly connected. If done correctly, that'd also allow for the tail to properly be able to be lifted up, moved down, etc with one of the M.O.R tail animators without the flexi prim base going through the body in weird spots. It'd still be going through, of course, just hidden by a mesh base that'd make it look like it's more properly connected. I know flexi tails are pre-bento, I'm just shocked no one has tried to do this to kind of bridge the gap? I don't want the entire tail to be animated like bento-- I know that's not feasible lol. I just want to be able to use bento to get that nice smooth wagging effect instead of a jerky rotation script like most old flexi tails have. I know I have a flexi tail that's kind of jerryrigged to use an old TWI hud to be able to lift and lower the tail, but it's so script heavy that it's not actually feasible to use in public. The latter idea there with a very thin mesh animated and being covered by flexi prims there definitely wouldn't work because the flexies wouldn't move with the rest of the bento tail properly-- which is why I instead would want a stubby cone that has the same general "look" as a flexi tail piece (ending in a fur-fade like traditional flexies are textured) that hides the awkwardness of the flexi prims moving in weird ways when attached to the tail bone. I guess semi-flexi tails are what I'm trying to describe? If you look at any avatar with a semi-flexi, like the Crux or the KZK v2 Sergal, it's a solid prim base with a flexi about a foot down from the base. That, but bento, so that the tail can be properly hooked up to the tail bone instead of the pelvis.

Not what I'm talking about though? I'm talking about a flexi tail, made of flexi prims, that's attached to the Tail Base bento bone on the SL skeleton. Trying to attach a flexi tail to that bone right now causes the tail to... Let me get a gif, actually. I don't know how to word it and it's making me feel stupid... https://gyazo.com/78b361101f7781111a780e002119f13b + https://gyazo.com/635f56033dc9702fcd1b9e069a64acae The part of the tail that meets the spine tilts. It's not like a flexi tail with a rot script where it rotates AT the connecting point/root prim where the script is. The bento bone, or at least the part of the bone that dictates where the movement is, is too far out from the spine. Any flexi tail you try to use is going to do this. Instead of rotating like so: http://prntscr.com/r3y7ry It rotates like... http://prntscr.com/r3y87m The solution would be a bento mesh that's long enough to give a proper attachment point but also short enough that the flexi tail attaches directly on the bone joint so it doesn't have that \ | / kind of movement. Like this diagram where the black would be the mesh and the red would be the typical flexi tail prim layout. http://prntscr.com/r3y97y

You should ask your partner what kind of tail, because I've never seen any kind of bento/flexi tail hybrid. All I want is a big ol fluffy flexi tail that I can have move about with a bento tail hud and actual tail bone animations instead of a janky rotate script. x_x As I said above, I've tried to make my own flexi tail and slap it onto the tail base bone but it doesn't quite work without swaying "inside" the body... I'll have to get a gif sometime. The only feasible way I could see something like that working is if there was a mesh "tail base" that blended seamlessly with the flexi attach point.

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum but I'm shocked I haven't seen anything like this yet. Is there any particular reason there aren't any hybrids of flexi and bento for tails yet? I've tried using bento tail animators with a tail attached to the Tail Base bone, but it seems there needs to be some sort of actual "tail base" mesh to get things to properly align-- trying to attach a flexi tail to the tail base slot either animates the tail PERFECTLY... but floating a foot away from your body, or animates the tail in a way where the part that'd normally be attached to a fixed point to shift across your spine. It seems there would absolutely be a way to remedy this, however, with a hybrid tail that uses a mesh base that'd end in the same cone shape with alpha blending (or masking depending on your preference) to attach to a flexi attachment. Essentially < being the bento/mesh base, and = being the flexi prims: <========= Has anyone tried anything similar yet? I've seen some bento tails with a flexi tuft at the end, but none that are the other way around-- mesh base with the rest being flexi.

IIRC it was only supposed to be 700 rezzable prims with a pre-placed, semi-furnished house, but I managed to talk the owner into removing the house and letting me put my own down. I was renting there for well over a year and I think the disbanding notice in the group stated the places would be back up sometime later, but I'd rather rent on the ground than in a skybox like before anyway. I'm guessing the best way to find mainland rentals is by just searching actively ON the mainland? Because I've tried perusing search results and can't find anything both with necessary space requirements + prims for a price under 1k weekly. That, or like I said, some people charging more L than the land gives prims, which is pretty much the opposite of what I've seen renting the past 3 years.

The previous space that I rented was enough to fit my 37x42m home with room to spare, rent was 500L weekly and I was able to use around 1200 prims with the option of expanding. However that rental service closed down over the holidays and I haven't been able to find anything remotely comparable. Are there any decent places to rent with the correct amount of area and prims that I need along with a weekly rate that isn't insane??? I've been looking at rentals for a couple hours now and I'm either finding: Places that charge higher than the prim count is, i.e 900L weekly for 700 prims Places that charge 500L weekly but don't have the space nor prim count I need-- which is 732 MINIMUM for the house, not to mention other furniture I want to put down. Places that are 600-700L weekly, which is still doable, but don't have the right space dimensions nor prim count... Does anyone know anywhere I could feasibly rent with costs below 700 per week with the space I need?? I'd prefer something primarily on the ground floor but with an option for a skybox for privacy... Gonna have to be moderate or adult land because I frequently mod avatars and create skins, featuring avatars in the nude, so general is out of the question... My options feel so limited 😕

Be warned that BoB isn't as "pretty" as the isle and it can be pretty barren if you want no-rules servers. x_x But it's got more content, arguably. I'm pretty sure I'd be able to run ark :0 I can run Red Dead 2 on a mix of ultra, high, and mid settings. Got an Asus here, I had an alienware a few years back before upgrading to my asus and I'll honestly never go back to alienware despite liking the aesthetics more, because I was able to get better hardware overall for about the same price. Like... My alienware was 1.5k, my asus was about the same but the nvidia card and cpu were like, 5x better. I wanna get a desktop some day, but laptops are better for my living situation atm. ^^ If you find some nice communities to go to def lemme know, I've been looking for a long while now. :0 All of the furry communities I've tried have such a heavy emphasis on nsfw content that I end up not feeling comfortable sticking around. The one place I did enjoy, the owner banned me from because I didn't want to be his steam/discord friend. >_> Long story.

How long ago did you first try The Isle? It used to be pretty bustling years back when I first yoinked it (like, 2016? Or so?) but maps keep getting bigger and updates keep getting fewer and further between. There's a "recode" in progress rn where the devs are basically recreating the game from the ground up, there's a trailer for it called Hope out. A lot of the playerbase has dropped off because the game hasn't been updated in almost a year, but it'll probably spring back up once it's out! There are supposed to be, like.... 14 new dinosaurs added, or something? Along with flying reptiles + deinosuchus. I've never tried Ark, I'd like to sometime though. :0 Atm I just kind of pingpong between The Isle and Beasts of Bermuda to get my dino fix, probably gonna yoink Path of Titans on release day! You'll probs get better results if you search individual pokemon names vs "pokemon" itself, for example Umbreon brings up almost 200 results, Pikachu over that. ^^ Whoa that's a lot of games! I'm sure I have close to that number with steam and irl discs/cartridges combined though. Oh man another game with a good story and music is Okami if you haven't heard of that one. I'm doing a nuzlocke right now for the steam version, since I've played the original PS2 release every year since it first came out. I'll def do that! Sorry for such big messages, I tend to ramble about topics that interest me aha xwx

Yeahhh what I typically do is just buy eyes fit for the specific head or shape, then texture them to fit whatever I need. xwx I dare not make my own eyes... Nor adjust em... I should probably learn how to do it sometime but eh LOL Aaa survival games, yessss. I used to play The Isle daily but now I'm just waiting for the recode. :'D Hopefully by feb. If not, Path of Titans is what I'm setting my sights on... As for a pokemon av, you could always search pokemon in the SL Marketplace and see what comes up-- careful not to buy any mod kits you don't have the base avatars needed for, though! Reading descriptions are mega important, I made such a bad mistake of buying mod kits and not the actual avatars when I was new to SL. Oh man beautiful is an understatement, it's soooo goooood. The announcer in Pyre is great too, I modded a dragon based off of him out of a snokra for my boyfriend a year or so back and uploaded a handful of sound gestures to match. I still need to try Bastion and Transistor sometime, as well as Hades. I've heard they're both good, but I do worry I won't like them as much as Pyre just because it's the supergiant game I've played first. ;w;

Ohhhh gosh furry eyes are the bane of my existence. > > Typically eyes that fit in one head won't fit in another without a LOT of fiddling. There's also that annoyance of trying to get them in the right spot if you want them to move with your camera/mouse... So many times I think I'll get them right, only for them to move and pop 2 ft out of the skull. x_x I love minecraft! And anything building-related, really. I'm kind of guilty of just playing on a private realm with friends and only ever messing around in creative mode. ;w; Atm my big addictions are Planet Zoo, Red Dead 2, and Spyro Reignited. Love nintendo stuff too but unfortunately haven't been able to play many nintendo games due to not having the latest consoles. Pretty much everything after the original Wii I haven't been able to get. Edit: I'd totally recommend checking out Pyre on steam since you're a pc gamer. The art style is so pretty and I love all of the characters, but it seems like such a little known game. :0

Modding your own avatars def isn't easy and takes a ton of practice, but it's soooo worth it! I hand make my own textures; it's not too dissimilar to putting together sewing patterns, and once you get a feel for it, it's a really fun hobby. Pretty much all of my spending money is generated from my sales now, so I haven't had to put cash into SL in a long time. ^^ I wouldn't mind giving pointers and stuff for putting your own avs together sometime if you'd want! Like I said, I've been looking for some nice people to hang out with for a while now aha. What kind of gaming related stuff btw? :0

Hey there! Nice profile pic, what a pretty snokra. ^^ I've been on SL for years and still find it awkward to explore around, aha. I never know where to go and can find it daunting to visit heavy-traffic areas, especially when they're all quiet and never speak in local. I mostly spend my time modding avatars when I'm on, I have a ton of em, including a few custom snokras! I've been poking around for people to talk to and places to hang out, so go ahead and drop a message if you'd like. :0

Recently the place I used to rent (it was a skybox rental with over 1k prims, 500L a week) popped out of existence and now I'm looking for a new spot to call my own. I don't think I want another skybox rental, but I'm not too sure yet... I'd like a relatively low-lag but still pleasant to look at spot to plop a house down and carve out a little living. Any kind of like... Forest-y, mountainous, even snowy area would be neat. Something kind of rural? Or even a quaint little suburb-ish place. Moreover I'd also like to find a spot to openly hang out at with active people to interact with/talk to/meet and such. A community of sorts? But not like one of those "rp communities" with people playing characters and rping domestic lives and such. I don't want to interact with an rp character. Just... An organic community feel, I guess? Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd prefer a place that's furry-friendly at bare minimum as myself and my partners all use furry avs. To rule out places I've already been, I used to live at Joystick's a long time ago before their big renovation-- that place is way too laggy now to where I have to drop my quality off of ultra to explore, and it was never really that active when I DID live there. People were either quiet/kept to themselves, were afk, or kind of cliquey feeling... Being kind of introverted despite wanting to meet people, it's super discouraging walking up to a crowd and not even getting any kind of welcome/reason to engage with them. :s I'd def prefer weekly price ranges to be somewhere in the 500L range but I'm willing to check out both higher and lower prices depending on the prim count available and overall look/feel of the area. Hopefully there are some spots kind of like this I could check out... Sorry if it's too specific or anything. xwx

The sim itself didn't go down. The owners just decided to sell it or something and nuke all of their rental services without giving people much of a notice. :I Makes me feel like I'm not allowed to buy the things I want now if I rent somewhere else because I run the risk of losing actual money if it pops out of existence like this...

Hey there, so I've run into a problem... The place I've been renting from and living for well over a year abruptly decided to close their rental services (over the holidays nonetheless 😒) and I wasn't around to get the (insanely short) notice and take back my no-copy items before everything got nuked. I logged in and everything was gone. I checked my inventory, lost and found, etc. Did a search, nothing. I've lost: Plenty of no-copy stuff from PrimPossible/MeshPossible, a Truthball, and a Greedy Greedy table, along with other misc things. These items were anywhere from 600 to 1+k lindens. I'm like... over 25 items down I'd say. That's a lot of money. There's no redelivery option for them on the MP, did I seriously just lose everything...?

Trying to make one of my characters in SL but I've hit a roadblock at the horns. I'm a texture artist, so the colors/texture doesn't matter as long as it's modifiable! The jewelry and misc dangly pieces don't matter a ton either as I can easily make them myself. I'm just having a hard time finding 2 pronged antlers with the right thickness and curve to them. All of the antlers I've seen so far are generic looking pointy deer antlers.

I do! It's just called Peri's Mod Shop at the moment because I'm lazy with names, aha. Be careful if you purchase anything though, it's all modkits for specific bodies that will only work with said bodies, some being less newbie friendly than the others. ^^ Just saw your sona btw, very cute! I think I might know some parts that'd fit it if you'd wanna drop me an IM in-world sometime. For heads, I'd suggest maybe taking a look at any of the PAWS heads or maybe the Foxen head, though I'm not sure if they have tongue controls (can't remember right now, I think the foxen head does though for sure) and see what you think of em. Yesss I can't play it without the original OST honestly, it's so good. I gave Reignited's music a try and wound up really disappointed, it's either usually too soft or just... Weird sounding? If you havent heard them yet, listen to the Reignited version of Magma Cone or Molten Crater... Both are really bad. x-x Magma Cone just makes me super uncomfortable when the "vocals" come in and Molten Crater has a weird... aquaria towers overlay that's 100% out of sync with the rest of the tempo. Drives me nuts LOL I did!! It's still kinda unfinished though, I made it before I knew how to texture stuff so the outside looks like a total mess. The inside is as close as I could get without custom textures though! I ended up hitting the limit of prims I could link onto a single structure though so certain things are more unfinished than I'd like (like Steven's bathroom) ;w;

Yeah, there's definitely a learning curve to furry stuff until you learn what all the parts do, keywords for items, etc. Every furry avatar you unbox is bound to be different unless it's a mod for an existing head/body. I wouldn't mind helping you with some stuff if you'd like! Creating is my passion on here and it's what keeps dragging me back to SL. Oof I get you on the stalking thing, I've dealt with it before too on a different, SL-like site. The only people privy to IRL details like where exactly I live and my address and whatnot are two people I trust with my life lol. I'm pretty shy with showing my face and voicing til I work up my confidence around people though. ^^; Ahhh I love Ripto's Rage! It's the very first game I ever played and it has such a big place in my heart, it's hands-down my favorite Spyro game (though I do prefer the original one to Reignited's, I miss the old voice acting and other silly things like the classic Colossus monk chant, the double jump glitch etc)!! Though I do have to say, Reignited's version of Spyro 1 made me fall in love with it all over again. 1 was my least favorite of the originals with how empty it felt, probably because I played it after 2, but Reignited is so gorgeous and the movement feels so nice to control that I've replayed the first game three different times already. ;w; (and aaa someone else who knows Steven Universe! Peri's my fav by far! Also I saw what you said about renting a place and plopping furniture down. You could always snag some freebie stuff off of the marketplace and try rezzing and moving it around in a Sandbox til you get the hang of it. If we meet in-world, maybe I could show you the hand-built replica of Steven's house I made with standard prims a while back!)

Hey there, welcome to SL! I'm not much into human avatars, but I love making furries and texturing all of the fun mesh bodies they have to offer. ^^ I've been looking for more friends to hang out with as well, it's so hard to find good furry-friendly hangout spots that aren't heavily NSFW themed (it's something I try to avoid too when I can help it, aha). You could drop me an IM if you'd wanna talk or hang out at all! We're the same age and the rest of my friends are in the same general age range as well. I'm not shy about giving rl details/interests (to an extent ofc) and make sure I let people know they're talking to me directly and not a character I'm rping, even though that can be offputting to some users. I'm an avid gamer of all consoles and I'm not really biased toward any, though I do prefer pc gaming so I can play with friends more easily! Current favorite games include Overwatch, Spyro Reignited, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Anyway, feel free to look me up in world if you want! I have plenty more info in my profile and picks. 😄

Ahh man I have a few, some more petty than others. Gesture spam. I don't mind gestures for the most part, but the really loud ones with high pitched voices that are usually accompanied by 5 giant lines of "fancy" symbols in the chat... Ugh. Especially when they get used multiple times in a single minute. People who either don't read my profile and picks before talking to me or conveniently only read what they want to see. I can't tell you the amount of times I've had overly muscled male avatars trying to flirt when I clearly state that I'm taken (and not into men anyway). It's worse when they disguise it as casual conversation first and then totally ditch once I catch on and turn the advances down. The total lack of clothes for my preferred bodies. I wear nonhuman meshes most of the time (snokra and thicc fox are favs) and there's such an abysmal selection for them. The clothes for them that I do like are made by the same creator, so all of my outfits look the exact same no matter which mesh I choose to wear, it's such a bummer. Places that don't state that they have a dress code in their info. Being shy and wanting to avoid conflict as it is, having those awkward run-ins where you get yelled at for being nonhuman when it's not stated in the description makes me not want to go out at all. Similarly, places that actually cater to my preferred style/interests are usually full of sexual nonsense, and the M or G rated areas are empty. It makes it so hard to socialize... And worse yet, when you go somewhere that's well populated and everyone's just afk-dancing so there's no one to speak to. When there are active people, they act super cliquey and standoffish. Buying an item only to have to open 2+ boxes before you can use it. I don't mind a single box, but I've run into creators that decide to put every single variation/color in separate boxes aside from the initial unpack. Avatars with unnaturally giant and detailed muscles or boobs bigger than their heads. Not as egregious as everything else, but creepy overly vein-y muscles or boobs that look like they're about to pop gross me out. AOs that have idles that wander 20ft from where your avatar actually is. It's such a shame when the animations themselves actually look really nice, because they're so overly fidgety and awkward to use in public due to running through crowds of people. Edit: I forgot the worst one. Getting chased out of a sim or made to change shapes because people mistake my avatar for a child. Apparently using my actual height (5ft) and not having giant breasts means I'm a child in the eyes of everyone else on SL.

Yeah unfortunately, my program doesn't have something like that as far as I know. I do know though that there shouldn't be any stray pixels like what's showing up on SL because the only thing on the canvas is what I directly drew, if that makes sense. I don't know if it has to do with how fine the lines are... if I erase everything and just draw a big fat smudge, there aren't any artifacts on SL. If I draw a fine line, suddenly there are clusters like what's shown in the image there.

Alpha channel? I've been up for 18 hours so I'm a little out of it. There aren't any stray pixels causing it if that's what you're asking. Even scrapping it altogether and drawing a single white line on a transparent background gives me a jagged dark pixel line around it when I go to preview it. Also forgot to state I'm using paint tool sai and not any form of photoshop or gimp, so if there's actually a way to check alpha stuff further in those... I likely can't do the same on my program. The weird thing is, I've made plenty of semi transparent things before and haven't had this jagged outline issue.

I'm aware of what alpha masking does; I stated it helps get rid of the outlines via masking, but makes it sharp for those reasons. Alpha blending is what's giving those outlines no matter what I do. I've tried colors/shading (even though I want it relatively flat for style reasons to make my avatar) and not much changes. :s

Currently trying to edit some cheek fur to slap onto one of my avatars. I make a texture and.... What am I doing wrong?? The actual file looks like this. Tried both png and tng. Alpha masking helps kind of get rid of it, but makes it super jagged when I want it to look soft. Not sure what else to do at this point.

Oof man and here I thought it was only me having problems, glad I looked here. :s Earlier it told me there was an issue with either my clock or firewall (where I've been able to log in perfectly fine before), and now it won't even progress past "logging in".