Anna Nova

I'll stew beef. Sorry hijacked a thread...alstublieft or alsjeblieft. I think the English have more trouble with Dutch than vice versa. All the Dutch and Flemish people I know have terrific command of English. Very few native English speakers can speak ANY other language.

I am a Russian 3rd-gen-ex-pat (now British by birth) noblewoman (Boyar). You are all speaking rubbish, and should be in Siberia sweeping the snow. The world would be a better place with more Autocrats. This democracy rubbish is the cause of all the world's woes. What in God's name were you doing giving serfs the vote? Fortunately in UK, despite everyone thinking they elect the Members of Parliament, from where the Government is formed, only proper people can get on the ballot with any chance of winning (and they have to vow to obey their party). And then the Government is formed by one person ( Prime Minister), and does what he says, ignoring Parliament. The Prime Minister does what the Autocrat tells him/her. Some think the Queen is the Autocrat, I'm not so sure. It must be so. No collection of reasonable individuals could make this many cockups.

This is God, teaching you perspective.

This sort of reminds me of long ago, doing some IT work for the <country deleted> <expletive deleted> Government. Every time we got close to meeting the spec, the spec changed. And we had said 'if we can't trust the <country deleted> Government, who can we trust?' Ah the innocence of yoof. (You have my sympathy too @Starr Ghost)

Looks like it's a SL 'feature' then. I know I should Jira it, but I sort of don't want the hassle. Thanks again Coffee.

I wanted to name some folders +1, +2, +3 etc., so that RLVa scripts would add rather than replace their contents - this is what a + prefix does. However, SL silently replaces folders names +'number' with 'number' on the next reboot. It could be Firestorm, and as I am on Linux I can't test it with the SL viewer. Is this expected behaviour? Or should I JIRA it soon(tm)?

I'm afraid this bit of statistics gathering isn't much use. 1) What @Pussycat Catnap said about presumptive bias. 2) No way to know if it's a representative sample. 3) It didn't state what means the responder should use to measure. 4) It didn't state what state the responder should be in (flat feet, no hover, etc., etc..) However, I did fill it in. I just hope the idiot thing-makers in SL don't stat quoting your results as 'evidence' that everyone is tall.

Isn't it always amazing how some people WANT to be President of the USA? I think they should choose some schmuck off the street and drag her to the White Pile in chains. Isn't it always amazing how some people WANT to be Paramount Leader of China? I think they should choose some schmuck off the street and drag her to the Forbidden City in chains. It isn't amazing at all that someone forced by law and custom to be a Royal Duke should let a beautiful lady drag him away to California in chains....

One thing I do before changing body or head is to take photos to my disk of the various panels of the 'Edit Appearance' set (since LL and Firestorm forgot to give us a way to download them as a JSON? file - hint hint) That way I have all the up-to-date numbers to edit-back the new head/body/skin combo to my height and build after using the shape from the new item. You will only get the head shape and look from exactly the same numbers as in the set that was on when the photo was taken (assuming the seller has not photoshopped the picture to fool you).

I have been in that situation myself, and they (the LL programmer) have my deepest sympathy.

As underlined above, yes, that's exactly what I mean. Okay, I understand now why it's hard and 'costly'. Thanks for taking the time to explain. My interest as a user is knowing the geography of SL, and the higher zoom-outs of your map are extremely helpful for that. Thanks for whatever you do with the map. Even as it is, it's an order of magnitude better.

My prediction is that by December 31st Linden Lab will be predicting that the Map Tiles will be working 'soon'.

@Eddy Ofarrelone thing that would be nice when the map is zoomed out is some indication if a tile has a name, rather than just being 'missing', maybe a faint outline as a placemarker. Sort of the same as the SL Brokenmap(tm) uses the sea background for otherwise empty, but usable, regions. I realise that this is a different case, of course. But have your well deserved rest before you think about it!

But, but, but, Secondlife is flat. All this talk of orbiting stuff is terrible, you might hit the elephant!

I'm a vehicle supremacist. I admit it. All I want is a few orb-free corridors, well marked on a WORKING MAP. If I had a WORKING MAP I could avoid your pitiful walled enclosure, couldn't I?

I think you misunderstood. LL: Lots of people want new names, and we are broke.

Title says it all. I just sailed from the southern tip of Sartori to the Stilthouse regions, and I know I can get to the rest of Belli from there. Maybe try to fly from the Blakes Sea to Abbotts next? Thank you @Patch Linden

The problem that is being talked about makes sailing an unmodified boat a little unpleasant at some bad region crossings. Otherwise most boats from reputable makers are okay. The thing to watch for is the ability to edit the body of the boat (it's not necessary to be able to edit the scripts, but to change them out). On top of that, some makers use Avsitter scripts, and you can clearly see them in the content when you edit the boat - there are free updates for these; but some makers use their own proprietary scripts, and only the maker can issue updates to those. So if the boat uses Avsitter (check the demo), and you can add and delete scripts from the contents, you should be fine. You MAY be fine with a boat that uses no-mod proprietary scripts, but it depends on the maker - we can't advise here on that.

Just a quick note to say that I sailed round and through North Sansara from Kagel and out to Bay City in the west, with Eddy's map on my second monitor. It is nice to have all the screen of monitor 1 for Firestorm, with only a small square for the mini-map (corner avoidance necessity). No issues for over 2 hours sailing. I found it wonderful to have a long distance planning map to hand. Thank you @Eddy Ofarrel, you are my new #1 SLer. Of course, nothing changes much in Sansara, so the missing new sims issues doesn't arise.

I use CTS Wardrobe (no commercial interest) to manage all my clothes, and some other things too. Amongst other things, it allows me to tag clothes, so I can see at a glance which things I have in my inventory have which tags. One of my old tags is 'Needs new Alpha'. Usually these are older, non-fitmesh, clothes that I got cheap, and most of them I would never wear today - but I have learned that 'never' is not a good concept in SL, witness all the alphas I threw away when I got my first mesh body! However, it has been fun to make alphas, even though I still use Maitreya, as I can get the cut so much more precise than the Maitreya HUD-cuts allow. It's worth remembering that Alphas, like Tattoos, are additive, and you can wear lots of little ones to make the overall effect right - so it is not necessary to make many alphas if you have a quick way of adding and taking off sets of them. CTS Wardrobe uses the RLVa protocol to do this, but it's entirely possible to do it by hand using folders. Users of the Slink Redux body (like my alt) have access to a large number of pre-made alpha items.

I agree. HP is just an excuse to introduce bigger texture and lag.

It seemed a succinct nomenclature. You like succinct, I think, @Lillith Hapmouche Thanks, now I've found it it helps me, but a new thread is better as everyone can find it. I dislike these vast multipage threads.

I presume you are rebuking me for starting a new thread. So why is the old thread not called Evo X, which is what I searched for? If you must use a Necrothread, start at Page 4 near the bottom.

I wonder if the LindenLab are making the new tiles by hand since they can't afford a programmer....

Letlutka have a new line out at Skin Fair called Evo X. It has a new UV map totally incompatible with the head UV map of the SL system body. I got a demo, and it's quite nice, and gives a crisp look with the enclosed skin Tattoo layers. What do others think of it? How does it compare with Catwa HDPro?