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Nyx Karas

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  1. Well, I figured leopard might be close enough. Sometimes you gotta make do with what you have... SL unfortunately lacks a lot of specific things that I would've loved to have. Mind if I ask what mesh avatars you have seen btw? Do you have a store or creator name? And you could mod the cougar avatar if you want spots. Find some grayscale leopard spots texture, apply it to the avatar's bodyparts and tint them to the right shade of black. I've done that myself to make it into a snow leopard, and jaguar would probably work even better looks-wise. The spots won't be perfect, you'd have to photoshop your own texture to get the correct face markings and such, but it should look pretty decent even without that, and on a black panther it won't be as noticable anyway.
  2. Have you looked at the quad avatars that are already out there? Like Lost Ferals, The Werehouse, or a modded TWI cougar?
  3. I'd want avatars for various were-animals that aren't wolves. Werefoxes, wereleopards, other werefelines, werehyenas, and all sorts of other species. Basically anthropomorphic animals that are more realistic and more 'monster'-like than the average furry. Also, actual feral, quadrupedal animal avatars of different species and looks and sizes. They'd all be huge, difficult projects to make, most likely, but yeah. Very hard to find good ones.
  4. 1. I have lots of characters, but all are female. 2. No. There are sexist individuals, in SL just like everywhere else, but I don't feel the community as a whole is sexist. 3. Not in the slightest. I have never felt the need to play a male character, because I feel there's nothing I can't do as a female. 4. I think SL is way less sexist than the real world. In SL, no one can your force you to anything, there are no physical limitations, and there don't seem to be any real sex/gender imbalances when it comes to positions of power, earning money, careers and such. All those things are problems in RL, but in my experience they don't apply to SL much. I don't care if some individuals are jerks, as long as they can't hurt me or stop me from doing what I want.
  5. Tamara Artis wrote: They cause less lag (I tried it on my old laptop, if i had 5 people around me with mesh items everyything is fine, if i had 5 people with normal clothes and prims it would be like a slowmotion) It's been the opposite for me. When I use SL on a (new and quite fast) laptop, turning mesh on makes it start lagging immediately. If more than one or two people wear it nearby, I can barely move or type. It sucks. Another problem I have is with the alpha layers. For one thing, they tend to glitch, so I still see parts of skin or clothing layers cutting through the mesh, often flickering in a very annoying way. I'm also usually on a viewer where you can't add several layers of clothing and alphas, and I tend to already use the alpha layer for something else, like prim bodyparts. I don't like things that mess up my avatar shape either. I made her shape the way I want it to look because I like it that way. And because I roleplay, it doesn't make sense if my character randomly grows bigger boobs or loses most of her waist. Probably not something most people pay attention to, but it annoys me. You can't really edit mesh much either, and I love playing with my stuff. Still, I'm all for mesh really. It moves nicely and offers more options and variety, which is always good. And I love my mesh hairs. But I'm sticking to regular clothes until I find some really incredibly, awesome, must-haves.
  6. If you're just friends and not even dating, I don't understand why he thinks it's any of his business at all, lol. Sure you can compromise sometimes in relationships, if something is more important to your partner than it is to yourself, but in this case I'd tell him to go f*** himself.
  7. Freelance escort? Maybe dancer at some club with a 'come and go as you please' policy where you work for tips? Pretty sure I've seen ads for places like that. Or try thinking of something else you find interesting that you could try, besides building. Like textures, animations, scripting, photography.
  8. Nyx Karas

    Login failed?

    I can't log in, and I keep getting the error message "login failed", which is not very helpful. It only happens on one account. I can log in on other accounts, on the same region, and I have checked the password several times. I can log in to the SL website with no problem. I have tried to change the login location too, but it doesn't make any difference, and the same regions work for other avatars. I can't log in to the account from other computers either, and I have not recieved any emails about being banned, not in my inbox and not in my spam box. I have never been a premium member so it shouldn't be a payment problem. I have tried restarting the computer and nothing changed. And the contact support thing doesn't offer any options where I can pick 'login problems in viewer', just login problems to website. I have NO clue on what else I should try. Edit: Okay thank you, that must have been the issue because it's working again now. Seemed very odd when it only affected one account, but it doesn't matter now.
  9. Yes, it can be. A modern setting, with sky scrapers, cars and whatnot, and also elves, orcs, dragons, magic. Shadowrun is a very good example of that, unfortunately I don't think there's any sim for Shadowrun RP in SL at the moment. For the OP; it would help if you specified more exactly what you're looking for. What type of fantasy you're looking for, if you want or do not want a sim that uses meters. If you're looking for paragraph-RP or something simpler. If by modern you mean current day modern, or dark, dystopian, sci-fi. Post-apocalyptic maybe. But either way, here are a few suggestion I could think of. Fallen, City of Charm. (Magic. Angels, demons, vampires and other supernaturals) Ascension City. (Magic. Demons, vampires, mutants, and other supernaturals) Heretic Pass. (Uses meters. Pretty much anything goes.) I'd love to hear of other places myself though, and it would be fun to see a modern sim with more classic fantasy elements and races.
  10. It's over a year old, actually... Still, never know, but it's probably a better idea to IM the OP inworld.
  11. Me and two friends were just discussing this today, and one thing we all wanted to see were more, and higher quality of desert-type clothing, especially outfits suited for bandits and such, clothes that would fit into Wasteland-kinda sims and RPs. Outfits kinda like, http://www.freewebs.com/stolen_random_character_second/desert_bandit.jpg or, http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110115204511/princeofpersia/en/images/3/33/Prince_of_Persia_prodigy.jpg More high-quality fantasy clothes in general, and for females specifically clothes that are not either super-skimpy silks or full, fancy, expensive-looking gowns and dresses. Also, more animal avatars. Feral ones of more different species, and good anthros that look more lycanthropic or monster-ish than cartoony. I guess that's a different topic, but still throwing it out there.
  12. Pamela Galli wrote: Nyx Karas wrote: And either way, no one is making you do anything. You're free to ignore people. Not exactly. I hear the IM bell ring, I must stop what I am doing in the store or in Blender, and check my IMs for the new message (which is often "hi" or "r u there?" which means I must inquire further to elicit the question). So even if I do choose to ignore the question, it interrupts my work. Probably some merchants are not so busy that such interruptions have become a real annoyance, but I would advise everyone to err on the side of good manners and not interrupt people in order to beg. If they are selling something you want, either buy it or do without. Well, as I said, it's hardly begging to ask someone what skin, shape and whatever they used for a certain avatar. And I'm amazed you had the time to make several posts here, while also not in any way helping the OP. Now I shall try this 'ignoring' thing on you, and look! It's already working.
  13. I don't think asking a creator what parts they used for a certain avatar model is unreasonable, which is pretty much what a style card is. It would hardly be the same as asking to be given the whole outfit for free. And either way, no one is making you do anything. You're free to ignore people.
  14. Pamela Galli wrote: Nyx Karas wrote: Well in that case I'd just message the seller and ask if they could give you the style card anyway. Curious why someone would go to the trouble of making a style card and putting it up for sale then give it to some stranger for free? Don't ask me, I'm not doing it. But occasionally people are nice for no reason.
  15. Well in that case I'd just message the seller and ask if they could give you the style card anyway.
  16. Apparently a style card is already included with the outfit, so, buy it?
  17. My favorites are Ploom, Plastik, and RedMint. Not overly detailed and not completely photorealistic, which I can't stand. I like skins that don't show every pore and random birthmark. And skins that don't look like they're porn stars covered in oil in front of a spotlight :smileytongue:
  18. Make outfit folders. One with the prim avatar, and one with nothing but alpha layers. Then just go 'replace outfit' when you want to change. I can't think of any reason one would need a more complicated method, but maybe you've tried this and it doesn't work for you?
  19. You can set the viewer to show the RGB values of whatever your cursor is hovering over. It's extremely helpful. In Phoenix it's Advanced > UI > Show Color Under Cursor. ETA: Of course the color will still look different depending on lighting, but at least then you -know- you got it right, so you can tell other people to shut up ;P
  20. Something I've been looking for since the day I started RPing in SL, and still haven't found, is a proper werecat avatar. Like all those werewolf avatars you see out there, but feline. All fierce and dangerous-looking. Particularly some big cat species like leopard or snow leopard... No idea how complicated it would be to make one, maybe too much so. Still figured I'd put it out there. ;P I really should try to learn some mesh-making someday, it seems like so much fun...
  21. I got in after entering another sim name to log into. So some places seem to be working.
  22. Innula Zenovka wrote: Syo Emerald wrote: When ever it comes to the point were people speak about their viewers in local chat, the group using third-party viewers tend to look down at those using V3. Depends who the people are, I guess, but the only people I run into who ever seem particularly bothered about which viewer others are using are die-hard Phoenix users (and, to a lesser extent, Firestorm users). I've only seen this attitude from V2/3 users, personally. The whole 'Phoenix users are stupid people who can't adapt to change'-thing. It doesn't particularly make me feel more positive about the official viewers. I will stick to Phoenix as long as I possibly can. It's partly the UI, as the V2 was absolutely horrible, and the Firestorm UI being quite horrible too. Haven't tried V3 yet, so can't say. But also, because Phoenix has features that I really want to keep. The radar I can't live without, and being able to move around, TP home, set draw distance with key shortcuts is incredibly useful, and temporary texture uploads save me a lot of headaches too
  23. Then there are RP sims where the no-fly setting is for newbies/unapproved characters and characters that can't fly, and those who can fly are encouraged, or even expected, to bypass it. I just hit ctrl alt V, as I always have. Didn't know the official viewers had removed that, yet another reason to stay away from those.
  24. Rin Tae wrote: Interesting that you would get complains about it. I don't remember when I have last seen a non-mesh viewer. Phoenix has disappeared from the sims I tend to visit and when I see someone with a phoenix-tag I consider it the same as I would when seeing a more exotic viewer. Also Imprudence and Cool Viewer vanished and so far it seems to be that most people who use TPVs have opted for Firestorm. Me too (since it was out as the first beta version) as it is a nice and well working viewer. I would only change to non mesh outfits (I just got a great mesh dress that fits me perfectly ) if mesh viewers would be in a minority. But as far as I can tell, the other is true and non-mesh viewers geting more rare every day. At least in the communities I tend ot be active in and maybe there are others where this has not yet spread into. Phoenix has mesh too now btw. It's still the viewer I see used the most by people I hang out with, so, that mesh update was probably a good thing. I absolutely cannot stand Firestorm or the official viewers, so I know I'll be sticking with Phoenix until it either dies in one way or another, or a better option appears. Complaining about what other people are wearing is just silly either way, shouldn't be any of their business unless it's something that really ruin things for them. But it's likely a temporary problem. Eventually, the vast majority will be on mesh viewers.
  25. It definitely seems like a good way to do it. *nods* Good luck on your continued work. Now if only someone, some day would try to make were-animals other than wolves ;P I'd love em forever. Just saying >.>
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