Hi everyone,
Some of you may have noticed that several of the tortured prims in this pack are familiar. I want to give credit to a very creative lady named Ayumi Cassini for most of these prims. You can see her fantastic blog on tortured prims here: http://ayumicassini.blogspot.com/2009/07/ultimate-guide-to-prim-twisting.html She does not sell the prims themselves in her store or on the marketplace & did not mention anywhere that she would mind if anyone else did. If for some reason it does bother her I will be willing to take them down. However I wanted to make sure she got the credit due to her amazing blog for giving me the idea. The rest of the tortured prims are ones I've either encountered in world or created myself.
I went through and recreated almost all of the prims from her blog & the others I've found/created and have used them in several builds. People commented on them & asked about them so I figure others might find them useful with out the headache of trying to torture them yourself. I've included a big & small version of each shape and each shape is named with a few having ideas for other uses. Don't feel like you have to use the shapes for what they are called. Think outside the box and having fun! I'd love to see what you can come up with.
Enjoy,
Kaliana Ranica
Eternal Creativity
Tortured Prim, Twisted Prim, Totally Prim!
The Prim is the fundamental building block in Second Life. Short for "primitive" it is (WAS) the only way to create objects in Second Life. This was before sculpts (sculpties, sculpt maps) and well before mesh (meshes). A parcel of land had a designated "prim count" that was a set number of how many prims a specific parcel could accommodate. Now it's referred to as Land Impact (LI) and is very different and based on sculpt and mesh dynamics.
Residents who refer to the fundamental prim, especially twisted and tortured prims as "sculpts" have no idea of the world apart they are from one another. Primitives are geometric shapes that rely on designating numerical values to attributes like twist, skew and standard characteristics like height and width. Sculpts are like lumps of clay that can be molded and shaped and mesh items are like complex computer graphics. Think of prims like real-world lumber. Sculpts like real-world clay. And mesh like real-world computer graphics. Now encapsulate those concepts within the confines of Second Life and OpenSim. You will see that the three, while similar in some respects (used to build things) are also very different (like drawing on a computer compared with drawing on paper).
At the end of the day, these items here - tortured prims - are a wonderful throw back to the very early days of Second Life when EVERYTHING was created ONLY with basic prims. As a result, there was incredible creativity that went into torturing and twisting prims to the very limits of what they were capable of to simulate things like leaves, photo frames, books, trees, houses, and whatever else one could imagine. Today building with prims alone are entirely unnecessary. But that doesn't at all remove them from their historical significance nor deny us from giving them the respect, if even in passing, that they deserve.
Prims are the original DNA building blocks of Second Life.
Good for the price..
but not what I was looking for...but not a lot of L wasted.
Nice product.
i got this because I forgot how to make some of these. They are a good guide.
