Lindens, please consult a geologist :(
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Eggy Lippmann
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06-18-2004 13:58
I love the new sims, the new terrain texture feature ROCKS!
But... for god's sake, people, a huge island shaped like a starfish or octopus... isnt that a little freaky?
The land in SL just looks totally wacky on a global scale.
I'm not a geologist myself so I cant really explain it very well, but it just reeks of "fake". Can something be done about this for the next batch of sims? Thank you.
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Merwan Marker
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06-18-2004 14:07
portable sandboxes and water flowing uphill, and mts. that liquify with user-Input controls...
Please....
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Darwin Appleby
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06-18-2004 14:27
There are flying freaking phalluses EVERYWHERE. Is THIS where you draw the line? 
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Mezzanine Peregrine
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06-18-2004 20:44
Those are just lights reflecting off swamp gas weather balloons.
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Sinclair Valen
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06-18-2004 22:10
Is there more detail posted anywhere on the new "terrain texture feature" Eggy mentions? I haven't seen any references to it. (Yes, it WOULD be nice to go in world and play with it and find out that way... thanks for mentioning it...  ) Anybody trying this out? What's it all about, Charlie Brown? =Sinclair
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Eggy Lippmann
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06-19-2004 06:11
Lindens can now change the terrain textures on a per-sim basis. The new islands have a really nifty one, though Darwin seems to think it looks like There  |
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Oz Spade
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06-20-2004 18:54
They do remind me of There also.  Actualy *any* sim owner can reset their sim's textures. Keep in mind most of that geology is going to be changed once people move in, maybe not dramaticly, but maybe slight enough. I wouldn't mind them consulting a geologist, but really better time spent elsewhere.
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Ice Brodie
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06-29-2004 08:32
Step 1, Take out the trees
Step 2, Flatten it
Step 3, Add a Casino/Store
Yay predictability, some poeple have awsome builds, but this seems too common for my liking, and makes me sympathize with the Lindens as far as how the sims are created, their staff artist probobly flies around the sim and changes the terrain before the sim goes live and that's good, that could take a day or more as is, geological features would take more time to create. Time better spent elsewhere as it probobly has a 50% chance of the above mentioned 3 steps would be done.
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Chosen Few
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Re: Lindens, please consult a geologist  06-29-2004 08:40
From: someone Originally posted by Eggy Lippmann
The land in SL just looks totally wacky on a global scale.
I'm not a geologist myself so I cant really explain it very well, but it just reeks of "fake". No offense, but if I want to see "accurate" geology, I'll look out my window. Creativity is what SL is about. Realism should only apply enough to suspend the user's disbelief and allow him or her to become emersed in the fantasy of the world. SL does this quite well, ocotpus shaped islands or no. Wanting an imagined world to look, feel, and behave like the traditional world is a VERY limited view in my opinion. The more bizarre, the better. |
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Adam Zaius
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06-29-2004 08:51
From: someone Originally posted by Ice Brodie
Step 1, Take out the trees
Step 2, Flatten it
Step 3, Add a Casino/Store
Step 4, Profit! |
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Cybin Monde
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have you seen the new thread in Second Life Announcements?
06-29-2004 18:06
apparently Magellan will be off on another expidition.. to find the yang to Mt. G'al's yang. yes, icy/snowy terrain.. including snow-covered trees to match! in other words, either this was a long term goal non of us were aware of... or they heard us going off on this very subject. ..or SL is more real than any of us know and Magellan is the only one who can explore unknown regions. however you put it.. i, for one, am excited about new snowy sims just waiting to be found.. and subsequently inhabited by SLers.
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Garoad Kuroda
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Re: Re: Lindens, please consult a geologist 06-29-2004 23:37
From: someone Originally posted by Chosen Few
No offense, but if I want to see "accurate" geology, I'll look out my window. Creativity is what SL is about. Realism should only apply enough to suspend the user's disbelief and allow him or her to become emersed in the fantasy of the world. SL does this quite well, ocotpus shaped islands or no.
Wanting an imagined world to look, feel, and behave like the traditional world is a VERY limited view in my opinion. The more bizarre, the better. I like to see both types of geology. No point in deciding on one.
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