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SL changes my avatar!

Michal Milosz
Amateur Piercer
Join date: 22 Oct 2005
Posts: 73
10-26-2005 05:32
This is weird big time. Sometimes after teleporting the male form of my avatar gets turned to female shapes and a different hairdo (skintone and clothes stay as they were... Which may cause any admin who sees me to slap a warning for running topless)... What's wrong?
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Jon Oddfellow
Registered User
Join date: 14 Sep 2005
Posts: 5
10-26-2005 06:21
From: Michal Milosz
This is weird big time. Sometimes after teleporting the male form of my avatar gets turned to female shapes and a different hairdo (skintone and clothes stay as they were... Which may cause any admin who sees me to slap a warning for running topless)... What's wrong?


The default avatar shape appears to be base female. After a port, the shape is default until your customizations are loaded by the client. Bottom line, this happens to everyone.
Alain Talamasca
Levelheaded Nutcase
Join date: 21 Sep 2005
Posts: 393
10-26-2005 06:26
Apparently, this is called being "Ruthed", after the name of the Avatar default, Ruth.

I have found if you go into your appearance screen, and exit WITHOUT SAVING, you will return to normal.

It is vital that you DO NOT SAVE when exiting. If you do, you will be Ruthed for good, and unless you have a backup copy of your bodyshape, "you r scrued". (Can I say that in PG forum?)
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Michal Milosz
Amateur Piercer
Join date: 22 Oct 2005
Posts: 73
10-26-2005 10:10
I tend to change my avatar to female form, and then back to male. Works.
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Pugcharlie Reymont
Registered User
Join date: 23 Oct 2005
Posts: 13
ruthed
10-27-2005 06:14
I got "Ruthed" twice yesterday. The first time required an hour and a half of work because I never "Saved As" previously and trying to fix it, I clicked save (not good)so I had to remove my prim hair change sex to male and basically re-work the face., adding the prim hair back and a zillion adjustments. It happened again later (was this because of the new update making everything unstable?). Logging off and coming back in fixed it. I was not a pretty woman!