✨ Feature Requests

Provide a way for residents to back up important aspects of their inventory as a fallback / failsafe to recover in case of inventory loses. In addition, provide an offline archive and respository to make it easy to prune older inventory items, but recover and activate them at a future date. Essential feature: retain folder structures correctly throughout. (The boxing technique for storing items long term does not retain folder structures, making it effectively useless). You could provide both features as perks for Premium membership. You could charge for larger archives or backups, as a way of funding these features.

Per Geenz Linden's request at the last Creator User Group meeting, here are two minor features which would help make the "infinite draw distance" code much easier. The goal is to have SL look like Google Earth in the distance - you can see distant terrain, at low resolution. This makes the big world real to users. For an overview of what that's about, see this video: https://www.animats.com/sharpview/technotes/impostor.html Technical discussion: https://www.animats.com/sharpview/technotes/impostor.html Github repository: https://github.com/John-Nagle/maptools License LGPL. So, the feature requests: Access to the height map. Currently, to get the height map, someone has to create a "bot" account which logs in, visits thousands of regions, records land elevation data, and uploads it to a server. Many users have done something like this, to create terrain models. Flying over the whole grid regularlyis a headache, and bothers some users. Some way to get this terrain info via an HTTP request would simplify things. Along with this, it would be very useful to be able to get the present map tiles without the "FOR RENT" and "FOR SALE" overlays. A set of map tiles taken at 64m or 128m above ground level would do this. Asset upload and wrangling tools. With the new pricing for Premium Plus, uploading a full set of map tiles is affordable. Mapping mainland requires about 30,000 image assets, which are currently 256x256. This is about 6GB of asset content. (It is not necessary to make impostors for isolated single-region estates - you can never see them from the outside. This cuts down the load.) The mechanics of uploading are somewhat painful. Bulk upload is supported, but everything ends up in the root inventory folder. It would be helpful if uploading a folder with subfolders resulted in corresponding inventory folders. That's useful for other purposes. We need to get the UUIDs of the textures and meshes uploaded. This is currently done by putting all the tiles into a prim, and running a script in the prim to scan the prim's inventory. A better approach would be nice. We'd also like to be able to get mesh UUIDs for meshes we have uploaded. Mesh UUIDs are not usually exposed in SL, so that's worth thinking about. If that UUID info were only available to the uploader, it would not be a security issue. The uploader already has their glTF file. Note that this requires the asset UUID, not the object UUID, because the map is made of assets that are not associated with the currently visible regions. That's enough to get to the point where what you see in the video can be deployed grid-wide. If LL wants to take over this entire effort in future, that's fine with me.

Hear me out. If cowork can organise years and years of harddrive mess, identify and remove duplicate items, then there MUST be a way to do it for inventory items. Seriously, I would pay real money to have a LL approved and trained ai get in there and do some heavy cleaning. Think of all the storage space you could save, LL. And all the user time saved when people can find their stuff. If it was a LL initiated tool, it would be able to know things not necessarily available to users - like object creator without having to rez it first. It could know categories of things and what percentage of users delete a freebie set from 2008. If the helper ai was presented as another avatar you could talk to, it could just ask intelligent questions like, do you want all the freebies you gathered at the newbies hubs? If not easy clean, or simply moving it all into a "pre trash" folder so the user can have a look at it before the final chuck. And have it read all the notecards, figure out if there is anything important, if so categorize and if not pre or trash it. The ai could ask, you have ten years with of grid affairs notecards those are all in the past, keep and organise or delete? If this could all happen in a private space where the ai could assist with the identification and outcome for the 1000 things called object in your inventory by doing a quick rez, you give it the thumbs down, gone. Thumbs up initiated a rename where possible and it's pushed into the new organisation structure. The user would have feedback in the proposed organisation so that they can actually figure out what is what after. This last thing would require user interactions but if the ai is presented as an Avi it amounts to body doubling and more people might get further in the process than they do now 'just trying to get organised ' EVEN just some fundamental help could help, this could be billed as a one off service, or perhaps a once per year included at the highest tier. I hope this doesn't seem too far out there, because currently available tech COULD do this, it would just need the right access and implementation.

Can we have please added to the list of available Environments in the viewer equivalent PBR versions of our beloved Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight, and name old ones (Legacy) as you did with Midday?

It would be useful to be able to show duplicates in our inventory. I end up with so many LMs or sometimes even items and they add bulk to my inventory. It would be nice to be able to see all duplicates so the excess can be easily deleted.

Firestorm Gods and Goddesses: I need a BACK button for the outfits tab that puts on the previous outfit in case I forgot the name of it/accidentally put on the wrong outfit. PLEASE!

It would be nice if creators could somehow use an identification system for their folders that would insert the folder into the correct location upon unpacking the product. For example, if I'm selling clothes, it would be preferable for the unpacked folder to show up in the CLOTHES section of the buyer's inventory rather than every person needing to drag it into the correct place. Likewise, if I'm selling a bunch of textures, it would be nice to be able to internally "mark" (perhaps in properties) that my product should go into the Textures folder once unpacked. ***NOTE: Users should still be able to copy/paste/drag these folders wherever they choose if they prefer a different location.

With massive inventories in the >> 80k items range, especially for older residents, there are a lot of folders that are basically stuff a resident does not use frequently. Stuff you would move to the attic in RL. This slows down searching and finding items and causes UX issues when the inventory UI slows to crawl or search is super slow. Examples include pristine copies of items only kept as backup in case the active item breaks down. Legacy stuff that fell out of fashion, but is too good to simply delete. Tons of other things. It would be useful to mark such folders with some "attic" or "archived" category to get them out of the way. Those items should not show up in the default inventory list, should not be found by the default search and should be treated as basically non existant unless explicitly requested. They should not be wearable or attacheable in that state. Those attic / archived items should be de-prioritized for inventory loading. The inventory could be considered fully loaded for all important purposes even with all archived items still missing. This would speed up initial avatar loading in some cases. The items should also not simply be display filtered but put in an entirely different structure (maybe extra tab in the UI) to have performance gains in search and browsing. A bit like those infinite chests in games, where all the loot gets put thats not useful but still worthy of keeping.

So now that we have regained the ability to add sub-folders to the outfits INVENTORY folder could we please have this in the appearance/outfits tab too? Currently it remains unaffected by this change and I think it would be much more useful to have sub-folders here.

Be able to organize and delete things from inventory on webpage