Nalates Urriah

BOM is like the old system layer skin. It works the same way. As do the tattoos, makeup, and system layer clothes. If you dress the classic system avatar using ONLY system layers and then attach a mesh BOM body all the system layers will 'magically' appear on the new mesh body. So in a way we have transferred the classic skin to mesh with a new baking system. The Server Side Bake (SSB) of your time was adapted to eliminate all the onion skin layers of mesh bodies and the script load of appliers and renamed Bakes On Mesh. As to what fits... if you have not worked with 3D models and rigging it is hard to explain. Suffice to say clothes and body must use nearly identical rigging information to avoid poke through. So clothes have to be made using a specific brand of body's rigging to fit correctly. This is why you see promo material listing which bodies the clothes will fit. However, almost no hair uses body specific rigging. So I never see hair for Slink or Maitreya. General it is made for tiny, medium, large, and ginormous breasts. I suspect the rigging when used is direct rigging to the bones without considering the body.

Some guys never take the hint...

Often it is like virtue signalling but in a different context. Fireflies Lair... very colorful place.

It has been awhile since I looked at Google's and Bing's translation services and what they would cost if I used them with SL. When I did consider it, I looked at all the text I generate in a year. I generally clean up my chat logs once a year. I take every thing in the log folder and put it in a 2022, or whatever year, folder. So I can easily do an analysis of my chat habits. At the time I was no where near the Google and Bing use limits for free translation. You can check to see how chatty your are. Look in the Viewer's logs. You'll find them in C:\Users\[Win_user_ID]\AppData\Roaming\[viewer_name]\[SL_User_ID]\ and sort by TYPE and examine all the files of extent .TXT. To figure out how many words you typed look at the file sizes. It is possible to export this information to a file that can be imported to Excel using the command window and the DIR command. The total Bytes of disk space used by the files is roughly equivalent to the number of characters in the files. You can divide that by 5 + 1 (or 6, five is the average size of an English word plus one for a space-character). You then have the number of words you typed in a year or whatever period you are looking at. I doubt anyone will actually exceed the Bing & Google limits for free translation even if you translated every word you type in SL, which I am pretty sure no one does. So, you are essentially using a free service... if you don't count being watched for marketing opportunities.

You and the Lindens can change your inventory. No one else. The Lindens commonly remove all items from the grid, meaning everyone's inventory and all rezzed copies, for DMCA complaints, items that use exploits to cause problems, and similar issues.

I have a thing for the complex... regions that are puzzles with lots to discover. Also the use of light and dramatic lighting. Early in my time in SL I was impressed with Oni Horan's Necronom VI Dark Role Play. Enough so that I made a video of the place when I heard it was closing. (8/2014) Unfortunately Necronom was falling into a state of disrepair and many parts of the place were not working. Like the elevators... The AI robots were having problems... The various games and quests that were offered within Necronom over time were fun and competitive. I made this video before buying a SpaceNavigator (SN). This work and the complications of using a mouse for machinima were the basis for deciding I needed a SN. SVARGA was an amazing simulation of an ecological system. It is now a historic region... the Lindens have saved it. But it is not maintained. So the ecology has failed and mostly does not work. Numbakulla was another RP and exploring region. The welcome letter... Welcome to Numbakulla, a mysterious quest game which is free to play for everyone. It has been open for over 18 months now. Numbakulla is notionally owned by a collective of people who donated money to keep Numbakulla open. Currently the tier fee for Numbakulla is currently sponsored by Oclee Hornet and Nemesis Content Creation, but many people have donated amounts large and small to keep it free to play and open to all. The game was built by a team of people which included Ratt Foo, Cierrah Blair, Sky Everett, Baron Grayson, Caliandris Pendragon, Moopf Murray, Ambyance2 Anubis, Lost Therian, Selador Cellardor, Zapoteth Zaius. The game has since been supported and played by many people. Welcome. Please take a notebook and wear it. It is the game controller. It can be removed when you are not playing in numbakulla, but should be worn when you are here. The Music you can hear playing is by soup. There is a listening post for soup on NCC sim, with some freebies, like a soup drinking chair and soup bowl. You can find information about soup at http://www.soupmusic.net Caliandris Pendragon February 2007 Uru - This is a mix of gone and still here. In 2008 many of the Myst/Uru players were coming into SL as Cyan Worlds (the creators of the game) announced the closing of the Myst world. Many of us were very attached to Myst Online - Uru Live. So the Cyan servers were kept up for years. While the website is there I am not sure how well the servers work. Many tried to reproduce the game in SL. A good reproduction exists in SL today. Some did amazing reproductions. But many of those are gone. Shown below is the Great Zero... its a long story... a fascinating build. But as best I can tell it is gone as are many of the related builds.

@traceykirkby With Slink you can turn nails on and off in the HUD. There are also Slink add-on nails. With both of those items turned off you can see nails that come from the skin or tattoos. Slink has a tattoo that corrects old skin's fingers and toes. Older skins were made for the classic UV Map. Newer bodies with better fingers and toes look odd with the old skins. So, Slink included the tattoo in their package to correct the problem on their fingers and toes. It should cover up any nails painted into a skin.

It depends on what you watch as to whether SL TVs will sync. 😎 YouTube TVs in SL depend on when each person clicks start/play. Most on-demand videos are that way. Something like Pluto TV has live and on-demand, a mix. All the live stuff will be in sync. The easy way is to have everyone over and watch one TV. But, you have to pay attentions to how the TV is setup. Some TV's make individual instances for each person watching. Others display an image in the region and everyone sees the same thing at the same time... or close enough it doesn't mater. The way to tell is start the TV playing. If someone with you can see it too without having to click, then you have one that will work for a group.

Cloud Garden in Angel Mist. Strange mix of pretty-nice and odd-evil... Interesting lighting and glowy mists.

That link has a really L O N G url. It would not work for me. But it does have the BUG-Report-Number. This is a shorter one: Bug-233315.

@Oceanna Carissa There is nothing that says you have to buy anything. The classic avatar is pretty much just as it was in 2009. There is nothing requiring you to use the newer stuff. Take your time. Figure out if SL is more to your liking now before you start spending money. If you go with a new mesh body and/or head and stick with BOM enabled items, then the current mesh bodies and clothes are simpler to use than the old classic avatar and sculpty boots and clothes. Once BOM is enabled you never need to use the HUDs. You can teat the avatar just like you did in 2009. Wear system layers. However... understanding all the promotional hype and integrating all that and applier tech is initially over whelming. Take it slow and play with the demos. None of it is all that complicated.

As said above, Release Candidate. These are the last testing phase of the QA process for regions. The Preview or aka Beta grid is where the alpha and beta testing is done. On occasion residents are called to help with the testing over there. I think the Server UG still meets there on Thursdays. There were 4 RC test regions in the main grid. I suspect there still are. About 20% of the grid is devoted to RC testing. It is possible to ask the Lindens to include or exclude a region you own. I used to download lists of regions in the RC groups. I have forgotten how. But there are some RC regions for people to test there stuff on. Blue Steel is one. As I recall, access is limited. One must belong to the Server group to get into those regions. At least at one time one did. That may have changed. The roll back is easy enough. BUT... if they find a problem during the RC phase that did not exhibit on the beta grid... they will be testing and troubleshooting while the problem is exhibiting on the RC. They are unlikely to start a roll back until they feel they have a good handle on what the problem is. It can take a few hours of troubleshooting. The Lab has some of the most experienced people in the gaming field for dealing with real time issues and keeping a system up. So as much as we want to bit_ch... it really isn't justified.

This is one of the cutest builds I've seen in awhile. (Part of region Butter.)

Wearing a 2019 look and exploring in Butter...

...and there are tattoos for fingers and toes to correct how they look.

Pretty place. Lots of bright colors.

@Forgottenx There are several hundred different body brands. The costs range from free to thousands of L$. Ayashe lists just a few of the more popular bodies above. Searching for mesh bodies in the SL Marketplace is tedious and frustrating. Search on 'mesh body' then try selecting in the left column Avatar Components->Avatar Skin & Shape Combinations->[Male/Female] Avatar Base. But unfortunately not all body designers use this category. But it is as close as I've gotten. Prima is one of newer bodies, released Oct 2022. It is lighter then Belleza or Legacy and primarily uses BOM. They also explain how to use appliers with their BOM body. So... how to make a decision on which body to buy? I suggest you go places with lots of avatars. The Destination Guide (web and in-viewer) has a What's Hot Now category where you can see lots of people. There is a What is she wearing? app in the marketplace. I thought there was a free one. But I see what looks like a copy botting effort and the HUDs now cost L$10 to L$200 PS: What is she wearing free version You can use the HUD to see which body a person is wearing. So when you see a good looking avatar you can find out which body and head they used to make it. Take your time. Find out what people like and don't about the various bodies. Play with the demos. Ask questions. And the newer tutorials for SL are here: Tutorial Play List

In Kawii City... great place for dramatic lighting.

I think you pretty much have it. I was referring to the 'root folder' as being top folder in the inventory panel. Everything of ours is in that folder. I thin your root is more your main folder... but however you refer to it, I think you have the overall idea right.

The problem is a "TIME-OUT" issue. Any folder can time out. From the root to the most deeply buried subfolder. But it is a per folder, any folder, time thing. It seems the code iterates through each folder taking each folder as a separate download. It has been a long time since I looked at the actual code. As I recall I think it was a recursive process. If any one of them fails, times out, then the whole inventory load fails and subsequently the login. The root folders are Inventory & Library. I have 53 items in the Inventory folder. However, Firestorm shows it as 66k and 8k in the root... in all other folders the 8k number is the number of folders within the folder. So apparently the root is a special folder. The 66k number for all other folders is the number of items within the folder and sub-folders. So it is difficult to figure out how many "items" one has in a folder as the downloader sees it.

There are somethings to keep in mind. The big one is to limit how many items you have in any single folder. Depending on how good your computer and Internet connection to the SL servers are (which is different then your overall Internet connection), you can have problems when folders have >=5,000 items. So, stay below that limit. As the Internet improves that limit will be less restrictive... if you consider 5,000 items restrictive... You could have 4,000 folders in a single SHOES folder in clothes, each with 4,000 pairs of shoes or 16,000,000 pairs of shoes... which some of us might consider restrictive... Most people pick up on the idea of keeping things together, pants, dresses, SHOES, makeup, and so on. I put all that stuff in their respective folders in the System Folder Clothes. I also put boxes in the system OBJECTS folder. When I open then and file the contents of the box I put the item in folders named ~~Opened Boxes 2023 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< The ~~ forces the folder to sort to the bottom of the list of folders. Incoming boxes sort to the top of the list of items when sorted on age. So the items and folders are close together saving on scrolling. After a few years in SL I started to run into problems figuring out which shoes went with which body and what was old and didn't take into account what used which new SL features. Like which was material enabled and what wasn't. Was it mesh, sculpty, or prim or system.. Now I categorize by date as well. So, Clothes->Shoes _/| ->2023->[Slink O or Slink H or whatever body they fit - and some meaningful to me description]. I do the same with dresses. tops, pants, etc. I make Outfits and name them to sort together. So... !Dress Micro - 2023-01 ROJE* - Tan White 85k I find that is enough to get me close when looking for a specific type of outfit. The ! at the beginning forces things to sort out ahead of Library stuff. I use !!Nude... for my starting outfits. The !! forces these to sort to the top of the list. This naming also allows me to search on !Dress Micro, collapse all the folders and see just my micro dresses for those days when I want to wear my legs. Learning to use the sort order of the alphanumeric characters gives you lots of added control for organizing and helps with searches. The ! ~ { } * are handy for controlling the sort. Then there are the things you wear that are less a part of your look and more for how you play in SL. So, your Amazon River gear for RP there or your Nanite gear for that RP. These can go into Outfits that you Add or Remove from other Outfits providing mix and match capability I've not seen in the wardrobe systems. I name those !!}!Add/Remove [whatever] and either select Add to Current or Remove from current. These are tricky to make but once you get the idea they are easy to make and save A LOT OF EFFORT. I prefer using the Inventory and Outfits panels because I find it free, less work, I can mess it up and easily correct (change a folder name or move to a new folder), the SL system is designed to be used this way... and I have found that I change over time and decide there are better ways then what I started with. I suspect you will to. Starting off with a rigid system while you are SL young and inexperienced will lead to later pain. And remember. SL is an inventory game. Take your time. Have fun, avoid making it work. _________________________________ *Redux Original w/Jen head w/eyes

The biggest problem with separate feet is the consumption of Attachment Points. Many people complain about hitting the limit.

While posting specific enforcement actions is not a good thing, you might want to consider posting some general stats on enforcement. This month 666 bans and 7 perma-bans and 42 Bad AV reprimands... It might shift people's thinking and would be a counter to "the Lindens never do anything..." claims.

Oh... I would so NOT be sitting there... and looking up 😬