Filed under: Architecture/Landscaping, Commercial | Tags: aurora, botanical, flowers, scripted, topiary, trees, vendor
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Article By Pet Handsohn
It’s been a while since I posted about my SL adventures, mainly because I haven’t been having many thanks to school and work, but it’s all soon about to die down. In the meantime, I’ve found some time to actually get back on Second Life and decided to write up some shorter posts about my crazy exploits! Since my hiatus, I’ve taken up a small 512 plot of land amidst Pixel’s new sanctuary in a region called Chilispoon and, well, I felt the urge to do some landscaping after a silly turn of events. You can probably guess from the title of this post what I set out to buy!
It all started with something completely unrelated (as it always does). I was looking for pose animations so that I might spruce up my screenies with some striking stances when I came across some cool looking topiaries at Natural Expression [slurl]. I checked for the maker (Kriss Lehmann) and off I went to Straylight.
Straylight, home to the Botanical “shop”, is easily one of the pretties places I’ve seen on SL. Lehmann let’s his creations speak for themselves throughout the sim – it’s a great sales pitch! The trees I found there looked great. I wanted to sample all of them on my plot, but my pockets weren’t willing :( Nevertheless, everything’s very reasonably priced for the amount of detail and functionality put into them. After testing out the floor displays, I opted for the bundle of 4 season changing trees shown in the picture. Pretty spiffy! I almost got a trio of Japanese Maples, but they don’t have the season changing function. (Do Japanese Maples even change?)
Unboxing my freshly uprooted trees revealed the 4 trees as expected, 4 tree shadows, each made specifically for one of the trees, and the season changing HUD. Not bad! The season changing feature works perfectly, with little falling prim leaves in the autumn cycle. They seem to completely change the feeling of my plot. I may head back to FluffyGreen Meadows to find some grass and flowers to go along with my new landscape.
If you want to learn more about Kriss Lehmann and Straylight/Botanical, you can check out their blog or go to the sim directly with the slurl at the start of this post. Even if you’re not buying anything, it’s worth looking at all the cool stuff!
As always, have fun and happy detouring.
PS: I decided to go back to Botanical and pick up one extra tree for only L$99. It has two trunks entwined and a big heart carved into one of them. It’s scripted so that you can put a 30 character message into the heart :) Here are a couple of pics:
[ love tree 1 | love tree 2 ]
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