![]() And when she was given to the Spaniards, in 1519, her fluency caught the attention of Hernán Cortés, who promised Malinche “more than liberty” and made her his interpreter, first alongside friar Jerónimo de Aguilar and then solo when she learned Spanish. While enslaved, Malinche added Maya to her native Nahuatl. What came instead was a way of understanding her captors. Passed off “from hand to hand, night to night, denied and desecrated,” Lucha Corpi tells us in one of the catalog’s absorbing poems, Malinche was “waiting for the dawn. Malinche is solemn, rigid, as one might be before bursting into tears. Clutching a rosary, she stands before a curtain that only partly obscures the brothel behind it. Dressed in a white, lace-lined communion dress, she is more doll than human. In a photograph small enough to escape one’s notice, artist Delilah Montoya presents Malinche as a girl adrift. If Avatar Impostors is on, blocking a Resident render thems as a generic gray form:įor more information, see Avatar Impostors tech details.-Delilah Montoya, La Malinche, 1993. Moving it to the right ( High) means avatars become impostors at a further distance, which is preferable if you have a powerful computer. The Avatars Physics slider (also found here) controls the relative distance at which avatars become impostors. Under Avatar Rendering, enable or disable the Avatar impostors checkbox. To toggle it on and off:Ĭlick the Advanced button at the bottom to show additional features. This is especially noticeable in large crowds, so go to a popular club or hot event and compare before/after.Īvatar Impostors is usually on by default. This means they look rougher around the edges and aren't affected as fluently by inworld effects like lighting, but it may be worth it for the Viewer FPS (Frames Per Second) you gain, making your overall Second Life experience smoother. ![]() Particles are often used for environmental enhancements like fire and smoke as well as laser light shows.To turn them off, choose Advanced > Rendering types > Particles to deselect display of particles.Īvatar Impostors is a performance-improving feature that renders distant avatars more "cheaply" - instead of being drawn in full 3D as usual, impostors are two-dimensional, like cardboard cutouts. To reset your graphics preferences to their original, default values: You can reset your graphics preferences to the way they were when you first installed Second Life by forcing the viewer to auto-detect your graphics hardware and adjust your graphics settings accordingly. That means that if you use Second Life on more than one computer, you must set your preferences on each computer. However, your preferences are stored separately on each system. Since your account is stored on the Second Life servers, the Second Life Viewer will have access to your inventory, your friends, groups, your last location inworld, and so on. You can log in to your Second Life account from any computer. To get detailed information on each of the fields in the preferences window, simply click the "?" button at the upper right corner of the window to display online help.
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