Ceka Cianci

March 31

8 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Sucks that my "old favorite hair" has that glitch! Hoping I get enough "new favorite hairs" that I don't wear it again.

There is some really good mesh hairs out today that you should find something you like eventually.. Sometimes I can look and look and never find that just right hair.. then one day when not looking, trip over the perfect style..

A lot of flexi hairs years ago didn't glitch because many didn't have the transparency in them.. I remember wearing a lot of the Mermaid flexi hairs years ago..

This is like 2008 and in front of a waterfall that had transparency in it's textures..

My hair would have glitched hard if it had any transparency in it.. lol

March 31

1 hour ago, Jaylinbridges said:

My Alt has been wearing a 2009 designed flexi hair since 2011. I don't see a problem standing in front of windows. It still looks natural to me, and moves when my body or head moves. It took about 300 strands to build this. I attached the Inspect Object window for it, showing only 1 page out of over 5 pages of strands. It adds about 20K in complexity, but no lag I can detect.

It doesn't happen in front of all windows.. Usually if they have transparency in the texture and the flexi has transparency in the strands..

It's basically the alpha glitch that's been around for years.. It can be a wall, a floor or anything where both transparencies clash.

If you don't have transparency in your strands then it probably wouldn't happen..

If you scroll around the head and start to see a razor blade effect. That would be the strands alpha glitching with each other..

March 30

25 minutes ago, nangraciel said:

Where to buy mounds breasts?

you can get those from Soapberry.. this is the slurl for their inworld store.. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Shinigami/49/91/3

You may want to look at Reborns Waifu bewbies also.. Because the mounds are really not adjustable with the sliders.. where the Waifu are more natural and move with the sliders to change the size of, when editing your shape.. Also they move with physics as well ,which is nice..

you can get the Waifu's from the Reborn store.. which here is the slurl for there .. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/eBody/190/65/2002

I would demo both first and see which ones work best for you that you like the most..

March 30

3 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

You could do a similar pic for Furiosa!

OMG!! That was actually something I was thinking about.. And I really love who they have for the full Furiosa movie.. I just love her look in any movie she is in.. She has such a unique look that fits characters..

When I seen her eyes in full Furiosa look, I was like, omg She fits that character to a tee..

Since that first time seeing that trailer, the wheels have been spinning on a shoot I want to set up.. hehehe

March 30

I had someone asking me for help just a couple of weeks ago because their avatar wouldn't rez from a cloud..

It ended up that they had zero inventory structure and over 100,000 items just running flat in their inventory..

We started to set them up a structure and set them up with a raw reset outfit folder, that reverts their avatar to default when they have any problems.. Then had them trying each item on one at a time..

They finally were able to rez and now setting up an inventory structure with sub-directories that don't put such a search strain on the asset server trying to find things in their inventory..

I don't think it's the answer for everyone, but it's a good start for those that might need to set up a good structure..

The raw default avatar reset outfit folder helps with a lot of rez problems anyways and can show where things may start to get wonky..

March 30

2 minutes ago, Qie Niangao said:

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean they copied themselves back. I could drag and drop them from "My Outfits" into another parent folder and they'd move there, so then I was testing whether I could just drag them back from that other parent folder into the "My Outfits" folder, and instead of moving there, they copied, also leaving the copy where I'd put them in the other parent folder. It's fine, just unexpected. (This in Linden viewer 7.1.4.8149792635 )

While wearing an outfit from outside "My Outfits", if I use "Save as…" from the "My Outfits" tab of the Avatar window, it saves it into the "My Outfits" folder (which seems reasonable I guess) and "Save Changes" saves it to whichever outfit folder I wore, so that's fine too.

I too don't see where the outfit title changes but I'm also not sure I'm looking the the right place to see that.

Ahh ok, I misunderstood..

Ya that does seem to happen when I try that.. It probably has something to do with that default just mainly dealing with links or something like that..

March 30

6 hours ago, Gopi Passiflora said:

There's avatars of many different species, but the dominant and most prolific species of avatar are humans, just like in Star Wars. Humans seem to be at the top in both the Second Life virtual world and in the Star Wars world.

Omg , it works exactly the same for the Sponge bob movie!! \o/

March 30

8 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

I remember the "Tank Grrl" picture, I forgot it was you!

Ya, That took me like a week of prep just to find everything, From the weather machine to the hair and all the little things and accessories..

The hair was the last things I think.

This was one of the full images which shows all the things I had to get for it..

A lot of these things will never be made for Lara X, but could find them and still find more things made for Lara V 5.3..

This is the main reason I will never get rid of my Lara V5.3.. There is just too many goodies for that body.

In my eyes, this is what makes it still the best body on the grid.

March 30

10 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

I love modifiable hair. Light blonde or grey can be recolored. I usually buy browns for Persephone, but I like to tint it with a little red. I hate hair covering my eyes, but with some hair I can make that piece transparent. I even copied newer scripts from Escaleted hair into older hair, so the older hair could use their newer color HUDs. I had to rename the pieces of the hair though, so that was alot of work.

My hair from Escalated, No.Match and Mina is usually tintable.

Omg I really miss mod hair.. Being able to just delete parts for hats or work the colors..

I remember doing this picture and having to hunt for hair, then remembered, I would have usually used mod hair for something like this and break it down into strands..

So I did that instead of looking for the perfect fit.. Because sometimes that's all we need is a few strands.. hehehe

Also, we can deal more with the alpha glitching with our brows and lashes, when hair is mod as well..

March 30

11 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

Yeaaah, that's exactly the kind of hair I'm talking about, except imagine it reaching the middle of your back or lower, so no real mesh to speak of. BOM hairbase and flexi only. It's gorgeous and they absolutely nailed the look (looks exactly the same in RL), but the way SL works, it's just hard to pull it off.

Omg there are so many Flexi styles that I wish were mesh.. I see such nice styles any time I go shopping and am like, That has to be flexi, it's too nice and perfect for me!! \o/

I would be in heaven if they came up with some fix or work around that would have flexi bouncing off of us.. Something like a bald cap, but n upper body cap for our bodies that flexi repelled against when it met it.. hehehehe

That or some way to limit the flow where it stops short.. Just something.. hehehe

C'mon LL you can do it!! \o/

hehehe

March 30

5 minutes ago, Persephone Emerald said:

If it were modifiable, it can be any color you want.

As long as they put a really nice white in there which opens up the world of colors..

I love that some do that, where others just know they'd lose out on sales..

Most all hair could be mod like the good ole days, but for some reason, creators fell into the looop of it being the norm now rather than the old norm..

Honestly, I think mod hair, they would get more sales in styles, rather than trying to get us to get each color.. hehehe

March 30

48 minutes ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

Flexi hair is absolutely horrid with all the problems and glitches, however, I kind of get why it's still a thing.

I demoed some in recent history as I was curious to try some new hairstyles out. Flexi is very much still popular with those trying to create extremely long (chest to waist-length) and very thick textured and/or curly styles that simulate real-life weaves and synthetic and human hair extensions. That would probably look hideous if done with mesh. Actually, I have seen one creator attempt something like that in mesh (and other types of textured hair in general) and it was...a thing. Some texture types are doable in mesh, but we're talking like 3b/3c/4a+ (tight curls and corkscrews) and that just looks so much better in flexi.

As for the pricing, I dunno what that's about, but those hairstyles are always in the 400L+ range for single colors. I haven't made hair in a bazillion years and I was solely working with prims, so I don't know how challenging something like that actually is to do. I'd imagine it's not fun with all those dang curls.

The unfortunate thing is due to SL wonkiness, the hair looks absolutely GORGEOUUUUS if you're standing still or taking photos, only. Move, tho... 😭Peeve (I'd rock em if I could!).

Ya, anything flex that I wear has to be above the shoulders and doesn't clip into my face.. I'm too OCD about clipping and fit of just about anything really..

There are some nice styles that I wish they had them in mesh instead of flexi, but many times just end up being flexi and my heart drops.. hehehe

This is one that I do wear a lot and it has it's alpha glitch moments when it gets infront of a window or something like that.. But it really doesn't do it in front of all windows for some reason.. I think a lot has to do on the angle of the curls not lining up to glitch with some things.. but sometimes it will glitch hard like in the image below.. Even my bangs will glitch infront of some transparencies, where other times they won't..

But on the left you can see the mesh base which the flexi is sitting on.. I do love this style and loved finding the bangs I have for it now.. It's costly in rez points , but I usually keep my points lower when wearing these kinds of hairs, unless I'm taking pictures or something..

These are my guilty pleasures where I'll build around the hair just to be able to wear them.. LOL

Then this other one that is really costly in rez points.. But it's good for pictures... That or the beach where I'm wearing way less things.. hehehe

These are more for me than anything and just about any style of any kind that I get, I always think of how it will work in pictures more than how it will look say, on the runway. but still has to be able to move around with it in the world as well.. But pictures come first then moving around world second.. hehehe

I wish we had better options for flowing strands and hair.. something where hair would bounce off of us rather than slice into us..

March 30

3 hours ago, Arielle Popstar said:

When one wears an outfit from anything other than the system outfit folder, the title of it will be no outfit. This is at least in the SL viewer as well as Firestorm.

My titles never change on my outfits if they are moved outside of the default outfits directory.. Maybe I'm not understanding what you are meaning..

March 30

6 hours ago, Qie Niangao said:

Hmm, yeah, and I did this for a while and then stopped and I have no idea why. Maybe I just got lazy. Before I sweep all the ancient outfits in the main folder into regular folders, I just wonder if I'd be causing myself future grief somehow.

The moved-out folders seem to copy back into the Outfits folder (copy, not move, which is okay but slightly weird) in case that's something I'd want to do for some reason.

I can't imagine trying to get along without outfits. Too many dependencies among items, so when I'm dressing "from scratch" I still need to use sub-assemblies of stuff that saved together in one outfit or another. Also, without outfits, how do all the BoM layers know in what order to stack? I don't want to have to solve that puzzle again each time I'm wearing a particular combination of "tattoo" layer stuff.

I haven't had mine copy themselves back into the main outfit folder.. In fact I remember when I first started to use outfit folders.. Each outfit I used to move right away into my RLV outfits folder and used the hud from a collar to get to my outfits, so that I didn't have to bother opening my inventory.. So my Default outfits folder was always empty..

Now I just have the main directories for outfits, in with the mesh body main directory that I have for each of my mesh bodies outfits. I just drag them where I want them to go, I don't copy and paste them..

Reborn has it's main directory which has it's own outfits main directory inside it, Maitreya Lara X has it's own main directory with it's own outfits main directory inside it and so on for each mesh body that I use and have items for..

It just makes it a little quicker for me to find what I'm looking for, rather than trying to structure with symbols and gaps in the default outfits folder..

March 30

1 hour ago, Lysistrata Szapira said:

Apparently this one particular creator thinks people will pay more just because that single color/single style hair is flexi.

Do people actually pay more for flexi hair? Enquiring minds want to know.

Myself, only if it's used in the right way combined with mesh to give the mesh more body and life..

Otherwise flexi just looks like razor blades strands when it alpha glitches with itself as you scroll around it..

Just going to an event like Equal 10 and landing, flexi hair glitches hard with that transparent floor.. like only hair base showing but with a glow from the glitching. LOL

March 29

I wouldn't get one for any reason. I don't even like my phone.

March 29

22 hours ago, Kathlen Onyx said:

I got the new update and am very pleased with the way they fixed the dimples.

Question: Do I need to use a skin specifically made for Lara X or can I use the one that I have for 5.3.

I'm using the Picasso Babe Skin for Maitreya 5.3 (SLIM/CHANTILLY) S

Also the shape is different when I switch. I assume I'll need to tweak the shape on Lara X to get it to look the way I want it to?

I will say when I demoed the Picasso Maitreya v5.3 skins, because they didn't have the lara x demo in them yet. I kind of notice the shine in the tummy, hips and thigh area in the front kind of rounding out to where it felt like the edge of a black hole around my V area..

It felt kind of strange the way the lines moved around that whole area.. I think it's because of that whole area being reworked in the newer bodies..

I kind of had the same problem with my Itgirls Queen line skins for the maitrey v5.3.. But luckily I had the reborn version of the Queen line as well and that worked perfect on my Lara X..

I haven't tried the Lara X version of the Picasso to know if there is a difference in how the shine works in that version.. I'm just going by what I have tried so far.. I should give the demo a try now since they probably have a Lara X version in there by now..

It's strange that they didn't have a Lara X version at first, Since Velour was the one that blabbed first with the Picasso line about a new Maitreya body coming soon that got us all worked up in the first place last summer.. LOL

March 29

On 3/27/2024 at 2:49 AM, Kathlen Onyx said:

Interesting that you should say that. IF they had named it a new body and released it do you think that as many of the creators would have stopped rigging for Maitreya 5.3?

I just think it's the nature of the beast.. There is always a split in the market when a new body comes into play..I don't think a name would have made any difference really.. I was pretty much just being playful when I said that.. hehehe

They knew they would split their own market putting out a new body.. Some are just creating for the new one, some are creating for both and I'm sure some aren't taking on the new bodies.

Wearers were asking for fixes and creators were as well..

Maitreya is still supporting the older versions and have no plans to not support them.. So we might lose some creators with the older versions, but we're not gonna lose them all.. And it's not like the older bodies don't have enough content already.. They have more content than any other body on the grid.. Let alone High quality content as well..

So I don't think the older bodies are gonna be hurting in that department.. You can pretty much find what you are looking for in everything.. In fact the older bodies have things made for them that the newer ones will probably never see, since many don't make those things anymore..

As far as differences in the bodies, there are, but you really have to get in the areas where the older body starts to fail in the sliders to really notice them.. Plus have to really know what those flaws were..

I made an image awhile back that kind of gives an idea of what I'm meaning..

These are all from the same camera angles and in the same shape.. just me switching bodies.

March 29

8 hours ago, Istelathis said:

I was watching a video earlier, and I thought of your post.

I have not used vrchat, have no clue about the functionality, but in one video I was looking at it appears that they have the ability to record from separate cameras.

At around the 3:19 mark you will see what I mean, the avatar seems to reach out to the camera, adjust it, and continues to drive, it appears that they have two cameras in the application, one which they are viewing through from the perspective of the avatar, and a second which is recording. Imagine having that feature in SL, now that would be a real treat, especially if we were to have multiple cameras we could set to record videos from.

The only way I think we could do that currently, is to have separate viewers loaded, with alts acting out the part of the camera, while recording. Even then though, I am not sure if you were using one computer for this, how difficult it would be to record from multiple viewers at once.

That looks pretty neat.

March 29

On 3/25/2024 at 9:21 AM, Charlemagne Allen said:

Serious ideas only.

Give all noobies catling guns and turn on rez on every sim.

Fix what's broken and not what's not broken. That usually works pretty good in most things.

March 29

I just make a folder and then put those outfit folders in that folder.

With so many bodies, I have a directory for each mesh body. In that directory I put say, MAITREYA LARA X OUTFITS..

Then in that folder I put any sub-directories. Then put the outfit folders in the sub-directory that they belong in.

Outfit folders work anywhere that you put them.

March 29

I'm not even sure what a metaverse is and really couldn't care less if it was the best or worse. It's not my race.

March 24

4 hours ago, Ayashe Ninetails said:

Betty White was an absolute joy and I'm still not letting myself admit she's gone!

Both she and Doris Day will forever be alive in the imaginary world I've created for myself.

The older she got, the better she got.. I love when her and Ryan Reynolds did that funny behind the scenes skit on The Proposal, when she flipped him off.. hehehe

I was in tears laughing.

March 23

This was pretty good.. hehehe

March 23

13 minutes ago, Blush Bravin said:

This reminded me of something I've not thought about in years. My best friend's dad was in the Navy. As such, she had access to the base. For some reason we were able to get into the NCO club and drink and dance and we were only 16! We were never carded when we'd go there.

I've had some where I was only 19 and 20 and looked at my ID and still let me in..lol

It wouldn't work in the couple of really big clubs, but a lot of the others that did card me would still let me in.. Girls had much easier time getting into the clubs I think.. hehehe

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