Marianne Little

The bigger and more complex items go down quite noticeable. Laguna Bend house - from 202 Li to 168 Li. I live om Mainland now, so I can see that big things with Li goes down more than small things.

I had already linked so much, but I found some larger items; like the Voda pool gazebo from Kraftwork went from 48 Li to 40 Li. That is noticeable. I also checked trees and plants. I usually stretch trees as much as I can. My Skye twisted tree was 6.2 download now, I am sure it has gone down from 7 or 8 Li. A HPMD tree is 7.6 Li now, and it means It can be stretched bigger until it reach 8.4 download, or I can shrink it just a bit, and get it to 7.4 - and save one Li. I would not have left a tree with download 7.6 - no way. A planter I am 100% sure was 4 Li, is now 3 Li. So many of my potted plants have lost some in download, even if the Li is not down. The Apple Fall Boxwood urn is 1.1 download now. I am sure I would have stretched it to 1.4 before, so it must have lost 0.3 in download. Even if an object do not do down in Li, the download can have gone down. It means that the plant can be stretched more, you get bigger trees and potted plants, or sized them down, without looking noticeable smaller.

I think it is too much to demand that LL should be acting to reports of low skyboxes the second they recieve it. In the whole Bellisseria, how many low skyboxes is it? Bellisseria: 1800 regions. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:New_Linden_Homes_2019 There must be way over 2000 regions now. But let us say 2000 regions, it ia a nice, round number. 2000 regions and ca. 20 homes in each region. One of 40 000 residents has a low skybox. Even if it is a dozen low skyboxes there, the number in percentage is small, and the Moles take care of them as fast as they can. But it can take a week, and stubborn people can put the skybox back. It is still a low number. People will give up after they got it returned a couple times.

Asking people to adjust their camera position manually will not work. Most avatars will find it too much hassle, even if you give them notecars with step-by-step. If an experience changes it, it would work, but then angry people would complain and be afraid/angry you changed it permanently. I had been in SL for many years, I think at least 5 years (probably more), before I first heard about adjusting camera position. I was very exited when I heard about it, and changed it to the recommended numbers. It was too late for me. The SL camera position is the only one that feels "right" to me. If MMO camera position was in place from my start in SL, it would have been natural for me. But it was not, and after so many years, I doubt LL will change it. People can complain about it, but things are as they are. I would say that using 1:1 scale is very difficult. SL was not made for it. I have found it a lost cause to try and be my RL size in SL. I have made a compromize, my avatar is an RL supermodel in size. I am 4'45 in RL, 6'1-6'2 in SL, and furniture fit me much better. At least furniture from the stores I shop in. I would suggest a scale of 1:2 or at least 1:1, but raise the ceiling so the default camera can work in the buildings.

The bank does not care if a teen buys a hoodie with: "Officer, I drop kicked that kid in self defence" or if they pay for game tokens - that is Lindens. As soon as the bank got the paper work from us parents and the Visa Debet card was set up and ready, the bank only cares about money laundering/fraud transactions. Not if it is an age limit on the game they buy tokens from. How can they control every single transaction? And how can LLhave time to control that every card belongs to an adult? They barely have people enough to handle abuse reports. Will LL even have access to bank information without a good reason, like crimes that can be legally persecuted?

So is "BBB Users Group" what people refer to when they say "I got in easy and it is a big group?" And is it another group named BBB for the leaders? It is only 20 persons and closed for the public?

I usually see 0-2 dots on the map (In the region), in the places I live on Mainland. That is not all the time, they are there on and off. It is in the houses that is taken care of. The houses where there are outdoor decorations, a garden/yard that they have spent time and planted trees and have outdoor furniture. And with furnished houses. I lived in Bellisseria for 4 years, and the number of avatars vary a lot. From 10 and more when the region is new, and it trickle down to 0-5. I live in Europe, so I belive it matters. I would say the ideal is no more than 5.

A couple of days ago I posted pictures in a wrong thread and removed them. But I have changed so much in the garden since then. I mentioned that I copied the stair up to the front door so I could elevate the house and garden with prims. This is so I can have a pool. The pool is no more than hip deep after I edited it, but it is the look that matters. This is in Horizons, no terraforming allowed. It is two 1024 m plots with double prims. The plots are shifted 2-3 m, they are not lined up 100%, but I think it is charming. It is protected land on all sides. The hill behind the garden is protected land, it is protected land on both sides of the house, water on the edge and road in front. In the 4th and 5th picture, can you see how the garden wall bend and follow the parcel lines. (To the left in the pictures.) The garden wall hides the edges of the base prims. The wood in the garden wall is not matching the wood shutters and detail on the house, so it is tinted. It was hard to get a match, I am going back and tweaking, tweaking. I had a kid's pool where it is a massage table now. I do not have kids in SL, so I thought why have a pool for kids? I don't know if I ever get furniture in the house, I go in the garden and change things all the time. (And now I see that I must edit the pool a bit, so it is aligned with the pavillion! ) The garden is never finished. Plenty pictures. I took two in daylight, so it is easier to see what is there.

Where are the texture for the LL grass ground in Horizons?

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I would have empty parcels. I do not understand why Bay City and those parcels have double prims and the same tier. I think LL should be careful with their prices now. It is not free game, unless one will use only freebies and live in sandboxes. Look at those regions, it is 1024 parcels, but also 2048 and 4096. (More than one parcel together). I just rented 2048, it is 2 / 1024 parcels. With 1406 Li. LL also has water between, roads, some protected land and communal builds. It is no covenant. It can be huge stores, small cottages, 64 m prims, anything goes. It was "said" to be a theme, but no Linden or Mole ever enforced it. Mainland 2.0 could be the same, with just a few rules. No sky build under x height, nothing on ground taller than x. I think it should be free to have stores, private homes, airports, GTF, tents, anything inside the height restrictions. Bellisseria is a bit tame.

New Mainland need fixed parcels. It is the cutting of parcels that ruin old Mainland. I wish LL would build some new Mainland with rules, but I am afraid they will price it so high that I can not afford it. PremiumPlus is simply too expensive, the amount of land should be at least 4096 m without tier. Price for ordinary mainland (buy and tier) is already more than enough.

Yes, but no sailable water... That is what Blake Sea is all about, yes? I tricked with draw distance so the neighbor wasn't visible. I used 124 m dd, so they aren't very close. But those who move to this region do not use high flat privacy plates, so it is mainland of the better kind. It is a 100% water region.

I have not posted in a long time, because I had nothing new to show. But I put up a Trompe Loeil house instead of the Roost house I had. I am going for a minimal landscaping here instead of building up mesh land. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Trompe-Loeil-Jura-Waterfront-Cottage-mesh/23961720 The base comes with the house and I added some palms and also rocks from Skye. And the lighthouse and outsim dolphins stay on this plot as long as I rent it, along with the seagulls from ee Oh. Living with void water on two sides, I can go all the way out with offsim decor. The boats are decor, since void water is not sailable. I can pick up the boats if I need more Li for furniture, but I have not finished the inside. I am using a pool physics box set to transparent so I do not sink to the bottom. That is 0.5 li at max size 64x64, same size as my land. I have some reef texture under and also some sand banks. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/05-LI-full-perm-Pool-Physics-Box-mesh-any-texture/4127420 The land goes from the cormorants to the sand bank with a sail and old boat. The pier is something I made myself. It is bigger than the original. Maybe too big, I might shrink it.

With Firestorm, we can lock the camera in the position we want, it is very useful if I set up for a picture, and suddenly see that I need to change something in the outfit. Like adjusting the grip on a purse so it does not clip in my leg. In FS camera control it it 2 buttons, one with an eye and an arrow 'up', one with an arrow 'down'. I can lock the camera when I press the 'eye down', then zoom closer, fix what is wrong, and hit the Firestorm 'eye up' button again to go back to the correct angle. This can only save one placement, in HUDs for photography it is probably lots of options. I am sure it is very useful for those who blog. I think I bought one of those HUDs, but it is too much to fiddle with for me. I made some projected lights myself, to attach to my avatar. I also have some special lights that I got with tattoos that use materials. That is stuff we attach. I use rezzed projected light on my sky platform, so I do not attach many projectors at a time. My homemade set of projectors to wear has 5 cubes with projected light textures I change myself, and since it is linked it is only 1 attachment point. It is very crude, I must select each light manually and change angle, turn it on/off and change color/radius/intensity. I bet it is lots of systems where all is in a HUD for easier use. That would use more attachment points. I 'fly by my the seat of my pants' when I take pictures, I am not using all the attachments one can buy.

I do not think 1 attachment point from the FS bridge would be enough to help... It is just one. The other things like huggers, spankers and all the other stuff worn when only taking pictures would be what I took off first. But I do not say how others do their SL, take off this and that because I would take it off. It is not my business. If they need so many attachment points in their SL, it is valid. I believe it would not hurt SL and performance for others if the number of attachment points was raised to 50. I think so few would use it, it would not have an effect on SL in general. We are many more using 20-30 points, and I can not imagine wearing over 38, even if the number was raised to 50. I can imagine using over 38 for pictures in very rare cases, but not outside that.

Can we take off the Firestorm bridge? I thought we could not function without it (running Firestorm). What happens when we take it off, is a new one created next time we log in?

The mod versus no mod is a big problem for me. I said for maybe 10 years ago: "No mod, no buy". That did not last long. I can not do it. It is so few that allow mod, and it gets worse every year. Creators use color change and texture change HUDs and set the item to no modify. If I only buy modify, I am left with few options... 😪 And the creators do not notice if one of 10 000 drop their products. I have never seen others outside of the forum wish for modify rights in SL.

It depends on the style and where you go in SL, but another blogger is Billy Beaverhausen. I do not link him, since he has risky outfits with minimal clothing, like jockstraps, tanks and thongs. Often posing with another guy. (Not only underwear, but he has a lot of those posts ) It is easy to find his blog when you search. He has a unique name. He is of the more muscular type of avatar, not slim like Skell Dagger. Billy has a lot of mesh heads and bodies. He post a detailed list of what he is wearing.

Not all submit demos there. I just checked for a skin I wanted to look up. But it might help some, if they are lucky.

I have bought a cord necklace where I can customize text. The notecard says: How to add text: Open the included "TEXT UV layout" in Photoshop and add your text on the UV island. Save as .png with transparency and upload to SL. Rezz the necklace and hit ctrl-alt-T to show the transparent face. Right click on the necklace>edit> select face>click on the transparent face>add your texture. I have followed this, and the text is visible when the necklace is rezzed on ground. But when I take it back to inventory and wear it, the text is invisible. Maybe there are alpha in the hair that cover the necklace. I try ctrl-alt-T but can not see any transparency hair over it. To be sure, I rez another copy and set transparency to Alpha Masking and cutoff 100. It does not help. I have tried this several times now. I take the edited necklace back to inventory, or take a copy. I change the cutoff value up, as high as 200, or down. I change EEP. I try with and without shadows. I refresh texture when wearing it. I am sure it is some little, stupid thing I do wrong, but what?

I have always liked rough looking men. I think you gave this guy a friendly/neutral expression. The scowl is overused in SL, it is either pretty boy faces or angry faces. Good to see something else. Even as a teen, I thought the babyfaced actors and boybands wasn't interesting. I think the brows on this avatar is a bit dark, since he is pale blond.

I bought Lilith last Black Friday, for the horns. The head is super CUTE without the horns. I was considering using it, but I could not shape the jaw and eyes as I wanted. Who would think the fearsome Lilith is just a tiny cute kitten? 😆 Now I wonder if Billie can use the horns... hmm...

Okay, now I got exited! I have an older Kintsugi tattoo for SL UV + body, and I have been looking for one for EvoX + body. I am going to demo the one from Anxious Angel. I am going to demo the Amara Beauty skin too. For some reason, the Seraphim way of listing is easier for me to see, instead of other galleries. Maybe it is because I am so used to Seraphim. https://www.seraphimsl.com/2024/03/08/jazz-up-your-avatar-at-skin-fair-2024/

It is cheap skins and makeup for sale all the time, I will only buy full price if it is very special. I picked up a nice set for 60L at the weekend sale already, from one of my favorite stores, Jack Spoon. I saw the Skinnery skins in the shopping guide. They look really good. I will go and take that demo later. I have not unpacked all the gifts from Christmas yet, hehe. So I have tons of skin and makeup laying around.