Make Your Prims Count Part 2: Lighting

Welcome to my second post on ways to cut back on prim use for your home, shop, or club. Today I’m going to do a bit on lighting. It’s kind of surprising how prim-intensive lighting can get, especially in objects like candles and torches. I once saw a wall torch with twenty-two prims, and can’t for the life of me figure out how they can even get that many on there! I own a taper candle in a holder, a gift from a friend, which has 8 prims. And so today I’m going to show you how to take a huge bite out of your prim usage, as well as show you some of the basics of lighting.

Cart Before the Horse

I was talking with himself yesterday about this.

Me: “So, rather than fixing the problems of viewer 2, or taking care of things people have been complaining about for years, they’re introducing this new feature. Doesn’t that sound, I don’t know, a bit…”
Him: “-Like Microsoft?”

I laughed heartily at that point. “Not how I was going to word it, but now that you mention it, yeah.”