Avatar Fashion: Recycling your User Interface
November 22, 2008 2:55 pmSharing chat logs with others in-world is against Community Standards/ToS, right? But errr, if they get printed on your jacket layer, you can’t be held responsible, can you?
This did not happen to me for virtual ages (read: a few months), so I was very surprised, and even a bit nostalgic when suddenly, I was wearing my UI again. I decided to just leave it that way, and wear it proudly! ;) In the back you see the lovely Mister ArminasX and we were talking about the SL Bloggers Mix’n Match Aftermath and our survey (results soonish!).
As far as I know, wearing your UI is a ‘local client’ bug and others don’t see it, so not possible to really ‘violate’ chat privacy rules. Posted because of bug-nostalgia. :D In RL fashion everything seems to go in ‘circles’, bootleg, tight jeans, wide disco pants, they all seem to be ‘fashionable’ then terribly outdated only to return about 10 years later. Will the same happen to our clothing issues? In 10 years from now, will we revive ‘prim stuck in ass’ as being worn only by the fashionable avatars? ;) And who will be the first SL designer to officially incorporate our User Interface into a design?
12 Responses to “Avatar Fashion: Recycling your User Interface”
Weird. I have yet to see this happen to me.
One of the best ever was uploaded by Rob Danton:
the decorators found my stash of acid… I’d love to have known what it looked like to visitors… surely SL didn’t upload random textures from my desktop?!
Really, you just can’t keep a good bug down. I’ve been waiting for the stripes bug to come back. In fact, I predicted in in this post on my blog (http://poultryreport.blogspot.com/2008/11/bugged-again.html), I reported it often and even talked to a couple Lindens about it directly but it simply went away. With the reoccurrence of several other ages-old bugs (like the Alt-Zoom-Click-Crash one) lately and the decrease in frame rates, it’s like the Second Life® I used to know. Maybe it is a new product: Second Life Classic©®℗℠™. Soon to be followed by Second Life Lite©®℗℠™? “One-Third the Rez but all the Lag of Regular.”
interesting …
yesterday the sea around me was showing the pages of my blog ! :D
Actually others DO see it too… at least sometimes.
Wildstar, that sounds beautiful. Did you snapshot? (And was that a bug, or did you texture your sea with blogposts yourself?)
As for the Second Life Classic product, maybe that’s one of the new premium account offerings? ;)
@Peter: I did not know that. This can be quite dangerous then, imagine very sensitive / private IM’s plastered on yourself when attending a public event.
Does anybody have a link to that Flickr photograph - I think by Arahan Claveau - where he was just complaining about SL ‘buggyness’ in main chat, which then got printed on his clothing layer?
I’ve never seen this myself…. But I’ll be on the lookout now ;)
yes it was a bugt .. they tell me it is a known NVIDIA bug and they also told me the workaround but I forgot it.
I regret I did not take a snapshot … I was terraforming so it was a bit annoying and I quickly relogged … a pity
It’s visible to other avatars. I just fished a snapshot out of my recycle bin (hooray for pack rat tendencies) I took this week of GoSpeed Racer wearing the Clocktower of Edloe Island on her upper body: http://www.flickr.com/photos/felineslade/3050505347/. She resolved it by rebaking, but not before I managed to get a snapshot.
No one I spoke to had a work around. The PC I used to have the the iMac I have use the same NVIDIA chipset. I have another example on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/uccellopoultry/528996227/) and more on my hard drive.
Here is a photo that I took of Gina, where she wears an IM all over herself:
Here is a photo that I took of Gina, where she wears an IM all over herself: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterstindberg/2495469012/
Care to comment?