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Jennifer Roundfield
Supersized Amazon
Join date: 7 Apr 2006
Posts: 176
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09-06-2006 12:40
Does anyone make a wind indicator in SL for use in a house?
I'd like to have a gage I can put on my mantel or on a wall that shows wind direction and strength.
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Myrrh Massiel
Registered User
Join date: 7 Oct 2005
Posts: 362
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09-10-2006 22:14
...i've never seen a standalone wind indicator, but i know that beatfox xevious has produced some very nice windchimes which supposedly respond to SL's built-in wind, available at dwellget in taco...
...if you've never sailed an older flying tako 2 series boat, which uses SL's built-in wind by default in absence of an SLSF windsetter, you might not realise that second life's natural wind is extremely chaotic, to the point of being conspicuously unrealistic...it typically completes several 360-degree changes in direction per minute, circling around at a somewhat random-yet-brisk rate with stuttering but consistently-breezy windspeeds...any dedicated wind indicator would pretty much be jiggling all around continually, not indicative of any sort of convincingly-steady breeze...
...picture walking amongst downtown skyscrapers on a windy day, with all those random and chaotic eddies constantly swirling about you, and you'll get a good idea of what an SL wind-indicator would do...most SLSF courses use dedicated windsetters instead, to give us much more manageably-realistic winds, so sailing doesn't prove an exercise in continual frustration...
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