Chatting in public world

Advanced->Character->Animation Info. As long as you turn off all your stuff before getting onto the demo stand, it will be easy to spot the one you are testing. that will be the only one showing with a UUID instead of a name. The number in that display is the priority.

There is still a minor gamble there, it's not impossible that the animation in the stand could be a different priority from one you might buy in a set packaged separately.

Abranimations does have a perverse (but free!) animation overrider overrider for typing, that works around the problem by running a higher priority typing animation on top of everything else.


Yes it sooo would!

I think I turned off the typing animation back in early 04... thought it made me look less noobish,,, whatever that means hehe... after a short time I turned it back on after realizing I looked worse just standing there pondering my navel. I also felt that how I looked when typing was unimportant, I felt that letting others know I was replying was more important to both me and others

Madhu, sorry you took it personally, I was NOT talking about you, but talking in general. But I stick to it, TO ME that animation is more an annoyance than an advantage. If there was another way to let you know I'm talking, without having to resort to the ridiculous typing anim (yes I think the anim is ridiculous, and I repeat THE ANIM), and that did not cut the music for me, then I would use it. In the meantime, my typing anim is off for good.

Nice to see you on the forums, Reyfer! (I'd have sent you a PM, but you don't have that option enabled).

/me hands Madhu a cup of decaf.

Maddie, nobody's dissing your preference. They're just expressing theirs. And it's a very minor thing, really. I might think the typing hands look silly, but that doesn't mean that I think someone who *uses* them is silly, or that I won't listen to what they have to say

Heck, Brenda put up with my mad Italian gesticulations for months, and it's only now that she tells me how goofy she thinks it made me look.

I gave up trying to find a suitable "Point and Laugh" gesture

Awwwww Maddie,

Don't be upset. People were talking in general they werent directing towards you.

Bec

I use a lot of emotes to show I'm following: me nods...me shakes her head...me widens her eyes...me takes off her.... uhm,you get the idea. As I spend more time in RP I find myself texting this way more frequently.

I also try to write in short phrases that hang a bit to show I haven't completed the thought, but to give the listener a moment to digest.

But there are some people who do have the attention span of a gnat. I guess that's why there is voice chat

I agree that I don't think Madhu was being singled out.

I think I was online less than a day when both a friend and my brother sent me the instructions on how to get rid of the typing animation. Therefore, I thought it was some SL bug and that everyone was supposed to follow the instructions to remove the animation. So, you can imagine my surprise when I noticed there were long-time SL residents who had chosen not to turn off the typing animation!

I have to say...although I do like knowing when someone is typing in open chat, I still have mine turned off. I tend to be a bit long-winded in my chat responses, so I am going to make a better effort to cut short my open chat missives.

/me says thanks but no thanks; pointless brown water is not my thing.



I appreciate everyone's kind comments, and I am sorry I lost my temper, but since I am the one who raised the example of being startled by an unexpected 2-3 line response, then it's kind of hard not to be cheesed off by the variety of comments ridiculing people who "can't" wait for the 2-3 line response *they don't even know is coming*.

But as I said I am sorry I lost my temper and I won't respond in anger on this subject again.

Short comments like those Brenda notes are very much appreciated. What they are doing is substituting text-based cues for the visual cue otherwise provided by the animation. This is extremely helpful, adding back in the conversation-facilitating element that turning off the animation removes. It's the cue that's important to me, the feedback - not the specifics of how the feedback is transmitted. Since my mind-reading skills are not up to the task of knowing when an avatar standing stock-still and silent is actually composing a lengthy comment, shorter bursts of text are extremely helpful. Actually on reflection I think this is how I chat anyhow, even with my animation active.

That is also annoying. I've had many people seem to be writing a novel (or a roman) and when the text comes up it almost always seems to be something short, like "hello, we mak fuk now?"

/me sends Maddie some blue flowers.

but...but...

I thought you LIKED suspense?

In all seriousness, the ones that type and type and type really destroy the mood. Unless they are standing in front of me. And it looks like they are patting my breasts (you know, when they are typing; {oh yes, pat my breasts, fondle them, slide your hands over them . . what? Why'd you stop? What's with all the text suddenly appearing in mid-air . . oh . . right. need to respond now . . um . .} "Oooh yess . . lick my finger." {dang, I already hit return . . wait 10 minutes for the reply, or type something else, 20-30 more sentences waiting for them to push return?}).

Somewhere along the way my brain died. Sorry. I'm talking nonsense right now.

There is one already. A friend of mine got them as a freebie some months ago. You wear them, and they only appear when you type, otherwise they're invisible. I have the typing anim turned off, so I didn't get them and thus can't check who's the creator. But I'll ask my friend and see if she still has them or can remember where she got them.

Yeah puppets are around, but I want the hand to move like that bare! Try it in real life, it works best if you can do it deadpan, and see if you can get the other person to start in. Then ask them why they're doing that.

my typin anim is off cause well like Max says it looks weird. it would be nice if LL could come up with hand gestures or movements since most do talk with their hands RL.

No, she likes Suspension

O.o I got one of those recently from someone on the forums - or is that one not suitable for you?

I have a couple of nice typing overrides actually that sometimes I use in rp situations. One is of a crystal ball that pops up and animates your hand circling over it in a mysterious fashion, smoky particles emitting from it.
The other is in the form of a spellbook and pen that you are to write in when typing. Both excellent but not useful outside certain contexts though.

The first time I saw one of those, I asked the guy what he was writing in there There was a group of us, and I just didn't understand why his book would come out in between dances and such.

"Dang it, get your nose out of your book and join us!"

ROFL that is very funny anecdote.