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jjccc Coronet
Registered User
Join date: 4 Dec 2006
Posts: 10
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12-25-2006 05:19
Ive just spent all night jumping up and down trying to lay out walls and floors it would be so mmuch easier if you could snap to a corner of a prim and join it to another prims smap point
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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12-25-2006 12:45
From: jjccc Coronet Ive just spent all night jumping up and down trying to lay out walls and floors it would be so mmuch easier if you could snap to a corner of a prim and join it to another prims smap point Check out the Ivory Tower Library of Primitives. There's a number of tools in SL that can be used to get prims lined up correctly, and they explain most of them there. |
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Learjeff Innis
musician & coder
Join date: 27 Nov 2006
Posts: 817
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12-26-2006 09:46
"Snap to object" is extremely handy in other drawing programs and would be an excellent feature for SL. I agree wholeheartedly. Please subit this as a votable feature; I'll add my vote for sure.
Note that such a feature often causes problems too; it's a nontrivial issue when there are multiple objects, especially in 3D. Nonetheless, it's worth serious consideration.
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
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12-26-2006 10:25
There's supposed to be a mechanism to use a specific prim as the basis for grid snap and alignment. I forget the details, but I believe it's described in the Ivory Tower Library.
Yes, Snap can be dangerous. Even with the improved snap that doesn't trigger until you drag the pointer over the "snap lines" I find situations where an object gets snapped to "zero size" when I wasn't expecting it. But it's much better than in the old days when you had to turn it off and on all the time.
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