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Reitsuki Kojima

Witchhunter

Join date: 27 Jan 2004

Posts: 5,328

03-02-2006 04:03

While *I* wouldn't charge for it, its every bit as valid a service as anything else in SL.

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Eep Quirk

Absolutely Relative

Join date: 15 Dec 2004

Posts: 1,211

03-02-2006 04:18

From: Sky Roundfield

The pentagon would be a challenge for anyone to duplicate.

Box (all defaults except): cut (b: .4, e: .6), 65 triangle hollow

AJ DaSilva

woz ere

Join date: 15 Jun 2005

Posts: 1,993

03-02-2006 04:30

From: Eep Quirk

Box (all defaults except): cut (b: .4, e: .6), 65 hollow

What? You're just picking random rumbers out of the air now.

Eep Quirk

Absolutely Relative

Join date: 15 Dec 2004

Posts: 1,211

03-02-2006 04:34

Oops; forgot triangle hollow.

I edited the post so if you delete your reply, I'll delete mine.

AJ DaSilva

woz ere

Join date: 15 Jun 2005

Posts: 1,993

03-02-2006 04:36

From: Eep Quirk

Oops; forgot triangle hollow.

I edited the post so if you delete your reply, I'll delete mine.

And loose the extra +1 on my postcount?!?

Okay, sounds more reasonable now. Gonna check just to make sure though.

AJ DaSilva

woz ere

Join date: 15 Jun 2005

Posts: 1,993

03-02-2006 04:43

"It's good, but it's not the one."

Check the angles on the original - none of them look 90° to me...

Sarah Balderdash

Applesauce Unlimited

Join date: 13 Dec 2005

Posts: 28

03-02-2006 07:07

I don't think prim twisting classes or tools or are silly at all. Sure, personal experimentation with prim parameters is fun and educational, but a class, or a tool, or a stroll through a sculpture gallery can be a great starting point. I enjoy seeing the shapes others have acheived by manipulating a single prim.

In fact, I just picked up a prim twisting tool at Vlad's New World Gallery last night and I can't wait to spend a few hours noodling with it. I personally wouldn't pay BIG L$ for prim parameters, but if someone offered a library of starter shapes or a prim parameter "cheat sheet" for under L$10 I'd buy it.

Eep Quirk

Absolutely Relative

Join date: 15 Dec 2004

Posts: 1,211

03-02-2006 07:21

From: AJ DaSilva

Check the angles on the original - none of them look 90° to me...

The top is 90 degrees. Turn your head and you'll see the angles aren't perfect on Sky's. cut b: 42 (annoyingly rounds down to .419), e: .58, 80 hollow look a bit better but it's still not perfect.

Static Sprocket

Registered User

Join date: 10 Feb 2006

Posts: 157

03-02-2006 07:24

From: Eep Quirk

PAY for prim parameters? That's just silly.

All it takes is some experimentation...

Exactly and experimentation takes time. I'm a scripter, not a builder -- I have no desire to spend hours and hours trying to figure out how to make shape X out of a single prim when I can just pay someone L$25 -- or some other small amount for it.

But then again, I personally think most things in SL are priced rediculously low -- there are many things in-game that I would be willing to pay 2x or 3x the amount they're currently listed for. In many cases, if it'll take a few hours of frustration to figure something out -- I'd rather pay someone else $L1,000 to do it. And for custom designs, I've seen people charge just a few hundred linden for custom items that take hours to build -- personally, I'll pay at least $7USD/hr for custom work.

Assuming of course it's not something I have fun doing, like scripting -- where I don't mind if it takes me all day to do something simple

To each their own.

AJ DaSilva

woz ere

Join date: 15 Jun 2005

Posts: 1,993

03-02-2006 07:30

From: Eep Quirk

The top is 90 degrees. Turn your head and you'll see the angles aren't perfect on Sky's. cut b: 42 (annoying rounds down to .419), e: .58, 80 hollow look a bit better but it's still not perfect.

Heh, I did turn my head - it still looked bigger to me. I rotated it in Photoshop and you're absolutely right though.

Screenshots of some odd prims
Reitsuki Kojima Witchhunter Join date: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 5,328	03-02-2006 04:03 While I wouldn't charge for it, its every bit as valid a service as anything else in SL. _____________________ I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us.
Eep Quirk Absolutely Relative Join date: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 1,211	03-02-2006 04:18 From: Sky Roundfield The pentagon would be a challenge for anyone to duplicate. Box (all defaults except): cut (b: .4, e: .6), 65 triangle hollow
AJ DaSilva woz ere Join date: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1,993	03-02-2006 04:30 From: Eep Quirk Box (all defaults except): cut (b: .4, e: .6), 65 hollow What? You're just picking random rumbers out of the air now.
Eep Quirk Absolutely Relative Join date: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 1,211	03-02-2006 04:34 Oops; forgot triangle hollow. I edited the post so if you delete your reply, I'll delete mine.
AJ DaSilva woz ere Join date: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1,993	03-02-2006 04:36 From: Eep Quirk Oops; forgot triangle hollow. I edited the post so if you delete your reply, I'll delete mine. And loose the extra +1 on my postcount?!? Okay, sounds more reasonable now. Gonna check just to make sure though.
AJ DaSilva woz ere Join date: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1,993	03-02-2006 04:43 "It's good, but it's not the one." Check the angles on the original - none of them look 90° to me...
Sarah Balderdash Applesauce Unlimited Join date: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 28	03-02-2006 07:07 I don't think prim twisting classes or tools or are silly at all. Sure, personal experimentation with prim parameters is fun and educational, but a class, or a tool, or a stroll through a sculpture gallery can be a great starting point. I enjoy seeing the shapes others have acheived by manipulating a single prim. In fact, I just picked up a prim twisting tool at Vlad's New World Gallery last night and I can't wait to spend a few hours noodling with it. I personally wouldn't pay BIG L$ for prim parameters, but if someone offered a library of starter shapes or a prim parameter "cheat sheet" for under L$10 I'd buy it.
Eep Quirk Absolutely Relative Join date: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 1,211	03-02-2006 07:21 From: AJ DaSilva Check the angles on the original - none of them look 90° to me... The top is 90 degrees. Turn your head and you'll see the angles aren't perfect on Sky's. cut b: 42 (annoyingly rounds down to .419), e: .58, 80 hollow look a bit better but it's still not perfect.
Static Sprocket Registered User Join date: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 157	03-02-2006 07:24 From: Eep Quirk PAY for prim parameters? That's just silly. All it takes is some experimentation... Exactly and experimentation takes time. I'm a scripter, not a builder -- I have no desire to spend hours and hours trying to figure out how to make shape X out of a single prim when I can just pay someone L$25 -- or some other small amount for it. But then again, I personally think most things in SL are priced rediculously low -- there are many things in-game that I would be willing to pay 2x or 3x the amount they're currently listed for. In many cases, if it'll take a few hours of frustration to figure something out -- I'd rather pay someone else $L1,000 to do it. And for custom designs, I've seen people charge just a few hundred linden for custom items that take hours to build -- personally, I'll pay at least $7USD/hr for custom work. Assuming of course it's not something I have fun doing, like scripting -- where I don't mind if it takes me all day to do something simple To each their own.
AJ DaSilva woz ere Join date: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1,993	03-02-2006 07:30 From: Eep Quirk The top is 90 degrees. Turn your head and you'll see the angles aren't perfect on Sky's. cut b: 42 (annoying rounds down to .419), e: .58, 80 hollow look a bit better but it's still not perfect. Heh, I did turn my head - it still looked bigger to me. I rotated it in Photoshop and you're absolutely right though.

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