HeathcliffMontague

My "physics" (if you can call it that) model was just what you see in the pic, but just very plain, no faces or anything. All "white" in any Blender view. One face. "From File" in FS doesn't give a lot of options. For my straights I used Firestorm LOD high.

I know this has been discussed in the forum before, but based on my searches it hasn't quite been resolved, it seems. I've managed to import some straights that are very smooth to drive on. Put one after the other and you won't even notice crossing from one to the next, even at very high speeds. I even imported them using the LL importer/physics options, and they still work. Corners are a different story, they are jumpy no matter what. Just how jumpy seems to depend on lag. Having finally figured out how to get a straight road texture to follow a mesh curve, getting said mesh texture ready and align friendly and getting the curves down to 2-4 LI (sides vs. not), whether convex hull or prim, my curves still might make you fly off the track. Even a simple structure like this. (Blender is a steep learning curve for me. Even the above "sectioning" took a lot of time). I've tried importing a very simplified version along with it as a physics model, but it remains jumpy. Any tips or pointers to relevant tutorials (there are tons of tutorials, but not directly relevant to this that I've found) would be appreciated. I've probably skipped a lot of steps here,.

I kinda thunk your name alluded to that. Fellow Scandinavian

Text is my default. Could switch to voice if needed. Need a new headset to do so, old one broke but easy enough to replace, but have actually just had *one* request for voice since it broke many moons ago. When I first joined SL I sometimes had to sit with a headset on for hours at work, often lots of overtime. Do that for SL as well? No thanks

Physics in OS vs. SL though... OS needs a *lot* of work in that respect

I'd certainly use it - not that I believe it's gonna happen - for things like building, testing mesh uploads and even the occasional vehicle test and even driving practice. But as others have mentioned we already have OpenSim for some of that.

Feel free to stare Just taken with Firestorm default settings. In case anyone calls this back "unrealistic": There's this thing called deadlifts.

The "unrealistic" Aesthetic... Yep, the biceps are way, way too large with respect to everything else. But that seems to be the case with most male avies. Not everyone's cup of tea, of course, but looks pretty realistic to me.

As far as SL avies looking "realistic"... None really do, as the shoulders are set way too high. Male or female, Aesthetic or Adam etc. It was the first thing I noticed when I got my first system avi, and it's the same to this day, even with mesh avis. Part of why the shoulder area looks so unnatural in many cases.

To be fair to the OP, although the default head is not appealing to most, there are some amazing face appliers available for the Aesthetic. The realism is pretty much "in your face" (no pun intended). Having demoed a few I'm rather impressed. I basically went for Aesthetic because the only other real option at the time was Slink male, and that one, while nice enough in some ways, was not for me. A number of good male bodies have popped up since, but I still prefer my toned-down Aesthetic to most of them. The clothing part I don't get, though. All guys I've talked to about that in SL seem to think that the ladies have it easier in that regard. Although I get that there might be a gazzillion similar mini skirts, I mostly see template after template after template for us guys. I'm pretty happy with this shirt from L&B. But beyond L&B and a few others it's fairly limited, at least for Aesthetic. (Pic taken with Mid resolution)

Probably the wisest thing to do I'm on CET, and this has been going on for quite a while.

Back in for now. But got a "connection timed out" at the Marketplace. Hitting the F5 key fixed that, though. Currently 20.000+ logged in according to my Firestorm.

was just about to say it seems to have stabilized. Then I got booted again.