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Making a billboard, how to?
Bhati Latte
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Join date: 28 Nov 2007
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12-08-2007 12:36
Hello All,

I need to make a display sign (like a small billboard).
Is only way to display text on it is to apply an image texture or is there any other way? I need this display to be changed regularly (it’s a sign post for a music venue).

Thank you in advance for your input.

B.Latte
Justa Meness
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Join date: 10 Jul 2007
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12-08-2007 13:26
I will drop you one inworld now it is open source and all you do is put your text on a notecard and it displays it on the board.

Ill drop it in your inventory now Bhati.
Its called: Skidz Partz - Informative

Justa
Bhati Latte
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12-08-2007 14:17
Thanks Justa, I am going inworld now
Justa Meness
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12-08-2007 15:53
Hope you got it buddie, and hope its what your looking for. and free to not bad hu? ... :)

take care buddie

Justa.
Stone Gynoid
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Join date: 25 Jun 2007
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any further information?
12-09-2007 03:11
I am also looking for the same-any info or where i can get it inworld?
thanks
Stone
Bhati Latte
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Join date: 28 Nov 2007
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12-09-2007 10:59
Hey Justa,

Yes I got it and thank you. But not sure how to get it going. The "readme" notecard wasn't very clear to me. What would be the steps to take?

Thanks bud!
Sue Saintlouis
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12-09-2007 11:06
I found it on SLX for L$10:

http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=390968
Sue Saintlouis
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12-10-2007 10:38
Well, I can't use it, as it takes 87 prims!!! So, this is only good if you lots of prims available. FYI.
Okiphia Rayna
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12-10-2007 10:43
From: Sue Saintlouis
Well, I can't use it, as it takes 87 prims!!! So, this is only good if you lots of prims available. FYI.

Yeah. You can only have one texture per prim, so each letter must be a prim. Two per prim if you're really good.

To make a billbooard you can asily change, it takes a lot of prims.. best thing to do is just make a 1-prim thing you can texture easily, and make new textures when needed.

Maybe make multiple textures you know will be needed, put them in it, and script it to be able to change it when required
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Lindal Kidd
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12-10-2007 12:00
From: Okiphia Rayna
...Maybe make multiple textures you know will be needed, put them in it, and script it to be able to change it when required


These exist. Look for a classroom "white board" or a projection screen. You can load a sequence of images, and change them with a touch.
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Stephen Zenith
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12-12-2007 03:20
From: Okiphia Rayna
Yeah. You can only have one texture per prim, so each letter must be a prim. Two per prim if you're really good.

To make a billbooard you can asily change, it takes a lot of prims.. best thing to do is just make a 1-prim thing you can texture easily, and make new textures when needed.

Maybe make multiple textures you know will be needed, put them in it, and script it to be able to change it when required


Actually, if you flatten it out the right way, you can get 5 or 6 textures per prim (one per face). XYText uses that trick.
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Okiphia Rayna
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12-12-2007 08:54
From: Stephen Zenith
Actually, if you flatten it out the right way, you can get 5 or 6 textures per prim (one per face). XYText uses that trick.

Ah yeah... well I did mean to say per face if that helps ;) Usually you'r not gonna see two faces aimed close enough to do it right, so for this use 1 per prim is the most common.

One way would be to taper a cube on x OR y, not both, all the way and flatten it down. SHould cause it to have two texturable faces pointing almost the same direction (Almost exactly I mean)....

ETA:: Actually if you taper on BOTH, then you can get 4 faces facing out...didn't think about that, was invisioning a cone suddenly happening lol

I can't think off the top of my head how to do 5 or 6 o.o Prism?
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Stephen Zenith
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12-12-2007 10:19
From: Okiphia Rayna
Ah yeah... well I did mean to say per face if that helps ;) Usually you'r not gonna see two faces aimed close enough to do it right, so for this use 1 per prim is the most common.

One way would be to taper a cube on x OR y, not both, all the way and flatten it down. SHould cause it to have two texturable faces pointing almost the same direction (Almost exactly I mean)....

ETA:: Actually if you taper on BOTH, then you can get 4 faces facing out...didn't think about that, was invisioning a cone suddenly happening lol

I can't think off the top of my head how to do 5 or 6 o.o Prism?


The 5 face one is essentially a flattened, hollowed, cut prism. Try this:

Type: Prism
X Size: 0.3
Y Size: 2.89
Z Size: 0.5

Path Cut B: 0.19
Path Cut E: 0.80

Hollow: 68
Hollow shape: Default

(Those numbers were pulled from part of the XYText library - a script to set a prim up like this is at http://lslwiki.net/lslwiki/wakka.php?wakka=LibraryXyText12 )
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