Talia Tokugawa’s Blog

Well thanks to Poid I have a little office in the Princeton Campus, Which within a couple hours I have a nice little setup for (kinda cloned from Bloom).

I also have already experienced what I was hoping for.. Intellectual tasks. A fairly simple one to start with, but got my mind racing none the less.

“How do I make an octagon in Second Life?”

First thing to realise is that Second Life being Second Life.. there are more ways to skin that particular cat than you’d initially think. My two recommended solutions.. one being slightly less accurate due to the build tools in Second Life rounding after a certain number of decimal points.. was to use three prim and the taper controls on two to form the outer bits (3 of the octagons sides each) and then have a rectangle in the center.

The second technique, probably more precise as it would be using LSL which doesn’t have the rounding problem, but on the other hand due to the way the object would be formed would be 8 prim instead of the 3 of my technique would be using the shapemaker freebie device that has been floating around Second Life for god knows how long.

*smiles* I think I will like it here

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