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Conifer Dada

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  1. If you're able to use the standard SL facial expressions, it's useful to set animation to slow motion, which gives you the opportunity to capture the expression before it reaches its full extent, to give a more subtle effect. Presumably the slow motion trick would work with Bento too.
  2. A visit to 'The Villlage', which is a replica of Portmeirion in North Wales, but with an Italian look to it
  3. I probably wouldn't spend any more time in SL if I had a big lottery win. I might buy more land, to make a country park, that's about all. 🙂
  4. Slightly off-topic, but as I've said several times, the PBR viewer had very poor performance (for me) - probably not caused by PBR itself apparently, but some other change on the viewer. Anyway - a happy ending . . . I downloaded the Alchemy viewer and it's amazing - I can go clubbing again. 🙂
  5. Re. the current performance of SL (for me), I'm wondering if it is better to have 6 torso only avatars fully rezzed or to have 3 complete SL avatars fully rezzed and 3 as peramanent clouds!
  6. Vomitdoll Lockjaw is a name I remember seeing way back.
  7. I checked this - it was on "TRUE" so I changed it to "FALSE". Sadly I don't think it made any difference.
  8. Perhaps we should have had a thread entitled "What went wrong with LL's viewer 7?" . . . as the problems might be caused by something other than PBR, as several people have said. I found, by chance, that it's possible to disable PBR by going to 'advanced' > 'rendering types' and unchecking PBR. Doing this made no difference to performance or graphics.
  9. I just went to one club as test, where there were about 40 people. It took several minutes for the first avatar to rez. I waited 20 minutes in all, by which time most of the environment textures had rezzed but only about 2/3 of the avatars. Many of the avatars that had rezzed (in form only) were still partly grey. I'm guessing the people inside the club were experiencing reasonable performance, those standing outside like me, maybe not so.
  10. I want to like PBR too - it's just that its introduction coincided with something or other that drastically reduced SL performance for me and others.
  11. I don't know, to be honest. But the ping time is about the same as I've had for the last 3 years.
  12. I'm in Britain. Ping time right now for me 21 m/s, download time 583 Mb/s and upload 52 Mb/s. I reckon that's a pretty good internet connection. So slow SL performance since PBR must have some other cause.
  13. I use advanced lighting (shadows etc.) most of the time and it worked OK up until the PBR viewer came along. Now, turning off advanced lighting and setting other graphics to minimum doesn't improve the slow rezzing or non-rezzing, it's just as bad as with advanced.
  14. For me, the start of the problem coincided with downloading the PBR viewer. I wouldn't say rez times were wonderful beforehand, but they got a whole lot worse with the PBR viewer. I can understand that PBR isn't the cause, but some aspect of the viewer update must have been.
  15. I re-read that post. I'm not against PBR, I want to see it work well on my computer. The slow rezzing of textures might not be caused by PBR directly, but the change to texture fetching was bundled in with the viewer. My computer is 5 years old and it was quite high-end when I got it and there has been no deterioration in its overall performance, only the problems with the PBR viewer. I have a fast broadband connection (578 Mb/s). The only thing I can think of that might be suspect is the connection between computer and monitor, which I'll check again!
  16. That explains it - my graphics card is Radeon. I don't have too much of a problem with frame rate - although it's quite low it still gives smooth movement. The problem is more to do very slow rezzing of textures of environment and even slower rezzing of avatars. As I've said before, this is even the case when I reduce graphics setting to minimum.
  17. There was an update to the PBR viewer yesterday. One of the fixes in the release notes was fixing "massive performance loss". Sadly, for me the update has made no difference.
  18. The problems of very slow rezzing of environment and non-rezzing of avatars in any place where there are more than half a dozen started (or got much worse) with the PBR viewer. Even setting graphics to minimum makes little or no difference. This has persisted since the PBR viewer was released for the main grid. I think there has been one update since the introduction, which made no difference to the poor performance. I tried third party viewers, which restored performance to 'good' until I started getting 'failed to find xxxx in inventory' messages. So now I'm back with the PBR viewer, unable to go anywhere that there might be more than a couple of other people. I haven't had a crashing problem with the PBR viewer though. It would be interesting and useful for someone to create an alt to go through the new user experience using the current viewer and report back. I might even try that myself if things don't improve in the next week or two.
  19. I tried out PBR on the Beta Grid and didn't have any of the problems I've had with it on the main grid. But - on the Beta Grid I wasn't in music club with 8 people in it!
  20. I have the same problem - blurred profile pic but sharp when enlarged. I haven't updated my profile pic recently though. I often see the same when looking at other people;s profiles.
  21. I've just been to a club with about 15-20 people in. It was just a simple building with a few plants and bits of furniture. Using the LL PBR viewer I found that . . . The building rezzed but its textures took ages to load. Most avatars rezzed eventually but for most of them their textures never loaded so they stayed grey (not jellydolls though). A couple of avatars stayed as white clouds. Lag for movement was not too bad.
  22. I'm still finding that LL's latest PBR viewer is much slower than the previous v.6 one. Going anywhere that is even slightly busy means that avatars and surroundings take ages to rez and some textures never rez. I think there has been one update of the PBR viewer but that didn't show any improvement in performance. Turning down the graphics to minimum appears to make no difference to performance, it's still really slow. Re the old EEP settings - I found they were messed up with PBR but I made some new settings which look fine.
  23. "Woot!" That seems to be an SL word, although there's not much cause for wooting these days as by the time everything that's going to rez has done so, the 'woot' moment has long passed or went un-noticed.😟
  24. I'm struggling to think of any adult activity that isn't possible already in SL - not that I indulge in many of them personally, of course!
  25. Goes to show you can never be too careful! Whenever you're with other people, you need to be very careful what you stand in front of, behind, next to or under or you could end up on the front page of a daily paper accused of some made-up scandal. 😁😂
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