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Enable the advanced menu from your preferences, then go to the advanced menu, performance tools and select Show draw weight for avatars.

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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Displaying my avatar draw weight.

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Uploaded on Jan 26, 2012

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The steps can be textured inworld, but you don't have that much control unless you UV Map them and add materials in Blender.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Uploaded Steps, untextured.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Even without making too much effort at efficiency, they come in at just 1 prim.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Choosing my physics shape, I've analyzed it and simplified it, it's basically a ramp but by making...

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Choosing my upload options for Second Life and the preview shows my model does look like steps!

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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You'll know you're logging into the Second Life Aditi grid because you will see a notice like this.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Exporting my Blender object as COLLADA so I can import it into Second Life.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Now my model looks like a set of steps

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Setting my settings for my Blender object, I want ten steps. Make sure you hit apply!

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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So I've got my array ready to roll, it is starting to look like a set of steps.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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I set my relative offset to -1.000 and my constant offset to 0.500, which is the height of my step

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Selecting the Array Modifier for use in Blender.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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I want to use the array modifier here, first I need to select the spanner (or wrench if you prefer).

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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This is the start of my Blender set of steps, this is the first step!

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Now I've set the scale, note the scale settings are all all 1.000

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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Pressing CTRL + A, allows me to set the scale.

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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2012

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