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Leonn Rubio
Rebmem Roines
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 113
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03-24-2004 12:18
I'd really love to have a grid that I could edit. The current grid is great for making big objects with relatively low detail but making little objects or fine detail snap to things is hard work! Also snapping should happen on objects too. By selecting that you want to snap to the corners, center of the sides or dead center of the prim or object. Prims need a cut begin, middle and end. The middle would be an offset to rotate the cut so you can have doors in the middle of a wall instead of using 2 cubes for the same effect. I'd like to see solid constructive geometry in prims too but I know it would involve a lot of work on the graphics engine.  |
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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03-24-2004 12:28
Tools > Grid Options or Ctrl-Shift-B.
The "Grid Options" button really should be on the Edit window though. Come on, Lindens, there's enough room next to "Show Grid" and "Snap To Grid" for a "Settings" button... isn't there?
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Kedamono Onizuka
Member
Join date: 27 Jan 2004
Posts: 16
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Re: Helpful building tools and extended prim properties
03-24-2004 12:30
To add to your list, I'd love to be able to edit properties of objects in a linked group without unlinking group.
That or allow for the linking of linked groups together and the groups stay as groups when you unlink.
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Oz Spade
ReadsNoPostLongerThanHand
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,708
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03-24-2004 14:04
For more grid options, I'd like the ability to change the units of the grid, so you can get a smaller grid to snap objects too. I.e. Units of 4, units of 16, etc. How some editors have it where you can change the square sizes of the grid.
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Leonn Rubio
Rebmem Roines
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 113
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03-24-2004 14:59
From: someone Originally posted by Catherine Omega
Tools > Grid Options or Ctrl-Shift-B.
The "Grid Options" button really should be on the Edit window though. Come on, Lindens, there's enough room next to "Show Grid" and "Snap To Grid" for a "Settings" button... isn't there? /bow /bow /bow Thank you so much... I feel kinda silly now. Sounds like that's exactly what you wanted Oz. |
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Edmund Zaius
Member
Join date: 18 Mar 2004
Posts: 35
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Snap to Prim
03-25-2004 05:11
There could be a feature (on/off toggled) that prims snap to one another, for outside surfaces, edges and points.
My main complaint about the modelling tools is that they are too slow to work with. The interface is almost perfectly functional, but it is ponderous to work with because one has to keep switching back and forth from camera to edit boxes, and the camera controls are clumsy.
Big bug: when I have multiple objects selected, the edit size/location should be for all objects as a group, not the last object selected. IE the numbers should match the axes that are drawn.
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Catherine Omega
Geometry Ninja
Join date: 10 Jan 2003
Posts: 2,053
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03-25-2004 10:42
Oz, that's what ctrl-shift-B does.
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Oz Spade
ReadsNoPostLongerThanHand
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
Posts: 2,708
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03-27-2004 16:12
Thanks for pointing that out, thats exactly what I wanted.
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