✨ Feature Requests

Feature Request: Custom Surname Option for Display Name Changes I’d like to propose an enhancement to the Premium and Plus name change feature: the ability for users to create a custom surname in addition to selecting from the existing list. While I understand and respect the current system of rotating surname options—and the associated fee structure—I believe offering a custom surname option could add meaningful value to users while creating a new revenue opportunity for Linden Lab. This could be implemented as a tiered system: a standard fee for choosing from the curated list, and a higher fee for creating a unique, user-defined surname. To prevent overuse or abuse of the feature, you might consider: • A cooldown period between name changes • A limited number of custom changes per account per year • An optional fee to revert to a previously used name Many long-term residents, myself included, find that the available surnames don’t always reflect our identity or branding needs. By offering a custom option—even at a premium—it would provide greater personalization without undermining the current system. If there are technical or policy reasons this hasn’t been implemented, I’d genuinely be interested in understanding the limitations. Thank you for considering this suggestion.

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I’d like to suggest a new feature for the Second Life viewer: the ability to take snapshots where only the avatar is rendered, with no background or objects, and saved as a PNG with transparent background (alpha). This would be incredibly useful for content creators, bloggers, photographers, and anyone who wants to produce clean and editable images of their avatars. Benefits of this feature: Focus on the avatar – Helps highlight outfits, poses, expressions, etc., without distractions. Post-processing – Makes it easier to compose scenes, replace backgrounds, or use avatars in creative designs. Professional results – Great for profile pictures, modeling, advertising, and promotional content. Consistency – Allows the same avatar to be featured across different backdrops or themes with ease. Currently, users have to rely on green screen workarounds or external tools. A built-in feature like this would streamline the process and enhance Second Life's photography and creative capabilities.

I was playing Roblox they have a way of making mesh shirts work for all humanoid avatars. Using a cage mesh where you have a mesh that would lattice the clothing around the body. I think SL should make the Ruth body the default and then any bodies that need fitted just fit a Ruth body and segments as the cage file.

At a week and maybe 2 days. A simple text bark would work.

Ah, the good old days of texture-only clothing, before even we had sculpties! In those days, we could mix and match all possible layers of clothing from any combination of content creators, and it would always work . Well, it was also a pretty ugly world back then. Today, we have a gazillion mesh clothing. However, mixing and matching them is really, really an art — not even content from the same creator will correctly "fit". That is, if you wish to wear your favourite T-shirt with your favourite black lather jacket... it won't fit. Things will always "stick out". Current-generation mesh body HUDs can turn specific parts of the avatar mesh invisible — which goes a long way to make badly-rigged and/or older meshes to "fit" — but, of course, that works only on the body . There is no way to get the shirt to "play nice" with the jacket — especially if they come from different creators. But, as said, even the same creator will very likely not bother to make all their clothes "compatible" with each other. It's much nicer to sell mega-fatpacks and give up on your "other" content. One curious fashion side-effect was the adoption of crop tops, very short shirts, knotted shirts, etc., since you can hardly expect your "normal" shirt/top to play nicely with your favourite jeans. Belly-button piercings also became more popular. And some clever creators updated their ancient texture-clothing — especially tops and tight-fitted pants/leggings — simply because these will always fit under a jacket or coat or anything, being directly BOMed. I thought that this was simply one of those "unsolvable" problems, as it would be most unlikely for all content creators to agree to a set of "guidelines" for clothing to fit together. Therefore, I never considered asking for such a feature — it would be impossible to implement in practice. Then I saw this video: https://tv.sansar.com/watch?id=2943 Just... wow! All right, all right, I know that this is Sansar in 2022, and not Second Life; the rendering engine is completely different and absolutely unrelated. But... We all know what the former Sansar & High Fidelity teams have done to the SL rendering engine: in a word, magic . What exactly would be required to change the SL rendering engine to do exactly the same? The video shows some limitations — clothing is not "infinitely" stretchable there. But even a little bit helps. In fact, just that fantastic "merging" feature, where only the "outer" mesh is kept, while the "inner" mesh does not stick out — that would go a loooooooooooong way to fix all our mix'n'matching troubles! Please... work on this! 🥺🙏

Add Avatar Welcome Pack's new Avatar options to Avatar Chooser as you did on the Web Based Browser. It might be faster for New Residents to set up quickly, then access the folder for customizing them more thourougly.

Ever since Viewer 2 was released in 2010, Second Life's avatar height has never been accurate or equal to prim height. Prim height had been the standard used in earlier Viewer 1 viewers before 2010. Fifteen years later, we're now using Viewer 7, which still retains the false avatar height measurements from Viewer 2. Our modern avatar shapes are still taller than a comparable shape created from before 2010 in v1 viewers, or than a modern prim of same said height. Try it for yourself: Download any of the v1-based SL viewers (such as Singularity Viewer or Cool VL Viewer) and experiment with making an avatar shape with a height equal to that of a 5'10" (177 cm) tall prim (Note: this should be done without wearing a shoebase) Change to a Viewer 7 based viewer and see how the described height in a v7 viewer using this same shape has increased, yet the prim retains it's correct height! I propose that described Avatar Height in all current viewers (via Appearances menu) should be re-syncronised to the previous prim height as per pre-2010 v1 viewers. Not only would this be more accurate, it would also be beneficial to those creators who build houses or other structures where ceiling and doorway heights matter.

Problem Currently, when users need to reset their avatar's skeleton, the changes only apply locally to their own viewer. For other users to see the reset skeleton, the avatar owner must use a workaround that involves resetting their skeleton locally, teleporting elsewhere, and then teleporting back. This process is cumbersome and interrupts the user experience. Solution Implement a system where when an avatar owner resets their skeleton, it automatically sends a packet to all viewers that can see that avatar, instructing their clients to also reset the skeleton display on their end. The same functionality could be extended to animations, allowing users to clear all animations across all viewers simultaneously. Links BUG-225527 Github: Make it so that reset skeleton is a networked ViewerEffect

Yearly Premium Plus is quite a big investment, but I know that I can't do much of anything within just one month, so I tend to shy away from having more than one Premium Plus avatar. A 3-month long Premium Plus membership would be long enough to, for example, try out a new 2048 LH theme to see if I like it. I just dumped my Mediterranean, tho I wanted to keep it, to try a Tiki. If a 3-month membership had been available, I would have kept the Med and just bought a quarterly PP to try tiki.