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PostPosted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:08 pm


February 21st, 2017:

excitable sloth
toufu-time
ITEMS

Will Hero's Journey ever see a finale?


It will! It is being worked on as we speak. <3


excitable sloth
Woo Mee
Items

Hello. Yesterday you released Purity of Gaia. I was actually really excited about this item until I found out it gave me GG pasties on the female base.

I really don't see why there was a point to adding those??? The 'skin' / body mod was exactly the same on both bases and could quite easily have been a welcome mod to give the female base a male body / chest. Many Gaians would LOVE to get MORE mods that give the female bases flat male chest mods, because some of us use the base because it is nicely slimmer than the bulky male base.

We have MANY boob mods that give the male base cleavage, I don't see why it can't also be the other way around.

If it's a problem of displaying 'nips' on the 'female' base, then just don't add them.

I will go forward with this as a discussion point to the artists!
PostPosted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:08 pm


February 28th, 2017:

excitable sloth
houjun-san
excitable sloth

Item

how do you get this item?


It'll be available tomorrow, on my last day! <3

Also the thumbnail is not correct. >____>;


excitable sloth
Mewnu
I have one last question..

Are you selling that Sloth's Good Bye item? emotion_dowant It's so cute! I want that Speech Bubble!

Also, thank you for all your gorgeous work here on Gaia :>


Aww. Thank you! <3

This item will be available tomorrow! I'm going to link it in a goodbye thread I'll make at the end of the day. It's free. <3


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:11 pm


March 28th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Quote:
Items

Is there any possibility in the future of converting animated items from a Flash format to HTML5? Flash is not the most stable or safe of plugins, so I think converting the animations to HTML5 would be best for the site.

Nope, unfortunately not. Some items we might be able to mimic, but a lot of the astra items have particle effects that have opacity which would be extremely hard to recreate in HTML without making the item file size itself be incredibly massive.


Lanzer
Ninthform
Features

Luck Chest. Will they ever get updated with newer items? They seem so outdated and useless now.


We're actually talking about a newer system that is better than the Luck Chest. Will share when we have more work done on it.


Lanzer
Hypothecate
Etc

Will floating giftboxes be updated?
they're useless in this economy; more of a burden than a fun little treat


Yes, progress had been slow but we'll get there. Art team is swamped with handling all the outstanding tickets.
PostPosted: Mon Apr 17, 2017 11:05 pm


April 12th, 2017:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
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Quote:
Items

I left a question last week regarding converting flash animation on animated items to HTML5 format. I think the staff misunderstood my question as "can you write out flash animations in html code", which of course, you cannot do. However, what I meant was that there are video converters that allow you to convert .SWF animations to HTML5 friendly video and the converted file does not require any plugins (like Flash) to run. My question was if there is any possibility to convert the file type of the animated items so that they play without the need for Flash plugins, but still have it be a video file.

You are right that such things exist to convert the flash animations into a video, or even sprite sheets for html5. Most of the time, however, these are single timeline animations, and our artists made very complex animations. I'm not sure how much you know about Flash, but they have very deeply embedded movie clips. That would mean animations in animations in animations etc.

So leaving all that aside, even if that could be done, all of the flash files had code in it.Some more that others. That's where I usually came in. Also, there is a file called the avatar loader. What that did was to load the static image of the avatar and then load an animation either on top of or behind the avatar image depending on settings in the animation file.

There is no way to place the code in a video. There may be a possible html5 solution, but it would require a lot of work converting the files and a lot of backend PHP work.


Sweet Daes
LUNATlC
Items

firstly, thank you artist(s) for feeding me new hazardous items emotion_kirakira

maybe more in the future? maybe dye tickets? hinthintnudgenudgeetcetc


It's something that we can definitely consider, but we have a lot of different color schemes.


Sweet Daes
Woo Mee
Items

Will you ever finish Hero's Journey?


It's on the to-do list!


Sweet Daes
VKiera
Hello Staff!

Items

Could we have a rerelease rig with astra items? Some of them are almost non existent it seems like. For example Astra Arion and astra azure waters?


We can look into this! o:


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PostPosted: Wed May 03, 2017 11:03 pm


May 2nd, 2017:

Sweet Daes
Lady Cres
items

Any chance this User Image

Could ever be released again? It appears to have never been listed on the mp, so I'm not even sure if it was won/released. Or maybe it's broken, I dunno. Thanks!


It's been won! It just never made it to the MP, actually.

I can't answer that other question, but we can look into it!


Sweet Daes
Seiji-ojisan
Items

A lot of background items are super rare, extinct and overinflated. Could we see some of these items re-released in future RIGs?


Possibly! But it would depend on the item.

If you would like to send me a list I can take a look to see if we can explore other options.
PostPosted: Wed May 10, 2017 11:04 pm


May 9th, 2017:

pyawakit
ferchitocontri
items

we can have more bare items specially for male uses like sitting poses or dinamic stances
also male items too?


Love this idea! We'll look into it! heart


pyawakit
Fibonacci To Infinity
Doll Trunk CIs

There are a lot of items that aren't hairs or eyes locked in SDPlus dolls.
A lot of them are really nice poses!
I was wondering if we could have a Doll Trunk CI based around those poses.


Oh cute idea! I'll pass along the suggestion and see what we can do!


pyawakit
Princess Kunzite
Items

So... officially asking again for the scheme used in User Image and User Image (aka Coral + Wintermint + Offwhite and sometimes Sable) to be officially named Sea Dreams, as well as a request for more items in it! I mean, it's so pretty but these are the only two items available for it! Booming got its official name from a CSU and since also received a few other recolors (outside of a user made bundle), so I hope the same can happen for Sea Dreams!


Sea Dreams it is! (I love the scheme too * w * )


pyawakit
Woo Mee
Items

Since there have been more requests for male items today, can I ask if artists make more bare chest mods to please let them work on the female base without adding cleavage? o3o


I'll pass along with the other artist. Really love this idea!


Takuya Kanbara
HM04
Items:

Would items such as the Cruz halos make a re-appearance in future donation events? (If you ever have them again...)


The ones that were previously released definitely won't be re-released, as they were exclusive to the donation events from back then, but I can't speak to whether or not we'll have future donation events/exclusive items for them. It's something we can see going forward, it's neither off nor on the table 3nodding


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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2017 5:44 pm


May 16th, 2017:

Takuya Kanbara
icey bb
items

Can we get an update/explanation for Hero's Journey please? 🙂


I believe this is something on the to-do list for the future. Can't give an exact date, but definitely something we're aware of and want to get back to :]


Seduces
vodka_vixen
Takuya Kanbara
Blessed Athena
Items

Hey so the Baebie item is one of my favorite items on Gaia of all time! I love the cute legmod it has. All the versions of Baebie have all the skin tones.....except for Trashy Baebie.

Was that on purpose? Because if it was that would be really really uncool gonk


That was a user-designed recolor using a Dye Ticket, which I believe was limited to 10 poses, I'm afraid, so that will be why the leg mod skintones got left out. Sorry @__@
Sorry to butt in, but several official artists have said that the new rule for recolors is that the leg-mod skin tones would count as one pose, the same way a drop-down arm pose would count as one pose. We would have to chose Natural or Fantasy tones, same as the arm-mods. They also said that this would be applied retroactively, I think? Was this one missed?


This is true! However, the creator of the user-made must e-mail in to get the change applied/get the rest of their legs.

As for "We would have to chose Natural or Fantasy tones", you are only allowed to pick Natural or Fantasy if we have done the fantasy tone in the past! If we have not done them before, then we do not allow you to pick fantasy.

Though as usual, if a legmod comes with a 7th pose/CC pose you are allowed to change that tone to another tone.


codemonkey37179
waterkat33
codemonkey37179
[conversation about converting Gaia Houses from Flash to HTML5]

Perhaps you're the wrong person to ask but, if / when you move the home items and such from flash to html5 would it be possible to do a similar thing with astra items? (I know nothing about technology, sorry if this is a dumb question).


No, you got lucky. I am the right person to ask. They can not be easily converted though, and not every item can be converted. Also, we would have to write an entirely new system to display them. It is on my list of things to look into.
PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 9:29 pm


May 24th, 2017:

siskataya
Meromictic
items

Can we get another round of recolored peasant gloves in the more current color schemes?
I am totally on board with this idea! Let me see what may be done! :0


Lanzer
the secret bank
Golden Gatcha

I love this new gatcha! Was wondering if there are plans to add more items? Doesn't need to be new items, would love to see some older items added to the gatcha. So nice love it! Thanks guys!


You guessed it, the team does have more items queued up for Golden Catch. I assume you're referring to Golden Catch and not Golden Gatcha. eek


Lanzer
dissonances
Items

So like, are we really ever going to get more than just a constant influx of feminine items? Because honestly, as nice as it is to see new items, we hardly ever get masculine or unisex or androgynous items. I know I'm not the only person here who would like to see something than frilly and sexy all the time. Please. please, could you give the same kind of attention to your male base users as you do your female ones?


I'll pass the word. I too wish to dress nice without having to cross dress. biggrin (just kidding, I don't change outfits)


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PostPosted: Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:41 pm


June 13th, 2017:

codemonkey37179
Safron Quill
when i equip astras that are animated theres like a play button over my avatar and if i click on it it takes me to the dressup, and the only time i can see the animation is in towns 2 or any hangout place, is this a common problem??


Yes, it is the way Chrome now handles flash. Beyond our control. Sorry about that sad
PostPosted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:27 pm


June 28th, 2017:

Lanzer
ElegantlyLuminous
Items
Could there please be a "play again" option added to Jack's Surprise Bag 2k16? People who don't have self-control issues when it comes to RIGs* tend to open them in large batches and it gets kind of annoying to be constantly redirected back to the inventory home page. It's not a big deal and we'll survive if it doesn't happen, but, well, I like asking questions... so here we are.
*This is not me. My impatience wins pretty often.


I thought I added the play again button to all the possible items. I'll add that when I get a chance.


pyawakit
Poison Potato
Items
I am love to see more light green hairs. with the same shade from the "sleepy willow" item. emotion_kirakira


I love that color too! We'll look into it!


pyawakit
Woo Mee
Items

Hello~ Will we get an update / the finale to Hero's Journey soon?


Its being worked on! We'll keep you updated soon!


Mystery Admin X (identity lost in BBCode screwup)
Shrimp_Man
Items

Can we get more sci fi guns? We have a noticeable lack of them compared to other guns.

We'll find a way to get creative!


pyawakit
Pie
Items

Item artists -- could we have some more clothing mods to cut collars into shirts?

Not anything crazy like a plunging neckline, but... it seems like there's a lot of items with high-collared shirts. I think a lot of them would look cute as a low-collared casual top!


YESSSSS

I love clothing mod! I'll pass it along!


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PostPosted: Sun Jul 09, 2017 5:06 pm


July 5th, 2017:

Lanzer
CraftyRani
Items
Pretty please, add the "play again" button to Jack's bags like you promised us last week crying


Looks like it'll take longer than a week to implement, since there had been a few emergencies, followed by the long weekend with convention.
PostPosted: Fri Jul 14, 2017 9:17 pm


July 12th, 2017:

Lanzer
Meiriana
Items

Would you guys be able to add a "open again" option for the Secret Garden/Matsuri Festival RIGs? I've got multiples of both of them and it's very annoying having to refresh the page when having opened one and wanting to open another.


I thought I covered all the items, let me check


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 11:04 pm


July 18th, 2017:

pyawakit
Dyre Raydrick
pyawakit
The Golden Boleyn
Items:

First I wanna say thank you so much for Rabbitually Late, it's glorious and I love getting to see the chubby look get some attention!
I was wondering if we will ever receive a cheaper recolor of Rabbitually Late (under 3OOb)? I have always disliked watching a bunch of people want an item that they cannot get because it's too expensive Dx Chubby should be for everyone blaugh


We're going to be experimenting with different body shapes as much as the base let's us. Keep a look out for more options soon! <3!

Reading this amuses me so much after being around back in the day when staff was saying stuff like "no way we can do that; impossiburu!!" while people were asking for skinny/chubby/pregnant avvies.
xD


Yeah, lol also back in the day arm mods alone seemed like an impossible thing. NOW LOOK AT US!

PROGRESS cat_cool


pyawakit
Binku_Muja-
Items/Query:
I've noticed a disturbing trend where the two hair mods (Agape Scissors and Sketchbook
hairpins) are not removing the animal parts of hair. (Dragon Guardian Locks for example) A
similar problem has occurred with the Neko hair item. Why is this? There used to be a third
hairmod when the two were used in tandem, but that seems to be completely gone now.
Why?


A lot of that has to do with layering issues, and placement of the layer on the head. Some times its possible, other times its just buggy. But we'll look into ways to try to improve this!

(side note: omg your avi is too cute)


pyawakit
1nno
Items

Can we please see more Kashmiri items in the Cash Shop? That scheme is so gorgeous and I would hate to see it only appear around spring time. sad


Yeah its super cute! I'll pass it along to the right people <3!


codemonkey37179
Canicuss
Items

Would it be possible to convert some of the housing items (chairs, paintings, plants, etc) into items our avatars can wear?


No, it is not possible. Sorry.


pyawakit
The Dread Wolf
Lanzer
The Dread Wolf
Items

Will we be having more Blue Raspberry items any time soon?
I have a Blue raspberry itch that needs scratching. âŠ™īšâŠ™


Blue raspberry? Is that what you get when you choke a red raspberry to death?

Lol. If only. I would choke so many red raspberries just to eat blue raspberries. emotion_dowant
I should clarify that I meant the color scheme blue raspberry [x]. xd


I'll pass it along! So happy to see the love for more vibrant color schemes emotion_kirakira


pyawakit
Hateable
Items

Can we get some scissor item that cuts pants and turns them into shorts, or turns a long skirt into a short skirt?


Hmmmm we'd have to look into it. I wouldn't be able to work on a lot of things, do to how our system mask the legs with certain leg mods. Can't make any promises on this one, but we'll look into to see what we can do in the future! Thanks for putting the idea in our heads tho!
PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:55 pm


July 25th, 2017:

Lanzer
Shrimp_Man
RIGs

Can all rigs get a play again button? Only the 2k15 Super Prize rig has a play again option, all of the others make you have to refresh the page when opening.


I thought I added that for all the rigs, but looks like there are some that fell through the cracks. sweatdrop


Seduces
Vannequin
Items

Can we get some items in this scheme please? > v > User Image


/wink wonk
I'm really into this scheme honestly! I think you can probably expect some in the future~ cool


Riyokuma
The Golden Boleyn
Items:

I was wondering if the User ImageUser ImageUser Image #640 Oniki doll could be re-released please?! ^u^/
They still drop out of the SDPlus Blind Box/2016(I think??) blind bag!


siskataya
Meromictic
Items

Any chance we can see some peasant glove recolors soon?


Actually, funny you would bring this up. I was just talking about recoloring peasant gloves today. No guarantees on any ETD, but I am a big fan of the peasant gloves so we shall see! biggrin


Lanzer
Dogoda
Items

Those dead fish drops that we get from the dead fish in out aquariums, can the items in them please be updated? The items we pull form them are worthless now since they are so common. I think if they were updated it would revive some interest with maintaining a tank.


I'll ask about putting some alchemy items there, if you have any suggestions please let me know!


Riyokuma
xukshia
Item:

Could you guys release items such as My Wintry Date?
As well as Merimotic <3 Casrial and Twilight Infernal Crystal?

All the items I search for are unlisted for years.


xukshia
Item:
Merimotic <3 Casrial
As of now this item will not be re-released as it is the user's Platinum doll! They received 25 copies and that's all there are!


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 02, 2017 9:27 pm


August 1st, 2017:

Lanzer
Hypothecate
misc

you ever gonna update flying giftboxes


Whoops that's one of the things I wanted to update. Let me ping the art team again.


Takuya Kanbara
StrawberryBeetle
Items

Can we please get a re-release all the Vault items or a new bundle to include Golden Vault? Maybe make them create-able with Formulas or through GoFusion?


I'm afraid that Golden Vault was a tier exclusive and is ineligible for re-release sweatdrop We can look into re-releasing some of the others, though!
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