Orwar
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5 hours ago, Jordyn McGregor said:
Why do you always assume I did something?
You don't actually believe that I'd believe you didn't, right?
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Resilience is booting SL back up after you've been TP hammering into an event for 3 hours and, when you finally slip in, you get a TP crash.
Nods sagely.
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2 hours ago, Jordyn McGregor said:
Being "pruned" when I was on topic...for half my reply anyway!
Pfft, what did you do this time?
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Clothing with lace/transparency will often get clipping issues in more 'lively' animations, even when using Lara it was a frequent enough issue that I'd avoid anything that was tight-fitting (but also loose-fitting transparent stuff because of how two transparent faces on top of each other creates strange dark near-solid edges). What I find the most annoying with LaraX and rigging is the pelvis area. Not sure if it's because creators try to follow the shape or if there's something else going on, but some trousers may look fine when T-posed, but the moment your AO has your thigh turn just slightly, it protrudes into a jagged bulge, as if you've got a Big Ben statuette in your knickers.
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4 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
The average height also differs between these places. IJS.
Also true - and on that, US women are shorter than European women on average. Sooo .. Not a favourable argument against what I just pointed out. Easier to just look at world BMI data - US ranks higher than any European nation.
3 minutes ago, Janet Voxel said:I just want to point out that people carry weight differently.
And this is also true, which is why I personally don't much like using BMI as an indicator. It doesn't take shape into account, those of us with broader skeletons just kind of look like we stepped out of a Gulag if we're too low in the green.
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1 hour ago, Rowan Amore said:
That is 170lbs.
In America.
The average weight of women in Europe is 70.8 kilos (156lbs), in America it's 80.7 (178lbs) - in Asia it's 57.7 (127lbs). In Europe 55.6% of women are obese, in America it's 73.9%. It's also not really representative of 'what a person looks like' to go by averages, if you take a 75 kilo woman and a 150 kilo woman and go 'oh the average weight is 112.5 kilos so that's what I should aim for to look 'natural' is completely off the mark; if you design an avatar intending to look like an average, non-obese woman 165cm tall the weight is likely around 55-65 kilos.
If someone wants to make their avi bigger than that, that's absolutely fine, but the world averages are a whole lot lower than that of the most obese places on earth (62 kilos/132lbs, world average - also note that average does not equate medically healthy either).
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Just now, Anna Nova said:
Legacy Perky is very close to what I was aiming for, and I now use it a lot, but it still cannot escape the SL fascination with huge asses.
For a small ass, small boob avatar with a big range of top-quality clothing you cannot beat LaraX Petite, in my opinion.
Really? I had the complete opposite experience. LaraX's butt is massive compared to Lara and Legacy. Even with throwing a bunch of deformer trickery on LaraX it was barely tameable, with Legacy I can have sliders that still have numbers in them, and no deformers, and achieve a dainty rear.
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Well, it seems there's no appropriate bones to deform to achieve a tighter waist with on most bodies, someone even looked at it in Avastar for me, sooo .. If you want a tight corset, I guess you'll just have to buy a tight corset and use an alpha, lol.
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27 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:
I promise to say you're pretty!!
Shallow compliments - how vain do you think I am?! Huffs.
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16 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:
I'm assuming you're struggling with the change from Maitreya Lara to LaraX. I am too, with my 3 female avatars.
LaraX pretty much killed support for Lara it seems, I tried to switch, but much too much of my wardrobe for Lara doesn't work with LaraX, and switching between those two and being limited to which parts of the wardrobe works with which pieces felt really annoying. So I've gone Legacy, it shapes more like I want my avi than LaraX does, and the majority of my old wardrobe is compatible with it, and it's pretty much always rigged for in new releases. It's a shame really, I really like the features Lara has, and I really dislike some of the features with Legacy, but having access to clothes, old and new, outweighs the downsides I see in it.
So, right now I rather feel as if there'll be few if any times I'd wear Lara when I've set up Legacy in its stead, thus me thinking I might as well just clear it out of my wardrobe and move on rather than having a bunch of duplicates I'll never use all over. I've got backups if I'd change my mind, so I'm leaning towards going that route - easier to just do it as I rebuild the wardrobe rather than rebuilding it and a few weeks down the line going through it again just to clear it out again.
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1 minute ago, Paul Hexem said:
I'm pretty sure @Orwar joined the group I was recently advertising so we're actually seeing it in real time. Even with a dedicated place to hang out, ways to leave messages for each other, group notices going out, people still won't take that first initiative to speak up and get the ball rolling.
Just being a wall-fly for the moment, been having much too much to do and much too little time to do anything lately. Aside, of course, from the mandatory shopping and inventory sorting, and the occasional selfie. Haven't even done the grid drives for a few weeks now!
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Peeve: need to rethink my wardrobe, either tagging folders with which bodies things are rigged for, or separating it into different wardrobes on a by-body basis, or .. Something else? But I also feel as if there's a rather high chance I may just never go back to my old body, and that I might as well throw all the stuff for it on the pyre and save myself the trouble. Still in the process of redelivering and re-unpacking stuff, so far there's been very little that isn't available for the 'new' body.
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13 minutes ago, Stephanie Misfit said:
Not deformers, but an addon, maybe you would be interested in this, works with Reborn
Hmm, only works with that specific corset though - I reckon a deformer would be the only way to shape both the body and the corsets rigged for it with it. I've looked at a few different products on the MP and it seems that there are some but they only work on bodies which utilize the bones differently for the body rigging than the 'common' ones (i.e Maitreya/Legacy/Reborn). But thanks!
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Sometimes!
But, as I often find myself repeating, it's a matter of having shared interests. A lot of the friends I've made through the forums are photography nerds, some just signed up when I was looking for models, others like to chat about the 'craft' of photography itself, and often as we chat we find we have other shared interests to talk about as well.
A few years back, during a period where there were a lot of separate threads by different people looking for friends in a very short time, I just went and rounded up as many as I could in-world and took them to a random hangout spot to play some games. Some I never saw again, some stuck around for a while.
But I do find that a lot of the people looking for friends on the forums do so because of desperation which is merely a symptom of social ineptitude, which makes them equally difficult to befriend in-world as anywhere else. People who expect friends to come served on a silver platter without ever taking a moment to reflect on what they may contribute to a friendship themselves; those people generally don't last long - if it's a totally one-sided attempt of establishing a connection, I tend to give in pretty fast. And sometimes they come back a few months or even years later trying again, sometimes after having taken a break from SL, thinking it'll somehow, magically, be 'different' this time around.
But that's just me. I'd rather spend time and effort on people who are able and willing to give something back; I'm not here to entertain others.
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Any out there?
I've got some push-up deformers which work great for the bosom in corsetry, but are there any that can pinch the waist? I know there's corsets rigged to be tight around the waist which then require alphas for the body beneath (many of which I find a bit too extreme), but could a deformer replicate the shaping akin to the love handle slider in the avatar shape to make an over-skin corset look a little tighter (without me having to make a specific shape)?
I did find one (free) set of deformers which has one (three, actually), but according to the description it only works on certain bodies (Anatomy, I think it said?), but 'not on bodies like Reborn' - and it appears to do nothing on Legacy either.
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Making friends in SL isn't particularly hard, I find, things have changed from how things used to be; not as many people standing around sandboxes tinkering and playing around with stuff since most of the asset creation has been moved off-grid, and many creators do their in-world testing in private as to avoid griefers or distractions. SL voice is also quite unreliable as a tool, and a lot of people (myself included) can do a large portion of the social bit on Discord or via IMs whilst running around shopping or playing dress-up/tinkering with stuff in my own home. But I'll still get together with friends when we do activities, whether it's board-games or mini-golf or vehicular adventures or such - long-lasting friendships tend to be easier when you have shared interests, not just a mutual desire for making friends.
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3 minutes ago, Lysistrata Szapira said:
Peeve: My clothes in SL only half-rezzing. The past few days if I put a clothing item on, only the back half of it shows up. I have to click edit to get the remainder of the pieces to become visible. I shudder to imagine what is showing up on other people's screens when my clothes do this.
Haven't noticed anything such on my end (also using Firestorm), it seems oddly specific that only the back part of clothes rez though, um, it'd probably not be a good thing to ask for pictures of what you mean if your avi is too exposed though.
But it sounds like it must be a local issue, I think? So you probably don't have to worry about how your avi is rezzed to others (speaking of - do other avies have the same issues on your end?). Also, BoM underwear for bulletproof* no-bits-flashiness. *Not tested against actual bullets. No guarantees. No money back.
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7 minutes ago, Bagnu said:
In all fairness to her though, the bike is mine, and she hasn't ever driven it before. It's also very difficult to steer properly. Looks great, but useless to control.
I think I may have that exact bike actually .. First thing I do when I get a new bike (ACS scripted ones, anyway) is sit down and tinker with the settings. A lot of creators have the gears be way too high set and the steering be very responsive (usually they're made for track-racing rather than street cruising, most tracks have quite a few sharp 180 turns so the bikes need to turn sharp). First gear should just be a gentle roll so that I can align the bike when taking off, second gear should be pretty slow still in case I'm just doing a short-cut or connection to a main road, third gear I want some speed - but still slow enough that things rez and I can sight-see along the way, 4th gear should be pretty zippy, 5th gear is for when there's 2-3 regions of straight road to burn across - after that having more gears feel superfluous.
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5 hours ago, Bagnu said:
/me hangs on for dear life...
That awkward turn with the curb bump .. Someone needs to learn how to make a drifting turn.
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12 minutes ago, Leora Greenwood said:
Hooooooooo........ from where, please?
Just now, Sid Nagy said:I'm interested too, what a great lamp.
Hextraordinary, it was on FLF - not sure if it's still there, but maybe!
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I demo stuff with my AO going, I'll only T-pose if I want to look at the textures more closely or play with the materials (wiggling a light source around). Mesh clothes are generally designed on a T-posed model, it's their 'default' look, so being T-posed shows nothing of the actual rigging, just the fitting of the 'base' mesh.