how to move a mega prim

hi, i have 32.000 sqm of land and would like to rezz a sky platform 75 x 75 x 3 ...
i can rezz the platform, but it will not let me go into edit mode to change its location.
how can i move the "modern" mega prims which aren't causing any problems??
thanx so much in advance
have a great day

If you only have 32 square meters of land, then you've got no business rezzing ANYTHING 75 meters wide, period. Do not overlap your neighbors' land, ever. It doesn't matter if you park the thing way up in the sky; it will still be over other people's land besides your own, and that's wrong.

In any case, the only reason you wouldn't be able to edit a prim's location is if the prim doesn't belong to you. If it's yours, simply right click on it, and select Edit from the pie menu. There's no reason that operation should fail, ever, as long as the prim is yours.

32 thousand, I think.

Might it matter where you click on it as to whether you get it to respond to your click? Or could it have something to do with group land, objects set to group, etc.?

To edit the mega prim you have to get close to it's center. I think anything where your location more that 64 meters from you loss focus. For example I have a 8000 meter pole. When I rez it I have to fly up to 4000 meters to be able to select and edit it.

I confirm what Destiny says, you should fly in close to the center point to select the prim.

You haven't ticked the "locked" checkbox by any chance?

Another possibility is that if it is one of the older megas, its actual center may be quite different than what it appears to be. I know a few of the large flat ones were heavily dimpled, and their bounding box was all off to one side.

Try zooming back, away from the mega, and try selecting it again. Look for any indication of the three arrows that allow you to move it.

First, you need a smaller mega prim...one that fits your land.

A couple of days ago, I used a mega prim to make a sky platform for building. My land got a little crowded for building, so I went skyward to tinker. My land is 1024 on two lots.

What I did was rez a mega prim and situated it on the ground to fit just slightly under my land size. With edit, I situated the prim at about 667 feet. The way I moved it was to fly next to it while I moved it straight up from my land with the blue arrow. Once I had it in place, I "locked" it because I've had problems with mega prims shrinking in the past if I try to edit the actual size.

If you can't move it now, you may have it locked by accident.

First, you need a smaller mega prim...one that fits your land...

Turn off "Limit selection distance" or something like that, in Tools menu IIRC.

I had this problem once; accidentally rezzed a prim the size of the sim; this bounced me away from it, and I couldn't select it. Took me a while to figure it out. Meanwhile my neighbor floated away. Fortunately, nobody else on the sim, and neighbor had a good sense of humor.

/me tries to remember not to play the sorcerer's apprentice.

Ah, I totally didn't get that. It didn't occur to me that that period was supposed to be a comma. Makes more sense now.


As Lear said, turn off Limit Select Distance. It's in the advanced menu (ctrl-alt-d). I've had mine off for so long, I completely forgot that other people might not. I'd recommend disabling camera constraints as well. That way, you don't have to physically fly anywhere to grab anything (within your draw radius). Just cam over to it.

Much quicker method: Rez a smaller cube on top of the mega. Sit on the cube. Select both the cube and the mega, and type in the desired value in the Z position box. Presto! You, your box, and your megaprim are now in the stratosphere, and you avoid Repetititve Stress Injury from all that mousing.

well, let me first apologize!!

yes, indeed, my land is 32 thousand sqm, i didn't know one could have as little as 32 sqm and my mistake, i thought everyone would know ... sorry about that!!

i will try to fly to the center of it and yes, it may be very true it could be an old mega prim, hence i asked where to be able to get the "modern" ones, the ones that will not cause any trouble.

i had not checked "locked" at any stage. i've been building myself for quite some time, i'm not a master, but that far i would possibly know

limit selection distance ... good hint ... i will do that, take it off ... i already have the camera constraints off so that is fine ...

well, i will try to do all of these good things you fellows mentioned and see what happens.

still, there is the question of where to get the "modern" mega prims AND how do i know i'm using the "modern" or the "old" ones???

thanx and have a great day

That works, but when I placed my mega, I wanted to make sure that I was not right next to my neighbors' sky boxes and I had a little room for my privacy and theirs. The sky can get crowded sometimes.

This wins my vote for Out-Of-Context Sentence Of The Week.

Many Europeans I know use the dot instead. I often do a double-take when I see that. It can be doubly confusing if they're writing about numbers with decimals: 32.000.02

It wasn't supposed to be a comma!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_grouping

Any megaprim that says "Gene Replacement" is the creator is one of the "Old" megaprims. These were the original generation, and there was actually only a couple of original sizes that he created. Many of the commonly-available sizes with Gene's name on it are ones that have been path cut, dimpled, or had other prim torture methods applied to them to make something less than their original size, but which often had a much larger bounding box than their apparent size. One of the commonly-reported issues with Megaprims, the difficulty to rez things on their surface, is precisely bacause the surface you're trying to use is actually one created by dimpling or cutting. A surface that has already been distorted by prim torture is a bad place to try to rez things, on prims of *any* size.

For the new ones, these were created more recently, during a couple-week-long period where a client and server glitch allowed a slightly modified client to create prims of any size, up to 100 M on a side. I made several hundred of these myself, as did many other builders, hoping to fill in the gaps on what had been around before. There's well over 1000 possible sizes of these, and almost all are available for FREE on SL Exchange. Just go to the SLX website and enter "megaprim" in search.

The "new" megaprins were actually created at the sizes that most people would use them at, like a 16M x 32 M x 1M prim that just fits on a 512 M2 parcel. Since they don't need severe cuts and dimples and other warping to make them a usable size, they have bounding boxes that exactly match their apparent size, and no issues rezzing on their surfaces.

Unless he's from South Africa, it *was* "supposed to be a comma". The convention in English, except for UN-standardized blueprints, is to use a comma -- because that's the convention for English-speaking countries (except for South Africa).

But, I'm happy that so many people speak English well enough to converse intelligently, and I don't expect them to know all the conventions.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "supposed to be".

Interesting. I've never before in my life seen periods and commas used interchangeably. In grammar school I was taught that the comma separates thousands, and the period separates integers from decimals. That remained the only convention I'd ever seen, all the way through college and beyond, until today. You guys have filled my "learn something new everyday" quotient for the day, I guess. Does this mean I get to go to sleep early today?

Many countries use a period character for the thousands separator. Certainly not just South Africa!

I've never had the need for this myself because I'm British but I know for example that the Psion handheld computers always had an international option in the Control Panel for exactly this. You can select a comma, period or space for the thousands separator, and a period or comma for the decimal point.

I have 2 of those sets, and I wish they had more sizes. They're all even numbers. I have a weird shaped parcel, and odd sizes would be nice...

Search for Megaprims in search there were around 6 different sets, some overlapping of course. I think I have most of them but am still sorting them into common folders, renaming them to "20x40x10" instead of "20.00*40.00*10.00" so I can find them easy in inventory search, and trying to remove duplicates.

This guy has no trouble moving megaprims.

Please name another English-speaking country that uses period for thousands separator.