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Bams · 07-30-2008, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau

Vendors: There's pluses and minuses here, and the biggest plus is that you can offer a lot of products for minimal prim outlay.

But as Josh said, there have been some security exploits in the past. I'm never comfortable assuming there will never be any again.

I totally agree but thus far the benefit for me has outweighed the risk of someone exploiting a vendor. I would assume if the vendor was exploited it would show somewhere, transaction log or something?

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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau

I've also seen some vendor layouts that were not real intuitive - some customers are lowest-common-denominator on the intelligence scale and unless it's a box you just right click and 'buy', they're going to struggle a bit.

True I stick to the 4 panel system, Main panel, Demo button, next and previous buttons. You'd have to have the IQ of an icecube not to figure it out.

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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau

Toss in lag and slow rezzing textures during heavy load times and I'm not convinced that a scripted vendor is the best solution. It has its uses, but to me most of them are in specific situations.

I agree that server lag can be an issue but that's prevelant everywhere. Textures should load no slower than they would on individual placards. In fact since you are only viewing one image at a time it should load the area much quicker.

When it comes to textures I find alot of folks do not take any time to optimize graphics for Sl purposes.

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Originally Posted by Cindy Claveau

I much prefer browsing individual placards - if you offer multiple colors of the same outfit, having colored buttons along one side of the display is good enough. I always appreciate clean, uncluttered layouts.

I hadn't thought of the one outfit pic with buttons of varying colors I'll have to build something like that and give it a run. That would work for outfits of varied colors but not skins or products with a similar theme but different looks. Like my Slayer line. I am putting them into a Vendor for the HG move to save prims. They are all very different but posess the same theme.