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ahrenwind Marama
Registered User
Join date: 5 Oct 2006
Posts: 1
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12-30-2006 06:01
How can i make a big round building. I have plans to make a round city covering 3/4 of a sim. What techniques can i use to make circles (a wall around the city is the biggest) and circle form buildings?
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Malachi Petunia
Gentle Miscreant
Join date: 21 Sep 2003
Posts: 3,414
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12-30-2006 07:13
You might find Siefert's Surface Rezzer to be helpful - although a tad complicated.
There was a "make a sim sized torus" script but I forgot who wrote it or what it was called. It was impressive and exactly what you want; anyone remember? _____________________
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Seifert Surface
Mathematician
Join date: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 912
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12-30-2006 10:16
Look up Cadroe Murphy's tools, should be possible to find them through his profile, or I think Vlad Bjornsson has them at his prim twisters museum in Bembecia.
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Josh Spire
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Join date: 2 Dec 2006
Posts: 4
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12-30-2006 13:48
Yehhhh man just buy a big prim.. shop www.SLexchange.com
make it hollow, add a square as the entrance.. make the square run all the way through the wall make it invisible, then phantom..  Genius..Josh Spire. i can do the entrance and the invisible thing if you want.. |
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Seifert Surface
Mathematician
Join date: 14 Jun 2005
Posts: 912
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12-30-2006 14:27
Unfortunately the mega prims do not work well with physics. If they are not phantom, your avatar collides with a cube of the size of the mega prim, no matter if the shape you choose is something else, or if it is hollowed, cut, etc. So unless your building is meant to be phantom, I doubt this would be a viable option.
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Fire Centaur
Creator
Join date: 2 Nov 2006
Posts: 149
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huge prims tricks
02-14-2007 10:42
Ive been told by various developers that there are trips to making huge prims work.
Id like to accomplish the same things... any ideas? _____________________
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Abraham Attenborough
Registered User
Join date: 4 Feb 2007
Posts: 96
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02-15-2007 03:25
take a big sphere and use the cut and hollow funktions to build concave-brick-prims, play a bit with the tool to put them together.
dont know if u heard about prim.blender. its much easier to build with that tool if u get some practice with it. u can import them into sl with this tool. *edit: Found another post here |
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Winter Ventura
Eclectic Randomness
Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,579
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02-15-2007 04:34
Ive been told by various developers that there are trips to making huge prims work. Id like to accomplish the same things... any ideas? Here's what I posted in another thread.. regarding a sphere. I have hollowed non-phantom boxes successfully using 25% sections. Once I got the "Huge Prims" pack.. I was determined to try and find some responsible ways to use them. I did a great deal of work with boxes and cylanders.. but I haven't done much with spheres. But based on some of my experiences with the cylander, I was determined to find a way to make the sphere work and still be physical.. So I did some experimenting using the 40x40x40 sphere. dimple the sphere | B: 0.50 | E: 1.0 | (half a sphere) path cut. | B:0.80 | E 1.00 | (1/5th section) Hollow | 95 | Now.. Clone 5 times, rotate each as follows: 1. | x: 0.00 | y: 90.00 | z: 0.00 | 2. | x: 270.00 | y: 18.00 | z: 90.00 | 3. | x: 270.00 | y: 306.00 | z: 90.00 | 4. | x: 90.00 | y: 306.00 | z: 270.00 | 5. | x: 90.00 | y: 18.00 | z: 270.00 | You now have a dome. Now we need to make the bottom half (assuming you need a sphere.) Select all 5, and clone again. 6. | x: 0.00 | y: 270.00 | z: 0.00 | 7. | x: 90.00 | y: 342.00 | z: 90.00 | 8. | x: 90.00 | y: 54.00 | z: 90.00 | 9. | x: 270.00 | y: 54.00 | z: 270.00 | 10. | x: 270.00 | y: 342.00 | z: 270.00 | This has been tested to work with the 40x40x40 "Huge Prim" sphere. Your mileage may vary. _____________________
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Lee Ponzu
What Would Steve Do?
Join date: 28 Jun 2006
Posts: 1,770
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ShapeGen .95
02-15-2007 10:22
This is Cadroe Murphy's creation. It will create great circular walls for you. I have some concerns about the total size you need, though.
I am an avid amateur builder. I would be happy to come to your site and see what I can do for you. lee |