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Description
Final screenshot of my Second Life build of Aphelion, with her new look in ACiT. I took it into Photoshop and smoothed all the hard, pixelated edges, added the nebula and some of the stars.

No, she's not exact. She doesn't have all the fun little glow-y, blue, clockwork-y decals that the Zoni paint job has, but SL does have it's limits. I do plan to add more to her, however. I like the Zoni paint job. >_>

Screencaps of my lombax avatar, including custom armor, pistols, and an Obsidian Blade X Wrench coming soon.

SL Savvy How-To:
There's a limit of 256 "prims" (primitive objects; like the cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.) that can be edited and "linked", or grouped. The Aphelion you see in this picture surpassed that limit when I did the cockpit, so I took it out to start, then looked for ways to get around the limit.

So, the solution I used was detaching the wings, attaching the body to my avatar's chest while it contained a script that played a sitting animation while I "wore" the body. The wings attached to my shoulders and moved them back into proper position to look just like I'm sitting in the ship.

While this was a great temporary fix and allows me to fly in a ship even in a zone where I couldn't normally upload anything, I wanted a working, scripted ship.

So, I took the ship, deleted most of the prims off of it which took it down to 29, since most flight scripts operate on a 32-prim limit, and made THAT ship invisible. I then put in scripts from another ship and jumped in while wearing the visible version. I now have a flyable ship that was over the 256 prim limit.

Other SL users: Build comments? Want to contact me in-world? Drop me, Evangeline Fiertze, an IM.

Description
Final screenshot of my Second Life build of Aphelion, with her new look in ACiT. I took it into Photoshop and smoothed all the hard, pixelated edges, added the nebula and some of the stars.

No, she's not exact. She doesn't have all the fun little glow-y, blue, clockwork-y decals that the Zoni paint job has, but SL does have it's limits. I do plan to add more to her, however. I like the Zoni paint job. >_>

Screencaps of my lombax avatar, including custom armor, pistols, and an Obsidian Blade X Wrench coming soon.

SL Savvy How-To:
There's a limit of 256 "prims" (primitive objects; like the cube, sphere, cylinder, etc.) that can be edited and "linked", or grouped. The Aphelion you see in this picture surpassed that limit when I did the cockpit, so I took it out to start, then looked for ways to get around the limit.

So, the solution I used was detaching the wings, attaching the body to my avatar's chest while it contained a script that played a sitting animation while I "wore" the body. The wings attached to my shoulders and moved them back into proper position to look just like I'm sitting in the ship.

While this was a great temporary fix and allows me to fly in a ship even in a zone where I couldn't normally upload anything, I wanted a working, scripted ship.

So, I took the ship, deleted most of the prims off of it which took it down to 29, since most flight scripts operate on a 32-prim limit, and made THAT ship invisible. I then put in scripts from another ship and jumped in while wearing the visible version. I now have a flyable ship that was over the 256 prim limit.

Other SL users: Build comments? Want to contact me in-world? Drop me, Evangeline Fiertze, an IM.