I know it’s tempting to disallow avatar scripts on your sims. I know that it can greatly improve the performance by killing off the heavy-weight scripts that some people wear on their avatars for whatever reasons of flashiness.
But keep in mind that the following things don’t work anymore with avatar scripts off:
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Attached AOs. This may be one reason to disallow scripts because typical #SecondLife #ZHAO AOs use up tremendous amounts of server resources, and hardly any #OpenSimulator user has ever heard of #khAOs. But many #OpenSim users depend on attached AOs. They either don’t know how to put an AO into their viewer, or they can’t be bothered because attaching one is sooo much more convenient, and it gives you a HUD.
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Adjusting the foot position on most female mesh bodies from #SecondLife. Unless you’ve got your feet on “high” permanently, you can neither take your high heels off nor put them on.
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Switching the alpha mode on #Ruth2 v4 and #Roth2 v2. If it’s forced to “off” when you teleport in, and your alpha masks stop working, you can’t use your HUD to turn it back on, and you have to edit the body manually.¹
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The alpha HUD on pretty much all other mesh bodies. You can only change clothes if you don’t need alpha-ing.
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Bento HUDs. You can’t even correct your hands if your fingers are stretched into all directions.
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Sex, at least not if it involves at least one male avatar. Guys can’t switch their boners on. Turning avatar scripts off on a sex-oriented sim is amongst the top five stupidest things you can possibly do as a sim owner.
¹By the way, yes, #BakesOnMesh supports alpha masks. If your mesh bodies don’t, doesn’t mean BoM as a whole doesn’t.
@mindbleach Where do you need to be picked up? At “What is OpenSim”?