Anna Nova

So the answer is that you can't store a folder in an object, but you can write a script to recreate a folder structure from the contents of an object. Cool, I'll work on that. Thanks everyone.

I tried dragging a folder into an object, an the contents of the folder arrived, but not the folder structure. Is there any way round this? I'm looking at ways to preserve a folder structure.

ya, and I spent 4 hours trying, unsuccessfully, to make them look right. Designed for booby-bum people, I guess. If you try to get the boobs to a natural, non-sillycone look, anyway. They are horrible compared to Physique. (IMO, of course)

My condolences. I lost my SL partner to Covid in November.

Even Hitler made the trains run on time. I'm not an American, so I can make jokes about your jokes any time I like. I personally think relying on dead trees from the carboniferous era that cannot be ever replaced is far far dafter than using windmills. I am an ethnic Russian (of course I say 'Slav', now), but my Boyar ancestors left when the Menshevik's took over - so I take no responsibility for the messes made by the proletariat imbeciles since.

When are we getting electric-powered rockets?

Now I find it real interesting that you'all concentrate on the going to Mars bit, while I (and I think @Rolig Loon) are most interested in my items #1,#2. I see Musk as a social engineer, not a rocket or battery-auto maker. He is now in a position, and with a platform, to change the world with a single pronouncement. Scary Movie.

It would seem to be a marriage made in heaven. Then he can: encourage Free Speech here too. get Vlad's pal Donald back on-line. put one-in-the-eye over Zukerblog's Meta. Wouldn't cost as much as Twatter either.

Music. I never even turn the sound on. I like the dancing anims though. Weird.

I had a farceblob account once. Then I discovered what Zukerblob was like. So I closed it, they asked me why, so I told them. Now I am banned and so happy.

There's always Mars. That's where the big(head) money is going.

No one else seems to want to say it, so I will. In buying mesh bodies and meth heads remember the RENDERING COST.

To be fair to them the MeMeMeeja! companies (aka press) all tell them this is what they should believe. They also tell pilockticians the same lie, and they believe it too. Me, I think they should all be aborted now, before they come to term. But I doubt the US Supreme Court would agree, since Trump bought it.

Is that a MESH head?

There are apps (Authy Desktop, which I use, for one) that run on your lappy or desktop, even under Linux. So you don't need to have a cellphone (but I do, and use Authy on that too). As soon as Firestorm supports it, I'm in. I mean I keep, ummmm, $10 or so in SL all the time...

Well it takes all sorts. One thing SL, like RL, teaches you is that if you expect everyone to think the same way you are out of luck. Even Slink ships the alpha-cut body with the Redux, so no one is left out.

I use CTS Wardrobe, and with that I can automate everything, either Maitreya Autohide Alpha-cuts or putting on an alpha, either add or wear. The big issue is the making of alpha layers, and I do find I like having two monitors, one in GIMP (I'm on Linux) and one in Firestorm with a body-UV-map skin and the alpha set to use the emerging copy on my drive. As@Nalates Urriahsays, it's about 10 minutes until you confidently pay your L$10 to upload it. It's about the same time to make an Autohide Alpha-cut add-on with the Maitreya kit. So the next issue is a proper naming scheme and filing structure to be able to reuse them... (and @Blaise GlendevonI wouldn't dream of denying you your lag-o-cuts body, I just want a version without.) @Karl Herbersuggested the free-to-L$3K Lucybody Atanea which has alpha-cuts, but also a way of adding BoM, and checking them out there are also several rather good L$250 BoM-only bodies ranging from busty thru petite to flat. Worth a try if you are cash-limited. @Karl Herber

It's a way of paying LL $95 a year, so they pay you L$15600. What a deal!

I spent 2 hours watching Snooker yesterday..... it's very soothing. (for 'mericans, Snooker is like Pool, for grown-ups.)

I don't touch Legacy because it's made by the same people that did the TMP debacle, and I hold grudges forever (also their store gives me Migraines). Same reason I am on Linux, I remember the Microsoft antitrust thingy, and netscape. In the same vein, I am very sympathetic to Maitreya, as I have only ever had good experiences with them - heck, I paid them years ago for a body and they are still updating it, massively, for free! Slink is the same. Nice to see the experts (IMO), @Beq Janusand @Gabriele Gravesgetting involved. It is illuminating to understand the various issues in this topic.

I am tempted to say 'to hell with being a good citizen, no one else is!' and stick with Maitreya, while lobbying them for an alpha-cut-free version in the next release. Something like the script that is made to strip them from the Belleza bodies. I can't think it would be very hard to do, and then they would have the high moral ground with the best support. Or I could say 'armpits to the lot of you', and just do more RL and save my money.

I quite liked Isis (which comes in the demo package), but even that has huge boobs.

Actually no. I don't ever wear the optional applier layers and yet @Beq Janusthingy (Improve Graphics Speed - Avatar complexity) on Firestorm shows Lara ~5 times worse than Physique Redux. Typically I am seeing the Redux body using 160 microseconds, and the Lara using 4000 microseconds. Looking at this with an outfit and a 500 microsecond Lelutka head yields a total 1400 microseconds for Redux and over 5000 for Lara. Ya, I'll be looking at the head next. I found the replies here mostly very helpful. I'll try @Nalates Urriahsuggestions, but maybe also get a demo of Freya as I have loads of clothes rigged for that too. I'm afraid I tried the Cinnamon and Chai demos - it's far far far too curvy for me, and I couldn't get it anywhere near the shape I wanted, and I have never seen any clothes for it at all.

I think I am an @steeljane42Option 1 and @Ze Helixperson now. For new purchases anyway. It was following Beq's advice to wear the Slink to clothes fares that led to this, Oh well. It will be a whole lot cheaper to spend my time rediscovering my old clothes, and set up the slink-rigged version. Fortunately I archive almost everything. What would really be good would be a Maitreya release with an optional no-cuts version, but I am not holding my breath.

Well seeing that this thread reached 14 pages in almost no time at all, I would say that Elon has successfully brought back free-speech on SL forums, anyway. Can we get him to buy Russia next?