Ivanova Shostakovich
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BoM bakes all the currently worn system skin, system underwear, system clothing, and system tattoos into one set of flat textures, which are then applied to a mesh body and/or head. The system avatar body is then hidden by the baking service, obviating the need for wearing alphas. In fact, wearing alpha layers interferes with the process. It might help to think of that this way: The baking service needs to see the system avatar textures, if it can't, because alpha layers hide it, then it can't bake those textures for the mesh avatar.
The usefulness of BoM is going to depend on the user, and their particular needs. If one has an older system avatar skin that they really like, and its creator is not producing an applier, BoM allows them to apply that skin to their mesh body. Similarly, if one has tattoos that are not being updated with appliers by their creator(s) One can have them on their mesh body through BoM.
I found it to be very helpful when trying mesh head demos. It had been very difficult to judge whether a particular mesh head model would achieve a look similar to what I had settled into over the years. Having a BoM enabled demo head allowed me to tweak the shape with my skin, my face, applied to it, allowing a fast and relatively easy demo process.
BoM does exactly what it's supposed to. That being said, there are some disadvantages. The baked textures will be applied to the skin layer of the mesh body, following all its curves, just as system clothing fits the system avatar and very much unlike mesh clothing. There are some body manufactures providing additional adjunct attachments with their bodies now that mitigate this problem, applying the textures instead to surfaces that bridge gaps, and/or other body features. Additionally, there is a small amount a variation in the UV mapping between the various bodies and heads, relative to the system body UV map.
Another benefit to BoM that I use is applying certain underwear types. Mesh bodies have layers witch accept the textures of underwear, tattoos, and clothing articles. When I have tried wearing both an underwear layer and, for instance, a separate pair of stockings on a clothing layer, the two interfere with each other, blanking one out entirely, or making the other partially disappear. BoM stockings, applied by the baking service, become part of a non-alpha texture, thus obviating the problem.
Anyway, I've been writing this for a bit, and I have plans I must go attend to. I hope all this helps.
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33 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
Well, she just couldn't wait.
Mom escaped under cover of darkness, passing away last night shortly after our FaceTime call. I know chatting with me can drain the life out of a body, but she didn't have to make such a literal display of it. Hospice staff was surprised. Though tired, she was chipper when they tucked in in for the night. They discovered her passing at shift change, less than two hours later.
Nearly two years ago, I sent Mom on an unwelcome journey by instructing the neurosurgeon to remove from her neck the blood clot that was threatening her life, against her express wish for "no extraordinary measures" to be taken on her behalf. She recovered well enough to continue living on her own, but she'd have been happy to take the exit quickly that day. There was no guarantee the clot would kill her. There was a chance she'd be left alive, but massively damaged. By picking the lesser of two evils, you're still forced to pick evil.
This time it went as hoped. She left quickly, painlessly, and in her sleep.
When I was young, Dad introduced me to the idea of "connectedness" by telling the story of Socrates Last Breath. Since then I've read that there's a possibility that molecules we exhale will be swept out into space by the solar wind. When Dad passed, I shot a bit of him into the sky in the nosecone of a model rocket we'd started building together when I was young. I had to finish it on my own to send him off. Now I've got to hunt down a weather balloon and a tank of helium. I've been waiting patiently to commingle Mom and Dad's ashes, spoon them into a balloon, and set them adrift on the prevailing westerlies where they'll start a journey of an after-lifetime.
The waiting is over.
Take care of each other, Kids.
Many hugs Maddy. You continue to be in my thoughts.
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I was shoe shopping a few days ago. There was one shop wherein almost all the vendor images for the different shoes displayed the bottom halves of models in undies. Just shoes and undies. I found it distracting, and not in a good way. What's wrong with having jeans or at least shorts on them? I got fairly annoyed by it and left before I'd seen everything.
Maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm more easily annoyed by everything just lately.
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Just playing around with color and new clothes.
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58 minutes ago, Rhonda Huntress said:
When I still had only my first daughter, and she was almost three, I was invited to attend a school musical in which the daughter of some friends was participating. Her parents were both unable to attend that time due to work. So I went, to represent.
I had to spend a little time in the school office when I arrived, to get checked in. As soon as I sat in one of the visitor/waiting chairs, holding my daughter in my lap, I looked across from me. A dad was sitting there with his kid. The poor girl. She had a cold and had green gunk plastered all over her lower face. The guy was just sitting there, seemingly oblivious and doing nothing to clean her up. Two thoughts then dominated my brain as I waited, battling for supremacy. The first one was, 'Please don't want to get down and play with my kid. Please oh please... don't'.
The second thought, as I occasionally glanced back at the dad, who was staring blankly at the wall, was, 'What... in the hell is wrong with you?'
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Nope. Now, other people's avatars....
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The things I gotta do to get a drink around here...
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I feel ok. It was nice to get out of the house today. In the park, 22 kids came to my bus and got sack lunches. It helps me to be able to do something.
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Costs kisses
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1 hour ago, MirandaBowers said:
enjoying an amber field
This is so nice! I can almost hear the wind in the tall sedges. It's a feel-good photo.
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1 minute ago, GoSpeed Racer said:
I watched as Iva burned for Bay City:
Hawt!!
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2 hours ago, Matty Luminos said:
"There stood the lovely Matti, in shades of cotton candy"
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I picked up this frock coat at ContraptioN. With it I worked together some separates. I'm quite happy with the result.
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I'm setting up my parcel/house in Bay City for Evers Night. Chaos ensues.
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17 hours ago, Lissia6 said:
thank you . So there is no way to have expressions ?
I think your best option, if you can afford it, is to get a different head. That is a way.
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Now I'm going to be hunting down all the Feynman videos I can find.
I can't make myself believe in things. I either believe something, believe in something, or I don't. I don't know much, but, I can't believe that everything we see came into being spontaneously. I can't believe it all evolved by chance. I can think about the argument "Well, in all the universe, it had to happen somewhere. So it happened here. That we're a part of it is simply concomitant." But it doesn't work, not for me.
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39 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:
I know only some will get this...............
15 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:It's an IT thing
Wait! What happened to IPv5?
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2 hours ago, Seicher Rae said:
"Hey! You guys read the entire script? How come I didn't get to read it all? Huh?"
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When you're editing anything containing animations, sometimes the names can be a little obscure, not telling you exactly what kind of animation it is. You can right click an animation in an object's inventory, and then choose to open it. You'll get the small window with which you can choose to run that animation on your avatar, locally, or in-world.
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I'm going back to some semblance of work on April 1st. Of course, it's not regular route driving. We're going to start delivering meals to kids who have regularly depended on school lunches for their mid-day meals. It's going to feel good getting out of the house, doing something, and helping.
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1 minute ago, Beth Macbain said:
You do realize, don't you, that in spite of our sometimes-differences, you are one of my favorite people? It all sucks right now, but I look forward to seeing your name on these forums every single day. It's one of those comfort kind of things. "Oh... okay, Selene is here. All is well!"
And I think you know me well enough from around these parts to know that I'm not just trying to blow smoke up yer butt. 😋
It's chilly, damp and overcast outside. Thank you Beth, for that mental image. I needed a laugh.
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10 minutes ago, Selene Gregoire said:
/me gives you a few of her cheesecakes. "Because I like you."
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I was planning to visit my mother today. But a State "Stay at home. stay healthy" thing made us both reconsider. She's doing ok, apart from having a problem with her Mac.
I miss my coworkers, even though I spend less than 30 minutes with any of them on any given day.
I'm very glad it's been sunny these last few days. It's mood lifting and feels good when I go for walks, alone.
I'm normally very resistant to most forms of negativity. Recently, I've found my defenses to be somewhat lacking.
I have several tiny cheesecakes in my freezer.
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15 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:
Damn, damn, damn. After countless failures in my constant effort to steal the locomotive, I bought a new pair of heels, hoping to get better traction in the fertile soil of "The Far Away". Just as I felt it budge, look who arrives to frown on my effort. I was thinking he'd never miss it, but there he is...
It would be lovely if he could fix the seating animation in the plane while he's here.
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"Huh, I didn't know that!" aka Things We've Learned During Forced Isolation
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I've learned that I won't actually go insane if I don't have periods of time wherein I can be truly alone. However, I did just get some over-ear, noise canceling headphones that I often use for SL and/or listening to music. More data may be necessary.