Taking a Moment to Breathe
I want to build a house. A Tuscan house (I thought that appropriate since I live on Tuscany Island). To this regard I’ve checked out books from the library on Tuscany, I’m researching how to create seamless textures, I’m scanning in textures from aforementioned books, I’m working on simple blueprints, I’m trying to track down where to get scripts for such basic things as opening doors, I’ve read one great book on building in SL and I’m in the midst of another, I’m collecting examples of furniture I’d like to build, and now I just have to figure out how to do it all.
I’m utterly overwhelmed. Yet people build houses all the time in SL. Am I making this too hard on myself? Am I overthinking things? Do I need to find a mentor? Or do I need to just throw caution to the wind and start building?
Start building. If you find out later that you made something that wasn’t authentically Tuscan, you can fix it. Or if it doesn’t work quite the way you want, you can fix it. But you can’t fix something that hasn’t been built.
Perry- by all means- build build build find a quiet sandbox, and just play around. come see my humble homes sometime- nothing that will appear in Prim Perfect, but nice cozy little places-built ad hoc, and had a lot of fun doing it. If you can’t locate a nice sandbox to practice in, let me know- I’ve got a space you can use.
You’re both right—start building. Roberto, I would love to look at some of your houses and talk to you a bit about setting them up. I’ll look you up inworld. Thanks.