How to make gift bows

[Giadda Robbiani]

Can anyone tell me how to create gift bows for gifts? 

 

 

[Knowl Paine]

A 3D sculpting or modeling program would be a good choice.

You can make bows and ribbons in SL using regular prims, but the prim count might be high depending on the amount of detail.

If you don't yet know how to build, you might want to look on Market Place or in Search Inworld for a seller of bows. You could also place a wanted ad for bows. Having a builder make you a set (pack) is possible.  

[Rolig Loon]

A VERY simple recipe for putting a ribbon on a box.....

(1) Make a box and texture it with your wrapping paper

(2) Make a new prim that is just a tiny bit taller and wider than your box, but rather thin.  Give it a pretty color to compliment your box.

(3) Slide the new prim into your box so that it effectively cuts it in two.  It should look like a ribbon going all around the box.

(4) Repeat steps 2 and 3, but rotate THIS new prim 90 degrees, so that it cuts the box at right angles to the first one. Now your box should look like it has ribbons going around it in two directions.

(5) Make a cylinder just about as tall as the skinny dimension of your ribbon prims.  Hollow it, and stretch it in its X direction so that it's a short, squished tube.  Color it ribbon color.

(6) Put that new prim on top of the box, where your two ribbon prims cross.

(7) Repeat steps 5 and 6 as many times as you have patience (or prim allowance) for, arranging the squished tube prims to look as much like bow loops as you can.

(8) Link everything.

It's not the prettiest gift box you'll ever make, and it will be primmy if you go overboard.  Still, it's a nice start and it may suggest other possibilities.  Merry Christmas (or whatever,,,, )

 

 

 

[Innula Zenovka]

There's an illustrated walk-through in Natalia Zelmanov's blog (she's not updated it for almost two years, but the tutorials there are still very useful to people learning to build).