Building Ideas

Here are some thoughts on building

If you are lucky enough to own your own Sim/land then you surely can ignore this post.

Get yourself landmarks to a few different sandboxes, you will find that there are more builders now; the sandboxes seem to fill with prims quickly.

Learn your sandboxes, each one has a return policy, some return in 6 hours or 30 minutes, maybe there is a no scripts land, some just clear and you get nothing in your lost and found folder, so save frequently.

Have your textures organized – I can say I have mine semi organized but I have a ton of duplicates and blurred textures.

Learn your prim torturing techniques – wow say that five times fast. A lot of times twisting a prim around will give you ideas on things to make. I have a folder that is filled with odd shaped prims.

If you can afford it, get a mystitool or some sort of platform/builders box. With the influx of new people on SL comes a rump load of new griefers.

If you can’t afford a tool or locate one of the free builder’s boxes just Rezz a 10x10 platform sit on it and shoot the Z elevation to about 300.

Focus on your project –not the sunset or who just flew by- OK OK that’s prolly just me doing that…

Set your drawing distance to 64 I found that when I keep mine at 128 or higher and I’m building that the annoying lag/freeze screen happens more frequently.

Take your time! There again this is prolly just me, I get in such a hurry to complete a project and forget that the reason why to do this is for fun!