Roger Thunders Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Looking for a prim to use for making games to lower the prim usage in world, I only have 8 sides prim now. Anyway to find a mesh that has a lot more. Possibly 8 by 8 or 10 by 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Thunders Posted May 25 Author Share Posted May 25 It might be a mesh twisted to have many sides and therefore better than the 8 face prim I have now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma Krokus Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 There are a few meshes with up 8 faces on marketplace. 8 surfaces facing forward will mean that the mesh will be are transparent on one side, so watch out for that if it matters. Look for descriptions such as mesh panel. I believe some of those are full perm and free - e.g. Riders (off the top of my head). Purely from memory I think a tortured prim can produce up 5 flat surfaces facing the way.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Remember, though, that torturing a prim can increase its L.I. dramatically. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Thunders Posted May 25 Author Share Posted May 25 I have the prim with 8 faces and a transparent back. I have noticed a message board with a LI of only 2. It could be a fractional LI at play. Wanting to reduce the LI of my games if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolig Loon Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 Are you sure that it's a prim and not a mesh object? Either way, you can't texture more than 8 independent faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emma Krokus Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 A LI of 2 could mean 4 x 8 face meshes at 0.5 LI each... that's 32 faces for 2 LI. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quistess Alpha Posted May 25 Share Posted May 25 If you use media-on-a-prim you can have as many letters as you care for on a single prim, otherwise, each 8 characters are going to cost you. I usually try not to self-promote too much, buut: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Notecard-display/23762174 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Thunders Posted May 26 Author Share Posted May 26 I looked at that, my guess is connecting to a website o external api to generate an image? My guess is that the object is a mesh and not a sculpty prim. It might have been a trick to have a lot of faces and editing to get a low LI usage out of it. Also maybe a way to make the 8 face object as a prim but have a low fractional LI for it. Trying to see if anyone knows a technique or where to buy it? A lot of good info, so thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quistess Alpha Posted May 26 Share Posted May 26 3 hours ago, Roger Thunders said: I looked at that, my guess is connecting to a website o external api to generate an image? Yes and no, prims can effectively "host a website" which you can then visit; it's all in SL, nothing external. The lowest Li a single link in a linkset can have is 0.5, and the most faces a non-'tortured prim' can have is 8. So, as others have mentioned, 16 characters per 1 Li. you can get 8x1 character meshes from the free 'furware' system, or from @KT Kingsley's MP store https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Eight-face-display-panels/11026621 among other places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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