Why isn't certain Jewellery flexi?

[bebejee]

Cant long earings and necklaces be flexi?

[Amethyst Jetaime]

If the jewelry is made from sculpted prims or mesh it can't be set to flexi due to technical limits of the software.

If it is made out of regular prims, it could be, but it depends on how the earrings are made.  In a lot of cases making the prims flexible would just make parts fly apart and back together over and over and it would look like an earring.

[Coby Foden]

Only prim types: box, cylinder and prism and be made flexible. Sculpties and mesh cannot be flexible. Also a link set (i.e. something made of many prims) cannot be made flexible as a whole (i.e. all parts flexible, still staying connected nicely).

Therefore it is impossible to make long flexible earrings in Second Life, having multiple parts, like they are in real life.

[Lewis Luminos]

The only way you could make them flexi would be to make them as a single flat prim with an alpha texture pasted on it that that would look awful.

[Lexbot Sinister]

There is some jewelry that is rigged mesh, as well. That means a long necklace would follow the body. But since rigged mesh can only follow the body and can't adhere to gravity, you can't make the necklace dangle etc.