✨ Feature Requests

In Second Life, the water is a single global, infinite plane, mostly fixed at a 20 metre altitude in the Mainland and Linden Homes regions. Currently, to simulate rolling waves, scripted wave shaped objects made from prims, sculpts or meshes are physically moved across the flat water plane. And it looks unconvincing, fake and outdated. After 23 years, this badly needs updating and replaced with something much more realistic. The most effective way to simulate realistic rolling waves for Second Life is using "Gerstner Waves". Gerstner Waves are easier to implement, cheaper to compute, and better for stylized or simple water than other more "expensive" methods such as Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), already used in AAA games and movies. Adding Gerstner Waves would require updating the OpenGL Shading Language shaders in the viewer code to replace the flat-plane mathematics with Gerstner Wave equations. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochoidal_wave ) However, Gerstner Waves do have a downside, their waves can appear repetitive and predictable looking when studied closely. The Gerstner Waves offset vertices both vertically and horizontally. This creates the characteristic sharp crests and broad troughs seen in real oceans. Real waves don't just bob up and down; they break and flatten as they hit the beach and sand. To do this without scripts: Depth Buffers: Use the engine's depth buffer to calculate the distance between the water surface and the terrain. Vertex Modification: Near the shore (where water depth is low), the shader can automatically reduce the wave amplitude and increase the texture "foam" opacity. PBR Materials: Utilise the new PBR (Physically Based Rendering) extensions in Second Life to ensure the light reflects accurately off those new wave angles. Existing boat floatation and buoyancy should be maintained, as well as the ability for an avatar to swim or dive underwater in newly updated seas too. Sunlight and surface sounds should diminish accordingly to avatar's depth underwater. Multiple Gerstner Waves interacting with each other in SL regions would create random and chaotic waves that closely resemble those in the real world. Hopefully, multiple Gerstner Wave regions connected to each other would blend together seamlessly at region boundaries without visible gaps or troughs. Updated seas should offer a variety of "Sea State" conditions across the entire region in the region Land settings too. There are 10 internationally recognised Sea States: Sea State 0 - Calm (glassy) - Wave Height: 0 metres (0 ft) Sea State 1 - Calm (rippled) - Wave Height: 0 to 0.1 metres (0.0 to 3.9 in) Sea State 2 - Smooth (wavelets) - Wave Height: 0.1 to 0.5 metres (3.9 in to 1 ft 7.7 in) Sea State 3 - Slight - Wave Height: 0.5 to 1.25 metres (1 ft 8 in to 4 ft 1 in) Sea State 4 - Moderate - Wave Height: 1.25 to 2.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 8 ft 2 in) Sea State 5 - Rough - Wave Height: 2.5 to 4 metres (8 ft 2 in to 13 ft 1 in) Sea State 6 - Very Rough - Wave Height: 4 to 6 metres (13 to 20 ft) Sea State 7 - High - Wave Height: 6 to 9 metres (20 to 30 ft) Sea State 8 - Very High - Wave Height: 9 to 14 metres (30 to 46 ft) Sea State 9 - Phenomenal - Wave Height: Over 14 metres (46 ft) Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S-Glo806TY

On my first visit to Commercial Bellisseria, I got the usual, annoying pop-up invites to join (paid) groups that I get at many stores. It's downright irritating and akin to being jumped on by a shop assistant in RL the moment you walk through their door. I know I'm not the only one in SL who feels this way. Please consider banning such things in Commercial Bellisseria, for the sake of our sanity and left mouse buttons. That includes auto-sending landmarks as well. I can make my own and don't need a hundred of them sending that I just have to delete. There is nothing wrong with having a sign on the wall to join a group. Barraging us with automated messages is just pestering and annoying.

This is a super old bug that I want to bring back to light, I could not find a canny on this. This bug alone, is responsible for several vehicle woes, often requiring vehicles to be re-rezzed. Old archived posts referencing this issue: https://forums-archive.secondlife.com/54/11/317331/1.html https://github.com/secondlife/jira-archive/issues/8363 Summary: In short, when an agent crashes and disconnects uncleanly, the sit target remains occupied. Other viewers will still show the (now gone) avatar on the seat, scripts who call llAvatarOnSitTarget or related functions will be told that the sit target is occupied by the avatar who got disconnected. What makes this particularly evil for scripts? This stale state survives script resets, since it's a simulator state issue. The stale sit target survives sim crossings Even worse, you can unlink and relink the link with the sit target, and the simulator will still report that the disconnected avatar is sitting on that sit target once you relink. If the disconnected avatar relogs to a different region, and teleports back to the region the vehicle is in, when they resit, the avatar will now occupy two sit targets. Side note: If a linden wants help reproducing this bug, I'm happy to help. It can be reproduced easily if we stress test and try to crash on purpose; by having a multi-avatar vehicle with several avatars running several scripts.. we can make ourselves crash onto sim corners.

I would like to organize the PICKS in my profile so that I can have the order make some sense. Also I agree we need more PICKS, I have been here almost 19years and 10 is not enough

Avatars should not be able to use llDamage against agents or objects on parcels where they are banned or otherwise do not have access. This should also extend to objects that have been deeded to a group by said avatar. Currently, if a parcel has damage enabled, a banned avatar can still use llDamage to affect targets within that parcel. This effectively allows them to bypass parcel bans and continue interacting with residents or objects despite being explicitly denied access by the land owner. This behavior undermines the purpose of parcel access controls. If a land owner bans an avatar, that decision should prevent all forms of hostile or disruptive interaction originating from that avatar, including scripted damage. Parcel owners rely on access controls such as bans and group restrictions to manage their land and protect the experience of people within it. Allowing banned avatars to continue affecting the parcel through llDamage removes control from the land owner and weakens their ability to enforce boundaries. By permitting damage interactions across parcel bans, the platform effectively overrides the land owner’s explicit decision about who is allowed to interact with their space. Preventing llDamage from working across parcel bans would restore the intended autonomy of land owners to control interactions within the environments they manage. A secondary request would be adding a flag to the region settings that can be set TRUE or FALSE to allow damage to be dealt from sources to targets on different parcels as a region wide setting and default it to FALSE

Can we have more than 38 attachment points please? ♥

The freezes are especially annoying with vehicles. Some places can cause rendering to stop for most of a second as you move near them. Specs: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H (3072 MHz) Memory: 65015 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows 11 64-bit Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2 Maximum bandwidth setting: 8,000 kbps Test 1: Standing still Draw distance: 512 Position: NE Albion, looking west towards Abbotts Framerate: Stabilizes around 11FPS CPU: ~11% GPU: ~18% Test 2: Flying unassisted: Albion - Yamato Draw distance: 512 Framerate: Varies between 4-8FPS CPU: ~20-30%, occasional spikes to 49%, depending on object density GPU: ~18%

I created a group several years ago for my store, and I wish I had the ability to change the group name (to remove brackets, change a word, etc.). I'd even be willing to pay a small fee for this (similar to changing my avatar name, but maybe payable in Lindens...like paying to partner/unpartner).

honestly guys this is missing pls check video i did once with so many comments about this feature for second life is all explain in there, we still waiting.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD2diyXcjAk&t

Like many other users, I periodically get spam notecards and IMs from SL business owners advertising their new products. I have NEVER signed up to any notecard mailing list, I have always been added automatically without my knowledge. There's already a feedback post here about the ability to block these objects: https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/blocking-an-avatar-should-also-block-blacklist-all-of-their-rezzed-objects however I think that is only a band-aid solution. Signing users up onto your "subscription" service without their consent should not be allowed in the first place. It falls under spam, yet every time I have submitted a report against these objects, & explained in the report that they are spamming me (and others) without my consent and sometimes without a way to opt out, nothing seems to come of it. So I can only assume that, currently, this isn't against the SL TOS, or for some reason the reports are falling on deaf ears. Every time this has happened to me, the ads I get are from a brand that I don't recognize. This is because every time this happens it's nearly always happens one of two ways: I was added to the mailing list because I bought ONE item from the store in question; often a long time ago, sometimes years or more, from the Marketplace. This implies that the store owner is manually adding all Marketplace customer usernames to a mailing list or automating the process somehow. I visited the sim one time, and my mere presence was enough to get me on their mailing list. I need to stress that not only do these users add you to lists extremely easily, but they often make unsubscribing very difficult. At best, it'll be through a system like "KioskNet" - which at least has an inworld location you can go and get a HUD from, and unsubscribe from any mailing lists using that system. But if they use their own system, you're often out of luck. Some tell you "unsubscribe in the mainstore" but when you go there, there's no unsubscribe button, no matter how you look. Others say "contact me to unsubscribe", meaning that you have to actually talk to the person to convince them to take you off. And even if you find a way to unsubscribe, some will automatically put you back on their list later! I periodically check the KioskNet thing because every 6 months or so, a store has added me back as a "subscriber." As the other thread on this issue says, though, blocking either the user or their mailing object usually doesn't work because they tend to rezz multiple copies of the object, and keep going. Once you're in their system, you will be contacted by any object they rez going forward. I ask that Linden Labs considering making these unprompted spam subscriptions disallowed on the platform, and actually punishable. You should ONLY be able to get a "subscription" by opting in. Intrusive ads we did not ask for are spammy, disruptive, and extremely annoying.