I’ve been doing a lot of building in SL as part of the Lovecraft Forest project. One of my my favorite tools is Skidz Prims, a great little gadget by Skidz Tweak. Skidz prims supercharges your prims by adding introducing some clever scripts into the default building blocks of SL (such the cube and cylinder) which allow you to perfectly snap prims into place like magic Legos. But there’s much more! The tools allow you to copy scales and rotations of one prim to another, even switching axises as you go, with just point and click simplicity. There is even a very clever gap-mode that allows you to fill the space between two prims with a third prim by simple point-and-click. Also cool, Skid Prims wraps prims in an informative wrapper, making tweaking easier and visual alignment a snap, such as this example from a cube face:
Skidz prims is packaged as a HUD and a toolbelt which you wear. It takes a little bit of setup, and Skidz offers regular classes (usually at least two times a week) which are well worth the hour. Support is top notch and even when there is a problem, he or his assistants are quick to help. There is even a friendly in-world group you can subscribe to if you need to talk with other Skidz Prims Users.
Available from Skidz’s in-world store and from SL Exchange for L$1450 (a little more than six dollars USD.) A video of Skidz Prims in action is available here.
If you do a lot of building, do yourself a favor and pick one of these up. It will easily pay for itself on your first build.
