JayR Cela @JayrCela

The Linden Lab devs have been talking about moving to Vulkan in the last few years. That should have happened well before even tackling PBR and 2k textures! Many GPUs as far back as the 900 series from Nvidia and their AMD equivalents are compatible with Vulkan. If that move happened first, then PBR and 2k textures becoming part of the SL engine would make perfect sense, and could be scaled enough to work with plenty of PC's. Of course, upgrades would be a likely necessity. I'm on a 1050 GPU/8th Gen i7 H CPU on a laptop and SL is kinda variable, depending on which sim I'm on. OS on the other hand is mostly a smoother experience for me. I do have 32 GB of DDR4 RAM so most of the time I don't experience too much texture thrashing... keeping shadows off is the usual thing to do to speed up things, along with 128m or less of draw distance.

Hardware costs are an increasingly important consideration. I find that my setup, with an Intel Core i3-3220 CPU 3.30Ghz x 4 with 16 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 6GB GDDR struggles on Second Life these days, but performs well on Opensim. I know it's hardly cutting edge hardware, but it's now approaching the situation where relatively high end hardware is required to enjoy all the bells and whistles, which is especially problematic when many users are using hardware that's designed to web surf and watch movies. I'm fairly convinced that the reason behind the failure of Sansar and High Fidelity was partially related to the requirement for relatively high end hardware.

Thank you.

You're right of course. This game is supposed to be about fun and friendship. I have created many nice gifts for many people in many grids, and given them away freely. I've always been kind to people and tried to help them anyway I could. Some people feel like they can run over me and use me as a door mat, mistaking my kindness for weakness. If I don't stand up for myself, no one else will. I am not going to let people run over me. I am the nicest person you could ever meet, but I am not a door mat. With that said, The other party knows they done wrong, and they know I speak the truth. I do have real life mental health issues, but that should not be used by others to lessen my importance as a person, nor should it be seen as a way to push me down in the mud and walk all over me. I am still here, and I intend to keep offering free creations for people. I will not let them push out. My grid, my rules. Be nice, or leave and never come back.

8pm EST is my 2am in EU pfff.. We had IMA in metropolis grid back then...Just blabla without any increasing anything to Opensim. This is just a waste of time. Maria has a long story of journalism. I better trust her than this IMA thing! And if that fundraising would have beeen a serious thing: Why didnt they explain that in HG business what they did with the money? They never did and kept that approx 725$ for themselves. So bottom of line: another cheating to get money from good believing people! Forget IMA shit

Thank you for clarifying Scenegate. Maria, except for trusting individuals like Boam... for the rest, she's a smart enough woman to sense if something is fishy. That's probably why she didn't want to talk about EchoVoice; it didn't convince her then, and perhaps it still doesn't. The fact remains that it's an openly profit-driven company, so why should I give them my money? There are thousands out there that can meet the requirements and have a rich portfolio of successful, non-failed projects, unlike theirs.

Thank you, I have supported a few Star Trek groups in the Metaverse over the years creating props or uniforms. I enjoy creating different avatars and costumes. I will look up starfleetinfinity.com and see the website thank you for reaching out and suggesting them. Please know that if you want to pass the outfit around or place it there to give is fine with me.