Nefertiti Nefarious

The answer is YES and NO and MAYBE YES you can create a locally hosted sim by using either of the software packages mentioned. It is NOT easy, but it's a great learning experience. NO you can't hook it into Second Life's servers and TP to it directly from SL. Nothing will transfer betwen it and SL. MAYBE you can let your friends log onto your home-based sim

Marishka Ixito wrote: To me, a nominal listing charge of say 10L per item listed per week would seem prudent to get the junk unlisted, and ultimately benefit business for both LL and merchants alike (because unlisted junk won't appear in search anymore, confusing potential customers). To be sure, anyone's definition of junk is as good as mine, but for the purpose of this post it's intended as "stuff that doesn't sell". And yes, as a side-effect this might complicate things for listing freebies, but would it be such a bad thing if people needed to look for freebies in-world? The free marketplace listings are a vital part of the LL economy: I have almost 300 items, all of them inexpensive, and that mere 10L/week would wipe out my profits. Marketplace sales are 95%+ of my income. So I would have to increase prices to survive, which would reduce sales and increase the commission ... and wipe out my profit anyway. I would have to give up the parcel I rent, putting my landlord out of business, depriving LL of the tier the landlord pays, and I would give up the Premium listing, depriving LL of that income stream, and I would stop buying things from other merchants, lowering their incomes and it would all spiral down to nothing. We discussed many ways to minimize the "junk" last year - one of them being to suspend the listing of anything that had not sold at least one copy in the past 13 months (13 because of seasonal prodicts) ... that would clear out the database without driving merchants out of business. Tavo Vella wrote: In addition I just had a look at my sales over the last 6 months and although they are OK overall, maybe a third of (older) products would have not broken even if there was a L$10/week fee. Maybe I should remove them, but they are still sometimes selling and getting good ratings, so if some buyers like them, why should I?. What you are describing is the "LONG TAIL" of marketing and it's a good thing. As long as the carrying cost of the less popular inventory is kept low, it's profitable to sell low-volume products. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail Maybe there should be some sort of 'opt in' for products where sellers have to actively keep listings going (maybe as simple as ticking a box every 3 months), so products from absent sellers and those where the seller has not bothered to remove old stock will go. This was suggested when LL proposed their 10L/month listing fee - just logging on to the marketplace, not ticking a box for every product, along with inactivating any product that hasn't sold in 13 months.

Ctrl - Alt F1 removes the UI which includes all the popup labels Unless you are using Linux, in which case CTRL ALT F1 dumps you into a different session and you can't get back.

They do not have to be square. Here are all the allowable sizes: 1024x1024 4 MB 3 MB 1024x512 2 MB 1.5 MB 1024x256 1 MB 768 KB 1024x128 512 KB 384 KB 1024x64 256 KB 192 KB 1024x32 128 KB 96 KB 1024x16 64 KB 48 KB 1024x8 32 KB 24 KB 512x1024 2 MB 1.5 MB 512x512 1 MB 768 KB 512x256 512 KB 384 KB 512x128 256 KB 192 KB 512x64 128 KB 96 KB 512x32 64 KB 48 KB 512x16 32 KB 24 KB 512x8 16 KB 12 KB 256x1024 1 MB 768 KB 256x512 512 KB 384 KB 256x256 256 KB 192 KB 256x128 128 KB 96 KB 256x64 64 KB 48 KB 256x32 32 KB 24 KB 256x16 16 KB 12 KB 256x8 8 KB 6 KB 128x1024 512 KB 384 KB 128x512 256 KB 192 KB 128x256 128 KB 96 KB 128x128 64 KB 48 KB 128x64 32 KB 24 KB 128x32 16 KB 12 KB 128x16 8 KB 6 KB 128x8 4 KB 3 KB 64x1024 256 KB 192 KB 64x512 128 KB 96 KB 64x256 64 KB 48 KB 64x128 32 KB 24 KB 64x64 16 KB 12 KB 64x32 8 KB 6 KB 64x16 4 KB 3 KB 64x8 2 KB 1.5 KB 32x1024 128 KB 96 KB 32x512 64 KB 48 KB 32x256 32 KB 24 KB 32x128 16 KB 12 KB 32x64 8 KB 6 KB 32x32 4 KB 3 KB 32x16 2 KB 1.5 KB 32x8 1 KB 768 Bytes 16x1024 64 KB 48 KB 16x512 32 KB 24 KB 16x256 16 KB 12 KB 16x128 8 KB 6 KB 16x64 4 KB 3 KB 16x32 2 KB 1.5 KB 16x16 1 KB 768 Bytes 16x8 512 Bytes 384 Bytes 8x1024 32 KB 24 KB 8x512 16 KB 12 KB 8x256 8 KB 6 KB 8x128 4 KB 3 KB 8x64 2 KB 1.5 KB 8x32 1 KB 768 Bytes 8x16 512 Bytes 384 Bytes 8x8 256 Bytes 192 Bytes

So for example, I would like to make pillows to match my sofa, so I want to export the texture from the sofa, save it as a texture in my inventory, and then apply it to pillow forms. One way I do this is to make a copy of the sofa and re-shape it to be pillow-shaped. Unlink all the prims, delete all but one, and re-shape it. No ned to mess with the textures, except adjust repeats and angles.

Designers who want to give away things usually have the freebie vendor in theiir shop to attract customers.

Start with Eloh Eliot's Photoshop skin files and see how skins are constructed. Learn to manage layers in a graphics progeam. http://sites.google.com/site/another/resources Then learn how to make realistic-looking fur textures ... various Photoshop or GIMP brushes and plugins can do it. Then take your fur textures and apply them to the skin templates, making the fur go the way it should. It's really HARD!

They are wearing the shirt, and photoshopping the avatar out of the picture. It's easy. Then they past the t-shirt onto the background layer of the ad.

I was briefly re-selling items from a prominent SL creator who had a generous commission split and well-made items that fit well in my shop theme. They were high-priced items. After a couple of months, I realized I had made more lindens selling one of my own products - a decorative chicken. So I deleted the vendors and made more chickens

Valois wrote: So, is there any reason to upkeep an in-world shop? I will say ‘yes’ because having an in-world shop is a kind of reliability and responsibility of merchant. I have a shop area because I like decorating and landscaping the parcel, and participating in hunts. However, 95% or more of my sales come through the marketplace - I could close the shop parcel and not miss it at all. I would make more money because of less rent.

I'd love to make nice houses people want to live in. Unfortunately every class or tutorial I see is teaching me how to build a 2 prim table or an egg.That's the basic "hammer and nails" of building. Also, take a bunch of free mod/copy buildings and scripts and clothing and take them apart to see how they are built, modify them, and put them back together differently. That's how I leanr: destructively. At the same time, I'm worried that I'll spend a buttload of money on a class for something, have no talent for it - and be hitting up that credit card or stripper pole again, getting frustrated in a place with so much potential - and leaving again. There are TONS of free classes in scripting, basic clothing making, texturing, animation etc. given by NCI, Builder's Brewery and other places. And Danish Visions has great clothing construction class series.

In short ... you can use whatever you want in your ads. When was the last time you got permission from Sears to take a photo of your house that included their appliances? Or from Old Navy because you wanted to wear their sweater in a portrait? But make sure you let the buyer know that furniture is not included.

The plants or other objects you see that look like flexi sculpted prims are made using both. If you look at them closely you see that one part never moves.

Sounds like fun! I love to break software, and I write good bug reports. To Darrius, Toysoldier and any others who are bitching about the NDA. It's extremely common when recruiting Beta testers to insist on an NDA so that rumors and griping about features don't run amok and become embedded in the folklore of the user community. I have signed NDAs with Google, Yahoo!, WoW, and several other companies I beta-tested for. Toysoldier ... yes, it REALLY IS about hiding the ugly and fixing it up before the general SL public sees it. With the way hysteria regularly sweeps the forums, it's a good precaution.

The neighbor is right, your 100m holo-whatever is encroaching on the neighbor's sir space and needs to be removed. A 512m plot is typically 16x32 ... that's the largest horizontal area any prim you place can occupy without running afoul of the neighbors parcels AND the SL rules. LL will either tell you to remove the sphere OR they will remove it for you.

John Lee Hooker ... maybe a filter on "hooker"?

Furnation Vista Sandbox. Good griefer control, and it's BIG!

I was looking for a 512 parcel, and was frustrated in my attempts to visit some otherwise attractive ones: Turn OFF ban lines and parcel access lists. Set the land options to FLY (it's nice to get a bird's eye view). Turn off the forced landing zone and ALLOW landmark setting so your potential buyers can get back easily. Remove parcel-filling buildings, sculpted hills and anything else that will not transfer to the new buyer. Several times I visited sites where I was squashed against a building and could not touch ground.

Use the test grid for now. It's "Aditi" on the list of SL networks to log into. Or use Phoenix.

WTF? I'm trying to go on a shopping spree, and I can only put TEN ITEMS in my cart?

"If you want those cars toodling around on all the mainland roads, you certainly would also want to pay for a portion of the tier payments for all those who are affected by these driverless vehicles. " The Linden road through my sim is not part of the billable tier for anyone. It's listed as Linden-owned. I like the tank. If you time it just right, click on it as it crosses the border and it falls apart as it tries to shoot you.

1 - does it record full-screen or the active window?

Start with a written agreement of how you will close out the store if the friendship goes bad, or one of you gets hit by a bus. Who will own what, and how will the income be split, who will pay the expenses, whose name will hold the parcel ... that boring non-creative stuff sinks more shops than sheer lack of talent. Start small in the marketplace, with a Magic Box and a rented spot to put it on. When you are making enough from the Magic box to afford a parcel, take your time and find a nice one. Study your competition. Don't copy them, but make sure you are as good as they are, or offer something with a better price/value point. Figure out what you are really good at and concentrate your efforts there, instead of on what is the current fad.

"The bottom line is, the belt is very much an oval shape, and I need more of a circle shape." If it's an OVAL, you just need to push two sides towards the center of the oval to make it rounder. Or pull the too-narrow part out. I can't tell you which color cubes it will be, because that depends on how the belt was made, but select "edit linked prims", and hold down the CTRL and SHIFT keys (or select "Stretch" on the build menu). You should see a pale gray cube surrounding the belt part, with white cubes in the corners and red, green, or blue cubes in the center of the sides. The white cubes affect over-all size. The colored cubes will push or pull their side of the object. Adjust the belt's oval to be more circular, then move the attachments. CTRL-Z will undo your latest edit.

I'm assuming that it's a belt with multiple attachments. I resize the belt, then move the attachments. 1 - Get on your posing stand and resize the belt so the buckle is correctly placed and all of the parts are outside your body. You want the belt to be too big for now. 2 - In the Edit object window, make sure "Edit Linked parts" is selected AND make sure "Stretch both sides" is NOT selected. 3 - Select the main belt part - the circle. Then press CTRL Shift to activate the size editing. Resize the circle by moving the cubes on the sides of the bounding box (colored red, green or blue) towards your body until the circle fits pretty well 4 - One attachment at a time, select all the parts for that attachment (belt loop, chain loop, knife and sheath, whatever). Move that attachment into position on the belt, and adjust the angle so it's not buried in your body.