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    Well, they're obviously designed for the good old self-inflicted blackeye physics types!
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    Yes please. Also, I noticed Hilly Haalan has a sale on, and LaraX stuffs in it!
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    It's so pink! Just kidding, of course - good luck and happy blogging!
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    Magic? In my shop? Oh, never - but, I certainly observed some truly arcane stuff today. Also a lot of interesting gadgets and gizmos I may need to play around with myself. It was really quite the show! I can also happily report that Neph didn't eat our guest .. For once .. And even let us borrow a pose stand with some poses of hers.
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    Making a demo sign floating over/beside/through (as long as it doesn't obstruct the product itself) your avi seems quite effective though, and not as much work (and allows the person to browse all the colours). I almost never see people actually going to clubs or such with clothing demos like those, and sure it could be used to take a picture with but if a small portion of people do that I guess you could just try to look favourably at the free product publicity it brings. If it's a timed demo it's even easier to take a picture of it without buying the full product, a little more setting up required, but less editing.
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    Sounds like fun. I'm up for giving it a whirl if you'd like!
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    Ctrl + Alt + F1 / Shift + Alt + H. Such major pain!
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    For shooting two bullets with a semi-automatic, or for sustained fire with a fully-automatic. Nods.
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    Just think of it as magazine articles. Write about whatever you feel like, doesn't even really need to be about any specific theme or such.
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    There are a lot of games you can play within SL, as well as a fair few you can play with people just via the browser. For me that's always been a good way to make friends, it's usually easy enough to find someone who's up for a bit of Greedy or Skippo or H&F etc, and as you play and chat you may eventually find that some of them make for good friends. And sometimes there'll be douches, but that happens wherever you go or whatever you do. Best thing is to just move along.
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    If you want to learn a new skill, whether it's building or meshing or photography or whatever, an option to taking classes might be to find a mentor. It's very easy for one participating in a class to slip behind, and if you miss one step of the process then just about everything from that point onwards is unlikely to work, and especially if a class follows a schedule then a teacher can't always help every participant to keep up. It doesn't necessarily have to be a 'formal' mentor either, I end up doing a lot of 'mini classes' for people where I teach them about lighting or materials or how poses and shapes interact etc, and I do help people quite frequently with the whole avatar creation process - as people are different in how fast they learn and how much they already know, each person I end up helping have different needs to accommodate. For learning Blender, I'd strongly suggest videos focusing on Blender itself - no SL specific stuff, just ones that teach you how to navigate the program and how to produce an asset from start to finish (all the SL specific 'things' are in fact totally non-specific; and your first creations don't necessarily require to be built with custom LOD models or baked shadows or anything such; start off with something easy just to learn the tools, and as you come up with other projects to create you may need to learn specific tools or tasks in Blender, and once you get into how to search for information on specific things in Blender it becomes a lot easier to find). Blender is also hard to teach in SL, I'd personally strongly favour videos wherein you actually get to see what is happening at all times - although it does come with the same issue as classes; if the video fails to explain one step in a way that you can understand it, then you often can't proceed. A mentor who you can talk to about that sort of thing is a big help, as they can help you get back on track again, and sometimes when you don't know what you need to do to get from point A to point B in a project, you could even either just send them the model to look at or stream Blender so that they can help you navigate it. I'm not personally confident enough in my Blender skills to offer any mentorship with that particularly, but if you asked in the creation boards on these forums - either with a specific question you have, or if anyone would be interested in offering assistance as you go, you may well be able to find people who do. As for just social interactions in general, a mutual desire for friends is seldom a particularly solid for an actual friendship. You could find communities related to things you enjoy doing, or create ones if you don't find any - but then of course you'll need to have some idea of what you actually enjoy doing. And does 'taking a break' from SL help? For some it might, for many it changes nothing - they'll give it another try a few days, weeks, months, or years later and still have no idea how to approach the platform in a way that gives them enjoyment.
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    Sad????

    Orwar replied to Ricky40's topic in Your Avatar

    You'll need an animation that also animates the face, or a facial animation to go with the pose (some heads come with different expressions in their HUDs). For the face to be animated you need to be using a bento head. There are some tears and such around on the market, too.
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    Peeve: when you've been waiting for a package delivery all day and go to ask Neph is she has seen the mailman by any chance ..
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    It varies between the films. The first and second films are mainly from the perspective of a human as they arrive at the planet of the apes, where the apes are the smartest in the room (humans are just slaves). In later films the perspective shifts to that of the apes, and finally Caesar when the apes revolt in our own timeline.
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    In which they dumbed down the social commentary that was integral to the original series, turned it into a mindless CGI action-fest. And watching the new ones, you miss out on this! .. Or this, if you prefer ..
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    I didn't watch the new film(s?), for much the same reason I won't watch the remakes of the Planet of the Apes films - there's hardly anything to improve upon from the originals. It's just some of the best SciFi films in history, doing remakes of them is akin to an art student doodling a vague copy of <insert your favourite classical painting here> and trying to get people hyped because 'it's a Mona Lisa but with a ton more CGI!'.
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    Plus a fair few films. I'm so mad SGU was cancelled though, sure it was a slow burn but not everything has to be chaotic action 24/7 just because it's SciFi - the story was really intriguing and it had Robert fricking Carlyle in it. Now apparently Amazon are going to pick it up and there's been talk of a 'reboot', which terrifies me; it doesn't need a reboot, it needs continuation, and it's not the company I'd want to produce anything I care for after what they did with The Rings of Power.
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    I gave it a try just for the heck of it, the media-based HUD makes me want to throw stuff into the wall. As for the body itself, it's just way too heavy-bosomed for my avies (which is no surprise though). The sliders for the breasts also act kind of weird when dialed down, so for anyone who wants 'moderate' boobage are probably better off with something else.
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    I didn't 'stop', the series came to an end, haha. I've watched everything three times over (or is it four now?).
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    That's very nice of you, but I think you may have been a little too late to the party ..
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    Well, yes, there are alternatives ..
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    Sounds expensive. Teachers can do it more cheaply.
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