Madelaine McMasters

Ohjiro Watanabe wrote: It isn't something to get your knickers in a twist about. I wonder how that analogy originated. I've gone an entire day without realizing I've got my undies on inside-out. Is this a guy thing? No... wait. I'm trying to visualize the topology as I write this. If you wear briefs inside-out, doesn't the fly thingie still work the same way? The overlapping flaps switch front-to-back, but they also switch left-to-right because you have to rotate them about the forward axis to account for inside-outing them. So, what's the big deal? Now blouses and shirts are another thing. Who decided that boy buttons go on the right side and girl buttons on the left, but only for tops? For bottoms, it's anyone's guess where girl buttons and zippers go, but guys are always on the right, right? And who's the jackass that decided to put some girl buttons in the back, or at weird angles? And who's the super jackass that decided to put bra clasps in the front, where the simple act of plucking a cantaloupe from the produce aisle can pop it open, leaving you to do a Houdini impression in aisle one? Why the hell is anyone worried about damned DEMO items in the marketplace where there are pressing issues like this still unresolved?

Sassy, you're neglecting those of us with a fetish for demos. There's nothing we like more than waltzing through SL with boxes or "DEMO" signs floating over our noggins, tattoos on our forheads and ginormous hands and feet. Screw the real thing, we want the DEMO!!!

Darkthrop wrote: I heard a rumor recently that LL is planning to do away with System Clothes completely in favor of Fitted Mesh once the Fitted Mesh system is perfected. Hi Darkthrop, We're residents, just like you, and so have no insider knowledge. There are two ways (at least) to look at this rumor... 1) Linden Lab isn't so stupid as to pull the rug from under the vast majority of residents and creators. I own one mesh skirt. Thats it. If they eliminate system clothing, I'm either going to wander SL as a bodyless skirt, or leave it entirely. The rumor is false, and there's nothing to worry about. 2) LL hasn't perfected anything since it was founded. They haven't even gotten close. So, they'll never perfect Fitted Mesh. The rumor is true, and there's nothing to worry about. ;-).

Hi Pinta, I'd say this is a side effect of the usual Tuesday rolling restarts... http://status.secondlifegrid.net But you're describing something that doesn't fit that cause. If you have another viewer installed, try that. If you have an alt account, try that. If you are able to get home via the other viewer or the other account, I'll guess that some settings file in the viewer got corrupted. It may be time for a clean install... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-Second-Life/ta-p/1375231 Don't rush to try that, as this is my default answer for questions that baffle me. Someone else may wander along and recognize the cause of the problem you're having. And, on the off chance your home went offline for a rolling restart, you've probably gone home already. Good luck!

Hippie Bowman wrote: Do a good job Maddy and don't bite anyone! Happy Tuesday all! Peace! Don't bite? How am I supposed to motivate them? I leave for Boston in a few days and the roof still isn't done! Grrrrrrr! Happy Tuesday, Kids!!!

You don't say what kind of computer you're using. If you're on a Mac, it's ctrl-alt-fn-f1.

Hi Shorty! I see Lindal types faster than I do! If you have a modifyable shape, there will be numerous sliders available in "Edit My Shape". I'll caution you however that tall SL avatars very often have unnatural proportions, the most egregious being abnormally short arms. Penny Patton wrote a nice article about avatar proportions... http://pennycow.blogspot.com/2011/08/matter-of-proportion.html Here's a forum thread she started on the topic... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Your-Avatar/A-Matter-of-Proportion-A-Guide-to-Shape-Making-and-the/td-p/1027693 Strawberry Singh discuss it here... http://strawberrysingh.com/2013/06/24/whats-your-digits-take-3-proportions-challenge/ Here's a YouTube tutorial about shape editing. It's a bit long winded, but gives you a chance to see the effect of various sliders before you dive in yourself... If your shape is no-mod, dig around in the library to see if there's a modifable shape there. And finally, before jamming sliders all over the place in the shape editor, make a copy of your shape to experiment on. You don't want to find yourself looking like a freak of nature just moments before being invited to a posh dance. That has never happened to me. Nope. Never. ;-).

Amiga, As you're seeing, an emotion laden post is like blood in the water. I understand your frustration over griefing, but there are simple and effective methods available to you and your wife to escape and avoid it. Griefers, whether in-world, or here in the forum, thrive on the attention they can get by pushing people's buttons. And when our buttons are pushed, our anger can compromise our judgement, exposing us to claims of hypocrisy. It's unreasonable to come to the forums and ask EVERY one of us to complain to Linden Lab. None of us experienced the griefing first hand, or have direct evidence of it. So we are in no position to file abuse reports. The spurious filing of abuse reports is itself an abuse of the system, and it's unfair to ask us to do that. I do not mean to dismiss your wife's pain over this, but in anonymous social settings like SL, you will encounter disagreeable behavior. And because that behavior is not physically dangerous, SL can be a good place to learn how to keep it from upsetting you, while (or by) taking steps to address it. Those steps may not always be effective, but even the most ineffective of constructive responses, or no response at all, is better than the often self destructive results of an emotional backlash.

Hi Ashlie, Your L$1000 sign-up bonus will arrive approximately 45 days after you started your premium membership... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Premium-membership/ta-p/1054477#Section_.3.1 Your weekly L$300 stipend will arrive every Tuesday.

Good morning, Hippie! I'm helpin' the fellas finish my new roof Roof ROof ROOf ROOF! this week... Happy Monday, Kids!!!

Marigold Devin wrote: As you've dug up a slightly older forum topic, which is always an interesting one, I've managed to dig up an old user group transcript (from 2012) Start reading from 15:33, where I asked the question: [15:33] Marigold Devin: Just for the "fun" of it, do LL have an ideal limit on number of items a person should have max in their inventory? [15:33] Oskar Linden: an ideal limit? less than 12 Oskar's thrown down the gauntlet, Mari. I'd pick it up, but I already have a dozen.

Candii9 wrote: You are the most stupidest retardest person I've ever read.

Splatulated wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: Splatulated wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: If you're asking how to post a picture in a forum post, look in the toolbar at the top of the window where you type the text of your post. You'll see a little picture of a tree. Click that, and you'll get a pop-up window allowing you to "Choose File" from somewhere on your PC to upload into the post. There's a 1MByte limit on file size, so you may have to shrink large images before you attempt to upload them. You can also post YouTube videos by clicking the little filmstrip icon, then pasting the YouTube link to a video in the "Video URL" field of the window. I imagine you'll want to do that once you've made your first video. ;-). why cant we direct link an already uploaded image ? You can. If you've previously uploaded an image from your PC, you can select it from your album by clicking the "From My Uploaded Images" tab and then picking the image you want. well i mean like 3rd party with image tags and a url I've wondered that myself. You can link to YouTube videos, so why not web images elsewhere? That's just another imponderable. The SL forums are hosted by Lithium and I've seen other Lithium forums that look and work quite well.

Hi Candace, Welcome (almost) to Second Life! Come back to your question and provide more information. What exact error message to you get, and at what point in the login process does it occur? You can edit your question via "Options" over there on the right. Unfortunately, the Answers forum software is designed to make it exquisitly difficult for you to further participate in the resolution of your own problem. You're only allowed to ask the initial question, but not to post additional notes to the thread. Yes, there are people goofy enough to configure forum software this way ;-). Okay, back to your problem... It may be that your internet connection is the culprit. If you are on wi-fi and can move to a wired connection, do so. SL is terribly finicky about the quality and latency of your internet connection, but not so much about the speed. You may have a super zippy link, but if it's dropping packets, or there is excessive delay in moving those packets between you and the servers, problems will arise. Here's more about fixing connection problems... http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ Good luck!

Unfortunately, land is (compared to almost everything else in SL) very expensive. Here's the table of monthly land fees... https://secondlife.com/land/pricing.php Note that you don't really buy land in SL, you might pay a one time fee to reserve a lot of land for your use, but you'll also have to pay a rental fee, either to Linden Lab or to a landlord, as someone has to pay for the computer servers on which all LL things are stored, and that someone is us. This is why I recommend the nomad lifestyle for new residents, until they determine what SL is worth to them. I wandered SL for quite some time after joining. I found a quiet sim that had a canal with a barge in it, and I changed my clothing under that barge until I learned that I didn't have to strip naked to do that. I eventually moved up to a house that I shared with my SL partner, and then to a private little island in the Maldives. It is nice to have a place to call home, so I understand your excitement over this. There are landlords that rent small spaces (I've seen prim allowances as small as 25 prims) for very little money. I once rented an apartment for L$50/week. And you can probably make a cozy little nest with a few well done mesh items using very few prims. I currently rent a lighthouse for L$2380 (about US$10) a month. I'm using only 200 of my 230 allowed prims, and that includes a furnished skybox I built and located 4000 meters above the lighthouse. You can do a lot with a little.

Hi Pyro, When you right-click your avatar and select "Edit Shape" and then "Save" or "Save As", you should create or update an outfit folder that contains links to whatever you're currently wearing. When you do that, what happens, or doesn't happen? You end up with an empty folder with the name you selected? Come back to your question and edit it (via "Options" over there on the right) with additional information. ETA: Get yourself dressed by picking things out of inventory and wearing them, then right-click your avatar and select "Edit My Outfit" then select "Save" and specify a name for the outfit. Then examine that outfit folder in inventory. Is it empty? If not then everything is fine, though I can't explain why other outfits you've created are empty. If you end up with a new outfit folder that's empty, I can't explain why that is, other than perhaps a corrupted viewer file. You might try a clean install. Here are instructions for doing that... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-Second-Life/ta-p/1375231

Splatulated wrote: Madelaine McMasters wrote: If you're asking how to post a picture in a forum post, look in the toolbar at the top of the window where you type the text of your post. You'll see a little picture of a tree. Click that, and you'll get a pop-up window allowing you to "Choose File" from somewhere on your PC to upload into the post. There's a 1MByte limit on file size, so you may have to shrink large images before you attempt to upload them. You can also post YouTube videos by clicking the little filmstrip icon, then pasting the YouTube link to a video in the "Video URL" field of the window. I imagine you'll want to do that once you've made your first video. ;-). why cant we direct link an already uploaded image ? You can. If you've previously uploaded an image from your PC, you can select it from your album by clicking the "From My Uploaded Images" tab and then picking the image you want.

Hi Ainye, You may be suffering from "bake fail". Here are two pages that deal with that... http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/fs_bake_fail http://blog.nalates.net/2013/08/23/second-lifes-new-bake-fail/ Bake Fail is sometimes the result of connection issues. SL is terribly finicky about the quality and latency of the connection, but not so much about the speed. You may have a super zippy link, but if it's dropping packets, or there is excessive delay in getting those packets between you and the servers, problems will arise. Here's more about fixing connection problems... http://blog.nalates.net/2011/10/26/troubleshoot-your-sl-connection/ Good luck!

If you're asking how to post a picture in a forum post, look in the toolbar at the top of the window where you type the text of your post. You'll see a little picture of a tree. Click that, and you'll get a pop-up window allowing you to "Choose File" from somewhere on your PC to upload into the post. There's a 1MByte limit on file size, so you may have to shrink large images before you attempt to upload them. You can also post YouTube videos by clicking the little filmstrip icon, then pasting the YouTube link to a video in the "Video URL" field of the window. I imagine you'll want to do that once you've made your first video. ;-).

KarisalynnXOXO wrote: It's says I have a total of 1,004 profile views are they like adding me inworld or just looking at it? Wait, there's a place where you can see how many people have viewed your profile? How did I not know about this? I live for attention! And you already got 1004 views? You just got here! Life just ain't fair. ...goes off to pout in a dark corner. :-(.

Hi Selassie, You would still have the 117 prim allowance, but you'd lose the house. Any house you place on an undeveloped mainland plot will eat into that prim allowance. That's the upside of owning a Linden Home. If the 117 prim limit of your Linden Home plot already feels too restrictive, a mainland parcel will feel even more so. The only way to get a larger prim allowance is to rent a larger plot. You prim allowance increases at the rate of 117 prims/512m2. Of course your costs increase as well. If you shop carefully, you can stretch 117 prims a long way. Well designed mesh objects give you pretty impressive bang for the prim. Good luck!

Hi Saydee, It's time to read the Quick Start and User's Guides. If you've downloaded, installed and launched the viewer (I see your empty profile, so it appears you have logged in at least once), your avatar is that creature standing in the middle of your screen with its back to you. Here's a potentially out-of-date Knowledgebase page about changing your avatar's look... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Controlling-your-avatar-s-appearance/ta-p/700709 You will have much better luck finding free/inexpensive clothing if you abandon the new default mesh avatar you selected during registration and switch back to one of the legacy avatars found in the "Library" folder in your "Inventory" window. I've never tried a mesh avatar myself, so I won't be of much help dressing one of those. If you registered as a Premium Member, you will have a zero Linden balance at the start, will receive L$300 every Tuesday and will receive a L$1000 bonus after 45 days. If you are a basic member (like me), you'll have a zero starting balance and will have to purchase Lindens on the Linden Exchange if you want a little spending money. You'll see a "Buy L$" link on the left side of your web dashboard, along with your current Linden balance. That balance is also visibie in the upper right corner of the viewer screen, though that balance can sometimes be a little out of sync with reality. Your account dashboard will always be correct. Good luck and welcome to Second Life!

Second Life movies are called "Machinima", and can be a lot of fun to make. Here's some background information... http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Machinima And there is a subforum specifically for machinima... http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Machinima-Forum/bd-p/machinima_forum The most active machiminatographer in the forums these days is jjccc Coronet. You can find his music video style work in the machimina subforum. The first thing you'll need as a way to capture video of your antics in SL. Lindal has recommended Fraps, which I've seen mentioned by lots of Windows machiminatographers. I've also heard of people using Camstudio, which is free. I'm a Mac user and find Screeny works well, though it does cost $15. I'll second Lindal's recommendation of the Space Navigator 3D mouse, but you can certainly do good work without it. The Firestorm Viewer has more sophisticated camera control tools in a toolbar button called "Phototools". I recommend looking at the Firestorm if you're going to do lots of photography. I have always been a fan of short form storytelling, and SL is a wonderful place for a budding video storyteller to cut her teeth. If you do make a little video for you friend, give us a show as well! ;-).

In addition to Rolig's advice, I'll recommend getting a facial expression HUD (heads up display). During selfie photography, the avatar eyes often wander about, following your mouse. There are hidden settings to reduce or eliminate that effect, but it's easier and more flexible to get a HUD that overrides the avatar's natural reactive eye motion. I have a HUD that also allows me to select from any of SL's built in facial expressions, which can be fun for photographs. We're not supposed to recommend products here in the Answers area, but if you Google "free SL eye HUD" I think you'll find something for nothing. ;-).

Perrie Juran wrote: Splatulated wrote: ObviousAltIsObvious wrote: select one of the faces, then go to the texture tab and invert the scale, probably the horizontal scale for what you have there. for example if the horizontal scale is 1, change it to -1. accidently moved it eitehr 110,000 feet up or down how do i get i accidentally clicked off it The SL sky only goes to about 13,500 feet high (4096 Meters). If you sent the object to 110,000 feet it has now left Second Life air space. I'd suggest looking for it somewhere in Farmville. I'm on it!...