Opinions Please

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It is totally subjective of course, and so I'm sure you will get a spread of opinions. I personally don't like rotating signs, and it was one of the few building restrictions I included in zoning when I ran island sim communities a couple of years ago, but we are each different!

edit to add: If one chooses to have rotating signs, I think they look a lot better if they are part of the build (upright support), and not 'floating'.

and also phantom.

Hi CX,


You're nowhere even close to looking like an adfarm, and I wouldn't comment if I was your neighbor but I would change the signs.

I went in and checked out your mall. Like Hiro, I'm not a fan of spinning signs and I don't think it serves any purpose to have them spinning. In fact, spinning signs are so automatically associated with ad farms, I would make them stationary if I was you.

I also agree that having them attach would be better than them floating.

simple attachment device, make a pole that reaches upto them

Actually I have decided to resdesign the sign. I'll post photos.

It will be non-rotating but I still want it seen from all sides.

Thanks as always for the help and guidance.

"CX"

They don't offend me on an "Ad Farm" level by any means. You're not displaying porn, promising somthing for nothing, repeating the same image 200 times in a sky-scraping tower, intentionally trying to hurt others, or luring the innocent into data-mining. Good on ya.

Having your signs atop a tower or pole would certainly be more realistic, but I'm not sure realism is the point of coming to SL. If it is, then skyboxes don't exist and everybody's gonna hafta reshape their avatars.

Phil's point is valid, though. It would be courteous to make them phantom so that they do not interfere with anyone's passage.

Most of us are smart enough to know you can't make a business look like a park all the time. You have to make it look like what it is or you won't have any customers. This is far nicer than any main street in Anytown, USA, in real life with chaotic garish fast food buildings and rusting misspelled porta-signs.

It's the intent behind the ad-farmers that counts against them.

But I too would find a pole for the signs more attractive for reasons I don't quite understand. We don't balk at balloons floating in the air. Our human minds are just in a mighty buggy release version it seems.

While I actually use a spinning logo sign for one of my shops, it's pretty hard to mistake it for an adfarm sign, given the setting and the design (and the primcount!). But there are lots of ways to get a sign noticed without spinning. It used to be that a subtle frame-by-frame texture animation could make the sign play with light in interesting ways, but now that texture downloading is *so* slow, that's not really practical. A little subtle "bling" can almost take its place, or some minimal Glow (in WindLight) or glow particles can make it seem to radiate light without actually being a polluting light source. Of course, some settings aren't appropriate for full-bright textures even on signs, and then you sorta have no choice but to use a dim, small radius light source and a texture with good baked lighting.

As others have suggested, commercial operations aren't always inherently pretty. In my opinion, you are living "your world, your imagination" and not bothering anybody. As Bradly mentioned, spinning doesn't always help, and you could evaluate that.

The fact that the lowest of the low will abuse the freedom we have to do what we want with our land is a real shame, because we will probably lose more of that freedom the more people abuse it.

I made a new sign. Only 7 prims. I was so proud of it I decided to sell them.

I have already sold two of them. Things are looking up!!

"CX"