More on the NPC as a cloud in opensim vanilla

K so i tinkered around and it turns out that it wasn't the server at all, it was imprudence.

When I went to LBSA plaza nobody could see me. I was a cloud to them. So it would seem that although I could see myself in imprudence, everyone else saw me as a cloud. Stands to reason then that if I loaded my current appearance (a cloud) into an NPC then I would also see the NPC as a cloud.

Turns out the simple fix (from Qandy Saw at LBSA plaza) is this:

Go to Preferences > Graphics and click Anisotropic filtering on then save settings.
Everyone else will then be able to see you.

At that point you can rezz the NPCs.