Diana Prince

5 hours ago, BellaGirl said:

Let tell you a story, a story about me and a friend. So one day I'm surfing through all the wonderful worlds and I come across the most beautiful place, a world that clearly took many months (if not years) to make that I was overwhelmed by its sheer beauty. This wasn't a room made for a "Cold Fuck Room" it was art. So I think to myself, yeah, I can do something similar maybe not everything or as good but something that I can make and call it mine. So I go searching through Google finding all the ideas and pictures I need to start my new project and get right to work... one hour turns in two, then another and then a day and a week... and finally after over a month I'm finished.  I'm so very proud of myself that I even tried, that I stayed focused and never changed the goal that I set out to create. And this is were it all goes downhill.

I'm of course excited and I want to show everyone, and well... so I did. Some loved it and some clearly not as much but I was happy that my project was seen and that's all I cared about at the time. Then one of my friends asks, could I have the file? Now I'm kind of private and almost ever show my work so I thought, sure why not, thinking they would use the work as is. The next time I'm on this friend ask me to come look at all the 'changes' that they made for me and I'm thinking... "Oh no, changes?" but hey, maybe all they did was downloaded a few objects and inserted them into the room.. okay, I'm not super happy but I can deal with it. I mean, something I spent more then month on was changed in less then a day...  keep a open mind Bella I think, stop worrying it'll be fine and I'm invited to take a look... and I'm immediately heart broken. They had ripped off walls, changed colors throughout the room, downloaded a sex dungeon and bunch of other rooms stitching them in the most horrific way.. worse yet it had nothing to do with what vibes I was trying to create and mentally I was devastated. This wasn't what I wanted people to see, not in anyway would I make something that looked so terrible but there I am staring at my masterpiece torn apart in a day and looking nothing like the way I wanted it. I was beyond upset but hey, I shared it and that was the risks I took trusting anyone at all... call me stupid for ever thinking to be kind enough to share.

After having the experience that I did I would love to have the ability to lock the room and then share it so someone other then myself can show it off but are not able to modified it whatsoever. Then as updates roll out I can add them in and make new revisions but in the way I want them or maybe even through suggestions. This might even make me want to share more, maybe all my work if the in the future we had the ability to lock it down completely. If you ask me I'm a firm yes but give me this option Gizmo. It's all some of the members are asking for. Thanks from your friend, BellaGirl

That's exactly what I fear would happen! I spent 7 month to place each of the 80.000 primitives in my room. In exactly the way they were intended to! 

I would love to share the room for others to enjoy and open, but I don't want it to be changed.

3DXC is banning people for changing the avatar files so that you can have 10 tails or so. Why don't you advocate for being able to change the avis as we want them? It hinders our creativity...

On the other hand, why shouldn't we have the same choice as the devs to "lock" the avis? Our own work we spend a lot of time with.

13 hours ago, SerenityWillow said:

Don't share it to someone then.

I don't understand why everyone does not understand this, it is simple, don't share your room if you don't want it edited.

Gizmo has a good setup and trying to reinvent it to suit their needs is silly as MeiLing has stated previously. He has fixed the in-game stealing, but if you share your room publicly, he has no control of it afterwards. Why does all this land on Gizmo's lap when it is nothing he can do to fix it? If you want everyone to see your work, Torax has a section on his site for non-shared rooms, add it to that list instead, so all the world can see it but not touch it.

If you don't want your room edited don't share it in public, simple math. If that had happened to me, but it hasn't yet, I would not be mad I would be proud that someone thought my room was so good they wanted to use it, and as far as editing it, it would be cool to see what they do to it, it may be better than my version or seen the feel of the room better than I did. Sounds like a bunch of vanity to me.

Remember, imitation is the greatest form of flattery!

But if I WANT to share it, but don't want it to be edited? How would you do this then?

I grouped everything, so it's more difficult to change stuff. But it's no protection.

Is a non-editable room really such a bad thing? Then all the dramas about who's creation it is would vanish. In my opinion, we would gain more than lose. It's always better to have an option than to have none.

48 minutes ago, Gizmo said:

I understand that some builders spend a lot of time building their rooms and want to keep the editing exclusive. And these builders need a password feature to protect their rooms. And if they get the password option, they will use it most of the time. I'm convinced of that. And here's a very important point for most players. Most players are not professional builders, and they enjoy downloading a ready made room and customizing it to their liking.
If builders have password protection, it will lead to more and more rooms being locked from editing. After all, many builders want to keep their rooms exclusive. That's why I'm convinced that the password feature that some people here are asking for will eventually lead to even greater restrictions on the creativity of a large part of the players.

So, dear builders (those who ask for a password), I would like to ask you a question: why are you afraid to share your room freely?

 

I worked 7 month on my latest room, countless hours. And I want it to stay the way it is, because it's a 1:1 recreation of the Courthouse Square from Back to the Future.
Maybe these restrictions lead to even more creativity of the players because more people learn to build.
Maybe you saw Hinchs awesome New York room. Before he opened it, I thought my own New York room was good... But I was so wrong... So I took this an an encouragement to rebuild from scratch and make it (partially) even better and become a more experienced builder.

1 hour ago, Gizmo said:

It would be nice to understand why you need a password so badly? If you need it so badly, you can use password-protected ZIP archives as an alternative, for example. Can you think of situations where password-protected room files would be useful? And what are the main differences to using a password-protected ZIP archive?

Because I don't understand the need for a password on the room files.

Thank you very much!

Maybe I want to give the room I worked on for many months to someone else, but I want them NOT to change it. I can put a logo somewhere in the room with "Built by Diana Prince".
If I had now the possibility to save it as an world file that can NOT be loaded into the editor again (only open it as a public room), that would save a lot of discussions.
So why not have the function to save as an editable file or non-editable file? And you only share the version you are comfortable with.

*.world files would be the same as always.
*.worldX files would not be loadable into the editor and are encrypted, like the avatar files. Not plain readable text files.

3 hours ago, MeiLing said:

oh it's an ego issue then. For you know that you have made it, isn't it enough?

It's more about others claiming your work as theirs I guess.

37 minutes ago, SerenityWillow said:

That's where Gizmo buried his favorite pet kitty cat. 

So, it's his Pet Semetary?

that's creepy, lol. Never seen it before!
Is that maybe the Mount Chiliad of 3DXC?    Thy mystery might reveal when you set the sky to nighttime one day before the update...

@Gizmo would it be possible to set a password to the world files? Like with pdf files, you can set a password, and you need to know it to open the file.
For world files, that password would be needed if you want to open it in the editor or host that room.
Of course, the world files itself needed to be encrypted, like the avatar files. Otherwise you could just copy and paste it with a text editor.

as Serenity said, it's not more than a json file. A simple readable text file with the position, size, rotation, colour and material value for each object.
It only works the other way round. With Niblette's Naughty Designer, you can convert a vector graphic (svg file) into a world file.

it should still be at the 0, 0, 0 coordinate in your room

The thing is: updating from the now used Genesis 2 DAZ models to Genesis 8.1 (or 9) is probably more time consuming than starting 3DXC from scratch. 

you could add the QR code of the link as a pic in you bio gallery. Other players could scan it with their mobile phone. Not 100% what you want, but probably the closest to it

try to disble the name tags over the heads, and limit the FPS to 30 in the settings. That may help

there is also Niblette's Naughty Designer III.

Just search for it here on this site. With it you can use almost any font that is available for Windows

43 minutes ago, Khallum Troy said:

I was thinking the same thing! It would be like in the sims. It would be fun.
The guy or gal who's had too much to drink, stopping and lying on the floor, who can't fuck, certain couples actions impossible, because of it.
 

my guess it's the addition of the poses from the #anim channel

a couple years ago there was a drunk effect after drinking beer

what was the problem? Did you enter the RGB values for the colours manually? There is a bug with this...

you can also transfer your colours from the editor:
 

How about a lapdance pose?

1 hour ago, MeiLing said:

well there is a button for this next to use.... drop

only in the beta, but not for the beers in the live version

did you reach the limit of these objects? Some, like the fireworks (14?) and light effects have a limit.

It works just like an Amazon giftcard code. You can keep it for a while before using it. Don't know if there is a time limit, but I don't think so.

With that many items, maybe an ini or csv file for all the prices would be best. And a price for invite, friends, group or public for each item.
This way, you could use Excel for easy managing.