tours her houses with different sized avatars to see how they feel. “When the smallest avatar doesn’t feel lost in a space and the biggest one doesn’t feel like the walls are going to crush him, I consider it successful,” she said. She concedes it is a difficult issue for homebuilders. Most avatars look quite small when they stand outside their homes, but she believes it is critical to get the proportions right on the inside. She also gives her customers modify rights so they can adapt their homes if they need. She always pushes herself to do better, to constantly learn and to adapt to the ever-changing potential of SL. However, to keep from getting lost in unlimited possibilities, she centers her efforts on her customers’ criteria and expectations.
to build anything she would like while in real life, compromise is inevitable. She may have incorporated more of SL than most of us. Four years ago in SL, she met the person she calls “the greatest person I know” and they have been living together for two years now in real life. Aside the same issues of copyright and IP theft that bedevil all creators, Bazar is happy with her life and career in SL. For her, SL is full of surprises and endless possibilities, where she can project her every desire and is unfettered by the compromises of reality. She is profoundly grateful for the experience and for all the people who support her and her work. Visit Bazar in-world at L A Dreams [80.167.21].
Bazar loves that mesh has been added to her creator’s toolkit and is eager to see its full potential realized in the coming years. The one thing she has always wished Linden Lab would add to the user experience is built-in social interactions such as hugs and handshakes. While there are HUDs to execute those interactions, she feels it would express the importance of the social role of SL to have those as standard tools. When asked if she brought elements of her own home into her SL designs, she said that it was actually the opposite. She brings elements of her SL creations into her real life home. In SL, she gets
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