New Avatar Script Limitations???

I don't understand why the scripted copy would need or want to be no mod in that case. Just one copy with an option to quickly remove all the scripts, and moddable.

The one designer that I know of, gave you two versions of the skirt. Both were mod, but one had a resize script in it so it showed as no-mod if you checked perms. She felt it was easier to put in two skirts than to try and explain to people that even though it showed no-mod, it really was modifiable. Now she just says, delete whichever skirt you don't want. When you think about *creation costs*, hers is a simple way of dealing with idiots......... um, I mean people that do not know better. It costs her nothing to drop in a second copy of the skirt w/out the scripts in it.

That clueless avi would be me. Actually I've been around with my original account a bit longer, but am not embarassed to say that I learn something new everyday.

You are on to the key problem with SL and expansion. In it's present form, it is really only attractive to those who like to tinker. To really attract a large population, the platform needs to be more effortless to access. In RL, my car starts (usually) when I turn the key. Why and how that happens does not concern me.

This is actually very very true. When I first came to SL, I learned enough about the Edit window to be able to resize my hairs and skirts and make sure they were positioned and fitted properly. I did not even think of really creating anything until just this year, and my learning is still pretty slow, because it is not high on my priority list. I spent too many years programming in RL to really want to *tinker* that much in SL. SL is my play, my fun, my escape from the daily crud of RL. I want it to be fairly easy. I guess I just always considered the amount of Edit knowledge needed for proper hair and clothing adjustment to be pretty minor and easy to learn. Alas, that is not the case for many others.

Exactly. My emphasis was always on land and (at one point) entertainment. I learned the land stuff inside out (although Elanthius or Raymond can still surprise me with an insight from time to time). For my "projects" I bought the best product that I could find.

Still, just recently I discovered a workaround to the dreaded "server not found" bug in the internet radio that did not require scripting knowledge. I got some kudos for that.
https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=discussions&ItemID=298150

It's interesting -- at least to me -- how people perceive editing hair and clothes. My best friend in SL swears she "can't build" but nevertheless spends ages making small and tricky adjustments to her prim clothes and shoes, hair, and eyelashes till she gets exactly the look she wants. She agrees it's a bit of a paradox, but says she thinks it's more because tweaking her look feels to her more like editing stuff in Photoshop, which she's used to doing for her RL photography.

It was editing hair, in fact, that first persuaded me that building was a lot easier than I thought. Soon after I started I bought some hair that looked really nice except for a few prims here and there that needed repositioning to suit the shape of my face (and, having spent ages getting that the way I wanted, I wasn't going to change stuff to suit the hair, no matter how much I liked it). I was completely overwhelmed when first I looked at it in the edit window -- all those different prims! -- but a sensible friend pointed out that, since it was copy and he'd told me to make a back-up, I needn't worry about making a mess of things -- if I did, just delete it and start over. And when, thus reassured, I saw how easy it was just to pull and angle stuff as I wanted it, I was so pleased!