Please welcome Howard Linden!

If they used makehuman that would be amazing. If they also used facegen along side makehuman, that be even more amazing.

edit: Scratch that idea. I just found out makehuman already has the ability to edit your entire head.

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Absolutely and thanks for posting.

Welcome Howard. Now get back to work, lol.

Aquarius Paravane is right on the money with the snapshots and different aspect ratios fiasco. This has always been a major annoyance. Considering that the pictures are stored internally as jp2 with power of 2 sizes this is even more ridiculous. At least make the square ones 128 x 128. The rectangular ones should all have the same format on the screen, either make them all 4:3 or 16:9, internally 512 or 256 would be good.
Of course there is an motive behind this madness.. the L$10 upload fee. If your a perfectionist you will snapshot to disk then edit the pictures in Photoshop and upload each in the right size to look perfect. So there's no incentive for LL to fix this bug/money making feature.

This is even worse, as the same image appears with different aspect ratios in different windows. This is the case for the groups insignas, which appear square in the group profiles, and rectangular in the group search... No mean for us to fix it, even with paying fees.

Here is something that pertains directly to the UI. We used to be able to mute people/objects easily by finding them through the chat history but that was changed with the big revamp to the UI. Now, unless you can see the object, you cannot mute it unless you know who owns it or where it is. We need to make it easy to mute people again by pulling up the recent chatters, objects and people, and muting them.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamen! Seriously overdue!


And a hearty amen to that, too!

22RC3 has a blast from the past bug once more. Something that was fixed, now is broken again and for no good reason.

I speak of the "Hair in Butt" problem, which manifests itself sometimes after teleporting. This bug was fixed about a year ago - now it is back. Please, whatever method you are using for version control, set it on fire and stomp on the ashes, then replace it. I suggest enforcing a strict policy of source code coming ONLY from the current version being worked on in a server. I'm almost certain that every programmer there has a dozen folders with old routines in it, and they are dropping in old buggy stuff they can quickly find rather than using the debugged and working version that is in the CURRENTWORKING shared directory. Make it clear that any programmer who uses any source code outside that directory will join the legions of unemployed people on the outside. It only takes one routine with a fault to ruin a good program.

This problem of bugs reappearing after they've been fixed is getting very, very old.

The problem may never have been fixed in the first place.

I think WorkingOnIt Linden (or one of the other Lindens) said a while ago changing one thing, can change something else (butterfly effect?). They may have thought they caught the problem when in fact that only fixed one part of it. Now they have changed something else it has manifested again.

As far as I remember, someone said they are restructuring the entire program to make it more modular, and to hopefully make problems like this a thing of the past. Not sure how far they have got with it though.

My memory is really fuzzy on this though. It was several month ago, when I heard it.

WOW! All of this is really good news. Frank's work especially gives me real confidence that there is a bright future ahead. M's focus points are all valid and realistic. I'm very very happy to see these initiatives.

Thank you, M, Frank and all the team at LL for responding to your community in ways that matter the most!

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Hello Howard!! Enhance inventory management pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase!

It would definitely be nice to be able to click on the item in the inventory and be able to see what it looks like (something like a thumbnail system) without dragging it out of the inventory or going through the mess of changing your look if it is a clothes item.

Also, please change the way we unpack things. Perhaps an additional feature in the inventory menu would be to unpack without dragging the item in-world.

Btw, I agree with the comments before mine about having our own tabbed system for searches and to enhance search criteria.

All the best! Hope you become a SL UI Hero

yes somebody said this recently:



I tell non-programmers that making a program modular is the FIRST thing we do when creating a program, even before writhing the first line. That they undertake this years after tells us a lot on their methods, or confirm what all programmers knew for long: the LL viewer is written with the feet, without any method or quality control.

Actually a patch for flexi sculpties is on the way my friend. Hang in there!

Our wish is your command I mean wait.. reverse that.
Welcome aboard!

It has been said elsewhere, but a hidden mode that shows you as offline to all friends, would be nice. But I would also appreciate a "quiet" mode that would block out chat without going busy or blocking IMs.

I have what I believe to be a very simple request. In the avatar editing window could you, Howard, please add in the ability for one to see the height of their avatar?

SL lacks a sense of scale. Exploring even some of the most well done areas of SL reveals this. I believe encouraging a better sense of scale within the world begins with the avatar. Prims are measured in metres, though few pay much attention to that, instead building around the perceived height of their avatar, which of course may be wildly out of proportion with most other avatars.

Animations are made entirely without thought to avatar height. And even if an animator sold animations tailored to specific heights, most would be lost as to the height of their very own avatar, unable to make an educated purchase.

Out of those who do give a thought to height, most seem to use scripts that use llGetAgentSize, which provides a height significantly shorter than the avatar's actual height, further confusing the issue of scale within SL.

As I said, it seems to be a very small thing, but I do believe it is very important to many aspects of design and general content creation within SL. Animation, environments, even so far as allowing for a greater range of avatar heights as the average height is coaxed down from the higher end of the scale where it currently resides.

Thank you, it would be greatly appreciated.