Ask Jake (Almost) Anything

About half as much as a 1024 will be.

Although I suspect 512's will be much scarecer now that first land is going away. There is just not a lot you can do with 117 prims. Even a 512 size house benefits hugely from a 1024 lot.

As far cost per square meter, I would say about the same, markets are slower coming down than going up. But much will depend on how LL floods the mainland with new sims. Of course open sourcing will radically alter all of this.

No I am not available as an LSL script, though I might be persuaded to work private parties. I also have my own group, ask jake live.

You asked a question, that is enough. You can make as many statements as you like, if your post contains a question.

Terleporitng always works, or walking, or flying. Othewise, click on the search button, go to the places tab, and search for the shelter. If you are lost on the GUI, somone there will be able to help you.

Of course If you cannot even find the serch button, ask someone at the welcome area.

dear jake

ironically, welcome areas can sometimes feel like the most unwelcoming places in second life. why is this?

your humble servant

walker moore (mr)

I think also if you click on your "Map" button, there is a "Go Home" button which takes you to the mainland beginner drop off land... which is also probably the laggiest place on SL.

Oh Emperor Jake, ruler of the anthill and 13 sqm of harvestable stinging nettles, please hear my question:

A dear beloved friend of mine wants to design a corset/waist cincher and wonders, is there a way to set an avatar property (like waist size) by script, so that it could be just temporarily changed while (s)he is wearing it? The LSL Wiki has so far not revealed this secret, appears like searching a needle in a haystack. If the answer is obvious by RTFM, please administer a spanking anyway.

And furthermore, has Colette been promoted Empress and Official Executive Spanker, or why is she allowed to post nothing but "grins" and get away without a spanking herself?

Hail the Emperor!

Then I guess I should trying to attempt making prim shirts and pants.
But then I don't bottom to just anyone, so I keep trying to paste these prims on my uv suit until I get it right and charge a whole lot for it when I do.

I'll ask you.
I have heard that by emptying your inventory into boxes (a concept i kind of like) so you are not "carrying around" so much stuff, vastly improves your overall quality of life in SL by decressing Lag time sig. Is this true??
What are your thoughts about the best things a person can do (including in your preferences) to keep lag at a minimum.
Thanks
Princej3rd

The labs of The Brotherhood of the Twisted Prim are research. currently manufactuing for personal use flour, sugar and various other containment devices that look pretty to store unessential inventories on one's land.
Research is still in progress, but we are distracted trying to figure out thinks like wearable armor, adult clothing that the template choices won't provide, and most importantly curing the disfigured young avatar booby parts with children's prim shirts that don't make the young ones look deformed like the appearance options do.
If you look for my shop in the profile on bdazzle island I have free new updated guide and book that you could use for containment. You can texture item into anyway you want.
The guide is explaination of content tab, land server vs the inventory server.
I heard it works but still research.
At this point carrying items in my inventory take hours sometimes to appear.
It like version of that greyness when you rezz or tp to new place except it has to do with your inventory.
I notice if I go to point a to b, try to find something in inventory I may have to wait for bit to even find that whatever you need that was there in location a, in location b.

wow FD is gonna have one sore behind when I get done whith him/her.

It is a him, I doubt you will every find my butt without my body guards shooting you

rules are rules - your body guards will understand that.

It suprises me too, in all honesty. I am astounded at the number of trolls I hear lolloing about the welcome area looking to pick fights with other residents. I suspect that the closure of the forums means that new residents can be antagonized in world.

In truth however, the welcom are does provide an easy audience for anyone wishing to bait others inot an argument. A lot of people are always there, and most of those people do not know how to teleport away, were to teleport to, or how to use the mute button.
It would be nice if the welcome area was simply a welcome area, but truth be told it will never only be that. It is the unofficial speakiers corner of the SL world. It would be nice if we had a forum (as in an inworld forum) somewhere for public debate, but any such place would never have the captive audience of the welcome area.

Of course the other dynamic is the welcome are serves as a location where older residents can watch, and riducle newbies to compensate for thier own short comings in SL. Or its where older residents can scam on hot newbies, imrepssing them with my knowledge of second....oh wait did I say that with my outside voice?

Really though, the welcome area can be as freindly as the community wants it to be. A little patience and some short coversations about SL can really open people's eyes up. Especially if you have a little knowledge of the things that appealed to you as a newbie. If nothing else direct newbies to places liek the Shelter, where there are residents with the patience to teach, and not just harrangue, new users.

And your question is? I don't mind informative comments like this, but the htread is ask jake anything. Thus all your posts should include a question.

If you were as wise as you want to be, you would not share the spanking expereince with your body guards. Colette is an artist, abd you are giving her a lot of canvass.

I am going to broadly interpret this as a question, since you started with "I think"

I will not always be so generous.

You are correct, at least with resepct to the old viewer. I am not playing around witht he first look viewer and I do not recall if it is the same. I think so.

I do not think there is, or every shoe designer in SL would have sorted it out. I think the ability to tie shape into an outfit is easy enough that you don't need it scripted. If you simply adust your shape to the corset settings and wear the whole outfit. I have never seen anything that adjusts avatar properties in world, by way of script.

Colette has been one of my offcial spankers since the beginning of Ask Jake in the old days. So yes, she is the official spanker. She does have to conform to the rules, but her punishments are a matter of state secrets, and are not discussed in public.

*rubs my sore bottom but stays mum*

Hi Jake,
i hope you can help me. When i go on line at second life everything is fine but for no reason my avatar changes by itself. My features change...my eyes drop down....strange clothing appears on my avatar... what appears to be metal bands are around my ankles....etc.
i have taken off all attachments. i have logged out then back in again. Nothing works...i still have the same problem. i got rid of all the free things i owned and i only wear skin and shapes that i bought.
One mentor suggested that i click on client.....then on character...then on rebake textures. When i do that my avatar is fixed and everything is normal...but then within a few seconds the problem comes back....i'm so sad...boo hoo hoo...can you help me?
thanks.
love from,
tara

It is almost like you have a force shape put on you. I was not aware this could be done.

A couple of things: try changing into a default skin..one of the basic ones you first have. It may be something in something you bought. save the new skin as a seperate shape.

Secondly, when you are looking at your avatar, select hilight invisible in the view menu. this will show if there are any invisible prims attached to you.

Also, try creating an alternate account, and see if the issue is with your client.

When will the server software be open sourced?

When will Havok 2 be implemented?

When will Mono scripting be implemented?

When will the ability to import meshes be implemented?

the software will be opensourced befire any of the others are implemented.

Havok 2 will never be implemented, by the time LL gets around to bothering with the physics, we will be well beyong havok2. Right now, for 99% of SL's actual fucntionality, the Havok engine is not necessary. Games developement has taken a back seat to the education/marketing issues, because frankly, any mahjor coropration who wantes to develope a game will do it on a deadicated platform, and not on a shared one.

Since the SL grid seesm to be about sex, shopping, slingo, tringo, furries and gor, ther eis no need to have a developed phyiscs because flight, driving and combat sims are not where its at in SL.

Monoscripting-I dunno when it will be implemented, or If.

I would have thought the ability to import meshes would ahve been a high priority, as it makes it easier for content creators to rip off all thier textures from turbosquid. I personally would like it, because if I could just import poser skins directly, I would not have to bother with the templates and I could be skin god in a week.

Of course it would make much more sense to have a few additional unspecified clothing layers on the avatar first, that way we would have more places to import meshes too.

Take this out of context and someone might think you were vying for a spot in the SL porno industry.

I have a question re: selling.
Actually it's a couple questions all related.

First,
I would like to allow certain people (temporarily) to be able to
sell their stuff on my land. How can I do this?

I was told that I could just give them permission through a "group"
but I'm not sure how to do this. Is it to do with the Abilities and Roles
and which ones am I supposed to grant to allow them to do this without
editing anything else? And after a certain period they couldn't do it anymore.

Second
If I give them permission to move or edit specific prims that I have
created will that affect who gets the money? (As I said I want them
to get the money they deserve. I'm simply allowing them someplace
to sell it for a short period.) Or will THEY have to create the prims
themselves in order for the payment to go to the right person?

Third
I know there are "rental" type scripts out there that can sorta control
this type of "access" but I didn't think this was necessary. After all they
aren't really renting a piece of my land, more like spots on my wall
and floor. And it wouldn't be just one prim but a few.
Do I need some type of script that allows my prims to be
modified so that they can receive the payment (and still be able to
edit certain objects)? Like a vending script? or a comission script
set to give them 100%?

Thanks
Jaden

One might note that advanced physics are used most notably in DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball. If soft body simulation was implemented, it would see instant adaption in the porn industry.

Predicting the uses of technology is tricky, until you actually do it, and get to say how obvious all those things were in hindsight. We wouldn't have online shopping without public key encryption, which is still pretty obscure, even today.

Pornography tends to be on the very atomic wavelength bleeding edge of technology, as it always has been. It's interesting that the in-game sex industry has even evolved to the degree it has today with the very limited resources available.