Alyona Su

The calling card itself will always show when you're online - it is separate from the profile. As for how it can help track others, there are a few ways - some may still work, others may not - LSL scripting can be used rather creatively. I've owned several estates myself and aware of this, though I figured it's a general discussion so I contributed a general description.

This. 100% THIS. However, if you really are interested in going mesh - Drop TMP from the body list and add Tonic (and promote it above Belleza; experience talking here) - and for heads< Definitely try the Unlizator "Normie" head. BUT ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS do this: Never ever buy anything mesh ever unless you can get a DEMO and play with the demo for all you can - never rush anything. There are lots of mesh bodies and heads, ALL are better than every other one in some respects and ALL are worse than every other one in other respects. You simply must find what works for YOU.

Kill as many kittens as you want. Doesn't matter that it's a necropost: the person reincarnating it is a newbie with only 3 posts. Thus your cute little "greater-than-thou" quip only serves to further 'bump' the necropost, meaning you contribute to your own perceived problem, which must be annoying for you. Therefore I suppose I am annoying you more. *laughs* So, @Littleme Jewel, how about giving MinervaBarnbaum a little break in understanding, since empathy is apparently not one's forte. LOL *This concludes the Intentional necropost bump of this topic*

It's actually a very simple problem and solution. All animations record the "root object" (Avatar center) relation to the zero plane (ground). In SL the Avatar "root" object is the PELVIS. This means that when a person creates an animation that animation also records the position of the pelvis and how high up it is from the ground. If the person making the animation is using a small avatar to create the animation and puts it into SL then a very large avatar uses that same animation - the pelvis will be placed into the same spot. So it works like this: I create an animation and my avatar is 5' tall, let's say my pelvis is 2.5' above the ground. I put that animation into SL. Now let us say you use that animation and your avatar is 6' tall, and pelvis is 3' above ground. The animation will move your pelvis to 2.5' above the ground (because that's where I recorded it) - that will lower you and your feet will now sink into to the ground because when you sit you are not really sitting - only the image you see is sitting (you are still and always are standing) See? So - if you are floating up high when you sit on pose balls and other animations it means you are too TALL. I don't mean from head-to-toe - I mean relative to your legs length, torso length and position of are avatar pelvis. So you can try this: Make legs shorter and torso shorter then make BODY taller (so you appear to be the same height). That will likely fix your issue. If not, then try the more opposite: make body shorter, then legs taller and Torso taller so you appear the same height. Good luck!

This works - EXCEPT you have to do it right: Even if you have ban lines up and avatars outside parcel are not visible: ban lines only go up to about 60 or 70 meters. Once that high anyone can hover over your land. Once hovering over your land they can now see all avatars inside the land. THUS: set security Orb to be at 50 meters high and the range of 1K meters above and below. That is the only way to have "proper" security on your land. As for OP Question: The one thing everyone forgets about is CALLING CARDS. I do not need a tracker for you. At least not if I have your calling card: I will always know when you are online and I don't have to chat you and it doesn't matter if you are hidden away in your preferences. And calling cards can be shared with *anyone* - they always are full permissions. There are many so-called "hacks" for SL, but they aren't hacks, they are left-over features from 2005-2006 that still work as designed and intended. Calling Card abilities is one of them.

Thank you for clarifying this. LOL It always cracks me up when a roleplay sim expects people to fill an application, choose a clan and all kinds of nonsense before even entering the place. I usually just TP out to the next interesting place. I will come have a look-see as soon as I get the chance.

I have the Vista Miriam (Bento) HUD and it has gone through a few updates. It came with a few bento gestures. It used to be you could trigger them manually. Now they will play randomly (you have to turn it on) and at intervals you set. As for gestures (the kind you're speaking) and lip movement: all of that is nothing more than non-looping animations.. So what you can do is copy the Catwa animations into the Vista HUD. In order to get those facial animations to play along with your normal stands, etc you have to set it up in your notecard. Most ZHAO-based AO notecard list the animations like this: [ STAND]stand1animation|stand2animation|stand3animation The way to get multiple animations to play simultaneously is a comma like this: [ STAND ]stand1animation,face1|stand2animation,face2|stand2animation,face3 I know the SINSEHUD does this and I believe the newer VISTA HUDs do this also. Takes some experimentation. But it's how the separate ARMS animations work, for example.

At the bottom of inventory is a button called Received Items. If you purchased your stuff from market Place that is where they go. If you purchased from a vendor or box in-world then you either received a box, which will be located inside the OBJECTS folder, or you received a Folder that contains the items and too many creators are making their folders names really funky so they don;t always appear in proper alphabetical order. Also - sometimes it helps to log off then login again.

Not true. I can rez a prim and add that picture as a texture. The only way you can have it is getting a decent screenshot. Good luck with that.

Oh, you are right - my mistake, Where I said TOS I think I meant to say CS (Community Standards). LOL That's the one that rarely comes up in discussions because everyone pretty much ignores it, I suspect. Hell, most in-comers since 2010 probably don;t even know there is such a thing. *snorts*

The first reply post is the best one. Beyond that, all I can suggest is to try one of the NEW Avatars that you can select from the ME menu (LL Viewer). At least with those one doesn't look so bad and it can make a great starting point for further customization later.

I'm always looking for places to role play and meet people and this sounds interesting, except... You lost me at "fill out an application..." I'll not bother responding to the other "requirements" in order to avoid being negative.

The best photographers will discuss price, etc, but should not get paid until after the work is done and you approve it. Were I in your shoes (with such a need, that is) I would place a request for quotes and part of that would be including a minimum of three sample images of the actual work to be done (not some flickr stream, etc). Because they can show you their pictures without passing them to you, etc., and you'll see actual pictures of the subject you want to be photographed. Then compare those sample images across all responses to the request for quote. That way you're not just basing your decision on price alone. The reason I suggest this is because most self-proclaimed "professional SL photographers" in SL: Are not. They are just looking for ways to make L$. The "best" ones rarely ask much, if anything at all because they do it for the love of doing it and when you love doing it you tend to be the best at doing it. Just sayin'.

Yes, they are fine without me, that is true. Though I suppose I am directing that toward all those sellers who post in other threads about slow-down in sales and other things. Hahahaha. And since I wasn't clear in my own OP, which you quote, I shall do so now: I know this is my own opinion and that it matters not to anyone else and if such opinion causes any eye-rolling then it sucks to be you. Hahahaha!

Have you tried working with it on another sim? Based on what you're describing it sounds like server-lag, actually.

Thread has wandered off into boring la-la-land, so I'll give my feedback to any and all creators who want me to buy their stuff and I always have money burning my wallet: 1) I always shop Market Place first - it's just easier and more efficient. 2) I never, EVER buy anything that doesn't offer a demo - other than a rezzable (vehicle, furniture, etc.) that demo needs to come from MP. if you say "Demo available in-world" - no sale. I am not going to TP to your lag-invested, molasses-rezzing in-world store to wander about for 15 minutes looking for this one demo. If your MP listing doesn't say "Demo Available" in the upper right: I close that browser tab immediately. 3) Permissions: other than clothing, if it's no-modify, it's a no-sale. Seriously: your stuff isn't that good where I can't find a competing similar version from someone else that IS modify (in this instance: I am referring to rezzable stuff, not so much clothing). 4) If you sell multiple versions of the same item (usually clothing stuff): OFFER A FATPACK. I *always* buy the fatpack if one is available (and uses a HUD). If you force me to pick and choose with no fatpack option, chances are I'll just move on. I'm not going to maintain 5 separate copies of the same thing in different colors. One copy with a color-change HUD is what I want. Because easy for me; more efficient. In fact, doing myself a make-over: shopped MP like crazy: grabbed demos (and favorited) hundreds of items, then went in-world and spent the next couple days just going through those demos. Tomorrow (as I write this) I am expecting to throw literally almost 30,000L$ at all those things I've selected as "keepers". And of those 30 or 40 items, guess how many are multiple items from the same creator? Because THAT creator "gets it". A shame because there were a LOT of really great-looking stuff I wanted to try. Most never offered a demo and many were "Demo in world". To those creators, I can only say: Sucks to be you.

I will only say I have done stuff openly since before it was against LL TOS. Now I just do it in private. *snorts*

OMFG I remember that. But not from LL - it was a JEVN Network Vendor plugin you could buy so you could create catalogs and pass them around. I hated those fekking configuration notecards for that JEVN, too. But JEVN was the SHIGHT! Sorry for not contributing anything useful, but I had to comment on that.

You did really good, too. The upside-down pyramid has always made me do a double-take, often with a little snicker to go with it. Attention to detail isn't only about the shape of your face, it's also how wide your shoulders are as compared to your waist as compared to your hips and all the rest. Yah, you did real good. #eyecandy SNORTS OH, and I think the big thing most are ranting over with Giani and Slinks and also Adam, I think are the nipple placement looks to be too wide. I know there are RL men like that, but I think that's not the norm. But having decent shoulder-to-hip ratio trumps all that. Bahahahaha! ~Sneeks another peek at that picture~

I've read the entire thread up to here and now. ALL OF YOU ARE FARKING ANGELS. I mean, really, so tame. I'd probably be not only convicted but immediately tossed into solitary confinement strapped into a Hannibal Lecter rack and gagged just for uttering the words to describe it. /me nods affirmatively with wide eyes and an 'uh-huh, uh-huh'.

Ditto this. Aethstetic can look good as long as you actually try to make yourself look realistic, otherwise, it's just plain CREEPY. (And will need an entirely new head, else you'll look too much like every other". The Giani that I see so many whoop-whoop about isn't really all that. So, what they said (points up to quoted test): Belleza Jake also comes with some awesome-looking skin, too. Though you'll have to buy the applier for whichever head you get (if you choose to go that route, etc.) Slink is "okay" to me, definitely better than Aesthetic and perhaps on-par with the Giani. Obviously, we are all just throwing our own opinions around, so with that said: my vote definitely goes with the Belleza Jake. Oh, and easy to find good clothes, just search Marketplace for "Jake+mesh" and you're all set.

Here's a little feedback from a non-creator consumer: I have the Eve, though I've been wearing the Belleza body for years (I just never liked the Matreya myself). I am heavily-invested in it. And in all that time there was ONE update. And now it seems a lot of the creators adding Belleza to their lines are going to the curvey models (Isis and Freya) and skipping the Venus altogether. So I decided on a make-over as I'm due. STILL don;t like the Maitreya (and besides: I don;t want to be a Doppelganger with 90% of the women in SL) - after looking and reviewing and trying countless demos I decided to go with the new Tonic. Technology-wise it's all there: "Smart Alpha" and "Smart Shoes" and all kinds of things that even Maitreya is still catching up on. ALSO: The Creator's kit is FREE and right there in the in-world shop next to the body vendors - so now if I have clothing that doesn't auto-alpha I can create my own (and way easier to set up than Belleza EVER was). But here's the kicker: Tonic Mesh Creators Kit is available in-store vendor for something like 100L (I could be mistaken, but pretty sure that's what I saw) So here's the feedback: I'm now in the market looking for Tonic-fitting stuff (and most of it I have demoed so far fits amazingly like a glove with ZERO clipping) - I have 30K L$ ready to throw at those creators whose demoes that made my "yes, gotta-have-it" list. This means I am now on the hunt for my short list of "go-to first" creators when I'm in a shopping mood. So go to Tonic store and grab your DEV kit now so I can buy your stuff.

Do you mean road-side parcels of land? Way back in the old days it was difficult to find a place to rez your car. Owning a parcel next to a road was a benefit that you could rez (and park) your car, motorcycle, whatever then just plop up to the road. Of course these days there are a lot of rez zone all over the grid so it's not that big a deal these days. What everyone is looking for now is "protected waterfront" with direct access to Blake Sea. Even though every sim on the Blake has a giant rez zone on it. For some reason people want to live the rich-and-famous life: gigantic house with a yacht the size of an apartment building that they can jump into and head out without rezzing (though they rarely return to park it and just rez another). *laughs*

Make-overs can be so much fun. I'm in the middle of such myself right now, though I'm going solo on it, which takes a lot of time. Good that you hire someone to help you if you're in a hurry and returning from being away (because just catching up can be quite daunting!)