Thank you everyone for the help. It seems the new rendering of bump map and shiny was the culprit. I did reset to default as the easiest thing to do to try once logging in again and it brought back my av and oddly enough also brought back the tree branches and leaves. Then I tried an old trick of mine to find a culprit and started to turn thijngs in my graphics preferences back on one at a time. Just so happens that bump map and shiny was the first thing I tried and there you go. Several times I tested it and each time if turned on my avatar disappeared. Went back and forth to other settings and none of them affected my visuals or rendering. Oh well.... getting a new PC soon hope that it won't have such issues as this old and I DO mean old wooden machine does. Still nothing helps to keep my settings on plain chat tho. Still going to try out V3 beta later I am excited about what I've been hearing.