One of my favourite things about this snapshot is that there’s actually 3 avatars in the above photograph. One of them was a freenis wearing noob who was badly hitting on the two girls in some obscure European language, if I recall correctly..
Anyways – how did I make them vanish? Not through the magic of photoshop I’m afraid – it’s much more simple than that. You can make any prim or even avatar disappear from within the SL client! It’s easy to do, and can remove any annoying elements which can ruin the prospect of a nice SL snapshot for you – no more having to wait for that blingtardette to disappear, or spending hours removing some horrid hot-pink prims in photoshop!
Hiding prims and avatars in the Client:
- Make sure the Advanced menu is activated. You can do this by holding down Ctrl + Alt + D.
- Select Advanced > Character > Character Tests > Allow Select Avatar
- Click Advanced > Rendering > Hide Selected
- Start removing those annoying prims/avatars by holding down Shift and clicking on them. You can also hide avatar attachments!
Clicked the wrong avatar/prim? Just click the same spot again while holding down shift and it’ll reappear!
So next time you’re planning the perfect shot and SuperFreenisMan turns up to try and rock your pixels, simply make his vanish and take your dream shot!
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Great trick, and great photograph.
I think there is also something in Debug Settings, that I can never remember, that allows you to not see ANY other AV or their attachments other than yourself…. anyone?
Great tip! Hyper-useful by all of us to like to snap pictures in places where we don’t have the option (power) to remove unwanted avatars/objects from the field of view.
This is awesome info! Thanks for sharing. <3
This is awesome! Thanks.
This isn’t working for me. I have double and treble checked the instructions and no luck. I hold shift, left click but nothing disappears…anyone have any idea why? Many thanks
Hi Caleb!
Which viewer are you using?
The latest viewer… Second Life 1.23.4 (123908) Jun 11 2009 15:16:56 (Second Life Release)
…”some obscure European language”
about 50% sl-residents with us-american origins will increase the chance (statistically), that the freenies wearing noob is a yank (sic!).