One thing I really like to do is play around with landscaping around my builds. I feel that good landscaping can really enhance a build, so I try to incorporate shrubs, flowers, trees, and other elements where I can.
Is landscaping something that makes a difference to you? Is it something you like to see done or something you do as well?
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Juro Kothari
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11-08-2005 14:49
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Gabe Lippmann
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11-08-2005 14:56
Love it. Plants, trees, ponds, whatever.
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JackBurton Faulkland
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11-08-2005 14:57
Love it. Plants, trees, ponds, whatever. Dam Hippie! _____________________
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Gabe Lippmann
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Mina Welesa
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11-08-2005 15:09
It's probably the most compelling reason for me to bother owning land.
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Juro Kothari
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11-08-2005 15:10
Let's see some of it! Post pics of your landscaping!
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ZsuZsanna Raven
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11-08-2005 15:15
Landscaping is my most favorite thing to do along with any house decorating. I love lots of flowers, trees etc. My neighbor liked what I did with my land so much that he is having me landscape all the land he has apartments set up on, which is quite alot. I like doing it so much that I don't consider it work.
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Juro Kothari
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11-08-2005 15:23
I used Siggy's Super Hottub as a base for my waterfall/hottub in the backyard of one of my model homes. The pond overflows into the hottub:
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Krazzora Zaftig
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11-08-2005 16:14
I love landscaping. *gets out the gasoline and the blow torch*
Actually the current build where I live at we used a field of derams and incoporated a waterfall into it with the top being a spring pool to sit around and relax in. Bought a few "cute" scripted items like a flying bird and my favorite...pyreflies! I think it looks good for how we tried to keep it low prim count over all. |
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elka Lehane
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11-08-2005 16:18
As much as I am good at landscaping in real life, I am kind if stuck not doing it in SL.
Mostly because: I am lazy (main reason) I am scared of doing it and failing I do not know of a lot of tools and objects to do so It requires a lot of prims to make it look good and I am a furniture-gadgets freak, wich takes mostof my prim count. But hey, if someone as good as you wasn't an expensive bitch, then I'd hire! LOL _____________________
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Juro Kothari
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11-08-2005 16:20
But hey, if someone as good as you wasn't an expensive bitch, then I'd hire! LOL ROFL! Maybe next year, I'll have to start offering landscaping services.  _____________________
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Doc Nielsen
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11-08-2005 16:24
It's at least half the pleasure of building. Any fool can plonk a building on flat land, intergrating it with the land is a challange.
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Ravi Zuma
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11-08-2005 18:47
I love landscaping.
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Travis Bjornson
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11-08-2005 22:53
Yes, it makes a world of difference. I put up some standard Evergreens that I like, but I need more colors.
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Juro Kothari
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11-08-2005 23:07
Yes, it makes a world of difference. I put up some standard Evergreens that I like, but I need more colors. Hopefully, we'll see new trees in the library soon - there was talk about Speed Tree (or something like that) a while back. We can hope, right? _____________________
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Barnesworth Anubis
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11-08-2005 23:25
landscaping is good, it can really enhance an area.
I mean look at boardman, as ingrid said, "never under estimate the power of a Linden tree" Also toast bard did a great job landscaping deimos, I still consider it the prettiest beach in SL, before it was just a barren hill. _____________________
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Bellissa Dion
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More colours mmm
11-09-2005 02:17
Yes, it makes a world of difference. I put up some standard Evergreens that I like, but I need more colors. Exactly what I'm waiting for. More colours for Linden Trees. Landscaping, for me, takes priority over the build. What surrounds a build is so important to creating the atmosphere you're striving for. |
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PetGirl Bergman
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11-09-2005 02:22
Forsetti has a wonderfull tree with a moving shadow under it... i feel the scents the warm air, the sun when I see it.. .
Yes I do - or started to use land tolls a month ago... putting out trees and flowers and such I have done since i learned how to use the building tools... |
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Pratyeka Muromachi
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11-09-2005 02:31
I love landscaping! But the very limited rock making capacity of SL is turning me off almost completely. No amount of prim twisting can make a natural looking rock, unless you want tombstones... We need the same tools for making rocks as for editing land... raise a bit here, flatten there, you know?
And how about those people who happen to buy a nice plot with beautiful hills and valleys, maybe even a stream down a gully, and promptly flatten everything to put a giant shoebox? I have seen beautiful streams in some of the latest sims before they were sold and covered over with houses, so that now no-one can enjoy them... _____________________
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Torley Linden
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11-09-2005 02:33
I love landscaping! But the very limited rock making capacity of SL is turning me off almost completely. No amount of prim twisting can make a natural looking rock, unless you want tombstones... We need the same tools for making rocks as for editing land... raise a bit here, flatten there, you know? I hear ya... it's tough to get it "organic-looking" from what I've seen. Does anyone have a script to take a bunch o' plywood cubes and "tumble" them into the most convincing rocks possible at this stage? Like, some sort of algorithmic randomization of parameters? _____________________
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Forseti Svarog
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11-09-2005 06:03
Forsetti has a wonderfull tree with a moving shadow under it... i feel the scents the warm air, the sun when I see it.. . Yes I do - or started to use land tolls a month ago... putting out trees and flowers and such I have done since i learned how to use the building tools... yeah I think landscaping is really important, although there have been times when function took precedence over aesthetics and either flattening or a new prim "floor" has had to go down. I can't wait for speedtree. and yes, the place for people to get those tree shadows now is the Gnubie store... I put that, my lighthouse, the merry-go-round building tutorial and a few other things out for a dollar. The gnubie store is cool! _____________________
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Ghoti Nyak
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11-09-2005 06:36
Terraforming and landscaping is one of my favoritist things to do in SL!
Here's some screens! -Ghoti _____________________
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11-09-2005 06:39
and a couple more:
The Fhtagn Point and InnerLife builds are in Tavarua . The PimushePines build was in Pimushe. I tend to stick to using Linden plants because I enjoy the way they interact with the wind. I am SOOOOOO looking forward to SpeedTree! -Ghoti _____________________
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Argent Stonecutter
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Finding space to do landscaping...
11-09-2005 07:21
I kind of want to buy or rent (well, it's all rented, really) some land and do some landscaping, too, but you have to buy so much if you want to really be able to enjoy the landscape without it being lost among all the weird neighbors.
I really wish they'd built SL to a grander scale. It wouldn't have cost anything to leave the prim limits the same and simply define the sims as a kilometer or two on a side. The result would have been a more sparsely settled world with bigger distances between buildings and more opportunity for landscaping. Imagine if your "first land" of 512 squares was made up of squares 4m on a side instead of 1m, so your 50 prim economy house was in the middle of a multi-acre lot instead of jammed up in the middle of a trailer park between a crashed UFO and a toxic waste dump... PS: I also wish there was a more general form of client-only objects like plants and avatars, so you could build an object without all its prims having separate existence in sim memory. Then anyone could make "linden trees". PPS: Hail Eris! |
