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    Second Life is down.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Female Winslet said:

    Well, first of all, that was an announced time frame for maintenance, not an outage. There has been no announced time frame for the outage. 

    Second, I have a bit more faith in LL than that. LL is not perfect. Sometimes they get things wrong. And, yes, sometimes things like maintenance take longer than expected. But by and large they do really well at keeping up a product that uses old infrastructure to support all manner of custom designed product created by a bunch of people who are, mostly, not pros. I think that's pretty amazing. I'm confident that they will get this fixed and I won't be a bit surprised if it is sooner than expected. Sometimes they do that too. 

    And with that, I am off to get some sleep. Thank you, @Tommy Linden, @Grumpity Linden, and @Wulf Linden for participating in this thread and thank you to all for the entertaining comments. If I end up laying in bed staring at my ipad I'll probably end up looking at this thread. Otherwise, see everyone tomorrow. 

    Sweet dreams. : )

    Second Life is down.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Tommy Linden said:

    I could give you a lot of ideas. Such as...

    Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

    Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all"?

    Why do they report power outages on TV?

    If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

    But for the workinds under our hood, I am afraid I am not the best person to speak about that, and the ones that are, are knee deep under the hood right now.

    Your soothing presence is appreciated. Most of us are in stage 3 withdrawal by now. :D

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    Second Life is down.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Myra Wildmist

    3 minutes ago, Wulf Linden said:

    Hey there,

    There's a team of people working to fix this as soon as possible.  I'm doing my part as well.  We won't sleep until you can log in.    

    Back to work for me!  See you in world soon!

    We appreciate it. Thank you. ❤️

    Profile feed seems busted, again

    in Technical

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Yokasta47 said:

    It is there and I can access it, but cannot eliminate the pic or change it or do anyhting and the name that shows up is my old name, soooo....

    Hi, Yokasta. It seems to be working okay for me. Try it, again.

    Profile feed seems busted, again

    in Technical

    Posted

    2 hours ago, moirakathleen said:

    You can go to https://status.secondlifegrid.net/incidents/lz68v3254g6l   and subscribe to that incident.  Then, when they update or resolve the incident, you'll be notified. 

    Apparently they are still working on it, and people posting that it still doesn't work is neither necessary nor helpful.  

    Not everyone knows you can subscribe to an incident to get status updates. It was nice of you to post that info.

    People who use the feed regularly are concerned about this (There are more than you might realize if you don't use it.) and are looking to share info with the rest of us who use the service. The status report from LL does not currently provide any sense of what's going on, which can be frustrating. Notice, for instance, that Voice Morphing has updates informing the community that the problem is being worked. There are no updates regarding my.secondlife despite it being down for more than 3 days, now.

    I think it's fine if people want to update this post, since I'm the OP. I have no problem with it. It's nice to know others are concerned about the sl feed. At least we can commiserate about missing it.

     

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    Profile feed seems busted, again

    in Technical

    Posted · Edited by Myra Wildmist
    typo

    Looks like the SL Profile feed is broken, again. Can't post photos or enlarge ones that are already there. I submitted a support ticket about it.

    I don't really have a question. I'm just posting  hoping it will come to the attention of the right people.

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    Windlight Question

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    Hi, Estella.

    First, the bottom photo you posted is almost certainly photoshopped, so it's not a good representation of the lighting and effects you can get in sl. However, you can get some very realistic looks, but there are a lot of factors that go into how you look in sl. Here's a little list of settings that will help. These are going to be dependent on your computer, of course:

    1. Enable Advanced Lighting Model.
    2. Enable all local lights.
    3. Turn on Ambient Occlusion. It softens the edges of the shadows and does a few more things.
    4. Set your resolution to Outstanding. (It's a FS setting. Not sure if it's the same in the Linden viewer.). If you can walk around with Lifelike, even better.
    5. Set your Anti-Aliasing t0 16x

    Those are just to get you started. You could also turn on your Depth of Field, but that's going to put some more pressure on your graphics. If you have a newish system, you'll probably be fine.

    There are other settings, but that's my getting started list. If anyone else has any suggestions, weigh on in. : )

    Now, about windlights.  Most of them are a bit too extreme or don't have decent shadows or the colors don't belong on this planet.

    I make almost all of mine. However, there are a few nice ones that might work for you:

    • (SS) Atmospheric 06:00 b Nice, dusk windlight. The shadows could be better, but the light is good.
    • (SS) Atmos 07:00 1 and 0:800 1 Both nice, and nice enough shadows. Again, nice dusk time light.
    • AvatarOpt. There's one called Analuletia AvatarOpt -- that one's not too good.
    • Fineday
    • Papersnow is nice, but you have to change the time of day on it to get it to look nice. I like it around 9 am.
    • Raymond's Bright and Hazy Day and Raymond's Brighter Day

    That should get you started on windlights. At the very least, play with the time of day. That can make a huge difference in the look of the windlight. If you edit a windlight, remember time of day controls the height of the sun in the sky, so it controls the length of your shadows. Est angle controls the angle of the sun (or moon) relative to the horizon, essentially control the angle of your shadows.

    Feel free to im me in world. All of my flickr photos are done in-world without photoshopping: https://www.flickr.com/photos/myrawildmist/

     

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    Shadow Colors

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    You might want to look at Windlights. You can completely change the color of a scene by changing the color of the light. Here are some samples from my feed, all done in sl with windlights (no post-processing):

    Red: https://www.flickr.com/photos/myrawildmist/26167300879/in/dateposted/

    Blue: https://www.flickr.com/photos/myrawildmist/39960269592/in/dateposted/

    Green: https://www.flickr.com/photos/myrawildmist/30343814805/in/dateposted/

    Inworld photography community

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    There have been a few attempts to start a group like this. In my experience, the groups have faded or just ended up as group of friends. I think it's a great idea. It just would need someone to keep it going and focused, plus keep it accessible to the entire SL photographer community. It can be done, but would need someone committed to making it work.

    My first picture

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    It's well composed. Nice colors. Nice pose. I like the view. Really great first photo. Kudos.

    You can fix the feet by adjusting the hover height. Once you start using PhotoTools, your photography will get better and better.

    Good luck. If you have any questions, feel free to im me.

     

    SL profile feeds seem to be down, again

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    On 11/8/2017 at 7:25 PM, Morgan Rosenstar said:

    The url I provided is the one I see when I hover over the More button.

     

    It's not about the More button itself. It's that my.profile is still crippled with invalid redirects. When I hover over the More button, my web browser is showing me the invalid url I linked... while clicking on the More button works fine and if the redirect was correct, then the More button should not work (or vice versa).

    Ahhh. I see.

    @Whirly Fizzle thanks for submitting a JIRA. : )

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    Introduce yourself

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    I'm Myra. I'm a photographer among other things. I specialize in photos taken exclusively in SL without any post processing.  Why? Because I'm trying to demonstrate we can get great photos in SL, now, without post processing, but also because I suck at PS. : )

    This is my flickr feed:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/myrawildmist/

    I have a show at the LA Club Gallery that's ongoing, right now.

    I have a show at Club LA Gallery, today.

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Amaro/253/165/23

    I also write photography and art articles for Kultivate magazine:

    https://kultivatemagazine.com/author/myrawild/

    I stop in on these forums, sometimes, but rarely see anything related to photography. I'm always happy to help other photographers or artists.

     

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    The best viewer for photography on an Imac?

    in Art, Music and Photography

    Posted

    Hi, Arielle.

    Firestorm is probably best for taking photos, because of the FS Phototools. Phototools gives you easy access to Windlights, DoF, and graphics quality settings, plus a wealth of various other features to enhance your photos.

    I take photos all the time, and they're all done using the FS tools, nothing else. You can see some on my flickr feed: https://www.flickr.com/photos/myrawildmist/

    imho, FS is the best. It can take while, a long while, to learn the FS Phototools, but it's worth it.

     

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