Recent content by Conifer Dada

The paperdoll 2D avatars must have been one of the shortest ever 'must-have' crazes in SL. I saw a few people wearing them in clubs and a few snapshots appeared on Primfeed but now they seem to have been forgotten already!

OS Grid has been down for days now. It's the second time this has happened in the last few weeks. In SL I normally used the LL standard viewer and when that went to PBR it became unusable for me. There wasn't a lot of fuss initailly because most people used Firestorm anyway. I changed to using...

I've been in SL most days recently. Probably less when summer comes.

Potentially the new PBR viewer looks really good. But . . . It has messed with my daylight settings, which all need to be redone. I revised one setting and the result was good. One problem though, is when I'd got the realistic daylight setting, all the artificial lights indoors became much...

Some of what seems like 'copybotted' content from SL might not be so. It might have been uploaded to OS by the original creator, using a different name from their SL one.

SL performance deteriorated for me some time ago. In recent years avatars have always taken ages to rez in busy places but now the surroundings are taking longer to rez too. Changing the graphics settings makes little difference, except in the case of reducing draw distance. I have a good PC and...

Sideways Glance . . .

There was a short feature on BBC News today about how the 'Metaverse' will encourage more virtual business meetings and some people will even be able to do some of their work in the Metaverse. They went on to explain how the idea dates back to the novel 'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson. The...

I still use a system avatar which I'm happy with but the one deformer I would be interested in is one which makes the thighs slightly shorter in comparison to the lower legs. In effect moving the knees up the legs. I did find one that makes the lower legs longer but that messes with shoes, so...

That could be accidental though because if someone decided their legs or hips need to be a bit longer they might not realise the arms don't automatically become longer to match.

It's not uncommon to see avatars showing off marks caused by spanking, self-harm or other forms of abuse. Not my cup of tea at all. However, my twin sister Willow did acquire an appendix scar a few years ago after a notorious SL celebrity chef used her as a guinea pig for his latest creation -...

Not strictly a fashion trend but I've noticed several skins where the face is lighter than the body. I don't mean because of face-lights or because the head skin is mismatched with the body, but where the skin texture on the face is actually made lighter as a highlight, so it looks like pale...

I know people sometimes like to create bizarre avatars (e.g. the big lady telling me I need a makeover in the pic above) and that's fine. I remember when the majority of avatars were very tall, so that anyone with a realistic height looked like a child in comparison. That's not such a thing now...

As we know, we're all free to look how we want in SL but when the herd instinct drives fashion trends like huge hips and tiny waists, or in the case of males, huge shoulders and biceps, that leaves 'normal' avatars looking like the odd ones out. Creating a realistic shape is not easy for...

It's as if the evolution of SL fashion in avatar shapes has taken on a life of its own, separate from RL. So the current extreme body shapes are inspired by what went before in SL, but more so, as it were.