Buying land and building in Hipihi

I lucked out on my lunch break today and managed to find the menu options for buying a parcel of land and for building.

This is the option for building:

The option for buying land I think is “Right Click the land and click the fourth option down”.

While writing this post I just discovered how to create prims, how to move, rotate, copy, and delete them.

It looks much like the Second Life building in it’s nature and function, though the dialog boxes are laid out differently and of course in Chinese.

The icons for selecting what prim to create appear to be exactly identical to the icons in Second Life – in other words, if those icons are the intellectual property of Linden Lab, then it looks like Hipihi has either licensed the right to them from Linden Lab or it has ripped them off. They might, of course, be extremely similar but not identical, and they are just pictures of basic geometric forms, and might not be copyrightable or trademarkable, but still, I think that making them look to the eye to be exactly the same as the familar box, cylinder, prism, etc. from SL was pretty bad form on Hipihi’s fault. How hard could it be to make your own icons?

Here’s the prim selection icons:

There’s some prims intersecting my helicopter.

I think I’ll post this before something goes wrong. If anyone knows anyone that is willing to translate the Hipihi interface from Chinese to English please let me know.