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can object be bigger on inside than on out?

LoxMyth Bourne
Registered User
Join date: 21 Feb 2007
Posts: 1
07-01-2007 11:13
I want to build a box, about the size of a frigde, and when you go in it (not that you'd go in a fridge), it's about the size of a luxury bathroom. Is this possible? Any pointers? Can I get someone to do it for me?

Thanks,

LMB
Al Sonic
Builder Furiend
Join date: 13 Jun 2006
Posts: 162
Well I love the imagination there.
07-01-2007 12:30
Unless you're going to make the fridge-sized object suddenly rez a whole room around you, the solution here is for it to have a clickable door scripted to instantly teleport anyone who clicks to 'enter' the doorway, so that the visitor ends up inside a larger room elsewhere (e.g., up in the sky) that looks it could be the inside of that box. The script used for this, if I recall right, is a sit script with an assigned sit position up to 300m away from the object, and an instruction to eject people after they "sit" (just so that they're -standing- on the 'other side of the door', not sitting). This has been used to great effect to create soundproof basements in the sky.

So while you can't actually stretch the very fabric of space like that in SL, the art of illusion can still be practiced to great effect.
Alyx Sands
Mental Mentor Linguist
Join date: 17 Feb 2007
Posts: 2,432
07-01-2007 14:17
It's called a TARDIS! :D
Eben Slade
If the wind stops, row!
Join date: 17 May 2007
Posts: 146
07-01-2007 14:40
From: Al Sonic
...the solution here is for it to have a clickable door scripted to instantly teleport anyone who clicks to 'enter' the doorway, so that the visitor ends up inside a larger room elsewhere....


Another solution would be to play with textures in Photoshop or a similar program. Use a prim to make a large room, and "path cut" it to leave a doorway big enough for your fridge. Using snapshots taken in game, you can make textures to go on the outside of this room; textures that show what the casual viewer would see if the box were invisible. On the hollow inside of your room, you can texture it differently.

If your refridgerator were a zero and the floor of your TARDIS made of dots, your room might look like this when viewed from above:

__________
|...............|
|...............|
|...............|
L________0
Daz Honey
Fine, Fine Artist
Join date: 27 Jun 2005
Posts: 599
07-01-2007 16:30
wow, great ideas here!