Hollow and thin walls, e.g. a tube

[Domitan Redenblack]

How do I get thinner walls in a cylinder? 95% hollow is all that LL seem to allow. 

Is there a trick for thinner ones? Mega-thins?

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[Void Singer]

have you tried the tube shape?

you can also cheat and use a cylinder textured only on the outside, inside the hollow of one only textured on the hollow

[Josh Susanto]

I can make a sculpted cylinder infinitely thin, if you like, and it will be visible from both the inside and the outside.

In fact, I can do this with practically any shape. 

Post a UV map and I'll post a version with both an interior and exterior surface in exactly the same spatial position.

[Domitan Redenblack]

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Josh Susanto wrote:

I can make a sculpted cylinder infinitely thin, if you like, and it will be visible from both the inside and the outside.

In fact, I can do this with practically any shape. 

Post a UV map and I'll post a version with both an interior and exterior surface in exactly the same spatial position.

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Thanks.... Sorry, what is a UV map?

[Domitan Redenblack]

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Void Singer wrote: a cylinder textured only on the outside, inside the hollow of one only textured on the hollow

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Thanks, Void.

Cylinder starts with plywood texture... So I select texture of the other surfaces and .... what?

[Ziggy21 Slade]

Cylinder starts with plywood texture... So I select texture of the other surfaces and .... what?

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Apply a transparent texture, search 'totally' in your inventory and you should fine one 

[Drongle McMahon]

"Default transparent" texture is in the library.

[Void Singer]

or just set the relevant sides to 100% transparent (by script, or most TPV's let you do it from edit)

[Josh Susanto]

By UV map, I mean a texture that is intended to produce a sculpt.

Do you want a closed cylinder or one that is somehow open?

[Domitan Redenblack]

A friend is making a prim skirt, like a tutu, and had 0.95 tapered cylinders which looked pretty clunky. She has now made the inner surface of the cylinders transparent, and the tutu looks a lot better.

Thanks, to all.

What other ways might you make a "pleat" in a skirt?

 

[Void Singer]

dunno how good it would look but you could try inner/outer cylinders... the iner fully textured, the outer textured only in strips, to mimic triangular inset pleats instead of accordion pleats

[Josh Susanto]

How's this?...

 

 

[Josh Susanto]

Seriously, that's a skirt sculpt.

And it is skirt-shaped from every angle, made of infinitely thin material which will appear on both the interior and exterior of the skirt.

Try it and let me know if you want it it tailored.

[Nightflowerlily]

 Thinner walls in a cylinder 

If you want one for a balcony rezz a tube 

hollow to 95% 

Hole Size Y 0.05000

Profile Cut B 0.97998

Size 
X 63.0000

Rotate Y 270

Add another prim as the root and move the root prim where you want it. as the dimension will make it a tad tricky to move though I tend to use the Positions to place it where I want it 

Mapping 

Outside
Horizontal 20.00000
Vertical 1.000
Rotation 90

Inside
Horizontal 20.00000
Vertical -1.000
Rotation 90

 

Added a picture link to safe site to view the difference in the hollow size.

Edited January 24, 2018 by Nightflowerlily