A simple suggestion that could help ALOT.

Hey there, I was building myself an AVY not too long ago, and I had some problems.
First, my Idea was to create some sort of “gooey looking” humanoid, my first step was to start with the head, no problem there. Then I tried to figure out which texture I should use to give it the slimy effect I wanted. Turns out, no texture could do the trick. So instead, I decided to turn up the shininess to low for all the prims constituting my AVY head, and my, my was I impressed! The effect was simply perfect… because after all, what kind of opaque slime doesn’t have a shiny surface?

So yeah, now there was still a major problem that I discovered soon after that, the skin didn’t had any shiny options… So the issue now, maybe except for the hands and feats, was that there was NO WAY IN HELL that I would’ve been able to cover all of my AVY with shiny prims that would fit perfectly and be perfectly articulated… I’m just a freakin’ mechanic for crying out loud, not a programmer or a 3d artist!

But I DID spend the WHOLE DAY helplessly trying to achieve such a difficult goal, I tried spheres, torus, and I even tried some 3d modeling programs but I failed miserably.


So in résumé, be able to add shiny effect, like on the prims, to your AVY’s skin would be something REALLY useful. I mean, if you can do it with sculpties and other complex shapes, so why not? Not only would it be useful for me and my AVY, but for maybe thousands of other players in SL! For example, someone could be wearing some Latex and would like to add a real shiny effect on it, or maybe because this someone’s AVY’s is some sort of android or robo, or a metallic mutant like in Xmen, or maybe some sort of sea creatures or a slime creature like the one I’m helplessly trying to build right now as we’re speaking! 0_o … The possibilities in SL for endless character customization would be even MORE endless with this simple addition.

Thank you for reading this, I really appreciate it, and I hope that you’ll hear me out. =D


P.S I don’t know if I’m at the right place for posting this, I wasn’t able to find a suggestion box in the SL forum. Sorry. =/

If your message was intended for Linden Lab to read, you definitely put it in the wrong place. No one at LL reads these forums. They're just for us users.

What LL does read is the issue tracker. And there is a method built into it for feature suggestions. Head over to jira.secondlife.com, and post your request there. Run a search first, though, because chances are pretty good there's already an entry on this. Shiny avatars have been a popular request for the past 5 or 6 years. If you find an entry, vote for it. If not, create your own.