Ceera Murakami

Can't say that I have ever seen one. I'll have to agree with another response here, that male bits painted on the skin would look very strange, and not at all be what I would want to see when I look at a guy down there. If I ever saw one like that, I think my first reaction would be to laugh, and say, "Wow! Your last girlfriend must really kick hard! She squashed it flat!"

Before megaprims were generally available, the only way to build a dome larger than 10M in diameter was to use a LOT of small prims, and build it like an igloo, with a series of tapered rings stacked atop each other. There are scripted rezzers that do this. You put one prim that you created into the rezzer's inventory, with a name that the script knows to use for that prim. It then rezzes copies of the prim, changes its dimensions and taper, and places the prims to make a ring, repeating the process until the last cap is made with triangular prims (100% taper). A much more efficient way today is to use a hollowed sphere, cut in half. You can make up to a 64 M diameter dome that way these days, and only use one prim to do it. If you need adome larger than 64 M in diameter, I believe Mesh would be the right solution now. Model the dome in an external application and import the mesh for it into SL. The land impact will most likely be far lower than hundreds of tapered rectangular prims stacked in rings.

The former teen grid sims are now part of the mainland, and as far as I know, all are still G-rated. When LL moved those sims to the main grid, there were certainly some land owners who didn't qualify for the move. Their Players were 13-15 years old, and their accounts were essentially suspended until each of them turns 16, and applies to come back into SL. I would imagine that a portion of those 13 to 15 year old land owners sold their land to 16 and 17 year olds, or abandoned their land, before they were locked out of SL. Any that didn't most likely forfeited their land, and Linden Lab would have reclaimed it, since a suspended account can't make payments or hold land. Check who you're paying rent to now. If you're paying it to another Resident, then that is who owns that land. If you're a premium member and pay tier directly to LL, then Linden Lab is your landlord. You can also view the "about Land" info for any parcel and determine who actually owns it. There is a possibility that the 13 to 15 year olds who owned land didn't 'lose' their land, but instead their access to it is suspended. In that case you wouldn't be able to find that land owner in Search, and they can't withdraw anything you may pay to a rental box left behind by them. If you find a parcel whose owner is unfindable in search, that may be one that LL hasn't reclaimed (yet) from an underage land owner.

Any transactions for the last 30 days will be listed here for you: https://secondlife.com/my/account/transactions.php?lang=en-US

I think that DAZ does still support and update Hexagon. Here's a link to their support page, which is in the process of being updated, and was last updated on 3/21/2012. http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/software/hexagon/start If you install Hexagon 2.5, it does show a 2008 copyright in the Help screen, but if you get the properties of the app it has a 2009 copyright there, and the last modified date for the app itself is August 2011. That said, so far I haven't found Hexagon to be a good tool for making Mesh, myself. I made some things that looked fine on screen in Hexagon, but none of them imported correctly to Second Life.

No one here can change your username, as we are all Residents, and not Linden Lab employees. And no one at LL will agree to change an existing account name, unless you somehow created a name that was obscene or very offensive. To get a new username, start over again with a new account. It is possible to make a "Display Name", but not everyone will see it or use it, and everyone will still have the ability to see the name you really created the account with. Regarding your first question, the permissions system in SL doesn't support very well the idea of 'try before you buy". Some merchants do offer demo versions of some things; such as skin demos that have the word "DEMO" stamped on the forehead, arms, body and legs; or hair demos that are no-modify and have a large "DEMO" flag on a prim above your head while you wear it. But most products don't work well with using tricks like that to make demo versions available. Sorry.

Naminestolenheart wrote: Well they did have a skin converter so you can conver their skins to sl format, so why can't the samething apply for meshes? That skin converter heavily down-samples the DAZ-based skin, resulting in a much lower resolution skin in SL, and is still legal to use only if the creator of the particular skin allows it, which most don't. If a similar downsampling program was available for the DAZ figures, the results would be severely downgraded, and not anywhere near what you would hope for, even if you had a figure to convert that was licensed in a way that would allow it.

Mesh doesn't know Avatar Physics exists. So if you wear a mesh dress or blouse and are female, turining on avatar physics will make you jiggle right out of your mesh clothes. Until they make Mesh work a whole lot better than it does now, they are not compatible.

Copy OK, Mod OK, no transfer is my preference, with some way to buy the item as a gift to someone else with those perms for them. I very rarely transfer items - usually only when I've decided I will no longer use an alt, and maybe I have a no-copy, transferrable thing that another of my alts could use. Over all, I couldn't care less about transfer permissions. I would rather buy an item as a gift, for direct delivery to someone else, if I want to give someone something. No mod is becoming a deal breaker for me. I can't count the number of furniture items that I have bought and then either discarded or ceased using because the scale was wrong for my avatars, and there was no way to make the couch smaller, or make other adjustments like turning off fullbright, or eliminating unused scripts. Hair and prim clothes have to be mod, or it's no sale, period. No resizer script that I have seen can make an item fit my avatar as well as I can do on my own if I could simply mod the blasted thing. Most of them can't possibly work for fitting hair to a furry avatar, with a prim head that has a different shape than a Human, and ears in a different position. Copy is critical if you are going to modify - so you don't mess up the only copy you have. It's also extremely valuable for making the same prim skirt or hair usable for various avatars within a single account. For example, my main account has child, teen and adult sized versions of Ceera as a Human, a vixen, a wolf, and many other species, by a variety of avatar makers. The range of adjustment necessary makes having unique copies adjusted for each form the only way to go.

If the sim is accessible to all on the main grid, you can probably sell it to anyone, since no one gets an education discount any more on sims. If the sim was one of those special restricted-access education sims for 13 to 18 year olds, you should contact LL, because they will have to go through special steps to make that a general-use sim (if it can be done at all).

Try the "Rocket City Furmeet" sim. They have one of the biggest furry-specific malls I know of in SL, with vendors from almost all the major and many minor avatar makers in their mall.

LL won't trade L$ for real money, but you can trade them on Lindex with other Residents for real money. https://secondlife.com/my/lindex/sell.php

At one point, 'Loli' or 'Lolita' forced a full Adult rating, even if you were only trying to sell a prim lolipop, so be glad it's only forcing you to Moderate now.

All the other exchanges cost more in fees and pay out at a lower rate than Lindex, the last time I looked. (The "ask" price on virwox right now is L$10 more to buy a US$ than the "market sell" price on Lindex. Lindex charges a flat fee of 1 US$. I can't find what virwox's fee is.) LL chooses to make it take 5 to 10 business days to take money out. They say 1 to 5, but reality is 5 to 10. Just plan on it taking 10 days to get money out of Lindex, and if they do better than that, accept it as a pleasant surprise.

Most photo studios that I have seen are extremely primmy, and couldn't be used on a 512 M2 parcel. Try rezzing it in a large sandbox that allows scripts. You'll likely find the final prim count much higher than you thought.

You don't. Once the last Owner leaves a group, reclaiming Owner privileges is not possible. Time to create a new group, I'm afraid, with a new name. Oh, and it is not at all impossible for the Owner to leave a group. It happens quite often, and screws up group rights every time an owner decides to leave, without first inviting a new person ot the Owner role and making sure they accepted the invitation.

There is a 100% transparent texture in the Library section of your inventory. You can apply that to the inside surface of the screen around your parcel. A privacy wall is worthless, however. Anyone can just cam past it to see what you're hiding. Putting a big box around your parcel sort oif screams to some people "I'm hiding something, come perv out on watching me!". They will see the wall or box and immediately move their camera past it and start watching you. And you can't stop that with a wall. There's a much better way, however. Viewer 3 supports a parcel property that makes the avatars on a parcel invisible to anyone outside the parcel, and vice versa. Just set that property active, and anyone standing on the parcel next to yours will not see or hear you on your parcel, and you won't see them. And your neighbors don't need to see ugly walls blocking their view! World > About Land > Options tab, and uncheck the box "Avatars on other parcels can see and chat with avatrs on this parcel"

Are any of the prims cut or dimpled? It could be that while the visible portion of all prims is within your land, the bounding box of some of them is not. There is an option to show bounding boxes. That would likely be helpful for you.

Well, if they no really longer have an account - for example if they are permenantly banned - they are no longer able to get the money paid for the items, either. What you pay just 'goes away', the same as when you pay LL an upload fee for uploading a texture or an animation. No one gets the L$ that were paid. Sometimes that can be a good situation. I recall there was a content creator who made a rather unique, high-quality product and sold it in SL. At the time, no one else made a similar item that was as good or better. That content creator left SL, for whatever reason. But for over a year it was still possible to go to a vendor that was still set up on someone else's land, and buy a new copy of their merchandise. Yes, you had no 'customer support', but at least the thing was still available. It could also be that the content creator you are referring to is temporarily suspended. Perhaps they had a billing problem with their Premium account. If and when they straighten out that problem, they could come back to SL, and then they could continue supporting their customers. They could also cash in whatever L$ had been paid to their account in their absence, once they regain access to their account.

In a way, I love it that such groups exist. Anyone who insists others "must" be in that sort of group to be "acceptable" to them is tagging themselves as someone I don't want to waste my time socializing with. Saves me so much time in bothering to get to know them. Sort of like if the losers in a bar would be kind enough to hang a big "Loser" sign around their neck, so I can avoid bothering to talk with them. Honestly, anyone that wants to RP with Ceera has to accept that Ceera, who is a three-tailed anthropomorphic vixen, is a fictional character from the word 'Go', and that she never has and never will offer to anyone a 'real life relationship'. All I want out of SL relationships is fictional fun between fictional characters. Anyone who sees their avatar as an extension of their real self, or who can't see their avatar as separate and distinct from themselves, or who gives a damn if the person typing the words for someone else's avatar is male, female, straight, gay or any other real life details, is on my "exclude" list for roleplaying in SL. If someone said to Ceera "I won't interact with you unless you prove you're a real girl by doing Voice and a webcam with me", or by 'proving' real life info in any other way, such as sharing still photos, My response is quite simple: "Okay. Then go away and find someone else. Beacuse you don't want me, and I don't want you. Thank you. Bye!"

No problems at all here, running Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit. SL runs absolutely normally, though I did reinstall it to go from the old 32-bit version I had been running under Win XP, to the better 64-bit code.

I would think that for a chair sculpt, at the very least you would need to texture it and add some sort of sit script brfore selling it as your own product. If in doubt, check with the maker of the sculpt, as only they can tell you exactly what they require. What you generally can not do in a case like that is sell the sculpt itself as a full-perms thing, textured or otherwise; or sell the sculpt map texture itself to others. If you do that, you undercut the seller of the original sculpt. So what you sell should either be set as no transfer or no copy for the next buyer, to protect the IP rights of the maker of the original sculpt, as well as to protect your own rights for the additional work that you presumably added in texturing and scripting the item. You shouldn't have to alter the sculpt map itself.

Yes. Use a sculpted prim or Mesh. With a single, normal prim you can do a two panel screen, but not three panels.

How long since you asked LL to cash out to PayPal? They take 5 to 10 business days to do the cash-out.

Just to add a warning here, if you're thinking of linking parts of your house that were not linked in the first place, such as linking doors that the maker of the house didn't have linked originally, or liinking the furniture that you've added, DO NOT DO IT! If the maker of your home didn't link the doors to the home, the door scripts probably will not work right if you link them. If you link a furniture item to the home, it will most likely break the scripted functions of all the linked parts, and there's no easy way to unlink it again and keep the table, bed, couch or whatever as a movable item and keep the scripted functions working. SL does not support heirarchical linking. Seriously, just pick each item up individually and put them into inventory, and put them back down again at the new location. You'll be much happier with the results. If the house is, for example, in three main pieces plus six doors, you can shift-click to select all the pieces at once, and take that into inventory as a single coallesced object. It will show in inventory with the name of the past piece that you added to the selection. Have the build tools selected when you re-rez it, and all the pieces can then be moved into their final position as a unit, without needing to weld them to each other by linking.