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Bitsy Buccaneer

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  1. Sorry, Blush. If you're saying that it wouldn't solve anything, you truly do not understand the situation. But why would you? You're keen on your Maitreya. A nicely-done, low-lag default avatar would help resolve many problems for many people. Those are ancient. What were residents making at the time they came out? Compare it to that, not the advances made since. Did you notice that I mentioned it being nicely done and lower lag in my post on the previous page? It might mean partnering with others if they don't have the mesh creation skills in-house, but it could be done. Together, both of your arguments are essentially "things are too broken to even think about fixing". Why stay stuck in that sort of mindset? If the Lab had done that we wouldn't have Bellisseria at all, let alone one that's improving in quality by the month.
  2. Apologies for not replying here sooner. I do appreciate those who've tried, at least those who were kind. I've had a severe flare-up of neurological and visual symptoms which make it difficult for me to spend much time inworld (computer in general difficult, but things about SL make it worse). It is improving slowly, but I've had to take a bit of a rest. Neve is at the top of my list of stores to check out. I'm not hugely keen on the extra geometry for bits that can be turned on and off though. It's just hard to break habits of trying to make my own mesh as efficent as possible. I saw Neve at a winter event and really liked her gift. (Gifts are the best way to get my attention. Get something in my inventory and I can admire the quality and wear it around a bit, even if it's not my particular style and it's just more likely I'll go back to check out the store. Even if it's months later because of health .) OK, past time to rest. There's probably something else to say but my brain won't tell me what. Best everyone x
  3. LL will only get a small cut of the money being funneled out of SL by the mesh body creators. New default avs could significantly lower the barriers for smaller creators, including those who want to create for niche markets. More diversity in offerings could well increase the economy (and perhaps retention too) and smaller creators are more likely to spend and recirculate their earnings within SL. The economic argument could well favour a new default avatar, similar to the way Bellisseria has sparked interest and spending. (About the timeline for mesh bodies, what I remember is first there were FEET. And the grid said, oh yes please give us more. So there were shoes for the feet. And shoes and shoes and shoes until the grid was drowning in them. And somewhere in there came hands, and butts and ginormous boobs with nipples that could poke an eye out. Which were very popular in some circles, except they were separately textured prims on top of the clothing, so it was all a bit complicated and never really looked quite right. And then mesh bodies were invented, which made it all a wee bit simpler, except for the ways in which it was more complicated. But by then being in fashion had gotten so very complicated, everyone thought that was just the way it needs to be.)
  4. Unless perhaps it was a nicely-done, lower-lag, default mesh avatar that everyone had access to automatically. That would be a game changer in so many ways.
  5. The technical limits have changed at least once and I'm not certain what they currently are, but it has been possible to upload a 2048 x 2048 (or 2048 x small number). That's the measurement of the texture to be uploaded. The inworld version will be scaled down to 1024 x 1024. The general rule of thumb is that it's better to do your scaling in an external program, but uploading 2048s often gives sharper image quality at 1024 than uploading at 1024. (And just to be clear, you are using 1024 rather than 1k? Because a 1k external image will be scaled down to 512 inworld. It always scales DOWN to the next power of 2 (1024, 512, 256).
  6. Great idea Pamela. Thank you for suggesting it. Hugs to everyone not creepy who wants one.
  7. Agree completely. There are technical aspects which could have a significant positive aspect but I'm not fluent enough in the specifics to try to talk about them. But an improved standard avatar would help so many of the more (let's call them) societal aspects. Everyone would automatically have it so it could have strong support amongst creators, plenty of benefits to that. It would be simpler and more affordable for new residents to put together an initial avatar without having to choose which ecosystem to invest in. If they did it right it could be easier to render and less laggy. So much could get a lot easier with an improved standard avatar.
  8. We'd talk to each other in person more. What if humanity had evolved from dolphins instead of primates?
  9. Thank you both for asking and remembering. It means a lot x The neurologist wasn't concerned about yesterday's visual problems. She says it sounds like migraine. I looked it up when I got home, there's something called "silent migraine" which doesn't have the pain and it seems a reasonable enough fit. (That was how far I managed to get yesterday. The whole day was very wearing and it's a struggle still to get sentences to fit together right. Apologies and thank you for caring x. Apologies too if I haven't acknowledged anyone, my brain is easily overwhelmed but did read as much as I could take in in the rest of the thread. I have an additional diagnosis, which I'm still learning about. If nothing else it will keep me under the remit of the neurology department and their specialists. Every single person I've interacted with in that department, from the receptionist to the nurses who do the tests to the neurologist herself is kind and warm and lovely. Oh, my visual blurriness looked nothing like your psychedelics. Why do other people get the good stuff Going to trust this makes sense and go for another rest. Much love to everyone who needs some.)
  10. It sounds like you've decided that your own efficiency is more important than the amount of data needed to be downloaded. If it were just you, maybe ok. It isn't, what with multiple-pieced, multiple-faced onion skin bodies with six feet instead of two, multiple "style" hairs, and so on. If this thing of wearing 2 or 3 complete outfits in order to mix and match were to catch on, the bloat would be even greater. There are real costs to the grid.
  11. Different take on that, spending all this time in a world full of air-brushed perfection might not be the healthiest thing for our real life minds.
  12. Maddy's reputation far exceeds any possible point tally already.
  13. I started out the day with about a half hour of increasingly blurred vision, which then receded, and a period where my right hand wasn't quite right, headache for half the day too. Things seem ok since, no idea what it was. Fortunately I have an appointment with the neurologist anyway tomorrow, so at least I'll be able to ask a professional. Took last month off from the forums because I didn't have spare emotional energy for the few who try to pick fights, so I'm late reading this thread. Much sympathy for all who are struggling with grief in whatever way. If any of you listen to podcasts, Cariad Lloyd's Griefcast can be very helpful. She's a comedian and talks with other comedians about their experiences with grief. The early episodes especially look at some of the strange but common experiences in living with loss. Love to all of you, in whatever form of expression you prefer x
  14. That kind of dress, yes. With a few exceptions, the ones I come across tend to be a good bit shorter and have a lot more of the breasts exposed. Speaking for myself (and to some extent for a friend), I like dresses which are long enough to cover my buttocks at least. A bit longer would be better but above knee is fine. Something I would have been comfortable wearing in public when I was younger. Recently, I'm seeing cropped sweaters which don't show under-boob. Always having my belly on display would get old, but it's better than the old style of cropped sweater which stopped not far below the nipples. I understand how crop tops avoid mesh clipping, which makes them a useful style. Each of my avs has an alright enough pair of jeans, more isn't a priority. Skin-tight, ripped jeans, leggings, those aren't necessarily *****, but they aren't really my thing. Tried on a pair of skin tight ones recently that I liked the waist on, it was higher and no butt crack, but the legs were so tight you might as well be wearing system. I'm not clever enough fashion-wise to find a top which suits that kind of silhouette. Especially when I'd rather not have as much breast on display as the norm in tops has been since fitted mesh for mesh bodies caught on. Any suggestions on flat shoes? My plan to make some for myself hasn't come to pass because of poor health. And to those giving advice, please be kind. I'm not stupid but my health is lousy enough that every minute I spend shopping is less time and energy I have for friends. I am truly not up to devoting hours to it and my "girl stuff" skills are as lacking in SL as they are in RL. I'll look through the stores suggested. Thank you to those who took the time. Not a fan of Blueberry though, the fabrics on the solid-coloured singles tend to be a bit bland and the fatpacks to get the patterned ones are more than I can really justify given my limited income.
  15. Oh but I do, a lovely black figure terracotta plate (though anything mesh takes 10x as long to make and sells 100x less, which isn't exactly motivation to make more), a couple of Eleusian pieces and the frieze from one end of the Parthenon (labor of love for a friend's birthday, it took FOREVER). And Minoan, Etruscan, Egyptian, Gandharan, Renaissance and Byzantine too. I expect to see you there soon
  16. Just thinking outside the box in case it sparks better ideas.... What if a mobile app didn't render avatars or moving objects? I acknowledge that I'm biased because I'd love to be able to swing by a couple of MM boards on the tablet and don't need to see my av to do that. It would greatly reduce render load and also some of the sexual-content issues. Would something like that be feasible? Maybe with impostered objects?
  17. Finding Medhue's site was such a help for me. He used to post in the forums often but seems to be busy elsewhere nowadays. Good luck and I'm pleased to have been able to help a little.
  18. Yeah, that would happen too. And probably more drama than we're able to imagine. No, than I'm able to imagine, you have more skill there than I do I wonder if there is any number/sum of numbers which would work as a standardized indication of render weight? I'm not creative enough today to puzzle it out, but it would be useful. I'm used to hearing about long, narrow triangles as a physics issue, complicated by whether or not it's analysed or not analysed on upload. If no one addresses that here (I don't understand it well enough to venture), ask in the mesh creation forum. Someone there will likely be able to help.
  19. In all fairness to Prok, what Prok described fits one former forum regular exceptionally well. We know he didn't do anything in SL for years besides stand around on his platform because he eventually took to saying so and it fit with how out-dated his ideas were. It didn't stop him from pontificating at length (he could fill **pages** if he got others to argue with him) and with great self-bestowed authority on practices which were already changing a decade prior, simply because he'd been able to cash out x amount per month during the boom years. His ability to derail threads was impressive, but got in the way of useful conversations about what's going on now. And he always had to have the last word in any exchange, so you can imagine how that worked with Prok. Knowing that he didn't have a clue about current happenings made his side of those over-long threads easier to put into context, which lead to less going-in-circles arguments, which lead to less derail, which made it easier to carry on with the useful conversations. I had the idea to look up his store inworld to see what he'd done, in part to appreciate what he had been good at and in part just to ascertain that I'd understood things correctly. Never made it there though. Anyway, there's history behind Prok's post.
  20. There is no way to export a proprietary mesh body. You can export the data for the system "shape" you wear (ie the shape sliders) but not a mesh body. The various mesh bodies respond to the slider numbers in different ways so you might benefit from making a system shape that's close enough in key areas to your Signature av. Avastar is a Blender plug-in designed specifically for use with SL avatars. It costs some but isn't too dear. Medhue Simoni has good tutorials, free to watch on his site https://www.medhueanimations.com/collections/blender-tutorials, that can give you an idea of what Avastar is like for creating static poses and animations.
  21. Doesn't computer power figure into it too somehow, like the cost to render for your particular set-up? I think I remember reading somewhere that it wasn't a universal number, so comparisons between the numbers will be misleading if they come from different people. (As well as the problems in the formula itself.).
  22. Just to make certain you're aware - If it's just the skybox you're not keen on, you can remove the one that's there and add another (as long as it fits in the footprint and LI, land impact). If you bought the land from someone else and they left the skybox there, you might not own the skybox itself. Click on it, choose Edit and you'll see Owner for the skybox. If it's a skybox in general that you're not keen on, you can build on the ground too. Just a couple of examples where you may be happy to keep the land and change the building.
  23. OK, let's go with this. Let's say that there is plenty of moderate-coverage clothing available. I can attest that I've had difficulties finding it, whereas finding revealing clothing is dead simple. The OP appears to have run into the same thing, others have said similar things too. So maybe it's not lack of availability so much as some sort of communication bottleneck. Most of the promotional efforts (blogs, front of store, notecard pics, marketing group listings, events, etc) I've come across seem to be targeting the sparser coverage crowd. (Fine, received wisdom is that there are more of them and they're bigger spenders. Great for them but doesn't help others like me.) Another thing I've noticed is how unorganised most of the clothing stores I've been in recently are. Like the creators are just filling the next bay with their latest work and not giving much thought to grouping styles or types of clothing together. Maybe this approach works really well for the heavy shoppers and impulse shoppers who go in for one thing and come out with five. So I'm not criticising it as a way of setting up a store. But whatever the reason is, it can make for a frustrating experience for someone like me who isn't particularly interested in the majority of what they sell. Now I know I don't spend enough to be the kind of shopper anyone wants to cater to. But my frustrations are real and they are my usual experience of trying to shop for clothes in SL. As are the frustrations of the OP and others. (And the usual disclaimer, anyone who doesn't want to shop read the posts is free to skip past.) At the December Shop & Hop, I saw a much better balance and more things I'd consider wearing. Previous S&Hs, I've felt lucky if I've come away with one or two store names to look into. This was more like five, so perhaps something has changed in recent months. So my question for those who find it easy to find all of these stores with more moderate coverage items is - how do you find out about these stores? Is it just a matter of slogging through everything and hoping?
  24. Yes, it was framed in a negative way but it's still a far cry from your claim that was an "attempt to get it taken off the market". I read it as a shout of frustration, another venting thread. We see them often enough on a range of subjects here. Would you consider going back and rereading it with that sort of tone in mind? You spoke against it, and with quite strong words. Were you trying to get rid of what you didn't like about it, or was there something else going on? And here I've been all these years, wondering why I had such a small, niche customer base for ancient Roman art. Welll blow me down with a feather . Anyway, if it doesn't really work as a threat, perhaps it wasn't so much a threat as a cry of exasperation.
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