Customizable Icons Per Object Type
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Kalia Pawtato
I've been working on coming back into Second Life after a prolonged stint away due to work arrangements and in doing so hope to bring several new creators along with me into what feels like a wonderful revival of the Second Life platform. Unfortunately, the landscape remains (in my opinion) extremely anti-newbie. To look good or create in Second Life requires such an immense hand-hold through all of the tiny nuances throughout the platform and the differences between each creator's naming conventions of objects and way of organization of their items that it's very difficult for people to learn anew. Even for me, a Second Life resident of 20 and creator of 15+ years, I found it challenging to catch up with everything that had changed.
With that said, there is a suggestion I'd like to make in the interest of visual-based learners and organizers like myself that I feel would help out everyone: Customizable inventory icons for mesh, tattoos, and more.
I've attached two example images.
One is how a Jian Pets product currently unpacks, showing all mesh/objects as the same yellow cube.
The other illustrates how with existing emojis already added to Second Life, the option could exist where you can change what the object icon would appear to be - in this case, I've elected to change the animesh/pet objects to be dogs and the HUDs to be a computer screen.
Other examples would include clothing icons, such as shirts, pants, skirts, dresses.
Another would be a house or plant for decor objects.
It may not seem like a big a deal, but I would argue this simple functionality for original creators of meshes and objects to 'label' their creations in a visual way would add a lot to the inventory management system that at present is very clunky and difficult to keep organized except by extensive inventory management, even as a non-creator user.
Thanks for your consideration!
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Merged in a post from Sasy Scarborough:
Title: New Inventory Icons and/or Personalisation of existing
Details: As discussed in the latest CCUG the limitations of the existing inventory icons needs to be addressed. The yellow cube now represents prims, sculpts and mesh objects.
Colour assignment capabilities to existing cube icon could mean that you could right click an item in your inventory or on the ground and assign the cube a colour, it could be as simple as all outdoor items are green all indoor items orange, hair could be brown, clothing might red and so on. Each individual could have their own colour picker with save options allowing them to be consistent and this would mean that at a glance you could sort through items easily.
With new icons, there are now separate heads than bodies so having a face icon for a skin/tattoo layer that showed it was the face only or the body only could help alleviate some of the confusion that now skins for the most part do not come as one head to toes layer. An actual icon much like the system layers would also be helpful for the mesh wearables...this is hair, this is a dress those are pants etc. A pet icon or and/or animesh icon.
Icons for landscaping or home decor a tree or a house could help with a lot of confusion of people needing to rez items as the description is not clear, and no mod items don't give residents the opportunity to do anything about that.
If the assignment was controlled not only by creator but also end user, this would mean the ability to go back and just handle things yourself is a great opportunity for those that spend a lot of time in their inventories sorting and making sense of it.
Ember Ember
I only support this suggestion if it is a client-side ONLY customization option. It would be disastrous for people to customize the item icons at this point because inevitably, people will use the feature to trick people into believing an item is something it is not.
SweetShaylie Resident
I'm concerned about this suggestion to some degree, having different icons for huds, clothes, furniture, body parts, hair etc does sound great, customizing all such object icons for yourself in your viewer would be fine too, but not having creators setting their own icons before selling their products because then you will end up with hundreds of different creators using different icons for the same type of objects...
The only way I see this working is if there would be more object types added to SL and the creator or owner can right click and select object type from a list. For example "object-type > hud" and then that object type would always have the same icon in your inventory. And if you want to customize the icon it would change all icons from the same object type.
Yman Juran
Sounds good to me BUT I also like to have colour customization of all my folders.....
Lucia Nightfire
Allowing this at the owner level is one thing, but if this survives owner change after giving, then I think Linden sanctioned/controlled categories/icons would be necessary, else, it's going to confuse both, new and old users who receive such custom content especially if one creator wants to use one icon for, say, a head/body and another creator uses a completely different and/or unrelated icon for their head/body. Cohesion is a must in that regard.
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Hello, and thank you for your detailed feature request regarding customizable inventory icons for different object types. We appreciate the thought and effort you put into explaining how this could benefit both new and returning residents, as well as creators. This idea was actually brought up by another resident in the past, and we are merging your comments to get to it faster. We have no estimate when it may be implemented, but please keep an eye on future updates. Your input is invaluable, and we hope you continue to share your ideas to help improve Second Life. Thank you!
Kalia Pawtato
SL Feedback Awesome! I'm so glad to hear there's potentially for this to be made real. That's so exciting to hear. You guys really have been doing great with improving SL and this new feedback forum vs. the JIRA I remember last I was heavily in SL is so much better. Thank you!
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