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/opg/ Open Pony General #575 - Prog Rockin, Doll Posin, Camp Cuddlin Edition 04/12/26(Sun)01:23:25 No.43171912
/opg/ Open Pony General #575 - Prog Rockin, Doll Posin, Camp Cuddlin Edition 04/12/26(Sun)01:23:25 No.43171912
/opg/ Open Pony General #575 - Prog Rockin, Doll Posin, Camp Cuddlin Edition Anonymous 04/12/26(Sun)01:23:25 No.43171912 [Reply]▶
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>What is Open Pony?
A model for Second Life that beats all other 3D pony models. Info here:
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/05/a-showcase-of-amazing-and-compl etely.html
>Just give me a MARE
Idiotproof starter guide: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZkMo8NDwuNG8skCJI2gDbWl9LYm4Q_tN/view
Popen Creation Video Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmxMBTamRBA
A noob's guide for other noobs: https://ponepaste.org/7410
Braindead simple Anonmare guide: https://smutty.mare.stream/mlajjqelswj.png
https://smutty.mare.stream/mjmqtlwwntf.mp4
>Join the /mlp/ SL group
secondlife:///app/group/da37f318-781a-fd7e-e8e9-1a5bbf2ebc34/about
>Where is the /mlp/ hangout?
Baltimare, open-access: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Baltimare/109/160/36
Cloudsdale, invite-only: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cloudsdale/39/57/1581
>View Baltimare's Leaderboard
https://baltimare.hotmilk.space/
>After that, visit one of the many other Second Life pony hangouts:
Luna's Empire / H-Mart Tower (Free goodies in the gift shop): http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Las%20Pegasus/137/71/12
Ponyville shop: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ponyville/234/32/1503
>Content creation resources:
https://ponepaste.org/8725
>List of known Open Pony Marketplace Vendors
https://ponepaste.org/10299
>Baltimare design/planning channels:
https://app.element.io/#/room/#baltimare:pony.cx
>Live Baltimare stream
https://picarto.tv/BalTV
https://picarto.tv/BalTV2
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>>43172078
I love popen wisdoms
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>>43172232
it's rather funny I can leave a review for an unlisted item tho
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>>43172255
I get irrationally angry at perfectly good digital media and content being delisted for literally no reason.
The kind of mad where I blindly assume the creator is genuinely mentally ill with absolutely no basis for that assumption outside of this one minor inconvenience against me.
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>>43172328
Knowing the creator, the reasoning in this case should be something like
>oh there are those teeny tiny imperfections in the animations that only I can see, guess I must remove them from the market so that muh reputation as a good animator doesn't get dragged down by this
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I'd say it was probably yet another case of Aru removing it from the marketplace because "she was gonna make an updated version", but then she never got to it and just left the product unlisted for years on end.
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I agree it would, but it seems some sellers have this paranoid feeling that if any of their products show any kind of imperfection or "bad quality", everyone will hate the seller forever, so it's justifiable to remove "bad products" from the market before more people see them.
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>Episodes of "Open Popen" are filmed in front of a live powy audience.
Some of my photos I snuck from the Doll House photoshoot
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Letting younger siblings and cousins borrow toys was sometimes a gamble
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ONIONS GREEN IS POPEN
Tonight we are watching the classic about weird food or some shit I have no idea
ONIONS GREEN, with invincible as preshow starting at 11AM SLT
DL we . tl / t-uqYWy993DBmu8OZL
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>>43172187
I'm not even listing my items on the MP because they're just not at a quality as other actual good creations. The expectations on items are very high and I haven't seen anyone using the things I made and handed out for free so... there's also not really a point
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>>43172474
I'm sleep deprived and it actually took several seconds to realize what's wrong. I was actually searching for fat popen in that shot until I eventually facepalmed at myself and the state I'm currently in.
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>>43172487
>The expectations on items are very high and
by whom? who's saying this? who looks like this? people just want shit that does what's on the tin. if it does what it's supposed to do 99% are perfectly happy.
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>>43172501
Why using a dress or mane from a new creator than an established one that does it for years? The actual feedback for creating (mesh, music, art etc.) is if people use and share it. If they say things are always nice and all good but don't show or use it, then it's too bad to do so
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>>43172594
Hey powy! I encourage you to list items you make because you lose literally nothing by doing so!
Your perceived expectations on these things are actually pretty false and most ponies I know are interested in and excited to support new creators! Especially when those creators are from within our community!
t. an established creator who really wants to see new things from new creators
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the ""official"" tag is "openpony"
but also baka at sellers who don't max out as many relevant tags as possible
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>>43172471
Catbox has been saying uploads paused for too long, so I'll just have to send them directly here
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>>43172767
idk why don't you just try using it, anon
I don't know what you mean by a timer bc I use it as my main uploader for files and have it connected to sharex and usually am not uploading directly to the site
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>>43172773
I've used it before, just never confirmed if links expire in the past.
For anyone else wondering, the oldest pone.rs link I can find is from March and still loads across different devices.
https://u.pone.rs/vnqixkqp.png
https://u.pone.rs/ntwjczao.png
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>>43172745
"Official" means little when lots of customers are esl or new to sl. They will search the first thing they learn or the shortest term they know. There are items that don't show up when searching openpony that do when you search op or pony. It's up the the creators to make their items accessible, not the customer to find them.
>>43172487
Just as it is up to the customer to decide if an item is worth buying. Just list your items and price according to what you think is reasonable. Buyers will either get it or they won't. More is always good and you're better than you think.
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Rest in Bimm
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The duality of mares. Optimism and violence.
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>>43172879
>It's up the the creators to make their items accessible, not the customer to find them.
I was never trying to imply that's the case
official as in that's the official tag that sellers are supposed to use, and it's on those sellers if they don't use as many relevant tags as they possibly can and customers can't find their products
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>>43172879
While I don't disagree, as a customer I just fucking wish I could search for one magic tag and get all the popen items. I don't care what ESLs and third worlders do.
>There are items that don't show up when searching openpony that do when you search op or pony
And therein lies the problem, you can put whatever tags you want but you REALLY REALLY SHOULD put in the one single official tag, no matter what else you do. It's extremely, extremely, extremely aggravating and tiring to have to do five searches every time I wanna comb the market, most of which bring up duplicates, but all of which invariably find something that the other searches didn't.
Made combinatorially worse when the actual search term I want is not well defined (e.g. I don't know if the creator would've called their item a harness or a halter or just said "tack" or "horse tack" or bridle or reins) and now I have to search EACH of those terms in combination with "op", "open pony", "openpony", "popen" etc. etc. and the end result is that I have to make and look through like 30 marketplace searches and I just lose my mind.
If creators did nothing except tag their items "openpony" and nothing else, reliably, the market would be infinitely better than it is now. Fuck the third worlder ESLs, plus if this was true then they'd just quickly learn what the magic word is, it's not that obscure.
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>I have to make and look through like 30 marketplace searches
You can use boolean operators to search for multiple keywords at the same time. In this example, I think searching
>"op" OR "open pony" OR "openpony" OR "popen" OR "op"
should give you the results you're looking for in just one marketplace search.
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>>43173113
I was about to point out what this anon does >>43173258
picrel
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>>43173338
also also, this is what my current search looks like for finding popen items
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just a small hoofull of photos from the doll set
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>>43173429
there are a few more, but they didn't turn out how i hoped. thank you, Ruby, for hosting this photo event!
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Hi /opg/ anons. I don't usually come around here and in fact I've never opened SL in my life, but I have a few questions that you might be able to help me with.
I want to use the OpenPony model for a personal modelling/rendering project. I found the devkit with .blend files that appear to contain the base model. Is that the best way to get it, or is there a better way?
Additionally, there's so many good accessories and things in SL that I'd love to use. Is there a way, either officially supported or not, to get the models and textures for them out of SL and onto your computer? I remember many years ago I used NinjaRipper for a similar project with some game, but I don't know if that's the best way or there's something better, since again.
Sorry if these questions are stupid or have obvious answers. Like I said I'm retarded, I have never even opened SL before.
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>>43173870
There's no official way to get stuff from SL. Things that are made by HMART and happen to be made by Izzy (who created the OP model), you can contact Izzy to ask for the mesh, and he's known to be very liberal with it so there's a good chance he'll just give you the mesh with permission to do whatever.
But stuff made by other people usually isn't distributed in mesh form and most people are not actually very forthcoming with letting others use their raw mesh.
If it's mostly for personal stuff though, there are ways to rip models from the viewer. I'm no expert on this myself, I just know that they exist.
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>>43173917
Really appreciate the info, thanks a ton! Every time I've come in this thread for various stuff in the past you guys have been super cool, one of the coziest threads on the board for sure, even if it's not exactly my interest.
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>>43173921
nta but I will inform you that illicitly taking models through the viewer is basically considered stealing and the creators of said models can come after you even if it's for personal use
especially since there was already a bad taste left in the mouths of many of the community when a dude asked a single person if he could rip THEIR models for his roblox project and when they said yes he took that to mean he could rip ALL models(now he actually charges robux for people to use the clothing and accessory items he didn't make and bans people if they mention in his discord that the models aren't his)
The OP community is actually very supportive of creation tho and if you ask around here or the discord, I'm sure some ponies would be more willing to help you learn to create your own outfits and accessories
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>>43173945
It's a pretty boring project. Think along the lines of Desktop Ponies, but 3D and slightly more smart than preprogrammed lines. If I release the project it'll be "bring your own assets" unless someone gives me permission to use theirs somewhere along the way.
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>>43173937
>and the creators of said models can come after you even if it's for personal use
They can't "come after you" for shit unless you are particularly legally weak somehow. Such as selling them for IRL money with your IRL details in a way that makes it easy to serve actual legal takedowns, and even then usually the first step is a takedown and then actually any serious action beyond that is vastly more expensive and trickier, especially when the "lost sales" might amount to like $10 of virtual dollars in an ancient MMO.
The only real danger is social, in that they will say mean words about you. This matters if you want to remain in good standing, it doesn't matter if you do it anonymously or whatever.
What this means in practice is that you shouldn't do it because it's not nice to steal shit that basically other anons made for their little virtual market and shit - it's not some megacorporation's copyright, it's some single guy modelling in blender. But it also means that if you just do it to mess around with shit on your own literally nothing will happen to you and nobody will come to you.
Maybe if you were like a famous creator with a big patreon and you showed off playing around with copybotted assets, and the owners made a stink about it, it'd be negative PR and might cause drama and whatnot. But for normal people literally just doing a personal project for fun, not social media personalities running PR or whatever, it's completely fine.
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>>43173986
Since the law is basically powerless due to economies of scale, it boils down to a matter of respect. And in my opinion using something personally without explicit "permission" is in no way disrespectful to the original creator; respect goes both ways, and respecting the original wishes makes sense in most cases but there's a line beyond which it's unreasonable and if someone were to get genuinely mad at this that'd be their own problem IMO.
In any case if you don't even plan to distribute screenshots then it's not like they will even be able to find out in order to get mad in the first place so there's no problem.
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>>43173986
If you want the most favorable outcome socially, it's better to ask. Most creators here would say yes and the ones who don't would still be supportive of your en devours. Your project sounds interesting and I hope you do share at least a little preview of the progress at some point. Asking might also get you extra support too. A lot of creators here go above and beyond to be helpful.
The truth is though, nobody will know if you ripped their stuff if it's never share it.
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i'm working on a series of pictures recreating famous black and white photos with canon ponies. i debated waiting until i took them all to post, but was encouraged to share my first one since the series is taking longer than expected!the next ones requires a lot of extras, so i will probably be bothering anyone with a simple canon pony to be in them.
full quality version:
https://files.catbox.moe/yzro3y.png
original photo for comparison (nohooves warning):
https://files.catbox.moe/clf31t.jpg
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I am new to this shit and I accidentally clicked something on the customization HUD and my avatar turned into the picrel abomination and I have no idea how to fix it. I tried replacing my outfit with the default anonpony completely and it just stayed like that. How repair mare?
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>>43174319
Interestingly making BOM green seems to fix the problem, if it's grey then it's fucked up. I think I might just need to start over because I last messed with this like 2 years ago and only for an hour or 2.
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I wish I had made blue BOM my standard way earlier, but when I started using BOMs most of them were made for the green layout, and by the time I learned how to convert between types, all of my popens and all of the BOM layers I used were all using the green layout already and now it would take ages to convert everything to the blue layout.
If there was an easy, quick, automated way of converting them all, I'd do it, but for now it just doesn't seem like it's worth the effort.
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Really early on I offered to help several creators of BoM sets with making all their layers fully compatible with both, all they would have to do was send me the layers and textures and I'd send them back converted, but for some reason they were all really... untrusting about it? I'm not even some random, I'm fairly well established as a community member and friends with Izzy...(I'd even offered to record myself deleting all the stuff after I was done and purging my trash but.. nope.)
anyway if ponies trusted me enough I would just offer it as a simple service to log into their account and do it for them lmao
I am actually trusted with... several ponies' logins to help them with stuff they don't understand how to do
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>>43174506
I could do that, yeah. It's pretty easy, honestly, but also >>43174490
>by the time I learned
>now it would take ages to convert everything
Laziness/lack of time is most often what keeps ponies from converting
I'll see about piecing together a quick tutorial for it later, but I can't fix the laziness of others
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hmmm yummy pens :3
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Would you like it if oyu could do gif related as popen?
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>>43173889
>gate locked behind the pisscord
Can we just throw a pone.rs zip with the model in the OP next thread? I shouldn’t have to spell out why anyone sane will refuse to use discord after what they pulled earlier this year, we already use matrix for in-sim mod stuff and feedback which is way better then some random pisscord
Only niggle I had is that matrix is autistic as fuck about encryption, so messages might be invisible/missed if you change keys but I’m 90% sure you can fix that or disable it.
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anon....
>>43171912
>>Content creation resources:
>https://ponepaste.org/8725
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>>43175652
Here's an image with both the old and new BOM layouts.
>>43171912
Update the ponepaste pls
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off
>>43173755
hangs out in Ponyville
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seriously amarezing photo! looking forward to the rest! also love mom mares
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>>43175702
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hangs out in Ponyville
Unfortunately, the latest photoshoot has unleased a plethora of weeping angel ponies from Ponyville, it may already be too late.
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I don't know, but personally I wouldn't spend money on something that's very visibly made of prims, unless it was really really cheap and looked close enough to what I had in mind. Making stuff out off prims tends to really inflate the size of the linkset and that bothers my autism a fair amount.
If you're asking because you're considering selling something but don't have the money to upload stuff, I suggest trying to sell scripts.
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Reflection mares
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glaaare glaaaare :3
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Myrtle Myriadle
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'OOVES ON 'ECK
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The ponies CRAVE high altitudes
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You can make the marquee REAL angry by jumping at it from a certain spot/angle.
I'll have to do more research on how to reliably find the exact sweetspot but when it works it looks kinda like this
https://u.pone.rs/dhgnzzgr.mp4
In some cases it can through you up a literal mile high so often multiple times of a normal jump on it
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LET ME FUCKING POST GODDAMMITWHY DO THEY HAVE TO KEEP FUCKING UP THE SITEI WANT MOOT BACK
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Today seems off...
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I don't want to be alarmist but with the site being in the state it is and making posting boarderline impossible (or actually impossible for many) where will we go in the future? It is seriously getting worse by the day and many mulpers are already locked out.
Even this very post took over an hour to get through since the captcha expired every damn time before the shit registered my post.
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Imagine that you've received 20,000 Lindies from someone you can't IM and returning those money back to them. What do you do?This idea is based from this forum post: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/531865-20000l-landed-in- your-account-what-avi-goodies-would -you-spend-it-on/
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4chan was down for like 10 mins
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>>43178424
Someone please make a grumpy Angie popen who denies EVERYTHING
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Lovely young man
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>>43179455
YES
I've missed this little goober so much.
Also, she's currently successfully broadcasting with her ASS
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Modernity.
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Seems like that obelisk is already marked for demolition
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I’ve hosted a clone of the Balti leaderboard map using code from Maki’s GitHub in the meantime, in case anyone else needs it
picrel
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>>43180396
i'm kinda baffled about how relatively obscure/niche and sub-subculture the whole second life pony thing is. i mean, look at them. maybe the cutest avatar base there is and yet barely anyone on the internet knows about sl ponies
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>>43180437
Most people think MLP is for small girls. The next group thinks SL is for awkward weirdos. The then next group hates them because they only know SL ponies from le funny Youtube troll videos and think it's just another sub group of furries.
Simply put, even when you show them cute ponies they still won't touch this with a 10ft pole because of all the convoluted stigmata.
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>>43180437
>how relatively obscure/niche and sub-subculture the whole second life pony thing is
Not an oldfag, but some anons told that MLP stuffs in SL used to be the big thing during MLP craze since between 2011 to 2016. Now it's falling out of favor like what Anon (>>43180442) said. I had seen some people in SL will not interact with anyone using MLP avatars, even any quadrupedal avatars.
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>>43180463
>MLP stuffs in SL used to be the big thing during MLP craze since between 2011 to 2016.
I used to hang out in other communities, on 4chan and even in relatively normal Second Life back then.
While pony was basically everywhere in the very early G4 days, around the mid 2010s I've heard tons of literal diaper shit happening related to SL MLP which disgusted me so much that I wasn't even curious to check SL pony out in the first place. I bet a ton other people must have felt similarly so they never gave it a try. This was even disgusted multiple times on /mlp/ and back then SL threads even got flat out banned and shot down on sight. That's why I was really surprised when years later the threads suddenly had such a comeback with popens and actually didn't get deleted anymore.
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In a way it makes me feel special. Sometimes you look back at the early fandom and look at various niche communities and think how cool it was. Maybe in 15 years some people will occasionally dig up these screenshots in archives and think "man this was such a cute pony place, I wish I could've been there, look at these awesome ponies".
But here I am and I am friends with these ponies and I know them personally. When people are looking at this in 15 years I could go and say "yes, I personally cuddled with Ivy Dream!" and tell them stories of what quaint pony life was like in Baltimare and all the awesome ponies that you could meet there.
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>>43180463
>some people in SL will not interact with anyone using MLP avatars
very weird as most normies I encounter ask me where to get the avatar and I direct them to ponyville
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>tons of literal diaper shit happening related to SL MLP which disgusted me so much that I wasn't even curious
honestly you missed out
the diaperfag shit was prevalent in basically every community, but became particularly well known in mlp only because it was a newer and smaller niche of community
in reality diaperfags made up so little of the ponyfags back then that I encountered maybe 3-4 total that were open about their degeneracy in public between 2010-2014, and otherwise my experiences were just fun good times with cool ponyfriends
I've actually genuinely encountered more pony diaperfags in the past 3 years than I had back then, wild
one of the things I miss most about the oldfag pony times was there was a lot more cohesive... harmony I wanna say? Yeah, lots of the sim owners did not get along with each other, but were more willing to put that dislike aside to have a nicer, more cohesive community, and we had the several connected pony sims and nearby pony sims that made a sort of "continent" part of the map that was dedicated to pony
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>>43180470
I'm not sure that had much to do with it. I joined SL during the Scruffening and was part of the group whose threads in question got deleted on sight. That is, after all, what the Scruffening was: droves of generals getting purged off the board for topics that were seen as beacons for rulebreaking content.
But during that time - even though we were hounded and stalked by the last tryhard remnants of SL trolls, even though we got turned away from places as the internet's broad anti-pony sentiments leaked into SL - that very specific accusation never came up once in memory. You'd think if it was a prominent thing in people's minds, it would have been thrown in our faces at least once, but it never came up. Usually if we were turned away, it was because a group of cartoony avatars was seen as a troll group.
Not to say you weren't right to be grossed out by the people you saw, but I think your experience was a very specific one, and not really representative of the broader anti-pony mindset.
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Pony in SL has always reflected the state of the broader pony fandom, which is itself kind of a microcosm of society in general. Such-and-such group is seen as invasive or toxic, and even if those are gross generalizations, differences in culture ensure that the disparate parts will never really vibe. You see it in the relationship between the /mlp/ side and others, in SL, at conventions, on social media... It's not a new dynamic, as we were getting banned from SL places simply for being 4chan-adjacent back in 2013; but it's a schism that is now very in-the-open, very normalized.
These days I think it's more about our relationship with the past than anything else, with each part of the fandom fanning its own particular embers about what they believe made pony great. And if you're fanning embers, you've a very keen desire not to see them snuffed out, and will act as such.
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not really, unless you count the 4chan ponies being occasionally griefy toward some of the other sims
back then most of the sims tried to keep at least cordial with one another, even when they didn't like some members of another group
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Was there anyway to stop this from happening?
similar things happen with some detailed clothing too, but I'm not sure if they're related.
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>>43180988
I had an issue maybe related to this up until recently.
Around the hangout there seemed to be an invisible sphere where shading "worked differently" compared to outside of it with a really defined invisible bordern where it snapped in and out like in your video.
I "fixed" it by completely deactivating reflections and also tweaking my custom windlight until this effect was gone.
Apparently there's a reflection probe in the hangout area that can fuck with your viewer if your settings are on some edge or something.
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No K+ today, I am working on commissions.
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>>43181189
Hey, can you explain what you mean by commissions? I am trying to figure out a way to get stuff for my skill in 3d modeling. Where should I even start? I searched commission in this thread and seen you, I was planning to search for people looking for commissions though so if you are busy that cool
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>>43181485
Oh ok, but, since I have your attention atm. Is there a market for commissioning 3d models to import into the game or do I need to download it again and go through the whole process. It's been years since I have touched this thread and I was only here for a short time before I got frustrated with the limited selection of items I wanted for my pony. But now I think I can pretty much make anything pony I want. So thought I would get back into it. Sorry for the rambling, I just have a lot of catching up to do. lol
this is the derpy im 3d printing but it's a time consuming and messy business of making ponies IRL. SO I think while I am printing I can practice further here. I at least hope I can help too, love the popens.
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And this one I finished this one last night. I think my skillset can be beneficial for the thread.
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And another project im working on too
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>>43181507
Looks amazing! If you want to use your 3D skills to the benefit of the thread or its community, I think the best way would be making products for the OpenPony that popens want to see, like specific clothes, mane and tail styles. For instance...
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>>43181501
if you make clothing, manes, accessories, animations, for the open pony, you can list them on the marketplace to sell, yes. there is a market.
the open pony dev kit is free to download (its in our OP in the resources pastebin)
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Galaxy Creatures Pony Egg
New Breakable Ponys
Adult only 4 LI
Does not need:
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>>43181542
How can someone be so wrong and confident at the same time? I think I am noticing why the hate. You and AI are just alike. Slop human thinking everything is slop, go cry elsewhere. I have cute dresses and stuff to make Popens.
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>>43181606
Yea I missed that hair part I noticed it after I printed it, that was just my first prototype I plan on fixing that and to straighten out her horn, its not in the middle. I said the machine does most of the work and I fine tune it.
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>>43181602
Eh I want to see what its like for a month so I went plus with stipend. The liden is going to be nice. And the ability to upload 2k textures seems important if I want to be a content creator. I dunno Im just a pay pig tho, don't mind me. Now I have an empty house to fill with pony frens.
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>>43181507
horn isnt centered
tail clips through the cushion
ears are a mess if you actually look at them
hair strand over her right eye has artifacts where the ai got confused by the eyelashes and eyebrow
hair strand on her head that has no connection, just two endings
multiple hair strands end strangely or have odd bumps and false endings
for anyone who isnt convinced by any of this, this image >>43181521 where the geometry is entirely made of randomly placed tris and has no contour lines or actual topology is an obvious sign of AI
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>>43181521
>hoof melting into the chicken's wing
>feathers on wing inconsistent shapes
>>43181664
This anon is correct. And the tricount on that model would be astronomical like that waffle screenshot from the field trip.
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>>43181664
that just means I need to up my 3d modeling skills. And too bad I got kicked out of Baltimare. I guess it's to be expected. No one likes merchants, and especially someone who admits he has flaws and AI ones. Thats fair, I still want to make you all stuff. I'll work on my Hexferry outfit and maybe when Im cuter you will let me back in. Or not, im not jonesing to be apart of the community if our agendas don't align then so be it. But I'll work on making more pony stuff regardless.
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I'll humor this with a real answer: modeling for shit in-game is very different from modelling shit for 3d printing. Almost everything in SL will need to be rigged or animatable (unless you're making statuette props or very simple static objects like hats maybe), that means it needs high quality topology (this >>43181521 would be completely, utterly useless, you'd basically have to remodel it from scratch to retopo that utter mess). And because it's a game where people usually display hundreds if not thousands of objects, all user-made, you need to think about optimising like a game developer and that means not spamming 2 million tris: learning economy of where you can cut tris and just rely on smooth shading to make it look good, learning to use bump maps to save on physical geometry. The models you're showing have probably 100x-200x too many tris, unless you wanted to import them to use as a humongous giant statue where the detail would actually be visible and the topo and rigging doesn't matter.
There's nothing wrong with using AI to make things that AI does well, but this particular AI would be useless for making in-game items, and it's also very disingenuous to pretend you're handcrafting epic models when it's just a quick gen.
If you can either learn to retopo your AI models by hand, or find an AI that generates nice conservative and elegant geometry, and come here offering quickie AI-made items that you've touched up to look good and properly rigged to the OP skeleton and verified to work well, there's no reason there couldn't be a market for it.
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I also wanna note I do already make and give out a lot of stuff for free almost exclusively to balti/ nor/mlp/eople
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>>43181501
There's a market for almost anything in SL but you won't get rich from it.
Always only do stuff on the side and see getting lindens for it as a bonus. If you try to make a living of off Second Life only your plan will go south really fast but creating stuff for it and see ponies enjoy it is awesome.
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>>43181728
>and AI ones
pretty sure LL kicks AI generated content merchants anyway (IF reported) so generating 3D slop and putting it on the marketplace usually is not a good idea if you want to keep your account. also don't forget that once you get actually permanently banned you won't be able to connect any new evading account with paypal since LL has all sorts of hardware sniffing shenanigans and you need paypal to actually get your merchant lindens transferred to the actual real money world.
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>>43182573
T b h I just wanted to earn some $L to get more stuff in game and wasn't gonna bother trying to make IRL money. I do fine IRL I just wanted to help make you all look cuter (and maybe generate some income to further my endeavors in SL) but this post put the final nail in the coffin. Maybe in another 4 years I will come back again with more skill sets since it's really much more complicated then my skillset atm. But good luck Popens don't forget to OPEN POPEN!
Btw here's another video of a print I just finished today. :3
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>>43182620
>since it's really much more complicated then my skillset atm
To be honest I don't see a ton of extra skills needed to make 3D content for SL compared to making shit for other platforms. Maybe if you're used to an AI workflow OR exclusively make 3D prints and have never worked with UVs and texturing. But if you know how to make meshes fit for animation and texturing you already have 98% of all skills needed to make stuff for SL.
Cool model and print btw. Just keep having fun with your 3D stuff. That's all what counts, really.
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>>43182638
I can make clean topology it's just an extra step that's not need for 3d printing. I don't have that much experience with smart uv and texturing but I know how to ask AI to help me. But I don't have any experience making animations and optimizing the mesh for it. And yea I am having a lot of fun with my models, and thanks for the help and kind words.
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do anybody know if there are any low poly poni body models that are compatible with the popen manes/tails/clothes/accessories?
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>>43182573
>pretty sure LL kicks AI generated content merchants anyway
Do they really? Last time I checked there were multiple marketplace stores that specialized in selling only random AI-generated meshes, and many sims, including big shopping event ones, used meshes from those stores.
There were events that banned the use of AI-generated meshes, but the ban always came from the event organizers themselves, not from LL.