I had an interesting time at the Hair Fair today, made all the more challenging because of the overwhelming numbers attending. I and some friends watched the 4 sims fill to maximum capacity within 2 minutes of the Fair opening. Many people nowadays are very aware of how their avatar and attachments can effect not only their performance, but that of the sim as a whole, and have taken a very responsible attitude to lessen their own personal load. Here follows some interesting photos of how some people dealt with potential issues before they arose.
This is my friend Zu Parx. Zu has a wicked sense of humour, if you see Zu, play a practical joke!
This is nifty – no one will know if you are male or female
Dress up as a statue! Or dipped in liquid plastic
Umm….dress in latex and make awful faces?
Dress up as….a drawing!
To Reduce Your lagability
1. Remove all unnecessary prims, including scripted objects. Wear system pants, shirt. thats all you need, trust me
2. go to Advanced/debug settings. A small box will pop, copy and paste into it this: RenderAvatarMaxVisible. You will see a value of 35 – reduce this to 5 and it will lighten the load considerably.
3. Do not watch your ARC or that of others. Have your Stats window open if you like (View/statistics bar) and keep an eye on your FPS and ping rate.
Hope this makes for a more pleasant trip to the Hair Fair 09 for you 🙂
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June 21, 2009 at 1:07 am
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June 21, 2009 at 1:43 am
lola
I think people who can’t go bald in SL at a charity event which is for children who have no hair in RL – pretty disgusting.
nice read 🙂
June 21, 2009 at 2:59 am
elka
P.S. I always give my Skeleton Suit for free to people willing to wear only and really just only that alone at fairs *coughcough hinthint* 😀
June 21, 2009 at 3:02 am
elka
Just a FYI, the drawing/character thing is no less prims then other outfits, in fact it might be even more. The technique used to make these look 3D is the inside-out prims, which uses alpha + doubles every prim you see, which is extremely cute but also extremely… laggy you guessed it 😦 It’s not so hard to understand: just wear a single dang skin and THAT’S IT! LOL People who can’t dress down in a virtual world are wayyyy too deep in it. We don’t care about your coochie or baldness, it’s PIXELS, hello?? :3 Hehehe.
June 21, 2009 at 9:50 am
arabellasteadham
Thank you Elka for that explanation, I think sometimes people think if they are not wearing the usual accoutrements its ok, but obviously its not. If you *are* seemingly frozen with lag for a while, its really is fun to ‘people watch’ to see just what people do with their avatars. Almost as much fun as the Fair itself!
June 21, 2009 at 6:07 am
Mochi Milena
Haha when I saw the first picture I knew immediately that it was Zu! Props to the people taking steps to reduce the lag. I especially like the censored box on the last pic XD
June 21, 2009 at 11:43 am
Antonia Marat
Just detach all and wear the Hair Fair kit that they sell for 0L$. No one is there to look at you anyway. It’s all about the haiiir. 😀
June 21, 2009 at 11:59 am
arabellasteadham
Exactly! There’s so much to see and do, so many amazing new hair, lovely people, everyone there to have a great time, just go and enjoy 🙂