I don't want to be a Harijuku :(

I'm very new and trying to change my basic "body shape". I clicked "skip this step during registration... obviously a very bad move. I thought I would get more choices, but I seem to be stuck tweaking a Harijuku.

I don't want that, I'm not happy, I'm confused, and I keep getting frustrated and quitting.

HELP me please??? Somebody?

Just right click on your AV and choose edit appearance...lots of goodies there to change your looks.

Hi Viki and welcome.

Once you are in SL you will be able to buy a new shape or take on a new one from the library that comes in your inventory. You are not stuck with what you have now. Check your inventory now: shapes are designated with a pale purple square with a head/shoulders image in them.

Don't panic! Remember your towel and enjoy!

There's a video tutorial on using the Appearance editor at http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=437

To try out some different premade looks,

Click on the Inventory button on the bottom right of the screen.

Click the white triangle to the left of the Library folder

Click on the white triangle to the left of the Clothing folder

Click and hold a folder, such as "City Chic Female". and drag it onto your avatars body.

1) I tried right-clicking appearances. That allows me to tweak the Hirajuku form but not to change it at the base level.

2) I looked through my inventory. It's pretty much empty

3) The Library Clothing folder is Getting There (who'd a thunk? I thought I was looking for body chapes, not clothing!!)

I'll play. Thanks!

When you have a question about how to use Second Life, one way to proceed is to click on the word Help in the main menu bar.

Doing so currently produces a page that says:



Granted the old F1 help file is out of date, but it still had plenty of useful basic information in it, such as, I believe, the answer to this question.

The "http://secondlife.com/support" looks like a link but it doesn't work.

The user is expect to know that the thing that looks like a browser doesn't actually work.

Experienced SL users will probably not be too surprised to see something in SL look like it might do something useful but know from experience not to expect it to work right. New users might find this a bit surprising and annoying.

Taking the initiative and loading up http://secondlife.com/support into your regular browser produces a page that doesn't appear to be of much use to a beginner that doesn't know how to change clothes.

The wiki.secondlife.com site isn't listed on the Help menu. Am I seeing things? I must be seeing things. The official all purpose wiki on Second Life isn't listed on the Help menu?

The scripting portal goes to the same wiki, but a new user would have no reason to know that.

The scripting wiki - and thus the entire wiki in which it resides - can be viewed in the inworld mozilla browser, why does the LSL portal link open in an external browser?

Why must they use the word "portal" ? "Portal" will mean nothing to a large percentage of people. Just two days ago I spoke with someone that had no idea what "wiki" meant. They had heard of wikipedia but had no idea that wiki meant user editable. Just because LL staff are geeks and the folks that frequent the scripting wiki are geeks that speak geek jargon and do long divison in hexadecimal in their head just for the fun of it doesn't mean that the millions of people that LL wants to participate in SL are geeks. They need to have someone with better judgement work on the documentation and interface design, someone with good enough judgement to not use the word portal in the help menu. Sheesh.

The Second Life wiki doesn't appear to have any information or links to useful information for new users on it's opening page. Sigh. Seems kinda pitiful to me.

When you go to the support page, http://secondlife.com/community/support.php, and click on the link at the top that says "Knowledge Base and Solution Finder". you are taken to an anchor point at the bottom of the page for logging in to solution finder.

The link of the bottom left that takes you to the Knowlege Base without logging in, goes unnoticed by most, I suspect.

The knowledge base is at at http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase

There's a link on the left for Content Creation, and for some unknown reason, the Avatar & Appearance section is in there.

Basic information such as how to change outfits should be readily and extremely easily available all the times for new users, even during the transition from one help system to another.

http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/category.php?id=16

I believe you are trying to go to a base shape? Try this: Got to you inventory, select Create and then go down to Body Parts. Under Body Parts there is New Shape. This should put you at the beginning avatar. Also, Suezanne listed some great links for further help on the tweaking process.

Also, skin and shape are two different items and you'll probably need to change both to see a significant difference. Do look through the Library clothes folder to start...there are several shapes and skins in there and some combination of them might suit you better for now.