You may wish to do a quick render to see how it looks by pressing the F12 key the effect can be toned down by adjusting the “Factor” value in the Ambient Occlusion section. This basically makes rendered images and baked light detail look that bit more realistic and evenly lit. If you don’t plan on doing renders or fancy lighting, feel free to skip cosmetic steps like this. We’re going to turn on Ambient Occlusion, so check the relevant tick box: Now move down to the tabbed Properties box just below the Outliner and click the tab with the planet on it. The Outliner is very useful for hiding, unhiding, and selecting wayward pieces of your build. I tend to give it about a 1/3 of the total height of the window. Next, let’s give the Outliner (that thing in the upper right that shows you all the objects in the scene) a little more space by dragging it out a bit. Still in the “Display” section, find the “Lines” property, click it and set it to 64: Next, we’ll want to set up the grid to better reflect the maximum size SL allows for meshes - 64m x 64m x 64m - so you don’t accidentally go over it. This’ll make previewing textures in the 3D window a lot less hassle.

These control how the 3D viewport looks. Click the drop-down box that says “Multitexture” and switch it to GLSL, then check the tickbox that says “Textured Solid”. Click it to expand it out and you’ll see a few options. First, scroll down it until you find the “Display” section:īy default, it’s collapsed. There are also couple of settings in the Properties Sidebar we’ll want to tweak. Having this up is enormously useful as, amongst other things, it lets you manually set an object’s (or vertex, edge, face etc) position, rotation, and scale as well as where the 3D cursor (the red and white circle) is. You can also toggle it on and off from the View menu near the bottom left of the screen.

Second life blender rigging tutorial