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Hello! It's hard to really explain what I want but let me try! I want to make poses focusing around wearable props. Let's say I want to make a samurai pose set with a katana. The poses would be inside the katana and you could cycle through poses by clicking the katana and a menu pops up. I know how to do this with static props rezzed on the ground, but I am not sure how to do this for wearable props as the sword would move position, too (but stay attached to the hand). Say, the first pose is both hands holding the sword in a combat stance, the second pose is a sitting pose with the sword laying on the ground. Is this even possible? Is there scripts on the market that I can use for this? The second question is, how could I demo these props? I am thinking of having a Demo sign underneath the vendor that people can click, it would rez a pose stand and upon standing on it, it would pose you and auto attach the sword. I am pretty sure avsitter can do auto attach prop, but is there a script that rez the posestand upon touch? Edit: Would the auto attached sword vanish upon leaving the posestand? This is important x3 Or is there another feasable and perhaps easier way to demo something like this? If there's none existing on the mp (I wouldn't even know what to type in to search for this!) could I comission this from a scripter? English isn't my mother language, and sometimes it's hard to put my thoughts into words, so if you need more explanations please do ask! Thank you!

Hi there, you will have to contact support about this and they have to manually age verify you. Old accounts that didn't age verify when it was still up got kind of borked when the verification was done with. Happened to this account, too. Only the support could help and did so swiftly, and efficently.

Good day everyone! Please, before rolling your eyes at my question, be aware that I have spent the better part of the past several days googling and prowling this forum to answer my own question. In the end I have several word pages full of links to text, picture and video tutorials. My collection of SL related tutorials by now is quite extensive, the problem however is, where on earth to start! I have attempted to follow several tutorials, but it seems they're too advanced for me, and I get more confused with each one. Thus my question. Which tutorials did you use to learn blender and in which order? What are your top five tutorials to learn blender? If you could link me to specific tutorials and tell me things like "This first, then move on to this, and when you're done with this you should be about ready to follow any tutorial you have saved!" instead of linking me to a general tutorial site. Chances are I already have it saved. I'm not 100% new to Blender, I use Avastar to make animations, but I am 100% new to making meshes. I appreciate any and all help on this and hopefully will soon have a step by step list of guides to work through that is a lot less jumbled than the one I have right now! Edit: I believe this is important, I am not looking to make mesh clothing. I would much prefer to make furniture and other clutter. Perhaps one day hair. But staying away from clothes!

Hello! After a long hiatus due to RL issues, I'm back and have noticed that when I want to buy Linden from SL it charges me more than usual. As an example, 20,000 Linden cost $81.28 right now. In my currency, which is the Euro that would come to €63,36. However when I proceed to buy it with my credit card it tells me the cost is €78.59. A difference of a staggering €15! Is this normal? When has this started? I tried googling whether or not they added a tax on L purchases put couldn't find anything.

1st Project: A hanging sign of my store name. Store name hanging down from two hooks so it can be placed in doorways. 2nd Project: A shabby product display frame. Nothing too ornate or complex. Please contact me in world to talk about the specifics and font to be used. Thanks!

Simply walk away from your account for a while instead of straight out deleting it. Re-activating a canceled account If you have cancelled your account, you may be able to restore it, depending on how long ago it was cancelled. There is a US$9.95 reactivation fee for restoring an account. Warning: Even if your account is restored, the associated inventory, land, and Linden dollar balance may be unrecoverable. To start the process: Open a support case. Under What type of problem are you having? choose Account Issue. Choose Reactivate an old account. Enter the required information Click Submit.

Hi there, two things. One, when you set up your payment info you can then, on the page you're on, select what to use it for, such as buying Linden in world. Secondly, to get "Payment Info Used" to show up on your profile and to be able to enter sims that are restricted to those with Payment Info Used you need to..use it, not just have the card on file.

I think what that person meant is this: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/LandMap-Change-your-ground-texture-without-land-powers/236734

Magnus Brody wrote: Please quote from any of my posts where I said I AR'd them, or did you just jump to that conclusion? This was the line that strongly suggested that you AR'ed the person since you pointed out that in your time you have only filed 4 AR's, which made it sound that this case was your fourth. Magnus Brody wrote: I have been in sl for 8 years and this is only my 4th AR, therefore it was considered and not reactionary. If I were reactionary, I'd have filed a few more of them by now. It's that specific wording that gave various people this impression. Quoted from the first page.

Hi there, this is a known bug that some linden homes have. Since you're a premium user, simply hop into the SL live chat and let an employee know that your linden home control panel is bugged and they'll fix it asap.

Senobia Xenga wrote: Syn Anatine wrote: sirhc DeSantis wrote: A 'why what did I do' reaction? I might consider that if I was dealing with an actual 13 year old as it would be resonable enough - in different circumstances perhaps - but not to another supposed adult. Can't have it both ways. Are you for real? We never stop learning, and any sensible adult would be curious as to why they have offended someone out of the blue. An inquiring mind is a treasure, and asking never hurts whether there's an answer or not. Just because we're adults doesn't mean it's not proper to ask the famous question of 'why'. And when given your answer as to "why", you get butthurt because, in your mind, the reason is not valid because it doesn't jive with your own views. Then you turn around and draw conclusions and hurl accusations just like the ones you're speaking out against. If you were an adult with the mentality of an adult, you would realize that people's likes and dislikes are as wide and varied as they are and accept that as your answer without bemoaning other people who don't agree with you. You get an A in assuming and an A+ in putting words into my mouth. Unless that was a general you, then you get an A+ in assuming anyway.

If you as their employer tells them to make an account then why a) would they not be interested in doing that as it directly relates to their job and b) be a waste of time? Signing up for an account doesn't take a lot of time at all.

You can't. It's against the rules. You may not give, sell or trade away an account temporarily or permanently.

Alright, log off, close your viewer. Then open a new one. Next to where you type in your user name and password, there's a field that lets you select wether you want to log in at the last region you were at, your home, or any region. Log in setting that to home. If you do not have a home, choose the any region and type in Smith. That is a quiet, M rated sim and should allow you to log in properly and then tp away to wherever you want. Some sims are so laggy that tp'ing doesn't work

Hi there, you will need to change your user preference to allow for G, M and A. If the below does not work for you, and does not let you select the A rating, then it means your account is bugged. I had it happen to mine. File a support ticket, and let them know. You do not need to send proof of your age. Old accounts sometimes get this bug, especially those who had their maturity rating set to G only before they did away with the age verification. It got stuck in that rating and only an LL employee can fix it. But before you send a support ticket try this: How to change your preferences to view adult content Even if you are 18 or older, you still need to opt in to view adult content. You also need to use Viewer version 1.23 or later to access the maturity preferences. Download the latest Viewer. Tip: At the top of your Viewer, you can choose Help > About Second Life to check your Viewer version. Log into Second Life, then follow these steps in the Viewer to set your maturity preferences: Choose Me > Preferences (or Ctrl-P) and click the General tab. Choose General, Moderate, Adult from the I want to access content rated: dropdown menu. Click OK. Congratulations! You may now visit any publically accessible land in Second Life, regardless of its maturity rating. Note: If your preferences are not set to allow adult content and you attempt to enter an adult-rated parcel or region, you receive a prompt allowing you to either cancel the teleport or instantly update your access preferences to General, Moderate, Adult.

Hi there, there's a lot of bugs concerning the shopping cart, and it's not advised to fill it up completely and then make the purchase. What you can do is, go to your shopping cart, open all the things you want to purchase in new tabs, and then buy them directly from that page 1 by 1. It's a bit tedious but a lot safer and you'll get your shopping done! After you've bought everything also empty your cart, so you don't make double purchases.

sirhc DeSantis wrote: A 'why what did I do' reaction? I might consider that if I was dealing with an actual 13 year old as it would be resonable enough - in different circumstances perhaps - but not to another supposed adult. Can't have it both ways. Are you for real? We never stop learning, and any sensible adult would be curious as to why they have offended someone out of the blue. An inquiring mind is a treasure, and asking never hurts whether there's an answer or not. Just because we're adults doesn't mean it's not proper to ask the famous question of 'why'.

Freya Mokusei wrote: You're pretty much spot on. For clarity, this is more or less the model that I'm using:- Roleplaying as I use it above falls under part of Immersion - a user who is choosing to (re)create themselves or part of themselves, create a different image in other peoples' minds or explore new internal paths. Child avatars fit within this, whether there's a 'story' or 'IC/OOC' separation is unimportant, these are mostly concepts unique to Second Life/MUDs/etc. Also note that most Second Life users will register a little bit towards Immersionist, this is cultural. Thank you Freya for this enlightning graph and your previous response, I do not mean this sarcastically at all. I see your point of view thoroughly, however as Phil has said, roleplaying is a grey area, as I personally see it entirely differently. For me, it's playing dress up and unless it's stated by both (or more) parties that a roleplay takes place, it is, to me not a roleplay. Today I walk around as a neko, tomorrow a kitsune, after that I'll use deer antlers, or my bloody mary child avatar. In none of those cases do I assume a role, it is merely dress up and cooing at 'the cute'. Roleplay to me, is asking someone (given you're not on a roleplay sim) if they're interested, and until the point they are and the actual roleplay starts I do not assume any role at all. I wonder if I am alone with that thinking? Quite frankly I didn't even realise someone could see it your way Freya, simply because those whom I have been roleplaying with, in SL and mostly out of SL whether its over messangers, e-mails, forums or other worlds, haven't seen it your way either. That is not to say it's wrong, or shared by a minority, it simply has not come up until then with those I have roleplayed. And quite frankly it makes it hard for me to enjoy my dress up if that is what is assumed by a lot of people. A couple weeks ago, I went to a store with my adult female neko avatar, a polite gentleman chatted me up, and within three responses offered to be my manslave. That was mainly the reason why I got me a toddleedoo avatar, because I am not looking for sexy times within SL. At all. And would prefer not to be solicited in that way, and my SL life has been quite fun as a child. I do not use toddler speak. I can see how that can be annoying. Except for one instance where a roleplayer (they had a roleplayer tag and some such) told me they'd smack the hell out of me if I continued my whining. Mind you, I was telling a friend that she'd love something I had come across on that sim, in perfect english, no toddler speak no nothing. But I'd rather take hate than the sexual advances. Gah, this has turned into a ramble now and I apologise. I realise this topic is a hot spot, and I apologise if I got a bit carried away. As per usual, it's very hard to judge without knowing all the details, which we never will. As such I'll continue playing dress up with my virtual doll and assume everyone doesn't suddenly think I am roleplaying 100% of the time, that'd be verrrry tiresome! ETA: I hope you don't mean me with the person who has assumed others to have underlying urges. I do not ever go into that direction

If you've been to Kuso, have you checked out their Posing AO's? I use them myself, and find them very realistic. The avatar moves about natural, and then poses for a while before moving a little again. I don't think many of us stand or even can stand stock still for long periods of time, our spine isn't made for it and will force us to move a little. If you want a truly static ao, I'd suggest just buying poses and putting them into your FS ao. That way there will be no movement at all, and a new pose every 30 seconds, or whatever time frame you defined.

Amie Kaestner wrote: but people in this thread seem to be pretending that SL isn't inhabited by bad people. Ah, the age old "A lot of people do not share my opinion so must be pretending" excuse. Let me quote Syo here: Syo Emerald wrote: It doesn't work that way.

I see where you're coming from Pamela, I've seen various threads lately that I personally wouldn't help the OP with, mainly because I'd feel like an accomplice in copyright theft because what they want help with, is not their own, original work. It's all over the place lately though. Various of the weekly sales groups have merchants that don't seem to give a dang about copyright. Or on the largest known blog on SL that boasts about integrity...Store Sales are announced that don't mirror their tag line. There was a sale posted not too long ago, 50% off in a clothing store, so having some spare linden I went there and I was shocked. Most of the clothes they sold had a trademarked logo or art on it such as batman and hello kitty. Needless to say I was gone from that shop so fast. Sorry to have taken this so off topic, but I feel like the copyright/trademark issue has been swept under the rug on more than just that one level. And helping those people will only worsen the problem I'm afraid.

Freya Mokusei wrote: Theresa Tennyson wrote: Why are you uncomfortable around young people in RL? That's the thing that stands out about being creepy Nah, this is distortion. I'm in my 20's and female, which makes me 'favourable' around children - men talking to non-dependent kids raises many eyebrows in Western/US culture - and this stigma is powerful. I am not surprised that adult males are made to feel uncomfortable from dealing with kids - understanding this is called empathy. If a 13 year-old walked up to me while I was on my own property in Real Life, and asked me to play xBox with them? I'd be like Nope, go bug your parents. That'd be weird. They're not my responsibility and I've got adult (as in grown-up) stuff to do. Even if I wanted to hang out in that situation, would it be appropriate for me to spend an afternoon with a child whom I didn't know? And had never met (or informed) their parents? I'd be surprised if you said yes. Further - obviously - this avatar does not have a mental age of 13. They knew they were interacting with an adult and decided to continue to roleplay. This is fair enough on the condition that the non-roleplayer accepts the continuation, but I'm pretty confident that the OP did not do this (and it seems like he made that fairly clear). Pushing a roleplay onto someone that doesn't want to be involved in it is rude at best. It looks like the avatar was trying to say "Well, how about I grow up a bit?" (which is the correct response to 'no, I don't want to deal with your roleplay while talking to you'), but this was mis-understood by the OP. There's a billion and one reasons why an adult roleplaying a child in a virtual environment is not analogus to happy and comfortable relationships with young people in RL. They share almost nothing in common aside from the height that they're percieved to be. What she did was not rolplaying. Roleplaying is something else entirely. Merely being a child avatar, or furry, or demon or whatsoever in SL does not mean they are roleplaying at all. I myself am a Neko most of the time. Do I roleplay? Within Second Life hardly ever. I also own a toddleedoo avatar, with which I hardly roleplay with either, I just enjoy running through SL without being propositioned to have sex. Nothing about the text indicated she was roleplaying, the point that she was willing to change to an adult avatar to have a conversation strongly underlines the fact that she was indeed not roleplaying. Someone who does roleplay will stay IC and they'd never change shapes/species/whatnot unless it was relevant to the rp plot.

The ears are amazing, they are very subtly animated, and come with a hud to change to "Relaxed, Perky, Grumpy and Slouchy." Nowdays I have one ear at slouchy, the other at perky because that's what my cat likes to do in RL, and it's cute as hell The HUD and the ears themselves are incredibly well scripted and barely use any script time at all. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/WISH-Fuzzy-Foxy-Ears/5573569 The resize option is incredibly efficent, too to the point where I can go from small cat ears, to fox size, to desert fox size. I'll stop gushing now On topic: @OP: If child avatars really do make you sick and creep you out, why allow them in the club in the first place? It seems horribly hypocrital how you're absolutely prepared to take their Linden as tips and/or donations but ultimately think they're creepy as hell. Let me ask you...what the fudge?

Magnus Brody wrote: Thanks for your reply. As a clearly identified 50yo, I still feel creeped out to be asked to hang out with a 13yo, as I would be irl. I politely indicated her profile made me uncomfortable, she persisted. So rather than declining to answer, which I personally find more impolite, I indicated that I was uncomfortable. Her last remark indicates this was ageplay, and not a genuine roleplayer, and it is under this section I decided to contact the lab. I have been in sl for 8 years and this is only my 4th AR, therefore it was considered and not reactionary. If I were reactionary, I'd have filed a few more of them by now. We are visited by a few child avis in my sims, and polite to all of them, however they do not IM me randomly and ask me to hang out. I'm close to my 7th rez day and have roleplayed for the past 12 years, what's your point with pointing that out? SL age and roleplay age are nothing, there's accounts from 2004 active right now that have no idea what they're doing due to long hiatuses. There's roleplayers playing for over five years and still do not understand the concept of third POV storybook style. It's simply not relevant. And I have read the conversation over and over again, and quite honestly, to me there is nothing indicating that she wanted to ageplay, which is a hefty thing to read into it, and even worse to AR since you have absolutely no proof other than the feeling of being creeped out. What I see is genuine curiosity about why you feel that way, a normal human reaction, and quite frankly, I would have inquired, too. The last of her statement also doesn't imply anything you, yourself don't want to read into. Clearly she has realised you're not interested to speak to a 13 year old avatar, hence her offer to change her age to perhaps portray her RL age. You're a DJ and a venue owner, perhaps that intrigued her and she wanted to have a conversation about it. I think it's very poor form that you were this blunt about your feelings, going out of your way to tell us how child avi's make you sick. A gentleman would have politely declined and left it at that. Again, to me, the conversation seems entirely innocent, but to an already biased person I can see what it might look like, whether that's the truth or not. What rubs me entirely the wrong way is, that you filed an AR when you have not a single fact at hand. Filing a false AR, or an AR on a whim without solid proof can get YOU punished, did you know that with your eight years of SL experience? Perhaps next time you'll take a step back and not let your feelings cloud your judgment. Edit: Any typos found you can keep, english isn't my mother language, and it's 3:30am. Off to bed to reload my inbuilt spellchecker.

Magnus Brody wrote: I was left feeling quite sick and uncomfortable, really creeped out. It's okay, I feel quite sick and uncomfortable and really creeped out at biased people, too. Especially those who threaten to AR others without an actual reason as per TOS and who are incredibly rude about the whole thing. All she did was question why you felt that way, which is a valid question, and instead of politely declining to answer her, you went on to threaten her. What IS your reason for said AR that is in compliance with the TOS? I'd love to hear it. I'd rather hang out with five child avi's than one of you. They tend to be much more polite and stay quiet as opposed to going out of their way to make others feel bad like you're doing here. Shame on you.