Had a productive weekend…

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on April 21, 2008 by Rubi

Got absolutely nothing done in SL, of course :P Although I did make a kinda sculpted headwrap thing in Blender & Sculptie paint that i’m still playing around with. Spent most of the weekend between OLG and homework D: Took a break from working on the pier to start on a new build that i have simply named “Curvy walls” for now. Pictures down below (you can also see bigger versions in my flickr stream)

 

Day 2: Sunrise preset in WL :)

Day 2: Workin on the main living/entrance/recieving area and a roof to go with it, no ReX access so i can’t stretch that roof just yet *sigh* one day…over the rainbow :P

Day 2: Love Love Love the Sunset Preset in WL Viewer :P

Day 2: Railings Done, Sculpted Thatched Roofs, Piecing together and scripting water for animation

Day 1: Top View-Floor Plan/Footprint

Day 1: Working on the walls, stairs, and general layout

Pretty exciting, i’ve been asked if i’m going to bring this structure into SL and I don’t really know yet, we’ll see when it’s finished, lol. the curvy walls are inspired by Antoni Gaudi and the general colour scheme by a picture of a resort i saw in google, the layout and everything else is composed by me with references to cultural building structures. It’s massive in terms of the footprint, it takes up an entire 4096 m2 parcel, but the actual living space is modest there’s going to be a 2-storey main living area composed of a 20×20m disc and 4 10×10 gazebo/huts overlooking the water. I’m also going to be coming up with furniture ideas with a little help from Jada, we’re thinking some traditional ethnic pieces mixed with modern: modern-ethnic if there is such a term, the floor is going to have mosaic tile, main living area is going to have “arabic arches” also known as horseshoe arches :) can’t wait for next weekend so i can build some more, but for now RL homework/sketches are calling :P

Fundu Lagoon - Celeste Region

Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2008 by Rubi

We changed our minds about what we want to build on Celeste, while googling one day we can across Fundu Lagoon, it was so gorgeous we wanted to try to recreate it or something similar in OLG. I know the “island” theme has been butchered and done to death on SL, but I think our little splashes of style and expertise will make it look different, set it apart from your regular run of the mill tacky tiki, lol. Managed to stay on log enough after multiple crashes and lock ups, lock outs, lol, to get the pier along the coast of celeste done, and one hut/gathering point :D the grid is having multiple issues with rezzing and textures which certainly makes this process longer than it usually would be, but ehn,what can you do,lol. We’ve been playing around with the idea of setting the celeste region to open build, so that the construction could be a team process but being so close to the welcome area we decided against it, not that we’re greedy about the sim, actually yeah we kinda are, we don’t want anyone else building on it, and since we can’t deed land to groups yet, ouronly other option of setting the entire sim to open build is not the best one. anyway….here’s a picture :)

As of now the build contains no huge prims, we are mac users so no ReX for us :( The circular floors of the huts are tubes that have been prim tortured to make a 20 m disc, the thatched roofs are composed of hollowed cylinders and a demi-sphere, the pier and stilts are just regular cubes.