Rathgrith027

This really was a bad idea. NFTs and what not have a negative connotation towards them for various reasons, including: The exorbitant commodification of art The heavy energy consumption of generating NFTs The inherent pointlessness of NFTs due to their disconnection from the art or work they're supposed to digitally represent, as well as the lack of protection of the work The theft of existing art for the purpose of making and selling them as an NFT The fact that the market for NFTs have since popped and are unlikely to recover as they're nothing more than overglorified digital beanie babies / beenz (if you remember either of those). Linden Lab and Zenescope, who for the record, I had never heard of since their collaboration with SL, and that's saying something as someone who knows people who are devout comics fans and occasionally discusses them with said friends, have made a big mistake by doing this, and not just for the reasons above. If I were Brett (or one of the Lindens in Upper Management), I would be withdrawing Linden Lab and SL thereby from this sweepstakes effective immediately. ..And to think, LL was doing so well lately..

I'd love to participate in this class as I've only recently begun my Japanese learning, only knowing Hiragana and Katakana (mostly the former). Is there an accompanying in world group?

It's not that hard for NVIDIA at least, though it does require you to know some console-fu, namely knowing how to enable executing a program and executing it, as well as how to shut down X (The software responsible for linux having a graphical interface). There's also the option to use the PPA on Ubuntu to just automatically update. Seriously, I think we'd be in a better place if Linux was more predominant. Microsoft wouldn't be as stalwart in making stupid-ass UI/UX, software and firmware decisions. I don't bother with mainstream Ubuntu. Whilst I've got a modded out derivative of KDE Neon, I don't really feel comfortable using something like Manjaro or Arch, at least not yet. What TPV is that? I've never seen one like that before. Aura, was it? If you're new to Linux, I recommend personally using either KDE Neon or Linux Mint. Both are very newbie-friendly distributions of LInux.

Linden Lab does not make any rules on what you can make a profit from in Second Life as long as what you are doing complies with the terms of service. You are restricted however, to how *much* you can cash out in a certain period if I'm not mistaken. However, as with all business activities, depending on state/prefecture/region and National laws, you may be required to report your earnings to your appropriate tax authorities. Second Life has long been a bastion of capitalist ventures in the metaverse - the internet's collective of virtual worlds, in layman's terms - there are various companies and businesses, both big and small, for pleasure and for profit, that exist in Second Life.

We already have enough poltical talk elsewhere. No.

m^2 is meters squared, I believe. though i'm fairly certain that unless that's the maximum high level LOD range, that I have no idea why it's referencing area.

A solution to the problem would probably to integrate the creation of Alpha layers into the viewer - wouldn't be that hard to make a program integrated into the viewer that could work like substance painter, but instead of texturing it could be used to precisely make layers for alpha on the base LL body (and third party ones thereby, as they're all designed to follow similar UV maps, at least those that are BOM compatible.) There's not much benefit to Rigged Hair other than convenience on initial setup, but that's only if said hair was made with your head in mind (LL body and the more non-furry/anime heads such as those sold by the big ones like Lelutka, Catwa, and Utilizator's Normie head.). Once you've fitted it using scale and positioning in edit mode the first time, the benefits of rigged hair become moot, since unrigged and rigged hair (and objects in general) are fixed to a offset on a bone on the avatar's armature (skeleton). The difference is that when it's rigged, parts of the mesh object follow other bones, such as with shirts, pants, etc.

I know I asked you about this subject before on the Reddit (at least regarding what you already answered here).. but what do you think would be the solution for this problem? We have other platforms who use similar technology to SL (One I won't mention due to maturity, but the initialism is HS2) regarding rigging multiple objects to a single skeleton and they don't have the issues that SL does in environments where multiple characters who are using multiple rigged, be they fitted to the character or just plain old rigged - objects on the same skeleton. As for Alphas.. wasn't part of the point of BOM that we could retire the use of alpha cuts on avatars and go back to using the more optimized system of just having an Alpha Map? Or am I missing something?

Was on another VW platform for a friend's birthday and a friend was giving them a.. well, happy dance, let's leave it at that - and they were playing this song.

This used to be a relatively popular thread on a forum I used to frequent. Been listening to a lot of stuff lately, but if I had to pick one, it'd be Nekoshi Corp's Luxury's Fortune.

Honestly at this point there's not much else to discuss unless another FAQ comes out. Pretty certain this thread is just going to keep getting derailed. We've pretty much covered every corner of the discussion. Also, while I'll apologize for contributing to the fires, I stand by what I said. What that was, Is up to those who come here now to figure out. 🤐

Gambling Machines, i assume you mean involves Skill Gaming - those are not being banned, but will remain to be restricted pursuant to the Skill Gaming Policy.

People have been talking in circles for a while now Silent.. best you just take a break like I've been.

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-229609?focusedCommentId=638653&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-638653 I also brought it up during the Meet the Lindens Q&A this year at SL18B, I can't recall exactly who answered the Vulkan question, But I know that Grumpity did confirm they're working on Multicore.

It's not so much that he's CEO now but that he and a few other HROs at Linden Lab and Waterfield make up the group that technically superceded Ebbe following his death.

Linden Lab has actually been dedicating resources to this recently, such as the planned shift from using the older OpenGL API to using Vulkan, which should provide some sizable performance optimizations along with the fact they're going to try and get SL to take more advantage of multi-core processing. One example of this is that in the latest viewers, Image decoding (When texture data is downloaded from the SL Asset Server, and decoded into a usable format for the viewer from JPEG2000, which is used due to its' high compression rate and losslessness) is now multi-threaded (another word for multicore processing), improving performance when loading assets into the world. Two years ago I would have agreed with you that LL needs to do something. They still do, yes, but they actually are putting effort into it now.

Seconded. If any store starts using this to gate off their more desirable items, They'll never see my business again, and I know i'm not the only one.

Limit and Market buys are both restricted by Linden Lab under the maximum transaction amount system. You cannot place either a Limit (Where you buy at a requested L$-to-USD value) or Market Buy (When you buy at what Linden Lab's economics team has defined as what they believe the L$ is worth, based on market data) when the order exceeds what your account is allowed to purchase. Any more requires you to either wait until either the daily or monthly limit is reset (whichever is not totally expended), or place a bulk order with Linden Lab.

Although I'm not a creator (Though the idea of pursuing blender for SL purposes has been tempting..) I do agree that I and anyone in their right mind should never agree to indefinite exclusivity deals for events. I don't care if you're Crystal Heart Festival or The Arcade, I won't have it.

If creating your art relies on some sort of rarity that isn't covered by limited releases, than I and others don't know what to tell you.

You don't need to do that. If the gacha's assets are already on the asset server, you can just reconfigure their permissions, slap them into a vendor or onto the MP and call it a day (or go onto the next one).

That may be true, but the reality of the matter is this isn't solely for moral reasons (though to be honest if it were, I'm certain LL would have stepped in much sooner than this), but for legal ones as me and others have said numerous times before. If you want to complain about Gacha being banned, complain to your legislators.

Seconded. As someone who's sister had a drug addiction for years, this post is just.. words don't begin define how much of a bad take this is, Finite.

It would be best to sell them in a conventional matter, as many stores now are forced to do the same thing. There are many more people who will support your decision than those who seem to have a hardon for gacha to the point that they'll flame people who dare comply with a Linden Lab policy change.

Yeah, in that case it'd be fine, I believe.