Anyone willing to divulge a trade secret?!?! 8O

Hi all.
Recently, I've noticed a great deal of beautiful "fuzzy" textures floating around on items lately. Some examples of what I'm talking about are sweaters or jackets, muffs, fur collars, hats, etc. It looks to me, when I highlight the object, that it is made of several flat rectangular prims with possibly a radial gradient from white to transparent (like a burst effect).

Because I am such a cheap-o, and wanting to avoid the numerous upload fees it would take for me to explore this technique, I was wondering:

a) Does anyone know what the heck I'm talking about?
b) Does anyone know how this is actually done?

Thanks for your help!

- Pyxel

How about posting a screenshot? Many here can explain multiple techniques for creating just about anything. Post a pic, and I'm sure you'll get tons of answers for how to make it yourself.

I *think* I know what you're talking about. If I'm correct, then it's simply one texture made to look like fur (a texture with transparent edges created using an alpha channel).

If this is he case,then follow these steps for a basic fur ball (use cubes/rectangles for longer versions):
- rez a cylinder prim and torment it until it is flat like a pancake.
- add the texture, then copy the prim twice so that you have 3 identical prims.
- Place them together so that they share the same x,y,z coordinates
- Rotate one about 15 degrees, then the second one about 15 degrees further so that looking down on it, they look like a pie without the outer circle (AKA a star).
- Link
- Rinse, and repeat

This is the same way you would make prim plants and trees.

I'll try to post a pic so that this will be a little clearer than mud.

ETA: I've attached a snapshot. I've used only 3 prims here, but I've seen it done using 4 or 5. Make the edges transparent, but I've left the color (white) on this example so that you can see how they intersect.

ETA II: just looked over in the building forum...and this thread has some info you may find interesting!
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Best,
~Ari

Yep, Arikinui! That's it! Thank you for your insight!

- Pyxel