Question on custom AVs

I been working on my first custom AV design and trying to understand it all. I have some people comment how my custom AV is not setup properly and that some of my body shape is showing outside the invisi prims by large portions. I even relogged twice and detached and reattached my custom AV and they still see the same issue. Is this pretty common with custom AVs where it would be perfectly fine on my side but messed up to others?

I really wouldn't reccomend making an invisiprim-heavy av as your first try! Start with something that works with the basic avatar body and accentuates it, to get a feeling for how long it'll take sixteen attachments to load on both your end and the other people's ends.

The quick and dirty way is to use just a couple invisiprims, large enough to cover the limbs you don't want. This is also the rude way, as it'll obscure a lot more of the background, and anyone who comes too close to you.

The more precise way, the one I've favored, is to use several very tight invisiprims to cover exactly the parts you want gone. The problem with this approach is that the shape of the avatar will change when it moves. I like to use a few static poses to check the coverage, and get rid of all the little chinks in the invisiprim armor.

You might also want to experiment with just making a full-body invisiprim suit, to see how things work out for your friends. Heck, try just making a non-invisible suit of boxes first; drop the invisibility script on later. See what your friends are seeing.

If you're doing simple invisiprim use, where you're just entirely removing a whole limb (like I did with the legs and feet here), you can scale the prim while it's on your body, for precise coverage. If you're doing more complicated stuff, like this, it's more of a pain in the butt. I kept on dropping parts, tweaking, and reattaching them - though admittedly I didn't know about 'edit linked parts' at the time.

The big gotcha is that all those attachments take time to load. Go hang out in a furry-friendly place like the Forest or Luskwood or Furnation; this crowd wears a lot of complicated primsuits. You'll see a lot of scary tiny heads, half-loaded attachments, and all kinds of half-loaded things for a good while when you visit 'em. If you do attachment-heavy stuff, this is what you'll look like to other people half the time, especially people with slow connections, or on laggy days.

Few things look worse than an avatar with 900 prims in mid-load.