Think Big prims!

5 was exploring again, euh, shopping, oh no, exploring…..
In the entrance of Tombstone 5 found a box with large prims. Prims being the building blocks of Second Life structures, can be land, can be diamonds, can be houses, beds and clothing. These primitives, or prims are limited from 0.01 to 10 meters. These limitations are ok for most purposes but sometimes you need a large base for instance, or you want to construct a dome, which blocks a bit other structures or the awful “For Sale” signs.
You could simple save 10 or 20 prims, when using the big 40 x 40 prim as a base.
5 had encountered a large sphere long ago, so these things exist too. Apparently these big prims are from the old days of Second Life, and somehow still survive, being copied.
So 5 found a box with quite a collection and soon tried them out. Big towers, a large moon, a big dot and even bigger, prims of 4 sims wide!
But these prims have some disadvantages; first of all, rescaling is not possible. So you are stuck with this big thing! Anyhow more inconvenient characteristic was soon discovered: the big prims cause considerable lag! Movements becoming slower or jaggy, with only one such big thing in the neighborhood. 5 tried to find some documentation to confirm this. Nothing was found on the internet. So a few experiences were done all indeed confirming the lag problem. Maybe it is the combination of sculpties and the big prims? Sculpties are considerably slower in rezzing, displaying a blob long after other regular prims have established themselves…
Ok that finished the applications with the big prims, because lag, for the moment is not what we are waiting for. The world is already full of lag.
But well, a few strange pictures with big towers, and a big pink blob are fun too!
Then 5 went back to the The Sphere of Tranquility,
Which is an very nice application of a big sphere, being transparent at the outside and showing a starry night sky at the inside. The space being filled with vegetation, water things and cushions to sit, to make a converstaion…..5 always shows new friends this place….

And what is fun also is to go up, flying, you discover a few more big spheres! A
moon and the planets!

Always good to shop,...explore!