Filed under: Architecture/Landscaping, Commercial | Tags: aurora, botanical, flowers, scripted, topiary, trees, vendor
slurl(s):[Visit Botanical]
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 ]
Filed under: Architecture/Landscaping, Commercial | Tags: comet corp, consequence, flowers, fluffygreen, lalelu kidd, leendert meriman, particles, starman
Article By Pet Handsohn
Referred by Pixel Breda, Islara Moon and Vencenza Aeon
The above picture was taken at Consequence [slurl], a sweet shop and club brought to you by Islara Moon, Zero Ethaniel and Vencenza Aeon. I’ll have more on Consequence in a later article; for now, I’d like to talk about STARMEN.
Pixel showed me one of these starmen that Islara and Ven had introduced her to, and I was mystified to say the least. I wanted one too! And this prompted a quick adventure. Our first stop? Comet Corp.
Comet Corp [slurl] is a little open-air sky shop known mainly for its SYMMETRIZOR, a spiffy tool that makes “reflected builds with just one click!”, according to its description. (It takes an object and replicates a backwards-reflected version of it.) But I will always forever refer to the place as the starman factory! You can grab one of the little guys here as a L$1 “freebie”. At that point, I had my starman, but the journey wasn’t over…
Check out the spiffy looking landscaping! Up close, it kind of has an ethereal look to it – the flowers, dandelions and high grass. It also seemed to swirl and sway as if from a breeze. Pixel and I sat around for a while before figuring out that they’re actually particles! After searching around, I found the center of one of these swirling flower bunches, and discovered that each “meadow” consisted only of four prims… very impressive. We had to know where they came from.
Our search brought us to FluffyGreen Meadows [slurl]. Leendert Meriman, the creator of the the particular meadow I saw at Comet Corp, seems like a fun and interesting kiddo. He and Lalelu Kidd sell a few different kinds of meadows in their “shop”, which is really more like a grove or clearing in the woods. The innovation involved in what they create is too cool!
After shopping around a bit, Pixel and I settled on the dandelion patch as the best in the bunch. But um… seeing as how we live on a beach front, we weren’t sure how we were going to incorporate it into our land :p When we figure something out, we’re definitely going to go back and pick it up!
If you’re a landscaper or if you just want to spruce up your land with a nice patch or field of fluffy flowers, you should definitely stop by the shop and check out the products they have to offer. Or even if not, stop by to check out how cool they are :) Also note that there are freebies here! (The L$0 kind.)
