Feature Requests

In regards to the 2k texture project as a whole, updating the bake service is a very important part and I implore that the priority for this is raised. I know that this feature is planned. However from being at, watching and reading logs of various meeting groups, the Lab doesn't rate this as a high priority, and is seeking more feedback from the community. If 2k textures as a feature goes live grid-wide and for all viewers - and the bake service is not updated alongside it - creators of bodies, skins, skin-tight clothing and so on will abandon Bakes on Mesh and adopt the old 'applier' method to get those high-resolution textures onto the bodies. They will not wait for an eventual bake service update in the future. This is bad for everybody, as it means bodies will be encouraged to add or continue to support 'onion layers' which are poor for graphics and network performance. For those who don't know - onion layers are duplicates of the body mesh, made a tiny bit bigger so its textures lay on top of the layer below. This means more mesh to render and download. Appliers are also bad for creators and users of add-on body parts (replacement chests, thigh squish, hands & feet) as we rely on Bakes on Mesh to make our products functional at the base level - most bodies do not provide support for addons to plug in to their applier scripts and have not done so for years. I feel that the 2k texture feature should not go live for the official general release viewer(s) until bakes on mesh is taken into account and fully supported. Thanks for your time!

Currently when someone is wearing an avatar with a deformed skeleton and they change to another avatar their skeleton will be borked. Reset skeleton currently only fixes the visuals for the person themself and others also will need to reset skeleton to fix their view of the person. Relogging seems to be the only current way to reset the skeleton fully. If a full reset skeleton were possible via lsl it would make it super easy (via HUDs or scripting inside the avatars) for people to reset their own skeleton fully so that they are viewed correctly by all.

Second Life has numerous paths to transitioning from one region to another. Double clicking the map, clicking a link or a landmark, being teleported by an experience-linked attachment, and so on. When a 'map link' or a 'secondlife:///' uri are shared in local or group chat, llDialogs, group notices, or in IMs, they are usually re-rendered in a more 'user friendly' manner. As you can see, no indication is given here, to let the user make an informed decision about whether to visit the teleport destination or not. I suggest the addition of system-standard maturity markers, inline, after the rendered destination hyperlink, like so. With the recent TOS changes, a lot of onus is being placed on residents to 'knowingly avoid' regions of a given maturity rating. That issue aside, many residents often report 'not wanting to visit A-rated locations' as a personal lifestyle choice, and often times a resident may not be dressed appropriately to visit a G-rated region, and may want to avoid that. There are many reasons this information is important, to ALL residents. Providing a predictable user experience is extremely important, and by providing clear information about what to expect before clicking the link, this may provide better accessibility for users with disabilities as well.

Groups are by and large a major tool within SL. For land management and such, this works very well. But, when it comes to businesses in SL those with especially large groups are unable to manage those groups due to how data is being drawn into the viewer. In order to fix this, pagination should be implemented so that only a set amount of data is pulled into the viewer at once. This would work like the current user search, or if you want a out side of SL example, any search engine. Any modern software utilizes pagination so that it isn't grabbing all the records at once. This would allow for group managers of these incredibly big groups to actually manage their groups

Almost two years ago, when Premium plus was first announced, we were told that that all texture, sound and animation uploads were going to be eliminated, along with mesh uploads(which we never got). We did get the texture, sound, and animation uploads eliminated which gave content creators breathing room and helped boost innovation and creation. This was mentioned by the lindens during your meet the lindens segment for SL's 19th Birthday celebration. Video here: https://youtu.be/g9UJjr7sZxk?si=xyx7rIpQsVivfRFb&t=1675 While watching the April 2024 Lab gab, the news was dropped by Signal Linden that you were going to start charging premium plus members for texture uploads for the new 2k textures uploads. Video here: https://youtu.be/ZkOHG-n4d34?si=i3ZI98F2VkRQRUNg&t=970 Not only does it look like you guys aren't keeping your word on providing what you told the community you would(mesh uploads), but now you want to go back on your word(Free texture uploads). Even trying to use pretty words to soften the blow calling it a "bargain price". Now with PBR being added to the grid, we are looking at 4-5 textures being uploaded per mesh object if not more depending if an objects requires multiple materials. This is not including creators wanting to update any of their old content to the new resolution, who will most likely forgo updating any of their old content because it will eat into their budget now. Conclusion: I do think you guys need to show the community good faith and do right by us by keeping to what you promised to those who paid in and supported this new premium tier. Support your creators who joined this to help boost innovation and content creation in Second life. The reason 2k Textures are being added is to help improve SL's quality. Don't stifle the creation with nickel and dime tactics, otherwise people will just stick with the 1024 and we won't ever move past this.

Texture resolution has been increased to support up to 2048, now it would be wonderful if prim size could be doubled to support creation of up to 128x128x128m. Also ability to import mesh as large as 128m would be awesome too.

To be able to attach rigged/non-rigged assets to a specific point on an animesh character/model as we do on avatars. For example - to be able to add fire effects to come out of a dragon's mouth as it moves around.

Premium Plus users can pay their bills in L$. Why is that not a feature for everyone, or at least Premium users, too? This would help EU residents a lot, and probably others as well. Please consider L$ payment for everyone.

(I am moving this suggestion over from Jira! I'm aware that it was responded to, I just want to keep up with it.) Second Life as it stands will only allow users to have 30 or so animations running at the same time. Any more than that and the user will begin to have issues with animations being dropped to start a new one. I am proposing this idea because unfortunately, avatar posers on the Marketplace utilize set animations for users to pose themselves with. Attempting to use two different posers, one that poses the body and one that poses the face/fingers, will start to cause problems and make photo taking more and more hectic. There's also a lack of support for posing wings, tails, and ears (Sometimes the animations they come with don't cut it), so why not pose those yourself? I feel that it would be beneficial for the viewer to support a built-in posing system to mitigate the amount of animations a user would need to use just for photo taking! An efficient feature that could possibly be used alongside animations, but would take top priority over any animation running on a specific bone.

I feel lately that premium membership has been feel somehow abandone regarding to new features and changes, shortly after the arrival of premium plus. Something that I have thought about for sometime and I think it should be improved is when I looked at this part, I don't find much sense on mention it, since basic membership already pay L$10 for each upload, it would make more sense and correct leveling to be L$5 for premium, if premium plus already have free uploads and premium is the mid level. This would honestly be a great help to creators w/premium and such.