Bitsy Buccaneer

/me rezzes a healthy lunch for the foot model. her legs are as spindly as a baby deer's.

You are not a resident until you've worn your furniture folder. This is the rule.

The situation you're in is much like receiving a parcel in the post in real life. You open the box(es) first, then use your purchase. The only difference is that it's easier to wear the parcel box in SL than it is in RL

I can't this month I can't for a wee while yet because of other (short-term) commitments but I think I'd like to give it a try. Would you send me a friend request inworld please?

Why do you think I do that? I sell to two groups and pretty much two groups only - art collectors and role players. Art collectors appreciate lower LI, but it's not a deal-breaker. RPers furnishing their rented home on the RP sim tend to be VERY LI conscious. If I can get something in for 1 LI, it will do better. Any numbers I'm working towards aren't pulled out of the air. They're what I need to get a piece down to 1 LI. Which is why having to ADD in triangles to carry textures is frustrating, at least for some of us and dependent on what we're making. It's literally modeling what can't be seen. You didn't like it when animats or I expressed this, said it was trivial. Yet here you are, expressing other cases for the very same idea. Depending on the scale of the piece, those extra have-to-be-hidden tris matter. I have yet to make anything that big in mesh. Scale matters and affects LoDs differently. Perhaps that's why I have a different experience of working with LoDs than you do. Already do that. I was dead chuffed the day I figured out that trick I'm not inexperienced or stupid, you know. When I write that I find it tricky to make good LoDs which don't break down visually, I'm writing based on a hell of a lot of research, reading and experimenting. It does sound like I'm working with some different concerns and parameters than you. Could you please possibly listen to them or am I just wasting my time in talking with you? I know you're always going to be patronising, but could you give the rest of us SOME credit please?

Don't know whether it's trivial for you because you're so superior at all of this or if it has to do with what you make, but it's a real problem for me. And when I'm trying to get below 20 tris, every single one counts. It's really frustrating to have to waste any tri on something not even seen. I don't see animats as moving goalposts but rather pointing out a significant problem for at least some of us.

Because it's easy to overlook, have you checked that the object colour is set to white inworld? If there's more than one face, the uploaded object comes in tinted light grey. Catches me out often enough I thought it worth mentioning.

That's very different from what you wrote above. Not mutually exclusive, but much was left out of your first post apparently.

So you're not really interested in making friends, just in exploiting their social inclinations to get more money?

This one can be finicky to get the water working, but it's free and full perm so you can share it with visiting friends. It seems to be very sensitive to any changes in the water prim, so best to get that in place first. It got very upset with me when I brought it over from my build area and resized and rotated it. Got there in the end with a fresh water prim though. Works a treat in Linden water if you want to just try out the animations. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Thors-Oak-Swim-Animations-Test-Version-with-HUD/3308143

About as well as I manage my inventory

"Fancy" is even older, or to put it more accurately, our earliest surviving attestation is older . https://www.etymonline.com/word/fancy#etymonline_v_1114 In the UK, "fancy dress" and "fancying" someone are very much still in use today.

It's more antiquated than bastardisation though, as we know it was in use by 1715. I wonder if anyone's looked into why this sense has had greater longevity for swimwear than other dress. This older usage would be appropriate for ceremonial regalia and without any sense of derogation. If this older meaning has survived better in other languages, it could easily lead to misunderstandings like the one earlier. Language can be tricky like that. https://www.etymonline.com/word/costume#etymonline_v_19135

No no no, that's fancy dress. Costumes are for swimming. Sheesh.

Shrugs. People give away plenty of their time in the forum. If some of that went into a more organised format, it would benefit everyone, aside from people liking to write in forums. An organised format would be a job, answering the same questions over again in the forum is entertainment. Can't compete with that.

A friend and I went premium last summer to buy land for our shops. The things which made it make sense: the increase to 1024 for premium, the increase in LI, and how little it costs for annual given the stipend. I like the getting into events boost more than I would have thought. I'm usually happy to wait, but it's been useful for popping in and out quickly on short term things where waiting till it quiets down isn't an option. Having extra groups is really nice, plus 3 months access to transactions and the higher IM cap. Each of those things has made my SL a wee bit easier. Basically though, it all came down to what I was getting land- and impact-wise for the annual fee. Everything else is gravy.

/me offers ItHadTo a teleport to anywhere in Europe with lots of tourists from the U.S. Hang out there for a wee while and you won't have to ask, they'll tell you all by themselves As if it wasn't clear from the accent already

There's no organisation to it though. Sometimes search will find answers to the questions at hand (if you figure out a good search string to use and the info happens to be there under those words), sometimes it will be hours reading through threads which end up being more confusing than enlightening. And the wonderful explanatory graphics Drongle and Aquila made were removed when LL redid the forums, so even if you do find great info it's often very broken. The request here, as I understand it, is for some sort of organisation and overview of what's needed. I can see the value in that even if the current population of big guns can't.

The right question to ask is why mesh clothing is rarely rigged for all bodies. Why do only three of the mesh body brands available for women-women have wide support? Why are fewer and fewer creators making things for system avs? If you're interested in those answers, search the forums. It's been discussed plenty elsewhere. Basically it involves the low returns for time spent and the time it takes to do the work to support all of the different bodies, including system. The result of this trend is the reduction of diversity of every sort in SL. It is just harder to find non-mainstream clothing. And the mainstream in SL has become very hypersexualised for women's clothing. Our choices are basically suburban soccer mom or show us your boobs. If you want anything else, choices are far more limited, even for women-women. Does V-Tech not sell moddable mesh clothing for its body? I don't know if any of the big full perm mesh clothing creators would consider supporting V-Tech. Asking them would probably make more sense than dropping a noble statement in the forums. Good luck.

I don't know if this is happening much in SL (maybe the learning curve is good for something after all ), but some romance scammers working dating sites, Skype, etc claim to be in the military. The story on this grift is that they're stationed abroad, usually widowed ('cause sympathy) and have a kid staying with grandma back home. Money's needed for emergency with the kid, hero in the military has it of course but can't get it to grandma in time, so the victim is convinced to send it. Of course there are going to be plenty of other reasons why someone might be claiming military experience, but I just wanted to throw this out to increase awareness in case the scammers have found their way into SL.

Plus the creator bit in the edit window hotlinks directly to the creator's profile. Much easier than mucking about with search and trying to remember how the creator's name is spelled and hoping you got the right one.

Not silly at all. It's the most efficient way of directing customer questions and requests for help to the person who can actually provide the help.

A SL friend uses a television as his monitor. Maybe yours can be hooked up to your computer too?

I think you might be making the task Cleopatrina's asking for more complicated and harder than it needs to be. It could start with a list of the factors the author(s) considers most relevant when creating mesh for SL. Having that in one place would help those who are beginning. It could also be a collaborative project with different people contributing where they best can. It doesn't have to be Drongle-level investigation of how the servers handle mesh. A well-organised selection of suggestions for better practice would help a lot.

It's true. Given the number of merchants trying to sell to Maitreya-body users, they swamp a search on the brand name. I've run into the problem every time I've set off to try a demo of the body and have to try again until I find a useful second word to add.