Rick Nightingale

You're right, a relog just put them back to normal. Never seen that one before - there's always something going on here, isn't there?! 🤣

Do what I do and link them to mesh. Zero extra LI One part of my build is something like 240LI mostly on download cost for the mesh, but there's something like 200 prims linked into the mesh. The entirety of the cost of those prims is absorbed into the mesh cost, filling up the server cost. I could probably optimize it even more since the linkset distance was increased, but I haven't got around to it yet. I have hit the 255 objects in a linkset limit in places though. Could do with raising that one.

Huh? All my groups that were set to show in my profile, have just gone don't show. I.e. the checkboxes to show them have been unchecked. I didn't do it! I checked an alt and the same has happened there. Also I note that I've been set to 'None' as the active group. LL... what are you up to now? Edit: it could be worse... could have been the other way around. Then people might see that I'm in the secret XXX-FREESEXMONEY-XXX group!

My LI use on my rental from you @Prokofy Neva reduced by about 200; that's about a 9% saving but my build is already well optimised to reduce LI by linking. I'm busy PBRing (that's now a verb) and installing reflection probes Edit to add: Overall I think I'll see a net gain by the time I've finished. I can't imagine I'll need to use up 200LI in the 'improvement' process.

Easy in principle, not in reality. Isn't going to happen. Copyright issues abound! If all your mesh (body, head, shape files... everything!) was available for download as the actual 3D design files, and the license terms for it all allowed such use, it could all be put in Blender and made into a 3D printer compatible file. That's not the case though and the mesh devkits I have for, say, Maitreya certainly don't allow that use. The alternative is a 'special' viewer which would output a 3D file based on all the same mesh information it gets from the SL servers. That is, as far as I am aware, very much against LL's TOS. Similar viewers are called copybot viewers, which, rumour has it, are an effective way to get your account banned. ---- Nice thread though... some fun stuff to read in here that happened either before my time, or while I was hiding under my rock on mainland

Any other owner should be able to make you owner again

I think you can revoke owner role on yourself (even as the group creator) if at least one other member has the owner role. That's not helpful if you didn't make anyone else owner as well though. If you did, perhaps you revoked yourself by accident. Not that I'm saying SL can't mess things up without any help from us 😆

I changed from Catwa Daniel to LeLutka Logan when it was given free. Not that I wouldn't have bought one, but I could never find a look I liked enough to replace Daniel when I demo'd other heads, including the other male giveaways over the last few years. Now I've got used to Logan, I mostly prefer the look and it has the benefit of the higher detail EVOX skins. The body has been Gianni for a long time, although I'm getting annoyed recently because I've seen so many clothes I would like to wear that aren't fitted for it! While Logan has mostly replaced my 'default human' look, Daniel still sees a lot of use. I prefer Daniel for FGI fantasy skins which never quite look right to me on Logan* (I guess because it's not actually SLUV even in non-EVOX mode). Daniel also fits my favourite alternative body which I've used since the day it launched; Aesthetic. All my more demonic looks (and still a lot of my favourite human looks) use Aes and Daniel. Me right now: Gianni, Logan, skin from Birth *Edit: I should note that FGI is now making skins for EVOX, and updating all (I think) existing skins to both EVOX and, at least in some cases, materials appliers too. So, when my main FGI skins get done I might change some of my FGI outfits over to Logan. Have to see which I prefer. I still have the issue that the FGI body skins don't work on AES and those are all my own work, done to match the FGI head skins. And of course Logan doesn't fit AES so that combination is a non-starter.

Nice - I think it just went live here after the region restart yesterday. Seems I've saved about 200LI; built has gone from 2300 to 2100 (about; I forgot to note the exact count before the change). That's a 9%-ish saving, but I had already heavily optimised by linking things to minimise total LI. Given that I was 100 away from my limit, that's pretty nice! Thank you LL.

@Katherine Heartsong We spotted this one, it's in the store but this is the MP link for a quick look: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/VC-Ray-Swimsuit-Colors-LaraX-PetiteX/25532266 It's PBR too! I'm sure we saw another but can't recall where; will let you know if we do.

I wish it had been true...

Thank you ChinRey. No, A is 20.1m, B is about 6m; saying they were identical wasn't accurate. I'm amongst those who have never noticed in all these years. I might have to mesh them because it's irritating me now, just knowing about it even if I don't look It is quite visible at normal distance (close enough to see, but not deliberately trying to look closely) because of the gap it leaves along the edge of the railing's flat top. It catches the light.

I was PBRing my house and noticed this. I don't think it's anything to do with PBR though: It's a simple, cylindrical prim top to a railing. The railing is the same thickness, but the tops... well, you can see what is happening. The tops are identical, in fact B was made by shift-dragging A. What's going on? This was in Firestorm, latest beta. I thought it might be a bug in that, but it does the same in the release FS and in the official LL viewer, both tops look like A. While the smooth shading hides the fewer faces on A at a distance, the edge of the top of the railing is visible where it shouldn't be, and where the top goes into a post in the corner (not visible in the picture) you can clearly see the flat faces of the top of A. Edit to add: Even stranger... If I cam close to the centre of A (centre of its 20m length) it's a proper cylinder. As I cam closer to the end of A, I can see the number of faces dropping as I get closer to the end until it becomes as shown in the picture. It's like the LODs are going in reverse, but only as I cam towards the end of it.

oops double post sorry

My wife (and I) really like LaraX. She's tried all the bodies out there but never found one that gave the sort of shape she wanted better than Lara, but it had its issues as we know. Particularly around the posterior, for me anyway. LX fixed them. The shapes are close enough that it only takes a few minutes with the sliders to convert a Lara shape to an LX, with significant improvements. She can't make her mind up about the butt deformer though; sometimes it's on, sometimes its not... the question, "does my bum look big in this?" has cropped up a few times now 😄. Not that it's a bad thing to have, it's just she can't decide which looks best. Sometimes choice doesn't help and if she asks me again... 🤣 We're seeing plenty of support for LaraX at the events and some creators; some of the clothes are even good (from the usual, trustworthy suspects). Some are using templates and you get four sellers at an event with the same item in vaguely different textures; and some not so well made, as always. Some 'creators' still think that they can dump a half-finished mesh out for sale that I could do a better job of myself if they handed over the .blend file, and it will sell. I guess many people don't look as closely at what they are buying as we do. A fair number of creators are updating existing clothing, as well as releasing new stuff. That's great and very kind of them. Others (including some of our favourites) I don't think will update, which is a shame as the ones I am thinking of are the ones that would benefit the most from LaraX vs. Lara. Money talks though and there's always more in new products. We would happily pay again for a LaraX version of many things she already has. Given the attitude I've seen from some people on the groups though, selling like that instead of offering a free update would cause some unpleasant kick-offs from a lot of people. We've managed to fit a lot of existing Lara stuff to LX. Some covers most of the body anyway (which really makes using LX vs. Lara irrelevant, but having the same body on makes outfit changes simpler) and home-made alpha masks help for some if the body/clothes don't clip in difficult places. Some older clothes with v4 of the autohide are a pain though and require setting up a 'custom' Lara with alpha'd parts then pulling Lara's scripts out. That was often needed originally anyway. Of course, many of her outfits aren't (and never will be) available for LX. Her favourites from Elven Elder (one of the best designers in SL; he left last year to move on in real life) for instance. For those, Lara is still good enough, as it always was. I wish we could get the EE jeans for LaraX though. There's nothing else as good. Yet. That's the good thing though - Lara is still perfectly usable and as good as it always was of course, and now new buyers get to have both. Double the choice. I keep saying we're not going to buy anything else until PBR is really mainstream. I get a say because I make the money; we have a pact that we don't put 'real' money in (we used to) and just share and spend what I make in SL. Then she gets a group message from TT and has to go and have a look, and has to use that founder member's discount she has because it looks so good on LaraX... oh well. It's only money. Wow... that turned into an essay, didn't it? I was only going to say a bit while I enjoyed my coffee.

I always recall someone saying "if your arms aren't long enough to reach to wipe your butt, you're doing it wrong." The answer is T. Rex

I quote Iain M. Banks' novel 'Excession', from the Culture series: So... no.

Ha - found it, of course just after I nearly gave up and asked here. The answer, in case anyone else wants to change it: It is in the skin's colors.xml file, which is found in the folder C:\Program Files\Firestorm-Releasex64\skins\starlight\themes\mono_teal for the one I use. Insert your own instead. This section: <!-- Groups visible in profiles --> <color name="GroupVisibleInProfile" reference="LabelTextColor" /> <color name="GroupHiddenInProfile" reference="EmphasisColorLight" /> Change the GroupHiddenInProfile as required, save and relog

The pinky-orange on light grey is hard to see; see pic. Is there anywhere this can be changed? I've looked around, in prefs, debug settings, and even the xml files for the skin (starlight / mono teal) and so far can't find it. Help would be appreciated; my eyes hurt from trying to read light-coloured text on a light-coloured background.

Not that hard in my opinion (assuming a professional doing it), having just converted a few of my items from Lara to LaraX. One of which did actually involve re-rigging (which is really arranging the skeleton and joint controls, not fitting clothing or skin to that skeleton rig which is really called skinning*1). In fact it took a lot less time than I expected. I'm a very part-time amateur and have to relearn everything every time I do it, but it took me less than a day to be happy with the fit of my mertail, responding perfectly to all the sliders etc. when I thought it might take a week. That included uploading, testing, rinse-and-repeat until happy, and making the sales packs and adverts. I don't make clothes but the process is no different (in fact it's somewhat harder*2 for both rigging and skinning a mertail!). The other items took less time than that but only involved reskinning to the new LaraX model and some tweaking of the mesh and weighting. The issue is, I think, simply that sellers obviously make more sales and money by making new items than refitting existing items to new bodies, especially when many customers will expect that LaraX version as a free update to their Lara version. Personally I see free updates as a very nice bonus, unless it's to fix faults with a product. *1 Edit to add: Not getting on your case about rigging vs. skinning; practically everyone thinks it's all called rigging. I often just call it that myself to avoid confusion. In this case though, I had to do both steps to recreate the tail skeleton in the right place. *2 Although I don't have to deal with armpits. Armpits are a pain.

My wife asked me to pass this on... She has been using the AK Alice head; it's been her favourite head for a while, ousting some very expensive ones, but it had a little issue. Don't know if anyone else ever noticed it, but we saw it straight away and once seen, it couldn't be unseen. So, finally, she contacted KAOZ just two days ago about it. Unlike some of the replies we've had from other creators when daring to be critical (even very carefully and politely) of a product, KAOZ asked for a picture and said he would investigate it. The result after just two days... KAOZ sent out an update to everyone with the corrected Alice head. It's now perfect. That's not just good service; it's outstanding! Note for mods... this is not an advert; it's a positive story and recommendation. We have no connection with AK heads, other than enjoying using and seeing them on each other. Here's a picture with one of her favourite outfits and the (new) Alice head; just because what's a thread without pictures?

Not any more; it's now 50% off the full price like the others. SWMBO just went to get it for her alt. She still bought it... it's only my money after all! She had already bought it for her main avi at the 975 but procrastinated before deciding her alt could have it too. Must have been a pricing mistake. I thought it was a bit too good to be true as I was telling her.

Having just found out that a couple who live(d) just a few miles away from me won £61,000,000 at the start of the month, I'll join in: I would start by having a builder make one of the houses that I built for myself in SL, in RL. On my RL private island. With ban lines (which I don't like in SL but RL doesn't have such easy ban/blacklist abilities). Probably, I would keep a presence in SL. A dozen regions plus some homestead watery areas say, all nicely landscaped and with facilities for others to enjoy. And I would have a (RL) kitchen big enough to swing a cat in without her hitting the four walls which she would now, if we still had her (she's been pushing up the dandelions in the garden since last November - nothing to do with being bounced off kitchen walls. Honest.) And I would still very much be the same me I always have been, just with more ability to actually be me and not have to toe the line in life so much.

Would be nice. Firestorm is now showing a notification on the top of the screen, so there's that. I recall it also has a flashing icon that can be turned on in the toolbar to notify of new issues, only when logged in of course. I turned it off because it was flashing so often it annoyed me, lol.

Thank you Patch. I did check status but it wasn't there when I did (don't think so anyway).