Fall Color: Free Trees and Plants

Since it's now October, I was feeling tired of seeing blooming apple and cherry trees around the SL landscape, so I made a couple trees with some fall colors, as well as a few chrysanthemum plants. These are free to copy, modifiable and made from my own RL pictures. Stop by Miramare 98, 78 and grab them if you want, and then put them out somewhere so others can take copies too. (I light up my tree and plant textures, but you can turn it off if you don't like that look; you can also make them bigger or smaller, tint them, etc.)

Here's a link to some pics:
Free Fall Trees and Flowers (The red and green maple tree looks blurry in this pic for some reason, but it's not when you see it in-world.)

I will try to add some more in the next few weeks when I am able to take more good RL pics of fall colors.

Your park in Miramare is looking loverly! I'm gonna go steal a tree.

Thanks, Ingrid.

I get such a kick out of seeing trees and plants that I've made around SL. It's why I've decided to make all of them copiable, so people can grab them whenever they see them. I also like to make more colorful trees, as the ones the Lindens make mostly seem to be green. Some months back, I (gently) groused about someone using a photo featuring a SL tree I'd made on some RL merchandise; now I see it as a compliment.

I'm still amazed at the creative freedom we have in SL. However... I am wondering if players will ever be able to create trees and plants that will sway in the breeze like the Linden-made ones do... ?

(Oh, and visitors to my park in Miramare don't have to give me any dwell, there's a Linden-owned sidewalk that runs just to the west of my land from which you can easily see and take copies of the foliage. )

wonderful work beryl. and thank you for sharing. a green linden (or red or whatever) is a happy linden.

do we still call the world linden? or have we started naming continents? i'm so out of touch...

They look great! Nice work! And nice of you to make them copyable.

It would be really cool if we could make our own actual plants that sway and such.

Khamon, no ones officialy named it yet, I just call it the Grid myself.

If I'm not mistaken (I probably am), the linden trees are generated locally (perhaps different each time, there are some debug menu items about tree fractal complexity and all that) and then they react to the wind and such only on your machine. Kinda like how particle scripts do things.

Anyways, thanks for the free foliage, beryl.

LF

WHOA Beryl nice treez.

I'm hoping one day, we can become virtual conservationists and cultivate seedlings and grow them into mighty oaks. But right now, we'll have to copy your trees and plant them all over so that they can flourish in new ecosimstems!

And cactuses. (Cacti to some.)

They are. I found the tree data in the package contents of the macintosh client.

Heh, I'm happy to share my foliage. And, speaking as someone who has been recently involved with the process of a RL complete re-do of our front yard, gardening in SL is a *lot* easier (and cheaper) than gardening in RL. Look, ma, no dirt under my nails!

Would be nice to construct a tree/flower/bush whatever, using the one prim concept, and make it act like it should. Would make things a bit more interesting.