invisible avatars

One really simple (UI-wise) feature: a checkbox that disables the rendering of your avatar itself. This would allow us prim-avatar-builders to get rid of the avatar rendering without falling back to pesky invisiprims with their big load of problems (clashes with shiny, clashes with textures with alpha parts, etc.).

bye, Barney

if you search the forums for the other 99 times it's been suggested, you'll see the many, many counter arguments against this.

FWIW, tho, I'd agree. But nothing much to do with building. More cuz the other counter arguments gave me evol ideas.

Instead of a checkbox to disable the display of the avatar, an alpha layer on the avatar so you can limit it limb by limb.

Oh, and get rid of the "low end" size limits. They were supposedly there to keep people from playing children, and that has clearly not worked.

Hmm well, I think this would be a very useful feature. The name tag should remain above the avatars' head, therefore people who want to abuse this feature (stalk, sneak around, etc) would be unable to. This could also reduce lag if the popularity of prim based avatars rises after the feature is added... (except of course if the prim avatar is 4k prims...)

Also, I agree, the size limit for our avatars needs to be extended ..except so we can be both taller and shorter than what we are allowed to now.

Well, sure, that would be nicer even - but I would be perfectly happy with the simpler solution.



Yep, that would be nice. Tiny avatars with real joints and not just stumpy arms and legs would be much more fun. And actually if I would just be able to make my hands smaller than they are currently able to be done, I could do some prim-based avatars much better than they now have to be (because prim-based avatars without invisiprims need to be "oversized".

Being able to scale up the avatar beyond the current limits would be nice too. I know a whole group of macro furries who'd like to bend their arms and legs. Not to mention the giant mecha, dragons, and just plain giants who'd like to walk about normally.

It'd be nice to have solid arms for my steam golem, rather than fake ones made of particles, yes...

I am so for the enabling of alpha on skin textures. Please please please!