Zed Avedon

I have always ran SL on a large desktop Today i installed it on my new wee 14" Asus Vivobook which went really well. I only have one suggestion or query .. can the camera have a 'mini' option, where only the necessary stuff is shown and in a smaller format? It looks to me like everything on the viewer fits nice to the smaller scale, but that the camera dialog remains comparatively 'giant size'. Thanks for any tips, or for making this a thing in future!

Why on the same plot do these horses cast different shadows? .. as you can see, one is cast well, while the other only gets the saddle and tail cast shadow. Anyone know the answer to this mystery?

Ah.. the shadow is 1 click on/off .. but to get the menu for changing eyes etc is a double click on the shadow. (a fast double click) While it does work well, i would agree that i went too far.. its not intuitive to require that. Sometimes my trickiness in order to save a prim gets in the way sorry!

Good Morning! ..i will go and put on the avatar and give you a proper 'checked out' answer .. i have built so many animals and they are all a little different .. and definately i built one that had a click-on / click-off shadow, so that made sense when you described it... but maybe it wasnt this avatar after all(!). I admit the way i tried writing the notecard for the avatar was not ideal at all! OK .. back in 10mins! ....(runs away inworld)

BE IN TO WIN! New laptimes are being registered all this week at the Realistek store! Use our wandering horses! Last weeks winners were: baddaddead 500L BaskervilleCat 500L DunkanMcClaud 50L chegevarra 50L KattyLizBeth 50L sirSidVicious 50L Coteex 50L kittikatt2017 50L Depilator 50L Qasimodo 50L Congratulations!! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hunder/213/179/1801

Kocmocc 500L, Altmaniac 500L, chegevarra 50L, baddaddead 50L, BaskervilleCat 50L, Qasimodo 50L, DunkanMcClaud 50L, Coteex 50L, sirSidVicious 50L, kittikatt2017 50L, http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hunder/214/179/1801 Go to the above link and pick one of the wandering horses. Run around the lap course with a friend! People say its its a lot of fun! Every registered time gets a prize on the following Monday! Congratulations and thanks to the participants above!

Lap times acheived: 0 min 51.1 sec - , BaskervilleCat Resident, 0 min 51.2 sec - , Altmania Resident, 0 min 51.5 sec - , Coteex Resident, 0 min 51.7 sec - , DunkanMcClaud Resident, 0 min 52.0 sec - , Evilathan Resident, 0 min 52.2 sec - , Qasimodo Resident, 0 min 52.3 sec - , chegevarra Resident, 0 min 52.5 sec - , kittikatt2017 Resident, 0 min 52.5 sec - , KattyLizBeth Resident, 0 min 52.9 sec - , Altmaniac Resident, after the draw we have: Altmania 500L, Evilathan 500L, BaskervilleCat 50L, Coteex 50L, DunkanMcClaud 50L, Qasimodo 50L, chegevarra 50L, kittikatt2017 50L, KattyLizBeth 50L, Altmaniac 50L, CONGRATULATIONS! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hunder/213/180/1801

Register a Lap-time at the store track using one of the wandering horses at Realistek! All week, times are being set! Everyone wins lindens! Next draw in 7 days! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hunder/214/178/1801 2nd Nov winners: CepXep 500L, SatanaClaus 500L, Schapoklyak 50L, chegevarra 50L, Kalligulla 50L, Coteex 50L, MouMup 50L, baddaddead 50L, Kocmocc 50L, DunkanMcClaud 50L, ...Congratulations!!

Sweeettty 500L OlafEvil 500L 8c71c634 50L Qasimodo 50L Coteex 50L BaskervilleCat 50L SatanaClaus 50L baddaddead 50L Kocmocc 50L Schapoklyak 50L Congratulations! ... Come join in for this weeks competition! (use one of the wandering horses in the store to register a top ten laptime - bring a friend! - its a fun challenge!)

I imagine a region that can show compliance with (some specified) lean building practices, can be denoted as 'VR accessible'. Of course this would be awesome to experience (even if a 'club scene' was out of the question). Avatars too would have a rating target to aim for. An extra benefit would be to make lean building something to be prized?

Register a top ten laptime at the Realistek Store to win lindens! New draw next Monday .. everybody wins something! Use one of our wandering horses that are roaming around, practice a bit, then get a friend with you to set a laptime. Its fun and easy! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hunder/212/178/1801

I have built a 'lap-time' racecourse at the Realistek store! http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hunder/214/181/1801 The idea is that you come over and get on one of our wandering horses, and get your name in the top ten list. You need to have a passenger on the back so bring a partner, and then swap so that you both are in the running! Click on the race-board for more info! There are three empty spaces in the top ten list at the moment, so any lap time will have you in the draw! Good Luck!

from where im at i dont think thats true. Wordpress and a billion pluginsa are free including woocommerce. To have wider functionality they hold back a few things to encourage some small payment .. but its all free or roughly free once you have hosting which is also quite cheap if on a shared plan. But im only 6mo into this stuff .. theres a lot i dont know :)

idk what the new word would be! But i have a possible new direction .. using youtube keywords: shortform, form with payment, .. these may end up getting me where i need to go.. it will take a week to try and see (!)

Thanks Maryanne, of course i will take a look!

I know SL users are a very clever bunch.. im hoping one of you can point me in the right direction! Im trying to build a subscription website. I need the simplest type of button (from a static wordpress landing page) .. 'Sign Up' >> user handle/email/password/payment info >> into members area. Simple right? But it seems every plugin needs the Wordpress login first, and then offers so many payment levels etc etc... I would prefer to not need the Wordpress top toolbar at all .. just a standalone simple 'signup+pay' button. Am i crazy? .. i cant find any plugin that does this simple 'paid up member login with username/password' thing. Am i using the wrong search keywords on YouTube? (i tried leaving out the term 'wordpress') Moderators .. if this thread is 'not ok', could it simply be locked, allowing users to im me inworld? I dont mean to upset anyone! .. Best answer gets something really cool from my SL store! Thanks for any help! -Zed

When i say promote it with some 'freak' or 'edge' .. i mean do not omit the 'self exploratory' dark side of SL.. its attractive in that it allows for the first time in a powerful medium for folk to explore their own inner buttons/ fetishes .. what are mine? why are they there? so i can safely explore that in a virtual reality? It is so unique as an opportunity. If i see a promo for something with flowers, smiling happy people on a sunny day, or happy nightime clubbing it only tells me to avoid that as a possibly 'interesting' thing. But also do not show me a 'ghoul' .. way too childish! .. maybe the whole task is the perfect picture and tagline that is exciting but not offensive? Yet maybe being offensive enough to cause a stir and get peeps talking? Its easy for hetero folk to be pilloried for physical expression in the media today. So maybe take the angle of gay and trans expressive avatars! The message being that if that works then hetero stuff will be ok too Yes.. i dont know .. just thinking it through from my own perspective!

i agree about different approaches to entering being available, or a step system so that the most intrepid folk can come back to the steps when they eventually get frustrated. I imagine a team focused on 20 'interested new prospective residents' being quizzed to pinpoint the exact moments of percieved hardship and actually addressing that in a clear & measureable way. Then i also agree with a less than g rated promotion. It doesnt have to be creepy, but definately dont make it look like its 'good clean fun' .. what a turn off! .. nobody wants that.. getting freaky, edgy an adult is part of being entertained. OK .. well i hope to see that curve bottom out at some point.. its STILL an amazing and interesting new medium .. so many possibilities/narratives .. keep letting non users know it!

The strength of SL (today & for at least the next half decade) I think is clearly stated in that the decline in users is so v - e - r - y v - e - r - y s - l - o - w . People REALLY like it here! It tells me there is currently not an effective plan where it comes to attracting & keeping new visitors. Im no expert, but im offering a starting idea. Add yours if you have a better one! I would establish 2 teams at the lab.. give them an equal budget, and get them to compete for attracting & retaining new signups at two different New Citizens locations. To begin with they could brainstorm approaches as a single group, then pick two main concepts, and divide themselves into two groups according to which idea each person is most betting on. An enjoyable competitive employee challenge with a 6month or 1 year time frame? Am i mad?

I agree that if it was even a bit possible, it would be awesome to use VR in SL. Now that the VR tech has come along so much, and that the Lab has a number of experts in the field, could they not start a few 'VR-only islands', ones that require extreme lean building techniques, and still get a better result than all the platforms that insist on absolutely vanilla content? I saw one little brown fox jumping through hoops in VR, and that all the little brown foxes i ever need to see (!).

FYI Realistek (my brand) also makes wearable and vehicle horses. The wandering vehicle type ones are expensive (12K) but do allow anyone to ride them. They also wander and graze around as horses do. You can see and ride them at my shop in Hunder. Because they are 'vehicle' horses (like an SL car) anyone can ride them .. but you cannot use them anywhere you like in SL as they must be rezzed on the ground (at your place). They also have 4 gaits (!) .. if you press to move as per normal, then lift and replace your finger (within 1 second or so) on your forward arrow the horse goes faster and to the next animated gait. It does a bunch (come, stay, wander etc) but i wont over explain that here The wearable ones can also come with the wandering function (also at 12K) but can only be used by the owner (because they must be worn). The advantage to wearing a horse is that it can be used anywhere in SL, teleport with it etc. And finally my simple wearble horse (about 5K) looks the same as all the above but is made to be the equivalent to how typical SL horses work (no wandering). It does also do the 4 gait thing tho if you set it to that. Some folk think my stuff is expensive, but it took me a full year to make these so i dont mind charging something (!) . Also i value my skills as an artist!. Script and texture efficiency/ land impact has also been a goal. OK ..i hope all this helps you understand the options. here are my links if you would like to see/ read up about them .. And a final FYI .. the 'saddle vehicles' for the wearable horses allows you to take two friends with you .. thats 3 on the horse! .. im very proud of my build :)) marketplace: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?utf8=✓&search[category_id]=&search[maturity_level]=G&search[keywords]=realistek+riding+horse inworld shop: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hunder/236/184/1801

I made a centaur recently and had to make a decision about height (the centaur does work with the sliders, but only a little). So .. I used the SL library avatars as the current suggested height guide. They are all 'of a size' smaller than we are used to in many SL sims over the last few years. I think that is good. I think guys in SL incrementally get taller over the years in an effort to be 'tough looking' or however you like to refer to that. So I see the smaller default avatars as a useful nudge from SL to gradually encourage shorter avatars again (and in line with Pennys sensible suggestion for many years!).

I'm trying to give windows a go so that google don't have all the pie. I just tried MP, it loaded but when I clicked on a featured item, I closed the window after 30 seconds of waiting. The rest of the web works fine for me...but.. When I first started up the internet on this machine it was iffy.. got stuck a lot. The computer guy said 'use chrome' , but I said 'I cannot believe Microsoft is incapable of building a decent browser' .. & I took the computer back for them to look at. We changed the server it uses.. the 'http proxy' or something to the google one, and now it works well everywhere (except on MP). So.. I'm glad to not be owned by google for a while(!). But the MP website needs a little simplification done.. maybe each category needs a 'website' of its own or something.

as pert the title.. I'm writing while waiting 4 minutes for the next MP page to load. This cannot be normal. I have a new powerful computer running Windows 10. Everything is speedy everywhere... Except Marketplace... its as tho its getting stuck.. each page request takes 3-4 mins. omg .. venting(!:)

aw sweet! .. thanks for the invites .. i will come over to visit both places