Porky Gorky
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So from the point of view of saving LI, is it more efficient to UV map an object using the minimal amount of seams? Not a question I had considered asking until reading this.
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Really?
I thought the pantomime was over.
/grabs more popcorn
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Storm Clarence wrote:I hope I was able to answer your question to some degree of satisfaction. I thought I did an excellent job, and I had such a supporting cast. To me, celebrity is how much ink you get; currently, lots of ink in this thread, 2 SLF posts, 20+ blog posts, 15-20 feed threads. That's a lot of ink for Pep. Enjoy and good luck with your adventure.
So yeah, Storm is right, obviously the route to celebrity firstly involves being an annoying **bleep** on the forums for years, then becoming a member of a clique in which your fellow clique members will spend their time boosting your profile to people who don't care and generally just kissing your ass because that's the way they roll.
Enjoy and good luck with your adventure.
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Lillie Woodells wrote:They also say "You are what you eat"
I am high fiving my monitor right now.
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Lillie Woodells wrote:Ewwwwwwwww!!! Can you imagine the breath! :matte-motes-sick:
It would explain why he talks so much crap. :matte-motes-big-grin:
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Storm Clarence says......
"I always thought Baby Kranfel and Zenoprobe were the two most foul posters to the feeds. Funny when they outed themselves as DQ Darwin and Gypsy Quixote respectively, I understood."
I thank you.
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baby Kranfel wrote:Never heard of this "Pep" is it a drink?just wondering
Depends.... if you enjoy a nice hot mug of diarrhea....then yeah, it's a drink. :smileywink:
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The commerce team do not care about this issue. If they cared they would have disabled enhancements a long time ago until the issue was resolved. Instead they chose to take our money whilst exposing their customers to a system that does not work consistently for everyone. It sums them up imho
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It should bounce off of paypal and land back in the USD balance in your SL account.
Log into your account on the website, in the Linden Exchange section click "manage" then click "process credit history". You should be able to see the transaction in question and the status next to it should be "denied" if paypal has blocked the transfer.
You may have to still pay the $1 processing fee to LL even if the transaction is denied.
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Make sure you are not trying to accidentally link another object into the linkset. i.e. if you drag select the 2 items you wanted to link you may have accidentally selected a 3rd object that may be outside of the acceptable link distance.
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Don't be mean to Leon. Do you guys not realise how dull these forums are at weekends? Without Leon here to
entertaineducate us, there would be at least 50% less posts in GD. Have a bit of consideration will you? some of us have to work weekends and without the forums to read some of us might actually have to resort to doing some work.Lets all shake hands, kiss and make up and look forward to another round next weekend.
Thanks :matte-motes-big-grin:
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CaptainCrazy wrote:Do any of you older users get the same problem of just not feeling that buzz anymore?
I've been here since 2004 and I feel like my era ended about 2008. Since then the only thing that has inspired me to keep logging in is business. If there was not still money to be earned here I would have been gone years ago along with 95% of my friends list.
For those people heavily invested personally in SL, it can have the same effect as a drug. That first hit is always the best and every hit after is just a failed attempt to recreate that first time. In SL that first year, or first group of friends is generally the best, and once it is gone we find ourselves longing to recreate the experience and feelings we had "back in the day".
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Seems like a normal weekend to me.
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Indeed, and of course Prokofy. I'm not sure if I would officially label her a toll but she certainly ruffled up allot of feathers at her forum peak including some Lindens too.
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leon Bowler wrote:Well at least you have all found each other, I don't belong in this thread so will now leave.
Surely Leon you can hold your hands up and admit to a spot of trolling here and there? A quick search through your alts post history will be evidence of that I should think.
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Perrie Juran wrote:A Pep/Gadget war would have been interesting.Some of the others would have just been irritating. They were intellectually challenged.
Hehe that is true.
I remember Pep annoyed me years ago so for a while I took it upon myself to end every post with PEP and then came up with an insulting set of words to fit the acronym
A couple I remember were
Pompous Egotistical **bleep**
**bleep** Enlargement Provider
Preoccupied Eating **bleep**
Nowhere near as much fun with the language filter though.
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Gadget Portal wrote:I troll the SL forums. That's the confession. Every time I tell myself I'm going to try to be more helpful or more productive here, I see a post by someone that's the perfect setup, and I can't resist getting them riled up.Some people react in ways that make it absolutely, crazy fun. And to those people, I say thank you for making it so much fun.To those that have been sucked into long arguments with me, I say this- stop taking me so seriously, I'm a forum troll!
You claim to be a troll?
You suck. I have seen so many better trolls than you. The trolls in the old RA forum would have eaten you for breakfast.
The only troll around here is yo mamma!
hehe I am definitely not a troll :matte-motes-big-grin:
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Attica Bekkers wrote:Porky no I dont think its worth it. I know this is going to sound awful but. I dont think we should make heroic efforts to contact the lab. that is the labs job, not ours. I think some kind of suggestion box thread would be a great idea, but if the lab sees it or not is up to them.
You know what..... in the time it took me to me to write my last post I was already annoyed with how much time I had wasted on the issue, as I guess I knew deep down that I was flogging a dead horse that had already decomposed long ago..
I have been having a real optimistic day today and I guess this has bled over into my forum posts.... and we all know this is no place for optimism! So I withdraw my previous idea and apologise profusely to all for my uncharacteristic enthusism with regards to LL.
Normal service shall resume shortly. :matte-motes-big-grin:
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Perrie Juran wrote:Do you really think we'd say anything that they dont already know?Seriously
I do.
LL are so detached from the current userbase that they cannot fully appreciate what issues affect people on a day to day basis. Even if they were astute enough to know about every important issue that currently affected their customers (despite the lack of communication options) they still have no way of knowing which issues are most important to the community as a whole, or at least the cross section that use the forums. If they had this knowledge then they could focus and prioritise their time and efforts into facilitating the needs of the users, rather than LL just using their own judgment with little to no feedback from the community.
This is evidenced by the work CTL has carried out in recent years, i.e.. Focusing on fixes and improvements that merchants care little for and failing to address the core issues that are at the top of most merchants fix wish list. Their current level of communication is woefully inadequate when compared to the dialogue that used to exist between us via the inworld meetings and the roundtable forums and their progress in fixing the issues that matter most to merchants has clearly suffered as a result.
The few user groups that are left in SL do still work and are still active but they are frequented by a very small number of hardcore users and they tend not to address the day to day issues that effect the average SL user, most SL users probably don't even know the user groups exist.
Lets assume you are right, and we cannot tell LL anything they don't already know. What we can hope for is some sort of response from them regarding the issues that are most important to the majority of people. An acknowledgement from them that they hear what we are saying and a plan of action to address a few of the o/s issues that matter most to people is important in building and restoring customer confidence in a platform that many people invest real money in, hundreds, sometimes thousands of USD. I think it is the least that LL can do in return for our continued custom.
Also, as my idea is for a feedback thread, there is room for positive feedback too. We have a chance to tell LL what they are doing right and what we want to see more of. More positive feedback can only be a good thing from LL's perspective and it could ultimately benefit us too.
So I understand your skepticism, I am skeptical too which is why I asked you guys if you thought it was a waste of time. But it seems like we have been sat around on our backsides for far too long doing nothing and just accepting this bum deal. My thinking is that a bit of proactive action on our part may inspire some proactive communication on LL's part and that if enough people shout loud enough it might inspire them to reply.
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Nah I don't think they will ban us from these forums as long as we don't harass them on twitter too much. Maybe each of us send one tweet a day to a different Linden each day kindly inviting them to visit our thread and respond. Can we contact them on Facebook or other social media sites too? I can't be bothered with that sort of stuff so have no idea.;
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Maybe we should try and shove some feedback down LL throats and make them listen to us.
Here is what I propose.
1. Create a thread on the forums and invite everyone to post their sensible and constructive and un-abusive feedback to LL
2. Once the thread grows we start bombarding LL Twitter accounts with links to the thread on the forums. This can be an ongoing daily occurrence with as many people as possible doing it.
3 If we have not got any response to step 2 by the time the thread is nearly done, then someone copies all the sensible feedback into a document and groups it into related category's, they then pass it back out to some of us forum users. A whole bunch of us can then either fax, email, snail mail post or hand deliver lots of copies of the feedback to LL's head quarters in Battery St. along with an invitation to them to respond to us on their own forums.
Could be a pointless exercise. Could be the catalyst that forces a Linden Lab spokesperson onto the forums to address our issues.
Do you people think this is worth the effort?
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Phil Deakins wrote:LL did make a concious decision to stop communicating with users, Porky. A few years ago, the CEO told one department leader that he wanted more blogs from her. Not long afterwards, they gagged the Lindens. They are always concious decisions.
Yeah, all the little signs point to it being a conscious decision. I question it though because it seems like such a poor business decision to make, both in terms of supporting the customer base as well as understanding what the customer base wants from the product and delivering that. Burying their heads in the sand can only result in disaster.
Whoever made that decision should definitely be put into the top 10 of "what killed SL" when fat lady sings.
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Advanced texturing for mesh
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Well, you may not want to turn all the way round the other way just yet......because one way of creating high detailed textures is to create a very high detailed mesh model, then use that to build up your materials and to bake in the shadows, then apply that end texture to a much more simplified version of the model in SL. This allows you to maintain allot of the detail from the original high poly model whilst maintaining a low LI in SL.