Janet Voxel

Actually, I think it depends on your own graphic settings. Since I set my graphics to “not quite ultra with a couple of extras.” Mine defaults to a max of 250k. It probably drops lower than 250k if your graphic settings are lower. I haven’t messed around with lower settings. So I’m wondering. If people are on lower settings and the default max is lower, do they then lower it below 100k which I’m assuming would be the default if they have all of the graphics set to low, alm turned off etc.

Piggy backing off of this: the default complexity is 250k for firestorm, not sure about LL default viewer or other tpv’s. I’ve already stated I drop mine a little lower than 250k to around 180k. So the question is: does anyone drop their max complexity below 100k? I’m kind of curious now.

Wow....

Short answer: it depends on what body I’m wearing. When I’m wearing a Belleza I can usually keep it under 100k and like a few people said it’s usually hair or jewelry that puts me over. I limit my viewable complexity to 180k in firestorm. I haven’t noticed any ill effects for having it that high and I seem to be able to see most things. I think 100k-150k is about average in SL. Asking here, might skew your data here a bit. A lot of SL users are pretty low information and most people that post here consistently are a bit more knowledgeable than your average user. Little anecdote: I’m starting to find male avatars are the worst offenders and don’t GAF, either. I was chatting with a nice guy one day. He was cool, so I added him as a friend. The next time I saw him his complexity was 300k. He was completely jellied. I casually mention I couldn’t see him, he was aware it was high, but said “you gotta set to no limits to see me baby.” More curious about what he was wearing I cranked it up and he was wearing some prim tron looking suit from like 2010. It looked nice, but 300k? He said he just liked it and they don’t make em like that anymore. So he likes wearing his old stuff. This isn’t the first guy I talked to that felt that way or said something to that effect. But I’m going to go out on a limb and say most people are in the 100k-180k range and the people that are higher don’t know or care that it’s higher.

I would only add Euphoric to that list.

That would explain the lag!

Without knowing what body you’re using, “business suit+woman”turns up a ton of results on MP.

Loooooove Lizzo!!!

There's really no answer, because the answer, no matter what or how someone says it will be unsatisfying. There's an episode of Black Mirror called "Striking Vipers" that deals with this subject and it touches on everything everybody dances around when this comes up in a big way. The first thing I thought of when I was watching it was: That's Second Life! I won't spoil it though, it's really worth a watch. It leaves you feeling a little uneasy all the way through and the ending doesn't really come to a resolution or answer anything, but it brings everything up. Homosexuality? is it really? Which one of them is? Why are they doing it? Is it cheating? All kinds of stuff comes up and it's a little uncomfortable to watch on many levels. That's what makes it so good though. Anyway, people want to verify to avoid that feeling. Its a weird feeling. It's easier to verify and get it out of the way than to deal with the awkwardness of that situation, because it raises all kinds of questions that there are no easy answers to. So it gets condensed down into "R u male or female in RL? Do you voice? lol"

I know “catfishing” has been a catch-all term for “this person tricked me into thinking they’re someone they’re not! They’re a big meanie.” So I’m going to break down why it doesn’t apply to SL. (I’m only doing this because I have 15 minutes before I get off of work. That’s 15 mins to kill) First, people have been lying about how they look to potential suitors since we’ve had the ability to scan and upload photos. At best it was someone misrepresenting their weight or age. At worse...we’ll we've all seen to catch a predator. Fast forward to catfish the movie. It was more a mental health movie, but somehow it got marketed as “OMG people lie about who they are on the internet!!!!!” If you watch the movie, he knew she was lying to him from the beginning, because what she was telling him was whacked out. Then we get Catfish the show, which moved completely away from the mental health aspect straight for the Jerry Springer. A couple of things about Catfish. Usually the person who is doing the catfishing contacts them. It’s all staged. What does this all have to do with SL? You’re in a virtual environment where nobody looks exactly like themselves. It’s an accepted norm of the environment. It’s not misrepresenting yourself, if the norm is to not be yourself. It’s not a catfish, some people are just taking things a little too seriously.

Sounds more like wrong master to me....

Isn’t omega doing some kind of converter that applies Applier textures to BoM parts?

Errrr....you can buy a Slink body without feet, which is usually for people that had Slink feet before mesh bodies came out. Slink also has deluxe versions of the bodies that come with all of the feet and has a HUD with five foot positions for you to switch between them. Also....Slink feet have appliers. You don’t need to tint them. Most skin makers have appliers that apply a skin to body, hands and feet all at once.

Do you mean as far as appliers or mesh clothing?

The concept sounds cool. LL should subsidize stuff like this.

I swear this body has the best Ad machine in SL. I admire that.

The older Genesis Lab heads still look and work great! The two or three bento heads before they split are really good too. They may be lacking in the animation department, but they’re good heads. I think they don’t have omega support, but they hold up well.

Random woman: “Hey sis!” Random Woman2: “hru” Random Woman: “I’m fine!” Random woman3 “Hey Random Woman!” Host: Tp your girl, tp your man, Tp your sidecandy *gesture* Host2 (why are there two hosts?): woo-ooooooo-ooooo *gesture with long spammy text* Woman4: Hey Random Woman! DJ: Don’t forget to tp your list! Random Woman 5: *tips DJ 50L* Host1: I love this tune ooooh-la-la-la-la! *gesture* Random woman6: “Sissy poo!” Me: *Tp’s out*

That actually happens a lot!

Soooo....who started this trend of avatars with their eyes too close together? It’s irking the eff out of me.

I’m with you. Someone probably reported it and a mod just moved it and washed their hands of the whole thing. The mods are pretty hands off about things until someone reports it. It happens a lot in the Avatar forum. Someone will ask a question that’s loosely based on the vaguely worded criteria for posting. Someone else will ask a similar question and *boop* moved. I know because I tested it. Someone asked a question about finding a hairstyle. It sat there for a couple of weeks, people attempted to answer it. Nothing happened. I asked a question that was worded similarly. *boop* lasted about an hour. The other question was still there. So I reported it for the same thing (sorry I was testing out my theory) and *boop* it got moved too. Someone reported it.

You’ll most likely have to provide an alpha layer if you’re doing mesh clothing moving forward. Don't panic, it’s a relatively easy process and will only add a few minutes to your workflow.

I have a very nice beach front parcel on the mainland. No skyboxes, my neighbor is very nice, takes care of her property (geez this sounds like RL). The other side are two rentals that seem to always be empty (one day they will be mine...mwah ha ha ha). The first land I ever bought was a crappy interior plot and EVERYBODY had a skybox. It all depends on where you buy land. I knew nothing about owning land the first go round. I just threw a bid out there and got it probably because the land was crappy. I put up a skybox because everybody else had a skybox. I think if LL made some kind of grid system on all of those gigantic parcels, more people would buy land put actual buildings on the ground instead of throwing up skyboxes.