Half Past Null

(The following is an ongoing series of tutorials for my offline builder tool, Prim.Blender. For the tutorial index, click here)

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Once the build’s done, it’s time to import your creation into Second Life!



Most of the work is completely automated, especially for sculpties.



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To begin, you must first obtain the latest build of Prim.Blender.Importer.

Unless you’re a geek with time to compile things by hand, you’ll want to pick up a copy from my store:



Buy a copy of the importer for L$1:



Find a good place to set it out and enter edit mode:



Now alt-tab or mouse out of Second Life. Open your .prims file in a text editor.

If necessary, rename the file “.txt”, all you Windows users.



Don’t worry if the output appears slightly jumbled up; it’ll format just fine in Second Life.



Up until version 0.5.4, Prim.Blender saves linebreaks as “\n”, or UNIX mode. This has been altered to DOS Mode “\r\n” in subsequent releases, making output format properly in Windows Notepad.

Both format in SL just fine, regardless.



Save the output you just copied to a notecard. Name it whatever you like.



If any sculpties are present, you’ll also need to bulk upload the sculpt maps.



Be warned: this operation costs L$10 per upload. Unfortunately, there’s no avoiding this currently.



Now, shift-select all of the images you just uploaded and drag them from inventory to the importer:



And finally, drag and drop the notecard you saved to the importer.

If everything went as expected, you should see these messages, and when the process completes, “Done.”



Be warned that if you see warnings about missing images, you probably skipped the image step above.

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If everything went as expected, congratulations! Your prims should now be imported:





As a follow-up, you should set the correct permissions and creator information for your imported objects, or the importer itself.

You can do this by linking a prim you created as the last in the set, or altering your importer through this tutorial.

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Of course, if things didn’t go as expected, you can always poke me by email and ask me what went wrong

If things went well, be sure to tell me about it, too. I’m always interested in new builds.

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Care to head back to the tutorial index?

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