Small ROUND things are not ROUND what to do??
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PetGirl Bergman
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07-12-2005 01:21
I have created small round spotlights.. but they dont look round until I am very close to them... I dont like that  ) What can I do to improve the round feeling.. Next are that I want them to look like a spot.. a kind of light beam to be seen in front of them... some here that can tell me how to make such??? A happy Pet (Tina).. payday today )) |
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Kris Ritter
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07-12-2005 01:33
It sounds like your object detail draw preferences are set low? Try moving the slider up to max and see if that helps?
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PetGirl Bergman
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07-12-2005 01:47
Some better but not good.. tks anyway.. !
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07-12-2005 02:00
try higher draw distance too but depending on your system cud slow ur game down
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PetGirl Bergman
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07-12-2005 02:08
No sorry dident help at all.... tks anyway... Shall we blame my humble Mac system? ) Got a new comp - G5 - 2*2,5, 4 GIG memory and a 23 tums Apple screen?..... 256 card a 9800 Special edition Pro version card,,, Cant be that? Can it? By a PC maybe?  DDD Yes I am a brat ( DD) - brother gave it to me... I owe him to make him 104 Sunday dinners.. 98 still left... |
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Kris Ritter
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07-12-2005 02:18
you wuz robbed! 2 years of sunday dinners? or over 200 hours to work off paying for a computer?! and he's your brother?! If I were you I'd renegotiate the deal while it's still early enough to do so Either that, or work the 200 hours for someone who'll actually pay you a wage, and buy a MUCH better computer |
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PetGirl Bergman
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07-12-2005 02:22
From: Kris Ritter you wuz robbed! 2 years of sunday dinners? or over 200 hours to work off paying for a computer?! and he's your brother?! If I were you I'd renegotiate the deal while it's still early enough to do so Either that, or work the 200 hours for someone who'll actually pay you a wage, and buy a MUCH better computer Tell me what a better comp are and I maybe can do a change of that part )) Dinners we do every Sunday anyway.. and all are helping.. No its not a collective living but a very good collective ideea.-)) |
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Caliandris Pendragon
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ta daaaa!
07-12-2005 03:03
You will find that if you add a little twist to round things, they become round again.
It is only at small sizes that the problem occurs. Someone taught me this trick, but I think they learned it from the Ivory Tower of Primitives tutorial.
Cali
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PetGirl Bergman
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07-12-2005 03:12
..sorry now I got lost in my English.. ”add a little twist”.... hmmmm can you pls explain that to me..
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Caliandris Pendragon
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07-12-2005 03:20
Sorry...if you have an object like a cylinder, right click to edit, choose the object page of the edit menu, by clicking the tab along the middle. There is a setting, "twist begin and end". Just set it at 9 say, in the twist begin box, and then look at your object. You will find that it goes from bumpy to smoothly round with just that little bit of twist. Cali |
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PetGirl Bergman
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07-12-2005 03:27
Wow tks now I am with you.. !!! TKS!!! The Ivory Tower are a great place-... to little about it in forum - all that are in SL should be there several hours/days )) |
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PetGirl Bergman
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07-12-2005 03:32
DID IT!!!!!! Looks nice now.. !!!
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Frans Charming
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07-12-2005 04:11
Thanks for the suggestion, Caliandris. |
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Racer Plisskin
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07-15-2005 17:57
From: Caliandris Pendragon Sorry...if you have an object like a cylinder, right click to edit, choose the object page of the edit menu, by clicking the tab along the middle. There is a setting, "twist begin and end". Just set it at 9 say, in the twist begin box, and then look at your object. You will find that it goes from bumpy to smoothly round with just that little bit of twist. Cali What's happening is that the twisted object uses many more triangles to define the shape then the basic object does. This translates to a more defined shape in the rendered object as it has more datapoints to work with when it's rendered. The downside is the larger amount of data required to define the object in the rendering engine on the client side. As long as it's used sparingly for important detail objects, it should be fine. Twisting too many objects in a given area will give the video cards on client machines a workout similar to what happens with the wilder, fancy hairdoos. Another thing to try besides twisting is to simply rotate the circular object a few degrees. This seems to make the object come into 'focus' sooner as you approach it without the extra complexity cost but is not as effective at the twist method (It's possible this may be video card dependant as well as they may handle the rendering differently on various hardware) -Racer P.
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