Pentagons, Hexagons, Octagons.....Oh My!

I would like to see the following shapes for building:

- Pentagon
- Hexagon
- Octagon

Any other suggestions?

Serious bump!

I really need these shapes! Think of the prim savings! Think of the time savings! Think of the new designs!

THINK!

DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!

And while you're at it, let me make my own shapes! hehe might as well dream big while we're at it!!!

Yep, Hippos

Pentagon - wank on it 5 times
Hexagon - wank on it 6 times
Octogon - wank on it 8 times

Other than that, there ain't whole lot that SL can do for you.

- Ace

Ace,

I don't see how SL couldn't come up with those very basic shapes. Its a simple request.

as long as they're opengl standard. i've not given up on the idea of designing objects in a program such as maya and uploading them to my inventory.

there's also this neat feature called local storage, or backup if you prefer, that we keep asking for. it'll be really nice when we can build objects inworld and export them. it'll be even nicer if we can port them into other applications.

but that'll only work if our objects fit the standard definitions.

yes please give me more shapes to corrupt

They are easy enough to build. I came up with a method for precisely building polygonal walls without having to do a lot of math about a year ago, it's fairly simple, just use local axis and shift drag pillars a certain distance away from the center, using the grid
Stretch a cube to make a wall, put it at the center and use the same local axis/shift drag thing.
In the mean time, I have gotten around to coding a rezzor for automatically building the pillars and the n-sided polygonal walls, to which Christopher Omega promptly added a rezzor for n-sided polygonal floors. I'm sure someone out there has better rezzors than mine. Xylor and Cadroe come to mind.

Khamon, do it yourself you lazy sod
ll[Get|Set]PrimitiveParams+XML+email... Kalleb already built an offline modeler and its pretty damn cool

ho hum well i guess if i don't have to get up out of my chair i might.

ho hum gosh that sounds like real work doesn't it

Or we could simplify. We already have 3 and 4-sided prims, and also infinitely-sided objects, ie. the various prims extruded from a circular cross-section. So how about just collapsing all these into a single polygonal object with whatever number of sides you dial up on a spinner?

If you select 3, 4 or infinite, it just switches to the existing fixed-sided code. Select anything else and it uses the N-parametrized functionality.

And let's allow N == 2 as well. Zero-thickness objects are very useful.

GREAT IDEA MORGAINE! That just might work best! Hip hip hooray!

My apologies for the wankin' post to this thread...

What I was really trying to convey (and which I did in my usually crude manner) is that you are asking for 2-D shapes in a 3-D world.

If you want a 2-D pentagon or a 2-D hexagon, its easy enough to do with the prims we have now.

Now... if you want hedrons, instead of gons, then there would be plenty of shapes that SL could introduce that would allow the builders of SL to go wild.

A decahedron, or a pentahedron would be wicked kewl. Especially if we could cut/twist.

- Ace

Hehe, well it seems that nobody else got too bothered by the 2D vs 3D thing. I guess they all assumed that a cross section was implied.

It's an interesting point though, because needless to say, only a limited number of useful 3D shapes can be generated by one-dimernsional normal extrusion from 2D cross sections.

So, we'll need more: the N-sided polygons, a 3D extrusion vector, and a selection of extrusion algorithms with more character than just plain linear-normal. And that could become extremely interesting!!!!

Addendum: Eg. a square could be extruded into a pyramid with a simple algorithm of "every point on the square extrudes towards the centre of the square offset by <0,0,1> ... but who said that the extrusion had to stop when all the lines meet? Being able to specify the termination condition separately would be far more flxible. )