texture question

Im fairly new at building and have a house that I rezzed and I made some porch steps. I was wondering how do I copy the texture from the porch and apply it to my newly made steps?

If you have a copy of the texture in your inventory, simply edit the steps, click on the More button on the Editor to show the full window, and then click on the Texture tab. From there, use the texture picker to apply the texture to your steps.

If you don't have the texture in your inventory, but you have full permissions on the house, you might be able to use the eyedropper tool to pick up the texture, and apply it to the steps. I'm not quite sure about that one, though. Since I've got almost nothing inventory that I didn't make myself, I don't really have an item to test with.

You could also try contacting the creator of the house, and asking him/her either to give you a copy of the texture or to apply it to your steps for you. You might get lucky. If he/she says no, though, then you must honor that decision. The creator of the house has every right not to allow you to take his/her texture and use it on your own work. Copyright is important.

That's not to say unscrupulous individuals don't steal people's textures anyway. It happens. I'm not going to explain how, though. Hopefully no one else will either.

Chosen, if the texture is not in inventory to begin with, the eyedropper will not find it and add it to the item.

But if the house has modify rights, you can pull the prim off of the house that has the texture and use it to make your stairs. It will show the original creator for that prim and will have the original rights as that prim. If your original home is no copy, I would recommend against it as you will destroy the look of the original structure and you'd end up with a hole in that area of the build.

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