Learning How to Build in SL

As in RL (Real Life) to be able to construct objects in SL (Second Life), basic building skills are necessary. So to begin developing the space for ECMM, I will need to lean how to build objects and work with textures.

To learn how to build in SL, I suggest you go to the Ivory Tower Library of Primitives, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Natoma/204/70/25/. The Ivory Tower is a location in SL that consists of resources, where avatars go to learn how to build. Once arriving at the Ivory Tower you will move through stations, each providing a tutorial on a specific building topic. The tutorial instructions are provided on notecards that can be kept in your inventory for future reference.














Jeff Kurka learning how to build at the Ivory Tower Of Primitives (Picture taken Jan. 17/08).
The interface in SL provides highly flexible building tools, where learning basic building techniques is not that difficult. The interface allows you to create geometric primitives (prims) that can be manipulated. Basic prims such as cubes, triangles, spheres and cones can be positioned, sized, colored and textured to create objects.

Unless your techie skills are advanced (unlike mine), you may want to learn the basics of building first, practice second and then proceed with more advanced skills. Through this process I believe I was able to learn basic building techniques but by no means do I feel that I am an expert builder.