✨ Feature Requests

So, I've seen a lot of designers selling stuff (inworld and marketplace) with a "PBR" stamp that does not use PBR at all. By talking to them (at least the ones that reply), what I hear is something the likes of "Did you know that PBR can not only be achieved with PBR texture materials, but also using Blinn-Phong shaders with normal and specular maps?" I won't go into the Rendering equation here, nor the openGL documentation regarding conservation of energy, but I'll mention the Second Life wiki page on the subject "and as such Blinn-Phong is not the same as PBR Spec/Gloss workflows, seen in some game engines such as Unity." (here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/PBR_Materials#What_is_it_and_Why_is_it_used.3F ) Can we please streamline and provide a definitive guideline for vendors (and notify them about it), so the vendors and buyers are aware of this difference, or even if it should be considered as such? Kudos

In the interest of positive change and discouraging misuse and abuse of the Second Life platform, I want to propose the following changes to Second Life's policy on scripted agents. Scripted agents must be linked to a botmaster "main" account, this would work like a partnership request such that the scripted agent account dashboard would let you pick the botmaster account, and that association must be accepted by way of an email confirmation or dashboard interaction on the human operated account. Botmaster accounts may have multiple scripted agents associated, and they can view this list on their account dashboard at any time. Failure to have a linked botmaster prevents the scripted agent from logging in. To be eligible to be a botmaster, a human operated account must complete a short terms of service quiz similar to the mesh IP upload exam. Payment information must be on file for an account before it can be botmaster for a scripted agent account. Profiles of scripted agents contain the "scripted agent" account type rather than "resident", and have a clickable SLURL to the profile of their linked botmaster that any observer of the profile can view and navigate through. Before completion of the scripted agent setup process, a text field must be populated with the justification and/or purpose of the scripted agent, e.g. "Region moderation", or "Group chat monitoring". These changes would ensure several things, most notably instilling a sense of accountability and transparency around the concept of scripted agents. Benefits of these changes would include but aren't limited to: Residents encountering a scripted agent may without any difficulty identify the resident who is responsible for the scripted agent, and contact them if necessary which may due to a malfunction, or misunderstanding of the scripted agent's purpose. Scripted agents would become detectable by the viewer, so that they can be identified differently and with notice banners on profiles, agent interactions, and messages. The provided justification and/or purpose for the scripted agent can be included on messaging in the viewer which reduces overall confusion.

Hi can someone please make a video tutorial on how to build a viewer on windows? https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Build_the_Viewer_on_Windows

I did a search and I couldn't find any suggestions for this, which is surprising. Forgive me if I somehow missed another post and I am duplicating this request. Residents should be able to access more than 3 months worth of $L transaction history. Any transaction history feature in any bank, any business, any online platform anywhere else generally allows you to pull ALL transaction history from the beginning of the account. If it is a burden for LL to provide all history to everyone, it should at least progress beyond 3 months the higher up we go in Premium levels or for creators and other business owners who have need for those older transactions. For Premium Plus, we really should have all access to all records with no time limit. Premium should certainly have more than 3 months. That limit is simply not long enough.

The wiki page is out of date as there are new rules that apply for 2024. Also would be nice to note if these are sent by mail or email as many more SL residents might be getting them this year vs last year under new rules and should know where to look for them. Also handy are they sent to US residents that live outside the US? https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Required_Tax_Documentation_FAQ

Support Hours For Premium Plus Need Corrected On Webpage. They are correct for Premium users but not Premium Plus

https://lindenlab.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/31000173097-child-avatar-faq#Q%3A-How-do-you-define-a-child-avatar ? Letting the community to decide on this is a bad idea because in a modern society the witch hunting mob justice has been replaced by the rule of rational law for a good reason. Some people will use your chest size or height as the defining factor and others dont even want to see avatars having a cute round face on an adult body because their definition of an adult face is sunken-in cheeks and manly jaw line. It is all vague and up in the air and the most unhinged voices tend to be the loudest and dominant, so there needs to be some assurance that if an avatar is not an intentional representation of a literal child, it should not matter what it may look like to who, ageplay rules should not apply to avatars who do not have clothing or accessories generally associated with children or expressing child like speech and behaviors that are necessary for to fit the textbook definition of ageplay. As it is now, it makes life difficult for everyone involved, people whos avatar some karen deemed "child-like", pressure and headache for sim owners on who to let in, communities being wholesale banned form places, everyone on the edge about it, this schizophrenic zeitgeist is bad for everyone's mental health. Anime avatars are sometimes mistaken for something they arent by people that do not understand anime. Anime facial features such as a round face and large eyes or more realistic japanese body proportions such as a more realistic height and chest size are mistaken for "child-like" features when there are no such intention. Also this needs clarification "Note: Merely having a childlike avatar does not violate this policy. It is not our intent to banish childlike avatars in and of themselves." https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_Lab_Official:Clarification_of_policy_disallowing_ageplay So merely having an avatar that some misinformed person deems "child-like" does not violate this policy in in terms of adult activity or general terms of this type of avatar simply existing? Does this mean adult activity is allowed? During the governance meeting "presenting as under 18" was thrown around in regards to avatar appearances, with no clarification given on what does that mean or who decides if what your avatar is "presenting" to be, is it up to the user or an arbitrary third party decision, and is "presenting as someone under 18" mean the same as "child-like" ? or are "child-like" avatars ok but the "presenting" ones not?

The official user group meetings are usually at 13:00 or 14:00 SLT/PT, which surely is convenient for Residents in the Americas, but highly inconvenient for dayjob-working Europeans, where 14:00 SLT/PT equals 23:00 CET. Moving the meetings forward just one hour (two hours would be better), would allow more European Residents to participate, while still being within US office hours.

some change in naming convention on version simulator