Jerralyn Franzic @JeromFranzic

Whoo... just like SL... Legacy seems to be gaining ground in the fantasy depth. Anyway, this outfit is... *jaw drops*

Love it! Grabbed a few figures, including Beverly Crusher and the Peekachoo bot. Thanks again! =)

Is the sim open? Just tried to TP there with my OSgrid avi.

I don't have any issues with grids doing their thing, I can abide by that. I do that whether I'm in SL or OS. Thanks for clearing it up.

One I wouldn't mind experiencing lol :p

So, this is an avatar, right? In that case I can port the shape to my Xara avis, and hopefully still use the clothes rigged for that body.

Xara is a LaraX clone designed by Essensual.

Yep, my 1050 loaded laptop works great in Sansar for sure. I also have an account in VRChat (PC only), and sine.space. All three of them work really well, thanks to everything being well optimized. I can run on low to mid settings on them and they all run smoothly... but because of that I typically run on high settings in those places, unless I'm in a crowded area.

But these places also suffer from slowdowns when they're crowded. People have reported that VRchat slows down with heavy crowds, and that's with users running in newer PC setups. I think it's slightly better with Sansar as far as handling crowds, I've been in some crowded spaces with my modest PC there and it hardly slows down for me. Of course I have to turn down graphics and switch off shadows... just like SL and OS.

Love your thoughts on the matter. Already mentioned my SL/OS rig in a comment below. I don't mind the move to using PBR and 2k textures but as I said below, the move to Vulkan should have happened first! It is true that PBR isn't a new development for advancing texture graphics. Many games have used it for some time now, including the DOOM reboot from 2016, which uses Vulkan (along with Open GL 4.5).

In any case I don't think the end is near for either SL or OS. I just think the OS community has to be careful in vetting things like PBR. The overall experience counts first, and I feel that there really is more diversity of thought and creation in OS vs SL. That's what attracted me to come here after a year of being in SL. I love both communities, but find OS to be a lot more fun to be in. For whatever reason, even though there are fewer folks in OS, I actually manage to talk in world more often in OS. Right now my unscientific split for time spent between both is... umm... maybe 65% OS and 45% SL.

You mentioned Active Worlds... hehe... I also have an account there and yes, the graphics are ancient but some of the sims there are fun to mess with. The so-called x rated sims are my favorite, they're rather comical but I get a good laugh out of them!

As far as other older metaverses... the Cybertown crew is also active... they do chat a lot on DIscord and I have tried it a few times, worth a look for what is possibly one of the first metaverses to run from a web browser (definitely even more dated vs AW3D though).

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.

I do wish there were more G rated public sims for the kids. I know a few do exist in Open Sim...

thanks ^_^

Prayers for a speedy recovery!

thanks :)

IIRC you create the clothes for Vesti, right? If that's the case, nice to see some original mesh for those of us who love our modern avatars!

(Not that I dislike System or ruth2, I occasionally run around in a slimmed down system avi when I go on a rollercoaster or driving run in Open Sim 😂)

I've enjoyed all of your current exhibits. I'll check this one out soon!

Hmm, didn't realize this was an issue. The few times I've visited Indigo so far, I've never landed anywhere near your residence. Glad it's fixed! =) I used my Wolf Grid account when visiting, maybe that's why I didn't land in the wrong spot. Might be visitors from other HG's that were having issues.

Come here for the gallery and nice horsie to soak up the beach air... =^)

Yay... love all of the Open Sim publications people create, just another one to add to my inventory =)

Your coasters are some of the best in Open Sim!

Love the outfits there! :) :)

True, but some of my favorite albums of all time were recorded on 2 inch tape!