Avatar Mesh Effects, yes or no...

Dear Community,

This is an issue that has been bugging me and many other residents. this is the lack of effects you can use on the base avatar mesh. effects such as transparency/invisiblilty; to rid the need to use buggy and terrible-looking invisiprims, Shiny; it would look better if not only the prims on your custom avatar could be shiny, but the whole thing, Avatar Texture Animation/AnimSMOOTH on avatar skins, so you could make your avatar look like its made of liquid/gel/fire.

[edit] Also, Fullbright for toony-type avatars.

i'm sure this small feature update would open a new world of great looking avatars.

Thanks,

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Thanks.

The reason our avatars will never be truly invisible is the problem of griefing. If only for that reason I can tolerate invisiprims.

But as for the rest? I would love to see shiny and transparency.

Texture animation would be nice too.

Man, I could have so much fun with transparency in the avatar texture. I always wanted to do a hologram avatar.

I'm not remotely impressed by the griefing arguments against transparent styling on the avatar. Invisiprims already permit good-enough invisibility, but it only works for griefing on inexperienced users. Show Transparent would defeat the griefing potential with transparent avatars as effectively as it currently does invisiprims.

I'm not going to be happy with avatar customization until we can map shine and transparency on our avatars with the same freedom as we currently have with primitives. I wouldn't mind having to use grayscale "shiny maps" or something for that purpose -- probably would be an even better solution.

Ah, one day, perhaps.

Ok I'm a newbie - how do you "Show Transparent"?

Invisprims really stink to work with, especially since the latest patches. This would be incredibly good to do, and would open up a TON of ideas.

I'm all for it.

Yes, please!

Absolutely!!!

Also I would like to see the ability to move the bones to different positions so that we can make not quite human avatars.

More effectively, actually. Show Transparent doesn't affect invisiprims at all.

As to everything else in your post, I agree completely.

Well people are already allowed to walk around invisible. Might as well just let us disable the avatar and make it so nobody can ever hide their name.

Is the show avatar collision able to see invisible people?

One can do Debug Character Animation Info to see where unseen avatars are, although it makes for a silly display.

it would be great to hear a Linden perspective on this, as to why something like this hasn't been discussed or implemented.

Fullbright avatars would be fabulous. Lots you can do with that.

*gets out a spear, which she starts thrusting into the air while chanting* Shiny! Shiny! Shiny! Shiny!




And yes, transparencies would rock. I mean, people can already hide with animations that put their avatar under the world. Seen it~ You can still see their green dot on the map!

i have a feeling it would have an impact on the performance of the world. I'd like to hear some input from the OpenGL people at LL though for sure.

~Lefty

Mesh effects would be fantastic - transparency and shiny alone would be awesome. Semi-transparent avatars would look great.

Transparency always will have impact on performance, especially with high-poly meshes like SL avatars.

What i'd like to see in option for simple on-off 'transparency' mapping that either defines pixels fully transparent or fully opaque. That's quite useful and good enough in plenty situations, and allows openGL to render such surfaces with solid-like performance. No need for manual face sorting and all that silliness...

keep in mind that the whole reason behind limiting everything to prims is to keep object data as small and to-the-point as possible. No meshes, no points no verticies.

Our avis are the exception to this in order to preserve some sort of detailed human form. being able to edit our avi meshes in real time while 50 other people watch is amazing as it is

~Lefty

I'll take a "fuzzy" shader while we're at it.