[Best SL names you spotted...]

A thread about SL names prompted me to report that the best SL name I ever saw was:

Generally Offcourse

If I'd been around when 'Offcourse' was available, oh boy....

What's the best name you've seen?

[Is there A way to scan someone to see what skin they are wearing?]

No.  For instance my skin is a Amara Beauty EvoX Bielle head on a Velour body skin, with 12 (yes 12) BoM layers added.  No scanner can detect that.

[Make Second Life Great Again.]

What's the problem?  SL has always grated. That's why it's so gr(e)at(e).

[Mismatched Tones]

Just to close this out, Izzie's has a GIFT BoM fixer for this issue, to save you making your own:

 

OOPS!  Just noticed that @Ceka Ciancisaid that already.

[Mismatched Tones]

You will find your fingers also have the problem to a lesser extent.  It's caused by a mesh body not being the same in the extremities as the old system avatar.  New BoM skins are often very low cost if not free (I think Amara Beauty has some free skins in the same tones as her L$60 The Saturday Sale head skins).

[What are your hopes and fears for Second Life Mobile?]

I am hoping it is impossible unless they fix the way the servers don't work even on superfast desktop machines with huge memories.  So they fix that first.  And then we all get the New SL.

[Describe Second Life in 4 words.]

When will it rez?

[Describe Second Life in 4 words.]

Multiple baked on messes.

[Describe Second Life in 4 words.]

Perfect waste of money

[Question about forum signatures]

I think all advertising should be banned everywhere, RL and SL.  On pain of death by slow mutilation.  If word-of-mouth isn't good enough, stop making it.

[Question about forum signatures]

As long as there is a 'Nationality' label on it.  Never heard of Southland Park, so I assume it's about Hindustani politics.

[Tipping Etiquette]

I am not American, and don't understand tipping.  I understand 'fly-tipping'  which is dumping your rubbish (Amer: garbage) on someones front-lawn...

My other issue is that I go to some clubs for the chat, and keep the sound on mute as I can't stand most of what everyone else calls music.

But sometimes, if the chat is good, I put a few L$100s in the venue tip box.  Then, sometimes, I get this effusive 'thank you' in chat, which I hate!

Like I say: I am not American, and don't understand tipping.....

[Suddenly: Failed to find body part XYZ in the database]

This happened to me again yesterday.  Tried an alt, and that was the same too.  Everything in the inventory reported inaccessible.  Solution, log out and do something else for an hour, then re-log and all well.  Smells of AWS to me (well AWS, like most of Amazon, just stinks).

[Newbie - Free or cut price mesh body / face.]

I would recommend the free LucyBody Atenea.  It is almost fully compatible with the Maitreya Lara body, so most clothes fit.  Heads are more difficult, watch out for the free Lelutka ones at Christmas or Akeruka also do them - you probably want EvoX for access to the vast amount of skins and makeup for them.

 

[Do you use Advanced Lighting in SL? a little poll!]

I always have as much graphics as I can get, fairly old system now:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor (4148.56 MHz)
Memory: 32043 MB (Used: 2360 MB)
Concurrency: 16
OS Version: Linux 6.4.10-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:03:36 +0000 x86_64
Graphics Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Graphics Card Memory: 11264 MB

OpenGL Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.98

I especially like having the shadows,  for me that makes SL come alive.  Of course, at big events I turn everything down...

[Unrigged alpha blended bangs and eyelashes]

9 hours ago, Orwar said:

   Are those bangs unrigged though? Because that's kind of the crux of the issue. Rigged bangs that are a part of a hairstyle is no issue as they can easily be placed on a higher priority attachment point - unrigged bangs attached to your pecs is going to get weird when your avatar starts moving .. 

Ah, I kinda missed that.  No.  Not unrigged.  It was a revelation to me that we can put rigged mesh things on ANY attachment point, AND that this affected their alpha 'priority' but not how they moved with the rigging points.  Sorry for the noise.

And @AmeliaJ08 they tried to go on the skull.  Actually, now I think about it, Truth was trying to explain this to me when she changed her hairs to 'Chest' (1) - which screwed my RLVa-based replace script - but I was too dim to understand.  You guys have explained it now, and the lightbulb came on!  Thanks.

[Unrigged alpha blended bangs and eyelashes]

Sorry to wake this thread up again.  I just managed to get a no.match hair style no_selection to work without glitching with my Lelutka eyebrows (baulked at all that cash for things too flashy for me) by attaching the hair on the 'right hind leg' or 'right pec'.  Thankie @AmeliaJ08 for the link.

[No matter what i do, my avatars always look like this...]

On 8/11/2023 at 11:42 AM, Gabriele Graves said:

That works, but only intermittently.  I have it set, but about 70% of the time I arrive in world with Shared Environment.  I have tried turn it off, relogging, turn it on, relogging, but no luck.  Sometimes it works....

[Method of payment for Premium membership]

7 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

Yes

current account

noun

British

: a bank account from which a person can take money by writing checks : checking account

Oh you mean Cheques!  Checks are American Cheques.  (English English speaker here)

[No matter what i do, my avatars always look like this...]

Anyone know how to stop Firestorm reverting to 'Shared Environment' on relog?  (You'd think I knew, but I don't)

[LaraX?]

2 hours ago, Salt Peppermint said:

... So I can only encourage each store to collect their own stats and focus on those.

How do you collect stats on which body people buy the item for?  Almost all stores I shop at bundle all their sizes into each item.

Edit:Just been to your store and see your recent stuff is sold for individual bodies.  'Nuf said.

[LaraX?]

I'd just like to add to the 'why people buy XYZ head or body' debate.  I can't stand shops where the lighting blinds me with WHITE, this has stopped me from even getting a demo in several cases.  I arrive, I scream, I TP out.

[Suddenly: Failed to find body part XYZ in the database]

9 hours ago, Fionalein said:

Some of your Alt's stuff might resurface in the Lost and Found directory. Funny enough if you still have links in your saved outfits pointing to the Lost&Found items they will still be linked.

Yeah, Linking in SL isn't like a symbolic link in Linux...     Thanks for everyone's help on this.

[Suddenly: Failed to find body part XYZ in the database]

As rightly foretold by @Fionaleinthis cured itself overnight.  AWS is worth it!  (Not)

One of my alts what was exhibiting the issue didn't recover properly, and remained an orange cloud.  And as @Gabriele Gravessaid, the only way to fix it was to replace the 4 essential assets.  Once that was done I was back in business.

[Suddenly: Failed to find body part XYZ in the database]

Just now, when I log in EVERYTHING I am wearing comes up with this error, or something like it:

Failed to find body part XYZ in the database

What has gone wrong?  (Firestorm latest)