Good Building Practices

Welcome to Good Building Practices

This page is all about how to be creative and efficient at the same time!

Animation Animation Streamlined - Let's make Second Life move, without dragging it to a crawl! Mesh Making Mesh Physics - Why and How. Making Mesh for Pathfinding - Pathfinding friendly mesh. Pathfinding Pathfinding_Overview - Pathfinding explained. Pathfinding_Quick_Start_Guide - The best way to get up and running with Pathfinding. A Visual Guide - Watch how easy it is! Walkability_Coefficients - Control the speed of your Walkable areas. Material_Volumes - Control the speed of your characters. Physics Physics Optimization - Not everything needs physics, learn how to add the least load necessary to the physics engine. PRIM_PHYSICS_SHAPE_NONE - Additional information on this important attribute.

Scripting Smart Scripting - No lag scripting tips. Debugging Tips - how to work out what your code is doing without a conventional IDE Scripting for Pathfinding - Pathfinding scripting help. Sculpted Prims Sculpted Prim Usage - What you need to know about how sculpted prims effect Second Life. Textures Texture Usage - What size to use, and what to avoid.