Madelaine McMasters

Most of this is greek to me, but I get the same feeling I had when developing software for medical instruments, where I'd get some library of routines from a company, complete with source code. Even though I was ostensibly the developer of the final software, I'd have to figure out how some of it worked by observation. I spent countless hours in support forums, scratching my head along with other users, trying to figure out what was happening. The folks at the vendor company were often of little use as the support personnel were not those who'd written the code. Those original authors were often long gone, or had never been there in the first place. ;-) Some things never change?

I'm glad you like puzzles, and that you questioned your own advice. Too few people do that! That the physics weights are so nutty tells me that nobody really understands how they're computed. Is Falcon Linden aware of your observations? If so, and if there's been no reasonable explanation of your observations, wouldn't it be safe to say he knows far less than infinitely more about this than you do? ;-)

Hiya Drongle, Because I had nothing better to do at the moment, I went through all four of your Episodes. I have few questions: 1) Are you nuts? 2) Do you get the feeling that the wiki (which I have not read) was written by someone who knows less about how mesh and physics weights work than you do? 3) Do you worry that, if you do discover the underlying method to this apparent madness, it will change tomorrow? The sensitivities you've discovered (to small displacements, initial orientations, etc) don't reveal any underlying root cause to me. Rather, they suggest that the code is riddled with boundary conditions. When I've encountered behavior like this in the past (in signal processing systems) I've often tossed the code and found something else. That's obviously not a solution here, but the results of your experimenation don't leave me feeling very hopeful.

valerie Inshan wrote: LOL! Mesh not showing up tonight!!!! Yikes! Not very photogenic! That's a pathetically transparent ploy to attract attention, Val. ;-)

Yep. I live on a beautiful public sim (Forgotten City) so I expect and encourage people to explore it. At least a couple of the folks on my friends list are people I found sitting on my sofa when I logged in. It's an amusing way to meet. It's been a very rare occasion that someone was less than gracious, forcing me to hoist my sofa to the ceiling.

Welcome to the forums, Mr. Oxygen! While you will get sensible answers from others here, you can depend on me for nonsense. Although I do have ban rights on the sim where I live, I can barely remember how to invoke them (though Codewarrior's explanation is so simple that I'm blushing over not knowing it). So, when I come home to find people lounging in my living room, I flip my sofa over and hang it from the ceiling. I'd love to tell you that this method immediately causes the visitors to leave, but in the case shown here it didn't. It was amusing to me, so I'll still call it a win...

Qwalyphi Korpov wrote: Hi Madelaine. TY for the welcome. You're welcome. Nice to see you back.

Welcome aboard, Betty! If you are asking about what to do with your avatar each day when you log out, it's truly a matter of personal preference. During my first week in SL, I looked for unoccupied places to "park" myself when logging out. I didn't do this because I thought my avatar would remain standing where I left her, being gawked at by others, but because I didn't want to log-in the next time possibly in the middle of a populated area. I was doing my part to maintain a reality in which people don't just appear out of thin air. I eventually found a barge floating in a canal somewhere. For the next month or so, I logged in and out and changed clothing on the bottom of that canal, under the barge. I still smile over that. So, if you want to enter and exit SL as inobtrusively as possible, I'd move to an out of the way spot before logging-out. As you become more comfortable here and make friends, I'm sure you'll find suitable "home bases" out of which to operate. Perhaps you'll eventually get a home of your own and use that as your portal between SL and RL. We all faced this question upon entering SL and we all found different answers. However you do it, I hope you have fun! Maddy

Trinity Yazimoto wrote: Wow ! so you have a damn pretty beautiful sim :smileyhappy: Ack, I should have worded that more carefully. Forgotten City is the beautiful joint effort of Jenne Debou and Mandy Marseille. I've lived there for two years and still haven't seen all the secrets. It's well worth exploring.

Thank you, Trinity. I should have mentioned that all of those photographs are from my home sim of Forgotten City.

I don't think the flats have invisiprims, but the pumps I just put on do. I got them years ago and I don't know if they've been updated.

Minke Bailey's MB-CreationZ has cute flats and lower heels. I sent you a landmark in-world.

beethros Karas wrote: ty for that possitive energy valerie! I barely take pictures of my self... but here is one miss Rose made for me some weeks ago and i love it well i maybe dont look smiling so much , but im happy.. ...swoons. I love the years in your look, beethros. And that you make birdhouses is icing on the cake.

Tousles your hair, then sneezes and coughs at all the dust. ;-)

3-8-2115 The last e-book publisher closes its doors after rising global temperatures make it too hot to operate sensitive electronic e-readers. As stringent environmental regulations and the scarcity of pulpwood make the use of paper untenable, books must be passed from person to person orally. The first book to be memorized by a member of Google's crowd sourced "Project Bradbury" is Bradbury's nearly prescient tome "Fahrenheit 451".

Celestiall Nightfire wrote: 16 wrote: http://www.3news.co.nz/Space-Invader-galaxy-no-threat-to-Earth/tabid/1160/articleID/289484/Default.aspx Oh geez, it must be a sloooow day for news over there at channel 13. But, look what else I found on their site: Woman flashes, gets hit by car "Down on the farm, 18-year-old Cherelle Dudfield can do whatever she wants. But when she flashed her breasts on Invercargill's main street recently, she created a serious traffic hazard. After a night of drinking with her mates, Ms Dudfield was dared to flash at passing cars. One motorist copped such an eyeful he crashed into her. "I stood on the centre line, flashed a couple of cars, got back in and they told me to do it again, so I did," says Ms Dudfield. "And then I saw a car coming towards me, on the middle of the centre lane driving up towards me, so I decided to run. "And then I got hit." http://www.3news.co.nz/Woman-flashes-gets-hit-by-car/tabid/423/articleID/134386/Default.aspx So, totally changing the subject here, has anyone else done "flashing" in RL? I have. I've also done streaking, which is kind of like flashing, only you're naked. Ms. Nightfire, I'm ashamed of you, tell us more.

3-7-2014 One year after threatening a preemptive nuclear strike against the US, North Korea's President Kim Jong Un addressed the Supreme People's Assembly wearing a chartreuse evening gown, a tiara and a feather boa to introduce the "Rodman I" nuclear missile. Surprisingly, the rocket's maverick designers, spurred on by Rodman, based their design on a piston engine powered by bulls***. A subsequent test launch resulted in the missile falling harmlessly into a lake.

Tex Monday wrote: jwenting wrote: submitted a dozen responses, all with totally fake and randomly selected data. Best way to get rid of these idiots, show them how utterly unreliable their "surveys" are. I prefer to not answer them at all rather than mess up their data. They worked hard on this...and even if it's the wrong way to go about getting information, it's better not to answer it at all. Having no data is better than having false data IMHO I agree Tex. In this case, I'll hope that trixp learns a little about the perils of anonymity in social interactions as well. I just did. ;-)

Done. Good luck!

The problem with color pickers is that they report the rendered pixel color, which is not necessarily the color of the underlying texture. The rendered color is a product of the texture and the lighting. If you make a texture full-bright, the rendered color is the texture color, but that's not possible for avatar skins. I just noodle with the RGB values under various lighting conditions until I get an acceptable match. It'll never be perfect because your skin probably has shading that's not present in a prim's texture. The lighting angles will not be the same at the joint between the prim and the avatar either, which will cause subtle shading differences. It's always a compromise. If you are trying to get the RGB value to input into something else that can't be tuned easily, you might try coloring a blank textured prim and wearing it so that it just peeks through your avatar skin at the point of interest. Then you can dial the RGB values around until you get a good match.

It is quite a bit of money. Macs have never been very well supported by LL/SL, but I'm pretty happy with the way my iMac is running Firestorm. It's a beautiful machine and the Fusion Drive is just zoomy. I think Apple has a 14 day, no questions asked, return policy (that might just be for mobile stuff, I'm not sure). If it doesn't please you, return it.

Morgaine Christensen wrote: I needs some help from those of you who are system savvy with SL Specs. Will SL run on the specs below? 3.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.9GHz 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB 1TB Fusion Drive NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5 My iMac runs that CPU/GPU combination and runs SL well. I'm getting 25fps on Ultra across the full 27 inches of my display. Turning on shadows and DOF drops that to about 16fps. Under High and with a 1920x1080 window, I can get 40+ fps, and sometimes peg the meter.