A necklace question.

I need a bit of advice on making a necklace. So far the necklace pieces have been made using small textured prims to great effect. But what I need is a method of joining these prims with small gold or silver links so it looks like a fine chain or string. I wont be able to get a prim small enough diameter to do this. The only method I can think of is a small flat prim with the chain texture on it and transparent either side of the chain. Has anyone any other ideas?

Could the techniques to make tiny prims explained in this thread help?

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If you hollow the cylinder of Example #4 I think you can have a smaller ring than 0.01*0.01*0.01. I'm not good at making tiny stuff so I'm not really sure this is tiny enough for a necklace chain... Hope this information is what you're looking for

For a small & slightly curved string, try tapering a thin, stretched torus and cutting away most of the prim except the tip. For a small & straight string, use a small tube, hollow & advance cut so you only have the central core left, and increase hole size y until it's as thin as desired.

For a small chain link, either hollow & cut a torus to keep only a "slice" of it, or use a hollow tube and "advance cut" most of it away, except a thin slice of the central core; then use "hole size y" to regulate the diameter. Be warned though that neither torus nor tube slices look particularly "true to life" but rather like a thin ring made of paper, so if you're going for a photorealistic look, a flat prim with a good texture is the way to go (and will spare you a lot of fiddling to get those chain links to fall and drape in a realistic way ) Feel free to IM me in-world if the explanation is unclear.