Unable to 'Save As' in Firestorm

[Johnny Giotto]

Hi, 

I have hit a brickwall when it comes to 'sav as' in Firestorm.
Where am I going wrong?
It is a linkset.
'Save As' is always greyed out.
I originally forgot about the textures I had used but have now removed them all.

[Johnny Giotto]

Sorry for not getting back you all. I did it all from scratch and it then worked fine. So, you were all correct, It was something from my alt. I have this terrible habit of changing avatar mid build. Trust me, It is never going to happen again!
Still experimenting as I cannot find the sweet spot for LOD. It might just be an issue with me hating things collapsing while other structures around don't.

[Eowyn Southmoor]

Just some advice - the areas where you've used the green panel texture - all the texture repeats are different and don't line up with each other. In one part they are narrow, in another they are wide etc.  You should switch the texture mapping to "planar"  and use the "Align Planar faces" option to make all those areas match up properly.

I just mentioned it cause it's something I see all over SL, in mainland and on add-ons for Bellisseria, and it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine - especially when it is so easily fixed lol

[Lindal Kidd]

Also the rotational alignment of the white trim texture along the top edges.

[Johnny Giotto]

A big 'Thank You' to Eowyn and Lindal for the critique and advice.
It worked beautifully.

[LittleMe Jewell]

Are you the creator of every piece in the linkset?

[Johnny Giotto]

18 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Are you the creator of every piece in the linkset?

Yes, definitely.  I did make the mistake of using textures but have meticulously removed them and replaced with colours. Every block is mine

[LittleMe Jewell]

You might want to post the question in the 'Creation / Mesh' forum then: https://community.secondlife.com/forums/forum/303-mesh/

Many of those folks don't necessarily wander into this Answers section.

[Coffee Pancake]

Check the inventory of each part of the linkset. 

[Johnny Giotto]

I am going to re-create it from scratch, just to be sure. If I hit the same issue then I will post it in the the Creation/Mesh forum.
Thank you to all for the tips.

[Lindal Kidd]

Oh, you're making a second story for my favorite Houseboat design! I'm gonna want one when you're done.

[Johnny Giotto]

That is very nice. I hope it will be good enough for you

[Johnny Giotto]

Updated it a bit and I think it is practically finished.
The next part is learning how to package the add-on with textures doors and windows set to Copy but no Transfer.

[Johnny Giotto]

1 hour ago, Eowyn Southmoor said:

Just some advice - the areas where you've used the green panel texture - all the texture repeats are different and don't line up with each other. In one part they are narrow, in another they are wide etc.  You should switch the texture mapping to "planar"  and use the "Align Planar faces" option to make all those areas match up properly.

I just mentioned it cause it's something I see all over SL, in mainland and on add-ons for Bellisseria, and it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine - especially when it is so easily fixed lol

Thanks Eowyn, all advice  gratefully received. I was using the Planar option for the texture didn't know about the  "Align Planar faces" option. You do not want to know how lonh I have tried making then line up and to get the texture the same scale.  Apart from the texture thing, not too bad? First time attempting this.

[Johnny Giotto]

1 hour ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Also the rotational alignment of the white trim texture along the top edges.

Thank you as well Lindal, appreciate it. I am going to have another crack at it with Eowyn's advice and that should hopefully help those edges line up.  

[Eowyn Southmoor]

Yay, looks better now    

And i hear you about manually lining up textures. Prior to discovering those little tricks myself, when i used to use default mapping, i would manually calculate the changes i needed to make to the repeats when using prims of different sizes. I ended up putting the formula in a spreadsheet to make it faster.  Then after that I would manually adjust the offsets until it looked right - it was so tedious 

[Johnny Giotto]

4 hours ago, Eowyn Southmoor said:

Yay, looks better now    

And i hear you about manually lining up textures. Prior to discovering those little tricks myself, when i used to use default mapping, i would manually calculate the changes i needed to make to the repeats when using prims of different sizes. I ended up putting the formula in a spreadsheet to make it faster.  Then after that I would manually adjust the offsets until it looked right - it was so tedious 

Whoa! That is really going for it Eowyn  Thank you again, it is really appreciated. 
I have so set the windows and doors to Copy, No Transfer and then looking at packaging it all together with the textures.