Lovely Megaprims

♥ Greetings, seekers of romance ♥

Are you a builder? I love to build in Second Life. Almost as much as I like to court my lovely princess Rockje. If you are building for some time, you will find situations where you dearly miss the chance to use prims larger than 10×10x10 meters. Why do I need 4 prims for a floor of 40 x 40 m? Or 10 prims for a road of 100m length? You can save a lot of prims (and prims are precious in SL) if you use megaprims.

If you want to create an elevator to your skybox at 500 meters, you can either use fifty 10m prims for the elevator tube or one 500m prim or ten 50m prims.

So what are megaprims?

Megaprims are prims that are larger in one or more dimensions than the normally “allowed” 10×10x10m. Due to a server bug and more recently a server update, it was possible to create larger prims by using a few tricks for a short period of time.

Megaprims have one serious drawback: You can’t change their size. If you do, they return to the maximum allowed size of 10×10x10m. So you have to look for a prim that matches the size you need as closely as possible. But you can change their shape (e.g. convert them from a box to a cube or convert them to a sculptie) and you can hollow and twist them. Just remember: Never try to change their size!

I have put together a collection of 85 FREE megaprims for your use in your building projects. Get them for free at our beach shop in Eris (110/210/22).

~ by Villain Baroque on May 16, 2008.