✨ Feature Requests

Ah, the good old days of texture-only clothing, before even we had sculpties! In those days, we could mix and match all possible layers of clothing from any combination of content creators, and it would always work . Well, it was also a pretty ugly world back then. Today, we have a gazillion mesh clothing. However, mixing and matching them is really, really an art — not even content from the same creator will correctly "fit". That is, if you wish to wear your favourite T-shirt with your favourite black lather jacket... it won't fit. Things will always "stick out". Current-generation mesh body HUDs can turn specific parts of the avatar mesh invisible — which goes a long way to make badly-rigged and/or older meshes to "fit" — but, of course, that works only on the body . There is no way to get the shirt to "play nice" with the jacket — especially if they come from different creators. But, as said, even the same creator will very likely not bother to make all their clothes "compatible" with each other. It's much nicer to sell mega-fatpacks and give up on your "other" content. One curious fashion side-effect was the adoption of crop tops, very short shirts, knotted shirts, etc., since you can hardly expect your "normal" shirt/top to play nicely with your favourite jeans. Belly-button piercings also became more popular. And some clever creators updated their ancient texture-clothing — especially tops and tight-fitted pants/leggings — simply because these will always fit under a jacket or coat or anything, being directly BOMed. I thought that this was simply one of those "unsolvable" problems, as it would be most unlikely for all content creators to agree to a set of "guidelines" for clothing to fit together. Therefore, I never considered asking for such a feature — it would be impossible to implement in practice. Then I saw this video: https://tv.sansar.com/watch?id=2943 Just... wow! All right, all right, I know that this is Sansar in 2022, and not Second Life; the rendering engine is completely different and absolutely unrelated. But... We all know what the former Sansar & High Fidelity teams have done to the SL rendering engine: in a word, magic . What exactly would be required to change the SL rendering engine to do exactly the same? The video shows some limitations — clothing is not "infinitely" stretchable there. But even a little bit helps. In fact, just that fantastic "merging" feature, where only the "outer" mesh is kept, while the "inner" mesh does not stick out — that would go a loooooooooooong way to fix all our mix'n'matching troubles! Please... work on this! 🥺🙏

Problem Currently, when users need to reset their avatar's skeleton, the changes only apply locally to their own viewer. For other users to see the reset skeleton, the avatar owner must use a workaround that involves resetting their skeleton locally, teleporting elsewhere, and then teleporting back. This process is cumbersome and interrupts the user experience. Solution Implement a system where when an avatar owner resets their skeleton, it automatically sends a packet to all viewers that can see that avatar, instructing their clients to also reset the skeleton display on their end. The same functionality could be extended to animations, allowing users to clear all animations across all viewers simultaneously. Links BUG-225527 Github: Make it so that reset skeleton is a networked ViewerEffect

I suggest an enhancement to the Bakes on Mesh (BOM) system by introducing an opacity option for BOM layers. As a designer, the current limitations of BOM force us to add additional mesh layers, particularly for makeup applications. This increases mesh complexity and necessitates the use of complex HUDs. Enabling opacity control on BOM layers could eliminate the need for extra mesh layers, thus optimizing mesh complexity and enhancing overall performance. Additionally, this would allow for greater flexibility and creativity, as BOM makeup layers wouldn’t be limited to one or two mesh layers (depending on the number of mesh layers created by a designer). With the recent introduction of 2k BOM textures, the capability to adjust blend modes directly on BOM layers would be highly beneficial for both designers and users. It would offer more customization options and improve the user experience. It would positively impact the creative community and contribute to a more streamlined and efficient design process.

I'd love to be able to have the body and my head shapes be separate. Right now the shapes are tied together as one shape. I would love to be able to say, purchase a head shape someone has created and be able to apply it without changing my body shape as well.

Hi. Please Have a Hard Look at Color Coding a Select Color for all Scripted Agents and Bots and have a Badge or Tag on the Profile to Identify a Scripted Agent or Bot, this way a User/Resident can quickly identify one when opening a profile, Having the Text in a particular color unique to bots will help identify chat from them either in local, Ims or Conferences. i believe this may serve as just one piece to help users navigate some of the issues found inworld with scam links, as well as some of the legit reasons for using scripted agents and bots.

This idea is about creating a Premium Plus Group Plan for small groups of friends, family members, or alt accounts (5 people per plan), similar to what Google offers. The cost could be by main account. how it would work? so it would work like that main avi pay: 30,000 L$ per month (example) or the equivalent in real currency, with payment options for 3 months or 1 year upfront. Then person can add on their dashboard avatar names who wish (can change that chooice once per month) so all 5 added to it avis got premium plus. Why is this needed? Many users in Second Life have multiple avatars or want to share premium benefits with family or friends. This proposal allows users to share a premium plan with those who might not be able to afford it themselves, or share with alts providing more people access to premium features without each person paying individually. How will this help Second Life? There are many groups of friends, families, and creators in Second Life who would be interested in a shared premium plan. Creators with multiple avatars could benefit from having premium perks on all their accounts. This would increase revenue for Second Life, as more people would be encouraged to upgrade to a premium plan knowing they can share it across their group. Families and creators are likely to purchase such a plan because it makes premium benefits more accessible and practical for everyone involved. It will bring more money and stuff so that would work in the best intrest of Linden Lab and overall good. Thank you for reading and consider implement this change. Hugs, Marty (this text was made with help of AI translator cause my english is not the best, sorry for any weird writing or so) See You around

Why are regions allowed to host dozens upon dozens of bot accounts to fake traffic scores when such behavior is clearly against ToS. Some sims are almost at the avatar cap before a single real person has arrived with fields of fake accounts on skyplatforms and in hidden locations, all day, all night, day in, day out. They are obviously not marked as scripted agents as the regions in question have astronomical traffic ratings yet not an actual soul in sight. Is there some secret rule that regions owners are allowed to do this? I will not show locations or name names. But this behavior is so endemic, I would be happy to give any Linden a guided tour of the worst offenders. This phenomenon is actively harming the platform. When the busy places are ghost towns with faked numbers, the only conclusion anyone can come to is that Second Life is dead.

Please do something about these stalker bots like NotAnotherBrendenBotMakeItStop and the Legion of Bonnybelle. These bots serve no useful purpose, but appear whenever the number of visitors to the regions changes. Many residents hate these bots and wish they would be banned. It seems that these bots create behavioral profiles of users Especially this bot NotAnotherBrendenBotMakeItStop appears very often, sometimes once a day, sometimes 4 times in a row. What is this? Banning and reporting does not seem to help, especially on the mainland it does not work and the Lindens do not respond to the request to block bots on the mainland on regions. Maybe it would help to limit the teleports for bots to 1x per minute, or longer, so that this use becomes pointless? In addition, the Lindens should also be able to filter illegal accounts not reported as scripted agents if they only teleport around 24/7. Limit their teleport rate too. sincerely yours Dae

BOM layers that can glow. Would be quite nice and remove onion layering for mesh models and help save on resources. I know PBR is a thing but it does not allow the flexibility of BOMs. I have species that have different glowing markings and bioluminescence on their bodies that I'd love to be able to do in SL. My team and I heavily utilize BOMs so our customers can make rather unique pattern and color combinations. Shiny BOM layers would also be really nice.