Arielle Popstar

Should see more objects rezz at a further distance but at the same time your FPS drop dramatically depending on how much content is in those regions.

One of my alts has had a big problem getting the Adult rating to stick. Have lost out a few times when people tried to gift an adult item and it couldn't accept them because of the rating reverting to General

Imvu has had a slew of default couple animations available that work great with whatever size the individual avatars are, since they started. Surely if Imvu can do it, S/L can have it too. I believe that during the actual hug, the avatars are reverted to a default shape that then works perfectly with the animations with no pose balls required, simply r-click on the other avatar and select Hug or whatever from the context menu.

Maybe/likely it has nothing to do with any racists overtones and is more about the idea that if the Lab actually has to spend time sorting out a better selection of avatars, it will take away time from whatever other pet projects we individually would rather the Lab would be engaged with. Personally it is my opinion that if this is going to become a typical CF#, then just give new people the old ruth's and avoid any controversy.

But there is a fine line between being quite blunt and being brutal, especially for someone new.

Yes, the first couple pages were good but it was starting to degenerate and I didn't get the sense from the OP that he/she was saying anyone was wrong but just exploring different options and wondering why some who have in past made good money, couldn't be duplicated today. I have a similar way of asking questions or pointing out what appear to be contradictions to what others are saying and it isn't that I would be disregarding the responses but simply trying to cover the bases so I have a better idea of what can or cannot be done. This is especially the case if one poster makes a facetious comment and doesn't follow it up with an appropriate emoji to denote that. That one comment can throw all the previous responses out the window for someone new. Any case I should emphasize that it was just the last few posts, not the great majority of responses in the first 2 pages. I probably knee jerked a bit too quickly and for that I apologize.

Think we need a thread on how we as older forum members can be more positive for new people who are or should be the lifeblood of S/L's continued existence.

Hopes you wore your helmet

You can transfer the Lumiya apk from your Huawei cell to a new android cell without much trouble. I recently had to again for my new LG G8x. The 6 GB of ram on the phone makes the 3d scene load quite quickly. The screen of most phones can be cast in different ways to larger screens, negating the problem of the small screen factor. Not a great screenshot but shows what Lumiya is capable of at least.

I would be happy enough to just have a Grid manager accessible that allows other grids to be added in manually without having to use a hex editor. The way I sort of understood it is that LL's recommendation for the TPV's to use separate code bases for other Grids, was more because of potential conflicts with the planned EEP enhancement and that turned out to be a non issue in the end. Opensim is pretty much up to date with server side support for all the latest enhancements like EEP, BoM, Animesh etc. Older Opensim specific features might still be a thing but majority of viewers still have that code in it anyway unless it was specifically ripped out.

Google "Opensim+Kinect" for some who did some experimenting and coding along those lines with the Microsoft kinect. Link

I used to use it quite a bit back when it still had a Grid manager so as to be able to use it on other grids. Even after the Grid manager was removed, I managed to still make it be able to but eventually having to redo the changes on every new release became tiring and I wound up dumping it as did a few other friends I know. I don't care so much for whether it supports other OS's but I do want a viewer that can be used in other Grids as there is enough differences between Firestorm's and BD's UI that it would be a pain to switch back and forth depending on the Grid being logged into.

Not to pick on you but a couple points on that list would not be helpful. I rather be told if noone else has mentioned a problem because then maybe I need to look elsewhere like reboot router/machine/modem, phone isp and complain at them. Blame microsuck updates etc.

I gain about 20-25% when I turn off water but it is something they are looking into why there is such a difference. Another thing is that turning the graphics slider to minimum actually increases my FPS. It was mentioned the other day that the slider may not work as expected in some cases but its being looked into so don't give up on it yet.

Try turning off water (CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+7)

Well it would require asking Firestorm and hoping it will be allowed under the shared experience requirements of the Lab.

But wouldn't both the sending and receiving viewer need to support it?

we also got along without mesh avatars, bento, animesh, EEP, and a host of other features added in the past 20 years that we would not want to live without today and which were all objected against initially.

From Inara Pey's site : If the work is taken up by an open-source developer it will only be for emoji support in chat; it will not include the use of emojis in Display Names. it makes me wonder if it is viewer code only that needs some tweaking.

Good points about the history as I take advantage of that ability to go afk for a few minutes for some people who i know type slowly.

Considering how often you use them in the forums for your reactions, I would think it would be even for you.😁 P.S If people are actually starting to use Discord in S/L for the ability to have some simple text options, then it really might be an idea to look at updating something that should be reasonably simple to add.

For me I just find text is more immersive and that people on voice are often not really paying attention to what is going on inworld but I suppose judging by the youtube video I just watched, it isn't the case for everyone.

If emojis slow the use of ASCII art emotes, then I am all for it. They are certainly less intrusive as long as it is just the small ones. We supposedly want the viewers updated and yet complain when anyone makes suggestions for doing so.

Well in that case you have the option of the Lumiya viewer which is quite good for a mobile viewer though there are some aspects like animations which no longer appear to work in the 3d scene, though other people see the avatar animating. LL no longer lists it as a TPV but they don't seem to have issues with people using it. I myself log 10 or so hours a week on it. SlideMe still has a download for it and it is the site the official Lumiya site lists as a backup if it is no longer available on Google Play (which it isn't.) That should work fine on your phone though I can't attest to whether it does on the Chrome book. The other option as someone already mentioned is using a live Linux version on a usb stick on your regular computer and downloading a linux release of Firestorm or any other TPV that has one, onto it. I've experimented with that in past and it is a workable option too.

Haven't tried it but there is this fairly recent release for a Firestorm based VR viewer: https://gsgrid.de/firestorm-vr-mod/