Jo Yardley

Hahaha don't bump your head! Oh another thing, not sure if its mentioned here, but if Herr Ceriano would visit 1920s Berlin and asked me to dance, chances are I'd be floating a few feet above the ground while dancing. Not because I'd be walking on air or be swept of my feet, but because poseballs suffer too if avatars and builders all use a different idea of scale.

RL scale me in RL scale sim with RL scale car. Driving around is awesome, especially in mouse look. I can drive it trough very narrow streets and wherever I park it, it fits into the scene. Park it anywhere outside our sim and it looks like a toy.

When I joined SL over 2 years ago I noticed a few 'short' avatars and heard a few people talk about realistic scales. Today I find measurement objects at sims, lots of real size avatars and more and more realistic scaled objects and sims. My sim is semi realistic scaled and everything in my shop is too small for the people who are not of realistic size. And I am not the only one doing that Some of SL's best cars are now being sold at a more real size. Since I first got in SL I do feel there has been some change in this isssue and more and more avatars are either changing or at least know and understand they are very very tall. But yes, LL has to be part of the effort, making a much more realistic avatar builder and giving new people more realistic avatars would do a lot of good.

6ft isn't short.

Recent? This has been going on at least from when I came to SL over 2 years ago.

I'm 6ft in SL... just like in RL We cloggies are tall.

Fantastic post, well done. Couldn't agree more. In a semi-realistic scale sim like ours the giants sure do stand out when they visit.

Just for the 8th birthday of Second Life, we've made a little copy of our 1920s Berlin cinema right in our plot of the amazing SL8 super region. Here you can see a great movie about Berlin in 1927 while listening to our 1920s music stream. And here there is no 1920s dress code and furries, tinies and everyone else is welcome too. https://secondlife.com/destination/sl8b-the-1920s-berlin-project

Sorry, it is not allowed. I agree that it should be allowed for Historically themed sims or exhibitions or at least considered, but it is not. I checked with LL when I started building my sim, send in a ticket as well, but the answer was no no no. Anything with a swastika in SL is against ToS so people creating items with swastikas and perhaps even the people wearing them, are running a risk of being reported.

Ziggy21 Slade wrote: Jo is that really your dream bedroom? Yes absolutely. I'd give my left arm to have a tiny room above a street in downtown 1920s Berlin. I love history more then anything so being able to "live" in the past is my ultimate dream. I don't care for luxery or vanity, I want realism, authenticity and historical accuracy. So a small common apartment, a nice big soft chair by a coal fire, some books, magazines on the floor, a record player, a cat sleeping at my feet, an open window letting in the sounds of the bar below.... yep sounds like paradise to me. In my sim we have ultra luxerious bedrooms at the Hotel Adlon, there are big mansions, modern Bauhaus style apartments... but that just isn't me. The only other place I'd perhaps like to stay for a while would be a zeppelin cabin, but an authentic realistic one, so tiny and with just enough space for a bunk and table.

This is another topic that was archived when we moved to this new forum and I missed it, so I restarted it. Hope nobody minds. Anyway, the idea behind this topic is that we share with each other if, and how we sleep in SL. NO, I don't want to know who you sleep with or any kind of hanky panky that happens in your bed ;) This is all just about SLEEPING. Yes, sleeping in SL is a bit silly, our avatars don't need sleep and we do, but I still enjoy seeing my avatar earn some well deserved rest. Do you put your avatar to bed and leave SL logged on when you go to sleep? Or does your avatar just go to bed as part of the roleplay you're involved with? Do you sleep with your eyes closed (see the close your eyes trick; http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Your-Avatar/Sleeping-closing-your-avatars-eyes/m-p/776251#M3083 ) In short, tell us about how, why and where you sleep and if you can, show a picture of you sleeping. Here I am, sleeping in 1920s Berlin. Small messy room, cat sleeping at my feet. I don't really sleep in SL, I only sleep as part of roleplay or because I am too busy to respond to whats going on around me in SL. And yes I use the close yer eyes trick;

Oh totally missed this topic about my trademarked brilliant discovery (yes every time you use my special close your avatars eyes trick you must pay me 10000000 lindens!) Only joking. Anyway, here I am, sleeping after a long day of work in 1920s Berlin;

Anyone else got nice pictures of you sleeping with this 'close your eyes trick'?

I build a neighbourhood in 1920s Berlin. Houses, streets, dirty small damp smelly apartments, everything; I also make stuff, mostly for common workingclass people from the early 20th century, but I only have advertisement pictures of that stuff, so I hope this is ok to post;

Cool, there are some awesome 1920s motorbikes in SL, not much detail but someone made this video last weekend of her on a motorbike in Berlin;

I must confess I am not sure this topic already excists, excisted on the old forum or if it just excisted in my brain. If so, please ignore, delete, etc. ANYWAY, this topic is all about how you get around in SL, what vehicle do you use? Show us your car, truck, bicycle, plane, etc. But also tell us why you choose it, why you love it, etc. Here are my vehicles; This is my Dixi and I LOVE it. The car is based on the very first BMW ever made, it was created in the late 1920s in Germany and I had it especially made for our 1920s Berlin sim. There are a lot of different versions, different colours, some with luggage on the roof, openable roof, etc. It has lovely details such as a direction pointer thingy that pops out on the side of the car when you co around the corner, you can click the steering wheel to hear a vintage horn, it seats 4 people (!), openable doors, foldable seats AND you can drive it in mouselook!!! It is awesome. Realistic scale too and just very very lovely. My other vehicle; Sometimes I need to transport heavy stuff like beer barrels and prims, they don't fit in my dixi, so I use my AAA truck. Again realistic scale, very well made, great sounds, doors open and one truck gives you many options, many different textures and you can even add snow!

And that is why Phoenix/firestorm is ahead of the LL viewer, they get the brilliant idea to let US decide what kind of menu to use!

I am honestly baffled as to why on earth anyone would not want pie menus! I love them and hate the alternative. In the end it is just a personal preference I reckon.

The BERLIN TALENT AGENCY is pleased to announce an OPEN STAGE event at the Odeon Theatre in 1920s Berlin ************************************************************ Can you sing, dance, recite poetry, do magic tricks, tell a joke or two? Have you a talent you'd like to share, with the possibility of picking up a few L$ in tips? If so, let us know and we'll give you the chance to strut your stuff on the Odeon stage! If not, come along anyway and laugh, cry, scream or tear your hair out as your fellow Berliners make heroes or fools of themselves. And don't forget to show your appreciation! OPEN STAGE will take place at noon SLT on Saturday, 18th June. Don't miss it! The sim is a historically themed roleplaying location so please make sure you understand the rules before jumping on the train. Please also remember that the Odeon is a public theatre for all ages, if your act is more suitable for adults, contact us and we'll see if we can get you a place on one of the stages in the clubs. Of course your act also has to fit the 1920s theme.

Wants to remain modest and softly whispers "The 1920s Berlin Project is a bit pretty too..." See our flickr group for proof; http://www.flickr.com/groups/20sberlin

With a new viewer your settings may have been reset. Have you checked if your sculpt /mesh settings are at the right level? With the old viewer they should be set to about 4.0, not sure what the exact name of these settings is in the new viewer.

With my macbook I had to put the graphics settings on max and then later manually turn a few things down again. SL with the new official viewer now is very very slow, but I've got shadows to work. Something impossible for Macs with any earlier versions. Not something I can have activated all the time but defenitely cool for when I wan't to make some awesome snapshots.

Hurrah!! I can't wait, trying it right away. Actually downloaded the new official SL viewer just because it was the only way to get shadows to work on my macbook. It still made SL go super duper slow but ooooh soooooo pretty! So I only used the official viewer for making snapshots. I hope I can finetune the phoenix viewer that it allows shadows without totally using up every bit of memory my computer has. Either way, great to have the new phoenix already!

The main thing that makes anyone "hot" in my view is realism. That doesn't mean you have to look unshaven and like you haven't had enough sleep but please don't make your avatar look like handsome model ken doll #13821738901643645. People in SL are TOO good looking, it is boring. So get yourself a good realistic properly scaled body (everyone is tooooo tall), get a realistic normal skin, look for some kind of imperfection to make it look better and finally put on a 3 piece suit and a hat. Gentlemen don't go outside without a hat on. Oh and make sure you smoke, real men smoke!

I meant that you get a sculpt maker to make your own sculpts, especially when using basic textures, this can be much easier then it seems at first. I think I once used something called Sculpt oven or something like that, reasonably prized and easy to use. There are better sculpt makers but they can be quite expensive, worth it though.