Prims

Anyone here who know how to work with prims?

Nawty

'Work with prims' in what way?

What you're talking about is probably more at home in the Building forum, and many residents (Myself included) know how to work with prims.

If you _are_ talking about texturing, then can you specifiy what you mean?

Building Forum URL:
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Nawty, your question is impossibly vague right now. So you know, prims are the building blocks of almost all things in Second Life. Asking "does anyone know how to work with prims" is like asking if anyone in real life knows how to work with matter. The answer is that while everyone knows how to do at least SOMETHING that could fit that description (heck, breathing is "working with matter", it's likely no one will have any idea what you're actually trying to ask. "Working with prims" could mean anything.

Can you be more specific? What exactly are you trying to find out how to do?

Sorry, LOL tired bug got me last night


I am making clothing but I want to learn how to do skirts, and prim dresses, I have tried to use the Loop Rez, and the tutorial but they don't work when I try to wear it after linking it together

Nawty

You could try going to the Ivory Tower of Prims, there are many free tutorials which will help you learn what is possible to do with prims.
Just type in search and you will find it.

oops Nawty replied while I was typing, ignore my suggestion

Don't work how? Angled wrong? Dangles wrong? Something else altogether?

To wear an object you've made:

Make sure you've named it something easy to find, then right click and Take Into Inventory. (Or More, then Take Copy).

Then, in your inventory, right click it and select Attach To, then the point you want to attach it to. Most common for skirts, I believe, are stomach and pelvis.

Once it's attached, right click and edit it, and use the 3d manipulator to place and rotate it correctly.

After that, you can take it off and the next time just select 'Wear' when you right click it in inventory, rather than Attach To.

Don't be surprised if the skirt doesn't fit perfectly when you go through the steps that Keira just described. Getting a skirt to sit properly on your hips, not expose your tail end when you bend and walk, and lie flat against your stomach, are very delicate adjustments. Unfortunately, most women in SL never learn how to do them properly, so they wander around looking as if they slept in their nice clothes.

At a minimum, the first time you attach your new skirt you will need to move it up and down experimentally to find out where the waist should be (while you are standing on a pose stand, of course). You may need to rotate it slightly forward from the waist to get it to clear your tail end -- something that you can only decide by camming around and then watching yourself as you change poses. You may also decide that the hem needs to be lengthened or shortened.

The trickier adjustments are usually at the hips. Unless you are VERY lucky, you'll find that some skirt panels on your hips either dive into your hips or float in mid-air as you move. To fix that, you will need to rotate and move individual panels very carefully (be sure that you do this in the Local reference frame, not the World frame). Finally, you will not be able to tell how the skirt flows as you walk until you have it adjusted properly. At that point, you may need to go into edit mode again and adjust the flexi parameters in each skirt panel individually so that the skirt doesn't look like it's flying away in the wind. (Personally, I prefer to use a very low wind setting, a moderate tension setting, and fairly high gravity and Z force settings. Those keep the panels under control and make a skirt swish pleasantly, I've found. EVeryone has different preferences, though, and it does depend on the style of your skirt.)

Creating a skirt, in retrospect, can turn out to be the easy part. I truly believe that the difference between a "nice" skirt and one that looks great on you is in the final fitting -- just like in RL. Be patient and learn how to do it right.

Have fun.

NCI teaches a free class in world on making prim skirts, just search New Citizens International and zip over there for a class schedule

I thought it was Incorporated, not International?

At any rate, you can search for NCI and find it, you don't need to know what it really stands for ^-^

it is lol, brainfart

At the main NCI campuses (Kuula, Hamnida, Fisherman's Cove, and Caledon Oxbridge), there is also an SL Basics board. Find that board, touch the 'Clothing' option, and open the notecards in the folder you receive from it.

There's a tutorial on making prim skirts in there.

You can also check Natalia's blog, "Mermaid Diaries", which has lots of clothes making tutorials, including one on flexi skirts.
http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/

http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2007/07/day-286-creating-flexi-prims-tutorial.html
http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/12/day-97-making-flexi-prim-skirts-with.html
http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2007/12/day-433-flexi-skirt-part-2-self.html