March 27th, 2008 Posted in Purple Wyvern Designs | No Comments »
As a builder, generally I try to make a lot of the different components that I use. I dabble in a lot of different areas, I can script, texture, pose and bash prims and get fairly good results.
But sometimes it is better to buy in the components than to make them. There are any number of excellent texturers, scripters and animators around SL, and many of them sell components at fairly reasonable rates.
Looking for reasonable rates is important. If you are looking to make and sell a Sword for say, L$50, you do not want to be buying in a component that will cost L$5000 unless you know that it can be used in many other items or you can be sure you will sell 100 of them. In the same way, a L$1000 piece of Jewelery needs something better than a plain texture.
I have compiled a short list of places to buy components that offer good value for money and are of a high quality.
In most of these I have given the creators name, this is because, although sims don’t generally disappear overnight, creators do move store locations around.
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