Salt Peppermint

textures being free to upload alone would be totally worth it for me. I'll sign up in a heart beat

I made 2 ❤️ https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SP-Bride-dress-ivory-Lara-Petite-Legacy-Perky-Reborn/23456608, https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/SP-Bondage-bride-dress-white-wear-to-unpack/19659784

Violent Seduction has some

there are a few cases where this will actually work quite nicely. obviously not on big surfaces. but yes, not everyone who uses materials also actually knows how to properly use them. but we all started somewhere, and many came a long way, making SL beautiful.

always on. I also feel that many think they need high or ultra settings to have ALM on... you don't. You can absolutely stay on mid graphic settings and enabled AML for a much nicer experience without stressing your computer. Also shadows and AML are 2 different things. Shadows usually are much harder on the computer and will drop your FPS significantly . enabling AML but keeping shadows off usually will not make a great impact on your FPS but give a much nicer experience. of course it will also depend on the items you look at. not every creator uses materials in their items , so in some cases there will be a huge difference in some not so. personally I love to enhance some of my clothes with optional holo shine materials, that can not be seen without AML for example.

like above already mentioned. substance painter would be the main 3d painting program. it's the industry standard. I also made 2 substance tutorials specifically aimed for SL as we have to do a few things "backwards" in Substance to make it work for SL

I have seen quite a few close and return but under a differnt name and brand, including myself. I left in 2007 and re-opened with a S&P in 2015 again. Guess it always depends for what reasons someone has left.

it's wonderful if it's like that for you. ❤️ my experience is very different

it would be so amazing if it would be that simple. luckily we have all kind of content in SL, so people can find whatever they need or even make it themselves. the beauty of SL

it might very well depend on the item and also on the amount you are selling. I am not afraid of "potential additional support questions" , I know exactly what I will get. In some rare cases I still add parts that can be modded for optional personal logo customization and such, and just for that, the amount of questions and explanations is orbiting. Of course it will differ from creator to creator, hence some absolutely do offer mod items and that's great! It's just some explanation why some don't want to offer it (anymore).

this makes me incredibly sad to read. I can assure you that in fact SLcreators do now have any superiority complex but rather the opposite. most are quite shy and struggle with tons of insecurities and really try the best they can. the levels of that will certainly differ. of course there are some bad apples, like everywhere in every world and every field, but those do not make 95% of creators. those are single cases. as for the no mod.. I can only speak from my personal experience and agree to the reason of making anything mod, not only triples the customer service time but raises it into orbit, leaving you completely drained and with no time to create anything else. if you have a smaller store and generally do not need much time for customer support, you can probably handle items being mod but even that will just very much depend on the person. luckily there are things like full perm mesh that allows you to mod the heck out of it and rebuild and recreate as you wish. And there is always the option to invest time (just like creators do) and learn to mesh and texture, to be able to create the exact item, size. colour and look you want.

but at least it gives a pretty good direction and points to the very high render costs things when you wear a ring for example with a complecity of 80K alone... and all other numbers are below 10K, it will surely make you think

if you go into your appearance tab and then open the "wearing tab" , it will show you the complexity of each item you are currently wearing. You'll see the the bom texture will count 0 , and dense mesh using too many ( and too big ) textures will add significantly to the complexity. With proper made items, inlcuding good jewlery, hair, body + clothes, it's not difficult to stay below 50K complexity.

I use 2 layers for my fur as well, but for the rig, you need to skin a single layer first, the single layer should be very plain, no buttons, zipper or any accessory, just the base. Then adjust the weights until you are happy with the movements, then you bind your double layer final mesh and copy the weights from the single one. for fur I also use a differnt material on the outer layer and set that to 30% transparent. depending on the fur texture, I use a slightly blurred one for the outer layer. this part is a bit trial and error and depends on personal preferences and base texture

I would suggest to keep the legs spread at a max of 3-4 degrees and export that avatar to MD. with that little angle, the weights still transfer nicely later and it allows for easier creation of pants. As for the rig, I do not use Blender but Maya, however I am sure there is something similar as locking vertices on one side and I usually select via UV's to get a hold of the correct vertices to adjust weights. the above posted video is also super for the "sticky thighs rig issue"

it's from ISON

okay, you do you then

maybe it was simply a mistake and declined by accident. I don't understand why there have to be accusations thrown immediately. you could try to just re-submit it?

and Darth Vader of course...

it can't fall completely naturally as we are somewhat bound to the weights of the body. The weights can be partially adjusted but it will be always a little compromise. If we make it fall very lose for bigger sizes, it will easily clip when you lower the breast size below 50. So to make it fit a wide range of boob size, you need something in the "middle". It doesn't have to be super tight as you showed in your example though. This is a compromize I was happy with for my sweaters https://gyazo.com/50a8960f9ca7c99afc714357f35ce0e4

from a creators perspective: because of an oversaturated market and a lot of things repeating themselves the customers became more sensitive to what to buy at what price overall. A while ago you could make a nice item and it would sell in a somewhat " stable" range. Now it has to be a specatacular item and it will sell awesome but if it's just "nice", sales quickly drop into the gutter. There is a much bigger rollercoaster in sales and it bcame much more difficult to keep a stable range there. The mass of sale events is for sure influencing customers buying behaviour and therefore also other mothly events. While instore sale events are super to promote your brand , too much of it will be very toxic and actually do the opposite to the brand. This is the part that I feel many creators are not realizing. They sell well at a sale event , and keep doing those more and more, losing the balance between normal prices and sale prices, so of course customers will just wait until the items will go on sale and not buy them for regular price this way. Which is totally understandable. In the long run, this creator will struggle more and more with growing frustration :/. Finding the balance there is certainly not easy but very crucial

Fluffy explained it perfectly!

I would need to know a bit more specific what your issue is there. is it only to get the colour ramp? that can be toggled in the tool settings when you weigpaint https://gyazo.com/7694abc6ad4cab7ac4f01a2d1d0fabcd you need to make sure "gradient" is checked or you will see the weights in black&white. there are differences in functionality of Maya LT and the regular of course but I would have to look those up in detail, so it could be that as well. From what I remember (but this was years ago) when I looked into the specifics , the LT version did not have everything I needed even for SL, so I went with the regular. And in case you don't know , since a bit now Maya offers an indie version for a yearly price about roughly 250 USD ( depending on the country ) , which is the complete full version

march theme in C88 will be "retro futuristic" . you might be able to find some nice stuff there

this is just the joint size that needs to be set. it's differnt from kit to kit. go to diplay - animation - joint size and just lower the number in there. it's only a display setting and will not effect skinning at all. usually most kits work best with approx 0.02 - 0.5 joint size