One Lucky Elf - Aggi's Blog

 I've never been a big fan of the editing poses and whatnot that go on while I'm editing items in Second Life.  I know I'm building or moving things, and no one else needs to know!  Fortunately, it's easy to turn it off. Turn off Editing Poses In Firestorm, go to: Avatar Menu Preferences Move & View View Find 'Automatically Pose Avatar During (select one or more): Deselect Build/Edit Deselect Show Visual Hints Deselect Appearance (you may want to keep this, especially if you have an AO that moves a lot) In The Second Life Official Viewer, go to: Me Preferences Move & View, Look for 'Automatic Position For:' Deselect 'Built/Edit' We're done with this tab, but not this menu. In the Firestorm Viewer: Click on the Movement Tab. Deselect 'Turn Avatar Towards A Selected Object' Click OK. I could not find this option in the Second Life Viewer. Turn Off The Select Bars This removes the annoying lines that run from your avatar to the item ...

When working on a pose involving multiple avatars, I like to cam in inside their heads (ctrl + alt + mouse-click-and-drag) and make sure everybody's eyes are looking where I want them to look.  It'll end up looking something like this: That's Milo, you can read about him in my  Aggi's Tale series. He's an unintentional work in progress. I swear he looks different every time I try to include him in a photo. He's abnormally tall for an elf, so pretty much everyone sees this view, even other elves. It also makes getting group photos challenging! The scene:   The backstory: Prince Elorhyn is a hot mess. He's taken up with humans and wizards, seems to have some sort of curse on him, and keeps slipping away from his duties and his minders.  He's frightened five Royal Secretaries in eight months, and they're running out of willing candidates. Milo Tillock was a Royal Secretary for one of Elorhyn's brothers, who recently passed. He's rated for comba...