Anna Nova

which can be quite useful at times. Especially if you know the guy concerned.

Look, someone has to pay for all these computers we are using, and the industry has decided it's you. And on top of that, all the rich folk who put up the money they wouldn't miss if they lost it need money, and they want yours. It's called Capitalism. It was invented by that ex-angel guy, er, Lucifer? Great idea. Makes the world go round.

Alwin comes across as a bit abrupt at times, but he has a heart of gold, and knows stuff.

You're doing better than me, more rep than posts! 276!

Now I know how to get to the 400 posts needed to change my handle to 'Advanced Members'. Talk about anything ephemeral with deep aplomb. 275.

When I'm having a witchy day, I tp to S....f sim and h...g a sub-guy. Cheers me up no end.

Another noob uninformed posting from an under 10 poster. Obviously just reached the age where they can (just) reach the keyboard. Good bye Hack-Chan.

There is a secondary point here, LL by both making the complaint and then withdrawing it, has made sure that should a malicious attempt at Trade Mark infringement occur, they can stand in Court and say 'we vigorously defend this Trade Mark'. It's right that they acknowledge that Strawberry Singh wasn't infringing the TM but enhancing it's reputation, but they also tell the world that they do watch, and do defend. And actually we all need them to defend their IPR, because our enjoyment of SL depends on it being a commercial success.

I'm sorry to bust the party guys, but if there is even a hint of Trade Mark or IPR infringement LL's lawyers are going to insist they react like this. Trade marks have been lost before because they were not defended. It's not nice, but it is necessary. (I am only a lawyer on my days off)

I am told by people who know these things that there was a time long ago when to get an internet connection you dialed a telephone number and placed the handset into the cradles of the modem, which then sang to the server..... I do not believe them. It's so funny. What is a 'telephone number'? Is it some weird sort of entry in your friends list? What's a 'dial', and can you do it wiv both thumbs? What's a 'handset'? What is a Moe-Dem? Really these people from the past are so, so so, so Passe! And in 20 years more what will it be like?

Seems to me there will be another election along shortly, and some other fruitcake will end up putting her cronies into the institutions of state. Then we can all breath a great cry of relief. Or not, depending on your point of view. It's not that democracy is dead, it was never born. You can only vote for candidates, and they have to be put on the ballot by parties, once elected the candidate serves the party, not you. So you have no say at all. Voting is just an illusion of power. Best thing to do is to write-in Micky Mouse, because that's who you are going to get anyway (in the UK it's called 'spoiling your ballot' - and I usually write something more helpful to the toilet challenged).

That's why I said : 'if you have skin textures legally...'. Unless you do you will not have access to the UUID. Nothing in my post should be seen as encouragement to illegal or non-TOS-supported acts.

Somewhere I have a drone avatar. It always seems sort of odd to use it though. If I'm feeling inhuman I usually go Velociraptor.

OK, what the others said is right, get an Omega applier. Omega appliers come in various kinds and you need to have them to apply both head and skin - sometime Upper Body Skin and Lower Body Skin - you may also need Feet and Hands appliers too. But if you have skin textures legally, then making an Omega applier for them is really easy. You get the Omega Applier kit - IIRC it's free at their store on the Creator's floor. You take a copy of the Applier Kit's Skin applier, and rezz it on the floor of a sandbox, edit it, and in the Contents tab you will find a notecard which you open. Now you get the UUID of the texture (right click the texture in your inventory, you'll see 'copy uuid') into the place in the notecard - it's obvious where. Now close the edit, and 'take' the applier. You can leave any parts of the applier that you don't need as zeros. Now you can 'attach' the applier you made as a HUD. It is much easier to do than to describe. And once you have done it once you will feel empowered to make your own skins..... well maybe. Here is how it looks when you do it, I have blanked the UUIDs of my IPR to prevent theft:

I always start to laugh when the words 'Human Rights' roll across my consciousness. You get born - no choice, you got a right to die - no choice when or how. Just the same as 'Bovine Rights' and 'Viral Rights'. Everything else is just power and politics. If you got the power, then you can decide what the politics is. If you ain't, then the only rights you got are the ones those with power give you. In a democracy the people en-mass have some power, but those rights are only there as long as the consensus agrees to them - usually only as long as the consensus of the armed forces agree. Even in so-called representative democracies (not People's Democracies ) you only get the right to vote for candidates, and they are all brown-nosers for someone with real power. I'm just grateful for free-ish* speech, and don't expect any 'Human Rights'. It's poignant for me, my ggggranddaddy was Tsarist diplomat when the Revolution broke out in 1918, being a British citizen now is a result of he being in Paris with his family - interesting who has more 'Human Rights' today, me or my ethnic relatives back in Mother Russia. I would like Net Neutrality, what power I have I will extend to support it, but not being an American I don't have any. * Can't say nothing about lots of subjects on these forums, for instance.

Thank you! And it runs under Wine on Linux. Wonder of Wonders! Now to find out how to use it...... http://www.truancyfactory.com/tutorials/mapzone/mapzone01.html

Premium is the way to go. Costs $72 USD a year, but you get 52x300L$ in stipend. Work out how much you would pay for those Lindens, and it turns out you are only paying about $15 pa for the 512sqm plot. (Can't be bothered to check the figures, but it's not far off)

Just to follow-up everyone's good advice. She got some Lumae skins. For the 1500l$ some people want for a very indifferent skin, she could buy the Lumae store..... Pink Fuel seems only to have Logo, which are Omega, but I'm not sure of the issues. I'll try sugar garden, when I have time. But the Lumae Eirtae is great. And has freckles. Thanks everyone.

I hate most mesh hair, especially the longer cuts. All my long hair is old flexi. Even the short hair I wear all the time is EMO Ariadne from before the flood. Check out my old pre-mesh had shot in the profile pic with this from last month....

When I am role playing, then I am imagining what it would be like to be in that situation in RL. I assume those I am playing with are doing the same. We are all real people exploring things together. To take a concrete example...... Oh No! I can't do that here! And that's the point.

This is exactly what I was on about. However, it's worth pointing out that your last picture doesn't include the automatic conversion of the 4-sided faces (Quads) to triangles (Tris) that takes place in the uploader (if you don't do it first) - but these are still visible in the raw mesh generated picture. The real saving is in the 9:1 reduction in the major faces. And the elimination of those costly long thin Tris in the edges of thin boxes, like the roof - SL hates long thin things. And not to forget how much easier it is to understand the structure of the building once all that clutter is removed!

Decided to get the alt a Utilizator Normie Bento head ($L500 !!!). Next problem, all her skins are Maitreya or LeLutka, the best one is L'Etre. But L'Etre, and most every other skin maker I have experience of, don't make Omega head skins (just Catwa, LeLutka, and Catwa, oh, and did I mention Catwa too). Tried an MP search for 'Omega Skin' which showed up a few, but nothing I liked much. I want something cute, not hyper-glam, ideally with freckles and a mole or two. Where do I start?

You ain't lived until Klytyna has worked you over properly. Not all geniuses are cuddly.

I never want to disagree with these folk, they taught me all I know about mesh, and I am sincerely grateful. However, my partner is an accomplished long-time prim builder, and like Alazarin, she bought the Mesh Generator. It can do an useful job, especially when there is someone who can make physics models for it. We have found it good for making prototypes, a major problem when you are cooperating on a build but have complimentary skillsets, kinda the SL equivalent of brainstorming round a whiteboard. The approach we then take is to import the .dae file the Mesh Generator makes into blender, apply some simplifications automatically: Tris->Quad on the faces, Remove double verts, and then the mandatory Apply Location, Rotation, and Scale. Now you have a good working model to enhance in blender, use to make physics, and simplify for LOD models. Some people can work directly in a 3D modeller, others need the prims.

I have the Normie head for my alt. Can't praise it enough for the price. But I love my Lelutka too much......