One Lucky Elf - Aggi's Blog

There was an announcement in April 2026 about Linden Labs making an unusual and rare change - they are going to alter some continents.   You can read about it here: https://community.secondlife.com/news/featured-news/a-new-chapter-for-mainland-gaeta-1-transition-zindra-expansion-r11269/ I don't quite understand what they mean by 'not a lot of use' because I was eyeing properties for sale there regularly, hoping to snatch a beachfront property near a friend's place, and it always looked like there was plenty going on. I am sad for my friend, though, and hope he gets a good replacement deal. My main confusion over this is TIL that continents have names. 18 years and going and I was unaware. I looked around in the game and couldn't find labels anywhere.  My own property just says 'Mainland.'  Where is this information? How do they expect you to know which continent is which? I did a little digging and found the continents section in the Second Life Wiki.  I had...

Hi!  Hello?  Hey! Down here!   Let's go explore the smaller parts of Second Life. It's time to get Petite. This rabbit-hole dive into smaller sized avatars is not about the Maitreya Petite body, but I will warn you that it will cause havoc in your searches. I'm talking about 'petite' bodies, which are much smaller than the average avatar. They're about 2 feet tall, a great size if you want to be a pixie or fairy. They are still big enough to fully customize your look. It's a very niche market, so I will also be covering alternative clothes that will work with these bodies, and how to shop for non-mesh clothing for a mesh body. As far as I can tell, there are two major Petite bodies, Yabusaka and Jinx. The Yabusaka Petite Mesh Body   Cost: 1,500L At the Yabusaka store on  Marketplace . You can also find it at  Petite Bare Rose . Some notes: This is an older mesh body.  You can alter its shape, but only to a certain extent. You can't do much with th...

The bad thing about mesh BoM skins is that they are designed for specific bodies. If a skin made for a Legacy body is worn on a Maitreya body, it may misalign the skin at the fingers and toes, making them look weird.  The same is true for most older skins designed for the system body. Many of them still look good, there's just an ever so slight texture alignment issue. Fortunately, there are several free tintable coverups (BOM Tattoos) available on Marketplace.   I tested out three of them. From left to right Unaltered (skin: Pink Fuel - Renee on a Maitreya body) AlaskaMetro Izzie's Yes My Love The last one worked best for me. You can adjust the tint by wearing the tattoo, right clicking on it in your inventory, and selecting 'edit.' Then it's a matter of eyeballing it with the color selector until it looks right. Don't let the minor details get you down! There's a fix for it somewhere.

Time for Part 3 of my Second Life animation series - Static Poses.  But They Don't Move! Yes, I know, they shouldn't be called 'animated' if they're static, but they work exactly the same way as the Sit Animations and Animation Overrides. You drop them in an object with a script, and sit on them to pose your avatar.  Static poses are perfect for Second Life photography, and I use them a lot. Check out my  Flickr  and  Primfeed  pages for examples. And then everybody else's, because there are some amazing scenes out there. Ways Static Poses Are Used In A  Poseball -  One pose stored inside a simple sphere with a script. Right click and sit; the ball disappears and your avatar is in the pose.  In A Stand - basically a rug or tiny platform, with buttons or a menu to shift you from pose to pose. In the photo above, I am using a stand by pose maker Pixit. I can click on it to make it disappear when I am ready to take a photo. In A Handheld Object...

I have decided to remove Aggi's Tale and Rowan's Tale from this blog.  It will remain on Ao3 and will eventually go up on Oneluckyelf in a reformatted condition.  Thank you for reading! There will be more to come.

 Pull up a chair, readers, we're discussing  Sit Animations  and scripting furniture in Second Life. First, a clarification! While I say sit animation, what I mean is: temporarily connecting your avatar to another object that contains animations, which will move your avatar in a specific way.  I'm calling this category Sit because that's generally the menu option you click on when you interact with an object containing animations. Sometimes people rename it things like 'stand' or 'dance' or 'climb,' whatever's convenient to express what that object will have you do. Sit Animations 101 When you find an object with an animation (usually your mouse pointer will turn into a tiny chair when you hover over it), you can right click on it, select 'sit,' and then your avatar begins performing a preset animated loop on or near that object.  If there are multiple animations assigned to that object, a blue pop-up menu appears with button options. Yo...