Kyrah Abattoir

They also typically TP away if you don't answer in the next 5 minutes.

Don't you love those IMs where some submissive explains you in details exactly how you're going to dominate him/her, while presenting it simultaneously as "serving" you ?

Nope, why?

Allright, so back on topic.

I never implied anything about your competences, I just wanted to highlight small differences.

I'm not gonna derail this topic any further so to the ignore list it is with you.

I can't find the sources but firewatch doesn't use the patchgrid approach of typical openworld games, hey designed the world in such a way that they have natural points where the player view is constrained enough that they can loading/unloading specific chunks of the game world into the main scene unnoticed. Here is a link to the GDC conference with the timecode. Youtube -> hTqmk1Zs_1I?t=823

"Overlay" in photoshop works reasonably well for normal maps but you should normalize the length of the resulting vector after you do this (hah).

On the topic of occlusion, most game engines allow map designers to assign "zones" that can be connected to eachothers and are used to speed up occlusion of large areas. The people who built firewatch mention that they se a sector system for the game to load/unload large sections of the world based on the area the player is currently in. The classic case is to unload all exteriors when a player is inside a cave and likewise, unload cave interiors when the player is outside. On older games like quake II you could get very aggressive with this, down to the point of having doors opening/closing triggering visibility changes between zones. It's something I submitted to the Jira a long time ago, might be worth re-submitting given that LL changed a lot in the past years, it's not really difficult to grasp for a builder and it could even be used for privacy.

If we boil it down purely to sales volume, the quality of a product is of no importance.

I'm not exactly sure what's the deal. Money was exchanged. Work was delivered. They probably consider the deal done and got annoyed that you sought them on their non-work alt to talk to them about work?

I see "wet cardboard tube" knees on quite a few of the mesh bodies out there, so yeah... it's definitely smooth... but it's still wrong.

The reason this specific creator does this silly brain thing is that they have adjusted their mesh head in such a way that when it is rezzed on the ground all the rigged parts are tucked inside the brain itself, hiding it. I'm not sure why they are doing this short of preventing people to inspect their purchase in detail. Maybe they just think it's smart. Yes we do, especially bad/unoptimized clothes.

Yeah it's illegal in reality. But technically those arent dogs (or people), they are just pixels.

This is an old classic, people used to abuse the hell out of this, years ago and then it stopped so I assume LL back then cracked down on it.

You should be remodeling, MD, Zbrush (or even Autocad hell) are your design phase, not modeling phase. Once you're done with your lowpoly model you can then massage it to (somewhat) fit other bodies.

Personally I actually think it's just polite to notify other people that you aren't "live" at the moment.

Is it blame-a-linden day again? Every platform has limitations, all of them. Good artists don't complain about the limitations of the medium, they use it as a way to challenge themselves.

Actually assuming we had some sort of linden endorsed "system" body, ankle and wrist cuts would be all that is needed, creators could simply copy the piece of the arms/legs that they need to fill the gap of their clothing and use bake on mesh to have those parts automatically match textured to the body. It's exactly how games like skyrim handle clothes incidently, the clothing "mesh" typically includes the parts of the body it doesn't cover (up to standard minimal cut points) instead of using 40 something slicing points. Oh yeah did i mention that separate mesh "faces" even with the same texture not only are annoying to make but aren't actually free from a rendering standpoint?

This shouldn't be an applier tho. It being an applier means you're hauling around your onion skin mesh all the time instead of only when you're wearing your catsuit. At least with MOD mesh bodies you can make optimized versions by delinking the parts you don't need for outfits you use often. Oh right, no mod body, no one knows why.

They are becoming rarer now that home creators favor baking shadows and AO into absolutely everything clogging your VRAM with 200Mb of texture per house. They don't KNOW how to make a texture that looks good. So they do that instead and label it quality.

Sweaty, skin, pores. *shivers uncontrolably* SL still looks dreadful compared to even Half Life 2, but now we have glistening skin pores clogging our vram. When will people understand that it's not how many pixel or polygons that matter, it's how they are used. You can put cream cheese on a turn, it's STILL a turd.

Unrelated question, why do you always replace standard, clearly defined terms with replacements that ae basically your personal opinion on those things? I rely on a mix of hand crafted lod and blender decimation (for the lowermost lods.) I use the lodding distances supplied by the viewer at 1.125 lod factor to get a good idea in blender how many pixels tall my object is at the lod change, and then I try to get it as low as possible while looking the same. Decimation does a reasonable job for the lower lods but sometimes it need to be "nudged" in the right direction by getting rid of the geometry it gets too focused on.

Yeah I read what you wrote, I mean AOs that have a specific override pose when you are in away mode, what you describe is telling me that your AO probably isn't designed to even handle the possibility of you being away. From a scripting perspective forcing the afk pose to stop is pretty trivial but it would be better integrated into the AO logic.

If you're talking about who I think you are, she does get her regular "reminder" of who is in charge it seem.