skybox preferences?

im working on a few projects but was always curious about a few things

do you prefer a skybox to just have a flat roof or something more?

do you want your skybox to have windows?

what do you prefer on the outside? plain? textures to match the inside?

i know for me personally depending on what the skybox is for i prefer no windows sometimes a flat roof but also sometimes love a windowed style roof

the outside i never pay attention to since i dont go outside them but usually match them to the inside

i like a skybox to be pretty funtional rather than pretty. a warehouse design is good, or a 'space hangar' or even a high altitude space station sort of thing.
i use the cloud nine syboxes for most purposes.

-Flat roof for a deck, yard or patio
-see out windows on the inside, but opaque on the outside.
-inside should be nicely accented, i dont care what the outside looks like.
-a door or teleporter on the outside so you can get in, in case you get stuck outside.
-low prims

I prefer a skybox to be over 512m up in the air so I cant see them from my HOUSE! lol

Seriously, I prefer at least 2 windows with blinds, and a sexy futuristic look about them. Isn't anything as ugly to me as a really bad square skybox.

A floating island, suspended from giant balloons, with a waterfall, caves & little rustic balconies precariously attached to the sides. In the absence of such on the market, I made my own

To answer the OP with a little more relevance, I prefer skyboxes to look as good outside as in. Windows aren't necessary, flat roofspace for a garden or the like is. It's great when skyboxes look like something that might stay up through the application of some twisted logic. So spacestations, starships, Hawkman palaces from Flash Gordon, and the aforementioned islands hanging from balloons are always cool in my eyes. I think Second Skies make propellor, balloon and jet attachments to 'keep' your skybox in the air.

Mine usually have some sort of rooftop garden space, and maybe a small hot tub or swimming pool. What is below that level is windowless from the outside, and usually windowless fron the inside too, as there is usually little else to see up there but the outsides of someone eles's skybox.

My skybox looks like a hotel room.

I like them pretty, windows yes and very high!

my skybox is at 700 feet and has a lot of security.

I vant to be aloooone

Actually i dont much care what its like on the outside.. but i am not there for fun mainly, but i like the idea of having some reason why its up there.. like the balloons..

My skybox is a thing of beauty and a joy forever
#7 in my Picks.
The structure has more detail on the outside than on the inside. It's a build for the joy of building - which in turn makes it a joy to be in.
It floats because the brain knows that such a structure can not stand on the ground.


I rescued a 128m 16x8 ad plot from a waterside hill.
The ground there isn't really usable in the context of the surrounding builds so I have an open sailboat at about 100m. The sails are two Da Vinci type rotating rusty copper helicals. (No - it doesn't look at all like an ad
Up above it is a skypod made from two hollow dimpled spheres. Transparent on the inside, solid on the outside.
I suppose that floats because it's a pair of bubbles.

thank you all for the great information

still trying to figure out how to incorporate certain things you all have stated into the builds

i wanted to keep them low prim so they could be used on 512 lots and so they could be a hideaway on other lots but not be more prim heavy then houses

so keep the ideas coming you can aways send them to me in notecards if you need to also

My skybox is largely functional, 'stead of pretty. Grids to build within, prim guides, N30, an other stuff.

Mari

sounds like my place. builder grid, primrezzer, particle studio, n30, texture organisers. very utilitarian.

My skybox is basically a construction yard full of unfinished builds. I live on the ground.

I suspect that every builder/artist has a junkyard/professional-building-area in the sky.
So do I, but I would hesitate to call it a skybox.

My Skybox however, I call a skybox.

my skybox is just 6 32x32x40 prims every 100 meters in the air...lots of flat open land to mess around on

There are so many different answers because there are different purposes for skyboxes as well as different kinds of people who want them for any given purpose.

For example, residential skyboxes are rather different from special purpose ones (e.g., fun houses). Also, some folks use skyboxes as additional rooms in their house, like a basement.

For a residential or workshop, I prefer walls that I can click to select 3 choices: transparent both ways, opaque from outside only, or opaque both ways. Of course, that's for a design where it makes sense for the whole wall to be transparent (or at least, a large part of it).

For residential skyboxes, the top should be suitable to use as a patio, with a guard fence so people don't wander off by accident. The best low-prim way to do that is to make the walls full 10M height but put the ceiling/roof about a meter from the top.

In addition, many users require low-prim skyboxes and are willing to sacrifice a great deal to have the furniture they want; whereas others aren't limited and want the ideal appearance.

There is no "one size fits all". Pick a niche and do the best you can for that niche. Most likely you can adapt it and branch out into other niches as you learn.

Yup. Exactly. I have a house an stuff, after all, so havin' a skybox for me is only a place to work.

Mari

House on the ground.... log cabin, comfy decorated. Nice yard around it....

I don't like skyboxes too much, but I guess that is me...

And anyone who thinks that 700m up in sky gives more privacy then on the ground.... it does not. I have a platform on 700m high I use for building scenes to take pictures. There is a visitor-counter hidden away... There are actually more visitors there then on the ground (Guess fly-devices are the reason for that).

Morwen.