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So, where did you get those gears?

I've added a remote vendor for Michelle Morphett's shop in the venue so that people looking for the gears I used can easily buy their own for whatever nefarious purpose.

They're sold in 5 sets of 3, but I tend to delink them and break them up into 15 individual gears for my silly little projects.

For instance, the "Gear Aura" I use is just:

  • A small cylinder.
  • 9 of the gears at various heights and positions from the cylinder.
  • Link them up, with cylinder as root prim.
  • Add rotation scripts on 2 axes to each gear, and mix the speeds and direction of rotation a bit.
  • Stick a slow rotation in the whole set.
  • Attach to Chest.
  • Adjust to get gears nicely positioned (Turn off main rotation, Edit linked object)

I tend not to wear these in crowds because of the lag. I also try to avoid wearing them if there's a lot of motion going on, because they'll wobble a bit based on chest movement.

I'll do a movie about building one of these sets at some point.

Other uses:

  • Moving wall decoration.
  • Gear-rings.
  • Nipple-rings (worked for Janet Jackson, right?)
  • Lapel pin.
  • Throw a bunch of a Sexgen bed and accuse your partner of diddling a droid.

I have yet to alter the prim type they use, so I'm not sure what happens when you make a sphere out of them, hollow that sphere, cutshape it in half... gear-shaped yamulke, anyone?

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