Feature Requests

There's still no pre-load function in LSL for animations. I know you can fiddle with using different priorities ( https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Category:LSL_Animation ), but with dozen or more animations in an object that's just not a realistic solution. Others have tried overlapping animations or playing with animesh. Another possible solution used by dance performers to have their avatars run through all of the animations before going out on stage. All of these work-arounds are either not practical in most cases or clunky in application. On the webpage linked above, there is a reference to "SVC-6866A llPreloadAnimation() - a function to preloading animations ready to be played on-demand without delay." I know that the SVD-6866A request has been around for years (2010 or before). A pre-load function would be huge help to animators and make SL animations running smoother and more efficiently.

As a blogger, I know that a well-documented shortfall of Second Life and its many viewers is the that one user cannot pose other users in the same way that one can pose their own avatar in viewers like Black Dragon and Alchemy. This poses (no pun intended) an issue for people looking to do photography involving more than one subject. Yes, there are pose stands that allow you to do generic posing of users that sit on the pose stand, but the features are limited as compared to the poser in Alchemy and BD. (i.e. The bones available for posing are fewer in number, and are limited only to rotation-- whereas Alchemy and BD's self-poser also include position and scale). My suggestion is this: a poser that is Experience-based and REQUIRES the consent of the avatar who is to be posed. Furthermore, consent is to be re-acquired with every attempt to pose the other user. This way, nobody can break privacy ToS or personal boundaries. In the spirit of total transparency, safety and privacy, the user being posed should/could also be able to see every change made to their avatar's pose, and can cancel the posing process at any time. I would really love a consent-based feature like this to be implemented, because the ability to cohesively and smoothly pose those who I am doing photo collabs with is essential to the ease with which I create my art as a blogger and a virtual photographer. I hope this suggestion will be considered!

I've been on SL over 16 years, mostly creating and animating. So, I believe we are in great need of: Inverse Kinematics and Ragdoll Physics. also, from that, I think we could have also ropes physics and have whole other ways to create which is now impossible. Thanks LL team, ♥ you all.

Right now, an animation file is limited to 250,000 bytes. This is very small. If your animation makes use of the body bones + fingers, you can rarely make an animation longer than 20 or 30 seconds with such a limit. Of course this also depends of the FPS and other kinds of things, but i've noticed that for a "normal" animation, animating the body and the fingers (not the face), in 30 FPS, i can rarely make an anim longer than 20 or 30 seconds because of the 250,000 bytes limit. I propose to double this limit and make it 500,000 bytes.

I hobby with SL as a platform for my machinima, and I have noticed that Animation speed of animesh objects is not effected by the animation speed control. Since they are effectively playing animations like the SL avatar, it would be convenient if animesh was also effected by the speed ramping, allowing for some creative filming.