{"id":4492,"date":"2014-12-16T19:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2014-12-16T20:35:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T20:35:06","slug":"do-avatar-physics-make-females-feel-unwelcome-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"Do Avatar Physics Make Females Feel Unwelcome In Second Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in April 2011 Linden Lab announced :\u00a0Introducing the Updated SL Viewer Beta with Enhanced Avatar Physics<\/a>. In that post they explained the arrival of a new feature in Second Life, that of avatar physics :<\/p>\n

In this viewer, you can now configure the amount of movement that you would like for your avatar\u2019s soft body parts, making your avatar much more (ahem) realistic. Since the physics are controlled by a wearable object, you have the ability to easily customize and personalize your settings just as if you were editing any other clothing item. So whether you want lots of movement, or only a bit, you can adjust your settings and they will apply only to your avatar\u2019s targeted body part.<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, we continue to smash bugs and make strides in viewer stability and performance, but we figured that you would be much more interested in avatars bouncing and jiggling.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The idea behind Avatar Physics is of course to make parts of the avatar body move in a more realistic fashion. Second Life, being user generated content of course, saw people create some very extreme physics for giggles. However over time things seem to have generally calmed down so that people try and use avatar physics in a sensible fashion. An example of the extremes of these physics was produced by Seraph Linden :<\/p>\n