Janet Voxel

Over the summer I tried several GTA V fivem servers and my head just about exploded. Between the getting whitelist access through discord, filling out an application (some of them took an hour+!), trying to figure out how to make a nice avatar, it took me a half hour to figure out how to get out of my apartment on some servers. I had nothing left….seriously, I was done. It’s really not that hard to make an avatar or ‘play’ Secondlife, the problem is and always has been knowing where to go and then it costs MONEY. It doesn’t help that people are less friendly than they used to be. The money part cannot be overstated. The difference there is if you have GTA V, fivem is free. The whitelisted servers have all of the clothes you could want, just walk in a store and change clothes. Im not saying GTA rp is better than Second life. Again, it was information overload for me and I just kind of…stopped. I can imagine it would be the other way around for someone coming from GTA over to SL. However! If I was 19 again and had to choose between free and spend about $100 just to get started. I know which one I’d choose.

Y’know in OP’s defense,(you’re fighting for your life here buddy)there are some ideas that SL could co-opt from Inzoi. I kinda knew this subject would come up again, when the limited demo was out and it will again and again. I said this in the other thread, so I’ll just say it again: It was only a demo of the character creator and a limited one at that. What was really good about it besides the graphics was how easy it was to shape your avatar. It was more a drag it where you want it than using sliders. Which I found much, much easier to do it that way than using the sliders. People do struggle with making shapes in SL. That’s a possible way to make it easier. Yeah, yeah I know some of the sliders were limited, but it was a limited demo. While you can’t make a big tiddy goddess in the demo, there’s nothing saying you can’t do it in the full version. Inzoi has puppeteering. That is, your avatar matches your facial expressions when talking. SL started doing something similar, but it got put on the back burner or abandoned. Judging from people’s reaction to it in inzoi, LL was on the right track with their idea. While they aren’t quite in the same sphere, there is some overlap. Where there is overlap, LL could take some cues from elsewhere.

There is overlap between SL and the sims. There’s quite a few users and creators the two have in common. However, fwiw, until Inzoi becomes multiplayer, I would say SL is pretty safe. Graphically, Inzoi blows the Sims and SL out of the water. Even on that front, both SL and the Sims might be safe. As was seen here, a modest graphical upgrade caused an uproar, because a lot of users don’t have the specs for it. A lot of sims players have said they won’t be playing Inzoi because they don’t have a PC with the specs for it. LL has already taken steps to modernize SL with PBR and GtLF and the voice thing. Whatever happens on SL has to be carefully considered and incremental.

Try this: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/en-US/products/search?utf8=✓&search[category_id]=&search[maturity_level]=GMA&search[keywords]=PBR%2BEEP&page=1

Salut! Je vois que nous somme deux!

English is my second language. French is my first, although most French will disagree, because I’m from Quebec and it has its……quirks. 400 years and an ocean will do that to you. I also have a Joual accent (think working class Québécois) because of the neighborhood I grew up in. I can also understand Haitian Kreyol, Spanish and Portuguese pretty well.

It was there for a while. I think what ultimately did it(got it deleted) was it basically was an advertisement.

Actually, this helped me the most! It’s how I was able to zoom in on the object and figure out it wasn’t on my land at all!! It was so loud, I thought it was on my parcel. it was on a neighbors parcel, hidden in a painting. It was suggested to me to turn off sound can leave the parcel and ask permission to play media. That didn’t work. Then it was suggested to disable MOAP in the land setting. That worked! So thank you all for trying to help me! It all came together in the end.

Ok, the rabbit hole gets deeper again. So I did the beacon thing and still couldn’t locate the source. It’s a decent size parcel an 8192, so that took me a while. Couldn’t find it. All I have that streams media is tv and my little mystory kitchen appliance. I checked the kitchen appliance. It was on a regular mystory webpage. Which isn’t so unusual. On the parcel I had prior, I had rezzed a car and it was looping “blurred lines” by Robyn Thicke on a tiny tv screen. The difference here is, don’t ask me why I did this: I went to turn my sound down on my PC and I noticed my multimedia player was playing it! I freaked out and downloaded malwarebytes. Ran it a couple times nothing came up. It only happens on my land. So I may have narrowed it down to the TV, but I’m not sure. What do you think?

Yeah, I had media enabled on both and I tried turning on hear sound in relation to camera instead of avatar. There was a definite drop off the further I got from my house. I’ll try your suggestions when I get home today. The other issue is, it’s only present in Alchemy. I don’t hear it at all in firestorm. I don’t have a problem switching between the two viewers. It’s just going to make this a lot harder.

So did I…

*hides her avatar pic* I dunno, I don’t mind the face app thing. It’s better than most smile animations inworld. Most smiles have you looking like this:

Somewhere in the future