Landscaping - do you do it?

i luv landscapeing only prob is trees and stuff use prims when u dont own alot of land then u dont get much furniture after house and landscapeing is done

I love landscaping... To the point where 2 of the 3 plots I own have no buildings on them, just linden trees and various features that I've built.
Personally, I think the value of those 1-prim trees and plants is so much greater than that of a 1-prim wall. And the best part is, if you have enough of them it's easy to get lost in your own little paradise, even if there's a huge, imposing building on the next plot.
And, like everyone else, I can't wait for SpeedTree.

Yes I think landscaping is important even though I haven't used any to enhance any of my builds yet. I am working toward it Sometimes I worry that the customer may think its all included. I have noticed that some land owners landscape their properties without ever including much in the way of a "build" such as a house and the effect is very inviting.

yes, even a humble 512 plot can be made lovely with flowers and hedges etc!!

YIPPEEEEEEEEE LOVE those shadows under the trees I'm waiting, waiting for SL to come back up so I can go go go to Gnubie... thanks Forseti! Enjoyed the Halloween pumpkins so much, still using for Thanksgiving.

SL should have more fully terraform sims! We, the Milarepa Land Trust, have a nice chunk of Zoe, an old core sim with +/- 40m capacity. Whoo-ee is that fun.

Come check the Himalayan landscape beta at Zoe. It arguably more resembles Gulin, China right now than central Tibet, but that's a quibble. We don't splurge on foliage, at least not yet.

And SL should have better rock prims! Perhaps this should go to a Linden vote sometime, be it resolved that rocks in SL look much like spastic balloons, can we get some default rock that could fool a geologist? Please?

Here's a challenge, previously mentioned: Auto-generate rock with texture and size options of formations -- including caves! -- would be a product we would love to purchase, within our modest monk budget, of course. If anyone has the skillz to do so.

http://flyingmonks.blogspot.com/

Hmmmm.

One thing I'd like to see is textures designed for putting on rocks that are actually produced by projection onto a uv map, so that you don't get that "navel" effect at the poles. I'm surprised the Lindens don't give you some in the default library.

To fool a geologist, try building your rock out of layers of thin prims, you should be able to create a sedimentary rock that's as detailed as you want to spend the prims for...

Yes Landscaping is VERY important, as many people don't have that in RL if they are in an urban area. It also creates a refuge that soothes the soul. It is well worth the cost in prims, and you can do a little garden on a 512, if you put a small house down & don't expect alot in furniture. After all, you will spend probably alot more time outside that house than in.

What would I like to see to help landscaping? A way to easily transfer ownership if you are doing a build for another person. Perhaps a group link and be able to set a price for the whole thing? I love to landscape, but I loathe the extensive time it can take to sign over everything!

I agree 110% - it's a major pain. The rocks and any waterfeatures are easy - just link them up. It's the Linden trees and shrubs that are a pain - you have to transfer each one separately.

I have never sold property with items left on... are you saying the trees do not get sold if you sell land with that feature turned on? Seems silly to me!

-Ghoti

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I like landscaping, although I don't go overboard with it. Mostly, I use it to break up huge blank expanses of land...

I hope I'm posting this in the right place.

There used to be a big cave over the front of which was a waterfall. My significant other and myself spent so much time there. It's been gone a long time now. I have the land to create one but....can't. I don't have the know how. What I need is a big (deep and tall) hole in the side of a hill/mountain that I have so that I can make the cave in there and then create the waterfall falling over the top of it.

I need help with this (for those really familiar with terraforming and I'll pay, happily).

If you can help, IM me inworld... Karynda Kuroda

Thanks

Unfortunately there is no way to truly dig into a hillside.

The workaround is to lower the area you want the cave as as best you can and then with prims textured in the same textures the ground is, (look in the Library/ textures folder for the Linden ones) and build over and around the lowered area making a false ground to enclose it. Using plants at the seams where the ground and prims meet will help to soften the seam and make the change from earth to prims less apparent.

I have seen some amazing caves and grottos done in this manor.
Hmmmm must go home and teraform

KX

Lanscaping is my life! I have the SL Botanical Gardens in Federal and have landscaped the Garden of Dionysos in Alcona. I have discovered that I cannot live without terraformability either, so my land purchases will always be restricted to the old core sims.

For those who become inspired with lanscaping, I have every known "free to copy" tree and plant at my Gardens in Federal along with offerings from Higbee, Khamon and Rose Karuna.

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