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Nice for sure, but it still fails like other RL simulation games with the human face/skin. Already games manufacturers are working on Separable SubSurface Scattering (SSS/SSSS), which will really up the wow factor. Here's a short demo clip and it's best viewed in HD. Of course this feature will not only enhance the realism of skin, but many other textures too. I did have an even more awesome clip of a short story line of an android being born as a teaser clip for some game that was on Vimeo. I can't find that, but I posted the link to Celestial Nightfire at the time so maybe if she's reading this she can put it up if she has it. As has been pointed out though SL will always be a challenge graphically because of the user content. Sure SL could implement a lot of high end GFX features, but only a few people would have the skill to incorporate them in their creatiions and only a few would have rigs that could run/appreciate them once built. FOUND THE LINK I MENTIONED follow the HD link

Awe Thor wrote: To reduce risk to yourself and other innocents, you should always park your car at least a mile (1.5km) away from where you live and walk the rest of the way to your abode, even if you have lots of heavy shopping to carry. Awe . . . This is because 90% of car accidents occur within a mile (1.5km) of where someone lives. But, 90% of all accidents happen in the home so it's probably safest to stay at work where your employer will have insurance and health and safety regulations to protect you.

Because it has only been rolled out to LeTigre sims so far and I guess you may not be on one of those sims or visited one yet.

Awe Thor wrote: Awe . . . do I win something for my perspicacity - or is my prize the opprobrium of the ignorati? Probably a lolcat, the intellectual equivalent in forum debates of introducing a 5 minute banjo solo into Beethoven's I imagine a court scene one day and the defendant addresses the court thus, "Having had my evidence trashed by the prosecution I have today fired my legal team. I feel that I do not have the necessary mental faculties to adequately represent myself further in this case and with the court's permission I would like my case to henceforth be presented by an illiterate cat, as I feel that it can only do a better job than my efforts have so far. I shall immediately be changing my plea to one of guilty by 'reason of insanity' and I hope that the fact that I have employed a cat to represent my case will corroborate this plea in the court's mind and will be looked upon favourably."

Drongle McMahon wrote: So. Now I'm not allowed to see my own posts onless I agree to be subjected to garish flashing advertisements for loan sharks and gambling dens. And that from a company who I pay directly in excess of US$1500 a year. That is intolerable. I'm afraid I will not be contributing any more to these forums unless they correct this utter travesty of customer service. Noooooooooooooooo, we'd only have to come and find you and knock on your new material door if you did. Try this for a fix, there should be a solution for you in there somewhere, hopefully. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/SL-websites-and-adblocker/m-p/2071181#U2071181

Lol, I've been away enjoying myself in SL all night having a good time and meanwhile you've had the good sense to take a crash course in English and can all of a sudden write reasonably legibly and have learned some basics of grammar too! What an amazing transformation from the illiterate sockpuppet(s) who was posting earlier? I'm glad to see that you took my advice and upped your game in the second half. Now instead of hiding behind alts and pretending to be illiterate or an ESLr why couldn't you stand up with your main in the first place and argue your point? I mean you've obviously had a nasty experience elsewhere and you wanted to get it off your chest, but telling lies and misrepresenting facts isn't the way to do is it? As to stories, I feel your past is probably a lot more interesting and as you said, my story is all down on the forums and in the feeds and all under my name for anyone to read for the past 7 and a bit years that I've been here. Your mysterious persona though, who suddenly appears, with an axe to grind, with no actual facts to share and only deals in bitter insults I feel that person must have an interesting back story to share or as it appears, cover up. Anyway, time to put the little league of trolls away, I'm off to bed. No doubt I will be enjoying myself again in SL tomorrow and anywhere else in the metaverse that I choose to. :smileywink: P.S.. Oops I forgot I have to repeat myself to make myself clear. I enjoy all virtual worlds with all their benefits and all their drawbacks and I will make my praise and criticism known in equal measure.

Shansi Kenin wrote: Maybe I need to write in bigger letters for some people here or draw a picture as the written word seems to confuse them. That's confusing did you mean Hear it also is spelled heer in old greek means to listen to something: to listen to somebody or something but remember we are just dumb 2ndlife people to you so no biggie right?:smileyvery-happy: Oh dear, I like it when people embarrass themselves without any prompting and my words are proven so correct. Thank you proved my point better than I could possibly have hoped for. Please can we carry on, I'll supply the shovels as long as you promise to keep digging. :smileyhappy:

I'm happy in all grids, which is exactly what I wrote and also glad that anyone else might be happy where they are. Maybe I need to write in bigger letters for some people here or draw a picture as the written word seems to confuse them.

Wow, you're a real whacko job aren't you. You're really taking this, "Your world, your imagination" to heart. I bet you still got some gems left though rattling around in that ol' head of yours. Want to share them? The floor is yours and I'm ready to be entertained as I can see now that we've reached the half-time show. Lets have a quick reprise of your first-half performance shall we. Well it didn't start too well did it with an early ad hominen opening attack, which I hope that you can substantiate, that basically showed where you were coming from for the rest of your plays and kinda revealed your game strategy. You then tried to fake a fact past the defense and wham, you got clothes-lined by an inconvenient truth, tried the same move again and what do you know, you got whacked back again. So it's 4th down and 40 and you go to your play book for the miracle play. The crowd waited with anticipation for an unconsidered golden nugget of a verifiable fact, maybe a dazzling display of literacy and wit as yet unseen, at worse they thought they could hope for a copycat quote from a drafted in literary genius off the bench. Sadly though the half ended as it began. A lame fallback to the only offence the team was capable of pulling off, a lame picture pushed up front, an attempted scramble through with an unintelligent insult, a public fumble and an easy interception for a touchdown and you have to wonder if the kid is playing out of his league. Anyway carry on because I'm sure that what you want to see is that what has been for the most part a supportive thread of LL closed down and to make all those off-worlders happy; so either way you've thrown the game for the rest of the team buddy. Nice playing with ya. :smileywink:

Maelstrom Janus wrote: Lets reserve judgment on that shall we...right now none of the viewers Im using seems to be doing a good job... Well I share your sentiments. Somebody said, "Lucky you" to LeTigre residents earlier, which I thought should rather have been "Good luck LeTigre".

Well I'm glad you're at least still posting here and that you are also happy wherever it maybe that you've landed; care to share where? :smileywink:

I didn't say you were "off topic". I said that you were wrong, misrepresented the only two facts that you put forward, were woefully incomprehensive in your assessment and showed a lack of knowledge about the entire topic. I hope I've made that clearer for you now. Although all movements appreciate their zealous defenders I think it could only be embarassing for any supporter of LL/SL that your main feature is a personalised ad hominen attack on owner of another grid. Add to that your erroneous facts, lack of knowledge and it's hard to look at your post other than something of a pissy rant. Just so you know, I have accounts in SL, InWorldz, Kitely and Avination and have enjoyed all of them to varying degrees and still do. I wouldn't go into bat for one against another because none of them are perfect, but there's a bigger metaverse outside of SL's gates now, which is growing faster than SL. And telling lies about it and hurling personal insults will do nothing to stop that or influence any knowledgeable reader's opinion.

I believe that SSB will be rolled out tomorrow on Le Tigre so if you are resident, working or visiting there then you will need the latest LL or FS viewer.

Lol yes. Even the Lab is not that short-sighted.

Qarl Linden selling LL secrets? You mean the Mesh Deformer project that LL didn't implement when mesh was introduced? The project that was devised and funded by independent residents who asked the ex-LL employee Qarl to develop? The project, which when finished was offered to LL for free, but yet they have still not implemented it? And now you get all pissy because somewhere else has offered a home for it when LL drag their feet? Furthermore, LL didn't invent materials. It's a graphics feature that is used widely in all video games and LL have now decided to implement it when I would suggest that it was not on the top of many residents' priorities. And that final point exemplifies where the crucial difference is between LL, IW and many other grids. IW et al have smaller customer bases and have to respond more quickly and inline with their residents' demands if they are to retain them. From my knowledge the only grid that came near to LL's customer service was Avination and looked what happened to them, that is though my personal opinion and YMMV. Moreover, many other worlds are not tied to LL's developments and their infrastructure and have made a point of not going down routes LL have for the betterment of their own grids. The InWorldz physics engine, nVidia's Physx, is reputedly far better than LL's Havok engine. Kitely's price structure (pay as you use) is a novel change on how people use and pay for their land and their customer service and interaction is widely thought of as one of the best. The basic lowdown on all grids is that they use the same opensource code, which they are free to do with as they please within certain parameters and restrictions. If it's not broke then don't repair it, which is not necessarily the same as, "they are stealing out the Linden's cookie jar." Your "couple of days" research also omitted the facts that IW and most other grids don't charge for content upload and that the price of land elsewhere is considerably cheaper than it is LL. Only last month figures were released that showed that there is now more virtual land owned outside of SL than in it for the first time. One could imply from this that if there are more people joining the virtual worlds then they are preferring to own land elsewhere or if the virtual world population is still stable then people are choosing not to own land in SL, but elsewhere. Either way LL are losing marketshare and money and it is going to IW and other grids and probably for good reasons. If you want LL to improve and all other grids then this is a good time, LL's primacy has at last some kind of challenge and other world's are catching up fast with the experience that LL can provide. P.S.. If your best arguments against another virtual world is a picture of a dog on a sofa and the admittance that, "You have no hard facts" then maybe next time you should do a little more than a few days private research.

Leia36 wrote: We have been discussing this inworld and there is a fix in Firestorm. Preferences>Firestorm>Protection and click the radio button under the Revoke Permissions section, then when you sit or stand, all permissions are revoked. Many thanks t Damiel for the help :heart: Is this correct though, it kinda contradicts what Qie said in his post above. I thought permissions could never be revoked and that the FS feature was another version of "stop all animations". I would be happy to see that you're correct though.

Most ad programs profile the individual user so in all likelihood the ads that you saw on your screen were what the ad program knows from your browsing history that you are particulary interested in. This of course would not apply to the "people" of LL who may have other completely different browsing interests than your own particular interests that you've exhibited. [ETA] I said "most" ad programs, I should have said all.

Firestorm, anyone who says different is a LL fanboi or has a fetish that only a particular TPV can satisfy.

Well amazingly you are the first person in this whole thread and the other one currently going who has actually said you won't be able to carry on after SSB. So many quoted examples of people leaving and you are the first to speak up, bravo to you! Well I earnestly feel sorry for you not being able to upgrade your computer in the last 5 years or not being able to afford a 5 yr old computer. I am sure there are many valid reasons, which you do not have to explain here to people who are more fortunate than you. No doubt your SL friends will miss you in SL, but you still have FB, email and many other methods to communicate by if you and they are true friends. On the positive side it can only be a matter of time till you get a new system and are able to rejoin us all. Who knows, there are so many concerned people here that maybe one or more of them will give you some money to help you towards your goal of rejoining us, we can only wait and see. Seeing as you are the only one so far who has said that they will have to leave post SSB I think the odds may be in your favour, we shall see. :smileyhappy: If you feel you cannot accept any monies proffered please tell us which TPV you would like the money to go to so some independent developer is duly paid the effort of making this code backwards compatible to encompass the last 10 years at least. Hope to see you back soon and my best wishes.

Check with the inworld FS group. You are more likely to get a dev answer or find out that the issue has been noted/solved. I don't think a clean install was required for this new release, but you might want to try it anyway.

Drongle McMahon wrote: "It would be very nice if SL picked for example the normal map of another face if that's what you're working on. Now the eyedrop tool always picks the diffuse map." Oh yes please ... maybe shift-eyedropper to copy all three maps plus shiny spinners, offsets and repeats? That would be a big timesaver. Gets my vote! Now what about Ctrl Shift eyedropper, Ctrl Alt eyedropper and Ctrl Shift Alt eyedropper while we're at it for a complete feature set?

I shouldn't worry, there are enough Superheroes, White Knights and Caped Crusader s running around inworld and here on these forums who have just as much threat and power, which equates to zero!

Jenni Darkwatch wrote: Just a little heads up for Gimp folks: It's pretty easy to add normal maps for existing textures. The two most useful plugins there are these, IMO: Gimp Normalmap: http://code.google.com/p/gimp-normalmap/ InsaneBump: http://registry.gimp.org/node/28117 The latter also generates specular maps for you. The plugins are both not entirely intuitive to use but are actually quite capable for adding normalmaps and/or specular to existing textures. Just to add that for Photoshop users nVidia have a free normal map plugin for PS. https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

Ciaran Laval wrote: Flip has gone, which viewer were you using it or did you just flip it by removing the minus sign? I was merely being flippant with the English language. What I meant was that I would flip it (re-align it) using a positive value rather than the negative one. :smileywink:

TatianaDokuchic Varriale wrote: I believe that "the vertical offset refuses to stick" is a bug. It's happened to me and others have also commented on it. I was wondering, is your vertical offset a negative number? Well done smarty :smileyhappy: Works perfectly now, thanks for the quick reply.