ValKalAstra

In my experience, there's no dedicated group of product testers. However don't underestimate the reach of your social networks. You might not have a regular friend group to test stuff but you might know someone that does. Failing that you can check out the Wanted Forum but depending on how much testing you're looking at, you might need to talk compensation. As for places where you can test: There are plenty of sandboxes to try things at.

Okay - genuine question. What's the thread even about at this point anymore?

Okay but... in my experience of trying to break into clothing creation, that's not partial to GenX. In my efforts for example, I have been getting flat out ignored at all of the major body brands. ---- As to the thread itself: Creating and fitting clothes is hours of work. Let's do some fun conversions! Average salary for a self employed 3d artist was give or take $33 an hour (glass door). Let's say they've got a decent workflow. Going through all the extreme ends of a body's shape sliders, making all the adjustments, rigging it perfectly, testing it inside of SL on the betagrid, adding and configuring the scripts, setting up proper packaging, testing the packaging, create listings, update vendors, make ad pictures... Let's say they're a shiny lightning god of work and finish in two hours **somehow**. Two hours at $33. Give or take 15.000L$. That is not even getting into how you're getting double tapped by various conversion fees in SL. Let's say you sell at 250L$ a colour. That's sixty items you need to sell for that body type just to break even. Now, with all the setup and fiddliness involved, with transaction fees and market fees and technical issues, you're not only looking at probably needing way, way more than two hours to go from mesh and texturing done to rigging and packaging it in SL and being sale ready, but you're also gonna need to offset the fees too. Now how realistic is it that a body with a distribution of aforementioned 700 users as the stats mentioned above put it at, will buy your item sixty times? Now consider that I have put the needed time investment at a very optimistic (read: unrealistic) estimate and it's going to need way more than 60 items just to break even.

Guess I know my next Blender Project *glances at the skirt turned hotpants with flower ribbons*

Some random Band-Maid.

Aye - that's where the negative prompts come in handy. Put "Nude" or "Naked" in the negative prompt field (I think you need to toggle that to active on playgroundai). If it still comes out undressed, you can increase the weight of those words like so: (nude:1.5).

Oh, sorry - I kind of totally missed your post there. There are somewhat easier ways but at the end of the day, the technology is still pretty early and user unfriendly. For local installs, Some do swear by EasyDiffusion, with the focus of it being a "one click installer" that takes care of the technical aspects. I can't vouch for it as I never used it but @Istelathis seems to be using it https://github.com/easydiffusion/easydiffusion But... yah. It's still user unfriendly. There are also some websites that aim to provide a more user friendly alternative. I haven't kept up with them but most offer some free generations per day and then ask you to pay but as long as you stay below the threshold, it should be fine. One example might be https://playgroundai.com/ (caveat: You need to remember to mark your session private there and they tend to label some things differently, such as denoising to image strength). Good enough to toy around with though. /edit: PlaygroundAi seems to be 500 free images per day

I've only now seen the "little" spat in the picture thread. To summarize: *sighs*. Still in light of that whole thing, I'll still reiterate that your picture very much speaks "Second Life" to me. It could come up on my Flickr feed, I'd look at it, go "woah, that's amazing" and not even think that it might not be SL. It would fit in a long line of SL pictures I've seen from various people that awed me and inspired me to do better myself. In general - yah I think Scylla has got the gist of it there. The sentiment doesn't seem to be against editing as much as it is about the current AI war shenanigans. Case in point, those apps that put smiles and teeth on avatars a while back were actually based on machine learning (aka AI) too but those didn't warrant a new thread - so yah, it's just trying to get ahead of the AI battlefield.

You're doing the same thing I often tend to do, which is to put yourself down. Stop it. These are absolutely lovely, creative and on top of that really well made. Be proud of what you have achieved here, they look amazing and I am happy to see you experiment with greenscreen! You're always going to run into some numbskull purist trying to gatekeep a hobby. Heck there's a prominent forum member that will absoutely jump down your throat for the mere suggestion of using Black Dragon. I find it best to just kind of acknowledge them and then not engage with them on that subject further. Let them rage. I'd rather be over here, enjoying my time with what I want to make. So, is your picture still SL? For me, absolutely. The subject matter is very much your avatar and it just works. It's blended together nicely too. Something like that could easily be a backdrop with baked lighting, it's nothing I would find unfeasible in SL. Don't mind the grumpies. Easier said than done, I know but - you do good.

I mean, even popular fiction has the monkey king scrawl graffiti on buddha's finger - so I'll say, there's room to go and the other half of what Sun Wukong did kind of fits with the overall theme of, "yo my dude, that's some <insert reference> judgement".

Pet Peeve: When you make Pasta chips for yourself, let other people try some. Come back a bit later and find your Pasta Chips not only completely gone but also get a review along the lines of "too salty". You've got to be...

Please don't let that be... *looks it up* Awwwwwww. Okay. So, I'm one of those that enjoy the boyfriend type shirts. Something about crashing people with a bit of non conforming gendered clothing speaks to me. Perfect for when I get my Tomboy phases. As such, it was obviously my duty to check out this garment. Review: I think it's... okay? Especially for the current prize point, you are getting a decent amount of stuff and even with some quality compromises, it's still better than a lot of other offerings on the grid. However, it gives me the feeling of being an older work of theirs. Some notable mesh and texture issues and yah, the whole fit doesn't really make sense. That said, it won't become part of my wardrobe and I'm the target audience

I'm kind of hypocritical in how I use it. I like seeing who looks at my avatar. It's a bit of vanity and like it was mentioned, you can just tell when there's an incoming instant message. However I've turned my own look at off. There are some moderately unhinged people on the grid. The only drama I ever got into was over a look at indicator. One example was that I was at a shopping event, cammed somewhere (an ad, not a person), went afk and came back to someone blowing up something nuclear in my instant messages over gawking at their partner. It has been turned off since. Too much of a drama magnet.

You, my dear fluffy lion, need our lord and saviour Rebecca Black, patron saint of the most hated music video about this fine day of the week. May the bubbly lyrics soothe your peeve like a lightning rod.

I think moderation can have a chilling effect going on. For example I don't think I've ever gotten a warning. As far as I know I have not gotten close to one either but I've seen a few threads I took part in just vanish lately. Not a peeve, just... kind of makes me wary of posting. But this probably gets uncomfortably close to discussing moderation so I'll zip it. Peeve time then. On a personal level. F this year. Never in my entire life have I experienced such a non stop storm of calamity wreak havoc on my life, my health, really just everything. It's just one thing after another after another after another. It peeves me how much strength it saps out of me to just get up, NOT turn cynical, NOT turn to apathy. It's been enough. No exaggeration, not a single week has gone by without some catastrophic event necessiting repairs, doctor visits, intervention, long gruelinghours of emotional talks, navigating past angry people, dealing with hate IRL, just no more energy. Argh! Okay. Yah. Alright. No. F this year.

At first I wanted to protest that it really isn't that hard to find modest clothing in Second Life. When I saw bareshoulders counting as oversexualized, it began making sense though. So let me think. Addams has got a wide variety of casual looks and generally works really well for mixing and matching. Even if one outfit might show cleavage, you can usually slot in a top from a different outfit. It also tends to play nice with Blueberry but those outfits would probably be too risky for your tastes. There's the already mentioned Ison and... gosh, I keep forgetting the name - a smaller store for french fashion that always escapes my mind. Either way, if you're okay with cute clothing (think korean drama fashion) then you might enjoy some of the side rooms of Zenith. Hilly Haalan then offers such a wide variety of clothes, that you're bound to find something fitting, even say - a business suit for female avatars. Oh yeah - a bit of a hint what you can do: You can mix and match with BOM clothing. I've got a completely black tanktop as BOM that goes under everything and it's a neat trick to "modest up" otherwise risky outfits. Might be worth grabbing a BOM top with mod permissions so you can colourmatch it and further cover it with accesories. Let me take an example image quick! Left image is without the BOM top, belt and smartphone that I use to cover clipping on the belt. The right is... well the same but with an added top that blends in really well to the point it might even appear to be one piece (no pirate treasure, sorry :P), in my opinion. Edit after editing the edit: Obviously the example is not what OP would probably consider modest - but it should illustrate the usefulness of blending mesh with BOM to cover up parts you want covered up.

Sadly: the lack of rez rights. The bane of photographers on the grid. OP mentioned doing it at a competition with no rez permissions.

Hands need some heavy lifting to get right. It's a definitive weakness for the reason you've mentioned. It can be done though. As for why the cat is a bit of a mess - that happens with multiple subjects in an image. You'll need to either do so called regional prompting or inpainting. To compare, here is a majestic chonker with the right amount of legs.

If I may - a few words on the various settings and what they do: CFG or Guidance Scale - Governs how much you let the AI off the leash. Low CFG values means it all but ignores your prompt while high CFG means it will strictly adhere to the prompt but neglect any lessons it knows about image composition and such. A value of 6.5 - 7 is usually ideal unless you explicitly want it to go wild or strict. Steps and Sampler - These need to be configured in unison. A sampler is what turns an image from noise into the result. Each sampler needs at least a certain amount of steps to work but anything past that is just pointlessly blowing out GPU power. Exception so called ancestral samplers (usually marked with an a in their name like "Euler a"), these can run forever, continously adding new noise. As a rule of thumb: Most will do fine with 25 Steps. DDIM will work with 10, Euler is older and may need 80 or so. Denoise or Denoising - How much the image is meant to change from the source image you give it, ranging from 0 to 1,0. A value of 1 will all but throw out the image and a 0 will do no changes at all. This is what you will need to find a decent balance with. The choice of the model is also an important one and it helps to understand how and why things came to be. There are three major revisions of Stable Diffusion. 1.5, 2.x and SDXL. Out of these you can outright dismiss 2.x, it was a failed attempt. 2.x tried to remove the nudity from the model and very quickly realised that nudity was what made the model understand human anatomy. The resulting images were a mess of uncanny horrors. If you've got a good PC, use SDXL and 1.5 If you have got a less good PC, use 1.5. That leaves the choice of the model and here it helps to understand that there were for the most part three major development paths that have all converged by now. Anime, based on leaked Anime models (usually NovalAI), base stable diffusion and... asian girls. There was a lot of hype from korea early on. These have all merged into one by now just with various weights attributed to this or that and maybe some additional training in certain aspects. Newer models generally work much better than older models. NSFW models will do better with anatomy (including hands) but need heavy counter prompting to put on clothes. The merge with anime models means that unless you want massive tracts of land, you'll need to actually prompt OUT certain anatomic sizes. Furthermore, it helps to understand that the Anime models used a different style of prompting, based on booru tags (no, that is not safe for work to google). If you want certain clothes, you need to prompt for them. Last but not least, keep prompt length and image resolution in mind. SD 1.5 was trained on 512x512, you can go up to 768 but anything beyond that goes kaputt. Use upscaling. SDXL was trained even more rigidly on a handful of resolutions around 1024x1024 and can also go +-256 in either direction (bit more but eh, find a cheatsheet yourself :P). Prompt length then, each prompt is split into one or several brackets of 75 tokens. This is important to know because it will govern things pretty strongly. Let's say you've got 76 tokens in your prompt, then the first 75 tokens will form one bracket - and the remaining token will form a bracket on its own. Then both brackets will be weighed equally - resulting in that one token coming on super strong. So stay below 75 tokens ideally or look into "BREAK"ing prompts. Alright, enough crash course SD. Took some time to try a more direct conversion without my LORA. This was with a denoising value of 0.6, some prompting and a lot of cherry picking on SDXL. SDXL tends to make faces come out a bit strong on bone structure and none of the stable diffusion models can deal with my eye colour in any reliable shape or form. lf you want more consistency than that with Stable Diffusion, you either want to make heavy use of controlnets or train your own LORA. Something I've done together with a friend of mine. That's also what allows you to translate images into different styles more easily. Above result is cherry-picked, below result is not (but could be better): Footnote: Talking about bias in training data, there's a funny social one and that's age. Most of us want to appear younger than we are, as we get older. Some won't answer the age question truthfully. Look, long story short, the training data thinks a fourty year old person will look like an actually sixty year old person, because so many sixty year olds lied about their age being fourty - and furthermore, so did the fourty year olds, which you can find in thirty year old category and if you want thirty year olds, you're gonna find them in the 20-25 age bracket. I found that funny :D. Edit: Oh, oh, an interesting use case for sl photography! You can push a sl screenshot through image to image, mid denoise and then take cues on lighting your scene more believably. If you compare the three shots, the biggest flaw of my sl one is the flat frontal lighting. Heck, you can even use it as a little indicator where to manually add highlights in post.

These are cool though. Did you try using a Canny and Depth Control.net, perhaps? Although seeing the inference times, it might be a bit taxing on the system? I haven't checked EasyDiffusion, I'm more of an automatic1111 girl. And yeah, totally - the sd 1.4 model is absolutely ancient at this point, basically to the point of being no longer useful. Deliberate is a good general purpose model, dreamshaper works well for fantasy images. Another decent model is RevAnimated - although you absolutely WILL want to add nude to the negative prompts there. It's thirsty - but produces great clothed images too. Just needs convincing.

Oh, me, me! I've been dabbling in AI stuff too. My first tries were with Midjourney more or less a year ago and when I could no longer afford that - I stumbled accross Stable Diffusion. That has been my go-to and I have spent a lot of time experimenting and playing with it. I've since experimented a lot in trying to bring my looks over into other concepts, such as drawings, paintings etc. So it's not going to be a direct Image 2 Image but rather something created with probably the... 8th or 9th generation of LORA and custom blend models. Either way, some of my experiments with it. As comparison my Avi from SL first. In case someone warrants it, my signature stare in custom sticker form - I need to create more of these! A shot of Anime Nina and vibrant water colour! Nina has played too much Eldenring! And Nina got style - at least in the eyes of the all spooky AI.

Aye. If it still sells or the merchant is still around? There's in my opinion no reason to yank it. Sure there might be some ancient, half broken mess in there but sometimes there's some charm in that. Also I have seen people buy said mess and dance with joy over their purchase. I didn't quite understand it but heck, joy is infectious so let them have it! I've had my fair share of fun in going into obviously old builds and almost looking at it like a virtual archeologist. What could this have been? Which weird religions must this have been made for? Personally, I'll toss a coin to the witcher coder that implements a better way for users to find what they want. Both in world and on the marketplace and let's just say the latest marketplace changes aren't it. I've gone from a frequent marketplace enjoyer to someone that looks at it, groans under a flood of gacha that refuse to be filtered and heads back out.

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Well then, feel free to add me as well but you need to hear this and ideally understand this: A graphics card overheating is not only not working okay, it's a suicidal firehazard to not fix it. That's neither a joke, exaggeration or me being an evul gamer grrrrl sneering down at you - that's a genuine safety warning. A GPU is built to sustain heavy loads for an extended amount of time. It is also build with tolerances that some people use to overclock them. Your GPU, by your own words, is both underperforming compared to cards of similar makeup and still punching way past the tolerances by overheating anyway. Block me, ignore me, insult me if you must but bloody hell: Fix your GPU. Do it, please. Clean out the dust. Check the thermal paste. Buy an old cheap one on Amazon. Switch out the fans (probably costs more than just switching the GPU). Do any of these things. If you don't know how, there's people that will help. But hell - A GPU overheating is running so hot that your computer goes "holy hell, fire hazard!!!" and emergency shuts down everything to prevent a quite literal fire. Don't bloody chance it. Period. Don't be like a friend of mine that lost nearly everything because he didn't bother to clean up his dust caked up notebook despite constantly overheating and it caught fire one day.

Much appreciated - shadows and (flipwise, lighting) are my big vulnerability when it comes to my pictures. I always tend to fumble around, not really knowing what I am doing. I can somewhat fake it with modern tech (fake raytracing for bouncelights, etc) but I always fumble in the dark. So I appreciate this, thanks!