Mercedes Avon

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but most bodies are one solid mesh minus the hands or feet, and even a lot of bodies do not separate those things. Thus, someone can not un-link their leg and re-link it to their hand, face or wherever strikes their fancy. Right? Hell, I can attach my body to my eyeball and it will pop into place because it's rigged. I would love the ability to remove the onion layers if I want to reduce complexity or remove the scripts if I don't want to be booted out of events because my body has dozens of scripts in it. You have the option to remove the scripts via the HUD with Maitreya (I think). I remember and their new version makes the onion layers separate. Kudos! If other bodies are not willing to offer the same advantages, then I think they should offer the body as modifiable. Reborn offers a modifiable version of their body and so far I haven't heard that they are suffering any CSR nightmares. I do not know how removing all the scripts would effect BOM. Maybe someone else can explain how removing them would affect that (if at all).

Wow! @Chris Nova! You rocked it!

I would love it if you could claim both a 512 camper AND a 512 Newbrooke to total your 1024 allowance.

It's a beautiful day on the little lake.

That performance floater is worthless for me, unfortunately. Every time I open it, the viewer freezes and crashes.

I have bought a shape before without the demo, but only if it is the style card I am really after and not the shape.

I've never had this issue but I can imagine it was quite the shock! I am the same. After I make my link-set, I delete all the scripts out of it. It's shocking how many scripts there are in everything. I will never admit that I did the same once.

*GASPS* Not that we do any of that kind of "stuff."

The bed in this bedroom set is 3 Li.

Linking decor is really the ticket to saving on Li. However, do not link in anything with animations; couches, chairs, ceiling fans, beds etc. Like mentioned, it ruins furniture if you link it to other things. Leave all that stuff as is. The decor you can link all together. I link rugs, tables, artwork, plants, knickknacks, the kitchen (minus the parts with animations), lights and other random decor. My link-set is 117LI but un-linked it is 196Li. That's a big Li savings. If you have a bed you adore the animations in but it is high Li, consider taking the root prim with the animations out of it and linking it onto a lower Li bed (as the root prim and after you delete out the animations that are already in it) and get the best of both worlds. I say this but I know not everyone is comfortable with building, but if the pieces are copy, you have nothing to lose by taking both beds to a sandbox and trying it out. I do this constantly. I buy nice looking low Li PG beds, sofas and/or chairs and use an adult *coughs* engine from another furniture piece I like the poses in. I think 75% of my furniture has an animation engine from another piece in it. My bed is 5Li (I bought it at Fancy Decor during their 50% off sale) but has the animation engine from a much higher Li bed on it. Modifiable stuff is awesome! My Bradbury is a large house and fully decked out inside and out and I think I still have 15Li left. For me the challenge of the 351Li is half the fun, but I know not everyone is crazy like me.

Another suggestion I can offer (and something I use a lot) is this handly little gadget: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/The-Magic-Rezzer-formerly-Optimus-Multirezzer/4908598 I can put that out and make all kinds of builds that I can rez up and down at will. Another forum member recommended it to me back when, and it has been a game changer for me in so many ways.

I could add some pose animations, but I usually use floaties that already have animations in them, or a floating lounger with animations etc.

I need to talk to someone about the alligators crawling up from the nearby pond.

This is a really cool idea. I adore it.

I have every room furnished now, but the bedroom is so large that it bugs me. I put the fireplace room divider in there too and that helped break up the large space. I might try the idea mentioned above and put in a wall and make the room smaller. That fountain I bought from Fourth Wall and then re-textured it to match the pool.

Once I moved to my new parcel, I decided to change the house I am using and go with a different one. I am using the Bradbury now and I think I like it best of all the home styles I've tried. It is larger and used more Li to decorate but I still have 12LI left so that means I need to go shopping! lol

Me posting this picture to the forums.

I was just going to recommend this store too. I find a lot of what I like and need there and the best part is that she often has sales on the weekends so you can slowly pick up a lot of neat things for a very good price. With the Newbrooke, I haven't gone as crazy with the grasses and landscaping as I usually go. I've put down more concrete then I typically do. I got a lot of good ideas googling mid-century modern landscape ideas. I have been enjoying trying new ideas outside my norm.

There is no good way really. I have no way of knowing what house I am going to get when I click the land page to accept one, but I can be a bit strategic and travel around the map and look at what has not been claimed yet. I knew that parcel I wanted was still a Linden Home and owned my Governor Linden and not claimed. Thus, I knew it was on the land page someplace in the pile of available homes. At that time, nothing on that sim had been claimed by a resident so I knew all the houses on the sim were buried under a lot of other houses in the queue. I tracked the region on my world map and when I started to see people on the sim, I then knew houses were going on that sim and the homes had reached the top of the queue. I of course still was not able to get the house I wanted then. I simply lucked out days later and got that house because I rolled for a house just after the person who had it abandoned it back to the queue (new abandons typically go to the top of the queue). It was incredibly lucky timing. At this point, the 1024sqm have sold out a few times so any 1024sqm that comes on the land page is an abandoned (until the new sims on the map release). I hope all that rambling made sense? lol

I think I know the majority of my neighbors from the forums! I will be watching for your build 🙂

BLOCK PARTY!

I don't have many avies to roll with so I try to be strategic with my rolls. I don't want to waste them. I really like the Newbrooke parcel I got when the theme first rolled out, but it's on my alt and I want to downgrade her to a free account so I have been rolling in hopes of finding one I like just as much (I did not want to attempt a swap). I patiently watched a few sims when the Newbrooke theme released. There are not a lot of 1024sqm on water. I did spot one 1024 parcel I thought was the hallelujah of Newbrooke (for my tastes) - pond and lake view, rez zone, and two big public parks. I watched the sim for days waiting for the sim to come to the top of the land page stack. When I saw the parcels start to go, I used all my 5 rolls but didn't get that dream Newbrooke parcel. I saw it went a day later. I have been eyeballing the new regions popping up on the map because I am sure there will be a lot of new inventory to roll through. I've been saving my rolls for that until last night. I thought, "I don't think those regions are going in the next couple of days, so I can burn some rolls." My rolling fingers were itching to gamble my luck. I went to the page and rolled. First roll was the same sim I kept getting one of two homes in days before. "Ugh, not again," I thought. I went over with my abandon finger ready and . . . . It was that dream parcel I had thirsted for. That very same one I had decided was my perfect spot. I could not believe it. I already got to thank the person who abandon it, but THANK YOU AGAIN! You have no idea how excited I was to get that house. *HAPPY DANCES THROUGH THIS THREAD*

WOW! The outdoor landscaping is stunning, Marianne. I need to roam around the sims and take notes. I am really loving this theme but I am already ready to try a new house (I am using the Faraday now).

I have these really efficient SL invisible cleaning maids that come by whenever I’m not home. The place stays spotless.

I took some inspiration from Blush (AKA Annie) and re-vamped my bathroom. I now want this bathroom in RL.