[Racism]

1 hour ago, Qie Niangao said:

There is in fact a new development discussed across the street suggesting that ongoing and egregious revelations of in-world content shared even outside Linden properties may cause the Lab to terminate SL accounts.

I've always wondered if the exception for non-LL-controlled systems might be a bit brittle, given the "any reason or no reason" language elsewhere in the ToS.

It's the difference between the protection they give you and that you have a right to expect, vs the protection they give themselves.

The chatlog blurb is a guaranty for you the user that this will be honored by the lab policy.

The "any reason or no reason" blurb is that at the end of the day they don't have to justify why they don't want to deal with you anymore.

[Potential for UUID ripping from system layers and consequent use with appliers]

49 minutes ago, Whirly Fizzle said:

If you have the texture UUID, you can download the texture in a web browser directly from the CDN & upload it into SL.

Or just apply it to other things you own, with absolutely no ill intent.

[So why do you disable your away timer?]

Well you don't get logged out when away anymore.

I'm surprised that there is no AO on the market that has an override for this pose, there is some untapped potential there.

[We need more than board shorts and tank tops to wear!]

In my humble opinion designing for men is very difficult because the context of what is acceptable for them to wear in public is a lot narrower than with women who culturally are somewhat expected to "tease the eye and flatter the senses", at least that's how it feels for me.

I've been asked a lot to make male  specific products but it's very difficult for me to wrap my head around menswear, I just don't think I have it in me really.

3 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:

it "appears" like there are one or two VERY TALENTED "ghost" designers behind a lot of the lady's brands.

There is also a lot of Marvelous Designer users, and people who shop at asset stores, it's one thing prims had back in the days, you where sure that the item was produced in SL, for SL, by SL users.

If content wasn't made with SecondLife in mind, as good as it will look it's still bad content that makes the secondlife experience worse for everyone.

But hey that's nothing new in real life, craftmanship is routinely wrecked by superior marketing. As long as the shop pictures will look amazing, everything is fine right?

[We need more than board shorts and tank tops to wear!]

7 minutes ago, Coby Foden said:

Most of this situation (lack of clothing and incompatibility of clothes between mesh bodies) could have been prevented if Linden Lab had upgraded the default body to be as good as the mesh bodies are.

The situation will turn even worse when there will be more and more new mesh bodies and mesh heads - again incompatible with anything else.
This is a bad path leading to chaos in avatar accessories. 
Linden Lab wake up. It's never too late to turn the boat for better course.

Yeah but It's not like the lab is gonna forbid people from creating new mesh bodies. People see what some creators demand for their mesh bodies, like back in the days of photorealistic system skins, and they are like: "I want a piece of that juicy pie too and too bad if i'm contributing to SL's compatibility issues, I'm not living in there, just plundering it."

[Plans for the Week of 2018-05-21]

On 5/26/2018 at 7:14 PM, Klytyna said:

Because by accidentally choosing a home on a sim on an RC channel, you have accidentally given consent to be used as a test-victim for whatever LL feels like testing on the RC channel servers...

It's always been that way, and for a long time Le'Tigre has been the go-to choice for Stage 1 mass testing...

 
 

Magnum used to have it rough too you know

[Maybe commercial advertising]

On 5/26/2018 at 7:37 PM, greek Wingtips said:

I wonder if LLs ever thought of having commercial advertising within SL to bring extra revenue,  possible billboards ect,  am not sure what the average input of PPL in sl at any given time but am sure it could be an idea.

 

whats your thoughts

It's already a thing, you're late to the party.

[Racism]

I'll also say that censoring racism and intolerance only makes it stronger.

[Racism]

1 minute ago, HardcoreNor said:

Actually - I did look it up.... Guess what?  If it's not in the scope of LL or SL.... it's not against TOS to share local (or even private) chat logs.

emphasis mine.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Violating_other_Residents'_privacy_rights

Within the confine of Linden Lab's services it is.

Chat logs aren't exactly a proof of anything anyway, anyone can write a blurb that says just about anything. You should give chat logs as much credit as wet toilet paper. That and the person sharing it is most likely trying to stir some good olf fashioned drama

[Racism]

You could have looked it up you know?

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Residents'_privacy_rights#Disclosing private Second Life conversations

[Racism]

Sharing any chat without the consent of all the parties involved is a violation, doesn't matter if it's local chat, groups or IMs.

[How can Linden Lab encourage better content?]

I can always hand reduce but I oscilate between too kind and too aggressive. My typical trick on cuffs and other body fitting items is that at a certain point i just strip out all the "inner" faces entirely and only keeps what faces outward when worn.

The result is sometimes invisible, sometimes very obvious.

Otherwise i just turn off edge display and gets rid of anything that doesn't make the model explode, it's not that long but it gets tedious when you do a change/fix to a model and have to redo all the lod models again for 4 different chests.

[No idea how to rig for SL (Blender)]

Unfortunately I work directly in blender so i know nothing of what is required from Maya. Sorry.

[How can Linden Lab encourage better content?]

I wish that "do not impostor friends or myself" didn't exist as an option, it's literally the equivalent of "lalala i can't hear you" in dealing with the problem

@animats I just tried the decimator included with AssetGen on one of my lowpolies. It's ...not very good.

[How can Linden Lab encourage better content?]

Impostors have a serious optimization problem, even avatars that are turned into jellydolls don't lead to a real performance boost.

[No idea how to rig for SL (Blender)]

Avastar or stock blender dae exporter?

 

Also why did you blot out the parent object name?

[Anyone able to aid to see what isnt working with my model?]

Are you using avastar or the standard blender dae exporter?

[Why does it cost serious money to own a sim?]

2 hours ago, Haselden said:

LOL now we go into politics what they say and can do with their game... Well, I won't argue with that. However, its food for thought I suppose. Third party servers could still be a possibility as well. 

Yes because SecondLife is as much about the server your region runs on as it is a live connection to Linden Lab's asset server farm.

It isnt a coincidence that Philip Rosendale, the founder of Linden Lab was one of the pioneers at RealNetworks, a company who essentially dominated commercial audio and video streaming technologies on the web in 2000.

Secondlife is all about 3d content streaming.

17 minutes ago, Penny Patton said:

But let's not get off topic, my point in this thread is that if you own/rent land in SL then when you supersize everything there is a real, monetary, cost you pay.

Regions support 0.3 prim per square meter no matter what.

 

Oh giant cyclopean creature, You gaze upon the land and see this water body as a mere puddle, but at the height of my 1m75 it's a most relaxing fishing pond.

[Why does it cost serious money to own a sim?]

34 minutes ago, Haselden said:

Well, you already claimed that inventory is already linked to the avatar in some form of a dif server. I do not think the link will be broken with those avatars by using this type of software. Letting them cross from the mainland or using third party server.

And here lies a problem, Linden Lab has no guaranties that you, or your server will honor copyright laws with the content that other residents have created, If Linden Lab doesn't trust some of our Secondlife Land barons, which deal with millions of dollars in business inworld...

Why would they trust you, or anyone really?

[Why does it cost serious money to own a sim?]

17 minutes ago, Haselden said:

No, but again the point at least for doing that you would have a skybox free to yourself. However, as for a major sim, it probably could even be a whole lot cheaper now thinking about using this third-party software.

So what would you do with a region that has no access to the main grid's content?

[How does your avatar look today ?]

[So why do you disable your away timer?]

Back in the olden days, we did because after a certain amount of time in away mode you would get logged out.

However this hasn't been the case for a while I believe, and a few weeks ago I decided to turn it back on since i figured it's probably helpful for other people to know when I'm not actively watching my SecondLife window.

So why do you have it off? What's your story?

[Likes and or Wishes About Second Life]

8 hours ago, AmandaKeen said:

A subsidy on sim-costs for content creators

They already do it's the educational program. And LL already subsidize a number of resident run projects around the grid, such as Gibson and Tulagi.

[How can Linden Lab encourage better content?]

13 minutes ago, animats said:

Unreal Engine

Unreal engine actually has serious performance issues with dynamic/live content. It's an engine that really prefers to work with "pre cooked" data.

[Why does it cost serious money to own a sim?]

Would you pay 100$ a month for Linden Labs to allow the region you run on your computer to be connected to the SL grid?