✨ Feature Requests

Since PBR came out, I've essentially been almost PBR-exclusive with my store creations, mainly because PBR is just so much easier to work with for texture HUDs than Blinn-Phong (aka non-PBR textures, classic textures, legacy textures, traditional textures, etc). Part of this is because all of the textures involved are bundled into materials that are a single object with all of the settings saved rather than having to put everything in manually like non-PBR. It would really help creators offer both options and cut down workload by a TON if we could also bundle blinn-phong textures as materials. I don't know about other stores but I like to really tweak the specular settings and often the specular colors as well for metallic and generally more realistic effects rather than leaving everything white for all colors, and coding that into the HUD is fankly, a gigantic pain in the ass. Even if they were called something different like texture bundle or something to avoid confusion for people who sell them and to differentiate in our inventories that would be fine. I know we would not be able to upload them together the same way as PBR because it involves separate files, but there's no reason we shouldn't be able to create the material in-world manually on a cube or something and save it the same way. Bonus if double-sided can be an option for blinn-phong too! It would cut down on geometry needed on a mesh if we don't want it to be one-sided since we could simply check that on like on PBR materials, rather than needing to solidify a mesh (and essentially double its geometry) in order to get the same look. PLEASE let us manually create blinn-phong material bundles that include diffuse, normal, specular, alpha, glow, shininess, environment, shine color, full bright, and blending mode settings. It would make the jobs of creators working with blinn-phong in any capacity much easier, coding HUDs would be easier, and if double-sided can be an option it would also cut down on mesh complexity since people wouldn't need to solidify or fake edges on their meshes to hide that it's just a plane.

I’d like to know if there is currently any way to link CasperVend vendors with Marketplace listings — meaning, when I add a new product to the Second Life Marketplace, it would automatically appear in one or more of my CasperVend inworld vendors. My idea is to create an inworld gallery-style store, where all products available on the Marketplace are also visibly displayed inworld using CasperVend vendors. Ideally, I’d love to be able to: 💡 Automatically sync my Marketplace inventory with selected CasperVend vendors. 💡 Choose which products appear on each vendor (e.g., categorizing them by theme, product type, etc.). 💡 Allow customers to buy directly from the vendor inworld, while still being counted as a Marketplace sale (or at least maintaining stock/pricing consistency). Why this would be useful: 💡 Creators wouldn’t have to duplicate every product manually between the Marketplace and inworld stores. 💡 Promotes better inworld shopping experiences, while benefiting from Marketplace organization. 💡 Keeps product info, prices, and availability consistent across platforms. 💡 Encourages hybrid shopping behavior — browsing inworld, buying wherever is more convenient. 💡 Saves time for merchants who manage large catalogs. If something like this already exists, I’d appreciate some guidance on how to set it up. If not, I think it could be a powerful feature worth considering for future development, especially as Second Life continues to support both inworld and web-based commerce. ♥ Thank you! ♥

It would be good for the accessibility and readability of hover texts if you could add an outline color in addition to the hover text color. Function: llSetText( string text,vector outline color, vector color, float alpha ); as alternate maybe a inverted outline color 1 / 0 to activate/deactivate it.

Considering that boating, sailing, and diving are among the very few activities in Second Life that function reliably but also continue to attract an engaged, creative community, it’s honestly baffling that the Community Islands in the Blake Sea have been left untouched for — what is it now? — 17 years? Seventeen. That's not just a long time in virtual-world terms, it's practically a digital ice age. Meanwhile, the Blake Sea remains the central artery of Second Life — the core maritime network connecting the continents, and arguably one of the only places where the grid feels alive, immersive, and socially dynamic. Yet the infrastructure looks like something out of 2007 — because, well, it is. With all the advancements in mesh, environment systems, and scripting tools, it’s not as if the technical limitations are insurmountable. In fact, a small, focused team could probably refresh the entire set of islands in a week or less. So it raises the question: Why hasn’t this been done? Is there a fear that improving one of the most consistently active areas of the grid might accidentally make the user experience too enjoyable? Or is it just easier to roll out shiny new products and ignore the parts of the platform that people actually use and love? The Blake Sea isn’t just some peripheral backwater — it’s a living, breathing hub of user-driven content and activity. If anything deserves a little attention (and perhaps a modern texture or two), it’s this space. Or do we have to wait until Second Life’s silver jubilee for someone to dust off the prims?"

Multiple Projectors/Lights from single prim. 1 LIGHT PER each face. This could allow for better area effects/light and less LI usage.

Hi can we please get 16 bit simulators, simulators that are 65536 meters in all directions @ 16777216sqm which fits in 32 bit limitations https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/integral-numeric-types

If Gacha is coming back to SL in full force as Transfer items, I feel we need the following: A standard, required script that allows the user to click on the machine and receive the odds of each category of item. Merchants may continue to set their own percentages, and tiers of rarity. For example, the output might look like this: Common: 80% Rare: 15% Ultra rare: 4% Secret rare: 1% Or another machine might look like this: Common: 75% Uncommon: 25% And a machine you might not want to play could display this: Common: 99.9% Rare: 0.01% The above are simply an example and not a suggestion for setting a specific required percentage or tiers. I still believe we should leave that up to creators, but that the chances of getting an item you want shouldn't be a mystery. This is a disclosure commonly included in Gacha games or games containing Lootboxes. Many Gachapon machines are also beginning to display odds in real world spaces. If folks want their feedback on maintaining the ban, there is another feedback post for that. I humbly request we keep this one on topic so it doesn't get merged. ❤

Having just upgraded my viewer, I wanted to upload a photo and was shocked to discover that it now costs $50L to upload a single photo/texture! I have been in SL now for over 18 years and uploaded several hundred photos to use as textures in devices that I make and sell, as well as photos that were taken both inside and outside of SL, to share with SL friends and acquaintances. The new $50L price is prohibitive enough to make me want to refrain from experimenting and building new things, especially those that require multiple different textures. It will also discourage my friends and me from taking and sharing photos in SL. With this prohibitive and punitive 5 TIMES INCREASE IN PRICE, my use and enjoyment of SL has just been changed dramatically enough to make me consider exploring other alternatives, where creating and building do not come at a ridiculously high price!

A tick box (on prim properties) to cancel light in an area, or use dark to black similarly to way that the light/projection system handles light. It could have the same or similar parameters.

Now that we have a way to partially hide water, it would be nice to be able to click through water excluding surfaces. This is where 2-sided materials come into play, as only one side registers clicks. On the image below some of the clickable controls of the vehicle are now unreachable, being hidden behind the water excluding surface, which forces me to choose between keeping the interactivity in, or keeping the water out. Please address.