✨ Feature Requests

Hello, It it clear to me that the Library folder content is very outdated and has been overlooked. We have community standards in there from 2005, and landmarks pointing to "Orientation Island Public." This is not ideal for the new/existing user experience, as it's misleading if they happen to come across it. Is it possible that we could get a refresh of the content there, with landmarks pointing to the current newcomer friendly landing regions, and guidelines which reflect today's current standards? Thank you for your consideration.

Pretty self explanatory, but would love to see at least one more partner box able to be used in player's profiles for poly relationships. Thank you ♥♥

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 And it looks unconvincing, fake and outdated.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

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

Respectfully, I don't know why I need to make a suggestion about this, but we should have the ability to hide banned members from groups we own. This could be a simple permission toggle for each role. It doesn't make sense to have this feature if it's not useful. You're almost better off just not banning people period, as to avoid drama and confrontation. I don't want anyone who joins a group to be able to see a list of offenders, for me to be questioned about it, etc. Thank you for your consideration.

We need to be able to see our passwords at login. Every other major software company in the world lets you do it, even my money managers where I have my assets. Why doesn't the viewer allow us to click to see out passwords? This is archaic.

Allow avatars to become sit targets via a script. This would allow for incredibly interesting content such as dancers, couples walkers (Piggy back rides, hugs, holding hands), etc. that would not require a rezzed object. Avatars seated on another avatar could be animated, and control the target avatar, or vice versa. This would need to be controlled by the target via script to prevent people from just sitting on others. Allowing this would simplify the creation process for creators making these types of systems. It would also allow users to explore second life even in no rez areas such as stores, public land, etc. while still having the ability to interact with others without needing to rez an object. An example of this could be an avatar attached car, golf cart, sleds, planes, etc. Having the ability to explore second life without worrying about a rezzed object getting stuck on access walls, their object being returned, region crossings, etc. A stretch ask would be to enable synced teleporting between seated avatars.

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.

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.

Can we have more than 38 attachment points please? ♥