How do I make an object reverse?

[Libera Romano]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a pair of earrings that are geometric and I need to make the left earring in reverse (mirrored?) How do I do that?

Lib

[Ceera Murakami]

There is not really any simple or effective way to just "do that" with the in-world building tools, I'm afraid. Most builders use simple trial and error and do it by eye. Some may, in the case of things like sculpties, do it with the extermal application that they use to create the 3D mesh for the item in the first place.

Even with a scripted device or an external program running a bot, that esentially acts just like a copybot and analyzes the original objects prims and duplicates it, while reversing the value on one axis, which axis would you choose? How would you tell the application which plane to mirror on? As an example, a torus that is tilted 30 degrees and has a certain amount of twist and taper to it would need to be changed in quite a few parameters to make something that looked like its mirror image. 

If someone does have a simple solution, I'd love to hear it too. Especially if it doesn't break all the rules that are in place these days to make copybot actions illegal.

[Libera Romano]

Thanks so much. But how do people make shoes then? Aren't they "reversed" ? Fortunately, I'm working with 2 linked objects only and no sculpties.

Lib

[Libera Romano]

Never mind, I see you answered my question...LOL

Thanks again,

Lib

[Innula Zenovka]

There are several such devices in the marketplace.   I've not used them myself, but I have recommended Dora Gustafson's products to people on the grounds I know she's an excellent scripter who understands rotations, and everyone's told me they've been exactly what they've been looking for.

[Glory Takashi]

It's simple, you use a mirroring script, I have one in an object that if I need matching but mirrored objects I just use that and it turns a lefty into a righty.

[Rolig Loon]

I agree.  I have used a couple of good mirror tools.  Dora's shoe flipper is a specialized version of her more general purpose one, which I like.  I think you can still get Jeff Gomez's classic Prim Mirror at his shop at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Great%20Pubnico/28/73/93 too.  It's a very easy tool to use.