Thanks in advance,
Perre..
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Perre Anatine
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10-30-2007 06:30
I wonder if anyone out there could point me in the direction of some posting/literature/handout/advice sheet/anything dealing with the creation of flexible materials (even some advice here would be gratefully received). By flexible materials I mean; hair/clothing/add-ons that flap about/trees and plants that sway when moved, things like that. I have a little building project that requires a number of flexible components that would be improved by a bit of movement and I don't even know where to start on this one.
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Novis Dyrssen
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Join date: 6 May 2007
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10-30-2007 06:32
Actually, what you're talking about are simply flexible prims with the according textures.
Try the Ivory Tower inworld for a great rundown on prims, including how to handle the flex ones. _____________________
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Lord Berchot
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Join date: 29 Dec 2006
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10-30-2007 06:45
There is an awesome video on Youtube about how to make Flexiprims. I don't have the URL but just search for "Fexi" and "Second Life" you should find it. Great stuff!
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Sylvia Trilling
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Join date: 2 Oct 2006
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10-30-2007 07:15
Torley Linden has an entertaining tutorial on flexis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuBlYNcZdrg |
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Perre Anatine
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Join date: 6 Jun 2007
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10-30-2007 07:54
You can always rely on the 'Resident Answers Forum' to deliver the goods..top advice gang..thanks very much for those..
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Bree Giffen
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Join date: 22 Jun 2006
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10-30-2007 08:45
NCI had this great class on flexi. I took it a while ago so I'm not sure if they still have it. They explained what each of those flexi settings did... very useful.
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Crystal Falcon
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Join date: 9 Aug 2006
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10-30-2007 11:31
Here's info I'd saved when I read it so long ago in this post in the building forum...
 [12:49] You: ok Cal, what you got to imagine is that a flexi prim is like the tuning on your cars suspension [12:49] Cal Alexander: okay [12:50] You: softness is a whole number from 0 to 3 [12:50] You: generally stick to 2, as 3 uses more polygons than is really nessesary [12:50] Cal Alexander: ok [12:51] You: although you can play around with that to get what you want [12:51] Cal Alexander: kk [12:51] You: gravity you'll need for dresses [12:51] Cal Alexander: yes [12:51] You: otherwise they'll float over the girls head [12:52] You: drag is the dampening effect, how long it takes for the "top" to catch up [12:52] Cal Alexander: ok good, this is what I wanted to know *s* [12:52] You: high number takes longer [12:52] You: low number moves faster [12:52] Cal Alexander: got it *s* [12:52] You: wind does exactly what it says on the tin [12:53] You: the larger the number, the more influence [12:53] You: tension is like the spring in your suspension [12:53] You: high number doesn't allow for much movement [12:53] You: low number gets pretty loose [12:53] Cal Alexander: good ty *s* [12:54] You: and the force values can be used to push the "top" around [12:54] You: which is what I use on my "flexi-hedra" [12:54] Cal Alexander: top of prim? [12:55] You: yeah, if you don't rotate the prim then the "top" is the free end [+ve z] [12:55] You: and the "bottom" is the fixed face [-ve z] [12:55] Cal Alexander: need to rotate *s* [12:55] You: yeah, you'll want the fixed end at the waist to be a dress [12:56] You: like so ... [12:58] You: smaller prims (along the z-axis) don't move as much as longer ones [12:58] Cal Alexander: god you just gave me documentation [12:59] You: =) [13:00] Cal Alexander: man you were a big help *s* [13:01] You: I'm going to copy and paste our convo into your thread [13:01] Cal Alexander: great [13:01] You: incase its useful to anyone else [13:01] Cal Alexander: it will be _____________________
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Conifer Dada
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10-30-2007 14:20
Some of the basic prim shapes can be made flexi, others can't - that is they have one fixed end from which the prim flexes if you set it to 'flexi' under the features tab. You can only link a flexi prim meaningfully to another prim by its fixed end.
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Perre Anatine
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10-30-2007 21:50
Some of the basic prim shapes can be made flexi, others can't - that is they have one fixed end from which the prim flexes if you set it to 'flexi' under the features tab. You can only link a flexi prim meaningfully to another prim by its fixed end. You know you can spend months building, modelling, experimenting and generally learning how to do things. Then every now and again you find something that makes you go "wow..that's incredible". This was one of those 'wow' moments..I didn't even know 'Flexible Path' box even existed, the possibilities are endless. Thanks Conifer, those two sentences just shifted my understanding of SL building forward...clean over the horizon. Perre.. _____________________
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Ericka Nemeth
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10-30-2007 22:47
NCI has great flexi skirt and flexi hair classes. You do have to take the Building Basics class before you take it.
To find them in-world, click on search, type NCI and select "educational" then click search. It will give you a listing of upcoming classes for the next few days. _____________________
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Claire Silverspar
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10-31-2007 03:41
Try the following blog. I have found natalia's tutorials extremely easy to follow. She has covered a lot of subjects.
http://slnatalia.blogspot.com/2007/07/day-286-creating-flexi-prims-tutorial.html Hope this helps |
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Howard Sachs
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10-31-2007 15:40
I second that. Natalie's blog is great (even for us men). Doing the tutorials is fun, you learn a lot from it and the end product often is good enough to put it up for sale (with a little more work, if anything but to give it a personal touch).
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