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    The borderline-OCD inventory sorting thread

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Jupiter Firelyte

    I have an organised inventory with categories and subcategories that work for me:

    ! Basic Jupiter -- The items I wear every day, e.g. copies of my system and mesh bodies, mesh head, eyes, body physics, AO, etc. I also have this saved as an outfit with all the necessary HUDs.

    Body

    • CATWA head ORIGINALS
    • Eyes and eye lashes
    • Maitreya Mesh Body ORIGINALS
    • Omega System Kits
    • Skin Appliers
      • Makeup
        • Eye liners
        • Eye shadows
        • Lips
        • Sets
      • Nails
      • Skins
        • Organised in folders by designer

    Then Clothing, which has folders and subfolders. "Outfits" here refers to pieces that came together or were designed to be worn together and don't work well as individual pieces. 

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    I typically keep purchases in a folder that I rename with a description that makes sense to me. I also add tags in brackets to the folders, not only the creator's name, but also keywords like Christmas or cyberpunk. "CH" means Colour HUD.

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    I also have a folder for demos and unsorted items and I make a point to go through my purchases weekly so they don't pile up.

    That's the gist of it. I apply the same principles to the rest of the my inventory (e.g. home and garden). I'm often tweaking it and it's always evolving so as I buy more of something, it may eventually get its own folder.

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    Pondering buying land and/or premium

    in Land

    Posted

    It's worth noting that Linden Homes, which you can't remove, take up an area of 512sqm. You could otherwise acquire a 1024sqm parcel on the Mainland with no Linden Home.

    It may come down to what you want in the neighbourhood. Some people love the diversity of (most of the) Mainland - a rustic beach house next to dance club next to a steampunk air ship next to a castle with high walls. Some people don't like that and prefer a themed and tidy neighbourhood, which Linden Home neighbourhoods are. 

    I live in a Tahoe Linden Home. I'm currently looking for a Mainland parcel, but I do like how tidy, quiet, and low-lag my Linden neighbourhood is. It will be a while before I move out.

    Are we afraid to talk about who creates low lag mesh bodies?

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Phorumities said:

    you aren't trying, you can make a mesh body look almost identical to your original system shape, or at least i could.

    It depends. If your avatar is along the lines of what's popular in SL - the young, very tall, very slim fashion model with eyes half-closed and full lips - it's easier. 

    There are people for whom the avatar is an extension of their "real" selves. They prefer their avatar to look like them. That might mean shorter, fatter, with bumpier curves, a flatter butt, etc. It's not impossible to achieve that with a mesh body, but it's more challenging not only because of the mesh bodies themselves, but also because what's made for them (e.g. skins, clothes) also leans towards young, flawless, and sexy.

    Are we afraid to talk about who creates low lag mesh bodies?

    in Your Avatar

    Posted · Edited by Jupiter Firelyte

    1 hour ago, Nalates Urriah said:

    As to who has the responsibility for content... that is us. Not the Lab. The Lab could go all Blue-Mars-fascist and tightly control everything uploaded to SL. How did that work out? Instead they provide us artistic freedom to create whatever we want at whatever skill level we have. So, as a beginner one can be uploading and enjoying SL. They don't have to spend time tediously learning the fine details of 3D model optimization. That certainly has its downsides. BUT... SL is still here and several similar efforts that have tried to limit content to ONLY optimized content have closed. One learns from history, or they don't.

    I see your thinking about having the 'Lab fix it' as the current day equivalent of promoting the nanny state. People  in favor of the nanny state think someone has to make 'other' people DO IT RIGHT so they are not inconvenienced. They forget large bureaucracies turn into fascist states and force everyone to conform. Creative freedom... well, freedom period... vanishes.

    It's a big leap from 'fix this one thing' to 'remove all creative freedom'. I'm not sure how you landed on fascism, but let me assume that I didn't express myself well enough. 

    I was not referring to content. The avatar is not user created. It's user enhanced. Mesh bodies have become something creators make, and that's fine, no issues with that. But the avatars were created by Linden Lab. The mesh bodies solved some problems, but created others. We've come a long way from Ruth, but mesh bodies show us what's possible. If LL had done this work, we might not have the complicated mesh body system we've got, the fragmentation of the clothing market, the lag/bloat that potentially results from mesh bodies, the increased learning curve, and the poor user experience of landing and seeing half invisible avatars with bits of their bodies and clothes in all the wrong places. Having a more attractive system avatar doesn't impede the ability to create for it. There would still be a market for skins, cosmetics, hair, clothing, Lolas, etc. and creators would fill it, as they've done for years.

     

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    Are we afraid to talk about who creates low lag mesh bodies?

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Eirynne Sieyes said:

    We, as residents, need to be concerned. We need to become educated. Not everyone has high end computers or video cards. SL was always intended for everyone, even those with low end computers. They can barely come here anymore except in low. This contributes greatly to the declining user base.

    If we care about this game, we need  to identify the bloat. If we care, the designers who bloat will begin to address the issue. It comes down to educating users so the designers can do a better job.

    Lag  and mesh bloat are a huge problem in SL. 

    Residents get crazy. They want SL to impose avatar limits; others say it is their right to be bloated, etc. I'm not advocating any of that. 

    But there are standards that professional creators have to meet to keep content to minimum lag.We don't bother. And we keep buying the stuff that bloats us up. Maybe it is time we began to demand that the designers learn build better. 

    If we, the residents, put the pressure on them, we can change the world.

    How do you know that the user base is declining? Has Linden Lab made the numbers of user registrations and active users public? Can we see those analytics over time? If not, anything else is speculation.

    How do you know that mesh bloat is a huge problem? There are many reasons for lag including, for instance, texture bloat, which I would argue is a much bigger culprit than mesh bodies.

    Professional standards? What professional standards? The problem of avatars and mesh should never have been ours to solve. Linden Lab should have taken care of it years ago. The pressure should be on them, not the designers who took it upon themselves to create a hack to improve the appearance of avatars.

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    First Impressions

    in Make Friends

    Posted

    You're not supposed to be doing anything in Second Life. It's not like a game in the sense that there are objectives, missions to complete, or manufactured conflict (though can find that in SL). It's up to you to explore and create your own experience based on your interests. Just like in real life, it can be hard to make friends in Second Life. Because it's so easy to be duplicitous, people can be suspicious. But, as mentioned above, there are places that are good for newbies and also many nice communities. I've always found the steamlands to be very friendly as well as the fishing and surfing communities and fashion circles. There are some bars and clubs that have a good vibe. It just takes time. If you like a place, save it, and return. Engaging with the same folks over and over can lead to friendship. Join some groups and chat. You get to know some fun people that way too. Good luck!

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    Windlight settings

    in Viewers

    Posted

    Hello. I've stepped back into Second Life after six years. A lot is still familiar, but I'm stumped on some other things. I'm struggling with windlight settings. A lot of tutorials, such as this one, are showing the old environmental editor with RGBI sliders. Mine does not look like that. I'm seeing a colour picker. I've got a bunch of old notecards with windlight settings and and I don't know how to translate the settings (e.g. R 0.25). I guess another method would be to download them and install them on my PC?

    I'm running Windows 10 and using the official viewer. Thanks!

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