✨ Feature Requests

Add the ability to create a Base Outfit, so you can add it to any outfit and put back your huds, jewelry etc.

I suggest an enhancement to the Bakes on Mesh (BOM) system by introducing an opacity option for BOM layers. As a designer, the current limitations of BOM force us to add additional mesh layers, particularly for makeup applications. This increases mesh complexity and necessitates the use of complex HUDs. Enabling opacity control on BOM layers could eliminate the need for extra mesh layers, thus optimizing mesh complexity and enhancing overall performance. Additionally, this would allow for greater flexibility and creativity, as BOM makeup layers wouldn’t be limited to one or two mesh layers (depending on the number of mesh layers created by a designer). With the recent introduction of 2k BOM textures, the capability to adjust blend modes directly on BOM layers would be highly beneficial for both designers and users. It would offer more customization options and improve the user experience. It would positively impact the creative community and contribute to a more streamlined and efficient design process.

How about this: on the page to offer partnership to someone ( https://secondlife.com/my/partners.php ) let's add an option to offer to share your last name with your partner. If your partner accepts the proposal, their last name will be replaced with the last name of the offering partner. The partner having their last name replaced will keep this new last name as long as they remain partnered and will have their last name fall back to their previous last name if and when unpartnered. Using this option will add extra cost to the partner offer, about the same as what is paid to change last our own last name. Will be paid by the offering partner. At any time, any partner can decide to break the partnership. The one who does the break will have to pay as much for having their previous last name back or they can select an cheaper option to break the partnership and revert back to a regular Resident last name.

Homestead islands cost around half the amount of a full region. Full regions allow for up to 110 concurrent users while Homestead islands offer a meager 20 visitors. And 5 extra ones which have to be premium. This often causes frustration with Homestead island owners as these people pay a hefty amount for their tier per month but when they have a party or event their friends often cannot teleport to their land. The proposal would be to increase user concurrency on a Homestead island to 40 avatars at the same time instead of the 20 or 25 and get rid of the 5 premium visitor rule. However there would be a hard limit for scripted agents of 5 or 10 on the region to avoid abuse or exploits of region resources. I think profit margins on Homestead islands are plenty for Linden Lab to offer people this increase in concurrency for their islands. Second Life is a social platform but if Linden Lab makes it so hard for people to have an event or party on their Homestead this doesn't help much to build up a community. Linden Lab always seem to be giving more group slots etc... I think the big paying customers who have a Homestead should get more concurrency so they can have a party or event. I get complaints from people they are not pleased their friends cannot attend their parties and I don't think this should be the case in this day and age. Especially for a platform that needs to keep its users. Thank you

Currently when someone is wearing an avatar with a deformed skeleton and they change to another avatar their skeleton will be borked. Reset skeleton currently only fixes the visuals for the person themself and others also will need to reset skeleton to fix their view of the person. Relogging seems to be the only current way to reset the skeleton fully. If a full reset skeleton were possible via lsl it would make it super easy (via HUDs or scripting inside the avatars) for people to reset their own skeleton fully so that they are viewed correctly by all.

I have seen more and more abominations against optimization when it comes to worn & rigged items, such as clothing. The worst offenders seem to be people who think that linking several different high-poly meshes made for several different mesh bodies and then switching body type through a scripted alpha HUD is a good idea. Keeping in mind that each individual clothing mesh is also pretty excessively high poly (100k-200k tris each) which is a problem in itself. But linking several together is a recipe for disaster. I have seen - no exaggeration - pants & shorts that, when right click & inspected, not only come to a total of 1-2 MILLION TRIS, they also often freeze my viewer when I right click on them. I originally was going to suggest a hard tri limit on objects (including multiple linked meshes in one), but then realized that a high tricount linked object may have it's purpose though, such as rezzed builds (which are often linked together to reduce land impact.) So, how about a tri limit for WEARABLE meshes? Would this be possible to implement? Something like; if you try to right click > wear an excessively high poly object, it prevents you from doing so, and instead shows a pop-up that says something like; "This object has exceeded the recommended tricount of (number) and should not be worn on an avatar". Maybe add a link for more information, to a wiki page or similar, with tips on how to optimize or why uploading a tricount bomb is not a good idea. This would hopefully stop creators from making lag bomb meshes and encourage them to optimize. I'm all for freedom of creativity on SL, and I understand that high poly meshes do have their place, but it's ridiculous that people are walking around with exceedingly bad optimized wearables that can lock up your viewer because of how high poly they are. I'm not suggesting to only allow extremely low poly meshes, but c'mon. 1-2 million tris for a single piece of clothing is insane.

Second Life has always been about resident creativity, but we’re missing a chance to connect with the wider culture. Other platforms are pulling in celebrity designers and brands, and it’s working. It brings press, new users, and energy. What if SL set up an “Icon Series” of its own? Give professional designers a clear path in, pair them with experienced SL creators to handle the technical side, and spotlight their work with proper events and promotion. Add royalties and limited‑edition drops so it’s worth their time, and make sure the collaborations get visibility outside SL too. This would turn SL into more than a niche sandbox, it would be a stage where fashion, art, and entertainment meet. Residents get prestige experiences, and designers get a new digital frontier.

Improve the 'show only friends' feature and allow us to see everyone or only friends without having to teleport to see everyone again (previously this was done by changing groups, but it no longer works)

I'd like to request a special type of BOM layer which in itself is a container, a set, of BOM layers laid out in a specific order for easy and reliable inclusion in outfits. Of course the ordering is still subject to the layer ordering rules, such as a skin layer being forced to the bottom. When editing this layer, you drag and drop the layers, and then reorder them as needed. When done, you can wear and unwear the set like any other layer, the order of the layers included in the set is kept relative to each other within the set, layers not part of the set can fall in between them when worn, due to the ordering rules. This is perhaps a variant of the idea laid out in https://feedback.secondlife.com/feature-requests/p/ability-to-combine-group-bom-layers