✨ Feature Requests

Provide a way for residents to back up important aspects of their inventory as a fallback / failsafe to recover in case of inventory loses. In addition, provide an offline archive and respository to make it easy to prune older inventory items, but recover and activate them at a future date. Essential feature: retain folder structures correctly throughout. (The boxing technique for storing items long term does not retain folder structures, making it effectively useless). You could provide both features as perks for Premium membership. You could charge for larger archives or backups, as a way of funding these features.

Per Geenz Linden's request at the last Creator User Group meeting, here are two minor features which would help make the "infinite draw distance" code much easier. The goal is to have SL look like Google Earth in the distance - you can see distant terrain, at low resolution. This makes the big world real to users. For an overview of what that's about, see this video: https://www.animats.com/sharpview/technotes/impostor.html Technical discussion: https://www.animats.com/sharpview/technotes/impostor.html Github repository: https://github.com/John-Nagle/maptools License LGPL. So, the feature requests: Access to the height map. Currently, to get the height map, someone has to create a "bot" account which logs in, visits thousands of regions, records land elevation data, and uploads it to a server. Many users have done something like this, to create terrain models. Flying over the whole grid regularlyis a headache, and bothers some users. Some way to get this terrain info via an HTTP request would simplify things. Along with this, it would be very useful to be able to get the present map tiles without the "FOR RENT" and "FOR SALE" overlays. A set of map tiles taken at 64m or 128m above ground level would do this. Asset upload and wrangling tools. With the new pricing for Premium Plus, uploading a full set of map tiles is affordable. Mapping mainland requires about 30,000 image assets, which are currently 256x256. This is about 6GB of asset content. (It is not necessary to make impostors for isolated single-region estates - you can never see them from the outside. This cuts down the load.) The mechanics of uploading are somewhat painful. Bulk upload is supported, but everything ends up in the root inventory folder. It would be helpful if uploading a folder with subfolders resulted in corresponding inventory folders. That's useful for other purposes. We need to get the UUIDs of the textures and meshes uploaded. This is currently done by putting all the tiles into a prim, and running a script in the prim to scan the prim's inventory. A better approach would be nice. We'd also like to be able to get mesh UUIDs for meshes we have uploaded. Mesh UUIDs are not usually exposed in SL, so that's worth thinking about. If that UUID info were only available to the uploader, it would not be a security issue. The uploader already has their glTF file. Note that this requires the asset UUID, not the object UUID, because the map is made of assets that are not associated with the currently visible regions. That's enough to get to the point where what you see in the video can be deployed grid-wide. If LL wants to take over this entire effort in future, that's fine with me.

Can we have please added to the list of available Environments in the viewer equivalent PBR versions of our beloved Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight, and name old ones (Legacy) as you did with Midday?

Hear me out. If cowork can organise years and years of harddrive mess, identify and remove duplicate items, then there MUST be a way to do it for inventory items. Seriously, I would pay real money to have a LL approved and trained ai get in there and do some heavy cleaning. Think of all the storage space you could save, LL. And all the user time saved when people can find their stuff. If it was a LL initiated tool, it would be able to know things not necessarily available to users - like object creator without having to rez it first. It could know categories of things and what percentage of users delete a freebie set from 2008. If the helper ai was presented as another avatar you could talk to, it could just ask intelligent questions like, do you want all the freebies you gathered at the newbies hubs? If not easy clean, or simply moving it all into a "pre trash" folder so the user can have a look at it before the final chuck. And have it read all the notecards, figure out if there is anything important, if so categorize and if not pre or trash it. The ai could ask, you have ten years with of grid affairs notecards those are all in the past, keep and organise or delete? If this could all happen in a private space where the ai could assist with the identification and outcome for the 1000 things called object in your inventory by doing a quick rez, you give it the thumbs down, gone. Thumbs up initiated a rename where possible and it's pushed into the new organisation structure. The user would have feedback in the proposed organisation so that they can actually figure out what is what after. This last thing would require user interactions but if the ai is presented as an Avi it amounts to body doubling and more people might get further in the process than they do now 'just trying to get organised ' EVEN just some fundamental help could help, this could be billed as a one off service, or perhaps a once per year included at the highest tier. I hope this doesn't seem too far out there, because currently available tech COULD do this, it would just need the right access and implementation.

It would be useful to be able to show duplicates in our inventory. I end up with so many LMs or sometimes even items and they add bulk to my inventory. It would be nice to be able to see all duplicates so the excess can be easily deleted.

Since BOM items are basically graphics, just handled differently to be worn, it would be helpful (and save a heck of a lot of time) to be able to preview before wearing. A lot of creators do not provide images in their packaging, so being able to see what it is without having to put it on/take it off/go on to the next item...would be awesome. If creators are worried that people would rip their work, you could put a big "preview" text across the pop-up template to discourage people from simply taking screenshots to copy the items. Just an idea...

You can search for one keyword or exact name of items but what if you can’t remember item name? Multiple key word filtering would be great for searching through a big inventory.

I know you can do by # of days, but it would be helpful to search by year. Especially, being a resident for 15+ years, this would make deleting inventory so much easier.

The inventory window offers a simple option for filtering by date range (days) but does not display a date when an object was added or purchased. It would help if a timestamp was shown that indicates the appearance/creation (e.g. folder) in the inventory. Perhaps this column could also be made sortable (ascending / descending sorting). Similar to file browsers of operating systems.

Inventory sorting is an annoying but universal chore for any resident who wants to stay organized. When thinking about how I avoid the same issues in other file management systems, one of the biggest boons to keeping on top of data organization is being able to choose the location an incoming item is saved to. Imagine that, when an unpacker HUD sent you a folder, instead of simply hitting "accept", you had a new menu that let you select which folder it unpacked to. Right now, all new folders simply go into "Inventory", but what if you could tell it to put that folder into "Objects->Home->Furniture and Decor->Chairs and Sofas"? Your item would immediately be sorted directly into the place it belongs so you could find it later. You could then have that folder appear in a "recent places" list for easy access the next time you needed to unpack a similar item. Maybe you could also pin favorite folders, for instance "Body Parts->Cosmetics" could be pinned if you know you buy a lot of makeup layers and unpack to that location often. This could also be used to help creators keep their items more organized when working on new projects, as the same menu could be used for bulk, material, and mesh uploads. Being able to see "recent folders" and select your project folder would help immensely with keeping product related files together. This should be an option that could be toggled, either in the "accept/decline" or upload menu, or in inventory settings. Some people won't want to be pestered each time they acquire something new, but I know it would certainly help me, and many others as a major quality of life improvement.