What a waste, for newbies to spend their first thirty minutes sitting around in an empty sim playing with sliders. There's absolutely no point to it. As I've said time and time again, if you're going to use flash on the website, USE FUCKING FLASH. Create a virtual avatar creator that people can use to edit their avatar's shape and profile before they login.
There is no technical reason why this is not possible (heck, make it an open API, that way 3rd party registration sites can skin their own avatar creators tuned to their specific offerings, like pre-built student avs for colleges, complete with school colors, etc).
You can even throw in handy tutorial bits, such as how clothing works and how to buy accessories. People who don't care will pick from the prebuilt models; the rest will hit the ground running.
The most frustrating part, though, isn't that this system doesn't exist, it's my faith that even if LL took this idea and actually ran with it, they'd find some way to screw over 3rd parties just as they did welcome areas.
*looking at the pic again*
What a waste.
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Hard to argue with. At the very least, those basic appearance settings should be able to be modified externally.
Yeah, they should be. Any avatar can be expressed in XML, for example. Server load would be mitigated by making all changes local and only updating the av on a commit.
Of course, then you'd have people spending all day at work tweaking their avs, heh.
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