Bizarre results from changing outfits

I was trying out some outfits and I came up some real nice sheer lace lingerie type outfits, one of which wash named Lingerie.

Looking for more such items in my inventory I came up folder with the word Lingerie in the title so I right clicked and select "Replace Outfit".

The names of the items in the folder are
Lingerie_black_garter_set Pants
Lingerie_black_garter_set Socks
Lingerie_black_garter_set Underpants.

What should have appeared would be something with stockings and a garter belt. This outfit is a freebie, an old widely distributed free item that I am sure is actually supposed to be a garterbelt and stockings. (I just now noticed there's no top in the outfit.)

This is what I ended up looking like instead:


I started doing a dance animation also.

None of the stuff in the picture is listed in the folder.

This same thing happened to me recently when I tried to wear an old Mistress Midnight cheerleader outfit. The bizarre outfit that appeared was similar to the one shown in the picture.


This outfit has attachments created by a bunch of different people.

This just isn't an outfit that exists in my inventory.

Doing a detach all leaves what looks like a random outfit.



This is a far cry from the desired result.

What this heck is going on?

Anyone else seeing this?

It took me a looong time to find "Replace Outfit." I've never used that and so was oblivious to its existence.

I have dragged a folder onto my avatar though as a way of quickly changing shapes, attachments and anything else that might be in the folder. Same principle I think. I don't generally like doing that -- you detach a lot of stuff you may want to leave on - like your AO and HUDs, etc.

I'm thinking there were subfolders with a lot of random stuff inside your "Lingerie" folder.

Umm, big time SL glitch?

I have no idea, but somewhere in SL there might be a guy who expected to be wearing the stuff in your picture and is wearing stockings and a garter belt instead.

I provided a complete list of the contents of the folder. There aren't any subfolders. The items have the proper icons.


Highly improbable.

Each attachment is made by a different person, apparently, it's attaching randomly selected items. Very few people would select such an outfit.

One should not do wild rock and roll style dancing holding a giant machine gun.

LOL, that must be it. snickers.

Wow, I've never seen this issue before. Almost makes me scared to swap clothes.

Yesterday I changed in a semi public space and for the first time ever needed to get naked for what was to be all of one second before wearing a folder... and... I had the worst crash ever. I've no idea how long I was nekkies in world for before vanishing, but I've never been so unnerved. LOL

But I think I'd rather be naked than wearing some newb's bad boy hipster inventory.

Heee. Good luck. Let us know of any new developments to your lingerie!

I know where you were!

I've never seen anything like it. The outfit items looks like freebies, but are (obviously) not what you intended, more than what you intended, and more than you requested/ Very very odd indeed.

Were you able to repeat this behavior with those three items?

Mari

Gee Hun, I didnt know you were a guy. They must have named this song after you.

"A Boy Named Sue" by Johnny Cash

Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
and he didn't leave much to ma and me,
Just this ole guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

Now I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid,
But the meanest thing that he ever did,
Was before he left he went and named me Sue.

Well, he musta thought that it was quite a joke,
An' it got a lot of laughs from lots a folks,
Seems I had to fight my whole life through.

Some gal would giggle and I'd get red,
And some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head,
I'll tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue.

I grew up quick and I grew up mean,
My fist got hard and my wits got keen,
I roamed from town to town to hide my shame.

But I made me a vow to the moon and stars,
I'd search the honky-tonks and bars,
And kill that man that gave me that awful name.

Well, it was Gatlinburg in mid-July,
and i'd just hit town and my throat was dry,
thought I'd stop and have myself a brew.

In and old saloon on a street of mud,
There at a table dealin' stud,
Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me Sue.

Well I knew that snake was my own sweet dad,
from a worn out picture that my mother had,
and I knew that scar on his cheek & his evil eye.

He was big and bent and grey and old,
And I looked at him and my blood ran cold, and I said,
"My name is Sue! how do you do! Now you gonna die!"
Yeah that's what I told him.

Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes,
And he went down but to my surprise,
Came up with a knife an' cut off a piece o' my ear.

I busted a chair right across his teeth,
And we crashed through the wall and into the street,
Kickin' and a gougin' in the the mud and the blood and the beer.

I tell you I've fought tougher men,
but I really can't remember when,
he kicked like a mule and he bit like a crocodile.

Well I heard him laugh and then I heard him cuss,
He went for his gun but I pulled mine first,
He stood there lookin' at me and I saw him smile.

And he said, "Son, this world is rough,
And if a man's gonna make it he's gotta be tough,
And I know I wouldn't be there to help you along.

So I gave you that name and I said goodbye,
I knew you'd have to get tough or die,
And it's that name that helped to make you strong.

Now you just fought one hell of a fight,
And I know you hate me and ya got the right,
To kill me now and I wouldn't blame you if you do.

But you oughtta thank me before I die,
For the gravel in your gut and the spit in your eye,
'Cause I'm the son of a bitch that named you Sue."

yeah, what could I do, what COULD I do?
Well I got choked up and threw down my gun,
Called him my pa and he called me his son,
And I come away with a different point of view.

I think about him now and then,
Every time I try and every time I win,
And if I ever have a son,
I think I'm gonna name him,
Bill or George any damn thing but Sue!
I still hate that name!

Unless one needs help with the words while singing, there is absolutely never a need to produce a copy of the lyrics to "A Boy Named Sue". This important fact should be kept in the forefront of one's mind at all times as a guide to right action.

=================== problem solved ====================

Weston Graves was on the right track. Thanks for helping me figure it out, Weston.

There wasn't actually a folder with the word Lingerie in the name, or one set up to be that garter and stocking outfit.

What I did was to do a search for "Lingerie" and that produced a folder named "Costumes" with three items with "Lingerie" in their titles. I right clicked the folder name and selected "Replace Outfit".

I failed to take into account that there were hundreds of other items in the Costumes folder not showing up in the list because the search was filtered.

I retested searching for Cheerleader. I found an outfit-folder named Mistress Midnight Cheerleader which produced the desired result on a "Replace Outfit". - I put on a cheerleader outfit, but - there was also a freebies folder with the same items mixed in along with many other items. Right clicking that folder and selecting "Replace Outfit" produces the same sort of crazy result.

In both cases the outfit I was selecting was very old freebies. I immediately thought it was data corruption stemming from the age of the items instead of assuming it was a PICNIC-PEBKAC situation.

This stems not only from my brain malfunction but also from using the same interface elements for a folder, which can hold anything, and an outfit, a set of clothes and attachments intended to be worn.

I was slightly afraid it was some kind of mixed up UUIDs issue....it sure looked scary.....

Yes, losing an old outfit, one hardly worn, would not be much trouble, but I would hate to have things like my old pictures of Starax statues or pictures of the old days at the Ahern Morris boardwalk get messed up because of "screwed up inventory system on old stuff".

Part of the reason I posted the picture here though was that it looked funny to me.

I guess one can do "Replace Outfit" on random folders as a pastime dull slow spots in SL action.

Don't feel bad, I accidently did this with my entire Inventory once. I watched in puzzlement, then awe, as the asset server plowed through all 5000+ things I owned. And yah, the final result was awesome!!
.

The birth of a new SL past-time and party game: Inventory Roulette!

Mari

I'm practically a newb compared to you - so I'm beaming.

I'll make a mental note never to use the search filter and Replace Outfit (or drag folder) at the same time -- at least in public. Who knew? And it would be all too easy to go to a club dressed in something that doesn't fit in, getting embarrassed, and trying to do a quick change . . . .Oooops!

I created a prim attachment that was a cylinder and attaches at an unused attachment point (right lower leg). It covers my entire avatar. When I need to change in public, I don the prim and then (since I keep all my outfits in folders) I right-click the folder of what I'm wearing and choose to remove items. Then I find the folder of the outfit I want to be wearing and right-click and add to outfit.

Then I remove my changing room prim.

Goes without saying that the changing room is opaque.

No more naked in public unless I guess wrong about how long my clothes will take to rez and remove my cylinder too soon.