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Edwardo Jardberg
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Join date: 8 Feb 2009
Posts: 48
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09-14-2009 06:03
I'm using "Second Life for Dummies". I know how to move and rotate things using edit. I want to learn how to color a prim. Pretty simple, huh? No. The book (pg 207) gives me 5 steps to color a prim. 1. Right click a prim and choose Edit.(I do that and the edit tool appears.) 2.Click the More button. ALERT-UGH-GRIEF: There isn't any More button anywhere in the Edit window, or elsewhere. So I go to the next step: 3. Click the Texture tab.
By this time the prim is a yellow color, and when I proceed to choose a pale blue for the prim, I geT a pale green color on the prim, as if it has mixed the yellow with the blue.
Can someone help. And thanks.
And incidentally, this is the first thread I have posted in some weeks, but I get the message "Sorry! The administrator has...only post one message every 20 seconds".
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Kelli May
karmakanic
Join date: 7 Oct 2006
Posts: 1,135
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09-14-2009 06:16
Two things affect how a prim looks... colour and texture. The 'yellow colour' is the default plywood texture. Colour adds a tint to this, so that's why you get a green cube.
On the same panel as colour, there's a texture selector. Use this the same way as the colour menu, and pick the blank texture.
edit: Arguably shine, bumpmap, glow and transparency affect colour too, but one step at a time!
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Argus Collingwood
Totally Tintable
Join date: 5 Dec 2005
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09-14-2009 06:33
From: Edwardo Jardberg 2.Click the More button. ALERT-UGH-GRIEF: There isn't any More button anywhere in the Edit window, or elsewhere. So I go to the next step: 3. Click the Texture tab. Since your editor is already expanded the button would say "Less" on your screen 
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Amaranthim Talon
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Join date: 14 Nov 2006
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09-14-2009 06:38
Edwardo- the best learning is hands on- I would recommend a tour of the Ivory Tower of Prims. You can find it in serch. Have fun!
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DancesWithRobots Soyer
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Join date: 7 Apr 2006
Posts: 701
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09-14-2009 06:40
On the newest viewers the less and more buttons have been retired. The edit windows now open and are stuck in what used to be the "more" condition.
The older viewers, and I guess some of the third party viewers still have the less/more arrangement tho.
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Argus Collingwood
Totally Tintable
Join date: 5 Dec 2005
Posts: 600
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09-14-2009 06:43
From: DancesWithRobots Soyer On the newest viewers the less and more buttons have been retired. The edit windows now open and are stuck in what used to be the "more" condition.
The older viewers, and I guess some of the third party viewers still have the less/more arrangement tho.  I am so used to the expanded edit I never noticed that more/less were gone. lol
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DanielRavenNest Noe
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Join date: 26 Oct 2006
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Up to date manual page is on the wiki:
09-14-2009 09:44
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