What is a prim?

what is this I am reading about Prim's? Objects slots available to you to use in your house?

Basically yep... A prim is the simplest object in SL a primitive... All objects are made of these.

A prim is an abreviation for "Primitive"

A Primitive is a single building block used to build other... more complex structures.

A prim itself can be an object, although common objects are usually built out of many prims.

A chair, for example, can well be 6 prims: 1 for each leg, 1 for the seat and 1 for the back support.

Prims consume computing resources, so they are policed here inworld. Land allotments recieve fixed amount of prims available for building on them depending on the lots size.

For example, a 512 m lot usually have a max 117 prims available.

If you want to know how man prims any object is made up of...

Right click on it and choose edit.

Under "MORE" and the general tab you should see the prim count.

This is vital if your house or land will only hold so many prims.

If you look at an object in edit mode, the first tab will tell you how many prims it has. A single object can theoretically have 256 prims.

A prim is a prim is a prim is a prim.
It can be a box or a cone or a sphere,
Cylinders, toruses, tubes, rings,
A prim is a prim and our prims are just prims.

Apologies to the late Gertrude Stein, who is probably rolling in her grave at 10,000 RPM with the amount of badmouthing and plagiarism she's had to endure

Prims seem very simple at first (cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.) but can be used, by themselves or combined, to form some very complex shapes. Play around with the settings (Right-click -> Edit -> Click More -> Object) and you'd be surprised what these "primitive" shapes can do.

Thanks for all the responses. They are just as I thought.. my nekt question would be... What if I have a 512 m2 lot and an item made of 117 prims? When combined together do the combine to be one prim on you rlot or does each prim count towards the total...

What'he say?

A bunch of linked prims in one object still counts as the full number of prims. One 117-prim object would be sitting all alone on your 512 plot, as it would use up all the resources itself.

And keep in mind, that is assuming that you don't have the object set to have physics on. Physics-enabled objects take up more resources than inert ones, and therefore you can not have as many of them.

Not a problem, though, unless you particularly had your heart set on having a pool of balls like Chuck E Cheese.

YOU ARE NEVER TOO OLD TO GO TO CHUCK 'E' CHEESES!!! lol, i loved that place ^_^

Haha, unfortunately the staff will not agree with you on that one. I had a friend went there a coupla years ago with his GF on a date, just for a lark. Since they didn't have any kids with them, they weren't allowed in.

Would be neat to go back sometime, though, I can remember playing Dragon's Lair IN 3D! at Chuck E Cheese.

me and a gang of friends went to Chuck-E-Cheese for someone's 25th birthday party and they let us in with no kids.

they kicked us out when they caught us walking up the skeeball games and feeding balls into the 100 point hole but still........

i think that if they really want your money, you will be allowed in... maybe thats why many people were let in but not 2 of them. trust me... there is always one that will let you in. another strategy is to work there and do games during your breaks ^_^

sry to g ooff topic btw, lol

And to make things really confusing, the Lindens decided to use the term "Objects" when looking at the available prims on a plot of land using the "About Land" dialog. On the Object tab, what they are really referring to are "Prims" and not "Objects".

Hope that helps .

Yes, thank you for clearing this up for me! I have spent half an hour being confused by that "objects" instead of "prims" in the About Land dialog, and used search to find this answer in the forums.

coco