Adoveea Rau

i was asked to post these. Blender tutorials are in the thousands but many folks have found these links very useful Book on Blender through Wiki http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro Blender org course http://gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html basic blender videos with projects to complete great school course stuff for students Blender cookie http://cgcookie.com/blender/ they have a 101 very very basic course series, great intro and many advanced tutorials CGMasters http://www.cgmasters.net/ REALLY go through the crash course rigging one great fast little hard core overview of rigging BlenderNerd http://blendernerd.com/category/tutorials/modeling/ Blender3dclub http://blender3dclub.com/?cat=6

Thank you for expanding on that Min. Your reply is covers many of the basic questions I have been asked by others and have given them those same answers for dealing with mesh and/or vehicles. There are many people who have never done 3D modeling-or just have the raw basics of how to put prims together, and second life is their way of learning. "Mesh" is very new to them, as they build their first mesh moving vehicles. Funny what we take for granted about knowing isn't it? That's why these forums are so valuable, they help people in written words and visually to learn answers to questions they have. Well done.

I was curious about the limits of build height, movement and size with mesh vehicle and of course had to test it out as an extreme experiment. Monster Mesh What I did was throw together some of my meshes that I considered failures, duplicated and linked them all together to the tune of 246 prims. I turned everything Physics Shape none except the root mesh/prim (one of the seats) and two of the legs-those three things became became my high count physical convex hulls. Then I threw in one of my modified land vehicle scripts (car)which was a physics script, with it's limits of 32. You can see from the picture how huge my little monster was. http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu177/Adoveea/monstermeshyah_002.jpg This huge ugly thing moves, and hops just like any of my normal builds, regardless of size, construction etc.ec. Everything but the legs and one saddle, of course you can walk through as none physics shape is phantom! Prims : 246 Weights of Selected 647.7 Downloaded 12.8 Physics 246.0 Server 54153 Display Land Impact 648 Selected just something to share that I did for my own amusement and explorations. I had even more fun having a two friends sit on it and we all moved/hopped around on it. I didn't get enough people to make a wild test to see how many avatars I could have sit on it before we stopped moving.