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Sabane Talamasca

Registered User

Join date: 25 Sep 2005

Posts: 56

10-01-2005 18:44

I just spent hours working on some glasses...i rezed normal prims and enlarged them so i could really work on the details and now i can't scale them down to human like proportions!...they go about as small as my body!...also if i scale it up the pieces no longer align...

is there some way to be able to scale my glasses down to the right size without having to take each piece and scale it down individually? cause if not it would take me AT LEAST a month to do that and align all the pieces!

BamBam Sachertorte

floral engineer

Join date: 12 Jul 2005

Posts: 228

10-01-2005 18:50

Unless you resort to prim torture you can't make a prim smaller than 0.01m in any dimension. This means that an object can't be shrunk past the point at which one of its prims is smaller than 0.01m. I think you are going to have to build your specs at their target size.

BTW, what is that amazing thing you are building in the Obscure sandbox?

Torley Linden

Enlightenment!

Join date: 15 Sep 2004

Posts: 16,530

10-01-2005 18:51

Easy tip is this: check prims to see if any have a narrowest dimension of ---> 0.010 <---

If any do, thicken it up as much as you can, make a copy of the set to experiment, and see how much you can further scale it down.

That's a key to building in normal size and microscaling later.

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Forseti Svarog

ESC

Join date: 2 Nov 2004

Posts: 1,730

10-01-2005 22:19

when working small, i always recommend starting as small as you can and then enlarging if needed. When you start big and try to shrink, any prim in the linked set that hits the .01 minimum will prevent the resize from going smaller.

for now, you can try hunting down the problem prims and slightly enlarging them, but that only really will help if are close to the final size and just need to go a little bit smaller.

are you familiar with the dimpling and cutting techniques used to make really small and really thin prims? (smaller and thinner than .01). Zuzi posted a great thread on it months ago and i can try to dig up the link if you want to read it.

at the end of the day, I always say try to build it at the size you want, rather than trying to scale and hoping that SL grows or shrinks your prims and prim placements cleanly.

Sabane Talamasca

Registered User

Join date: 25 Sep 2005

Posts: 56

10-02-2005 13:17

thx for all the advice guys. Guess i'll just start over, lesson learned at least

BamBam: not sure what exactly your talking about that i was building, I always have something on the go.

Just realized i posted in the wrong forums, was supposed to be building, o well.

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Sabane Talamasca Registered User Join date: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 56	10-01-2005 18:44 I just spent hours working on some glasses...i rezed normal prims and enlarged them so i could really work on the details and now i can't scale them down to human like proportions!...they go about as small as my body!...also if i scale it up the pieces no longer align... is there some way to be able to scale my glasses down to the right size without having to take each piece and scale it down individually? cause if not it would take me AT LEAST a month to do that and align all the pieces!
BamBam Sachertorte floral engineer Join date: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 228	10-01-2005 18:50 Unless you resort to prim torture you can't make a prim smaller than 0.01m in any dimension. This means that an object can't be shrunk past the point at which one of its prims is smaller than 0.01m. I think you are going to have to build your specs at their target size. BTW, what is that amazing thing you are building in the Obscure sandbox?
Torley Linden Enlightenment! Join date: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 16,530	10-01-2005 18:51 Easy tip is this: check prims to see if any have a narrowest dimension of ---> 0.010 <--- If any do, thicken it up as much as you can, make a copy of the set to experiment, and see how much you can further scale it down. That's a key to building in normal size and microscaling later. _____________________
Forseti Svarog ESC Join date: 2 Nov 2004 Posts: 1,730	10-01-2005 22:19 when working small, i always recommend starting as small as you can and then enlarging if needed. When you start big and try to shrink, any prim in the linked set that hits the .01 minimum will prevent the resize from going smaller. for now, you can try hunting down the problem prims and slightly enlarging them, but that only really will help if are close to the final size and just need to go a little bit smaller. are you familiar with the dimpling and cutting techniques used to make really small and really thin prims? (smaller and thinner than .01). Zuzi posted a great thread on it months ago and i can try to dig up the link if you want to read it. at the end of the day, I always say try to build it at the size you want, rather than trying to scale and hoping that SL grows or shrinks your prims and prim placements cleanly.
Sabane Talamasca Registered User Join date: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 56	10-02-2005 13:17 thx for all the advice guys. Guess i'll just start over, lesson learned at least BamBam: not sure what exactly your talking about that i was building, I always have something on the go. Just realized i posted in the wrong forums, was supposed to be building, o well.