Janet Voxel

Agree 100%!

Right. I get that, that’s not what I’m saying. So over the years, LL has offered various starter avatars. There was a point in time the starter avatars were mesh, but uncustomizable. That didn’t break the legacy content. They just relegated the older legacy avatars to a folder and that was that. Then they went back to the system avatar with updated mesh outfits. Ruth/Roth 2.0 is an updated version of the system avatar, basically the same thing with a better topology and higher poly, but not super high like people complain about. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/PROJECT-Ruth-20-Release-Candidate-1v2/16068068 So what I’m wondering is why don’t they just adopt a body like that. Have that be the starter avatar, relegate the other avatars to a folder like before so that legacy content won’t be broken. Technically, you’d still be wearing the system avatar like you do now, so you don’t have to worry about buying all of the things you have to now. You’d also, start out with exactly what everybody else has ie a mesh body and head and all the same rules apply. So basically what I’m saying is: Ruth/Roth 2.0 (or something similar)>learn all the mesh rules with new noob body>branch out into other mesh products and not have to learn everything all over again because you’ve been working with similar ways of doing things since day one. There has to be a reason they haven’t done that.

I tried snorting it before....it really burns.

Mexican coke while I’m logged in....

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason LL hasn’t adopted Ruth/Roth 2.0? It has all the features of a modern avatar i.e. bento, BoM (?) maybe the only thing that’s missing is a head. Why not use that? There was another person that made an avatar 2.0 a while back. There has to be a reason LL hasn’t adopted a new avatar yet. Anybody have any ideas?

Stop being lazy.

They already have that: it’s called low, medium and high settings. Other than that it’s going to vary so much from user to user it’s not going to be any more effective than low, medium and high, because you have some users running SL on a Commodore 64 and some users running SL on a hotrod and most users in between. How would a programmer know where the metric is?

8 pages before it gets locked. Any takers?

Again, a rebrand, not on the level of TMP. I’m 100% sure most people didn’t know Genus was a rebrand. A lot of people didn’t know what Genesis Lab was to begin with. People KNOW about TMP. Genesis Lab were the creators that “didn’t do omega” and they suffered for it. Beautiful heads but..... It’s very similar to the way lesser known bodies get the “but are there clothes for it?” It shows how important creator support is and how consumers will write off a product very easily.

I’m not sure how much it helps though. In the case of TMP, their reputation was horrible. If you didn’t know(and I’m sure some people don’t!)any better you’d think it was a different creator. I think what it comes down to is, very few people are creating things now because there are huge established brands and the average aspiring creator is afraid to be David against Goliath and they end up simply conforming or not attempting it at all. I’ve been working on mesh head and let me tell you...lot of moving parts involved. That’s not counting scripting, animation and marketing. It’s just me, that’s a big mountain to climb. I’m not even trying to sell it, I just want to see if it’s doable. It is...but not many people willing to just do things like that anymore.

Lybra, who makes very nice clothing bee tee dubs, has started making clothing for it and a couple others I really can’t name when I’m not logged in. There’s a trickle of creators making clothing for it. It hasn’t reached the level of Isis where you can find something at any fair, but there have been a couple of occasions where I was shopping and they had Freya, Isis and Alice included and that was a nice bonus.

I get the antialiasing thing, I think it’s on 2x by default. I meant when I use higher settings, I turn it up more, I have it at 2x on lower settings. Particles- they do kill your FPS, but for photos it doesn’t hurt to bump it up a little. Just for photos!!

Couple of thoughts on this, I don’t think it’s really about being unknown. I know of a skin maker that made a very nice looking body, but never came out with it. I mean like “holy crap” gorgeous. You’ll probably never see it, because the creator had some serious concerns about how it would be received. 1) Signature Alice just came out. I don’t mean like, it recently came out. I mean it was just there. Very little marketing, very little fan fare, it was just available one day. The only reason I found out about it was because it was it just so happened to be in my Flickr feed. There was very little marketing done and that was a mistake. Big mistake. It’s an excellent body too! 2) If you compare Alice to Legacy, you can see what Legacy did right and what other body creators do wrong. Legacy dropped the price of the TMP body first, got some buzz, got people going to the store again. Then they dropped the Legacy and had some big named creators making things for it....immediately. There is also a machine behind Legacy, whether it was intentional or not...it is. People were in group chats asking for Legacy products, saying “Oh my gawwwwd! I love my Legacy body! Look at these pictures!” As it was said before, it’s a little questionable how many people are actually using Legacy, it definitely appears to be the case. 3) Me too. Not that me too. SL is a very me too environment. That doesn’t just go for users, it also goes for creators as well. So when certain creators start making things for a certain body(or head in the case of Genus)...there’s gotta be a reason for it right? Know what? Me too! And the effect snowballs. Then users are thinking, it must be popular creators are creating for it....me too! If you can create that kind of buzz, that snowball effect you can kick in the door in the market. 4) Certain bodies are in a certain wheelhouse. All bodies that are similar to Maitreya are in Maitreya’s wheelhouse. That includes Belleza Isis, Tonic, Ebody (not curvy), Alice. Same thing goes for Belleza Freya, Hourglass and now Legacy. They all have a certain user that invested a lot of money into those bodies: skins, makeup, clothing and footwear. They aren’t going to give up on that investment easily. The buzz has to be there and the support has to be there. It’s possible for an unknown to come on the scene and take a big chunk of the market, certain things have to be in place first.

....as I look at my lunch in the refrigerator: Spinach salad with grilled chicken, tomatoes and shredded Parmesan.

Those are like....ALL of the things I love!

I’m not sure I would trust a viewer to adjust my settings for me. You can easily set your viewer up with the appropriate settings for certain situations and save them for use. For example, I have a “normal” setting where particles are lowered, avatar imposters, draw distance, shadows off, frame rate limited, etc. That’s what I normally walk around with. Then I have an ultra setting where shadows are enabled, antialiasing is turned up, etc, etc. Then I have various photography settings just for photos, wide angle, interior, exterior, ultra with some adjustments to water, glow, etc. All of them are set up at settings that let them run at a decent framerate for me. I have FS and Black Dragon set up that way. It takes a minute to do, but it’s really worth it as far as viewing experience goes.

SL can look and run like this if you know what you’re doing.

You can use it, I can use it no problem. A lot of sims are so unoptimized it actually can become a hinderance to use it sometimes. I find it’s better to turn the graphics down a notch and tweak a few things that are really set unnecessarily high by default. Still looks as good.

Not a complete series yet, it’s on HBO. It’s about 5 episodes deep, sooo...half a binge.

Most video games...If you have a beast of a computer you crank the settings up. In SL *shakes head* you don’t want to do that. That’s probably the last thing you want to do. Turn your draw distance down, limit your complexity, etc etc. I have a great graphics card and I still have my graphics set between high and ultra. People like to brag “I run everything on ultra!!” While they’re doing that and we end up in a crowded sim. Everything’s rendered for me and I’m looking around and they’re saying “still rezzing”. I only use ultra when I’m taking pictures.

It would probably be more like this...