Depending on how you do it, applying the same texture to a series of prims has the potential to be a real drag. Slow, tedious work. But wait! There is a way to do it faster! 

One of the more irritating things that can happen when you build is discovering you can see the seams where prims join in your build. You have this great, textured wall or floor, but look at it from a certain angle and there’s the seam!

It is very tempting to use high-detail images as textures. After all, they can provide amazing image quality. The problem is, high-detail textures create lag! Understanding how Second Life appears on your computer monitor will help you understand the problem.

Okay, so that is a kind of strange heading! But the topic is a serious one. It is about being a little more creative in the way you choose to use textures in your building projects. In this case, I will talk about buildings you build, but the ideas can apply to other things you build, too.

The easiest signboard you can build in SL is a simple texture on a single prim. But how do you create a display that shows a series of messages, in a preset sequence, and does not make the viewer wait because your textures take time to resolve? There is a trick to this.