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    Firestorm doesn't remove HUD

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Jenna Huntsman said:

    why not use llDie()? This does not require any additional permissions, but functionally will detach the HUD (It would also delete it from the user's inventory

    I've never seen that functionality with llDie() before nor do I see it now.

    Buy Fee Change Discussion

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Lucia Nightfire

    1 hour ago, Mega Larsson said:

    On the huge jump in fees...this is just highway robbery.  I know of no financial institution that exploits its customers in such a way.

    Do you not pay utility bills?

    Do you not pay medical bills?

    Do you not pay for gas for a vehicle and car/truck payments?

    Do you not have a checking account with a bank?

    Do you not have a credit card?

    Do you not have a cell phone?

    Do you not buy food or products?

    Do you not have a Netflix or a Steam account?

    Do you not play games/MMOs that offer tokens, DLC, loot boxes, a marketplace and/or account types?

    The world and/or life is highway robbery these days. ☹️

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    Animation system update?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Lucia Nightfire

    11 hours ago, Coffee Pancake said:

    Animations are not synced via the servers. The instruction to play an animation and a viewer having that animation file on hand to play are unlinked and always unpredictable. Hence all TPV's having a sync anims feature (that just resets all animations to start playing on the same frame).

    Any conditions in SL where animations are in sync between viewers (let alone between avatars on a single viewer) is entirely luck.

    That's why with the furniture engine I created, I added animation preloading capability. It helped cut down on the need to resynch animations.

    AFAIK, I'm the only one in SL doing that.

    Animations still need global start reference, though, so anyone entering a region and/or bringing avatars/animesh into their FOV/interest list see them correctly between couples or groups. This, among other animation parameters that we also need the ability to control/override.

    Is Kemono controversial?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    The kemono body alone is flat, but can be made to look curvy and you can even buy mods to make it more curvy/thicc to convey a mature body.

    Here is me wearing the kemono body with ABC Bouncy Boobs and M4 Chibi head:

    https://gyazo.com/c8af59a86a579dd74319f1e5f0cdf971

    Here is me wearing the kemono body with the fitted torso mod and ASR Aeon head:

    https://gyazo.com/b9aadb806ab1bdba5f37199092db1377

    I've seen people use the Maitreya Lara body as a child avatar and child clothing with slider usage to explicitly give that look, so the door can swing both ways with some bodies.

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    Animation system update?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Mollymews said:

    my suggestion is that New Animations and Old Animations would be incompatible. If play a New Animation then none of the Old Animations will play on the avatar

    over time pretty much most people would switch to the New Animations

    I say we go all in and offer custom skeleton capability, rag doll physics, colliders, etc. (like any UN/UR backed MMO) and offer a new animation protocol that works only with that form factor and not with the older static bone layout bento skeleton.

    Over time, people would transition to all new content using the newer standard.

    The platform would support both models for a period of time, then cull the old standard.

    LL will establish life expectancies for ALL features where a new standard WILL replace the old one at some designated point in the future with announcement of any impending change(s) years in advance.

    Users will finally understand that their content and/or its functionality/support is finite regardless if they spent $1, $10, $100, $1000 or more for it over the years.

    Madness, I know.

    One of the biggest banes of SL evolution is this ridiculous facet of maintaining support for all content ever created and all features implemented forever. FOREVER...

    Content and feature standards NEED to be finite and evolve or die. Period.

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    Auto update map tiles

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted · Edited by Lucia Nightfire

    44 minutes ago, Quistessa said:

    But if they actually store the tiles on the asset server, why do we need a 3rd party api to retrieve them? sounds fishy to me.

    Because llGetEnv("region_image_terrain"), llGetEnv("region_image_objects") & llGetEnv("region_image_parcel") don't exist yet.

    There is neither a llRequestSimulatorData() or World API means to get them remotely either.

    The UUIDs are being generated by LL's map service, though.

    Problem with many/most third party sites is they do not poll/save that data daily. Girdsurvey does it every 3 days.

    I've brought this issue up at the server meetings a few times and @Rider Linden has stated he'd like to offer access via LSL at some point in the future.

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    script to change mesh shape?

    in LSL Scripting

    Posted

    UUID flipping mesh is no longer possible.

    It was possible during the beta period and allegedly the first week it was released on agni, but it was stopped as it easily facilitated IP theft.

    There have been requests to bring it back in a controlled environment but developers do not like the potential impact it could have on the asset servers, the CDN service and the physics engine.

    New SecondLife.com homepage

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    The money spent on that photo shoot could have been better spent prying open @Rider Linden's schedule to work on script features that would make existing content more efficient and/or allow creators to offer completely new content, both of which would pay back the initial investment n-fold. If LL wants to attract new users they need to start offering content creation features competitive to other MMOs because what we have available in SL has been severely lacking for years.

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    New SecondLife.com homepage

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    34 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:

    Well I tried to get to the home page in various ways and EACH time it redirects to my account backend page.  So I am not seeing what you guys are seeing apparently. Maybe just a test. Odd though not to have a 'welcome'. page. 

     

    AH 

    I went there in EDGE (new computer an only use Edge when I can't get there any other way). And THEN I can see what you are talking about. Apparently if you have cookies on and account it takes you to your account page?  Odd for sure (long time long ago webpage designer ).

     

    I turned off cookies so it didn't go to my account. Didn't want to have to log out then back in.

    Buy Fee Change Discussion

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Angelina Sinclair said:

    So today I figured out what I'll be doing. Since the people I am renting land from are offering a paypal option to pay for tier with I'll be doing that from now on.

    LL won't get a cut of me buying lindens nor a cut of the cash when my landlord cashes out. This will save me money in the long run.

    Curious which landlords are now offering such payment options.

    Also, curious how long before LL changes their ToS to try and deter it, heh.

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    New SecondLife.com homepage

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Lucia Nightfire

    1 hour ago, Milk Pixelmaid said:

    The new homepage features the shiny new blue logo! What's up with the picture of a real person, and not an avatar?

    These days it costs far more to buy a mesh head, body, skin, makeup, clothing & accessories than to just hire a RL actress in cosplay to take a pic? 😆

     

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    Animation system update?

    in General Second Life Tech Discussion

    Posted

    There have been several requests and threads over the need to evolve the dated animation protocol.

    It's been brought up in the Content Creation meetings many times as well.

    Vir Linden is not sure how to introduce a new protocol without breaking the older one nor how to run both in tandem or allow priority of one over the other.

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