Display doll

I'm trying to make a necklace with small parts, but it's too hard to edit it on my avatar, even with a pose she moves making it impossible.

That's why I wondered if there some kind of inworld prim model of the upperbody,a display doll that I can buy to design my necklace on?

Have you tried using a posing stand? They lock your avatar in a pose similar to when you edit your appearance. You can find posing stands everywhere, they are free to pick. Go to your favorite clothes store, and see if they don't have one on the ground there, free to copy!

Also, Yadni's had a mannequin sometimes ago. I haven't checked recently, it might still be there.

Is there a magic secret or are jewellery-makers just the most patient people on earth? I've tried just *looking* at jewellery and small prim attachments and it's a nightmare, pose stand or no. You get zoomed in so close, and then your camera decides it's looking at the avatar and swiftly resets back a couple of feet refusing to zoom in.

It's not like I'm planning to break into the business (I don't even have the patience for tweaking tiny prims let alone the camera faff) but I am curious. Is there a knack to viewing small prim attachments close up, or do jewellery artists all have really well-developed swearing vocabularies?

When alt-zooming, one can position the mouse-pointer over a prim and this will be the focus for zooming in - choose a very small prim and the cam will zoom in very close. Be careful not to alt-zoom on the AV's body, this will send the cam into fits. Also if alt-zoom does not zoom in close enough, one can use ctrl-0 to zoom in even further, and ctrl-9 to go back to normal cam view. (There's also ctrl-8 to zoom out, and I think those options are actually there to give nifty wide-angle effects on snapshots or something, but it works as a macro too.)

When alt-zoomed in on a specific prim, I find it helpful to use the camera controls in the "blue box with the arrows" to rotate the cam around without losing focus. Oh, and don't forget to disable the selection beacon (I think it's in the View menu, or you can just set particles to 0), the selection beam particle flicker is *very* annoying in close-up.

That, a lot of patience & practice, and some choice swearwords is about all it takes to make small pretty things

Thanks. ^^
The posingstands worked great.