Real World Buildings

[MikeMarcuse]

Hey guys,

     I would like to know creating real world building in Second Life.How can I manage and have to know scripting language ? Thanks in advice.

[Monti Messmer]

Hello, depend on what you want to build.

Houses, its build with the ingame-tools like blocks and spheres ... then textured. Usually there is no scripting needed because for things like lights or doors you can pick up free scripts that do the job.

If it´s going to be cars or planes, toys ... everything moving or do something like a carousel ? You will need scripts to do and that needs some learning; depending on your knowledge about computer-programming. But you can find good help to learn ingame. There are classes about everything.

Monti

[Josh Susanto]

I'll be happy to sell you the nails.

[MikeMarcuse]

I was thinking of takin pics of a hood and build in SL.Hope it works.Any reference will be appreciated.Thanks again.

[MikeMarcuse]

And also would like to know from the experienced users.Sorry for double reply.

[Rolig Loon]

Read >>>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Build-Tools/ta-p/700039

and >>>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/Building-tips/ta-p/700041

Visit the Ivory Tower of Prims in world >>>> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Natoma/211/164/28

and sign up for bulding classes at Builder's Brewery >>>> http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rendervisions%20Isle/33/88/49

Then, experiment like crazy. 

[MikeMarcuse]

I already visit the Ivory Tower and its really handy.Thanks for the links I just started to read and they are great.

[Penny Patton]

Keep in mind that you won't be able to build accurate recreations of real-world buildings without visitors running into problems.

Avatars are most commonly between 6'8" and 8' tall (the height given in the appearance editor and many scripted "height detectors" are wrong) and crouching does not affect your physical bounding box so there is no way for them to even fit through the door of an accurately constructed real world building.

Up-scaling will work, but it also dramatically increases the amount of prims and land area you'll need.

[MikeMarcuse]

My problem could be in creating Malls etc. I guess.

[Rufus Darkfold]

Preferably you have photographs of the building from all sides.  You may need to use a tool like Photoshop to clean up any perspective distortion if the pictures were taken at an angle, and to fill in any gaps in your photo coverage.

I have built a rough model of my RL home in SL to assist in planning some remodeling we are considering.

I am building an Egyptian museum using photos I took in Egypt.

 

[MikeMarcuse]

After I fill the gaps do I have  to use any other external sources and can you share with us the real pics with the contstruction you have builded? Thanks.