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Randy Torrance
Registered User
Join date: 3 May 2009
Posts: 1
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05-19-2009 17:44
How do you do this. Thanks.
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Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
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05-19-2009 17:46
Nothing to buy. Just log out from this website, and then click the same button you clicked to create your new account.
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Sorry, LL won't let me tell you where I sell my textures and where I offer my services as a sim builder. Ask me in-world.
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Rhaorth Antonelli
Registered User
Join date: 15 Apr 2006
Posts: 7,425
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05-19-2009 17:49
unless you mean an actual avatar (be it human, furry, animal, space alien, etc)
If you see an avatar (your in world representation) that you like and it is for sale, right click and buy it (you need lindens to do this if the avatar is not free)
If you mean account, as in Randy Torrance is your account, then yes, what Ceera said
(Randy Torrance is your account, your avatar is the being you see in world and can be changed as often as you like)
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From: someone Morpheus Linden: But then I change avs pretty often too, so often, I look nothing like my avatar.  They are taking away the forums... it could be worse, they could be taking away the forums AND Second Life...
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Oryx Tempel
Registered User
Join date: 8 Nov 2006
Posts: 7,663
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05-19-2009 21:16
An "avatar" is made up of a Shape, a Skin, any clothing layers it may wear, any attachments it may have, and any animations it may use.
The Shape is made up of a bunch of polygons that can be stretched and contorted using the slider values in Edit Appearance. You can make your own Shape, buy one, or use those in your Library.
The Skin goes over the Shape to give it color, shading, and definition. You can buy skins, or use the ones in the Library.
Like the Skin, clothes are layers that are stacked on the Shape. All these layers are then "baked" together by the client (your computer), sent to the Linden Lab server so that it can send this info out to everyone else, and then sent back to your client. That's why you see your avatar blurring, stabilizing, and blurring again before finally stabilizing.
Attachments are stuff like shields, swords, earrings, necklaces, tails, etc that are actual prims. These prims attach to different parts of the Shape. You'll see lots of furries with many attachments, especially heads, paws and tails.
Animations are short files that you can make your avatar run to do a specific action, like "sexy walk", "push-up", "fly", etc. To make your avatar run an animation, you can click on it from the Inventory and run it that way, or you can pack the animation into a prim, and attach the prim to your avatar. Lots of people have an entire set of animations that they use for their avatar to look and act a specific way; this is called an Animation Overrider and has a script that tells the avatar what animation to play when.
So to get a new look for your own avatar, you can change any or all of the above parameters. Some places, like the above-mentioned Grendel's Children, sells ENTIRE avatars, usually non-human. I have a dragon avatar, a crow, a mechanical spider, a jellyfish, etc avatars from Grendel's Children. These avatars change virtually everything about the base avatar, from shape, to skin, to attachments, animations, clothing layers, etc.
Or, if like the others mentioned, you want to change your NAME, then you will need to create a new ACCOUNT. These are unrelated to avatars, skins, shapes, animations, etc.
and their creation is done on the Second Life website, just like you did for your Randy Torrence account. You will need to log out of the website, then start again.
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Bradley Bracken
Goodbye, Farewell, Amen
Join date: 2 Apr 2007
Posts: 3,856
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05-19-2009 21:53
LL no longer charges you for making a 2nd avatar, so if that's what you want, then just walk through the same process you did to make your first one.
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My interest in SL has simply died. Thanks for all the laughs
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Oryx Tempel
Registered User
Join date: 8 Nov 2006
Posts: 7,663
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05-20-2009 08:09
From: Bradley Bracken LL no longer charges you for making a 2nd avatar, so if that's what you want, then just walk through the same process you did to make your first one. A second account, you mean Bradley.  |
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Melita Magic
On my own terms.
Join date: 5 Jun 2008
Posts: 2,253
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05-20-2009 08:13
If you want a new shape or skins you can buy those or find some free ones.
Then just 'wear' both - but first make sure you rename or set aside the ones you are wearing. If you made your shape, save it and name it in appearance edit mode. I suggest you use your av name so it will be clear later which it was.
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