Does my butt look flat in this?

I'm generally pleased with the shape of my avi, until I get on a dance pole or bend over. When I do, my butt turns into this flattened dodecahedron and doesn't look anything like a butt anymore.

I've seen some dancers with very nice bums that stay round even as they bend over but I have no idea what their secret is.

Anybody got a good recipie for what to set the butt/hip/leg sliders to to conquer the flat butt syndrome?

Or are they using some kind of prim butts?
(I asked a girl and she said she'd adjusted it all in the mesh so it must be possible...)




(If there's another thread dealing with this please link me up cos I can't find it despite searching for both butts, asses & bums)

Could be a combination of shape and skin shadowing. Other than that, I am no help

I am sorry I just had to laugh at your post, but i get the same thing with my butt and it looks more shapely and round when standing, then i bend over ad it goes pointy and flat (if that makes sense).

Don't just use the butt sliders.

Wow, how often does that sentence come up in conversation?

Anyway, after watching my partner tweak her shape so much, I've learned that you have to tweak all the sliders a bit at a time to get a halfway nice looking shape. Every time you use the butt slider, it's going to affect other parts of your avatar. Tweak the legs, the torso, the hips, and the waist to get the best shape for your butt.

I think 'saddlebags' and things like that help keep the area rounded.

Those are the sliders that sound unappealing but add a lot to shapes.

answer: the mesh sucks.

There's an extreme shortage of polygons in the tush area, and when the legs bend forward, the polygons stretch out.

The avatars we use, were never designed for sex or pole dancing. At best we were designed to sit in chairs, and in cars, and walking and flying.

Linden Lab never intended the uses to which we put their product.

Linden Lab didn't do so good at getting avatars to do what they intended them to do either!

Well flying is usually ok

I think some photographs of you in action are required for assessment...

ahem ....

This.

Many of the sliders adjust things that are not what you would think given their name.

Also, for dancing, go shopping for your own HUD and watch the dances you try out in animation shops -VERY CAREFULLY-.

The ones made using real motion capture, that by watching you can see they actually were rather than some false advertisement... get those.
- Your AV, if you are not super tall (anything above 40 on the height slider...) will not deform.

Go to the forum cartel, and get the AV proportion's kit, make sure you actually have human proportions. Otherwise dances will deform you.

If there were prizes for best title, this thread would get today's at least.


That's pretty much it.

However, I would like to chuck in my two cents since I have quite a thing for butts and this just-got-slapped-in-the-ass-with-an-anvil distortion in some animations has always annoyed me. The hips are the central joint on the skeleton and, as such, an adjustment at this point will affect the position of every other joint on the av so the general reluctance of animators to move the hips any more than they can help is perhaps unsurprising.

However, the problem can be fixed or at least minimised to some degree if the animator takes care to balance the movement of the hips with the thighs and abdomen. This is damned hard work and it is not for the faint-of-heart so I am not surprised that many choose to ignore the issue in the sincere hope that SL residents are mostly flat-ass fanatics.

I'm tired of magazines
Saying flat butts are the thing
Take the average black man and ask him that
She gotta pack much back

So Fellas (yeah) Fellas(yeah)
Has your girlfriend got the butt (hell yeah)
Tell her shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it shake that healthy butt
Baby got back

I like'em round and big
And when I'm throwin a gig
I just can't help myself
I'm actin like an animal
Now here's my scandal

I wanna get you home
And ugh, double up uhh, uhh
I aint talkin bout playboy
Cuz silicone parts are made for toys
I wannem real thick and juicy
So find that juicy double
Mixalot's in trouble
Beggin for a piece of that bubble
So I'm lookin' at rock videos
Knocked kneed bimbos walkin like hoes
You can have them bimbos
I'll keep my women like Flo Jo
A word to the thick soul sistas
I wanna get with ya
I won't cus or hit ya
But I gotta be straight when I say I wanna --
Til the break of dawn
Baby got it goin on
Alot of pimps won't like this song
Cuz them punks lie to hit it and quit it
But I'd rather stay and play
Cuz I'm long and I'm strong
And I'm down to get the friction on

So ladies (yeah), Ladies (yeah)
If you wanna roll in my Mercedes (yeah)
Then turn around
Stick it out
Even white boys got to shout
Baby got back

Yeah baby
When it comes to females
Cosmo ain't got nothin to do with my selection
36-24-36
Only if she's 5'3"

So your girlfriend rolls a Honda
Playin workout tapes by Fonda
But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda
My anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns hon
You can do side bends or sit-ups, but please don't lose that butt
Some brothers wanna play that hard role
And tell you that the butt ain't gold
So they toss it and leave it
And I pull up quick to retrieve it
So cosmo says you're fat
Well I aint down with that
Cuz your waist is small and your curves are kickin
And I'm thinkin bout stickin
To the beanpole dames in the magazines
You aint it miss thing
Give me a sista I can't resist her
Red beans and rice didn't miss her
Some knucklehead tried to dis
Cuz his girls were on my list
He had game but he chose to hit 'em
And I pull up quick to get with 'em
So ladies if the butt is round
And you wanna triple X throw down
Dial 1-900-mixalot and kick them nasty thoughts
Baby got back

Eli... I am so impressed. While reading the lyrics, images of the video came to mind. The video was definitely over the top.