[Female Spaces - Making Friends]

I'm physically attracted to persons who are motherly and have boobies. It's not sexual, but it's physical. I like sitting and being held and just talking, or not talking or anything. A mom type, aunt type, what-have-you. Feeling that I can trust them never to creep on me is kind of a priority.

I've never cared what anyone was hiding under their skirt, because that doesn't interest me. As long as they don't make some dirty joke out of it, and they're "playing a lady" in whatever sense is relevant, I consider them a lady. If my grandma turned out to be my grandpa, my only question would be, "Why are you telling me about your junk, Grandma? Who cares?"

My SL older sister left SL, so now all I really have are local residents I'm cool about chatting with. Some are nice, but I'm not that kind of close to any of them. Besides, I work there.

I've seldom had much luck with female-specific sims, because anyone who would want to be motherly or auntly (if that wasn't a word, it is now) or big-sisterly towards me usually already has a clusterfork of girls who are already playing the sort of role I'd be inclined to play with someone. There's usually not all that much sitting and holding going on, just sibling pack behavior. It's too impersonal, like a harem or something.

So I just build stuff. Maybe someday I'll get emotionally involved again, who knows?

The people at AWT were still nice, though. Even if they kicked my brother out for showing up by himself once, because he told them he was a boy dragon. He knew the rules.

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Okay, the nametag thingy is super neato. I get it now. I've never seen combat stuff made with that in mind, like, at all. That I know of.

When you get this working in anything like a satisfactory fashion, please let us know how you made it go. Even if it's just adding a different key to press in the control event or something, to trigger the attack/strike.

This sort of thing is waaay up my alley, and I would love to see it work.

Make it so that it's optional, and can be switched from "normal" mode to mouse steering mode, and I bet you five bucks it catches on somewhere out there. It's a neato idea, and a worthy project, IMO.

[Shop (store) ideas that won't fly]

32 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

Or a solitary coffee shop with occational live music and poetry readings.

And donuts.

Edit: And perfume samplers.

[Shop (store) ideas that won't fly]

8 minutes ago, Katherine Heartsong said:

Sorry, but is it wrong to say that would make a great and highly atmospheric sim? Rolling hills, telephone poles, and a single store? I'd love that.

That storefront would make a great donut shop, just saying.

[Shop (store) ideas that won't fly]

1 hour ago, Kathrine Jansma said:

Try googling for bra + pocket, there are actually a few products that do exactly that.

 

[Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.]

6 hours ago, Persephone Emerald said:

Peeve: When a friend thinks I'm lying & distrust is created between us.

My friend I've been staying with asked me months ago if I'd been letting people into his house when he's not there. I told him I hadn't and the only time I let anyone into the house was when someone came to pick up one of the dogs he was watching. Months later, he woke me up at 10:30 pm because he thought he heard a man's voice coming out of my room. I told him I'd been asleep and maybe I'd been talking in my sleep. Both times he asked if I was sure about my answer. Both times I insisted I was.

Last night in another conversation, I found out he still doesn't believe me. He said I'd said I'd watched a friend's dog for them. I told him I didn't say that. I'd said the only time I'd let anyone else into the house was when he'd asked me to be there for someone to pick up their dog. He insisted I'd said I had held a dog for a friend and that he couldn't be wrong because he has a very good memory. He also still seems to believe that I had some man in my room.

Note: He also told me that his ex-wife was having sex with multiple men while he was at work, that he has psychic conversations with people, and that he hears voices in the attic of his house, so I don't think his perceptions are reliable.

Sounds like paranoia, to me. The kind that doesn't trust medication or therapy.

His wife was probably lonely all the time, and afraid to have friends or a social life, for his sake.

That's a guy who was really badly betrayed when he was little, so just know it comes from there, and do what you can to reassure him. If you get too uncomfortable, maybe find somewhere else that you can stay during that time.

I want to say that a real friend would advise him to seek some help, but that might backfire and make him distrust you. Just try to be a good friend, and take care of yourself, too.

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1 minute ago, Rowan Amore said:

My inventory is always sorted newest first and I forget that's not default.  Alphabetically makes no sense whatsoever to me since I'm completely unorganized.

Yeah, I sort everything like it's rooms in my imaginary house, and I notice at some point I went alphabetical on it. It's great until I can't tell which version of an edit I'm about to rezz. Filtering by age makes sense.

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I was just about to say, in the File tab of your Inventory window, you can choose Show Filters, and filter by age.

Depending on your viewer it might be accessed a little differently, but yeah.

I saw Rowan was replying, and I held off a second, lol.

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1 hour ago, Persephone Emerald said:

I can envision a RP sim that mixes Lemony Snicket with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

Me, too. In my vision, all the children win.

Edit: It'd be like Lord of the Flies, but none of the kids would get hurt.

Can't speak for any grownups besides the nice ladies at the "odd children"'s home, though.

[A couple of nooby questions about huge uploads.]

9 hours ago, ChinRey said:

Ok. I don't really have much to add to the replies I posted to those threads but I think I should emphasize one crucial and often overlooked trick I mentioned in both:

If you want to ensure seamless joints between two meshes, make sure the overall dimensions of each and the position of every single vertice along the seams are a precisely a number of millimeters that is divisable by 2. If you don't it can be very difficult, even impossible, to align them correctly in-world.

Totally. It's super important to remember that all the editor window stuff goes by Metric, and that it's gotta be able to align using the edit tools inworld.

And normals have to calculate properly on upload, as well. And probably a lot of other things I haven't even thought of, too. Math is our friend, if we look really close at what all of this is and work within its parameters. It's only sorcery to the uninformed.

Good advice, but then I wouldn't have expected otherwise. Thank you~!

[Custom text on necklace will not show up when worn]

6 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:

Just make a new transparent layer in YOUR graphics program and put your text on THAT layer in the same place the other would  be. Then delete the "template" layer and save your text using alpha. Use that texture on the surface needed.  Hope that helps.  

And if you're using GIMP, it has a lot of the same functions as Photoshop, too. You can fiddle with the opacity of the text layer, play with the engrave/emboss filters, and end up with lettering that looks like it was engraved into the metal. Do it when you're bored sometime, and it'll not seem too difficult, just play with it all.

For a Sci-Fi Con booth one year, I made a stone pylon with cryptic textual characters engraved into it, and they glowed. GIMP is just as good as PS for most of what we'd use a photo editing suite for, just have to deep dive into it all and explore.

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4 hours ago, Wulfie Reanimator said:

The root cause of the dreaded neck seam is mismatched vertex-normals at the edge where the two objects are joined. The normals of a mesh determine how light shading works, and a normal map can alter it per-pixel.

Mesh bodies are made of dozens of separate objects, but you never see seams between the pieces. This is because there is no discrepancy between the normals where each piece is joined. The same could be done between a mesh head and body, but that would require devkits with accurate topology and normals (which are three things any creator is lucky to get legitimately).

I think that if it weren't for the necessity of mesh head diversity, this problem would be easy enough to solve, just by making a body with the head already on, and slicing it at the neck and waist to make the necessary seams for the 3 UV maps. Map it all on out one square, export each part's UV map by selecting it separately and good to go.

But yeah. Separately-modeled heads, and all.

[Female Spaces - Making Friends]

AWT (A Woman's Touch) might still be around, too. Ladies/girls/female-presenting avatars only, and mostly quite friendly, from what I've seen.

An island getaway sort of place.

[Neck seam post #729]

Something Orwar said about light and complexity made so much make sense; even brick (prim) walls let light through in SL.

Heads tend to have way more complexity than bodies do, so even if everything is matched perfectly, as far as textures and materials, lighting can still screw with neck seams, especially if the neck stump of the head has more triangles than the (body's) neck where they meet. It might not make a huge difference, but it's still a difference.

Now I'm wondering if maybe a multi-layered cylinder of prims might not work as a hidden insert inside the neck to help avoid the lighting bleedthrough discrepancy.

It might feel cheap, but I bet it'd help, at least in "extreme" lighting conditions.

[Any other people try to make their ideal boyfriend or girlfriend as a Second Life avi?]

15 minutes ago, Dorientje Woller said:

Meet your kryptonite:

I just teleport away. Engineering has my back.

[A couple of nooby questions about huge uploads.]

From 2017: 

From 2020: 

From 2014: 

Just posting these so you can see what kinda stuff I was referencing, and I should have done that in my original post. Kind of moot now, but my main wondering was about how to slice huge stuff up so as to avoid overblown uploads with poor detail. Your reply to the scale question renders it moot.

I realize physics models and such work better if there's a certain minimum size involved, but land masses were just the prevailing themes of the threads I found. Main thing was would decor items suffer if I uploaded them at saner sizes and inflated them.

Thank you SO much for replying. I already do the import-one-copy-of-multiples thing, because that just makes sense, and knowing it makes no difference what size the mesh is uploaded at helps a lot. It also makes sense (especially with LOD) to separate dense clusters of triangles from larger clusters of fewer triangles.

You're one of the more trustworthy sources for this kinda knowledge, so thank you again for replying. It means a lot to me.

[How to be Your Own Best Friend in SL]

On 3/10/2024 at 12:24 PM, Spiffy Voxel said:

I'm a bit more liberal in accepting friend requests, but only a bit — I try to keep my friends list to people I know fairly well at least. Sadly, I had to prune that list last year as a lot of folks were no longer recognisable to me. 😞

I prune now and then, and usually within a day or so I end up running into someone I removed. Sometimes they even ask if we had been on each others' friendslists before, lol.

I think most of them now are pretty much the same friends I've had for years, or people that I simply want to keep. I have a few newer friends, but they actually talk to me when they're on, so they're fine.

It's when you find a bunch of people on your list that you don't know, and can't remember friending, that it's gone too far, lol. Meeting someone once and never hearing from them again is a thing. It happens IRL all the time, we just don't usually keep records of it, lol.

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2 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

If you have to use a 10 foot pole to touch someone, it probably helps if that pole has a pointy end too.

That was my reasoning, pretty much. And a Lochaber axe is too messy.

Ruggedly elegant, in a rogue-ish manner, but yeah, messy.

[Oh my Gawd! - Totally unOfficial Pet Peeve Thread.]

6 minutes ago, Garnet Psaltery said:

I have the same feeling about events like comets, meteor showers, and planetary alignments as there's too much artificial light in the area to see anything.

I hate sky noise, yeah. Before Hurricane Katrina, the sky was always orange over my town. Lights at night and dust. Total obscuration of the stars.

After Katrina, it was clear-ish for maybe a year.

I went to Arkansas to visit a friend who lives in the hills, and I saw the sky that night and I didn't even want to sleep inside. I hadn't seen so many stars since I was little.

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B.O.C.? w0000000000~ yay~

[Starting over?]

All of the above, I agree. Also, remember that saving outfits creates links. Lots of outfits tends to swell the inventory count a lot. I have as many outfits as I can see the names of with the outfits window opened out, and that's it. If I get a scrollbar, I delete whatever outfits I wear the least. Boom, back to under 15k.