Kascha Matova

Orzo Silverweb wrote: Thanks for the replies! Dana: "The solution is most definitely to clear the texture cache." And the way I do that is...???? :matte-motes-smile: I am almost a complete noob when it comes to SL. Also, keep in mind that I'm on a Mac, not a PC. I searched the hard drive for files with "Second Life" and "secondlife" in their names -- including system files and invisible files -- but I didn't find anything that looked cache-ish. Thanks again! Well, you can go...oh. No PC. Okay well I don't know where SL stores its stuff on a Mac, but the preferences in SL should give you some location, right? I know there's a \texturecache folder under the main folder with the viewer's name in the logged in profile's \app data\local directory. Each user would have their own that was unique to them, so it would be in their profile subfolder instead of the main SL folder. I just Control-A and blow away the entire folder full of stuff including the \texturecache folder and all its subfolders.

Chelsea Malibu wrote: Realize that the last time someone had a Tron region they got shut down over copyright issues. Tron is a registered tradmark of Disney. Not saying it will happen but I sure wouldn't use a Linden Labs forum to promote it. Yes Disney is also pretty pitbullish where their trademarks are concerned, so where other companies may let it slide, I wouldn't expect Disney to, especially after the conniption fits they were seen to have recently at the mere sight of anything that even loosely resembled the sillouhette of Mickey Mouse. I would think though that if it was billed generically, as in without any mention whatsoever of the Tron brand, and the adherence to the conceptual art and design were loosened, one could get away with claiming it was "inspired by" Tron rather than a "copy of" Tron. I am not a lawyer however, so don't quote me. I just know that in many other cases it was decided that there were limits to how invasive you could get on the copyright of a generic idea, and in the absence of anything that makes something truly one of a kind, copyright has less ground to stand on. At any rate, the design is very pretty and I admire the efforts gone to while trying for authenticity. Very nice job from the photos! :matte-motes-wink:

Hey Dana! Would that also account for why the instanced copy of my yacht, which I have perma-rezzed in the inlet dock I created next to my house, sometimes is wearing the text from some miscellaneous notecard as a paint job?! It's the weirdest thing. I can understand that maybe the first time it happened it was because of something like having a notecard open while the textures rezzed. But it has happened numerous times since, despite having cleared cache many times, used different official SL viewers as well as Firestorm Beta, numerous machine restarts, video driver updates, etc. And even funnier is I haven't opened a notecard at home but maybe three times since within the first 10-15 minutes after rezzing at home. minutes later... "Oh! Don't sneak up on me like that, haha. You scared me! Hey, aren't you Rod Serling? Is this still SL??"

Venus Petrov wrote: You can try Punchie Gumbo inworld. He owns Platinum Tattoos and he has done custom work. As his IMs may be capped, craft a simple notecard with your request. You may also need to provide him with a photo of your avatar face with the approximate location of the tatt marked on the photo. Good luck! Venus, what's the name of that store you sent me to when I was looking for eyelash tattoos with makeup? They actually have a mole tattoo set there with something like 6 or 8 different facial locations all in the same set. I think one is on the chin area. The name of the place escapes me! Arrrgh!!:matte-motes-confused:

Ish you must tell me the secrets of your blissful ignorance one of these days. Simply must. I've had many opportunities to see and talk to Ron Jeremy having done so much work myself (not as an actress mind you) in the adult industry, where he knew or worked with a few of the production companies I contracted and worked for. And it is for this reason, that I beseech you. How have you denied his belly to yourself so successfully? It is as unavoidable as death and taxes! BLECCH!!!!

Ishtara Rothschild wrote: koto Nizna wrote: if you can see naked( full frontal) actors in any national television program in your country today then its ok to be naked all the time in any sim in secondlife. ... I think that's for the sim owner to decide. My sim is divided into two areas: A store, where I expect people to leave their clothes on (even RL sex shops have a no-nudity policy), and a nude beach, where visitors may dress or undress however they like. It doesn't matter if a sim is rated adult, there might still be a dress code. I'm going to go with if you see the wrong actors naked in full frontal in any national television program in your country tonight at midnight then starting tomorrow, long before the sun comes up "it" will have decided to never be okay again in life!

Emma Geraln wrote: Seriously I just found out that I'm really made of some kind of squishy stuff and not pixels! I don't know what to do... Please help! Okay this thread is odd, but...I guess it's not as odd as the guy who IM'd me out of the blue one day saying he was in love with me and wanted me to facilitate his fantasy of being as small as an action figure and riding around SL tucked into my buttcrack and peeking out over my panties. :matte-motes-impatient:

Keli Kyrie wrote: This question has come up before: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Technical/Alienware-M17X-Graphics-Card-1-5GB-GDDR5-Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-460M/qaq-p/805907/comment-id/5349 This is what the poster writes: Refer back if still in trouble. It's function key + F7 to switch graphics modes between integrated and discrete but hers doesn't work right and there is nothing onscreen to tell you which mode you're in. Anyway, try it. What she does is pull the battery out and the M17X will boot in discrete graphics mode and stay there even if battery replaced. The integrated mode is really only for when using the laptop on battery power or light use. On battery power in discrete mode, you're likely only to get 30 minutes of use. You can also switch in the bios and indeed set it always to boot in discrete mode but that may not suit you. If in Stealth mode, the M17X will switch off discrete graphics. Discrete, integrated, discrete, integrated - you never know which one will come up next! Some call it...spontaneity :matte-motes-big-grin-squint:

Cio Koba wrote: Staring at the apocalypse of our planet can also be very relaxing. I love this photo. It's ominous and really gritty in a way I can't really articulate. But trust me I feel it!

My avie looks a lot like me, though with one added ethnic variation. I pretty much came here intending it to be that way, or if not actually "intending", simply finding that everything sort of flowed that way naturally and with much more ease. I did create an alt for purposes of a group, but I must have only logged her on twice since '07 and I don't think I ever even expanded her look beyond the default. As time has gone on, my main avie has only become more synonymous with SL participation. I find myself unable to imagine being in-world as someone else. In fact, I find myself quickly uncomfortable with changing skins for example to one of my faarie skins, for any length of time. It just doesn't feel like me anymore. I don't know how much of that has to do with basic familiarity versus not being able to endure putting away a skin and shape I spent a considerable amount of money commissioning from scratch, but whichever it is, I am quite content with exploring the world of fashion and hairstyles to reinvent or evolve.

Tolya Ugajin wrote: Yes, create a new account and start over. Or, mute her and I think you can also derender her if you run into her. Ain't it great that SL has all the same BS problems as RL? How bout the same SL solutions for RL? How close are we to a combination DeRender/E-Z button? Maybe a remote I can hang on my keychain? C'mon don't give me no bad news! :matte-motes-big-grin-squint:

CarloLaCroix wrote: Is the threat i received a fake? Some executables get mistakenly flagged as trojans and whatnot by virus detectors. Also if you have a firewall built into it, attempts to communicate to and from your computer on what are considered non standard TCP ports, as well as transmissions via UDP, are frowned on by default settings on most firewalls, since default is to block everything except known ports like 80, 53, 443, 110, and 25. What you can do to counter that is to either put your firewall program in learning mode, start SL or its install program, and then okay it when it is detected and flagged. Otherwise you can go directly into your port mapping or policy settings and manually add secondlife.exe and SLVoice.exe to the list of acceptable programs, over applicable ports. This should help hopefully! :womanhappy:

Indeed Val! What Venus said. Welcome back. You've been missed, but I trust your vacation was wonderous, refreshing and full of sweet sights, sounds, and feelings. :womanhappy:

I'm going with what Ceera said, twice, and for all the reasons she said it. It was always no to voice and pretty much always will be for me. The people who need to hear me talk or to talk to me from SL have my phone number. At one point in '09 I considered trying voice since some of my friends used it, but the bully tactics of many guys I met who thought they could guilt me into using it only reinforced for me that it was a lousy addition and it sort of died for good right there. I'd also like to add that whomever mentioned that people here who saw no use or need for voice could not be gamers was not being entirely accurate. My brothers are all avid gamers. Two of them older than me and I played several of the games with them. All of the first person shooters like Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament, et al that put multiplayer online gaming on the map and were directly responsible for the very existence of COD and others multiplayer gaming had text based group chat ability and some preceded any realistic ability by VOIP to support voice-enabled team play. It would be ridiculous to claim that people who played the games I mentioned so fanatically that those games were named public enemy number 1 of networks and corporate production everywhere were not "gamers".

Storm Clarence wrote: Imo, and no disrespect intended, WildCat would 'kill' him. :matte-motes-bored: Well she does seem like a pretty tough kitty. No telling what happens if he arrives doubled up with catnip however :matte-motes-whistle:

Jaylin Wytchwood wrote: Mayalily wrote: I may try this Phoenix viewer also. It's going to be a whole new set of tools for me to learn tho, not to mention I've bought things that say for v2. No Problems then, Phoenix has all technical abilities of V2, primarily meant is the use of the Tattoo layer, or the use af alpha masks, that makes an item "for V2". If you are used to V2, you might like to try the Firestorm viewer, as it mixes the look of V2 and V1, allowing you to customize its look. Wait. Again I'm confused. Are you saying that the regular Phoenix viewer supports multiple tattoo and alpha layers as well as multiple attachments? I've used it and unless I'm going crazy it has never worked. Their only product I've seen that work on is Firestorm, which it's anybody's guess when that will ever come out of beta. I thought Phoenix was primarily V1 code with single tattoo and alpha layer functionality added in?

Venus Petrov wrote: Welcome to the forum, Fayt! That's an awesome avatar! Great look you have created. Thank you for posting! He does have a great look. He should hook up with Wildcat and do a photo session with her and her super cool vehicles and fighter planes. :womanhappy:

Mayalily wrote: I got it, I think. It looks like Luc... omg... those eyes Luc. Those eyes are striking to say the least. Mmhmm, it is Luc. I knew you'd get it, and yes they are, Rawr!

Randall Ahren wrote: Kascha Matova wrote: Any questions? :matte-motes-big-grin-squint: :matte-motes-delicious: :matte-motes-evil-invert: I don't get it. This thread is about what looks hot on a woman. Are you saying a man looks hot on a woman? Or are you saying that deep inside every man is a secret desire for another man? Perhaps you intended to post this in the other thread about what looks hot on a man, which is black eyeliner, an earring and a vest open to show some cleavage as in the image in your post. Sorry. It's more of a continuation of something that started in another thread. The guy whose picture it is will probably be laughing hysterically at me in a PM soon after he sees it and the others who were in on that thread will get a giggle out of it too. Just ignore it - a little goofing is all it was. Edit : To answer your question, that particular man would look great on a woman. Ohh la la!

Any questions? :matte-motes-big-grin-squint: :matte-motes-delicious: :matte-motes-evil-invert:

Bree Giffen wrote: Something always strikes me as unnatural when I look at avatars. I'm sure it's a combination of things. While we get constant reminders on height we rarely mention width. I think our avatar torsos are simply a little narrow and it does cause problems when adjusting other body parts. Thighs for instance. They seem way too skinny on men and women. Breasts and buttocks also suffer as the adjustment skiders make them grow front to back, up and down, but not side to side. What do you think? Are all avatars this way? Or are they ok? I do know what you're talking about Bree (that's my daughter's name btw except we spelled it Brie, so yay!) I've noticed for a long time for example that while my butt looks correct from like a 3/4 angle from the front and also from the side, if I turn the camera so it's looking from the back and slightly below, especially when I'm wearing tight jeans, it looks...I don't want to say like a boy's butt but it seems to lose some of what my eyes tell me should be the natural curve that fills it out. It just doesn't look right, or the same at all. I don't know whether that's lighting or some limitation of 3D modeling (doubt that part because I've seen it done properly elsewhere). Also, I've noticed the legs thing - specifically that from certain angles only, my legs look like pickup sticks while from others they look toned but very definitely feminine. It's almost like there are viewing angles that make the avie look either 2D or skewed, like if you increased height in Photoshop with maintain aspect ratio turned off. Is that what you mean? Because otherwise I'm babbling! :smileysad:

Venus Petrov wrote: Nice photos Kascha! Might the first shot also be the camera angle that 'enhances' things? /me grins You're probably right. Hey, would you like to get in on the ground floor of my new business where I peddle cameras at bars that only take pictures from this angle? Kiss your 9-5 goodbye! :matte-motes-big-grin-squint:

This just in : Sometimes, in this world...dresses with built in pushup bras though wonderfully strapless, still make bewbs look...hmmm. Alright, well. I love this dress anyways. So this is my latest mandatory weekly excursion to Candy Nail. Complete with gritty "Financial Restraint Is For The Weak" thousand yard stare. En - Joi! :matte-motes-big-grin-evil: See?! Bewbs not hugemungeous! I told you - Balloons scare me more than the clowns that wield them!

I think the designer of my own skin either left SL during the two years I wasn't on much or changed her name. But I can say that the girl behind Alady, who did my custom shape, is extremely competent and very flexible - delivering more than is actually asked for and will create from scratch or modify any of her already existing shapes to make them personalized for you. My look, while not exactly Lord of the Rings Elf, is pretty delicate in its own right with a wide mix of ancestry and in keeping with my own real complexion, is I guess, something approaching porcelain, although I also got darker versions and one that is mod for skin tone, plus included body oil. On the oft chance she can still be contacted under her original name, it's Christy Maroon. If I can find the info about her new name, I'll put it here as well later. Other than that, I would listen to Marianne. She is a perfect example of avie design done right and she won't steer you wrong. :womanwink:

Wow. I've gone through so many changes since I was born in early 2007 I can't even really catalogue them all. I was always starting from the same base though, which was a good likeness of me, and simply refined myself. Added an Asian influence to go with the German and Ukraine in me, but still managed to maintain my real sense of style. This below is a pretty good little picture show. I guess then it took me 4 years to become the me of today :matte-motes-bashful-cute-2: '07 : This look is quite - BAD. No matter, as long as I can get the most suggestive shiny jewerly money can buy, and it looks great and helps me at work with my neverending quest to be the best pole dancing dirty tramp I can be! '08 : I discover the art of looking like a professional woman and keeping it simple and elegant. Since now I have busines meetings to go to for discussing home/office landscaping and decorating gigs. '09 : I experience several blonde moments while trying to look the part of someone who could afford an estate as huge and well decorated as the one I live in. Call it my Lara Croft moment. I settle on both a permanent shape and skin designer. '10: I make the jump to a fully custom skin and shape, and finally break my addiction to the three Analog Dog hairdos I thought I couldn't live without! I finally feel like this is the real SL me. '11: I enter the 2.0 era, and everything I wish I could do with my appearance at the same time suddenly becomes possible. YAY!!!