SL Tips & Tricks

Basics 1

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:00:49 +0000

Second Life includes built-in tools that you can use to create complex objects out of a set of basic building blocks known as prims (short for “primitives”).You can create objects to keep, give to others, or sell. You can combine prims to make sunglasses, vehicles, buildings, furniture, sculpture, or almost anything else you can think of.

Skidz Primz

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:35:51 +0000

I suspect this is the single most popular tool for building in Second Life, although the maker of Prim.Docker (separately reviewed) also claims to have the best-selling tool. Once you have learned to use one of these tools, you can speed up your building a lot.

Apply Textures Fast

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:54:11 +0000

Depending on how you do it, applying the same texture to a series of prims has the potential to be a real drag. Slow, tedious work. But wait! There is a way to do it faster!

One-Prim Barstool

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:05:18 +0000

You can make a barstool from a single prim. Just copy what you see in the next few lines and in no time you will be sitting on the stool you made!

Finding Buried Prims

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:05:24 +0000

Whether you rarely create things with prims, or work with them every day, sooner or later you will have one or more of the brutes vanish. If you are reasonably sure it went downwards, or sideways, there is a good chance the offending prim is buried in the land. So the problem becomes, how do you recover it?

GVURL a Better SLURL

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:24:08 +0000

[Updated with new information August 14] I should have said, much better, in the headline, but was worried about space! Skidz Tweak’s new way to bookmark places in SL and link to them from the web is really useful and, after a couple of weeks of beta testing, GVURLs have become part of my short list of must have items.

Sorting Inventory

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:40:04 +0000

If you have been in SL for long, you probably have a large and growing inventory, and it is probably a mess! Here is one way to sort it all out.

Basics 2

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:02:05 +0000

In this section I’ll move forward from the simple move, rotate, and resize manipulation of single prims and deal with copying and linking prims.

MystiTool

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:03:51 +0000

The MystiTool is a multi-purpose toolkit contained in a simple HUD. It is my absolute favorite, “don’t leave home without it” device for use in the Second Life virtual world.

Prim.Docker

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:53:26 +0000

Prim.Docker is an interesting tool. In many ways it is similar in functions and features to Skidz Primz, allowing you to easily align, join, center, fill gaps, resize, rotate, and copy prims, and to align textures and mirror prims by clicking on commands on a HUD.